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  1. David Hingtgen
    Better than paying 400 to Ebay...
  2. David Hingtgen
    I think I've decided to sell my VF-171CF now, rather than wait and hope it becomes more valuable later in a few months----I mean, I sold my YF-21 like two weeks before Yamato went bankrupt, so why break the trend?
  3. David Hingtgen
    From Cybertron! And there'll be big huge explosions when they come! It'll be the first half of the movie...
  4. David Hingtgen
    I thought Avengers was also a better "Tony Stark being Tony Stark" movie. His interactions with the other Avengers rocked, and worked better because we knew the characters. Asides from Pepper, we didn't really know anybody he talked to in this movie, and a bunch of them were throwaway goons/side characters.
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    I personally thought the first half of the movie had a very Mass Effect-esque vibe.
  7. David Hingtgen
    To me, IM3 felt like a re-hash of a bunch of other semi-recent movies put together, tied together with Tony Stark.
  8. David Hingtgen
    Their trailers alone seem to have more content worth watching than the whole of IM3. The recommendation is more along the lines of "if you've only got time/money to see X number of movies this summer, IM 3 is definitely skippable---you won't miss much"
  9. David Hingtgen
    Quite skippable IMHO, if you've only got time/desire to see a couple movies this summer see Trek and Superman. Avengers was a better "Iron Man movie". As was IM 2. (And I'm not a big fan of IM 2)
  10. David Hingtgen
    Real, quality ship models will ALWAYS look good, because they physically exist in 3 dimensions, and have basically "infinite resolution". CG will always have a polygon/pixel limit, and even the best lighting/shaders are not perfect. But again--real models with real light, will always have "perfect" texture/shadows/highlights.
  11. David Hingtgen
    I think so--I just plain don't like the look. It's not so much "it's not '86 movie Springer" but rather I just plain don't like the shape, regardless of who it's supposed to be. I've seen plenty of comic redesigns I like and would love to have figures of---but not this one.
  12. David Hingtgen
    I plan to sell my Springer, let me know if you're interested. Could save you some gas money if nothing else. (nothing wrong with it, just not that impressed---mainly bot mode---car mode's great)
  13. David Hingtgen
    You're neither getting old nor "being a douche"---there's just a lot of newbies and clueless people lately. (and Robotech fans are often both)
  14. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, but will it STAY in position? I can get mine to the "obvious detent" but with the entire weight of the arms+torso on that joint, any bit of movement will make the metal bars move back to fighter mode position. It's basically fighting gravity, and there's almost nothing holding it in place.
  15. David Hingtgen
    Hmmmmn. Should I sell mine now while it's "in the collectorate's consciousness", or wait 6 months hoping it becomes rare/valuable?
  16. David Hingtgen
    I'm probably going to sell it---only question is--do it now, or wait 6 months when hopefully it's sold out and people are paying a premium? I could probably get a decent amount right now, as people would be guaranteed one not missing any parts etc. Valks are just too expensive (especially at N-Y markup) to keep if you don't REALLY like it. I enjoyed my VF-27 much more the first time I transformed it. It just "felt better" to me.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Am I the only one really not impressed with this mold? The torso is very hollow from many angles, and the whole neck assembly just sucks IMHO----I thought the VF-27 neck always felt "iffy" and you were never sure if it was transformed right---but the neck on this thing literally floats in mid-air, with a bunch of plates in intermediate positions as far as I can tell. Is there a definitive neck position? That little plate that flips out from in front of the actual neck---it's supposed to be "not quite level" with the actual neck just lightly resting on top of it, with none of the parts at full extension or pegging or anything? Everything held in place via pure friction of the hinges? I really thought it sucked until I found the torso lock, but I'm really looking for some sort of neck lock, and hip lock. The main hip bar just seems to constantly shift between two positions, and trying any sort of movement or pose makes it "pivot about the hip bar joint".
  18. David Hingtgen
    Luckily I have zero interest in Brera's, and Grace's will probably be a Tamashii exclusive like last time, if they do it at all. So I can sleep that night!
  19. David Hingtgen
    Ah geez---I just noticed Bandai STILL hasn't fixed the missing stripe segment on the VF-27's wing-glove. The stripe should be pretty much continuous from the nose all the way back and out to the wing-tips. But there's a gap where it starts and stops---but there shouldn't be. The animation and model kits both have it continuous, and even the protos of the DX showed it painted (incuding the green version)---but no actual finished version of the DX has it. What's the point of adding a bunch of little details, when the main accent stripe itself is still incomplete? (it's the "hip-gun cover" piece, one of the earliest pieces you move when transforming from fighter mode in the -25/27 family)
  20. David Hingtgen
    I've never owned a v2 in "pure" white, but "greenish white" sounds like a lot of Bandai Gundam kits.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Tons of new pics of FP's Stunticons, but I'm on my phone and can't easily embed. Could someone repost them here? http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-3rd-party-discussion/635944-fansproject-menasor-megathread-324.html#post9361181
  22. David Hingtgen
    I have to wait until a Grace renewal is absolutely certain before I can sell off mine. Few things would suck more than selling my accurized one only to never get another.
  23. David Hingtgen
    Got mine this morning (N-Y via EMS). Wow, left Osaka the 30th, Chicago the 1st, Iowa today. No missing parts from my brief check. Can't do anything with it until tonight.
  24. David Hingtgen
    BTW, the new Metroplex will be BIG:
  25. David Hingtgen
    Hmmn. Green version possible? They were only in the movie for less than a second and way in the background (literally had to freeze-frame it) and I don't think they had the armor. Doubt it. Probably only what's absolutely needed to accomodate the armor--new shoulder pads, and probably some extra slots and tabs in the legs.
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