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Good, that means I can ignore it and not get buyer's remorse if it looks better than the Arcadia VF-1's I've been getting. Interested in seeing it anyway. I always like seeing the mechanics of these toys.
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Super Macross Mecha Fun Time Discussion Thread!
snakerbot replied to Valkyrie Driver's topic in Movies and TV Series
The Have Blue was a different plane than the F-117. The Have Blue was a technology demonstrator that the F-117 was based on. In some ways the Have Blue is to the F-117 what the VF-0 is to the VF-1, but I don't think it's a perfect comparison. Your overall point still stands though, as the F-117 had the project name "Senior Trend", which is very much not the same as "Night Hawk". -
So why not skip the middleman and just use AI-controlled fighters? If the cybernetics are controlling the subject's body, what advantage is there to having the body at all?
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While I can't say it doesn't look good, I'm going to have to pass on this one. I'm trying to avoid spending too much on toys after my surgery, and Alter's Almecha version is pretty good already.
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The gun pod grip on mine is way tighter than on my VF-1S Roy, although I can only compare a sample size of one pre-fix to one post-fix.
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I picked Fedex way back when I preordered it, and didn't complain when I payed for it. Still hasn't shipped though. I also used Fedex for a single DX YF-29B late last year.
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I'm surprised Amiami hasn't split this off from my August order of Alter's Arbalest yet. EDIT: Oh, there it is.
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That is very cool. I really like the wings down by the knees. It's different from what we've seen in Macross designs, and reminds me a bit of the kataphrakts from Aldnoah.Zero.
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That absolutely would have happened to me if it wasn't for neoexcalibur.
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It looks like it's basically the same scale as sets 10213 or 10231, but with more detail, so if it doesn't get made, you can fall back on trying to get one of those, or bricklink the parts for one. That said, supported.
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I've been doing the same thing, although not way too much. I snagged Alter's Mave on Mandarake in May, and got their Super Sylph on Nippon-Yasan a few weeks ago right before it shot up from 11,000 yen to 18,500. Still waiting for a good deal on the Flip Knight. I wish they would do the other planes from the show. As aerodynamically implausible as it is, the Fand II might be my favorite plane in the fiction I've read/watched. If I can convince myself to learn how to paint, I might have to spend way too much on the Platz kit.
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It's listed as "Temporarily out of stock" now, instead of "backordered". So, uh... hm. I hope it comes back so you guys can get yours! And there's a part of me that wants to get another so I can put the S-IVB onto a custom S-IB stage to make a Saturn IB, and then just use the rest of the S-IC and S-II stages as parts fodder. It would be cool to have a full collection of NASA launch vehicles with the Atlas and Titan II, but those are a bit small and probably won't benefit from having the extra Saturn parts. Maybe I'll end up just bricklinking the whole thing.
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According to some members on Eurobricks, the traffic overwhelmed legoshop.com for a while as well. I had always planned on going to the local Lego store during my lunch break, but after seeing it backordered in the morning, and reading about some stores not even having enough to cover the people in line, I decided to move my lunch break up to as early as I thought I could get away with. There were "quite a few" left when I got mine about a hour and a half after the store opened, according to the employees there, so I don't know if I got lucky, or if the stories of stores selling out were just isolated cases blown out of proportion. I don't follow Lego news too closely anymore, but I've never heard of a set more anticipated than this one. And hey, at least it's backordered and not sold out completely. It's not all terrible.
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Just finished building the Saturn V. "Purty snazzy' is the understatement of the century. The set is amazing. The size is truly impressive, the detailing is elegant and appropriate, it is rock solid (seriously, I can hold it sideways by the S-II, and the S-IC stays put), and it features some really incredible construction techniques that I never thought I'd see on a MOC, much less an official set. Felix, Valérie, Carl, Michael, and Austin did a brilliant job on the design. You all need to go buy it now if you haven't already.
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I'm with you. There's a lot more that goes into making these toys than just the raw material and assembly cost. I would rather not have a toy than buy a KO.
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Top Gun: Maverick (Top Gun 2 is comin)
snakerbot replied to Ladic's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Which makes me think that any semi-accurate depiction of a modern dogfight would be boring as all get out. Just a bunch of stealth fighters shooting missiles at not-stealth fighters from way beyond visual range. The only thing approaching a fair fight would feature PAK FAs or maybe J-20s as the enemy fighters, or Super Hornets as the friendlies. F-22s or F-35s against anything non-stealthy would be a slaughter. -
Every spring for the last five years or so I've taken my parents to a concert. This year? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6WMzDOh1o EDIT: I'm too tired to figure this out now. Youtube's embed link doesn't work for me.
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Well the F was still available on Amiami until just the other day, so maybe that's reason to be hopeful the C will be easy to find at release.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
snakerbot replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Ok, so one of these is a kit and not a toy, but whatever. I'm looking forward to (very slowly) getting another robot from it for my shelf!
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Hear hear!
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Amiami. http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=FIGURE-029641&page=top
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Personally I'm getting a Drive w/ Ryan Gosling kind of vibe. But I may have to check out Running Scared.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
snakerbot replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
I have a circa 2004-ish WRC and a 2011 WRX STI hatchback. I don't know if they made your specific model, but Hot Wheels Subarus do exist. -
Yep, same here. The extra markings don't do enough for me, they'll look out of place next to my non-premium Roy, and I don't want to spend that much money on these.
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I understand this started with the 1J Hikaru (which I don't have), but I didn't think it was still the case. I can't discern a hint of pink in my 1S Roy. Is there variance in the shade between copies?
