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You guys realize that things happen in varying degrees right? To pretend that Delta doesn't represent an extreme (so far) is being deliberately obtuse. It's okay that this extreme doesn't bother you but to act like it's silly it bothers other people is dumb. This isn't a case of saying "Dude, SDF Macross had Minmay so you should automatically love when Sailor Moon saves the day in Delta!" No, they're not perfect equivalents. The people that are groaning about the Sailor Moon rip-off act might be the same people that loved SDF Macross but thought it might have been a little better if they didn't play up the singing so much. These might even be the same people then that said "Macross 7 sucks because it has guitars for flight controls." The point is that you can be a Macross fan that doesn't blindly gobble up J-pop and flying bulletproof girls.
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I'm hoping to get my little nub in my 0A some time this week. Something about that doesn't sound right...
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Ohhhh... that warning has been echoed many times here, sorry you joined the club. There's fix instructions though but you'll have to do some surgery.
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If it's not shipped ems it may spend over a week in customs and you won't get an update after that until it's delivered.
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Well a VF-0 at 1/100 to 1/90 scale would be pretty large so if Bandai goes Hi-Metal that might be pretty interesting. I imagine they could pretty much do it full PT and we know they tampo.
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VF-19Adv vs Arcadia YF-19: both have their own strengths so there's no clear cut winner. I am very fond of both. For now I'd say just buy the Arcadia and then cross your fingers and hope Bandai releases a YF-19 next year.
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Totally agree. To act like the story doesn't make sense because we didn't get to see the republic senate vote on a funding bill of the resistance is kind of silly... someone has a little too much infatuation with the prequels. All of the things that could have been explained more aren't 100% necessary to the plot which was a very refreshing change after the prequels. I would also say that Macross is very guilty of this same perceived slight often. Most of what's going on with Galaxy in Frontier needs to be inferred. Why did UN Spacy become NUNS? Do you have to play the video games to know? Not everything is laid out in the animation and that's okay... just like it's okay for Star Wars not to show us The First Order building the Starkiller base or explaining how they funded it. Was the weapon derivative and silly? Sure. Was it 100% in line with the other stuff we've accepted in SW? Yeah, at least the Ewoks didn't have to come back to help Han out. If Lucas had done this, I guarantee Han would have had whatever named Ewoks were in ROTJ be on his ship and they would have played a key role in saving Han's life from Darth Traitorson. -
If there was news, you wouldn't need to ask.
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You must hate Macross.
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Hmm, I can't quote for some reason but Scyla, I just thought that the sun had like 7 or 8 shots worth of energy. So they had drained the sun with the first shots but hadn't put it out. Now the last couple shots were going to end the sun. There's two reasons I'm inclined to lean this way (although I'm sure there's some definitive answer somewhere). First, the thing appears to be an actual planet just with a trench carved into it. Second, there's no scene or discussion about the base moving.
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Hmm, I just thought it was a base built into an existing planet with no real means of locomotion.
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From what I remember of the Clone Wars episodes about making light sabers, the Jedis go to some planet and do some trial where a crystal chooses them. So basically they go in a cave and the crystal that is meant for them will stand out to them while hundreds of other crystals that might be closer will essentially be invisible to them. This is how you get the notion that the color of the blade is matched to an aura. If you were super calm or whatever then a particular type of crystal would call out to you that would make your blade a certain type of color. After the crystal is in your saber then anyone who picks it up will have a blade of that color (like Grievous with his using dead Jedi sabers). I'm not advocating whether or not this is good, just indicating why the different colors and associations with the original owner's inner self are supposed to work. As it was said, the Sith are like "F trials, we'll do it ourselves" so they just use fake crystals which make red blades. Jedis of course could pick up a Sith sword but since making your light saber is part of your trial, which means being chosen by a crystal, they obviously don't need to resort to fake crystals. Echoing the sentiment above, the Starkiller base was a real groaner, especially the "Big, Bigger, BIGGEST!" hologram scene. Ugh. Star Killer did seem to have a fleet in defense, we saw Kylo Ren on one of those ships right? But as was also stated, we have no idea what means are at The First Order's disposals since the movie completely glosses over what any particular group is capable of. Also, isn't Starkiller base about to be useless anyway? It draws its power from a sun that it was about to destroy. Once the sun is gone the base is useless any way. The rebels just need to destroy it before it gets off those last couple shots. Maybe that's why there's not much of an obvious defense. After those shots the base might theoretically be getting abandoned anyway. I imagine killing that star is going to have very negative repercussions for hanging out in that location. Going back randomly to The Clone Wars and maybe just Star Wars in general. In good story-telling, the bad guys typically believe they're in the right. The Phantom Menace clumsily tried to do this with Anakin switching to the Dark Side in part because he thought a totalitarian system could be benevolent and less inefficient than the republic. Now, while the Emperor was always pretty dag nasty evil, wouldn't Maul, Dooku (Tyranus), and all other Sith have been more interesting if they thought they were right? And you can say "They did!" but then I'd point out their names are things like Maul, Tyranus, Sidious, and Plagueis. Those don't sound like the names of people who are just misunderstood. Also, in the last Clone Wars episode I watched the Kaminoans were like "We need to talk to Lord Tyranus about this..." and seem to not understand he's evil. His name is Tyranus. They try to make it clear that the Kaminoans think Jedi are crazy religious freaks but I dunno... it feels like Lucas got a little carried away with the Sith making them into silly charicatures. Finally, to Azrael's point earlier, it's definitely true that after The Phantom Menace not everyone understood how bad it was immediately after the fact (though it's ratings were MUCH worse than TFA). Most people didn't really get the extent of how bad it was until after the full trilogy was out and, in combination, all of them were God awful. I think Phantom Menace originally did get the benefit of the doubt. "Okay, Lucas introduced us to some new characters. Sure, everything involving Anakin was wretched, as was JarJar, as was the ham-fisted insertion of R2D2 and C3PO, but Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon fighting Darth Maul was pretty cool and who knows where he'll go next?" As that was true then, I could definitely see this movie losing some of its luster if in the next films Finn and or Rey become absolutely douchey or some loose plot threads from this film are taken up in comically bad directions the next time around. If we learn that Luke ran off to an island because of a really stupid reason then we're obviously going to be a little more let down that in the first movie everyone wasn't like "Luke? F that selfish prick. Look at what we're dealing with because of him!"
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You say "Lazy and unimaginative." Are you saying that because it takes too much from the OT? Are you also saying that if you're not someone well versed in the OT that it may then SEEM like a fantastic movie but that's just because you don't remember previous fantastic movies that preceded it well enough? I think it may be important to remember that Star Wars was never about being original.. it rips itself off in the span of 3 'original' movies. Death Star? AGAIN? And, it's just samurai movies in space. So I don't think anyone should be adopting a "Great films should be art that stretches the mind" when talking about Star Wars. I dunno, I think some of this criticism stems from people that are just pissed George Lucas didn't have a part in making this film. If he did I think we'd be reading a whole lot about how he "Totally recaptured the magic lost when he attempted the prequels" or "Has broken free from his efforts to make all actors act like blocks of wood and speak absolutely stilted dialogue and is actually making likable characters again."
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The majority of people are saying its good. That doesn't mean its popular. Box office sales make it popular. Some people have rightly called it "derivative"... I'd say anyone claiming the prequels are BETTER though need to seriously reevaluate their tastes in movies. There's so few redeeming qualities to the prequels other than the title saying STAR WARS that I am totally stumped by any love for them. Seriously, name ONE good thing about the prequels other than "I hadn't seen that before." Because, for the record, "I haven't seen that before" is damning with faint praise. I hadn't seen two girls one cup until I did.
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I'd say it's more of a "keep it simple" re-write. Everyone loves the core characters, why are we developing some go no-where characters? People loved Phasma and Boba Fett and they barely did nothing... we don't have to reach too far on the periphery.
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Vaporware in 10... 9....
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93% on rotten tomatoes... apparently the 7% are on MW. So anecdote here, over the holidays I was visiting my in-laws and all the kids and all their families were in one house. I suggested we go see Star Wars Episode VII since, amazingly enough, none of us had caught it yet. Every single person asked if I could tell them what happened in the prequels because they had seen them but they were so bad nothing was very memorable from them. As we talked the progression was very similar to this: "There was a SICK light saber duel in the first one!" "Wasn't Anakin always totally unlikable?" "I remember lots of robots always being unbelievably stupid" "I have no idea what was in the third one but I do remember it ended with the Obi Wan saying 'I have the high ground' which seemed ridiculous before chopping off Anakin's legs." "Hey, pod racing! that was cool. Didn't they make a game of it?" That was about as far as we got before deciding it probably wouldn't matter. So, for those of you who are saying the prequels are more memorable and less full of fluff... I would say the majority of folks would look at you like a crazy person. That was a common criticism about Return of the Jedi.
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You clearly haven't watched the prequels lately. They aren't that original and they are garbage. Sure, they're less familiar, but I'd rather have a blowjob from a girl I know than a kick in the nuts from a stranger.
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Macross Δ (Delta) Mecha/Technology Thread - READ 1st POST
jenius replied to azrael's topic in Movies and TV Series
Negative. You're using German instead of Swedish. EDIT "WTF, why Swedish for a German opera?" Because the Draken is a Saab jet. EDIT II "Well then they should have used the Swedish pronunciation of Siegfried!" I think it's the same... or touche'. -
Clearly someone wasn't collecting a couple years ago when it was like 80 Yen to a dollar.
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Well good news, all the characters die.
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Not likely, Bandai does its own events.
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With a YF 19 reissue coming I'd expect more Trex advance packs.
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Maybe the landing gear magically fold and latch onto the VF 31 right before it needs them so they're no longer internally housed.
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The problem with this argument is that you could say the same thing for transformation or basing space fighters on atmospheric fighters.