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that's not true, it could be entirely unsorted.

Yup, the vf-1 head is supposed to sit down inside that chest depression

hahaha, tank.

It's really unfair to lump the bp8 in with the 'splody shoulders. One is a design/manufacturing flaw and the other is user error.

Well it looks like Robocop is on hold so, some of you will be sad while most, I expect, will be happy.

the issue with the 1/48 is that the molds suck. Each subsequent release introduced more fit issues, parts not matching up, etc. On the other hand, they don't break.

it can be mounted on any of the 1/60 yf-21 or the vf-22. They come with the necessary mounts.

if you think about it, everyone is naked underneath their hair...

Honestly, I'm not worried. I'm not convinced that the knurling alone will cause the hinge to crack. I think a lot has to do with how it was put together. And even if it does fail, it's not a big deal for me to make another little metal insert to replace the damaged plastic joint.

Does that mean Wanzerfan is really some sort of sentient illustration?

there's a dx thread but basically the paint apps chip off easily, some have an overly tight shoulder joint that some people have had the screw snap off because of.

Oh, they're still knurled, they just haven't cracked or stressed the plastic.

Just got mine.. everything is fine. Took no special care transforming the vf-1j, arms did not fall off, no cracks in the shoulder. Impressed with the build overall and it's sooo much nicer than the 1/48 GBP set just in terms of how well things snap together and stay together and the posability. I wish the vf-1j had more tampo though like what they were showing on the early publicity shots or at least as much as the CF vf-1j. Also, like I thought, the chest armor will not fit the vf-1d body.

oh, well then let me spoil some more old stuff for you. ET dies but like jesus, comes back to life. Senator Palpatine is the Emperor, Leia is Luke's twin sister. In Chinatown, She's her sister AND her daughter. The dog dies in Old Yeller too, the whale doesn't die in Moby Dick, Maggie was the one who shot Mr. Burns. It was Jean Valjean who saved Marius, the secret garden isn't so secret. Robbie and Cecilia are dead in Atonement and oh yeah, if the movie has been out for three weeks and you still haven't seen it, maybe YOU should take responsibility and not click and then read the giant thread where other people are talking about said movie.

wow.. this is way the wrong thread for you to be professing your hots for exo...

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Well, that's not quite right. Dr Movie's work for x-men and bat man started at the layout stage and through post. They have also done other productions from development through post.

Yeah, I think it just came down to money. If HG paid more, Dr. Movie probably would have delivered on par with the work they do for other companies. Just looking at the director and producer from Dr. Movie, these are really the B or C team guys... not the same people who worked on the DC shows. So, you pay for newbies, you get newbie work.

I don't think that's fair either. Their work on x-men, spawn, bat man, JLA, etc was all very good. Their opening for Ragnarok is pretty solid as well. Granted the character design etc, isn't as good as what Japan puts out but it's FAR cry better than what they did for Robotech.

I don't see anything wrong with going over the science of a movie, not when the film makers clearly took the time to think about it and present the material as realistically as possible. Besides, while the science may seem tedious to some, it's fun for me.

It's really not fair to blame the poor animation on Dr Movie, they do work for major studios like Ghibli and no one complains about that.

David, that's what happened to my hinge. I made that metal sleeve as an insert and it has been holding up fine now.

Have you even seen the movie? The alien life forms on Pandora are quite different from the animals on Earth. There is a concept called biomechanics and economy of motion and energy. While fanciful creatures with crazy joints and what not are cool, they don't make sense from a biological standpoint. Everything costs energy. So given that restraint, the race is for the most using the least, so you tend to find that nature keeps coming to the same solutions. It's why the crazy flying creatures with multiple wings groupings, or crazy crests, etc, aren't as successful or died out, because the design was inefficient. Maybe there has been no gas giant in the habitable zone with an earth like moon. So what? As I understand it, there's been few discoveries of rocky planets in general and certainly none containing any life at all, even outside of our little old planet. This is why it's called science FICTION. And since you are the one who kept bringing up Serenity as an example of sci-fi you like, and while I like it too, it's absurd that you're holding Avatar to such a nitpicky standard when in the Firefly universe, all the habitable worlds seen, dozens of them including habitable asteroids, are all clustered in one solar system.

What? If there's a lot of crap in the air that things can eat, then no, I don't think it's far fetched at all that similar structures and behaviours would emerge. Convergent evolution, similar solutions given similar circumstances and problems. And I have no idea about the gas giants. I know we've found more than a few and that they tend to be closer to their suns than our gas giants are in relation to our sun but given that the humans on Pandora can walk around without environmental suits, the planet would have to be at a point that's similar in relationship to where earth is to our sun. So given that, why couldn't flora develop on such a world? The moons around Jupiter are frozen balls of gas and liquid because of their distance from the sun, not because they orbit a gas giant. The gas giant doesn't magically suck all the heat from an orbiting body.

not sure what your point is. Pandora has a lower gravity than earth, hence the giant life forms. Those deep sea creatures live near the plumes because that's the only source of energy at those depths. And we already know life can survive frozen in ice. Researchers have found, thawed and brought back to life little bacteria found in ice and they've found life in the middle of salt mines buried miles beneath the surface. So your prediction is a bit like predicting that gravity will still be in effect tomorrow. As for the "plausibility" of the atmosphere argument, that actually holds up to what's shown in the movie. Lots of the "vegetation" shown in the movie is just scaled up stuff you find in coral reefs like the giant christmas worms Jake plays with before being charged by that hammerhead rhino thing. So for something to grow that big via filter feeding junk out of the air, there must be a lot of stuff in it. Oddly though, on earth, those filter feeding organisms evolved because those reef environments are devoid of nutrition so between the symbiotic relationship coral has with zooxanthellae and their filter feeding mechanisms they thrive. Carnivorous plants similarly are found in environments where the ground is low in nutrients. Pandora doesn't really seem to have that problem though, so I'm curious as to what reason there would be for such massive filter feeding organisms to evolve.