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    I can't imagine they'll remain for long. That stuff was to make up for limited budgets. I doubt Delta is exactly running on a limited budget. How old are the characters? I'd like to know. For... reasons.
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    I had a lot to say re: Mr March's bit about superhero violence, but then my computer crashed and I lost about 2000 words' worth of response, so I think I'll sum it up with "I disagree that the audience 'had to face the reality of super heroes running around committing acts of violence,' mostly just because it was so shoddily done. Otherwise I agree on the 'sanitized violence' bit, generally. I think you got a wrong read on the general tone of criticism towards the movie, but then I could just be personally defensive because I thought it was awful. Awful with potentially good ideas, but awful nonetheless. I think your problem is more with the MPAA and how its warped moral sensibilities has undue power over national media." That said, I will respond to this: A rather reductive and presumptuous statement, no? It conveniently ignores how Deadpool is the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time and has received universal acclaim. Blade and Blade 2 are held up as two prime examples of comic-to-movie adaptations (and are also generally well-regarded). The hyper-violent Marvel Netflix shows are just as wildly popular as their PG-13 film counterparts. EDIT: I'm sitting here watching V for Vendetta on Netflix and by god, you could hardly call that bloodless, can you? This sentiment doesn't hold much water. EDIT: So I'm sure some of you must have seen this already, but really, they had to steal ideas from THIS story arc?
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    Other people answered already, but yes, it was all added to the end, with the rest receiving cuts. EDIT: Well, it seems VF5SS answered for me. And I wasn't going to do screenshots, but, well, I did. Forgive the damage to your bandwidth.
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    DC and Marvel are like SNK and Capcom, respectively. They are the top rivals of an entire genre, and yet they cooperate and trade ideas and steal from each other liberally without any concern for copyright infringement. And, like SNK, DC eventually fell behind the times and lost its notoriety to the point that it left its mainstay business altogether and got into gambling instead and okay that part's not comparable at all but what I mean is that DC is definitely the lesser of the two. It still has my absolute favorite comic of all time, though, so it will never be all bad.
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    I had never considered doing this. Thanks. I'll have to try this out next time I'm experimenting. It definitely seems like a sound strategy, in theory at least.
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    Ah, I see. Thanks for that clarification.
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    Oh I dunno, I thought the "wings as skirts/hip tassels/etc." on the 19 was a neat idea, and the 21... well, it just has them fold in, but it makes for a nice wide-shouldered, big backpack look. I'd like to see him revisit that idea. Or something along the lines of the VF-4G, with the wings mounted on the shoulders. Maybe go "retro" and have them form a V on either side of the head a la V2 Gundam? My first inclination is that it would look dumb, but then I'm already not a big fan of the 31, so... eh. I'd wager the latest backpacks are like that because of the current trend of mecha designs with stupidly exorbitant backpacks. It started with Gundam Seed, and it's only gotten worse from there. More fins and kibble, more junk poking every which way, a "cooler" mecha.
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    Nice job. How was the handle-holding hand? It seems you had to do some cutting either to the hand or the gunpod (my guess) in order to bash them together. That's my only major dig against those hands. But otherwise they look great, and I'm surprised they're still in stock given how long it's been since their initial release. I wonder if the company had to make new molds or if the old ones have really lasted this long. Some general questions for everybody: - Does the VF-1 really have that antenna sticking out of its backpack on the Imai kit? I wasn't aware of it until now, but I can't tell where it stores in fighter/battroid mode. (Maybe it just retracts into the backpack...?) - Is there an explanation for how the tail fins fold up? On the Hasegawa kits, they make it seem as if each wing folds on itself and the fold-lines meet in the center of the backpack, but all the toys and the recent Bandai kit just have them hinge at the base and rest one wing on top of the other. I'd like to think that Hasegawa's is more representative of the actual transformation mechanic and the toys/Bandai kit method is meant for simpler engineering, but since they're so much more prolific...
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    What story would they tell? How he learns to be a reclusive hermit and talk to ghosts? What invigorating story threads.
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    So that OP was terrible, even by anime OP standards. You can't even give them a grade for their effort because there clearly was none. ED's not bad, though. Not great, but not bad. They kind of pasted a big ol' spoiler right there in the middle of it, but eh. Any word on what's different about this series, ie why anyone who's already seen it should watch it again?
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    Large, medium, small: http://www.hlj.com/product/BRKPH-003/Sci http://www.hlj.com/product/BRKPH-002/ http://www.hlj.com/product/BRKPH-001/ They're about as close as I've seen. I think it was vegeta8259 who used these on one of his (either resin or scratch) builds. They were a bit too curvy for the build, but I think they'd fit the SDFM VF-1 look alright.
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    Interesting, though I thought the 1/4000 Macross was already released? Can we get a confirmation on the third tweet? Really, all Delta Valks AND other mecha? Because if this means a Cheyenne like seti88's suggesting... ooh, and a Regult, and maybe a Q-Rau? And--No. I can't. I can't let the hype consume me.
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    The original hands are what I think of when I think of 80s anime. Really cartoony, just defined enough so that you know what's there. It saves on animation time/budget (and we all know how little time/budget they had to work with). Once they had an actual budget, it makes sense that they would work on fleshing out the fine details. I remember they were reproduced on... I think the Yamato toys? Something like that. Anyway, someone packaged some version of the VF-1 with both styles of hands, and they both worked/looked equally well. I dunno. It's a tossup for me, honestly.
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    He's a decent actor, though. He just got literally the worst part from the worst character director. George Lucas is notorious for not being actor-friendly (ie he has a very narrow vision of the characters and doesn't allow actors to stray from that vision), and the bare-bone sets certainly didn't allow for one to chew the scenery. I mean, look at Natalie Portman. She's a fine actress, she's been in some great movies and gave stellar performances, but in the prequels Padme was constantly flat, monotone, lifeless. Nobody looked good in those films. ...except maybe Ray Park.
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    Put another way, SDFM = marshmallow puff, DYRL = "conventional" mecha. I don't think Hasegawa ever released a VF-1 with SDFM-style hands.
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    If I remember correctly (I think it was... jenius' review?), you can mount the 171 weapons on the 30's underside. I'd imagine the 31's weapons/super parts will be backwards compatible, too, so long as the mold doesn't change too much. (Or if it does, retrofitting them to the 30 will be easy enough.)
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    I'd go so far as to say that most everybody was well-cast. The guy who played Anakin, whatshisface, is fine, too. The prequel movies remind me of BvS: A perfectly decent, workable cast made to look bad due to awful writing/storytelling.
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    And so she joins Walkure. In her pilot's uniform.
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    I'm still waiting on a Hasegawa VF-11/19/21/25 battroid mode...
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    A very quick question about the Bandai DX Chogokin toys: Do they have stated scales (ie 1/60), or are they all designed to a strict height/length specification?
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    I don't know anything about that. The last I heard was just that Gordon-Levitt was leaving. It's possible and probable that they did.
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    Wall of griping, so feel free to skip if you like. Responses to areaseven and Golden Arms herein.
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    I still don't understand Snyder's obsession with EDIT: I agree. I wonder how much of that is directly BECAUSE of the little amount of screen time she was given. I suspect that, were this instead envisioned as her origin story, she would be as insufferable as all the other characters (through no fault of their own).
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    What bulge are you referring to? The closest I can see are the protruding panels on the legs that cover up the hands. Or do you mean the whole arm assembly?
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    That's exactly the point, though. The films will male money no matter who you put at the helm. So why not put someone there who can actually direct a film? The built-in financial viability of these films will last for at least a while, so there's no harm in building some good PR in the meantime so that future projects can have easier paths to success. And eventually they won't be able to sell these on brand name alone, so they should be giving people a reason to support them after that security blanket is gone. That's partly why I still watch Marvel films despite a sense of superhero fatigue. I know they'll make for at least passingly good entertainment. But really, the faith DC/WB has put in Snyder is mind-boggling. Yes, it survived Batman and Robin, but this movie is way, way beyond Batman and Robin. It's enough that I can safely say I won't watch another DC superhero movie again. Given what they did to this, I can only imagine what they're doing to Sandman, the one DC superhero film I WANT to see. (And with Joseph Gordon-Levitt leaving over creative differences, I can reason out what those differences were.)
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