News Displaying 58 to 67 of 127  They wrote to me the other day about a Black Friday sale at Anderson Entertainment.
I'd had my eye on the Stingray raygun for quite a while and it was quite a lot marked-down.
Considering how quickly the Thunderbirds raygun and Captain Scarlet pistols seemed to disappear, I'm surprised that these didn't all disappear sooner.
For one thing, the Stingray weapon looks a lot more impressive than the Captain Scarlet one.
It looks great next to the Thunderbirds one.
I think peoples' attentions have gone off 1:1 replicas of film and TV items, because it's something that companies don't often make now.
It takes lots of R&D to give them any functionality and with 3D printing, you can get replicas of almost anything at low cost that hold up pretty well for display.
Anyway, I think this is a great item for the money.
I'm not super sure why the supporting material talks about it firing gas rounds, when that, to me, doesn't really reflect what you see it do in the show.
In the Tajmanon episode, they refer to it as a raygun and I would've fully doubled down on that. I found this video of the 2002 X Bomber Exhibition in Japan:
X-Bomber Expo 2022 - YouTube
This video gives you a more joined-up look at the layout of the expo than is easy to get from still images alone.
I've stuck the video on Krystal, where I'm starting to build up a small repo of Star Fleet vids. Here we have an Italian video on tiktok, where someone has bought two Moderoid Dai-X models to display together: one junctioned and one with the fighters separated:
ᐯᗩᒪᕮᑎTIᑎᗩ ᑭIᑎI (@_valee_01_)’s videos with suono originale - Cartoni e film anni 70-80-90 | TikTok
I always thought the Italians had a good theme tune for Star Fleet: better than the UK opening theme but not as good as the closing theme.
That t-shirt is also really good. I'm going to have a look and see if I can find where to get one.
Irritatingly, the video seems to have been flipped horizontally.  Probably everyone knows how much I like Gundam SEED, and I saw that someone had uploaded a 4K rip of Gundam SEED Freedom to the bay of piracy a few months ago.
I finally found time to give it a watch and I was surprised at how good it was.
It threw in a lot of familiar elements that were good to see again outside of the main flow of the earlier series, plus a lot of new elements that fitted in well with the existing world of the show.
The visual quality was a lot better than the original series. The Archangel ship that is very familiar from the show looked terrific and was shown with a lot more detail, for example.
It set up some tension between characters early-on that I never expected to occur, but that was resolved fairly quickly and it did serve to make those characters seem a bit more human.
Once the action really started about 35mins into the film, it was flat-out all the way.
The film would've benefited from a few changes here-and-there, but I really enjoyed it.
I gather that a prequel movie is in the works, which would be great to help fill the time gap between the series and this new movie.  I received these images by email of Craig Steven's collection from Dan H at SFFB.
This collection contains some really old items that you don't see often, and are either very hard to find or expensive to obtain.
I especially like the Brian May Star Fleet Project posters and the t-shirts featuring the X-Bomber ship, which I've not seen before.  Thanks to Simon GC and Dan H for forwarding some great new images of the US VHS tapes,
I have a full set of these tapes thanks to Andy Thomas, and I should really have scanned the covers ages ago, but this saves me doing that. I found this interesting series of articles and images about Star Fleet from Solid Kenken on Ameba: a Japanese blogging site.
The page has images of things from the 2022 expo that I hadn't seen before. A while ago, I had a play through of Star Trek: Generations.
The last time I'd played this, I made it onto the last level but not quite to the end of the game.
I remember playing it on a Saturday evening after coming back from the Warner Village cinema in Newcastle.
That site closed in 2004, which gives an idea of how long ago that must have been.
I downloaded the game, packaged in a self-running virtual machine from The Collection Chamber.
The game really is fascinating and seems to have had an interesting development history, with quite a lot of content having been cut from the finished release: only some of which is still present in the game's files.
In any event, it was a great trip down memory lane, and I did a write up of the game.
It's still a bit of a work in progress, but Star Trek fans may find it interesting.
I'm starting a little project with the site...
I kicked it off with a revamp of the Fan Artworks page the other week.
Something that really grabbed me lately has been sites like Frutiger Aero Archive which grab you and throw you into an age from about 20 years ago, when our consumer hardware and software wasn't just there to do a job, but to look good while it was doing it, and add something decorative to life: other than grey menus, bland colours and RGB lighting.
This site has had a bit of a grunge sci-fi design all its 23-year life, so adding a retro futurism aero aesthetic to it might not be too easy, but I'm going to give it a shot anyway.
One thing is to gradually replace the cool but slightly brutalist Mnemo Filetype Icons with anything that I can bundle together that looks more like ABUR's Frutiger Aero icon pack, which, to me, looks a lot more joyful.
I re-did the site's favicon and x-impulse upvote button, based on Felice's great Blender logo that she did for the game some time ago, and which I will always love.
Hopefully, I can make the site a little fresher and friendlier, and it can, in a small way, take us back to an era of computing, from which I think a lot of people miss certain aspects.
I would very much welcome any feedback. For quite a while now, our downstairs PC was having issues with MPC-HC.
Whenever the machine had been running for quite some time, or resumed from a suspend state, you would get a slight jitter with playback in MPC-HC that comes bundled with the K-Lite Codec Pack.
Before that, I used K-Lite without problems for donkeys' years.
That is actually a bit of an issue though, since being a media server is about the only job that the machine has.
VLC runs fine but, like Windows Media Player, it won't advance to the next file in the folder automatically, which is a bit of a drawback if you want to marathon 5 seasons of Andromeda.
It's hard to blame the GPU when I was having similar problems with my poor old HD 7870, and the RX 6500 that got put in a few months ago.
The new Windows Media Player app runs fine, but is a bit clunky, so the next answer is MPC-BE, which is an open-source fork of MPC-HC.
So far, this looks to have fixed the problem.
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