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  1. the white drew carey
    Good point, but I think that YFs should count, too.
  2. the white drew carey
    Aside from the classic VF-1? 1. VF-9. Of course it looks sleek as heck in fighter mode, but especially its GERWALK. I, unlike most others, like the battroid, too. 2. SDP-1. Because I like the idea of a heavy hitter version of a VF-1, and I like the direction SK was going in with it. 3. VF-171. This one surprised me because I don't care that much for the VF-17, but the VF-171 makes the it look like a rough draft. Least favorite: any VF with a g&dd@mn face, and/or the series of sucked-in gut/out-thrust pelvis of VFs from Frontier (VF-25, VF-27, VF-29).
  3. the white drew carey
    Forgot about that one. But did you notice how the 'rat-tat-tat' of the machine guns appears to either be gone, or turned down really low, in the new trailer? Hey, they (the Pacific Rim people) are making up the rules of the game as they go along. I am just playing by them. They didn't have to release spec sheets with a whole bunch of 'cool' sounding stuff on them but, by Jove, I will use those spec sheets to call them out on the super-copters!
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    Just saw something that I find curious, and bothers me a bit: When they are dropping the Jaegers into the water, they show at least 8 (probably 9 due to their formation) CH-47 Chinook-looking helicopters dropping the Striker Eureka. Now, the Striker Eureka is 6,650 tons (13.3 million pounds/6m+ kg), meaning each helicopter is carrying, at least, almost 740 tons. The lifting capacity of the modern CH-47 is about 20 tons. Even the C-5 Galaxy, the USA's largest cargo plane, generally carries only 135 tons. So I guess the take away from this is that, in the near future, not only do we have giant mecha (awesome!) but super-duper amazingly powerful helicopters, too (awesomer?)!
  5. the white drew carey
    The wife and I just watched it, and liked it but WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... (deep breath) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much lens flare. I mean, even in the showers? The showers?!? Or- it's the middle of the night and we're in an abandoned ski lodge... dial up the lens flare!!!
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    I don't see how people hate like the GERWALK or battroid modes of the VF-9 so much The GERWALK looks totally menacing, like a bird of prey. I think it is neat how the whole nose props up like that. As for the battroid? It may not be the best, but it is totally better than the skinny, sucked-in gut/out-thrust crotch look of everything from Frontier.
  7. the white drew carey
    Panda Express and Yoshinoya Beef Bowl.
  8. the white drew carey
    I've just realized that my favorite VF designs are the ones that have the "nose cone and cockpit chest" feature: The VF-1, VF-9, VF-11, and YF-21/VF-22.
  9. the white drew carey
    Quick question for you guys: Recently we bought a WD 3tb MyBook. It is physically attached to our iMac via firewire, and has two partitions: one to back up the iMac, and one that will be used to back up my wife's work laptop before we move. Anyhow, I have noticed that the hard drive on this thing tends to run A LOT. Like, at times we there is not data going up or down. It is just sitting there, and then the hard drive spins up for a while. I can feel the slight vibration of it through my computer desk (cheap wood), and if I put my hand on it, I can definitely feel the hum of it spinning. Is this something normal and expected, like the drive is doing something on its own?
  10. the white drew carey
    My favorite VF! Looks great!!!
  11. the white drew carey
    Hey, I remember the 2011 one! Can't wait to see the full image. For the third year in a row I've done the holiday card for my friend's motocross parts company, REC MX:
  12. the white drew carey
    I'm having difficulty with it. I mean, design-wise it doesn't look like it advanced much from the VF-25 or the YF-29. I guess me main beef is that, at a certain point, Kawamori decided to start putting the arm joint in GERWALK mode in front of the wing instead of slung below it. Ever since then, every GERWALK mode, which I always thought of as the most unique and exciting, visually, has kind of looked like poop to me. Someone mentioned earlier in this thread that these are all starting to look the same, and I'd have to agree. The YF-30 is no different.
  13. the white drew carey
    Hmmm... You are definitely right about the head design. I do like the ship designs, though. They are unique and interesting. Animation looks good, too. The synopsis though seems very Gundamy. Almost like it could be an AU story that takes its cues from UC.
  14. the white drew carey
    Hey there everyone! I was organizing and packing up some documents and came across these old Patlabor drawings I did from from 2001 (actually, photocopies of them... I think the originals are lost). Click on the images to be directed to the blog post with the full images (as always, my site could use the traffic). Feel free to comment on the blog post or directly here in the O/T thread. ...man, these are OLD!!!
  15. the white drew carey
    Wow, ten years already.
  16. the white drew carey
    It has already been stated that it is two pilots operating a single unit. OK, I checked out the rundown from the MTV-hosted (really?) director's commentary of the trailer. Here is some text about the dual pilots: So, that provides a reasonable explanation of why the pilots aren't physically in sync. But I still think it is gimmicky and I don't know if Syngyne posted the actual plot device or not, but what he/she wrote sounds reasonable enough. I think it is there just to serve some plot device.
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    Gimmicky. Plus, they didn't even do a good job of coordinating the actors. At 1m05s, both pilots do this silly-looking arm thing, and the timing of both is off. Which one is the Jaeger going to emulate? At 1m26, they show both walking. Their legs, especially their left legs, are in completely different positions: Which one is the Jaeger going to emulate? At 1m34s one of the pilots does that thing where you punch your other open hand. Does the other pilot have to do that, too? If not, which one does the Jaeger know to emulate? At 1m41s one of the pilots punches from a crouching position: The other pilot is clearly not doing the same thing. How does the Jaeger know which pilot it is supposed to emulate? Like I said before, I hope they provide a good explanation for why this system is done in the film, because I can easily imagine it being given some cheap lip-service because its true goal is probably to create some dramatic situation between two of the pilots.
  18. the white drew carey
    Don't get me wrong. GdT is a great storyteller and I am sure Pacific Rim will be a great story. But after so many visually-stunning movies with creative and exciting visual designs done under his watch, seeing the mecha designs for this almost felt like a punch in the gut. And, let's be honest, they better have a pretty good reason for the dual-pilot neural-interface thing, because seeing two dudes in the cockpit sphere walking in unison looks pretty cheesy.
  19. the white drew carey
    But the designs for the robots in Hellboy 2 were fantastic looking. These just look so... generic. And blah.
  20. the white drew carey
    So... it is the robots from Real Steel controlled by the same system from Robot Jox? I'm losing faith quickly... GdT, don't steer me wrong!!!
  21. the white drew carey
    My response exactly.
  22. the white drew carey
    Ummm... no they didn't. Being sucked into the black hole was an unintended consequence that threw both the Narada and the Jellyfish into the past. They had no control over when they went to and, most likely, nor would they be able to replicate the results enough to control their temporal destination.* I mean, did you even really see the film? Because there was never an implication that they could go scooting around time willy-nilly. *of course, this is completely ignoring the fact that controlled time travel has been done quite often in the 'Original Timeline' previous to the events of Star Trek (2009).
  23. the white drew carey
    OK, so there is speculation that it isn't the Big E coming out of the water. I watched it frame by frame, and it is hard to tell from the perspective whether or not it really is. There seems to be some play of shadows between the two nacelles that wouldn't be there if it is the Enterprise. Also, I guess that is not the Enterprise crashing into the water, as the pylons seem to be too long, and have an length-wise indentation on the inside of the pylon that isn't present on the Enterprise. So, could it be that the teaser simply doesn't show the E at all?
  24. the white drew carey
    Star Trek: Into Darkness. Am I right?!?
  25. the white drew carey
    Could be, but with the background Nel2012 has chosen, the light source is coming from about 2 o'clock off of Alto's right shoulder. So that makes the shadows off (they're coming from about 10 o'clock) and not strong enough. Still,as with all of Nel2012's work so far, it is an uncanny rendition of Alto. Looks like an animation cel or advert!
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