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Red Dawn Remake---Is nothing sacred???
mechaninac replied to derex3592's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
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Aircraft Super Thread Mk.VII
mechaninac replied to David Hingtgen's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
That was as much an instance of "technical malfunction" as someone meeting his end by firing squad and having the autopsy's cause of death read "lead poisoning". When will these tinpot despots learn that making wild claims in order to deny the obvious and/or save face just makes them look pathetically foolish? -
Why did Ben Kingsley make Blod Rayne? Why did Charlizee Theron do Aeon Flux? 'Tis called easy money, a quick pay day.
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I was so hoping to see more pretty pictures of the Lightning III when I noticed activity on this thread... now I'm bummed out.
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Damn, missed my 25F super and 25S armor packs delivery from NY today. Redelivery scheduled for tomorrow, hope I get it this time; otherwise, I'll have to schlep to the post office to pick it up in person, but not until Saturday.
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That's beside the point to my statement. I'm strictly talking from the stantpoint of the consumer, and have not made any assumptions regarding the viability of such a product from the standpoint of the manufacturer. Whether a company should or shouldn't pursue any particular venture is something for the CEOs and CFOs to decide, and I'll readly agree that now would not be the appropriate time due to worldwide economic conditions; but such decisions on the part of toy companies are completely divorced from some people's desire to never have a 1/60 VF-2SS made at all because of personal, and entirely arbitrary, reasons. The VF-11 and Destroids languished on shelves due, in part, to their price points... they sold well enough once they went on sale; so it's not that fans didn't want them, but that many didn't think they were getting enough value for the money (I feel that way about the VF-19s and VF-17s and have not bought any, but that does not mean I wish they had never been made). It's all a balancing act for manufacturers: bet right and you make a mint; bet wrong and you loose your shirt; bet wrong often enough and you go out of business. Edit: If Bandai or Yamato made a VF-2SS I'd certainly buy a Sylvie and a Nexx, and maybe a third. And I'd buy at least one VF-2JA. But that's me, personally; I can't speak for anyone else, and wouldn't want to speculate if anyone else would.
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Why "please no"? Sure, you think it's crap (opinions are like "voids surrounded by sphyncter muscles", everybody has one), but how would a company producing something that you would not buy affect you in any way for you to wish that the product weren't produced at all, thereby affecting everyone else who do want the opportunity to purchase a 1/60 rendition of the Valkyrie II? Or would you feel somehow obligated to buy such a personally hated thing just because it exists? Bandai or Yamato makes a VF-2 toy = everyone who'd want one could buy one, or many. Those who don't want anything to do with the design or M2 can just sit it out and save the cash for something else... Everybody wins. A VF-2 never gets made = everyone who'd want one is left in the lurch. And some of those who dislike (judging from your very post) the mecha from M2 and/or M2 itself get to experience a bit of schadenfreude... Nobody wins, but some think they did.
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Glad I was able to secure a copy with AE when they opened their preorder for the 25G a couple of months back; other than having to pay up-front, the price was decent and I got to skip all the subsequent drama. The F and S were unique in that when the F was released, the only frames of reference people had for the toy's quality were the V1 and the YF-29. There was no overwhelming demand yet as people did not know if the renewals would be worth getting. And the S was opened for preorder before the F was released, so that a lot of people procrastinated, myself included, in pulling the trigger until reviews or personal experience with Alto's 25. Therefore, the preorder windows for the F and S lasted quite a bit of time, but once the cat was out of the bag on how good the renewals were, all bets were off and we've been chasing these things like heroin junkies suffering from withdrawl ever since.
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It's the perfect Valk for Basara, after piloting Ronald McDonald it makes perfect sense that he'd ride "Bozo" the Clown... Edit: This does appear to be the perfect candidate for customizing, however.
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At this late stage in the game with a release date looming before the end of the year, I'd say the resin prototype is 95%+ indicative of the final product; it's highly unlikely that any changes will be made to proportions, wing and fins geometries, or anything else other than minor tweaks to the parts involved in transformation. Is there a chance that Yamato could still add wing and underbelly hardpoints, angle the wings down a few degrees in their neutral state, make the leg fins and stabilizers parallel in their default positions? With only two or three months left to cut steel, run test shots, work out the kinks in the assembly line, and begin production to make their deadline... I don't think so.
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RAWR!, indeed. When does the preorder start for it? That looks fantastic.
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I'm still not sure if that's good news or bad news. On the one hand, my wallet could use a break; on the other hand... awesome! I don't collect Hot Toys or any other 1/6 scale stuff (if I did, on top of everything else I spend money on, I'd be in the poor house) so 1/12-ish scale Figmas are a great substitute; their sculpts are generally very good and tactile quality has been consistently top notch, with only a few quirks, with everything in the line released so far. I do wonder how the Iron Man suit will compare with the Revoltech ones in size, quality, and poseability.
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No hardpoints in evidence... sigh... such wasted opportunity. But, this thing is so slick in fighter mode that my small nitpick won't keep me from attempting to buy myself a copy.
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I don't know, putting a suit of armor on a beauty queen does nothing to improve her looks...
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If you're referring to the way the arms meet the legs in fighter mode, they are very reminiscent of the VF-1, flat sided forearm butted up against rounded lower leg, so I don't see a problem there. If your beef is with the open space between the arms in F-mode, it's less severe than on the VF-4, and there are plenty of real world aircraft with widely spaced nacelles -- F-14 being the most obvious example; so, again, no design flaw there. But I get it, you just don't like the VF-2SS, so no matter how many counter points to your criticizims I make in the defence of the mecha, you'll just come up with some other non sequitur to denigrate the design, so that we'd just end up spinning our wheels ad nauseam. Everyone else who have posted here have expressed their desire for a 1/60 toy of the Valkyrie II to be made by Bandai or Yamato, because we all would like to have the opportunity to add such a sexy beast to our collections of Macross toys. So what I don't get is the compulsion to take a wiz in the punch bowl... if you don't like cocktail, don't drink it and just say its not your kind of poison, but also don't spoil it for everyone else. So, moving on...
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Macross related items on WonderFestival 2012 Summer (JAPAN)
mechaninac replied to ahiachris's topic in Model kits
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There, fixed it!.. I'm so going to have to come up with some really convincing, self-excusing, platitude in order to justify buying this thing, but buy this thing I will.
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Not really. The VF-1 does not have a "clean" ventral area; it's got two side by side shoulders that create a flat wall right behind the stored head. Where the arms are concerned in fighter mode, the VF-2SS has a cleaner flow than the VF-1. To me, the VF-2SS and the VF2-JA are very pleasing desings, just like all the other VFs I mentioned. Personally, I like all the VF designs in all of Macross' incarnations with only two exceptions: the VA-3 and the Metal Siren. I'm also not fond of Basara's VF-19Kai and Mylene's VF-11MAXL, although the other 19s and 11s (icluding the non-canon, non-boobied delta winged 11) are awesome.
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The eyes, sure... we all buy that... That IS a very nice figure.
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And???.... The VF-0, VF-1, VF-17, VF-171, YF/VF-19, VF-25, and YF-29 all have what look like superfluous intakes; the VF-2SS is just a bit more blatant about it with the two inner ones forward of the stowed arms.
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Oh, I know the unit is canon to the show (everytime I see that sequence I'm reminded of how lousy the animation was in that episode...), I just never thought I'd see that variant released, and it seems it's not going to be. Bummer on it being just a painted 1/60 assembly kit, but I suppose that the kits of the 1A, 1J, 1S, and 1D are a costomizers dream come true.
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Looks badass in both bodes, but fighter is most definitely it's forte.
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VF-4G LITNING III ?... It's LIGHTNING, Yamato... It's still amazing to me that in this day and age, with the internet as an available resource for proofreading, companies still manage to F'-Up the spelling of English words on their products; it's one thing to misspell words in the IB, but to do it to the item's name on a promotional poster, and often on the product's box, is just sloppy (I really want to say stupid and unforgivable, but I want to be kind here). Other than that, the bird looks superb. I'm so sold on it.
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I recall seeing a similar image before, clearly remember the Alaska base 1A on the right, but I just noticed the Browny 1D on the left... non-trainer 1D on the way, too?
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7-Up or Sprite soda bottle? Soldier on man. That looks fantastic! I can only dream what the whole VF-1, done to this level of excellence, would be like... likely enough to make half the members in this forum faint in ecstatic geek-gasm.