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    Macross 30

    David Hingtgen replied to Tochiro's topic in Games

    The possibilites of a Sharon-Grace team-up are endless---and awesome. Ooooh---download Sharon's AI into Grace's body...
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    Not to rain on your parade, but these pics only cemented my decision to pass on Uranos: You know, the angles TFC never photographed from, but we all knew would be ugly. I honestly do believe it has thicker kibble than movie Jetfire.
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    True, and that's why Trypticon is so much better.
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    So ALL they have is the CAD? You can design all the .000000001 millimeter details and clearances you want, it's another thing entirely to actually mold the thing accounting for draft angles and uneven shrinkage as it cools. (you can generally avoid the draft-angle issue with multi-part/siding molds, but since Bandai is about the ONLY company that does that beyond "1 piece per kit", I doubt we'd see it to any extent here) Also, I sure hope it's more olive drab, and not *GREEN*.
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    G1 Blitzwing was a MiG-25. Not sure on the tank, a T-72 I think? But the point is--they were accurate enough to be clearly identifiable exactly what they were. And they hid their "other" points from 3/4 of the viewing angles. Going to "Cybertronian" alt-modes is frankly lazy, to "get around" issues inherent to triple-changers. "Oh, just ignore that entire half of the other vehicle--Cybertronian jets have big treads and armor plating, and Cybertronian tanks have wings and fins and intakes!" Don't care what plane he is, so long as he's a plane. BTW, I often mention Blitzwing and his MiG-25 alt-mode as "things that work" for Transformer planes. Boxy planes work. SR-71's do not. Similarly--I want an Astrotrain that's a *NASA orbiter*. Not a shuttle-esque vehicle, or a shuttle with a bullet train nose strapped on either side.
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    I'll probably pick up Springer and Blitzwing, but only due to their cheapness. Springer looks pretty good (about as good as it'll get until someone figures out how to make a big long skinny tail-boom without making it into pure kibble in robot mode AND hiding it in car mode) But Blitzwing? Again--because he's cheap, but I'm a huge fan of the character, and still think his G1 toy is one of the best triple-changers ever, from any series. This is not a jet--this is a chunk of tank and robot parts, with wings and a nosecone poking out. I will still hope for either MP or 3P Blitzwing. I want a *jet* and a *tank*. Not a block with treads and a gun, not a block with taifins and a cockpit. I expect vehicle mode to equal/surpass the G1 toy, not be worse. PS--does no one else recognize that the tread-legs (and even forearms) are also Animated, not G1? (Not that I'm complaining, I'm just saying everyone else is acting like it's an Animated head on a G1 body) Anyways, as for Metroplex---I'm sure I'm not the first/only one, but does anyone else get a Supreme Cheetor vibe from this? HUGE, yes, with light-up gimmicks. But is his transformation any more complex than a deluxe? Definite pass for me. For that much money, I want the transformation to need more than 3 steps...I mean heck, BOTH other modes are 'sit robot down, flip open leg panels'. The only difference is whether he's laying on his back or front, and whether the panels flip forward or to the sides...
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    How recent the kit is, is more important than grade. A new HG can beat an old MG. Same for MG vs PG.
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    No he doesn't! They'll just CG de-age him like they did for Stewart and McKellan in X-Men!
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    Yeah, and refit wouldn't be "early" Constitution class.
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    The TNG/VOY era ships had a more elegant way though---dump the whole thing vertically out through a hatch in the bottom. Quick and easy. (of course, early Constitution class ships had horizontal cores IIRC, so they couldn't do that---might have had to toss it out piece by piece----though IMHO separating it into chunks is probably just as dangerous as whatever situation would cause you to want to eject it in the first place----the "main" reason would be a breach or uncontrollable reaction----tossing out the whole thing "intact but uunplugged" seems to be the fastest, safest way to solve that problem---trying to separate the chamber(s) into pieces while the reaction's going on inside seems likely to just make things worse--better hope some serious seals/bulkheads are involved)
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    Eh, I accept that as being warp core SEGMENTS.
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    Just like Predaking!
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    True----it may actually be a good thing, by getting more people (and 3P companies) thinking about Abominus again. He's not an obscure combiner, but he's definitely not one of the "uber-famous" ones. (any season 3 non-movie character is pretty much automatically a "notch down" from anyone who showed up in season 1/2 or the movie, popularity/fame-wise---the cities and Predaking are exceptions due to sheer size) I was planning on buying Twinstrike/Sinnertwin anyways, as I've had NO representations of the Terrorcons since G1----so I may buy his team-mates too. (I honestly expect/hope the mass-retail releases to look better, color-wise) Franky---I'm much more tolerant of crap when it's cheap. BH Abominus is certainly no worse than FoC Bruticus, but far cheaper. (and they even got the colors right, or close) Lastly, I do hold out hope that much like the Wreckers repaint of FoC Bruticus, this is the "alternate" configuration for them, and that the arms and legs can be swapped into their "proper" locations and look better for it.
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    Which I think is really an Su-30 variant...
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    At this point my main concern is that this may affect the possibility of a 3P Abominus.
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    While the G1 fan in me instantly said "must have!" after 30 secs of looking at it---I think he's got worse arms than FoC Bruticus. Look at Twinstrike/Sinnertwin---he doesn't transform at all, that's beast-mode hanging off the shoulder. Hoping that this may be a show character, and we'll get deluxes etc that work better.
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    I meant, I stopped caring to keep track of all the new variants (which all seem to be re-hashes and combinations of the previous ones). I still like Flankers a lot, but only the "main" variants---Su-27B, Su-33, Su-30MKI/MKK, and the original Su-35. (re-using the Su-35 designation for the new one REALLY causes confusion) In short---don't show me a pic of a new Flanker from 2010 and ask me to identify the variant.
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    Seriously, no one mentioned Plus? The most "concentrated awesome" bit of the whole saga? Anyways---after you watch DYRL, watch Plus. Preferably the OVA and movie versions, but if you can only watch one, watch the movie version. (way better ending). THEN watch Zero and Frontier.
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    Of all plot-holes in Trek-battles, this is the most egregious. "Let's sit here and take it for minutes on end while we try to drop their weak old shields via technobabble---instead of just firing our massive array of top-of-the-line weaponry and hammering it into pieces right now" They vaporized it with a single torpedo---it wouldn't have taken a whole lot more to drop the shields first with other torps and phasers---about two second's worth of weapons fire from "Best of Both Worlds part 2"
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    I thought the 7-minute mark had the best stuff personally. Anyways---no airbrake on this model? (I have utterly given up on keeping track of the Flankers now---I pretty much stopped caring after the -30MKI/MKK, and now just assume everything afterwards is re-named, re-used, or one-of-a-kind at this point)
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    I just want an engine room, not a brewery.
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    We still need an app-style icon for it. My phone still only has a screen-cap of the forum home page. (surely I'm not the only one who has a direct link to MW right next to the weather app)
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    Probably not, I'd guess. A lot of places/people (including me) don't count most Russian records due to the massive modifications done. There's a difference between stripping the paint off an F-15 to save weight, and putting new engines and tailfins on...
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    Surely I'm not the only one hoping the Enterprise is utterly destroyed, and we get 1701-A in the next movie, that looks better/more like the true Ent-A? Or heck, make it an Excelsior-class----they're already re-writing plenty of future history anyways.
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    I never liked Computron much, he'd have to basically be "every single individual bot is amazing on its own" for me to buy. I'd love a good Defensor though---and Hot Spot's alt-mode is both easily updateable, and always did work well as a basis for both a good bot and good torso. (looking back, I do think Menasor and Hot Spot were in the end the best torso-bots, and it's mainly because they have big boxy alt-modes----same reason an SR-71 is a terrible choice for a torso-bot) I am liking TFC's head designs less and less though--especially Uranos. The earlier prototypes looked better. And having a yellow visor over red eyes? No, not at all. It's not Devastator, who switched between eyes and visor every scene. Superion ALWAYS had a visor, and it was always red. And the antennas just look stupid in the latest version, they bulge at the tips way too much. IMHO, Abominus and Piranacon would be easy to do---there's a lot of leeway/interpretation as to how they should look. I mean, we *still* don't know what the heck Blot is! (I still say he's a mutant robo-ape). TFC had some early Terrorcon sketches that looked awesome, especially Hun-Grrr, but they later showed completely different ones that sucked IMHO (Hun-Grrr no longer really a cyber-dragon as much as a mustached Chinese dragon, and Blot was like a warthog-thing) As for Piranacon--he could be GREATLY improved with the removal of the scramble-city aspects. The color scheme of the bots clearly implies a "preferred" configuration, but physically that one doesn't work that well mainly due to Nautilator---Nautilator is colored to be an arm, but he is about the worst possible choice for that position. However, with, you know, like ONE joint added on you could fold his lobster-legs out of the way and all is fine. Almost all the Seacons have "big animal kibble" bits that limit their placement/articulation in gestalt mode---well, if you dedicated each one to be an arm OR leg, not both---you could easily engineer a dedicated folding/hiding spot for those bits. (which almost all the modern combiners are doing---the only one that didn't is FoC Bruticus, and we all know how well that turned out) Overbite is the gun. Period. His color scheme declares it (unique among the Seacons, doesn't fit in with the others in gestalt mode), and he simply makes a much better gun than all the others. Again, going back to "removing scramble city"----think how much better Overbite would be, if he ONLY had a gun mode, and not arm/leg modes. And if you didn't need to force a gun-mode into the other 4 bots---have them be ONLY an arm, not an arm and leg and gun. PS---am I the only G1 TF fan who believes that Piranacon's instructions are wrong, and that Piranacon's gun should incorporate the 'weapon stand tripod' as the main gun barrel, and NOT use the bot's own gun? Try it, it works perfectly, so much so that it's clearly intended by the designer, even if not mentioned in any instructions. The "tripod" is a giant rifle standing up on its end. Until you actually use it as a gun. Makes Overbite a really, really good gun... (I can take pics if this doesn't make sense, especially if you've never owned a Seacon weapon stand and have never seen it up-close---nobody ever photographs it, because I think nobody else realizes what it really is)
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