2 hours ago, Shawn said:

Guess we just need to wait and see.

Pretty much. This all may just blow over

44 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Hondo Ohnaka, and it's not literal.  More a habitual expression of exasperation (shared with the in-series characters).  He's an incredibly flamboyant and theatrical pirate captain who debuted in Star Wars: the Clone Wars and managed to get on the wrong side of most of the major characters with his shenanigans.  He was enough of a fan favorite that he got brought back for Star Wars: Rebels and is the host of the preshow at the Smuggler's Run ride at Disneyland's Galaxy's Edge.  He's absolutely got the right level of flamboyant ham to consider a career as a talk show host.

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I meant the character that’s 

9 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

f***ing Hondo

to get a talk show 

1 hour ago, jvmacross said:

...either that or fans can say bye-bye to Macross and anime in general on US streaming services...and that's just the Japanese anime stuff....I personally am not a consumer of anime or even Macross on D+ (I have all the shows on BD)....so if I have to subsidize D+ or any other streaming service to keep 'foreign' shows on their platforms, I will definitely be hitting the cancel button for several streamers...

I doubt it would affect older stuff, but as far as the new series or other anime, then it could be a problem 

35 minutes ago, rsvictor1976 said:

Are we going back downloading fansubs again?

Maybe 

23 minutes ago, Old_Nash_II said:

Disney can now buy HG and produce their version of Robotech. Or buy BW and make their version of Macross. Whatever the outcome, it will be a defeat.

unfortunately, the animation budget would be way too high that way. Even at the height of the 80’s when there were tons of American Awsome shows, they were almost all actually animated either in Japan or some other Asian country to keep the costs down. I’m all for America giving animation a go again, but it’s definitely not gonna be something doable for a few years.

2 hours ago, jvmacross said:

Dunno....but think it said 100% tarrif on all foreign produced material....not just China....

 

If it is, those streaming charges are gonna go through the roof 

I guess that someone had to do it. 
Overall, I think it’s a really great album, even though the first track is a bit too close to being a Journey song. Strangely, for having a rather dark haunting look this album cycle, they’ve released their happiest sounding album. Very joyful and full of familiar sounds, yet sounding like something totally unheard of at the same time. The song structures are very interesting and lots of bass is a good thing.

5 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

About the only Star Wars character who'd make a better talk show host would be f***ing Hondo

I don’t know which character you’re talking about, but I don’t think I want to watch that happen. But I guess someone has to be with Hondo physically or there wouldn’t be any baby hondos 

19 minutes ago, M'Kyuun said:

That said, even her ability to access the 'Omega Psycommu', via the HARO unit it seems, gave her an advantage over poor Xavier, the assigned pilot to the GQuuuuuux who, by virtue of that position, probably should have been able to tap into that ability as well.

I kinda get a feeling that the red gundam may have been a trigger to her newtype abilities, but the initial activation may have been triggered by her emotional determination. She seems to want it more while the original pilot failed possibly by not being as strongly motivated. Newtypes are weird

2 hours ago, jvmacross said:

https://time.com/7282543/trump-foreign-film-tariff-international-movie-production-us-hollywood-china/

So how would this even work?

So if Disney is paying X to BW to make Macross available on their D+ streaming service....would it now cost double the amount of X to be able to do so?  If so....I doubt it would be worthwhile for Disney to continue offering it on D+.....

It’s a 100% mark up on China, but Japan would probably fall under their other foreign tariffs for films. But I really don’t know how all this would work on something that isn’t physical, like a toy from a different country. A lot of the tariff stuff seems very up in the air, more like a concept and I don’t think that the majority in our government (doesn’t matter which side of the political spectrum) understand that anime doesn’t come from America and that the vast majority of animation is done overseas.

I also don’t know if they’d consider stuff already released here free of the tariffs or how they’d really enforce something that could be sent over digitally. I also don’t really know what the effect of a movie trade war would be. Some of our films have to be altered to be shown in other world markets, like China and they could just start outright banning our films altogether. Our big budget films might need to make all their money back from U.S. box offices if things get really rough and pretty much every comic book movie would never make their money back. Same could be possible with streaming. Like if Netflix couldn’t get that last season of Stranger Things out to foreign countries.

5 hours ago, nightmareB4macross said:

That’s the VF-1C. Nice.

The kit is labeled as the VF-1D. The version of that head makes an appearance in Macross Design Works and possibly in SDF-M in grey.

The 15th anniversary VF figures also had this unique head found on the Super VF-1D GERWALK, but not in the Battroid. 🧐

https://anymoon.com/blog/?p=5625

Very cool.

 

 

I have a feeling that Arii just f***** up the sculpt on the tucked in head. Then again they could’ve tried sneaking something in that they thought no one would notice, but I’m pretty sure they messed up.

they may not have had the best of art to go on and just figured it was good enough. Some of the box arts looked a bit funky at the time as well. Arii wasn’t always the best at details or proportions. I’m still surprised at the overall appearance of their fighter kit in comparison to the oddities on the fighter and gerwalk kits

3 hours ago, Duke Togo said:

Don’t ruin the actual holiday, this is one of the only times I am required to have tacos on Monday, as well as Tuesday. Star Wars can wait til next year to have their thing on the fourth

I’ll give revenge of the 7th though, because after all these tacos it’s definitely gonna feel like I had the low ground 

5 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:

Here's your skit delivery:

Nice

34 minutes ago, Papa Rat said:

Well that’s a wrap. My first aircraft build is complete and I want to do more. It was a blast! Sun came out so I got a few photos.

There are some things I messed up on which is a given for me, leading to plenty of learning moments In this simple kit. It was fun painting over a darker/colorful underpainting. That might have been my favorite part. I also added a few minor details here and there and I’m so happy with how it turned out. 

 

Looks Amazing, especially for an Arii kit. The paint turned out great 

Started watching The Bondsman on Amazon with Kevin Bacon. The episodes are an easy thirty minutes and got up to episode 3 so far. It’s pretty fun kinda like a redneck version of Evil Dead. He plays a bounty hunter that gets killed during a job and basically goes to hell, but gets resurrected to hunt down demons that have escaped into our world. 
If you’re short on time and looking for a fun not so complicated show to fill a few minutes, then it might be something to add to a watch list 

1 hour ago, Papa Rat said:

Oh boy!!!! That’s going to be good. The 1/100 are so big. This is a perfect size. 

I’m with you there. Love 1/144

Was on taghobby and saw some more gold goodness in 1/144 for Volks IMS line

56 minutes ago, Papa Rat said:

Little update on that old 1/100 ARII kit. I think I will finish it up tonight. It’s getting close and not looking too crappy. 

Looks really great, that old kit could easily be mistaken for something newer 

2 hours ago, Cheese3 said:

Old model, and G-saviour.

That’s a real mix “Oh Cool” and “Oh No” at the same time. The old models are the “Oh Cool” part

Althogh, if you got a fun group of friends, some drinks, some snacks and have fun with bad films, then it might end up worth it

then again, make it a double feature and watch Psycho Goreman right after it for some real fun. 

19 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

It's a noodle incident at best.  They were off on some nonspecific mission and someone saw their faces on the way out so Cassian removed the witness.  Could've been a literal milk run anywhere there are wanted posters of them up.

She supposedly got injured badly enough to need a long while for recovery 

14 minutes ago, Tking22 said:

I think due to the stupid tariff situation Bluefin/Bandai is hesitant about releasing stuff in the US right now. I was reading lots of different Tamashii Nations stuff isn't popping up on US sites right now, Metal Build Gundam, Figuarts, Monsterarts, Chogokin, etc. 

I do know that sometimes Bandai stuff is a week behind when they go up for preorder here, but if they’re just waiting on the Tariff stuff to calm down or go away, I’m kinda ok with that. I just don’t wanna totally miss out on the only sh figuarts item that got my interest in the last couple years 

On 4/25/2025 at 8:59 AM, Tking22 said:

I'm just using BBTS, the overseas Japanese sites are too much a crap-show at this point. Everything sells out in seconds, the sites run like crap immediately, pass, I'd rather use BBTS anyway, Pile of Loot is great. 

I kinda thought they’d offer it up already since a lot of other figures showed up for preorder that were up that night. I keep checking the American sites and none of the ones I use have shown it for preorder yet, maybe next week hopefully 

They don’t want to promote the use of tobacco, but they’re ok with armed robbery, Murder and chemical disfigurement 

11 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

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Cassian reading his datapad while in the john, Mon Mothma sending one of her servants to go do some grocery shopping at the WInnn-Dixie Station orbiting Coruscant, and Luthen sitting on a couch in his shorts, drinking beer and watching Late Night with Gorga the Hutt.

(yeah, I know: real killjoy, ain't I? )

 

Sounds kinda like the stuff we saw in the first couple episodes of this season when it wasn’t focused on Andor.

11 hours ago, Mog said:

. . . Other than Cassian killing some soldier because he saw Bix’s face, Syril agreeing to play spy for the ISB, and Wilmon being dropped off with Saw’s wackadoodle faction.

But as I said earlier, it’s pretty easy to figure these things out by what was shown and said onscreen.

there’s also that amazing action with a certain operative in a mission that went sideways that ended up with her in recovery that we didn’t get to see just before things went sideways in a way she couldn’t recover from that we did get to see

I almost picked the top right, but I guess that’s the mistake Zeon was hoping the feds would make

34 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

I had no previous exposure to the Last of Us game franchise....really enjoyed Season 1....but was really shocked that they killed off Joel...wtf?!?

I am not sure if I am all that interested in any of the other characters, especially Ellie....I find her sort of annoying...

It sort of reminds me off how they killed off Glenn from Walking Dead....personally, the show went downhill after that.....the death of Joel is eve worse....he's literally the main character as far as I'm concerned...

Oh well....will keep watching for now

 

Most people thought they were just gonna kill him off last season. I do get what you’re saying though. They made him into such a big character and to be honest I thought it was a mistake to get rid of him for the game as well.

It’s definitely going to be missing something big going forward without Joel, but it’s also one of the better shows out right now. Overall, so far it’s definitely better than the new season of Andor, but that could change either with the lack of Joel or the next batch of Andor episodes that could be great

1 hour ago, TangledThorns said:

LOL

 

Jeremy Renner Turned Down Hawkeye Season 2 Over Salary 'Insult Offer'

"Did you think I’m only half the Jeremy because I got ran over?"

https://www.ign.com/articles/jeremy-renner-turned-down-hawkeye-season-2-over-salary-insult-offer

He’s at least three quarters Jeremy