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  1. David Hingtgen
    ::edit:: Well, eVga just put up a batch of new 1080 FTW’s on their ebay store for like $120 below MSRP. I took it as a sign, and bought like the last one before they sold out. Still a hundred bucks more than I was planning, but I basically got a 1080 for a 1070 price*, and I think I’ll be pleased. *prices highly variable/insane the past few months. ::edit 2:: supposed to come with “Destiny 2 and two expansions”——anyone interested in that? I’d sell it cheap to anyone here.
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    Despite multiple molds, both official and 3P, it baffles me why no one can come even CLOSE to simply having his mine-plow fold up against his chest properly. And the new mold is the worst of them all. It makes his robot mode look so stupid to have “giant forks” sticking out of his chest, when all it’d take is another hinge with a simple ball joint to make it look so much better. (Perfect accuracy would take a lot more, but you can get a lot of improvement with little effort)
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    Despite always designing my PC's around upgradability, I always tend to wait so long to upgrade, that it's kinda pointless---sockets and RAM have moved a gen or two ahead, and nothing's compatible anymore. So, opinions wanted on what I should do. Current specs: i5-4690 on Z97 board, 8GB DDR3 12800 RAM. GTX970 (from Azrael!). 256GB SSD for boot/windows/programs, 1TB HDD storage. Z97 board is LGA1150 socket. Doesn't seem at all worth it to upgrade to any 1150 CPU based on cost/age. Same for RAM. If I want to upgrade CPU/RAM, then it's pretty much a whole new PC at that point---mobo+CPU+RAM, and not cheap. So I'm leaning towards a GTX 1170 when it comes out (or a 1070 Ti, depending on prices this fall). That a worthwhile move, or do I hit the point where the rest of the PC is seriously holding back the GPU? Would probably go the "new mobo etc" route a year after the GPU. (likely new case then, too, at which point it truly is a new PC)
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    I really hope if they ever do release a DX, they outline/shadow the crests on the wings, and don't do like the anniversary YF-29, where it's "white printed on very slightly off-white". The logo/design is far too cool, to be invisible.
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    NOW can we have the Revan cameo/episode?
  6. David Hingtgen
    I need a lot more pics of fighter mode, but right now I'm thinking the 1/60 is better in that regard.
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    P/CP, and BlastOff, are both in the "if I saw them at retail, for normal/sale Deluxe prices, I wouldn't even have to think about it". But $50 for two deluxes at Amazon, is just plain "no". I'll just put the money towards Ox/MMC's BlastOff. PS---I loved my G1 P/CP, and really hope for a 3P version. You could do so much more, if you actually, had, you know, a budget...
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    Is your F-16's canopy scratched/nicked, and no longer rated for Mach 2+? Just buff it out with some Tex-whiz!
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    Macross figures

    David Hingtgen replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    Clear plastic is always more brittle than opaque*, and frankly shouldn't be used for any piece under stress, that's a tight fit, is a hinge, or bears weight. It WILL crack, and then break, eventually. It simpoly has no "give" at all. It won't bend 1 degree, it'll just microscopically crack. *we're talking among the normal ABS/PS/PE/PC used for figures, not "miracle plastics" like F-16 canopy material...
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    Not 1/10 as a bad as the new Thundercats, but not half as good as I was hoping/expecting. Odds of watching it just sank 90%.
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    That doesn't even LOOK like a VF-4, from head-on. I've had some issues with the master files before, but this is the worst by far. Even ignoring wing/fin angles---it looks like they used the F-15 or something for the nose/fuselage/canopy head-on.
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    Look closer. They’re both triple-changers, with their aerial-mode kibble present. Not as much, but totally there. Red one: shoulders are a Harrier’s intakes, wings are coming off the shoulders, abdomen has the nosegear, knees are the rear exhausts. Shins are the wing’s underside bulges where the outrigger gear retract into, with the gear struts going down into the ankles. Blue: cockpit chest, rotor blades and hub on back. Triceps? I suspect he’s an Apache, but there’s not a lot to go by.
  13. David Hingtgen
    Stupidly expensive? Relative to the same company’s $800 Millenium Falcon?
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    And just to avoid my hourly rebuttals at TFW: No, the red one cannot be the jet-bot we saw in the trailer. Those are Harrier parts, not F-4 Phantom parts. And the right one's other alt-mode is a helicopter, not a jet, so the two can't combine into a jet.
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    I read that Lego paid $$$ for the Bond license for use in Dimensions—but with that killed, it’s “use it or lose it”——so we get a DB5 set.
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    I got a trailer for this in front of Ant-Man 2—-But I think it’s the one we saw before, and it said “July”. So either they were supposed to show a new trailer but got the old one, or the new one is very similar and the change to Dec is so recent the new trailer still says July.
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    Sweden has "highway capability" as a requirement for all their planes---Viggen/Gripen etc are designed to use "straight stretches of road" as temporary bases.
  18. David Hingtgen
    I love the Emerald Force logo, always thought it'd look very neat tampo'd on a 19F/S, vs being a mere sticker. Was there ever a quasi-official Diamond Force logo? Put it on Gamlin's -22...
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    Got my Mirage parts today——is there an easy way to tell which forearm shield is L/R? They are very similar but not identical—-the mounting points are like 1mm offset from center and slightly angled, and they are perfectly mirrored so I’m pretty sure it’s intentional. (And being dedicated L/R I’m disappointed the numbering isn’t mirrored)
  20. David Hingtgen
    We haven't had the toys match the quality of the show since Animated. And it's on a downward trend.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Thundercracker, Hot Rod, Wheeljack, and Prowl, all as their G1 selves in the new show? Pleasantly surprised. https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/cyberverse (Even more surprising is that we seem to be getting Slipstream AND a new female ‘Con)
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    Hmmm, I’ll have to start paying more attention to if port-of-entry is related to shipping method.
  23. David Hingtgen
    Mine are at least in the US, but still sitting in NY customs for a week. (Chicago is my preferred port of entry---it's both closer, and they seem to be consistently faster than NY or LA)
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    I sure hope so. Will be interesting to see if they use the recently (compared to the last main AC game) released YF-23 drawings and "do it proper" vs just copying the Italeri kit like everyone else... (the Italeri kit's intakes are totally wrong, the nacelles are somewhat wrong)
  25. David Hingtgen
    Rouge turned out awful? I haven't followed it closely---what'd I miss/what are the issues? (Honestly I'll probably wait for like Windblade/Nautica, to buy a 3P MP fembot) Also, checking in on the FT Menasor thread over at TFW---it's 3x as big now, and not one comment about the alt-modes. Every single post since mine, has been about SCALE. Yeesh. The one thing that is beyond pointless to discuss. They're not even consistent to themselves, much less other characters... It's clear the fandom cares about scale, scale, scale, and scale. Transformation, bot mode, appearance/color/paint, are all "raindrops in the ocean" compared to HOW DOES IT SCALE TO MP-10?!?! (and of course----MP Prime 3.0 is coming, and that'll just reset everything again)
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