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    Could be convergent evolution. Or whatever it's called when something's invented in two different places/times independent of each other. But seriously, WHY Sharon Apple? They must be really good at separating the artist from their music...
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    I wonder if it'll have the sound booster system and Ranka figure in the backseat like the original release had.
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    Ooh, nice. Thanks for this. I'm guessing this will also be limited edition?
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    Speaking of, was anyone else weirded out by... I think it was in the first Frontier movie... when they listed Sharon Apple among the likes of Minmay and Fire Bomber? What the heck happened to THAT in the canon? Like, what's the "in-universe movie" version of M+? Did Sharon Apple team up with Guld and Isamu to take on Producer-san, who had hacked into the Macross's computers and was using a Ver. 2.0 of Sharon's evil AI chip to take over Earth? Is THAT why she's talked about as a savior idol instead of literally the universe's most dangerous computer virus?
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    About an hour ago, mon frere could only get through about 2/3 of the episode before declaring Macross now and forever dead to him. So... there's that.
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    If I remember correctly, this is the same guy who wrote this up: http://www.hobbylink.tv/riobot-anubis-by-sentinel-part-1-unbox ...and I had an adverse reaction to that. I said of it, "A subpar review of the game followed by a subpar review of the toy, in both cases scarcely saying anything at all about the actual item being reviewed. Two swings, two misses." This one's a bit more palatable, but still unpolished writing-wise. The actual content of it, though, consists of insightful, self-aware commentary by Kawamori, which was very nice to see.
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    There's a certain vile je ne sais quoi about panty shot fanservice. Oh god, time to rescind my membership, it was nice making friends with all of you.
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    Reiterating my post from the VF-2SS thread:
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    In my one purchase with it, I also noticed Amiami charged a greater shipping fee than HLJ's usual rates. In my case, a 13,000 yen purchase had a 7000 yen shipping fee attached, completely negating the sale discount I was taking advantage of and making the total cost more or less the same as if I had just purchased from HLJ at their regular prices. I also receive everything in a box nearly thrice as big as it needed to be. So... yeah. There's that.
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    I don't know if anyone's mentioned this about the upskirt thrusters, but they also make for convenient anti-panty shot devices. Thank Christ, too. I don't know if I'd be able to watch Macross anymore if it sank that low...
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    She's actually Sharon Apple resurgent.
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    I believe they were actually vacation until just this week, actually. Yay/nay?
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Is the VF-4 a four-engine fighter? (No, seriously, is it? I've never looked into its backstory.) Either way, I think the fact that we don't see many fighters with more than two engines (if we see any at all) plays a role in my distaste. Four main engines, placed the way they are, makes the 27/29 look like they're trying too hard, or compensating for something. Which they're not, obviously, because they're just fictional airplanes, but still, that's the impression I get. It's a very irrational dislike, I'll admit.
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    It doesn't look like Yamcadia/Bandai offerings, which have panel lines that are simply not filled in. It looks like it doesn't have panel lines to begin with. No surface detail whatsoever. That's what I mean by plain. I suppose you could scribe your own panel lines in, but at such a price point, you shouldn't have to.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Oh, for sure. I don't think there's anything that'll keep me from hating four-engine designs like the 27/29's "Let's slap some bricks into these wings!" design. The SV-262 had me worried until those "engines" broke away and became attack drones.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    I've been wondering why the VF-31 doesn't strike my fancy quite the way I'd like, and I think It's the wings...? The setup of that entire rear section looks fugly, with the inward-canted tailfins and the harsh angles from the central fuselage to the wings, and the angles on the wings themselves... I dunno. There's just something off about the whole thing. The YF-30 had a clear F-22/Su-27 look from the top down, whereas this reminds me most of the X-02 Wyvern from Ace Combat, just a little wider. And I think that extra bit of width is another factor in me not warming up to it, because I like the Wyvern's design just fine (even if its implementation of variable geometry wings is silly and impractical). Oh well. The VF-25 didn't grow on me until halfway through Frontier, either, so maybe this is just more of that. Or maybe I just wish Kawamori had taken his Shinden II from Ace Combat and made it transform. Blah. Anyway.
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    It's a new 1/100 line. The frame comes pre-assembled (I think) and includes diecast metal parts, and the runners of plastic armor parts receive a metallic/pearl coating. It's more detailed than the previously-released 1/100, with more moving parts (especially the pistons) and probably increased articulation as well.
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    They do have minimal decaling and colors, but I'm talking more about panel detailing to break up all those swathes of space. The VF-1 has a pretty basic decal and color placement as well, but the various toys and kits of it have put their own spin on the fine details, including the panel lines and warning decals and... well, not so much color choice, but you get my point.
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    Man, that thing looks so... plain.
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    He's no Guld, though. He had to shoot some down.
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    It was definitely one of the high peaks of the show's writing. Unfortunately, the show has just as many valleys. It's disappointing because I WANT to like it, but the writing is too schizophrenic. On a related note, I tried watching Unicorn again, and aside from still finding Banagher and Riddhe insufferable and completely irrelevant to the plot (well, more so the former than the latter, but Riddhe's still not very interesting), I'm enjoying it much more than before. Well, I enjoy more parts of it than I dislike parts of it, at any rate. It falls back on franchise tropes rather than take the opportunity to redefine them, but meh. It succeeds more often than it fails. I've realized I just dislike the whole Newtype quasi-ubermensch deal altogether. Telepathy, fine. Catch-all excuse for inexplicable character motivation, I'm out. Banagher's sudden and intense attachment to Audrey/Mineva is supposedly because of his Newtype abilities making him empathize profoundly with her, but frakk that, that's just lazy writing. You can be empathetic, pacifist, etc., without being the next step of human evolution. That's actually a really condescending way to conceptualize the human race. But yeah. Allow it to be itself, warts and all, and I find it's not too bad. Not Macross Plus levels of Nailed It!, but then not much can be.
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    Well, to be fair, G Gundam is all about flamboyant, outlandish designs. A soul patch-sporting sailor scout is nothing compared to Windmill Gundam.
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    Ah, I see. I'll admit, I've never played either of the two games. Or P4A, for that matter... But I try to keep up with the games because I enjoy the community.
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    Didn't they use this for Blazblue? I could have sworn they did... Well, you're the one in the know. (Also, yes indeed you're right. I just got to around the 41:30 mark where he talks about that very game.) No doubt it's more expensive than traditional 3D, but man would it be worth it. Maybe use it for a movie or short M0-length OAV series. Pretty please, Satelight? For me?
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    Her singing made some of them Deculture.
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