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I see potential.


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Wonder how big those VTOLs are?

And that walker looks like it stepped out of the Matrix sequels. Yuck.

the flyer looks great, depending how big it is i am sure it could be used for my SM

Yeah the flyer looks like it could be cut to pieces and made into something useful. And that walker is horrible. A bad knock off of the Matrix one for certain. I liked the one from the Matrix. I think his movie is going to flop. Not enough to really get me excited.

But that is just me.

I know where you're coming from, but I don't think it will "flop" in the commercial sense. Too many people will watch it out of curiosity. However, I don't believe it will revered as a classic like Aliens or Terminator.

And yes, that walker looks rubbish. Why does it need hands to hold a gun? What I like about the Aliens Power Loader was that it looked like a machine built for a function.

Anyway, this is (probably) one James Cameron film that GW won't be plundering design ideas from.

Not pictured: Big green lizard bird, six-legged horse with blue guy, six-legged super predator and a motor-trike with tracks and a crapton of missiles on the rear.

The full set of photos form Mattel can be seen on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/41676592@N02/

I have a feeling the VTOL thing is going to be kinda big as the figures are, by all accounts, 6 inchs tall

Movie writer #1- "How do we make a horse look alien?"

Movie writer #2 "I Dunno, lets make it blue!"

Movie writer #1- "Meh, I mean, its different, but not that much..."

Movie writer #3- "GIVE IT AN EXTRA SET OF LEGS!"

Movie writer #1- "BRILLIANT!"

James Cameron - "Give that man a raise!"

It looks like Odin's horse from Final Fantasy.

I am really finding it hard to be cynical about a Cameron movie that has colonial Marines in it.

Because we just have such an overabundance of good "Marines in space" movies these days. Wait a minute....

The film looks fantastic from the graphics and effects viewpoint. Unfortunately the entire plot is given away in the trailer.

...is it a good plot?

This is the guy that did Aliens, it has to be good!

It's basically Pocahontas in Space.

Only without the cool Indian names and instead of syphilis and a trail of tears the explorers bring rockets and miniguns.

BrookM wrote:Only without the cool Indian names and instead of syphilis and a trail of tears the explorers bring rockets and miniguns.

Wow, you just jumped around like 200 years of history in one sentence. This movie will have Small Pox blankets, but the differnece is they will be fired at the noble, savage, wise, earth friendly natives from ICBM's.

I hate the noble savage theme, civilization is supposed to be great, not being a loin cloth wearing savage who hasn't invented the toilet yet.

Much of modern culture is all about self-hatred. Self-hatred has been around and profited on for decades.

I've read that this movie is basically Delgo by James Cameron. Taking a movie that, by all metrics, flopped catastrophically, and adding a bigger budget and some actors.

Ahtman wrote:It looks like Odin's horse from Final Fantasy.

Or um Odin's horse from y'know 1500 year old Norse myths.

I hate to still be an apologist, but seriously, there is a massive difference knowing the plot and knowing the story.

I guess the Dark Knight was just about the Jokers rampage on Gotham, what actually happens in the story means nothing, right?

I actually compare this movie to the CG flick battle for Terra that came out earlier this year.

Horse is Sleipnir ,
and the vtol thing looks almost identical to Dragonhawk

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Ahtman wrote:It looks like Odin's horse from Final Fantasy.

Or um Odin's horse from y'know 1500 year old Norse myths.

LunaHound wrote:
Horse is Sleipnir ,
and the vtol thing looks almost identical to Dragonhawk

Except Sleipnir has 8 legs, not 6, and they're 4 across in front and 4 across in back, not 2-2-2-2.




This thing just looks like it has 2 extra legs tacked on right behind its normal front legs.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Ahtman wrote:It looks like Odin's horse from Final Fantasy.

Or um Odin's horse from y'know 1500 year old Norse myths.

Sure, but the style is straight from Squares design team. It doesn't look like the Nordic versions.

nvm


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BrookM wrote:I hate the peaceful noble savage theme, civilization is supposed to be great, not being a loin cloth wearing savage who hasn't invented the toilet yet.

Forgot the toilet, the Nightcrawler (X-Men) knock-offs haven't even invented the wheel yet.


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Railguns wrote:Much of modern culture is all about self-hatred. Self-hatred has been around and profited on for decades.

Correction, western modern culture

I've read that this movie is basically Delgo by James Cameron. Taking a movie that, by all metrics, flopped catastrophically, and adding a bigger budget and some actors.

Technically Delgo is a knock-off of Avatar which been on paper for some 15 odd years and just start filming a couple of years ago.

Rubberanvil wrote:nvm


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BrookM wrote:I hate the peaceful noble savage theme, civilization is supposed to be great, not being a loin cloth wearing savage who hasn't invented the toilet yet.

Forgot the toilet, the Nightcrawler (X-Men) knock-offs haven't even invented the wheel yet.


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Railguns wrote:Much of modern culture is all about self-hatred. Self-hatred has been around and profited on for decades.

Correction, western modern culture

I've read that this movie is basically Delgo by James Cameron. Taking a movie that, by all metrics, flopped catastrophically, and adding a bigger budget and some actors.

Technically Delgo is a knock-off of Avatar which been on paper for some 15 odd years and just start filming a couple of years ago.

Point One: thats why I said much. Probably should have been more specific.
Point Two: Oh, thats interesting. Wonder how that happened.

I've seen these toys in our local Toy's R Us.

All in all, that photo you have there doesn't do it justice. There are about two or three range sized of figures. One was 6 inch, the other was approx. 3-4 inch, depending on the size of those new G.I.Joe figures.
I expect that they will have a 12 inch version of a couple of the lead characters, as well.

The V.T.O.L. is really tight, and would go great for a flyer model, providing you add the appropriate cardstock, and additional Imperium glyphs and decals. The thing hazs alot of detail for a toy, and there is an additional tank like thing for the ground that is kinda cool, as well.


Additionally, if you had yourself one of those HALO quad runnders, it would go great in the back of the vehicle and come out the ramp. (I'm thinking drop troops here, if I was to go at playing with this with the 40K guys.)

The aliens have a bunch of animals and a dragon kinda thing that looks kinda Meh.
As for that walker, that looks like some sort of Terminatior salvation reject that they didn't get out in time.

.... Speaking of Terminator salvation, theres an HK that looks kinda like the flier that might be a better scale for the game, and probibly wouldn't need as much work.

You might consider using both, one as a troop transport, the other as a cargo transport.

Hmmmmm...



Oh dear. Must try harder.


The helicopter thingy looks pretty good.

yes I know Odin's horse has 8 legs. I just had to laugh at someone drawing on a modern game rather than the original myths.

VTOL looks really awesome, rest looks like poo.


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http://www.amazon.com/James-Camerons-Avatar-Scorpion-Chopper/dp/B002GP5XK4/ref=pd_sim_t_1


wow its a good size as well.

Well, all I can tell is that it's every James Cameron film ever made rolled into one.

Trouble is some of his films were great, and some were crap.

I reckon if someone got this



and this



They could make an awesome mobile Golden Throne.