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With the wrinkles in the brow, looks like "Worried Blue Batman"...

Very minor update, I kitbashed the gunpods of the 11, 11d, and 25 to get something that looks more "Macross appropriate" than the Gundam thing I had it holding before.

When Hasbro started doing these Transformers crossovers they started out with some pretty obvious ones, like the Delorean and Ecto-1, the gradually started to drift into some that were some head-scratchers, like the T-Rex from Jurassic Park. But this crossover might be the most head-scratchiest of all... this is Steelsmash, part of Hasbro's Transformers Collaborative... with the NFL? Now, Steelsmash is the only version I picked up, but for the most part everything here applies to Starblitz, KC-59, and Tundra Prime, the other three figures released in this line (so far). They all have the same body, colored to look like the uniforms of the represented teams; the Pittsburgh Steelers for Steelsmash, Dallas Cowboys for Starblitz, Kansas City Chiefs for KC-59, and Green Bay Packers for Tundra Prime. The only real differences are the heads. Now, the yellow dome on top of Steelsmash did give me sort of steelworker helmet vibes and made me think of the Steeler's mascot, Steely McBeam. But a quick check told me that Starblitz has the exact same head, and the other two have similar tops of their heads, they just swap the visor and mask look for eyes and a face. Anyway, from the waist down Steelsmash and his roughly Deluxe-sized friends do have an athletic sort of look, but short arms and a fat gut kind of spoil it. What really spoils it, though, is the copious kibble. Sides of the legs, backs of the calves, forearms, shoulders, backpack, all kibble. If it isn't obvious, these guys are super shellformers. Oh, and not just shellformers.... partsformers, too! Half of Steelsmash's accessories are just the chin strap and face guard for his alt mode. The rest of his accessories are a little helmet and football. Steelsmash's head is on a ball joint. It swivels, but depending on the angle not much tilt. Shoulders are ball joints that swivel and move laterally about 75 degrees. His biceps swivel, and his elbows bend 90 degrees. No wrist articulation. His waist swivels, and due to the nature of his transformation, he's got a nice ab crunch. His hips can go about 90 degrees backward, and slightly more than that forward and laterally. His thighs swivel, and his knees bend 90 degrees. His feet have hinges for transformation that give him pretty good up/down tilt, but the feet themselves are attached on ball joints that give him ankle swivels and a little under 45 degrees of ankle pivot. The little helmet splits and hinges open so you can wrap it over his head and close it. As for the football, there's a small hole on it. This hole corresponds to small pegs on the insides of his fists. It doesn't look like he's holding the football so much as it's stuck to his hand. For the rest of his partsforming accessories, you can plug the face guard onto the chin strap, which you'll eventually do for alt mode anyway, then use the tab on the inside of the chin strap to plug the combined mass onto his backpack. Yay, more kibble! Steelsmash's transformation isn't particularly complicated. You pull out his backpack enough to fold his head in (and it fits with the helmet on), lift his tummy up and over to meet his backpack, bend his feet up to his shins, fold in his hand and bend him over at the waist, then kind of curl him up and start lining up the panels on his legs, arms, and shoulders with his tummy and backpack to get a a helmet shape. For ease of effort, I recommend attaching the chin strap first by plugging in the four pegs into holes on the sides of helmet, and then plugging the face guard into the chin strap, lining it up the the parts that are already on the helmet and plugging it into the sides as well. Aside from seems were various kibble panels line up, it's a pretty accurate representation of the Steelers' helmet. The holes, vents, and contours are all a match, with the team logo tampoed onto the right side. The white straps and black face guard match the real deal, and they even painted the white at the base of the helmet. The only concession to being a Transformers product is the small Autobot badge on the white bit above the face guard. My one gripe isn't that it's a bad representation of the real helmet, it's that the inside is full of folded-up robot, so you couldn't, say, make it look like Star Convoy is wearing a football helmet. Or, conversely, that there's not enough robot in there. Imagine if he had a robotic head inside the helmet, and you could plonk the football helmet head down in place of Cerebros or Zarak on Fortress Maximus or Scorponok. Anyway... as mentioned, you can leave his little helmet on during transformation, and his partsforming bits, well, partsform. That leaves the football. Turns out, there's a little peg inside the chin strap, so you can store the football inside the helmet. Convenient! Now, I'm not particularly into football (American or soccer), but where I live I'm very much the outlier as pretty much everyone around here ranks Steelers football ahead of church for important Sunday things, so I did feel compelled to represent the home team. But do I actually recommend Steelsmash or his brothers? If you happen to be into the NFL, especially if your team is one of the four represented so far, then I suppose there's a bit of novelty in having a thing you like crossover with another thing you like, sure. And if you're an NFL fan but your team isn't represented, don't fret, I've heard that Hasbro plans on doing all 32 teams eventually. That being said, if you don't care about football, no, I don't recommend these guys at all. Like, at least guys like Code Red, Ectotron, Maverick, etc have weapons and turn into vehicles. How is a football player going to help the Autobots? Catch the football next time Blitzwing shoots one? And when Optimus orders the Autobots to transform and roll out, does Steelsmash just turn into a helmet and plunk onto the ground? As NFL memorabilia, fine, but as actual Transfomers Steelsmash and friends are kind of dumb.

The hype is real

Yeah… Hahaha. I see, that makes way more sense.

Hi everyone! I've been a long time lurker here and only recently registered once I started working on my own little tribute project. Hoping to do some renders and eventually put together a short film/animation. Finally managed to find a decent (and free lol) model and textured it myself. I'll post more renders as I figure out the storyboard and the rest of the shots, but here's one of the first renders as a teaser! Hope you enjoy my little journey

It's been awhile since I messed with my copy, but I think so, if you you close the sides of the trailer before folding the front back over. The Kingdom trailer explodes a bit more than the original.

Today's My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's makes me laugh. Ameila was so beautiful in the contest.

Where the leading edge of the wing meets up with the closer 'pontoon,' which is actually extra fuel and anionic housing? There is a hole there, but that is for a part that has not been added yet.

I think Electric Indigo mentioned seams. I was thinking about the larger gaps by the wing area. Anyway, thanks for the info. 👍

@Papa Rat Actually not that bad in the way of seems. Halves split horizontally, the most seem work was with the sides of the nose. The wings closed up pretty good. With the 'pontoons' over the wings, they were pretty gappy in real life, esp near the rear, and I won't be doing any sanding, but just using a wet q-tip to hydrate and wipe off excess. All in all, the fit is alright. The one spot that I would work on more before the wings went together would be the wing fences. But I am liking this one.

I love how this is also an origin story for Dick Hallorann....wow

Yes....He likes playing with his food...makes it taste better...😋

Finally...

Full refund, not an exchange. Twich

They have VF-1S in stock currently. They offered a full refund but not a replacement? Or are you talking about a different model they don't have in stock?

@electric indigo really diggin this. Looks great! @Thom yikes. You are putting in some work there. Is it common to have such large gaps on aircraft models?

That are some wild seams to clean up 😅

That is nice @electric indigo! Clearing off the PPP filling gaps and cutting out and making new, clear marker lights for the ailerons.

Deer Stalker & Long range EMP gun.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qdren425o Godspeed Mr. Cliff Thanks for your excellent musics

Udo excelled at playing the odd and perverted. RIP.

The recent Macross F 2025 concert coming out in Blu Ray 29th April 2026 https://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/macrossf_live2025/?fbclid=IwY2xjawORIANleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFGTlc0RXNoRHUwalNQSEtLc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkJHeXnUArpwvePVEjFgH3VOv4-B97WEg9avlsLDq7cT93EVnLsZ_kQRzcoI_aem_EvyWErOD0AxmjQm9fBOPQA

Yesterday being Sheryl's B-day, they had a all girl's night out! (Sorry Alto! ) With Aya Endo (Sheryl's VA), Megumi Nakajima (Ranka) and Megumi Toyoguchi (Klang 2 ) Even Macross creator Shoji Kawamori sends a greeting! Klang2 gave May'n a Pineapple Cake! XD Another unrelated pix, May'n eats an eyeball? XD https://ameblo.jp/mayn-blog/entry-12947820118.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawORG9lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEejoiP6HzWefzX7Mol8aiRJjpbjQMwdkD6_-WK3mPqhwn7otznev8X9LMM7Kw_aem_XmpMRDVyVIV3yhRKmsosuw