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    Hasegawa VF-31

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Model kits

    Amen.
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    I like how there's already 15 reviews. Like, you don't know, they could have printed an entirely different video onto the disc...
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    I wonder what Christopher Nolan or Darren Aronofsky could have done with this property, if only for the fact that they've acknowledged anime influences in their works (notably Satoshi Kon's works). Apparently Spielberg was the one really pushing for this to get made, so maybe he could have done something with it as well.
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    I'd agree with that assessment. And it goes without saying that I think it was the wrong way to go in the first place, and an awful (okay, not awful, but certainly not memorable) execution of the plan in the second place. They played everything as safe as can be and got burned because of it. That strategy reflects all the trends in big-budget Hollywood movies nowadays, and clearly it was a losing strategy. They should have looked outside the conventions of Hollywood for ideas about what story to tell and how to do it. But speaking of overseas numbers, it looks like my prediction (the movie would break even) was wrong and the movie might not even make up its production cost: https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/04/07/box-office-china-cant-save-scarlett-johanssons-ghost-in-the-shell/#4e4f29ab18c9
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    I agree that a 1:1 translation wouldn't work, but there's more than the '95 movie to draw from. My first exposure to GitS was the movie, but didn't consume any of it until the manga, and I was surprised when I went back to said movie a few days ago to find her character very different, and then again when I started SAC and she took another turn. But the crux of my argument is that all the Majors, different as they are from each other, exert themselves upon their world as much as the world exerts itself upon them, and whose sense(s) of identity is tied to the world around them, not a more passive character whose identity is tied to her humanity. Jin-Roh is weird. I know I like it, but I always forget why until I watch it again at least once every year. All the more reason to have her be a side character, no? Have OC Mira play the "straight character" that the story revolves around, and the Major can be part of the supporting cast.
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    Original video back up, too. Maybe a copyright violation for music? How It Should Have Ended ran into the same situation with their Frozen HISHE.
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    Saw it against my better judgment the other day (didn't pay a dime, though, because frakk these guys) after finally going through the '95 original. I also have the original manga, though I still have to get all the way through that. And in the time it took me to write all this off and on, I've now seen the first two episodes of SAC. This movie is about what I expected it to be. Completely middle of the road. That's about it. Anywhere between 4 and 6 out of 10 seems fair. It's something you won't remember in a month's time. 50 years from now, it'll be just a footnote in Hollywood's political history. Yikes, that ended up being way longer than I originally intended. Spoiler tags ahoy.
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    I remember the comics were waaaay better than the show writing (S3 and on anyway), and I always thought they would make for great episodes. Those character-specific ones especially made me laugh, like the "day in the life of Luna" one where she's characterized as a socially awkward eccentric, and the Pinkie Pie one with the great Watchmen reference. Them's Fighting Herds looks like a great little fighting game if and when it finally comes out. I know the original was called MLP: Fighting is Magic and was nearly done when the CnD came about. There was enough progress on that game that at least two builds were released (one featured the Mane 6, the other had a larger cast) anonymously post-CnD. When Mane 6 Studios (I think that's the name) moved onto Them's Fighting Herds, the creators of Skullgirls, Lab Zero Games, actually gave them their game engine to use. (It happened after either M6 or LZ had a successful Kickstarter campaign.) If you know anything about Skullgirls, you should be able to expect a really solid fighting game. I don't play many fighters myself, but I always try to buy them when I can because I really love the community that's grown up around the genre.
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    This place has a MLP thread? That's... unexpected. I'd have thought any fans here would have taken their fandom to EQD or something. Speaking of fandom, what's the state nowadays? I stopped paying close attention after season 3 or so (after season 2 if I'm honest with myself), and completely after season 4. About the only thing MLP I still indulge in is the FimFlamFilosophy abridged series. I hear it's up to season 7 now? And there's a new Twilight proxy? And some new princesses? I remember the good old days when there were only two and they were gods...
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    Shots fired, shots fired!
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    Okay, thanks everyone. Yeah, I tend to get a bit too invested in seam line removal for my own good. It gets especially rough with Bandai's articulated kits, where the articulation proves to be an additional source of worry. (What to glue/paint/mask and in what order to get good paint coverage while preserving articulation...) I don't recall there being too many seam line issues on the Bandai Delta kits, but it's good to get thoughts nonetheless.
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    Tangentially related question: Do you guys fret over seam lines much? I tend to get overly paranoid about them, gluing and trying to remove seam lines even where there might not be a need. The top and bottom halves of a Hasegawa VF nose cone, for instance. The seam is pretty obvious, but the fit is impeccable, and sometimes a really good fit is enough to get rid of a seam line, but I always glue/cement/putty it anyway before painting it. I don't know how good it looks painted but unglued. There are other areas where this is the case, usually wings and tail fins and the like, and I always wonder about this when I tackle them. With Bandai kits at least, you can be fairly sure that it'll be an "all or nothing" type deal, where the seam lines are noticeable and require putty/cement OR hidden by crafty parts separation.
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    The demo's free on PS4, though, so get it on there, get a feel for the game and if you like it, then buy it or not on PC. It'd be nice if they ported the demo over to PC, but no way are they going to spend more time than they have to, it seems.
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    The gold is dull on the Hs kit as well. Compare them to the Hasegawa decals and you can see the clear difference in quality.
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    This is the only article I've read that has any sort of numbers for the international gross so far, and it paints a grim picture for its success, though I predict it'll be mildly successful in the end. NOTE that it dives into the whitewashing issue insofar as it affected returns. (tl;dr - Not very, or at least unquantifiably.) I know we've had our fair share of discussion on the matter, so I'll quote the only relevant part below: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ghost-shell-how-a-complex-concept-whitewashing-critics-kept-crowds-away-990661 It will have to make up some $50-60 million in China and Japan to cover its production budget, and another $100 million for marketing (at least that's what I'm guessing; apparently it's common practice to ballpark marketing costs at 90-110% of production costs). That's a slightly more daunting task than I originally thought. I doubt it'll make much in Japan, since Japan just isn't big with theater (Pacific Rim, since someone mentioned it earlier, had a total of $14 million there), meaning China will be the one to look at (Pacific Rim in China made $112 million). (Numbers from Box Office Mojo.)
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    You mean the arm cannons/behind-cockpit guns? Those are railguns?
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    It would have been too much hassle. Even the Hs only has the most minimal gold parts, with the majority of colors being represented by the decals. They would have had to engineer two entirely separate molds for ostensibly the same(ish) craft.
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    Dang it. I was looking through my trove of kits trying to find mine so I could scan the decal sheet for you, only to realize that I don't have a 1/48 kit of the VF-1. (The YF-19, yes. The VF-1, no.) I felt really sad about that. Best of luck.
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    Hm... I'd say go with the 1/48 ones based on size alone. It'll do better to scale them down than to scale the 1/72 decals up, if you get my meaning. Do you have any particular decals in mind? Or are you just hoping to "mimic" the decals/placement from the kit to the toy? (I mean, obviously it won't just be a matter of scaling down to 1/60 anyway, the proportions are too different, but hopefully you know what I mean.)
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    From Appledaily Facebook page: April Fools joke or not, I'd watch it. It looks dumb in the best way.
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    I dunno, I think that one peaks at 2 like most trilogies do. Maybe the Star Wars prequels? But I like Phantom Menace more than Attack of the Clones, and even if Revenge of the Sith is the best, it's still not good...
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    Just got the final ending of Nier, some 70+ hours in (with half of that time spent on the first playthrough). Good game. Go play it. EDIT: Make sure you backup your save periodically.
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    Dang. And I'd been working on a response to various points over the course of the last few days, too. Oh well then. In trying to answer my own question, I came across this: http://movieweb.com/ghost-in-shell-movie-2017-box-office-predictions/ It's predicting a not too hot debut (10-15 million domestic) owing to competition from the likes of Beauty and the Beast and Power Rangers (though the whitewashing certainly doesn't help much either). It also had this press-release synopsis that isn't really spoiler-y but is enough so to warrant it, methinks. Bolded are parts that stuck out to me for better or for worse. Also of interest was this Forbes article, which focuses on the third trailer and potential box office numbers compared to other big March releases (with luck, it'll perform around the same as Lucy owing to ScarJo influence): https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/03/27/scarlett-johanssons-ghost-in-the-shell-gets-a-last-ditch-trailer/#448bc17445e9
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    This showed up randomly in my Youtube feed. Some info on the reviewers: One of them saw the original movie, the other didn't, neither have seen or read anything else GitS. tl;dr = Falls far short of the original(s), but isn't an out-and-out trainwreck. Middle of the road, underwhelming (basically what I expected it to be, plus racism). Seems that's the opinion of most people here as well.
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    Just paid for my two re-releases. Hope everybody got theirs as well.
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