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    If people feel strongly about something, who's to say that they shouldn't be able to express themselves? That said, I was surprised at the lengths @slaginpit was willing to go to indulge in his strong negative feelings. Oh, gonna have to agree to disagree there. The first IS literally dumb fun, yes, but there's a whole lot of craft that went into it, something that I'm not seeing in this one (at least from the trailers). The first film's use of color, for instance, is pretty remarkable. Red rarely makes up part of a scene's color profile, so when it does, it tends to starkly relief against the rest of the shot, and it sticks in your mind. Young Mako's red shoe, the red blood stain on Raleigh's all-white suit when he stumbles out of Gipsy, the scene immediately preceding that when Gipsy's arm gets ripped off and the cockpit immediately shows a glaring red warning, the same thing at the end when Raleigh's walking around an all-red cockpit... The red helps inform the scene. It's the color of desperation, of impending doom. Not even Crimson Typhoon has red armor quite like desperate red. Its armor looks more like lacquer, and never disrupts a scene like true red does. There's a neat use of neon blue during the Otachi fight as well; when Gipsy is searching for it in Hong Kong, there's a brief shot where a building reflects the lights of the building across from it and looks like the kaiju blue stripes of Otachi. There's just a moment of foreshadowing as Gipsy looks at it, and then Otachi bursts through it. It's a small detail, but it's a really fun one. The sequel, on the other hand, seems to have thrown all that out. The shift from ILM to a lesser effects talent certainly didn't help. The daytime shots have the unfortunate side effect of needing daytime lighting, and there's less ways to manipulate that than there is at night, where the lighting is completely at your control. The Jaegers may sport different colors but they all have the same dull, monotonous overtone to them. The only other deliberate use of color I can see from the trailers is the same "Orange/Blue Contrast" that seems to be the staple of blockbuster movies nowadays. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrangeBlueContrast) And the sequel being a love letter to the high-speed robot action and monster anime that came in their wake isn't necessarily a bad thing. That said, I have my doubts that this movie is any such love letter. It appears to have too much of mainstream blockbuster Hollywood in its veins.
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    Har har bloody har. You get a thumbs up for that. But seriously, go into it without a lick of knowledge of Robotech or Macross - and since this is supposed to be a reboot comic, that's definitely the intended audience - and the comic looks fine... for the most part. Someone who knows nothing about the VF-1 will probably have the same reaction to these as we did to the originals in SDFM. And lest we not forget, the VF-1s in SDFM were subject to MUCH worse quality control standards. The characters are kind of generic-looking, but that shot people like to post of Minmei complaining about something in her teeth (I think?) isn't actually a bad drawing, it just doesn't portray her as cute. It's an expression that plenty of people make, and it's one that's been drawn plenty of times and it's looked just as good/bad as it does here. Someone a page back or so compared this to the manga art from Macross the First and I'm like... They're two totally different works going for two totally different aesthetics aimed at two totally different audiences. There's also something to be said about the Titan Minmei being much more... "believable" than Manga Minmay, in that she looks more like how a person would look, crazy-hot idol or no, whereas Manga Minmay is best described as "distilled moe." There's no room for her to NOT be cute and sexy. But then again, I'm assuming that the only people who buy Titan Robotech are Robotech (and maybe some Macross?) fans, which defeats the whole purpose of a fresh start...
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    GUYS GUYS THEY MADE A MISTAKE AND SHIPPED MINE ALREADY AND THEY SENT ME TWO HOLY crap HOLY crap HOLY crap
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    As someone's who had to seriously fight my own purchasing decisions in the past, I really have to caution you, @Shizuka the Cat, about spending beyond your means. Everyone here WILL encourage your purchasing decisions because a big part of this place is showing off your haul, but if you're as strapped for cash as you say you are, and considering your admission of exorbitant spending in the past, I cannot stress how much I recommend that you stop for now and let yourself recover. Impressing us here with the $1000s in VFs you've bought will certainly get you oohs and aahs, but... we aren't your friends, and we won't have your best interests at heart. Don't take @Slave IV and @no3Ljm's words to heart, because this is all fun and games until you actually start starving yourself to feed your addiction (your word, not mine). But I mean, if things are actually totes okay, then frakk me I guess.
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    SDFM Claudia has a small afro, right? Or no? The art itself is again fine (yes, even that battroid), but there's something to be said about beauty standards here too...
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    I wasn't planning on seeing this movie anyway except if the kids want me to take them (which they seem to do), and I have a feeling they're not going to care one way or another how the posters look. So... yeah. Get your knickers in a twist one way or the other, I suppose; this is by far the least of my concerns.
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    Hey all. I just bought this... https://www.ebay.com/itm/MACROSS-PLUS-VOL-1-SOUNDTRACK-/222881631268 ...and was wondering if any of you could help determine its authenticity or lack thereof. I've noticed discrepancies between the advertisement title, the pictures provided, and the actual product. - The title and item description refers to the CD as "Macross Plus Vol. 1 Soundtrack," something that doesn't exist. The closest thing is "Macross Plus Original Soundtrack," the first soundtrack album released for the OVA. That album has 11 tracks. - The picture shows "Macross Plus Original Soundtrack Plus - for fans only" (the kana in the left margin), the third album released, containing music from the movie version of Macross Plus. That soundtrack has 13 tracks. - The actual product says "Macross Plus Original Soundtrack Plus - for fans only," corroborating the picture and contradicting the title and item description. The musical content is also consistent with the album in the picture (13 tracks). However... the cover art on the actual product is different from that of the picture (the "Macross Plus" is the same font as that used on movie/DVD/BD covers, promotional materials, etc., rather than the plain black seen in the picture) the actual product lacks the kana along the left-hand side that features in the picture the CD itself shows signs of being a burned disc, but I can't tell for sure if that's the case (just suspicion based on the distinct band around the rim of the CD; from my experience that's the result of data not being burned across the whole 700 MB of CD space)(the CD is ~450 MB full) I've attached a fairly thorough set of pictures which you can compare to the one provided in the listing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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    So... You spent all this time talking about how the movie looked like garbage and sounded like garbage and would be garbage, you hated all the "neon power rangers" and the "let's work together"... and yet still took the time to pirate it to see it? I mean alright, I guess...
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    Edit: Dang, beat me to it lol.
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    So... You spent all this time talking about how the movie looked like garbage and sounded like garbage and would be garbage, you hated all the "neon power rangers" and the "let's work together"... and yet still bought a ticket to see it? I mean alright, I guess...
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    New Mykombini release date is 23 March, this Friday.
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    Armored Core, not Gundam, but there's a White Glint + VOB for $75 shipped to the USA on Ebay right now in case you're interested: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Armoured-Core-White-Glint-V-O-B-Set-Movie-Color-Ver-Kotobukiya-Complete/362274554337
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    Seems lightly negative to middling to lightly positive. A perfect bell curve... so far. https://www.avclub.com/guillermo-del-toro-s-geeky-pacific-rim-gets-an-imperson-1823955570 https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/21/17145582/pacific-rim-uprising-review-john-boyega http://www.slashfilm.com/pacific-rim-uprising-reviews-early-buzz/ And since I know there are fans:
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    Is that an 0 Gundam on the lower shelf? I didn't know there were any big-scale figures of it.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Well yes, of course, international shipping usually requires an air flight of some sort, but even still, I can't help but feel like you paid a hefty premium there. What are they bundling with it, a free wife or something?
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    First(?) review up. https://io9.gizmodo.com/somehow-pacific-rim-uprising-is-more-and-less-epic-tha-1823834809
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    My thoughts on it to come. EDIT: A minute in: It's kind of dumb. Not Pacific Rim dumb. Bad dumb. EDIT 2: Yeah, a bit of a waste of time. I'm always down for a good essay, especially about giant monsters and giant robots, but this isn't very well-written.
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    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    Thanks for the link. I'm probably gonna skip this figure altogether for now; too many purchases recently and upcoming. Gonna bookmark it for safekeeping, though. Hopefully it'll still be available in a few months' time or so. Managed to snag the silver one for ~1000 JPY (plus ~1000 in domestic shipping, proxy fee, etc.) from YJA. I didn't particularly want it, but I figure at that price you may as well. That sure is a sizeable figure. 1/60 Valks are already more than big enough for me, and she dwarfs that 1/48. Granted, the VF-1 is smaller than the rest, but still. You're building up my hype now.
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    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    I am definitely on the lookout for that one especially. There are two other Klan figures (both prize figures) I'm keen on, one in macro and one in micro form. The macro is her in her pilot uniform (there's a silver recolor as well), and the micro is her in her black and purple... jumpsuit?... thing. There's also one more (aside from various small-scale figures), but it's of her micro form... in a swimsuit... and yeah, that doesn't really speak to me. That most certainly does help. Thanks very much, I didn't know MFC allowed sorting by character.
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    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    I've been looking around for some Klan Klang figures, and came across again the "Ichiban Kuji" prize figures. Some questions: - Is there like a database of all the different varieties? I'm noticing that a bunch of them are just recolors of each other. - What does "ichiban kuji" translate to? Is it a brand/line name? a descriptor? - A Plamoya-specific question: Do they refund you excess shipping cost if the actual is less than what's calculated? Do they charge you more if the opposite is true? I see some of these items having $20-40 shipping costs. Thanks much, all. Fortunately for me, Klan doesn't have as many figures as Ranka and Sheryl... though seems to have a whole lot of "cosplay" figures with characters from other shows donning her micronized outfit.
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    Is that just a whole bunch of shields slapped onto it?
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    Updated my previous post with some pictures. Nothing major, but hopefully the visuals help. Yeah, working with it some more today, I found it good at shaving very thin ribbons of plastic material. But when doing more than fine cleanup, it tends to chip the plastic rather than slice through it. So one should just be careful using it, as they should all their tools. I tend to use a knife extensively to remove sprue material from styrene kits. If I can avoid sanding, I do so. But with this stuff, sanding is definitely mandatory, and in some cases the safer option. Easiest way I've found to get the drill bit I need is to search by drill bit number. In the US at least there are standardized drill bit sizes ranging from #80 (0.34 mm) to #1 (5.8 mm) then A (5.9 mm) to Z (10.5 mm) ...plus a whole slew of sizes beyond that, but for most model kit work I've never stray far from the 80-30 range. The hole isn't a major concern, but thanks nonetheless. As for the wing mount, is the point to replace the arm guns with the gunpod, or just to mount the gunpod onto wing hardpoints? (Seems the latter. The former would be really cool, though, even if it means re-shaping the gunpod itself.) For my part, I think having as little separation between the VF body and the gun would look best from a front-on view, but top-down it would probably look better to have the gunpod protruding as far forward as possible. Have fun deciding. Ah, no worries, elbow grease comes with the territory. I've never met a model kit I didn't want to alter drastically (or rather time-consumingly) in one way or another. I agree, FUD would most definitely be best suited to fixed pose. For a model kit, that's fine, but I definitely see why you went with WSF to fit the DX toys. Drilling holes into FUD would have to be a painstakingly slow endeavor, and even then the chances of breaking/cracking/etc. is high.
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    For the Faerie, go with HLJ instead for 13.860 JPY plus 1386 store credit. https://hlj.com/product/EVT57214 (Silvie also on sale, but for 15k, no credit, no super parts.)
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    Huh. I would've never noticed that if you hadn't pointed it out.
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    This statement continues to throw me for a loop. I've never understood them to be anything other than really good friends. Then again I never paid much attention to Nanase as a character; she filled a needed role in the story and that seems to be about it.
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