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I think this one in particular really does look like ceramic. But nope, it's pure polymer clay.
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Steve Roy and his Marine counterpart announce the 58th Presidential Inauguration Parade at the White House reviewing stand in Washington D.C., Jan. 20, 2017. More than 5,000 military members from across all branches of the armed forces of the United States, including Reserve and National Guard components, provided ceremonial support and Defense Support of Civil Authorities during the inaugural period. (DoD Photo by Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Dominique A. Pineiro/Released)
Here's a little something that was unexpected to ever show up in my stash, but hey, here we are.
I don't know the exact year, but at some point in the recent past, Bandai of America started releasing, for lack of better terms, Marvel Legends scaled and price pointed figures under the Dragon Stars line. Also like the Legends figures, each wave of figures comes with a component of another character that you naturally have to buy all to complete.
This figure specifically is Super Saiyan Blue Vegito (aka SSGSS Vegito), the fusion of Goku and Vegeta with I believe Vegeta taking the lead, recently superseded in terms of power by the newly (ish) minted SSGSS Gogeta who made his debut in the movie along with canon Broly.
From a product perspective, I can see why these figures are quite popular. Dragon Ball is one of those IPs that is universally loved globally, and while there have been some American toys in the past, there hasn't really been much from the domestic companies in the past, I'm going to say 20 years or so. S.H. Figuarts has basically been THE place to go to in recent years for articulated Dragon Ball goodness, but, lets face it, it gets expensive.
With the success of the Legends line, the general increase of lifestyles involving merch buying and hoarding, and the overall resurgence of the Dragon Ball brand thanks to Super, I'm guessing some genius at Bandai of America put together that a line of Dragon Ball action figures made for the non-Figuarts market might sell.
Lets get the obvious out of the way - these figures are no Figuarts.
The MSRP on a Dragon Stars figure is about $30 CAD, which is what a Marvel Legends generally costs. A Figuart, if you're lucky, will run you around $70 CAD. Naturally, at literally double the price, you're getting a much better figure in almost every single department you can think of with the exception of size, If it wasn't better, there would be some serious problems.
So then, how does the figure compare to your typical Legends release, represented locally by Captain Marvel?
Vegito comes with two pairs of hands (closed fists, clenched palms) and energy blade effect, and the right arm with fist/clenched palm of Kale, the BAF for this series. The amount of accessories contained within pretty much matches up with what you'd get from a Legends. Occasionally a Legends release will not come with any BAF parts, but that 's usually because they come with some other character specific accessory, like an extra head sculpt or something.
The accuracy of each product is hit and miss, with I feel the Dragon Stars release having more hits than compared to the Legends stuff I've seen, particularly those that utilize the face printing technology that's all the rage these days. However, there are improvements that Hasbro has been making and periodically checking in with their release has shown they have come a long way since Paul Rudd 1.0.. you know the one.
The bodies on both series generally do not meet the actual physique of the character, more likely than not the realities of sharing body parts across the board wherever possible.
Detailing on outfits, however, appears to be a stronger suit on the Legends side, as most Legends I've seen have very colourful (albeit painted messily) looks. But, this should probably be tempered by the realities of the source material - unless you're battle damaged your outfit isn't particularly wild in Dragon Ball. Having said that, I feel that your typical Legends figure will have more actual paint, whether it be on the outfit or on the actual body parts themselves.
I know Captain Marvel is excessively painted, but on Vegito it appears the only paint apps are the whites of his glove and boot cuffs, the green toe on his feet, light blue of the belt, the orange and the exposed chest muscles, the blue hair, and the gold earrings. Most of these apps are large and don't require excessive amounts of finesse to apply them.
Finally, there is articulation, which for most is where the money shot is. Both figures generally have the same amount and range of articulation, with the Dragon Stars having the slight advantage of a moving neck post. The figure also has a functional waist and double jointed elbows, but these could be present on a male Legends body so I can't rule either way. I can say that the Legends has double jointed knees whereas the Dragon Stars does not.
So while the amount of articulation is about the same, the quality of it is much better on the Legends. I found the shoulders to be rather tight, and appear to have some sort of ratcheting involved, Due to the shape of the body, range of motion for the hips is fairly limited compared to the legends, making it effectively impossible to do any lunging poses. The lack of double jointed knees also inhibits any kneeling poses that you may have planned. With Dragon Ball known for its extreme action and poses, the inability to replicate these in toy form kind of kills the love of having a Dragon Ball action figure.
For what it's worth, the shoulders look nicer on the Dragon Stars, but at the cost of limited articulation.
So in the end, much like with Legends, my position is that I get they have their place, but it's not something that I'd go for at this stage in the game, but that's because I'm a stickler accuracy and posing. But if you want have your Legends scale Hulk battle someone that's a bit more challenging than Captain America (possible with a battle power of over 9,000), then you could do far worse than this line.
the modules all lined up. very important to get a head count and align them all straight before attaching. makes for faster installation.
The cooking demo on the Lummi reservation in Washington on January 10, 2017, showed Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) participants how to prepare salmon with orange sauce and whole wheat pasta with broccoli. FDPIR includes a nutrition education component that can include activities such as cooking demos, taste tests, and recipe handouts teaching clients how to make healthy meals using their USDA Foods. Photo by Don Hamilton for USDA.
I decide that this component is large enough to become two: one larger and one smaller version of the same design
The underside showing the elongated saddle rails for some more lateral adjustment. It is designed to be used with the specially produced narrower Campagnolo seatpin mounts.
Participants take apart machines during Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki's Scrapyard Challenge at the School of Cinematic Arts Gallery, University of Southern California.
Part of Redesigning Reality, a series sponsored by USC's Visions and Voices [web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/113/event/893758].], Media Arts and Practice PhD program [imap.usc.edu/]. and Institute for Multimedia Literacy [iml.usc.edu].
Description: Component parts of cone adaptor for flame projecting apparatus.
Location: Palestine
Date: May 1928
Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/729
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My whole house mediacenter solution:
Family Room
47” 1080p Vizia LCD
Main Mediacenter (Vista X86)
Theater Room
Xbox 360 (Gaming)
MCE05 (Still using MCE due to videocard and sound decoding issues)
Panasonic AE900U 720p LCD projector (140” screen)
Gallo Reference Mains and center
Gallo Micro rears
4 AE IB 15’s subwoofers located in the ceiling
Bedroom
50” 720p Vizia Plasma
Linksys DMA2100
Extra Bedroom/Workout room
Old Toshiba 36” tube tv
Xbox 360
Home Automation is controlled by Mcontrol
80% of my lights are zwave switches.
TZ 16 Zwave Thermostat
EzRain Irrigation controller
Elan Z630 pre-amp for multizoned audio(house is divided up into 3 zones)
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All that's left to do is to add the RAM backup battery and the battery charging circuit and RAM WRITE Disable circuitry in the empty board space - top left.
On my previous two computer projects this was an all discrete design with transistors to disable the RAM from being written to when the voltage drops off when power is removed from the board.
I will have to test this circuit out on a breadboard thoroughly first before considering building it into this board because the transistors switching characteristics will need to be taken into account given this computer build is twice as fast as the previous one.
Swee Lan's sleeve, Tim Kelley, Harit Talwar, Bill Chapin, Bhaskar Menon, Marcela & Roberto Alonso, Nancy Goodman, Ron Zettel, Ronaldo Freitas, Phee Boon Kang, Norma Freitas, Jack Berger Marie Zettel, Lilly Zeller, Vicky DeMeo, Mary Jo & Dick Kovacevich, Jeanine Farhi, Art Zeller, Alain Farhi (partly obscured)
WATERS SURROUNDING THE KOREAN PENINSULA (March 28, 2016) Ensign Tanner Collins stands port lookout aboard the mine countermeasures ship USS Patriot (MCM 7) during exercise Foal Eagle. Foal Eagle is a series of joint and combined field training exercises conducted by Combined Forces Command (CFC) and U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) ground, air, naval and special operations component commands. Approximately 10,600 U.S. forces are operating alongside Republic of Korea forces. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Wesley J. Breedlove/Released)
Ramsey Campbell's botanic Green God (it is actually nameless) and its Children from his short story "The Horror under Warrendown" were the basis for this custom Great Old One for Arkham Horror 2nd Ed..
I wanted to incorporate both threats in a rather simple fashion, without extra game material, so that the Green God can be easily integrated into the basic game and its expansions. Therefore, the standard Cultists were employed as The Green God's mutated, rodent-teethed and rabbit-like Children, and they became part of a kind of race sub-plot that adds threat but also offers players the option to counter it.
When a Child of the Green God appears through regular play, it will dash across the board and potentially open an additional Gate, speeding up the Great Old One's awakening and releasing some more Monsters onto Arkham's streets.
The Children themselves are not very dangerous, but they are fast and hard to confront, so that players better act fast to stop them. However, a confrontation with them is potentially dangerous, too, because Investigators might become infected with the Green God's mutagenic matter, initiating the slow but hard-to-stop transformation into a Child, which will eventually try to open a new Gate! This conforms not 100% with the literature background (only the Green God is "infectious"), but it's a nice players' threat.
With six Cultists in the basic game and a few more in the expansions, this will not happen frequently, though.
However, as a threat balance, the curse-induced transformation also starts with ANY Curse the Investigators might catch!
The final battle relies on a similar pattern, based upon being Cursed and starting to gradually mutate into Children of the Green God.
Multi-Component Inspector Kit (MCIK) for Complementary Access (CA)/DIV Inspections
Safeguard Equipments - Extended Multi-Component Inspector Kit (MCIK) with visual observation, physical characteristics, chemical identification, radiation measurement, display and processing and geolocation instruments and accessories. IAEA Vienna, Austria, 3 October 2018
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
For those of you who are interested in the 'bits', here are a selection of the key parts.
Not a complete rundown by covers the main mechanicals and load-bearing structures.
Car is 'drivable' with rear engine/transaxle, front tub and front drive assembly module.
Engine is an eight cylinder in 'W' format. That is two Vee-fours with their crankshafts gearedto a cenntral drive shaft.
Front and rear suspension are both by swing axles and sprung by torsion bars. The front suspension module plus straing into the front of the stressed tub and is completely self contained for load paths. The rear suspension feefs the loadparths into the engine assembly.
Not on the engine module the heat exchangers mounted in front of the rear wheels as well as behing the rear suspension module. The real Veyron has 13 heat exchangers in all. The detailing on the top of the engine asembly replicates the intake system and air-air intercoolers for the charge air.
One of the included images has the entire vehicle assembly arrayed.
Please feel free to ask any questions or request further techincal information regarding the model.
Type 306 stainless rods, nuts, hex cap screws, and washers. Aluminum bar stock to secure the battery.
I really love the rusty, crusty look of these headpins.
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