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Looks like everything will close up, but not sure about the pilot rising up or not. I bet a video will be coming soon to show the gimmicks

A rescue is ok, but Mando season 3 was the main character constantly getting rescued like a Disney princess

It could be the obi show or maybe acolyte or sequel worthy

It's not a Star Wars movie if it doesn't have a rescue scene, lol.

There haven’t been as many memorable characters or movies recently and I think that’s why the older actors tend to stand out. Unfortunately no one is immortal yet, so the greats are immortalized by their works

Ok....it can't possibly be worse than S3, right....RIGHT???!!?

Ehh, I'll take the wife for her 1st IMAX experience. That won't be a cheap movie date! 😂

Mando season 3 was pretty bad. Hopefully they won’t have him constantly needing rescue

Did someone mention Hope and Tomahawk in the HMR thread?

I’ve seen a bunch of these recently like Meowtallica and there was an odd Def Leopard one. I know it’s cheap AI, but it has cats and so I guess we gotta watch em

How bad can it be? Don’t think I've seen any Star Wars in IMAX yet.....

You'd think Bandai would have an issue with this....maybe they just bought the TT molds but not the name? Odd.... Anyways....No Macross = Zero Interest

I’m still surprised they did the Monster. I guess it was all timing or something.

Hmmm, looks like someone just borrow their name to use on a product. the logo is somewhat different than the original design. according to the info on original Takatoku: As of 1981, the company's headquarters were located at 2-20-3 Kuramae, Taito-ku, Tokyo. On May 25, 1984, the company issued its first bounced check and ceased operations. Total debt amounted to approximately 3 billion yen. As a result, the company was dissolved and effectively declared bankrupt. After the bankruptcy, the building was converted into the Sakura Color Products Tokyo office and a parking lot, and was subsequently demolished in 2013 as part of redevelopment. As of April 2020, the former headquarters site is now a residential area lined with rental apartments.

This could be the song of the year for me ;

Tomahawk hope is all that's keeping me going these days. :)

Also, that totally is Scorsese's voice in the trailer. When I first watched it, I was thinking that couldn't be him. Nope, it is.

Congrats on both securing POs and the savings. I pay for a membership with Pulse, so I try to take as much advantage of that as I can- the prices may be a little higher, but all the shipping is free, so it balances out the more I order. Too, I've heard of Walmart spontaneously canceling orders, and with how difficult it remains to find certain figures in the wild, Pulse is a sure thing comparatively.

I can has X-Bomber toys again? 😅

Yeah, its not a completely insurmountable problem, though considering they've just released a ginger version of their cat from a little while back, and we're going to get goodness how many different colour upscaled Spacemen in all probability, I think I know the approach they'd be likely to take... 😅

Got Skywarp right out of the gate; the F-15's far from perfect, but I thought Thundercracker was a decent enough figure. I spent some time looking at the correctly transformed pics of Astrotrain on Hasbro marketer Nate's Instagram before somewhat gudgingly preordering him, too. Unfortunately, the shuttle mode seems to be transformed correctly even in the terrible product shots, so that's disappointing. But, for all the reasons you elucidated, I pulled the trigger. The alts, even shuttle, are improved over the Siege, but the bot mode took a definite step backwards. It's a shame they designed it with so much obvious, untuckable kibble on the legs, which just ends up plastered along the sides on the shuttle's flanks. At the very least, they could have sculpted the grey linkage and some of the lower edge of the train cab in a subtly rounded manner to affect the suggestion of OMS pods instead of just leaving it squared and awful looking. Perhaps that'll be DNA's contribution to improving this guy. Pity they didn't paint his abs- I mean it's like, what, ten cents worth of paint? At least the train mode cleans up far, far better than the Siege's and the rolling wheels with functional connecting rods is a really nice touch. Too bad more of that consideration wasn't given to shuttle, my preferred alt mode, but at this point asking for Takara to make any sort of flying alt mode anywhere in the neighborhood of good is an effort in futility. I'm curious to see what sort of improvements by way of add-on kits do come, but honestly, at $60, I already feel like I've spent far too much on this fig for what it offers in contrast to my expectations. Perhaps had they jumped him to commander class, those deficiencies in bot and shuttle modes would've been addressed satisfactorily, but they didn't and they weren't. I'm not sure why the designer felt he had to reinvent the wheel; just stick to the traditional transformation schema of the G1 toy while improving the proportions and articulation, like MFT and Fans Toys did. Apparently, he felt the need to put his own spin, and well, look at the results. At the very least, I hope it's a fun fig to mess about with. If I ever win the lottery (I won't b/c I don't play and I've no rich relatives dying to give me their vast fortunes) or somehow come into money, as it were, I'll reach out to you, Mike, as I've been saying the same thing for probably two decades now. I've no skills along those lines, but I definitely have an eye towards what I want as ideal figs and I could give insights as well as help with transformation mechanics. I build my own transforming bots with LEGO, so I've some practical experience in that regard. I can't understand the reluctance of third parties to jump into the CHUG space. I give props to Newage for Romulus, even if that scale difference, which was beyond their ability to foresee, may have thrown off some fans and perhaps Newage themselves from trying again. I wish more third parties would take up the challenge of making improved figs when the official figs prove subpar. In some cases, like Magic Square, Newage, and MFT, upscaling their existing designs would suffice. Again, if I had the resources to back such efforts, I would. There would also be a lot more Macross designs, especially those that never got toys before, in the works.

PO'd astro ($55), skywarp($35), and shockwave(35) at Walmart. It's a little cheaper

Re-issue of Doom for those that missed it the first time.

That’s what I cling onto after all these years. Nowadays it feels like a bit of a miracle just to see a repaint or one with a few extra parts added, but maybe one day they will do some more exciting stuff

We're still here and ONLINE with vid/Zoom style meet ups. Anyone that's interested may attend. BUMP.