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  1. mechaninac
    Shut up, you!...
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    Copying is also easier, faster, less risky, and more cost effective than investing in all the necessary research and development to come up with something truly original.
  3. mechaninac
    That trailer has just cemented my original impression...
  4. mechaninac
    That noise you hear is the sound of the Nerdgasm of a million mecha/giant monters fanboys hyper-ventilating like giddy school girls... Now excuse me whilst I change my pants...
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    Cool. Resin cast is almost always better than the stair-stepping ridled RP builds... too much clean up, and if you're not intimatly familiar with the piece you're liable to cut or sand off something you shouldn't; besides, you being the modeler, you'll do a much better job at the prep stage prior to molding which will result in a much better final product. I'll keep an eye on this and may be very interested in both the 1/60 and 1/48 sets.
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    Are you casting these or doing RP (Shapeways) and letting the buyer handle all the clean up and painting?
  7. mechaninac
    I'm still fairly confident all the Renewals will see re-releases, but we may have to wait until well after the RVF-25 has been released... and then there is the whole "how many repops for each version?", "how long will the pre-order windows last?"," how many allocated to each retailer?"... all the usual shenanigans we've come to expect and love from Bandai's handling of the DX Frontier Valks.
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    I haven't encountered customs or brokerage fees with FedEx shipping from HLJ to the US on any occasion, S&H is often slightly less than EMS, and delivery to my door is usually 2 days quicker. However, I'm well aware that other countries impose all sorts of duties, tariffs, charges, taxes or whatever other name they choose to call it; so, your particular situation will dictate the shipping method that best suits you. Edit: Also, even for EMS, HLJ should be at least 35% less than what N-Y is charging.
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    That's what I'm hoping for, having cancelled my N-Y preorder almost a month ago; their quoted EMS charge (their least expensive option) was absurd. HLJ should come in at 50-60% of that for Fed-EX, and if you add their custormer support for Macross related items...
  10. mechaninac
    Spock's age is not that relevant since Vulcans can live up to some 200+ Earth years. And what kind of morals can rationalize the death of billions when one knows there is something he could do to at least try to prevent such devastation; that's not moral, its evil. And Spock hadn't been Starfleet in decades by the time he attempted to intercept the shock-wave with the red matter device, and being a former officer did not deter him from going over the heads of the Federation and Starfleet when engaging in "cowboy" diplomacy in Unification, so he knows how to stretch and bend and break the rules when his logic so dictates; except, apparently, where his home world is involved... then it's c'est la vie. Sure... causing the Praetor to freak out from having a Romulan ship from the future approach Romulus would be far worse than the eventual destruction of at least two populated planets with who knows how many billions of lives... and who says that they would just pop into orbit; they could drop out of warp well outside the star system and approach at impulse while broadcasting an identification signal on all frequencies to give the era's Romulans time to prepare. If Nero's motivation was to destroy the Federation, then what better way to do so than to go into Romulan space, announce his presence and origin, and share his 24th century technology with the 23rd century Romulans in order to give his race a clear advantage against all the quadrant's races? Romulans may be passionate but they were also shrewd, calculating, and methodical even, specially, in Kirk's era; and once the shock wore off and they had a chance to verify Nero's account, they would jump at the tactical and strategic possibilities presented by a starship from the future. Ultimately, an entire fleet of ships incorporating reverse-engineered systems from the Nerada would be far more effective a weapon against Starfleet than just one single vessel. Never played Mist so the reference is lost on me...
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    You're right, they had no control over being thrown back some, what?, 80 years or so. But, and here is where Nero's motivation falls apart -- and where it's clear the writers did not think through the massive logic chasm in the story--; Nero and his crew end up in the past and they know it, when Romulus and Remus still exist, with information that could lead to mitigation efforts to spare the heart of the Romulan Empire, and its entire population, from the Super Nova's shock-wave, or if that proved undo-able there was enough time to evacuate all planets that would eventually be destroyed. Even assuming that Nero had gone absolutely bat-guano-crazy after the shock of the loss of his family/world and got so twisted by his need for revenge on Spock that he could not recognize the gift of fore-knowledge the Universe had bestowed him to change the future, what about his entire crew? Were they all such imbeciles that they'd just follow his lead unquestioningly?... It makes no sense once you shine a critical light on the entire premise. You also bring up a good point about previous time travel in Star Trek, and 'old' Spock was involved in every single incident not related to TNG and beyond. Here is a logical being, with intimate knowledge of temporal physics, who just witnessed his planet being consumed from within by an artificial black hole and decides to just accept it without even making an attempt to go back to before the Narada arrives above Vulcan to try to prevent the planet's destruction, the near extinction of his race, and the death of his mother (his younger parallel self's mother, but still...)... it's illogical. This is why time travel stories tend to fall apart so badly. The writers get tunnel vision in their use of the plot device in the narration of the story without any consideration for all the paradoxes and inconsistencies that can be created. It's not that time travel hasn't been handled well in Star Trek, it's use in The Voyage Home and First Contact were decent enough, but JJ's version was problematic at best.
  12. mechaninac
    Beautiful figure, but it almost looks like she's treating her naginata as a stripper's pole... not that there's anything wrong with that.
  13. mechaninac
    Ba-da--Boom---Tish..!
  14. mechaninac
    In the photographic sequence shown, it looks like the thighs are housed behind integral hinged panels that were subsequently removed to allow greater clarity in showing the storage/swing-out detail in later images. It's possible that they may be optionally removable, with the whole panel-hinge assembly slotting into pockets in the underside of the lifting body, in order to make transformation easier/less prone to damage.
  15. mechaninac
    Yeah, projecting by willfully misinterpreting and/or inferring meaning not intended by the author, solely based on a personal bias...
  16. mechaninac
    Who ever even hinted at that? Projecting much?
  17. mechaninac
    I'll see your LOL and raise you a ROFLMAO
  18. mechaninac
    Gotta agree with Agent ONE on this. The following is a rant, so click on the spoiler tag at your own risk . The old 'quote' by Friedrich Nietzsche has lost all meaning in today's overly cocooned society.
  19. mechaninac
    Great job on the Gunpod carts. There is just one thing missing from them: the towing boom...
  20. mechaninac
    Nah! Think about it. They've had the tooling made in order to include one pair per figure. It's not any harder to manufacture 100K pieces than to make 1K, other than the extra labor to tend the molding machine and cut the parts off the tree, and the economy of scales dictates that the higher the production numbers the lower the cost per unit; It all depends on how many cavities they designed into the molds, which translates into how many copies are shot per cycle (open mold, eject previously molded part(s), close mold, inject molten plastic, cool down, repeat)... if the bracelets are molded from a dedicated tool (no parts sharing), the cycle time could be very short.
  21. mechaninac
    Seriously. How much could those tiny things cost... 10th of cent, or less? Max Factory clearly cheapened out on this score. I guess it behooves the buyer to be very attentive when handling the figure.
  22. mechaninac
    Believe it or not, there is no butchering involved with that picture; the front assembly of the Cuirassier disconnects from the rest of the bike at a small tab -- not glue, just a tight friction fit. Edit: FYI, you can clearly see the bracelet on her left wrist in that image.
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    They shipped my order the day after I placed it; they're pretty quick in sending out anything in stock the next business day, and they do email you a notice, with tracking information if appropriate, when they ship. I've bought from them some 3 or 4 times over the past few years and have never had a problem; in my experience, as limited as it is, there is nothing to fret about. And I'm always glad to be able facilitate your parting with the grocery money... Edit: When you get your saber, play close attention when you swap hands on the figure: She has bacelets on both wrists that are free floating and could be easily lost; they're a nice touch that warrant attention/caution.
  25. mechaninac
    Yes. From the shipping lable: 57-1-401 Negishi Asahidai Nakaku, Yokohama Kanagawa, 231-0854 Japan
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