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JB0

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  1. The pearlescent and chrome paints on Nicee is a very pleasant surprise. It looks really, well, nice. I expected something flatter, and I'm pleased they aren't going for a "toon-shaded" look.
  2. Based on the DVD and BR releases, it looks like Bandai owns it. Kind of a dick move to sell it without even mentioning it to Anno AFTER Anno offered to buy it.
  3. By "candid statement", they apparently mean "eight-page scathing rant". Anno has good cause to be mad at them, by all appearances. I'm just not used to seeing that much honesty from a business head, much less a japanese one.
  4. Sounds like a good way to accidentally remove his "truck nutz".
  5. Baron Ashura and the terrible , horrible, no good, very bad day.
  6. I have the tiniest reason for not seeing Solo. I didn't think the actor looked like a young Han Solo. He looked more like the parody Han Solo from Blackstar Warrior, and I would TOTALLY watch a Blackstar Warrior movie with him in it. But not a "real" Star Wars film.
  7. Same. I've gotten a few random cheap games, but nothing interesting or noteworthy.
  8. Honestly, I think they had bigger plans and then something went wrong. The hand articulation implies they are supposed to fold into the arms, but they don't. And the tolerances are all screwed up in several places, from a manufacturer that isn't known for incompetence. I don't know if budget or schedule or what got in the way, but it really feels like it was only half-finished. Hell, maybe they just blew all their engineering budget on the legs. ... Fortunately, I like curvy robots for their own sake.
  9. I picked her and her "sister", Echara the pachycephalosaurus, up in the same sale(only Primus can judge me!). Echara's weapons are better, in that all of them will stay pegged in wherever you peg them(they are also stolen from the Teenage Ninja Robot Turtles, as she carries ninja stars, throwing knives. and swords styled like sais). Also, I think the very thick and tall forehead works better for Echara(because pachycephalosaurus). You forgot one important detail: She can do the "boobs & butt" pose(once I realized she had a butt, there was no doubt in my mind that this was happening). But she can't put her hand on her hip(I WANTED her posed like she was pulling her gun off her skirt armor). I don't understand how they can do so well with the legs and then just phone in the arms. Which is really my impression of this entire mold: the things that are done well are done very well, and the things that are done poorly are done very poorly. And, well, the dinosaur mode is basically the Transformers equivalent of a fursuit. It is CLEARLY just a humanoid robot wearing a dinosaur head and claws and calling it a transformation. Which, well, isn't the laziest transformation in the line's history, but it is up there.
  10. I've described Top Gun as "the chick flick guys like", and I stand by this. The thing is 90% romance and drama, and 10% pilots being awesome. They put in just enough jets to keep guys from realizing what they were watching. The Top Gun people think they saw isn't actually a movie that exists.
  11. We'll just have to find somewhere other than YouTube to watch them. There's a couple of alternatives right now that all have the major flaw of not being YouTube, but Google seems dead-set on making that into a universal advantage.
  12. That's the Terminator tradition, isn't it? Judgement Day spits on the premise of The Terminator, Rise of the Machines hits undo on Judgement Day, Salvation ... we just don't talk about Salvation. I don't even know on Genisys. The trailers made it look so dumb I couldn't oe bothered to even read a summary. Pretty sure it undoes SOMETHING by making John Conner a badguy.
  13. I mocked up a zero-effort improvement, to prove their designer handed them a box and claimed it was a design. All proportions are eyeballed, no line edges are cleaned up. I couldn't be bothered with faking perspective and editing their off-angle promo shot. Just add a diagonal line coming off the optical drive that goes back up near the top. It is ALREADY more interesting to look at.
  14. See, Sharon(and HAL) and that Corsair case have distinctive accents and details. The neXtBox is just a box. It is bland and boring. Even the original Nintendo had more character, and that's the second-blandest system I can think of. Not that this is what matters, ultimately, but they paid good money for someone to "design" this plain box. Microsoft, fire your designers. They're bad at this.
  15. Ohhh, that weird Robotech knockoff movie!
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