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Trailers compilation: The first one was surprisingly good, and this second outing seems like it will be just as entertaining.
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Disney's live action Aladdin May 2019
mechaninac replied to jvmacross's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
What Disney is giving us: What Disney could've (should've) given us... what one guy, Raf Grassetti, in his spare time was able to do in short order to "fix" the Genie:
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Disney's live action Aladdin May 2019
mechaninac replied to jvmacross's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I sit down to watch the trailer and as it plays out I find myself thinking that it actually looks somewhat decent and mildly evocative of the source material: the atmosphere seems good; the color pallet, with the understandable exception of night shots, is mostly vibrant; the SFX/CG is kind of bland and feels somewhat dated, but is serviceable; the costuming is spot-on; beautiful and cute Jasmine even if the actress doesn't quite capture what one would expect a live version of the character to look like; the actor playing Aladdin is an even greater deviation from the established Disney look of the street rat;... then I see Jafar and then he speaks and, granted that it is a VERY short clip, he has little of the looks and none of the timbre in his voice to convey the Machiavellian Vizir's gravitas and lust for power, but fine, it's something that can be overlooked. Then the Genie's reveal... ... ... WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!!!... HA HA HA HA HA!... NO, just a resounding disbelieving NO!.. There's good bad, there's plain bad, there's bad bad, there's really bad, and then there is 'Will Smith's painfully cringe-tastic bloated smurf with a thyroid condition' 'ridiculous to the point of being impossible to ignore, excuse, or dismiss' BAD. What were they thinking? Will Smith, was the paycheck so juicy that you'd sign on to this monstrosity and completely sell out your dignity? -
Thank you for your post; it prompted me to check on what I was sure was a valid VF-4 pre-order I had with Anime Export, but since I forgot to pay within the 48 hour window, and it's no longer available, became a dud that would've completely blindsided me... must've been one of those occasions when being tired and eager to sleep after a pre-order hunt, and seeing I had received the order placement confirmation but not actually read it, I assumed I had finished the process and went to bed, thereby forgetting all about it -- until now -- and let it slip in blissful oblivion. So, without your heads-up as a reminder I would've been confused and left scrambling when the Lightning III is released. Here's to you, thanks...
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STAR WARS Merchandise Episode - 2
mechaninac replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
@ 1/5000 it will also be in scale with the WHAM SDF-1... just looking at all the possible positive angles here. -
Looks mighty nice, but that price, and the fact that I already have the original and do not own any PF versions of anything in my collection, means this is thankfully an easy pass for me... more money for Sentinel's MOSPEADA offerings.
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Riobots by Sentinel is killing it... and my wallet soon enough!
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Wow, what a s**t-show with HLJ; makes me almost glad I missed them all in the first hour and was eventually "forced" to pay upfront at Anime Export.... here's hoping they deliver, but the fact I've never heard/read anywhere that they've ever been unable to deliver makes me 99.999% confident that they will.
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I gave up on following this thread last night after all the aborted pre-order attempts and glitchy vendor sites made for the kind of frustration that tempts one to seriously consider throwing whatever browsing device being used against the closest wall. Due to the extra adrenaline the whole experience generated I could not get back to sleep and decided to check AE on a last ditch whim around 3 am, and lo and behold, the dang thing was up and still available, so I clicked the button and successfully completed the purchase process... things just work so weirdly some times. Although I deep;y dislike prepaying for an item that shouldn't ordinarily require it, I'm glad I was able to secure a copy, which also allowed me to sleep like a baby afterwards. So...
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Screw this! Maybe I'll get one at or close to release, and if I don't, much like the Kairos, it won't be the end of the world. Good night, all.
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Got cart-jacked at N-Y at the very last step..... AAAAHHHHH!!!!
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Correction, this is proving beyond frustrating...
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N-Y is back up, bur no Chuck listing yet.
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Well, this is proving to be characteristically frustrating...
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^What's to forget? By the time you check that site, no matter how fast you are, it's sold out...
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You, sir, have just made my day.
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Premium finish = premium price = me no bite; besides, all my other Yamato/Arcadia VF-1s are standard versions and non DYRL, so this would look out of place and so, an easy pass. Wake me up when they decide to offer up a regular edition sans price inflating frills that should've been there all along.
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Where is my STIII Merchantman Eaglemoss, where???!!!...
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Finally -- about damned time -- received my DX VF-1J and RE/100 Gun EZ from Amiami; this was officially the longest transit time I have ever experienced for an EMS package... but it's here, and it's glorious.
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Amiami shipping notification received as well...
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At the risk of giving any further legitimacy to a verboten topic, if V-Fac does produce a VF-31A, KO be damned, I'll be all over it; it would serve Bandai right for flubbing that particular release so badly. Would I prefer the official thing? Sure, but not at current artificial-scarcity scalper prices... So KO it will be.
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I'm waiting until January to pay for mine -- Amiami's deadline is the fifth -- as I don't expect the exchange rate to change much in the interim.
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No payment request from Amiami for my one DX VF-1J pre-order as of this posting, which allowed me to add a RE-100 Gun-EZ to it. Truth be told, I wouldn't mind one iota if I didn't have to pay until January... I'm in no hurry.
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Totally missed that, and stand humbly corrected.... holy hell, my wallet is gonna be hurting.
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Weren't the M&M VF-4s 1/72 Wave kits? Or did I miss an H-M R announcement?... Not that I can't see Bandai milking the mold; it would make sense.