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  1. mechaninac
    Same. Wake me up when the Blazers, maybe even the P, are officially announced...
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    3D printing companies like Shapeways, Universities/Technical Colleges, Friends...
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    Beetlejuice-Adam's Family cross over?... I know it isn't but seeing Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) in the group image immediately brought it to mind. Heck, both occupy pretty much the exact same genre and would mesh well with each other.
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    Gotta consider the source and their obvious bias; after all, all these shill reviewers are still blood poisoning levels of salty over the fact that audiences thoroughly rejected their much-praised misbegotten 2016 Feig reimagining (it was pure THE MESSAGE poop) and that it bombed so hard as to make sure that thing is dead and buried with no possibility of ever being resurrected, and also remember that they gave poor reviews to Afterlife as well and that was enjoyable and mostly satisfying even if not all that original, not on Afterlife's merits, or lack thereof, but because they were, and still are, hung up on 2016's embarrassing failure.
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    https://federationmodels.com/ Go to Products, then Federation Models; about halfway down you'll find a Miranda Class Saucer Correction Kit (only $15.00). Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything for the nacelles but I did not look too hard, so they may have something that would fit the bill. Edit: They're even running a half off sale at the moment.
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    The pants look passable, same with the head sculp/overlarge glasses, but the jacket and gloved hands... yeesh!..
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    Heresy? Dang it, I was aiming for unadulterated blasphemy...
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    TRON is far more techno-fantasy than it is science-fiction. Abandon all logic ye who enter here.
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    I don't believe they could have cast better live action representations, looks-wise, of Iroh and Ozai; they're damn near perfect. Sokka looks pretty legit too. The other players are okay (Azula being the least fitting of the bunch) but have a great chance of competently embodying the roles depending on their performances (One piece is proof positive that this can be done in a single intro/episode)... this is true for all of them, actually, but when the actor looks the part, from the get-go, without uttering a single line of dialog, there is just a certain unquantifiable magic in the offing. Will the show actually be any good? That remains to be seen (Netflix is hit or miss with scant examples in between... when they get out of their own way and refrain from interference and/or 'current year' messaging, they seem to shine, but what's been shown so far is very promising.
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    I know you meant flesh colored... damned auto-correct or plain old typo; that being said, the distinction between black and "fleas colored" (black grey) is just too amusing.
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    That sounded like Awkwafina voicing the fox thief; if so, please Please PLEASE spare us all from her gawd-awful singing... otherwise, fun clip.
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    ^ Ya know, that explains a whole lot...
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    Well... roughly 1/3 life-size to be accurate, but still a cool "parade float" and something you won't see every day.
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    Most sequels Disney put out in the past (before mid-2010s) were Straight-to-DVD fare, and invariably inferior to the original to varying degrees from mildly passable to downright awful; at least they were never meant for theatrical release, and only intended as cheap cash grabs for diehard fans of a particular character or for little kids, who consume everything regardless of quality, to annoy their parents into buying. There is always room for a well crafted sequel to further characters in new stories -- classic Pixar (under Lasseter), the Cars franchise notwithstanding, was a master at it -- but the question is: can current Disney truly come up with anything worthy? The fact they have nothing original in the pipeline other than sequels to things that were good under far more competent and talented leadership that have been pushed out, is very telling. If they do make something good, great!.. but I wouldn't hold my breath.
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    Frozen 3, Toy Story 5, Inside Out 2, Moana 2... nothing original (they've proven incapable of creating new stuff that isn't trash), all sequels -- a strong whiff of desperation is in the air.
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    It's an eternity and the blink of an eye, both at the same time...
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    Unlike the Disney fare, these make money, and as long as they do...
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    The turbo button was the single greatest glaring omission in the reimagined Viper designs. I can understand why Moore steered away from that detail but I always loved the shove you back in your seat, kick in the pants, dragon breath-like after-burner go-fast button in both the launch tube and in space... it was just so badass and iconic in the og show and distinctive from contemporary space fighter of the era; it clearly set it apart from the X-Wing and Thunderfighter.
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    I'll be honest, a small part (the little kid in me who'll never die) will still follow most announcements but the jaded old man in me, the curmudgeon dementedly yelling 'GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DELINQUENTS!!!' will be shrugging his shoulders in indifference and logically justifying it by coming to the realization that this stuff is just too expensive and pointless for what it is and me eventually being too old for this poop; heck, my purchasing activities have already cratered by 90% from my peak in the last couple of years, and my selectivity on what I will actually even contemplate buying and how much I'm willing to spend on something (sticker discipline) have skyrocketed.
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    Why not both? The thing is, in 10+ years, no matter who (unlikely) does it, there'll be little chance that I'll give a damn about this stuff.
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    ^Sure wish those would be reissued or got the revival/reinterpretation treatment by some other company/division... I'm firmly unwilling to track down and pay exorbitant secondary market prices for, essentially, Gashapons.
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    The glaring difference between TGM and DoD is that the former honored the legacy character and introduced new ones without elevating them at his expense in a mostly well structured story, while the latter went out of its way to diminish, humiliate, deconstruct the titular character in order to foist a new, and wholly grating and unlikable, self-insert "protagonist" at the very intentional expense of Indi (the 3rd time Ford willfully participated in the corruption of one of his iconic roles) in a mess of an incoherent patchwork film that clearly went through several reshoots and reedits that attempted to (unsuccessfully) salvage a turd. While respecting the past may not guarantee success, disrespecting it, especially when it comes across as mean spirited and gratuitous, almost always guarantees failure.
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    I wouldn't hold my breath on either score, more likely it'll be more of the same, if not even more so... Star Wars under Disney is almost invariably a lost cause.
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