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:

Such as:

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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

59 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Nothing clownish about it... it just has a hero mecha paintjob.

With a clown paint scheme 

2 hours ago, Roy Focker said:

I really wish this 2nd, and last season was actually 4 full seasons as originally intended. Each of these 3-episode blocks feel like an anime compilation movie. We just seeing highlights of things. Interesting plot points that you want to see expanded will be gloss over during the next block.

I kinda get that feeling as well, especially since there’s so much talk about what went on just before we get to what’s going on here as though we missed something somewhere 

36 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

That's the same color scheme those two units have had for  40+ years now... and basically every main Gundam has the color scheme on the left.

Yeah, but after 40 something years, it’s time to admit that it’s not white, it’s clown

30 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Yeah, Saw is... a unique personality.

In the six episodes I’ve seen, it’s not just saw.

I know the rebels had some questionable members, but this show makes them seem a certain kind of special. Now whenever I see an X-Wing, dueling banjos will be stuck in my head

Well, this batch was far better than the first horrible one for the season. Light on action , but still had some tense moments 

Was kinda fun to see the Nazi vampire from The Strain play a character that is almost the complete opposite as a character trying to lead a rebel faction 

6 hours ago, sh9000 said:

Altered Nano.

The guy is pretty neat, but the unicycle bot is a bit odd. It’s got two wheels, but they just form into one. It would’ve been cooler if they had it changed into a bike instead