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1 hour ago, pengbuzz said:

Same here; really Liked Gil Gerard. He just seemed to fit the role so well, and the first season was really well done (the second... not so much).

I still remember when I first saw the opening:

On that note: if they're reissuing the Black Hole models, then they need to reissue the Buck Rogers ones as well!

Was definitely a great intro. I loved 70’s and 80’s intros, they were always cool and had great music 

1 hour ago, electric indigo said:

The "plot" pretty much spirals down to iterations of "Surrender Jake Sully - we got your wife/daughter/other daughter/adopted son/Jake Sully", still the resulting action sequences were mostly well entertaining.

Basically they’ve become extra pretty Taken sequels 

1 hour ago, SteveTheFish said:

I finally finished that small, 3D-printed Minmay figure my friend gave me a few years ago. The UN Spacy logo is from a set of Macross decals I bought on eBay years back, some of which I'd used on my 1:100 Imai Armored Valk I finished earlier this year. The pattern on her dress is from leftover decals from a Haku Rinpha resin kit from Hasegawa Eggplane Girls series. 

She is VERY small, so zooming in with my camera like this is exposing the flaws I cannot see with my naked eyes. Her eyes turned out better than I thought they would.

The new Minmay resin kit that Hasegawa will release this month is almost the same as this figure.

Nice work on her, and that lil Buck Roger’s ship is cool. Really down about the lead actor passing away

2 hours ago, sketchley said:

Did Kawamori-san work on this?  I swear that's not only his drawing style, but also his handwriting!

The way he writes "へ" in "への字" in particular hasn't changed since he did the designs for M+'s YF-21!

Could be. I know he sometimes gets involved with toy and model projects 

Seems like it’s been an eternity since they’ve had a live action show on D+ for any franchise. If I didn’t have things in a bundle, I’d definitely be dropping this service. Two or three shows a year and two new movies really isn’t enough content 

4 hours ago, sh9000 said:

He’s definitely having some dirty thoughts about the Hulk

11 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Eyes are wrong (too light, not "smoky" enough), head shape is off (too wide, too short from top to bottom), lips are too pale and too thin, nose is too wide at the nostrils and lacking the definition Gal Gadot's has, and her jawline is a bit off. 

Maybe this is her stunt double?

 

Comparison:

Either that or the adult film parody actress

1 hour ago, M'Kyuun said:

Yep, and I figured if I waited and tried to get it from BBTS, one, I'd have to compete against all the TF fans who want it as a Roadbuster stand-in, and two, BBTS always has a bit of a mark-up on their stuff, so that along with tariffs might mean a far steeper price than just ordering from the source and paying a little more for shipping. Incidentally, they wanted $53.99 for the kit and $34 for shipping, which honestly, didn't seem too bad. I've been wanting a good version of this thing forever, and I love how the finished kit looks, probably more than all the other toys that have released over the years, so yeah, I'm resting easy with having secured a preorder at the price I paid.

However the pricing, I think you’ll be happy. Fully transformable and includes the driver and a power armor. Lots of bang for the buck

For once Venom doesn’t have the most nightmarish smileWolverine looks way too pervy here and that’s definitely not Gal Gadot

5 hours ago, Stampeed Valkyrie said:

I am so far behind in this series..   its a advertisement for camping equipment with some take away value for camping tips..      If its as you say then I am just bailing on it now. 

 

Am I missing anything this season.. any sleepers?    

I feel like Tronime was big last decade and still lingering too much and even the fans seem to be complaining, but now Instructional anime is getting overly popular 

Mercy Rabbit box art again. Lots of cool classics getting cool box art 

4 minutes ago, M'Kyuun said:

I figured about the same regarding price, so I just said the heck with it and ordered.

It’s definitely a tough thing to guess these days with shipping and tariffs 

Another bit of cool board from Mercy Rabbit for the moderoid kit

I’ve seen a few interviews with Syd Mead in the Blu-ray for Turn A, and he had some interesting ideas about how he always liked to start with the engine and power supply before making shapes of the vehicles like the Spinner and even his mobile suits. Still not sure about that mustache though 

3 hours ago, GMK said:

Adjacent to the hands discussion, Wave Corp are releasing some rounded mecha hands in the new year. 
 

These look great, will they be available in multiple sizes?

4 hours ago, electric indigo said:

Turnig my attention to mankind's unsolved problems:

This is definitely one of those simple looking ideas that makes things appear a thousand times more complex. Great execution and can’t wait to see it on the complete model. And if it goes into competition, I’m sure it will be greatly appreciated by the judges 

4 hours ago, electric indigo said:

Turnig my attention to mankind's unsolved problems:

This is definitely one of those simple looking ideas that makes things appear a thousand times more complex. Great execution and can’t wait to see it on the complete model. And if it goes into competition, I’m sure it will be greatly appreciated by the judges 

31 minutes ago, M'Kyuun said:

POed this guy this morning on Good Smile's JP site. Came to $87.99 USD after shipping. After repeatedly checking with their US site and partner sites (BBTS), no one else had it but AmiAmi, who had it for 10% off, but I couldn't figure out their checkout system- it kept routing me back to inputting my email and password in an endless circle. Fortunately, Good Smile's JP site was much easier to navigate and my PO is secured. Can't wait to get this thing.

The preorders just came up last night. Usually the American ones come up a few days later. Not sure if it would save any money though 

1 hour ago, SteveTheFish said:

I must not be properly communicating somehow. We're talking about translating a cartoon into something physical. Roadrunner can paint a tunnel on the side of a mountain and run through the painted tunnel, only for Wiley Coyote to faceplant into the rocks a moment later. That's how animation works, because it's not tangible. The real world doesn't work like that.

Look at those hamfists and look at what your model Hasegawa gunpod looks like. You can't shove a basketball into a can of Pringles, but a cartoon character can. So if Hasegawa was to make their model with those big hamfists, they would not be able to reuse the same pre-existing tooling for the gunpod. They'd have to retool it to include a jibungous hole for it to put its big fat finger through. Like picking your nose with a baseball bat. You can't do that unless you're a cartoon.

Notice that even Max Factory did not make the hands as big as the drawing's. I'm just saying that Hasegawa is going for more practical rather than stylized. Even then, compromises are still made. The wings on their Battroid are smaller than those on the Fighter.

It's why transforming models/toys of these mecha will never be totally accurate in any one given configuration. The Valkyrie's jet engine nacelles suddenly get beefier and more rounded when in Battroid mode in the animation because they are drawn that way. Hasegawa chose not to go that route and instead made the legs more or less compatible with the corresponding parts of the Fighter mode.

Look at how Shoji Kawamori designed Optimus Prime in the Transformers cartoon. Heck, any of the Transformers. The Autobots' tires get really small (or disappear entirely). Not because it's practical, but because they just kind of look cooler that way when animated. 

Maybe, but still doesn’t explain the big boob job

1 hour ago, tekering said:

To what series are you referring? 🤔

For some reason I don’t remember it having the gunpod, my bad memory I guess.

4 hours ago, SteveTheFish said:

Keep in mind that since Hasegawa's reputation is the strongest for scale aircraft, apparently their focus is to keep the technology of Macross mecha consistent with real-world mechanics rather than copying the anime aesthetic in which the Valkyrie's nacelles swell up once they form the Battroid's legs to look more stylized for the animation. The thing about the hands is that Hasegawa has to make some compromises in order to maintain uniformity. The Armored Valk, as drawn, has bigger feet and hands, yet it's still supposed to be the same mecha, just with external armor. Those big, fat hamfists won't be able to hold the gunpod. My friend got all upset over Hasegawa's Armored Valk's hands but I pointed this out to him. Big fat fingers can't wrap around the rifle's trigger! So when I built my Armored Valk, I used the DYRL hands just because I think they look better aesthetically.

Looks like it can hold the gunpod just fine, but to be fair it wasn’t shown holding one in the series. The other thing the hasegawa does is they have the big cheap toy looking chest and the Plamax definitely fixes that.

11 hours ago, Papa Rat said:

The overall silhouette looks way more streamlined and agile than the Hasegawa. I’m liking it a lot. 

Looks far better and way better action poses. The Hasegawa looks like it couldn’t walk without falling on its big ol boobs

14 minutes ago, M'Kyuun said:

I'm not sure what you're referring to, unless the character Hawk had a shop. I vaguely remember the character let alone much else about him. I know the actor who played him, Thom Christopher, passed away in 2024. RIP

It was spell checked, supposed to be ship not shop. Spell check is my biggest nemesis it has cute lil feet

12 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:

From the looks of the trailer...

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Superman set the bar so low that The Atom had no trouble walking over it at full size reduction, and Supergirl STILL manages  to trip over it!

 

To be fair, she is drunk 

36 minutes ago, M'Kyuun said:

Give that ILM, or former members thereof, worked on the models, they shared a lived-in, used aesthetic that gave them a realism never before seen in previous sci-fi, Kubrick's 2001 : A Space Odyssey notwithstanding. Too, I think a lot of ILM's other tricks were used, or copied, to make the motions of the ships look more realistic and dynamic. I don't recall any space fighter scenes from Buck Rogers (I may have missed the eps when they occurred, but I've seen pics of Rogers' ship over the years- it is cool). However, the Viper launch scenes from BSG are forever etched in my memory- happily so.

The Hawk shop is pretty memorable and weird

13 hours ago, electric indigo said:

He had the best ride of all starfighters. Godspeed.

My favorite sci fi ships came from that era. Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers. Something about the details and hand painted models felt more realistic than any cg space ships and fighters