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David Hingtgen

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  1. Sad but true. I still hold the recent GI Joe movie as a prime and hated example of this. They used bad CGI of Apache helicopters flying over a desert. Maybe a 5-second scene. They did nothing but fly over some sand. And they didn't have special GI Joe markings or anything. Surely there's a million hours of stock footage of Apache choppers over the desert. But they instead did some obviously-fake CG from scratch instead.
  2. Reposting for all who haven't seen it---an AMAZING repaint of MP-10 Prime: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radicons-customs/552723-mp-10-optimus-prime-full-repaint-pic-heavy.html Basically, he wanted it to look as realistic as possible.
  3. Any chance the expression was "dull surprise"? (Transformers fans may get the reference)
  4. David Hingtgen

    DX VF-25G

    Which has almost zero relation to apparent market demand at this point.
  5. Basically it went like this---casual, kinect, casual, celebrity appearance, kinect, actual game reveal, casual, kinect, kinect, another celebrity, Halo 4, web-browsing, TV-ipod-XboxLive, ESPN-XboxLive, end. One giant "we're trying to copy Nintendo/get I-phone casual players as much as possible" announcement. Actual new games/tech for gamers---very little.
  6. I saw a vehicon once, passed on it, waiting for the jet version. (and passed on Knockout twice----Knockout's paint scheme is just WRONG---that's very different from being simplified for cost reasons like usual---they simply applied a lot of paint of the wrong colors in the wrong places).
  7. David Hingtgen

    DX VF-25G

    It absolutely is---because while the Tamashii webshop is exclusive/limited---THEY MAKE AS MANY AS THEY GET ORDERS FOR. If only 407 are ordered, they make 407. But it they get 23,602 orders then they'll make 23,602. There's no pre-order discount, but if you want one and pre-order it---you'll get it. (and pre-orders are open for days/weeks at a time) At this point, I think most everyone wishes the VF-25S, VF-171EX, and VF-25G were done just like the Tamashii webshop stuff----just get your order in (at your leisure--you can afford to wait for your next paycheck or two) before the deadline, and you're sure to get one. No refreshing a site 500 times, no "we only got 6% of our order in", no staying online 24/7 just to NOT get one...
  8. Seems that Prime Airachnid is even worse in-hand than the early pics lead us to believe: http://www.seibertro...l-review/24994/ (the opening cockpit gimmick not only leads to a giant hood/backpack as we already knew, it also means there's no actual head, merely a sculpted face on the bottom of the pilot's seat) But for those who want a cool black/purple vehicle-based Decepticon female, Perfect Effect revealed the robot mode of their Not-Arcee remold recolor via the comic included with the first release: http://img801.images.../7072/scang.jpg
  9. I still think Grace as Mylene would look better.
  10. Who wants an SR-71 tailfin to hang on their wall? http://www.ebay.com/...625bd2d&vxp=mtr Interestingly, #955 is on display at Edwards---quite intact. But SR-71 fins did get swapped around and repainted often enough, so it could easily be an 'original' tailfin of 955, and thus 955 currently may have at least 1 fin that was swapped from another. The infamous "Rapid Rabbit" has 1 tailfin remaining out there, despite having crashed: http://www.habu.org/.../17975-978.html
  11. Erm, Basara's suit has clearly been "adjusted" to fit Sheryl. Same way Mylene's would be "adjusted" to fit on Grace.
  12. Yup, only the 1/72 kit includes a newly-molded pilot, the DX just repainted Brera into a generic CF lackey male pilot. So we only have half-a-Grace. (as the kit pilots are cut off at the waist)
  13. I don't know how you could consider Lexx as even a poor ripoff of Red Dwarf. It'd have to be thrice as good to be that...
  14. That's not the one I was thinking of, nor the one I think Mommar was thinking of.
  15. Yes it is. It's currently my response to "what's the neatest place you've ever eaten at?"
  16. The short version is that their goal is not to enslave/capture the Earth, but to literally kill/vaporize/extinguish every sentient being and all their technology in the galaxy, leaving no trace that any advanced civilization ever existed.
  17. I'm reading/posting to both this thread and the "3rd party vs Hasbro" thread at TFW right now. Interesting to see the contrast in what's brought up/rationaled etc.
  18. Sigh, still no Grace figures. (Grace in Mylene's outfit would rock)
  19. I'd love to give a couple hundred dollars to Bandai for some Frontier valks--but they don't seem to want my money (nor anyone else's) lately. So I'll give it to TFC instead.
  20. Yup, no Alto-Ranka-Sheryl thing here, Farscape's is sublime. Much better villains, too.
  21. The first thing I'll mention, is "D'Argo is not Worf". That may be your first-30-secs impression, but trust me, the difference will become very clear. (D'Argo is awesome)
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