Mog
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I really don’t like the shortened bellyplates in battroid. I can understand making them shorter than the 1/60 Yamato’s, but not THAT short.
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The biggest difference I see in fighter is that the backpack engines are closer together on the Bandai, while the Yamato has a wider gap between ‘em. I wonder if Bandai changed the leg transformation so that it’s the heels touching, rather than the tips of the feet touching (as in the Yammy).
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For comparison purposes, Bandai DX: Yamato (customized, but no changes to structure):
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Including delimiter mode for the 21? . . . And high speed modes for both birds?
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Thanks for the pics! That overhead shot makes me less worried about the size of the nose/cockpit. I snapped a pic of my custom Yammie 21 from almost the same angle, and it looks similar to that. Looks like Bandai splits up the bellyplates (with the bottom half going with the backpack perhaps or folding into the top portion of the bellyplate?) Don’t like the design choice there. It looks like the antenna can be pivoted per enphily’s post below:
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See, I know it’s an optical illusion due to the angle of the photo, but it seems like the nose/cockpit area is just a smidge too small. And yet the bellyplates are significantly smaller, so you’d think the wings and back of the plane should be more compressed. So confusing without more pics
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Regarding more Kanan:
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I’d like to see more fighter pics, especially a dead front shot and a side profile pic. Design seems to emphasize battroid mode, but am curious why the bellyplates are kinda short.
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Custom-painted Yammie. . . back when I had more time for such crazy projects.
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Thanks for the clarification on the “new kids” comment. Regarding my wait-and-see approach, it’s not so much waiting for reviewers to shape my opinion or confirm my biases. It comes more from a “Fool me once, shame on you (Disney). Fool me twice, shame on me” approach. After finding TFA surprisingly okay, I took the plunge and went opening weekend for TLJ. TLJ was a massive disappointment to say the least, and I don’t see the need to reward Disney with another opening weekend viewing plunge. TROS could turn out to be good, but with 2/3rds of the sequel trilogy already told, I don’t find enough in the story told so far that makes me want to continue on.
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She may be old, but the Yammie YF-21 is still a skinny, sexy beast!
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It’s not all “new kids with their new toys” who are jaded with the new trilogy (It’s probably the opposite actually). You’re entitled to your view, just as I’m entitled to my “Nah, this new trilogy hasn’t done much for me, so I’m gonna pass on watching its conclusion.” Just because I’m a fan of Star Wars doesn’t mean I’m obligated to go watch a film I’m not all that into. If the reviews are good across the board, MAYBE I’ll catch it in theaters. But right now? I feel no need to watch out of obligation, compulsion, or some sense of completion.
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^^Amusing little bit. But in Star Wars’ case, it’s more the “crappy stories that don’t hold up to scrutiny the more you think about them” than the diversity push that’s an issue for me.
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Nah, Thrawn commandeered the Ghost, and that is the scene right before he blows the Falcon to smithereens. Subverting expectations, baby!!
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I didn't think I'd like the stands, but they're actually pretty useful for poses: Pretty sure, I'll find a way to put two (maybe three?) stands on one base.
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Thanks for the link! Nice to see that they added working wheels/landing gears on the Air Team. Wonder if we'll see something similar with the Sea Team.
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I thought the latest was that Yellow was delayed until November 2019? http://sen-ti-nel.co.jp/product-about/info/yellow_0913.html NY still says October 30th, but I'm getting mentally ready that it'll get pushed back to Sentinel's November date.
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Yeah, that's pretty much my stance at this point. It's rarer and rarer these days to find a franchise I'm fully all-in on anymore. Most times, there's aspects I absolutely love in the franchise and other parts I willfully choose to ignore (or just acknowledge as not being as good as the rest). For example, I can say I'm a big fan of Agents of SHIELD, but even I'm willing to acknowledge that Season 6 was pretty meh. Bringing it back to TROS, I'm in no mad rush to see it. If the reviews are generally positive, MAYBE I'll go see it in theaters. Otherwise, I'll wait until it comes out on a streaming service or gets re-run a billion times on a cable channel.
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It's sad that something I learned from either doing college research papers or from high school journalism is getting forgotten by most people: Don't rely solely on second-hand information; go back to the original source. I only got through a few minutes of Doomcock's rants before it made my head hurt. And I honestly didn't want to sit through 13+ minutes of it. So, I went and listened to Prinze's original rant (Plus, it's a hell of a lot shorter at a little over 3 minutes). If you can get past the f-bombing, Prinze does have some valid points. And they probably do hold a little more weight, as I'm sure he was able to glean some ideas and thoughts directly from Filoni (during their time together on Rebels). But I don't completely agree with everything he said. 1) Star Wars being made for kids: Probably true, especially for the prequels. But it helps that there's a deeper layer that adults can appreciate. For those that dig deeper, you can see the myth archetypes there, and you can see the underlying redemption themes. Even the prequels have an underlying theme of a good man and a good system slowly becoming corrupted. It is a little heavy-handed in the prequels, but the themes are there. I mean, as a kid, I loved SDF Macross for the transforming planes. But it still sticks with me today because it dealt realistically with war and death, and showed that sometimes our greatest weapon is not reactive missiles and armed-to-the-tooth mechs but rather "yak de culture." So, yeah might be created for kids. But it sticks, because the story can hold your imagination as an adult. 2) Railing against video games and Grey Jedi: As one of the biggest Knights of the Old Republic fanboys on this board, I do take umbrage with this position. It's never about leveling up in these games; it's about the story. Some of the best stories in KOTOR I are from Jolee Bindo, a guy who starts up as a Grey Jedi. Jolee has one of the best takes on love and the Jedi Code. Not saying I don't find the idea Prinze brings up (about the Force constantly balancing itself) intriguing. But I think the Star Wars universe is big enough to also include the idea of Grey Jedi. 3) I've said it often before, but I wasn't a fan of Prinze's soul-patch, hidden Jedi at first. But the story made the guy grow a ton, and he became a memorable character in his own right (It helps too that he eventually rocked a full-on Kenobi beard ). 4) Yeah, there are Star Wars fans that go way overboard in their rants. But criticisms about weirdly structured or illogical stories and inconsistent characters that show no growth between films should not be cast aside or lumped together with the more extreme rants. It's just frustrating to see that Disney seems to tow this line, rather than take an honest hard look at these criticisms. Just Moggy's two cents.
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Didn’t listen to the link, but. . . Freddy is one of the main voice actors for Star Wars Rebels. He voiced Kanan Jarrus (sp?), and the character grew the hell up over the course of the series. One of the best additions/stories to the Jedi ranks.
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More like Black Widow, Belarusian Type.
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As I've said in similar threads like this, gotta go with the bastard love-child of the VF-1 and Q-Rau: The YF-21. Makes sense that they'd want to make a fighter that combines the human and Zentradi/Meltradi heritages.
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^^This. I'm also curious if the armor is removable and can be posed to sit on a stand.
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I think our buddies who have been waiting longer for the Sentinel Legioss would want that put up for pre-order first.
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A nice little hook and riff with some catchy lyrics:
