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  1. mechaninac
    1/3000 SDF-1 DYRL? reissue/Arcadia issue?... something I skipped the first time around and have been kicking myself for it ever since will be available again?... for less than half the going rate for the original Yamato whenever it pops up on eBay?... If true... :yahoo: Is that a choir of angels singing I hear?...
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    Somewhat off topic, but all kinds of awesome... https://youtu.be/ktPM-ot1ADc
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    A great many Trekkie fools and their money will soon be parted...
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    Hi-Metal R

    mechaninac replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Tell me about it...
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    ^ Well, you could almost excuse/explain that away by claiming that the Stargazer was much closer to the camera than the Enterprise, and it was TV. One example I cannot excuse is the one from First Contact where the Enterprise E crosses in front of the Defiant, making the Though Little Ship look no bigger than a large shuttle craft and/or the E appear some 5X bigger than it should be. So yes, nothing in Start Trek, TNG, and DS9 has ever been regularly visually consistent.
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    Are you suggesting that there is something incongruous, perhaps even illogical, with having as many as 4 vertical decks per window?
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    Yes. The continuity split occurs after the establishment of the Federation, which the NX Class predates. Also, a model of Cochrane's Phoenix and of an NX Class ship appear on Fleet Admiral Alexander Marcus' desk in Into Darkness. As for the size increase... because JJ's reasons -- ostensibly as a plot device to allow for a larger shuttle bay, and justified by a contrived explanation regarding the need to upscale the ship due to the Narada incursion (the event that caused the alternate timeline).
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    ^I'm not just referring to the concept image but also to the final design shown at the end of ST Beyond... better than the flying brewery and a step in the right direction, but still a visual insult to the Prime original and refit, in my opinion.
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    Same here. All the good stuff that's been shown so far for R1 are the old stuff.
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    Another sinfully fugly JJ-prise, although a very small step in the right direction... the proportions, shapes, aesthetic balance are all kinds of wrong. I actually like some of the Starfleet ship designs in the Kelvin-verse, but the Enterprise itself, including this new A, is a hideous thing to behold; to so butcher the iconic ship that defines Star Trek is beyond my comprehension.
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    So, the TIE Striker has a cylindrical fuselage like the TIE Bomber... interesting. But yes, Hasbro's early offerings for the R1 license are anything but inspiring.
  12. mechaninac
    The problem I see with a planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a red dwarf star is that said zone is so close to the primary that the planet will have an extremely short orbital period and is likely to be tidally locked (one side always faces the star so that it broils while the opposite hemisphere freezes in perpetual darkness, with massive global winds caused by the extreme temperature differential as the cold air from the dark side rushes to fill the low pressure of the rising hot air on the sun-lit side); so, even if Proxima's planet is the right distance, the composition, has the right atmospheric density, an adequate magnetic field, etc. for the presence of liquid water and a proper water cycle, it may not be a very pleasant or even hospitable place for life.
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    I wouldn't know. I haven't watched a single episode since the Preview Special left a sour taste in my mouth. I take it Delta has been 7-level cringe worthy for the most part, then?
  14. mechaninac
    Ditto! I feel much better now. Yes folks, this certainly was way too good to be true; but given the refunds, it was worth a shot... worst case scenario: toss the whatever it is in the garbage as soon as it's delivered, so no harm no foul. If this was indeed Walmart's fault, I sure hope they reimburse Toynk for their foul-up. The sad part however, is that this went from the best deal ever, to the biggest disappointment in a while.
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    I'd love to get both, but there's no way I'm going to fork over that kind of scratch... made that much more painful by the lousy exchange of late. I'll have to make do with the old Imai 1/40ish transformable kits, if/when I ever get around to tackling them.
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    Oops!... Hilarious nonetheless; I'm just so used to typing that prefix on MW that I have to consciously prevent myself from doing it, but sometimes...
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    To be fair, LM were able to iron out a lot of the ugly from the YF-22 in its transition to the production F-22; but you're absolutely right, the YF-23 just looked right from the get-go and I can only imagine how gorgeous and deadly sexy a production version VF-23 would look.
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    Every once in a while the movie going audience surprises me positively in their avoidance of blatantly uninspired, unnecessary and unwanted remakes/reboots/re-imaginings of classic movies that were as near-perfect as one could ask for... my faith in humanity has consequently been slightly elevated.
  19. mechaninac
    Too good to be true, indeed. As soon as I receive my abominable trinket I'll be filing a complaint with Walmart and PayPal and my CC (CC through Paypal because of the added protection... once had a previous Walmart account hacked and my CC# on file stolen). And I expect to be reimbursed for the return shipping too; this has nothing to do with the money, a pittance, but with the principal of not standing for being defrauded by a dishonest bunch of A-holes. :angry: Edit: In light of glane21's post, if ToyNK handles my complaint the same way, I'll be mollified.
  20. mechaninac
    That CAD render looks remarkably meh. It's appearance is closer to the VFX-4 than the FV-4... too flat. Yamato/Arcadia nailed it far better, at least so far.
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    Well, I'll be a monkey's brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate... I actually got a shipping notification with a tracking number and everything; estimated to arrive 8/29. BEST ... DEAL ... EVAH !
  22. mechaninac
    Ha! ... completely unintended, I swear.
  23. mechaninac
    Too good to be true but too good to ignore, so I gave it a shot... for $7.98 delivered, how could I not?
  24. mechaninac
    That speeder bike base came out great; excellent use of natural materials for an authentic looking result. However, the bike is only 99.9% finished;... you're supposed to cut off the little slug spanning the two belly-gun square blocks, unless you decided to keep that there as a bit of extra, non-canon, detail -- like a small pressure cylinder.
  25. mechaninac
    If I remember Turnabout Intruder right -- it's been years since I watched any TOS -- It was never implied that women could not be captains or even that they were discouraged from doing so. Janice Lester was denied promotion to captain and command of her own starship because she was deemed unstable by Starfleet... and how right they were in their assessment of her qualifications and temperament; the discrimination she blamed for her failures and as justification of her paranoia and gender issues (self hatred) was all in her own mind.
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