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  2. Mog
    Technically, they’re from Star Wars: Rebels. But Ahsoka was kinda a continuation of Rebels, and four of the characters in the pic already appeared in Ahsoka Season 1.
  3. derex3592
    @LocusPocus sweet! 1st build of that Hasegawa Recon Regalt I've seen around here. I have that one in my stash! More pics please! Over here today it's sunny and 70 and the garage is open for painting and clear coating business!
  4. Gabe Q
    Red one looks like Escaflowne.
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  6. LocusPocus started following Help identify this kit…
  7. LocusPocus
    I recently found some old models in a box in my attic that survived a parent’s purge years ago. I don’t remember acquiring them, barely remember building them. I managed to find that one is the Water Baron from vs knight lamune and 40 (painted in the wrong colors). The red one is a mystery - can anyone in the community identify this fella, am stumped
  8. VF25-F
    Pix from Shanghai! Macross F 2025 Final! Even Shoji Kawamori attended the one day concert! With this kind of fan base, do you really believe this would be the last concert? XD
  9. MKT
    Are these from Ahsoka? For some reason I totally checked out of SW TV-series after Obi-Wan, but now pulled back in after just concluding Andor.
  10. LocusPocus
    Currently finishing this guy up. A little more weathering and grime on the legs maybe. Building up a display base (a la olan mills) in order to loose the odd hasegawa stand.
  11. sh9000
    https://anime-export.com/index.php?product=99534 54800 JPY.
  12. LocusPocus
    @nightmareB4macrossYour patience and attention to detail are just as amazing as that build. Hats off.
  13. sh9000
    Michael Bell.
  14. sh9000
  15. sh9000
    No. Cartoon deco Optimus was bought last year. Everything else in those pics (including Warpath and Gears) were bought in 2018 to 2020.
  16. sh9000
  17. sh9000
    Star Wars RC Speeder Bike with the Mandalorian and Grogu.
  18. Thom
    Actually, as a layman, that seems pretty impressive. A few more iterations of joins, actuators and software to get a smoother stride and this could be nearly indistinguishable from a human. Our AI replacements are coming together!
  19. Dynaman
    SpongeBob looks like it will be worth a watch when it comes to streaming. They really ought to stop calling them "The SpongeBob Movie" at this point, don't remember if this is the fourth or fifth one.
  20. nightmareB4macross
    I think you might be right about that. 😅
  21. Big s
    Every time I check back, something else is somehow functional. By the time this thing is done the pilot will actually walk up and board all on his own
  22. ImChris5115
    This year Christmas tree deco ..1/48 none transformation FDM printed.
  23. Mog
    I’ve always preferred the Koopalings to Bowser Jr. But I’ll give the movie a chance.
  24. nightmareB4macross
    Created a functional neck-gap filler.
  25. M'Kyuun
    I actually own a G1 Jetfire that I bought at a second-hand toy store in Pittsburgh nigh twenty years ago before vintage Transformers really became sought after. I believe I paid $120 for it, still with its original box with styrofoam insert and all accessories. Unfortunately, the stickers were not well placed and in attempting to remove one of them from the inner leg, to my extreme horror and dismay, the paint came off with it. I had a set of Reprolabels that I was going to apply, but after that paint came off, I just put it back in its box and it's been in storage ever since. I also, roughly 20 years ago, bought an actual 1/55 rerelease VF-1A, IIRC. So, to answer your question, I like the Chunky Monkey; it's an anachronistic toy now, but when I bought the aforementioned toys, we still didn't have many good VF-1 options, and to Takatoku's credit, it was a solid toy with decent articulation even at that time, let alone in the 80s. Heck, I still treasure my G1 Soundwave and his cassettes, and I kept him with my CHUG collection until I bought Netflix Soundwave just a few years ago. I still keep my G1 cassettes on display, as I think they're still superior to the WFC/Legacy/SS86 cassettes. They may be flat, but they make for more convincing cassettes and the animal modes still have better articulation than the modern HasTak versions, not to mention looking the parts better, IMHO. I LOVE the cassette minions, be they Autobot or Decepticon, and IMHO, the new shrunken versions represent glaring failures among the otherwise overall well-done modern official G1 updates. I pin my hopes on Dr. Wu to hopefully remedy that situation. To clarify my stance, I don't hate the G1 toys; they were a new, cool idea, and the execution was a bit primitive. With Diaclone, it seems to me that the vehicle modes were the primary focus (making them look like real-world vehicles) and the robot modes, being the gimmick, were done as well as they felt they needed to be to get the point across. I doubt they thought we'd still be talking about them and collecting them 40+ years on. They were made for kids, and most toys have a pretty short shelf life in kids' attention span. It just so happens that we got hooked by the story that Marvel cooked up for them and the rest is history. I was thirteen when Transformers debuted, so already a little older than the target audience, but still in range. But I loved robots and sci-fi. the transformation concept was earth-shattering to me- robots were already the coolest thing on Earth, but robots that could change seamlessly into realistic looking vehicles and stuff like the Walkman and its cassettes, which also could transform!- I was enrapt from the get-go. Likewise with Gobots, but I found the cheesiness of the toon coupled with the lesser complex toys less appealing than the TF toys and more mature toned toon. (speaking of first season). However, even at thirteen and on into my later teens and early twenties, I was disenchanted with most TF toys due to their limited articulation, primarily, and simplicity. Like most TF fans today, I wanted my bots to look, mostly, like they did on tv, albeit in my case, with a little more surface and mechanical details carried over with or from the alt mode. Articulation has always been my sticking point, and while they're getting better, I'd still like to see stuff like wrist rotation, ankles that pitch fore and aft, and opening hands (like they did with SS86 prime and Megs) become standard points among all size classes. Doubt it'll happen, but I can hope. In the meantime, I'm pretty happy with where we're at right now with the Hasbro mainline toys including SS86. We need better cassettes (can't foot stomp that enough), a new improved Astrotrain with complete and realistic looking alt modes, as well as a new Blitzwing that manages the kibble better for better tank and jet modes, especially the latter. Takara is notorious for making crappy jet modes, so that's a big ask and I hope eventually they'll actually come through.
  26. Mog
    The Ghost is nowhere to be found, but there’s still a whole lotta shipping going on :
  27. Seto Kaiba
    I guess that depends on how you want to define "run into". Emigrant fleets operate in a manner intended to avoid such run-ins whenever possible. They operate with a massive early warning picket spread across a wide area around the fleet's main group (as seen several times in Macross Frontier) and also send advance reconnaissance taskforces out ahead of the fleet along its intended course to preemptively identify any threats and locate potentially valuable resources and habitable planets so the fleet can plan accordingly. Based on Master File, if a large hostile force is detected in or entering the area then SOP is to execute an emergency fold to leave the area before being detected. If a ship can't flee the area by emergency fold and is at risk of being captured it's evacuated and then destroyed so it can't be studied. The New UN Forces only really fight Zentradi fleets if it's unavoidable. Like to protect an emigrant planet, or if it's not possible for an emigrant fleet to evacuate the area in time to avoid a confrontation. The same rules of engagement almost certainly apply to the Supervision Army if they're ever encountered. They would probably treat the Supervision Army similarly to the Zentradi and hit 'em with the Minmay Attack while spamming Macross Cannon fire and thermonuclear reaction weapons.
  28. Bolt
    I think it's the same plan across the board . Run like hell.
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