Jump to content

David Hingtgen

Moderator
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    17129

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by David Hingtgen

  1. David Hingtgen
    No no, Silverbolt should be an XB-70. I've thought this for years. Big, white, very Concorde-esque---but there's actually space under the belly to keep robot bits in. A Concorde is almost impossible to work with (just like an SR-71) but the XB-70 has that big huge 6-engined intake assembly with integrated gear bays AND bomb bays. You could stuff the whole robot AND the combiner bits in there. I really hope they've thought about that option, and aren't going to make a very G1-esque "robot with a Concorde on its back"---because that's the ONLY way you're ever going to be able to make a TF Concorde. Plus--the XB-70's wings fold in real life---no "alt-mode-inaccurate" big ugly hinges in the middle of the wing like G1 Silverbolt to fold them up for robot mode, because the XB-70 already has big hinges in the wings designed in!
  2. David Hingtgen
    So, Aerialbots. First, an actual scale comparison, for anyone who wants to argue about scale: Second---in the original G1 toy patent drawings, while Air Raid and Slingshot look nigh-identical to the final product, Silverbolt is COMPLETELY different. And suckier overall. But he is an F-14 Tomcat! (which actually introduces even more scale issues, by having an F-14 that's much larger than an F-4/F-15)
  3. David Hingtgen
    I got the impression that the warp core now consists of a number of "pods" that look very much like TNG anti-matter storage pods. That, or the CG team didn't do much research/got the labels swapped on the diagrams.
  4. David Hingtgen
    Considering they ejected the warp core last time---wouldn't they have to?
  5. David Hingtgen
    Shepard indoctrinated? Yup, watching ponies: (on a serious note, it seems Mark Meer is a fan)
  6. David Hingtgen
    Oddity I've noticed recently: When my internet connection's down (usually when the ISP is doing like a 2AM upgrade or something) I notice that my computer slows way down. And I'm 100% sure it's because of Avast, because if I disable Avast, everything's normal. So----why does losing 'net connectivity cause Avast to massively slow down my computer? As in, things take 5 times longer to load if not more, and everything else stutters along. It basically "kills" my computer, because I can't even open up a vid file to watch or anything in the meantime. (unless I shut off Avast---but I didn't know that was a fix the first few times) Note that watching processes for CPU/memory usage show no change whatsoever---there's no massive 99% RAM or CPU hog or anything. But it's Avast, and it's slowing EVERYTHING down, big-time, when it can't access the net continuously. I don't remember this happening before, either. Just the past few weeks or so.
  7. David Hingtgen
    With regards to setting up plot/characters for Avengers---yes you can. IM2 is possibly the biggest one of all in that regard, and Hulk was pretty much stand-alone with the standard 10 second cameo at the end.
  8. David Hingtgen
    They really, really need to re-release Alto's valk...
  9. David Hingtgen
    Personally I think the painted marker lights on the top of the cab are a HUGE improvement. (or really, the fact that Takara didn't paint them was just disgustingly cheap of them IMHO, or a grievous omission---you could pass off red housings as being painted to match the surroundings rather than the typical chrome ones, but opaque red LENSES? That's just lazy/incompetent) Anyways, I forgot to mention this, but Not-Fireflight (from Super Ion) clearly uses the intake splitters of jet mode as shoulder armor/pads. Nifty.
  10. David Hingtgen
    I prefer UA grey too, to the final blue--but it's still 1000x better than current CO. (the BEST United scheme was the "revised" Saul Bass----lowered stripes and bigger titles, 1988-1992) As for CO---again, the 'revised' version with bigger titles and narrower stripes, 1984-1991 or so.
  11. David Hingtgen
    Exactly---IMHO that's also why it's about the only design without lots of weapons on external racks/pylons---they're all conformal, blended with the body.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Appreciated, thanks. (yes, I was hoping they'd have posted a nice clear pic of her in her flightsuit---what a wasted opportunity)
  13. David Hingtgen
    Not so much the logo, but the paintscheme. I absolutely hate United's name on CO's paint. To the point that I won't fly on them any more. UA is dead to me. (and I have more UA models in my collection than anything else) CO already had among the oldest, most boring paint scheme in the industry---that scheme pre-dates United's PREVIOUS scheme. And United's final scheme was among the best to come out in the entire world in 20 years IMHO. Classic, with stripes and many shades of blue. CO is white with grey. The scheme was chosen purely (and they have stated this) because it was cheaper and quicker to repaint UAL's fleet white and grey, than to paint CO's fleet with multiple shades of blue. Still, they could have at least added another stripe or something, to break up the incredible blandness that is CO warm pale grey. (that *is* a color----CO actually has a special pale warm grey paint that only they use, for the belly and engines--it is not the "manufacturer" grey that is applied to the wings--close, but it is a unique color)
  14. David Hingtgen
    Slipstream is awesome, too bad I'll never own it. But anyways---do I even need to say if I want to buy the big new-not-Superion, with real-life alt-modes? PS---I believe my MP-01 is for sale now, if anyone's interested. PPS--since G1/game/art-accurate colors FOC Bruticus will be a convention-exclusive I can't get/afford, that also allows me to save money for Superion. Which combiner team will you buy---a heavily-compromised neon-colored spindly Bruticus---or what is basically a team of Valkyries?
  15. David Hingtgen
    I'm darn curious what was on the wall-panel for Grace. You can make out Nanase's pretty clearly.
  16. David Hingtgen
    IIRC that was one of the biggest issues in the 1980's----no one had ever written a manual for the guns----it was all just "passed down from the previous guy" starting in WWII. Until there was a big gap in use. So they had to find the last few guys who knew how to work them, and train new guys to know them inside and out, and then have those new guys write a manual.
  17. David Hingtgen
    This. A pic or two was ok, but it rapidly starting being more about girls than cars.
  18. David Hingtgen
    Still waiting on the re-release of Alto's...
  19. David Hingtgen
    That's why I specified. (specifically, the only one that counts)
  20. David Hingtgen
    You could get a woman like that if you drove a teal Grand Am: http://blog.seattlep...ntiac-grand-am/ (best craigslist ad ever?)
  21. David Hingtgen
    National? As in merged-with-Pan-Am-in-1979 National? Do tell. Anyways--interesting article/magazine on US carrier flightdeck ops/safety/notation: http://www.public.navy.mil/navsafecen/Documents/media/flight%20awareness/flightdeckawareness-5thEdition08.pdf
  22. David Hingtgen
    That report on Hasbro reminds me of Disney--they wanted to fire Johnny Depp from POTC very early on, thinking that audiences wouldn't "get" his portrayal of Capt Sparrow, and that the movie would flop because of him. It's amazing just how badly many corporate execs "just don't get it" when it comes to what people like/want.
  23. David Hingtgen
    Detroit's new terminal is very nice. (I'd never been to the old one to compare). For pure arrangement/"getting from one gate to another" regardless of how new it is/how good the restaurant choices are: Atlanta IMHO has the best layout, period. It's basically a very large multi-tiered "H" but boy does it work. Can get from anywhere to anywhere easily and quickly. I don't know why no other airport seems to copy it---it's been studied many times and declared the best IIRC, and I agree. O'Hare (and a bunch of other airports) is basically "Y's around a semi-circle" and the design sucks yet it seems everywhere copies it for no apparent reason. (Better than St Louis though, that is the epitome of long corridors that makes anywhere to anywhere a very long walk)
  24. David Hingtgen
    The Anti-UN has cooler stuff/tech though.
  25. David Hingtgen
    I don't really fly often enough to comment (ironic that I love airliners, yet rarely get to truly indulge in my hobby) but I will say: Air France seemed quite nice overall the one flight I had. TWA and NW consistently had the worst food. Northwest once hand-delivered our bags at baggage claim.
×
×
  • Create New...