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  1. David Hingtgen
    It's awesome to mention this when people discuss the "best Batman"---Keaton, Bale, etc. (especially pre-Nolan, when your only options were really Keaton, Clooney, Kilmer) "Kevin Conroy". If they say "who?" then they've missed out on a lot of the best Batman lore/experience the world has to offer.
  2. David Hingtgen
    Look closer. The stripe isn't "aligned"---it's MISSING a stripe. Start at the wings and follow the stripe forward. Where does it end? Right behind the gun port. The stripe that starts at the wing doesn't get all the way to the canard. And that's how the toy is. But the toy and most other sources ADD another stripe NEXT TO that gun port, inboard of it and going forward to the canard. The toy and the chronicle and the Macross Mecha Manual all add a separate stripe, forward and inboard of the one in the animation, to continue the striping all the way forward to the canard. There's not a single source that shows one continuous stripe going from wing to canards. There's either 2 separate stripes that split at the gun port, or one stripe that doesn't go all the way forward. ::edit:: Seems Chronocidal already mentioned this.
  3. David Hingtgen
    I once *really* tried to read LOTR with all the poems and songs----gave up. "I swear, this time I won't skip over them" quickly turns into "ok, so that's the 6th elf with a name that starts with L and ends with M in the past 4 lines, and I forgot who's who"
  4. David Hingtgen
    Thread re-opened, we'll see how it goes. But anyone coming in just to spout off against it/troll will be dealt with.
  5. David Hingtgen
    And we had another robot in orbit to take pics of it happening!
  6. David Hingtgen
    Because it's a movie of a treasured childhood story. IMHO The Hobbit is better than LOTR in many ways. I *loved* reading The Hobbit and read it many times in my school years. The LOTR trilogy--I've read it, but the stories never really grabbed me like The Hobbit did. (the first time, I actually never finished the first LOTR book---I got bored. It wasn't until years later that I tried again and read the whole series) Considering that THE LOTR MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN THE BOOKS, I can only imagine how good the better-to-start-with Hobbit story will be on the big screen.
  7. David Hingtgen
    I do, and I'm not the only one here that does. Best F-14 model out there bar none. Pricey, and frankly over-priced, but it is the best by far.
  8. David Hingtgen
    Rewatched eps 14 and 25. In ep 14 it's clear that Alto's armor is a recolor of Ozma's---as in, there's a few leftover bits of Ozma's paint scheme, so it's not very "definitive". However, in both eps 14 and 25, for Alto's and Ozma's, there is a reddish bit where the hinge is. Looks more like a purplish-red sensor-jewel-glass though. But if nothing else--the toy's not completely wrong there-----there is red there in the animation. It's just not red-red, and not the whole piece. This is the best screen cap I could get of it:
  9. David Hingtgen
    Valks never have black armor--it's usually a dark greyish-blue (going back to DYRL). It just depends on the lighting, scene, animation, etc for whether it looks more black or more blue.
  10. David Hingtgen
    The -27 and -25 are the opposite, when it comes to model kits. (at least, they were until the renewal) The -27 DX toy has a better-looking battroid IMHO than the model kit. Whereas the -25 kit looked better in every way than the -25 DX v.1
  11. David Hingtgen
    It's SAAB's 75th anniversary, and they wanted a flypast: That may be the world's only flying Viggen. (there's multiple Drakens out there) And if nothing else, this pic proves that SAABs look cool.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Personally, I am hoping for a "bright white" Alto renewal bundled with the Tornado pack as the Alto re-release. So I can buy it, then sell the Tornado pack to someone here. Everybody wins that way---I get my Alto, and someone gets a Tornado pack without having to buy the bundle. (my money is on the Tornado pack ONLY coming in the bundle, which will suck for everyone who already has an Alto)
  13. David Hingtgen
    That's part of the reason I'm ordering these sets even without owning the valk yet---fear that any future re-release bundle will be "recolored" like the blue-tinted VF-25F set was. (I think everyone here is aware of how finicky I am about shades of white/grey on my valks)
  14. David Hingtgen
    I only watched Dynamite 7 once, I honestly can't remember if it has the same "opening" shoulders like Basara's or not for the speakers.
  15. David Hingtgen
    And the little fins on top of the shoulders.
  16. David Hingtgen
    True, true. Can't argue there. I'd like Hercules as well, but as the Constructions are not one of my *fave* groups, I had to pass as well due to cost.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Hercules is still widely available, both TFsource and BBTS had all 6 last time I checked (less than a week ago).
  18. David Hingtgen
    Well, they did say they were trying to eliminate recirculation issues. (yeah, by having no airflow at all it seems!)
  19. David Hingtgen
    For "mainline" TF's for the next half-year or more, the ONLY one I plan to get is FoC Grimlock. All other money goes to 3rd-party. I'd rather have a few really neat figures, than a dozen+ hollow, thin deluxes... I see no point in FoC Bruticus---sure, it's a lot cheaper, but that money could still buy another 3rd-party limb or two for a *good* combiner team instead. I do plan on MP-10 US, MP-12, and maybe US MP Thundercracker. But they are not "mainline" figures.
  20. David Hingtgen
    Thanks for letting me know I'm not alone in "buying parts for valks I don't own".
  21. David Hingtgen
    I think the "Not-Predaking" reveal was even bigger news: Not real fond of the alt modes though, the rhino and tiger look weird IMHO. Lion and bull look fine, need to see more of eagle to have an opinion.
  22. David Hingtgen
    At this point, I *wish* I could get an Alto for 200.
  23. David Hingtgen
    It's much more fun to imagine Nolan is actually a big M7 fan and they're all chanting "Nekki! Nekki! Basara, Basara"
  24. David Hingtgen
    Hmmn. I was hoping for a possible Max/Milia release, but the chronicle has the exact same uber-bland version that M3 does----the worst-looking of all Max/Milia valks. Always thought it was strange, since M3's version of Milia's VF-11 looks even better than it did in M7 Plus. (I'd still love a Milia VF-11, in either variation, but M3 is better) Almost every valk in M3 has a really nice paint job, better than most places---but it's like someone else did the schemes for the VF-4 in that game.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Did I just miss it, or has no one here commented on the whole chanting "Basara Basara" thing? Obviously they wanted Batman to sing to his enemies, not punch them. Semi-random awesome compilation track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThVlUEcpnVM
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