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  2. Seto Kaiba
    The first Infinity Castle movie is gorgeously animated... but because it follows exactly the same format as the TV series despite being a 155 minute movie the flashbacks REALLY REALLY drag on. Like, I remember I did not check the length of the film before going to see it at my local theater and was absolutely flabbergasted that the film was still going and still aggressively flashback-ing at the two hour mark. Caught another episode of The Daily Life of the Part-Time Torturer over lunch today. Its outrageous premise is no more than superficial so far and it's really just a "my daily life with my quirky coworkers" slice-of-life title. The vast majority of the physical business is offscreen or implied so the "torture" part is mostly just refuge in audacity for an office setting, since the characters don't really treat their work with any more gravitas than might normally be reserved for an afternoon spent shucking clams. It's not really bad... it's just... why? Why is this a thing? If you changed their occupation to rubbing grease on weasels it would be exactly the same story.
  3. M'Kyuun
    Ah, ok. I haven't used Walmart for too many, if any, preorders that I can recall. I'm leery of using Target as well as they've cancelled preorders I've placed more than once which leaves a sour taste. Of late, my local Wally has been getting figures in more plentifully, but SS86 Soundwave remains elusive. I have to wonder if one of the employees is in the know about the demand and scarcity and is taking advantage of their access. Anyway, it is what it is, and I'm curious if he'll get some sort of a toy-deco rerelease, which would be my preference anyway. I'm assuming it's a rerelease of the Siege figure, perhaps with some minor retooling. I'd prefer a whole new mold that fixes everything that was wrong with the Siege. Guess I'll wait for the official reveal to see what, if any, changes have been made. And too, like you, if the changes are substantial and improve the figure's alt modes considerably, I'll try to secure a PO with Pulse as well, or Amazon failing that.
  4. jenius
    They are great though... Nice squad! I'll buy variants if I can buy I hate preordering from them so I would rather wait until they're shipping. Wish I could swing by the store every couple weeks and check if anything is new but that's a bit out of my way.
  5. mcfly50
    I would settle for smaller DX articulate styles even those aren’t cartoon accurate. Or maybe even a hole in the right fist 1/55 style. 😁
  6. Chronocidal
    Given the scale, you could probably take a shortcut and make a small adapter to plug the Arcadia posable hands into the wrists. Style wouldn't really match, but we've never had posable cartoon hands to begin with.
  7. Today
  8. varitechs
    Promise, i won't buy no more 😅
  9. mcfly50
    Anyone have a 3D printer and interested in making some articulate hands that can store during transformation? I would happily help fund that project.
  10. Morgen Black
    I have so many things on pre-order right now and with the cost of shipping and tariffs, I am definitely going to pass on the Toyr!se offerings at this time. I hope that these do well in the market place, they are just not for me. MB
  11. Big s
    The Macross and Mospeada stuff isn’t available over here. There are however other Japanese options, but I’ve never had any problems ordering those items from hlj
  12. LocusPocus
    …just rechecked my moderoid mospeada preorders, as suspected they have again mysteriously disappeared…done w HLJ
  13. tekering
    You won't think it's so terribly cheap once you see the MSRP. 🫣
  14. mikeszekely
    Walmart, I'm guessing. Someone found Walmart's product page for Astrotrain and it got shared. Walmart didn't have it set to "coming soon" or "temporarily unavailable" or whatever, so people were able to create orders even though Hasbro hasn't actually solicited it yet. Personally I didn't bother. Walmart has such a bad track record fulfilling preorders even under normal circumstances that I had little faith in "oops we accidentally left this page working" orders actually securing me anything. I'll wait for Pulse/Amazon.
  15. kajnrig
    Caught up on Demon Slayer. Mild spoilers, mostly tagging for a wall of text: But blah. It eventually finds its way back on track, and it's been a fun ride overall. Here's hoping the finale trilogy movies meet expectations.
  16. lechuck
    Pre-orders start 14 January. Man that exposed forearm gap just makes the whole thing look so terribly cheap to me...
  17. M'Kyuun
    Where'd you find a PO for SS TFTM Astrotrain? I've been looking for pics and POs with no sign of either. I even checked Tomy's site to no avail. Same for Hasbro Pulse. My sincere hope is for an all new mold to correct the WFC toy's many issues, but since Hasbro likely won't, I hope they'll at least give the Siege toy a much-needed overhaul to correct the glaring flaws of the original release. Likewise the inevitable Blitzwing.
  18. shazam
    NECA - Flash Gordon (1980) - Flash Gordon (Final Battle Version) Ultimate 7" Scale Action Figure x 2
  19. Baby
    Well, bandai in this area is not like gundam that so fast to release the model kits. Usually tiny session SD macross we wait for year or years zzz..hope they can improve on that. Since this line is like model kits quality I wonder why they didn't make to model kit and let us have fun building it. Nowadays their model kit can have detail designing like RG gundam. Also I hope Bandai can release the fast pack parts compatible to Tiny session Valkyries. And I also like tiny pilot and opening cockpit hatch. I use the miniature figure from RG gundam. And I hope someone can make the SD Mospeada the plane and the bike with.perfect transformation. Haha
  20. Old_Nash_II started following Star Trek: Lower Decks
  21. Old_Nash_II
    All cameos until now
  22. Big s
    Light fixture still counts as toy, car headlight is crossing some boundaries
  23. Mog
    “Bloody Hasbro shows me holding my bo-rifle in gun mode on the cardback, and they don’t have the damn decency to even pack the rifle version with me!” Moggy. . . fixing Hasbro’s omissions since forever.
  24. Yesterday
  25. Thom
    It's more the case that a light fixture will get ornery. Ask how I know...😊
  26. M'Kyuun
    I need to correct this statement, as I just remembered that I owned a small Dollar Store VF-1 toy as a kid. Mine was mostly blue and IIRC, the biceps, thighs, feet and fists were grey on my copy. Otherwise, this was the toy that I had. I grew up in PA about six miles south of a little town called Ridgway. Regarding tv, weekly afternoons from about 2;30 (about the time the bus delivered me home) until around 5PM, Saturday mornings from about 5AM until 11-12:00, and Sunday mornings from about 5-8ish I'd say, I watched all sorts of cartoons. During the weekday afternoons, I mostly watched GI Joe, Thundercats, & Transformers . I remember Silverhawks being on, but I never got into that show. My friend must've had better cable than we did b/c he had The Galaxy Rangers on his tv crystal clear, while I had to arrange the 'rabbit ears' on my little 13" B&W tv in my room to try and get it. It was a chore to get it to come in with any clarity, and when I did it was still usually pretty grainy and hard to understand. So, I think it came down to the quality of the cable package you had, and I think ours was probably on the low end. I was always an early riser, and quite dedicated to watching my cartoons, and I don't recall ever seeing Robotech or Voltron on at any time during my childhood. I knew of them only through the toys in the Christtmas catalogs, and I never got any of those toys. IIRC, my first brush with RT was when I was stationed in Florida during the early 90s. However, I only caught snippets of it here and there and never quite caught anything that really piqued my interest (like valks flying around battling the Zentradi- that would've certainly struck a chord). I've still never seen any of the OG Voltron, but I loved the Netflix show. I tried to get into the 2011 Voltron Force show (with Garry Chalk playing some military bad guy), but I just couldn't get into that show. I absolutely love the Lion designs, though. We were supposed to get toys of them from Mattel, but the show got axed and the toys never materialized, although early versions of them were shown at SDCC. And that's the closest we ever got to having toys from Voltron Force, but boy would I love to see a modern take by the likes of Moderoid, Sentinel, etc. It's still my favorite incarnation of the Lions and Voltron, and arguably, if those early mockups are a good judge of the toys to follow, would've given us some of the most articulated individual Lions in the history of Voltron toys. What a shame they never came to pass. Looking back now, I don't ever recall seeing RT Alpha toys in the catalogs. I vaguely remember VF-1s, and of course there was Jetfire. That Monogram model, though, is the only Mospeada related toy that I owned as a kid, and ironically, I didn't know it was Mospeada, let alone Robotech. I knew it wasn't actually Gobots, as branded, but as to its actual origins, I hadn't a clue. It was just something random and very cool to my younger self.
  27. Bolt
    I'm there bro (Some day )
  28. 505thAirborne
    @M'Kyuun & @Big s I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, and I had to race home from school to grab a VHS tape and record RT, I think it was either on at 3:30pm or 4pm, either way, I could not wait to get home and watch it. Voltron & GI JOE were first thing in morning if I remember correctly. In 1986 I got a bootleg of DYRL uncut (Zero subs or dubs) and my mind exploded!
  29. Seto Kaiba
    More new season stuff... Jujutsu Kaisen's third season has started, picking up where the last one ended with the start of the Culling Game arc. The part where the original manga began seriously inflicting darkness-induced audience apathy on casual readers. It's a tournament arc, and IMO a bit of a pointless one since its villain's ambiguous goal being little more than "for the lulz" and it only really serves to put off the final confrontation with the story's big bad (Sukuna) by putting two dozen or so cannon fodder characters in the way so what's left of the main cast can farm them for powerups.
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