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7 hours ago, danth said:

Sky F.A.N.G.?

Yeah, the fang and Skyhawk had a rough start, but eventually they went out and had a great dinner and one thing led to another after they realized they had a lot in common. Now the have cute little babies 

I just think it’s an odd scene to bring out so much dislike. It’s a goofy space dog and kinda always was a goofy space dog. It’s not doing anything I wouldn’t have expected it to. 

On 4/4/2025 at 4:36 PM, Seto Kaiba said:

New Mobile Report Gundam Wing has a lot of western fans whom it introduced to Gundam in the 90's, but overall I believe it's still considered a pretty middling installment.  It had some writing trouble, and the plot kind of meanders in the second half.

Zeta, on the other hand, is arguably the gold standard by which all other Gundam titles are judged in terms of its ratings success, its commercial success, and its influence on the franchise as a whole.

Wing was definitely an intro for most over here. I enjoyed it quite a bit and it seems like a masterpiece compared to anything Gundam has put out in the last decade or so.

I personally love Zeta, but it’s really tough to get others into it because of its weird writing. Characters seem to make the weirdest decisions imaginable, especially the female characters. As odd as ZZ is, it usually makes more sense.

my favorites as far as gundam goes would be the 90’s ova’s. I love War in the Pocket, Stardust Memory and 08th MS team. I really wanted to love unicorn, but it just felt so overly pointless that it made everything else after feel more pointless.

 I didn’t realize kinda like IBO , but it really had some cringy bits and might be the best of the newer stuff. I need to rewatch 00 though, I don’t really remember it that well, just didn’t care for most of the designs.

2 hours ago, Papa Rat said:

Been dog sitting for some friends the past week+ so I brought this kit with me to help pass some time. 
Was able to stop by my home today and do a rough and ready paint job on the “pickle”

I need to go back in and do some hand painting including some touch ups. Got some glue seepage unfortunately and I also want to get a matte finish on there. 

The Surfacer 500 took care of most the rivets I wanted to hide which was a half success.
All said and done, this was a fun one.  
Might have to get the rest of the fleet  🤔

Looks a lot more organic now. Very cool

2 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

However, If the Corleo actually becomes popular enough to become successful beyond just being a fad, I doubt it would take long for it to find its way into the military, or a DARPA equivalent, along with mods, like longer legs for greater running speeds, or bulkier builds for carrying greater loads. Not only that, but armed variants would almost certainly be likely. A drone of similar design would have the ability to traverse terrain in ways that wheeled vehicles might not be able to which would give them a tactical advantage.

They already have drones that can fly, I don’t think that there’s too many uses for a drone like this. The spot four legged ones are good for tight spaces though, but I don’t think there’s much of a market for this type of thing.

It’s a cool fantasy though 

5 hours ago, Thom said:

The teaser handled Krypto really well. He showed up, Supes said take me home, and Krypto dragped him home. Quick, neat and simple. 'Who's a good boi?!'

If it is left in, then that seriously undercuts expectations of Supes facing a dire threat if the drama is not allowed to grow. It suffers crib-death.

They’re definitely not removing it at this point

20 minutes ago, Thom said:

And, at the risk of quoting myself, a better suit than this new version...

One thing that need to go before finally showing this in theater - get rid of Krypto jumping all over a wounded Superman! The first teaser built up this dramatic moment of Supes being hurt - badly! - and now it's a comic punch-line..? This is what I am afraid of seeing more of, dramatic moments being one-upped with a joke. Most of everything else I've seen (except for the eye thing) is looking good - just dump that!

It was a punchline the moment they showed Krypto at all

1 hour ago, Black Valkyrie said:

 

It depends if its gonna be UC or not. 

 

Or if it’s not just a side story. Somehow, I doubt it would be a retelling of the og series

Let me know if you find info on a lost Assault Suit Leynos ova that I have no idea exists, but really would love to see 

6 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

And from there, how long before it becomes militarized, enlarged, armed and armored, and we end up with AT-ATs

Probably never. The At-At is kind of a huge sitting duck design that looks awesome in a movie, but pretty much useless otherwise. An unmanned tank is much more practical for everything from repairs and overall budget and low to the ground to avoid being an easy target. I love mecha as much as any Macross fan, but most of the cool stuff is only meant for fantasy rather than reality.

as far as this Kawasaki thingy, it’s not necessarily impossible, but it’s definitely gonna be a rich dudes toy that probably goes the way of the segway, basically a forgotten fad at best death trap at worst. It didn’t seem to be able to do much that someone skilled with a cheap dirtbike couldn’t really handle

3 hours ago, NoctisTalem said:

Just ordered a 1S to try and make into Max's 1S from DYRL, does anyone know if the Hasegawa battroid hands are compatable with this model?

I’m pretty sure they aren’t. Although I don’t doubt the movie version of the battroid kits will be coming up fairly soon since they’ve done quite a few of the tv variants already. I think that as far as major ones for the show, it would just be the M&M 1-J s and cannon fodder 1A. There’s a few that have those brief but cool showings, but I think that since they’ve done quite just released the super and strike fighters that movie battroids will be very soon

On 4/1/2025 at 7:02 PM, KOG Water Dragon said:

I think the only use I'd have for 1/144 VF-1 is to put some next to my 1/144 Gundam stuff for scale comparison.

You could also have it battle the old 1/144 Zentraedi kits

Kinda was just thinking that the names Leslie Nielsen and Liam Neeson sound awkwardly similar if you say them over a few times

4 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

Not as excited for this as I was after seeing Man of Steel's trailers. I'll wait for the reviews.

I’m kinda the opposite. Something about this one feels a bit different and with how bad Man of Steel ended up, this one fills me with hope to finally get another “good” Superman movie after almost half a century 

5 hours ago, Thom said:

Depending on where you sit, even train wrecks can be fun.😉

That’s true. Kinda how I feel about every new Jurassic World movie, they’re really bad but i still love em.

13 hours ago, Thom said:

The good news is they are not trying to reboot it. Kinda. And they got almost as straight-laced an actor as you can get. My first thought was that I hope they went right back to Police Squad for inspiration, and seeing the line-up of cops crying over their dad's pictures feels like it could have been lifted straight out of it. I am optimistically hopeful.

Yeah, the pictures of all the new generation missing their dad’s with the exception of OJ was pretty hilarious. I kind of think there might be something to this ridiculous movie. I haven’t seen an over the top goofball comedy in a few years and maybe this one will be fun. Might be a good laugh, or an absolute train wreck, but I’m curious so far

6 minutes ago, GMK said:

To be clear, the Battroid design file pics that I linked to don’t include armoured elements, but do have A, D, S, J heads, SDFM & DRYL hands, strike & super parts already designed. 

Yeah, but it also doesn’t show the VF-19. There’s still plenty of time for some surprises 

16 minutes ago, GMK said:

 

No sign of armoured Battroid, sadly. 

The line barely started. I’m pretty sure they’re holding back on it after the recent hasegawa ones. 

4 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

It has less singing, yes... Lacus is basically demoted to a macguffin rather than a character with actual agency in the story.

Sounds like a bit of an improvement 

9 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

Ehhh, Rick & Morty's last season was pretty weak and struggled to get a laugh out of me. No surprise after their staff "shakeup" and should have ended there.

Oddly, I found that Solar Opposites turned out to be an improvement. They just came up with a giddy excuse for a voice change and it made it feel like two separate shows as intended. I also find that Solar Opposites doesn’t dwell on depressing humor the way Rick and Morty has been lately. Kinda like there’s a sense of joy to the show that’s been missing 

It’s far easier for me to make a list of his two movies I didn’t like (Batman and Dr Moreau) than to list everything great he’s done. Willow, the Doors, Top Gun and more Top Gun, Top Secret and quite a few others are absolute treasures. He was a great actor and since I’ve heard the news, I’ve been feeling a down. Maybe I’ll watch one of his fun ones to bring up my spirits later 

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Yep.  It's exactly the same plot as Gundam SEED Destiny... just as a speedrun version.

A quick skirmish with Blue Cosmos ends in a false flag operation that an outwardly benevolent, technologically advanced, Coordinator-supremacist de facto autocracy ruled by a former genetic researcher and eugenics enthusiast from the Mendel institute uses as a pretext to use the Requiem beam cannon captured from Blue Cosmos to hold the world's nations hostage James Bond villain-style so they can force everyone to adopt a new social model based on the crackpot pseudoscience of genetic predestination also known as The Destiny Plan with the assistance of their super-coordinator protege, an angsty teenage incel "super coordinator" with anger management issues who hates Kira Yamato on principle.

If I had a nickel for every time that happened in the Cosmic Era, I'd have two nickels.  Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Does it at least have less singing. The Meer and Lacy’s thing was too pointless and annoying to take seriously 

1 hour ago, KOG Water Dragon said:

I see Gundam on this Macross. 😄

It’s just getting ready to gas a colony

3 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

Damn, NOT an April Fool's joke.  Sad to see him go.

There were so many joke stories about everything from the Superman movie getting canceled to new top gun sequels that I had to check a few spots to make sure it was true and unfortunately it is. It was a really downer after seeing him comeback in a limited way and I had hoped he would have been around much longer

6 hours ago, KOG Water Dragon said:

Come to think of it, they haven't done standard tan VF-1A battroid yet. But I expect it'll wind up in the inevitable all-in-one package like what they did for the fighter. Since the standard tan VF-1A didn't get a standalone fighter kit either.

And I guess we're supposed to be expecting Super/Strike battroids?

They’re definitely gonna do supers and strike. The just put those out in fighter. I think they’re gonna milk these molds for a while since all they gotta do is a movie type set of hands and some heads and the kits are already made for the add ons