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  2. nightmareB4macross
    Cool release but, talk about being late to the game. This should have been released right after the first GBP-1J release as interest was hot for this custom scheme. Not sure I even care for this release. Oh well.
  3. nightmareB4macross
    These figures are of good quality, down to the PF style tampo. During transformation you can feel it is not as smooth as the original. Overall they are decent figures. Just my two cents.
  4. Old_Nash_II
    So, If Androneda Strain and The Last of Us have a baby... With our "arroz de festa"
  5. Big s
    Nice to see the updates in this one, especially due to scarcity of an actual build for this kit
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  7. Big s
    Yup. Basically just take the preexisting thing and recolor it and call it new
  8. MikeRoz
    Bandai has several canon Macross DX product lines unfinished, and they go with this instead...
  9. TangledThorns
    Yeah, 32Gb is the new minimum for a new system or laptop. I'd recommend 32Gb even for casual users too.
  10. seti88
    Last seen during the pandemic..which in macross years...not too long ago! Should be in the same bundled box configuration with valk and armor facing each other on different sides..
  11. Hiriyu
    Found a forgotten pic of my Valkyrie Factory 1S with the clear covers installed. What's the consensus on the quality of these versus the Fugu? Anyone have both?
  12. lechuck
    Has there ever been an interview with the original people behind the scarmble city Bruticus to ask why they chose his combiner layout like that? It surprises me that a Japanese toy company didn't ground themselves with a bit of sense for scale and realism, even in an outlandish setting like Transformers.
  13. lechuck
    The good news, you have a second change at getting MB Providence if you missed out the first time. The bad news, it's a Club Tamashii Members release – so difficult to source. The only difference between this and the OG release is a new stand support for the Dragoons. Would have liked to have this option the first time around.
  14. lechuck
    It's a Club Tamashii Memebers release, so it's probably going to be difficult and pricey to get one.
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  16. dtwn started following DX VF-1S Roy Armored Valkyrie
  17. dtwn
    Ooh, tempting. Just a reskin, but at least it's pretty different. Wonder if this means the Max version will be released as well. Is there any information on pricing? Did some Googling but couldn't find anything.
  18. sh9000
    https://tamashiiweb.com/item/15546/
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  22. Papa Rat
    Theater-scout primed in mahogany and ready for some painting. Going to brush lacquers on this kit since I had so much fun with that Ma.k. Most of the parts need to be relatively “finished” before the main body can be assembled, puttied, sanded, painted etc…
  23. mikeszekely
    I mean, we're talking about a franchise where a space shuttle orbiter becomes the arm of a robot that uses a Jeep Willys for a leg (in the cartoon, I am aware that the toy was actually based on larger the XR311). Trying to reconcile alt mode scale in G1 is a pathway to madness. But like I keep saying, the real problem is the relatively thinness. A car just of room underneath and inside to stuff robot parts, or chunkier parts that are easier to translate directly as robot parts. As big as an F-15 is (and comparatively thick for a fighter), it's roughly 40% thinner than a Datsun 280ZX (which is pretty sleek, as cars go) when you compare their relative length or width to their height. A lot of Kawamori's designs end up with large intakes and engine nacelles that are a thicker than a lot of modern fighters, and Macross series since they started using more CGI have featured Valks that are a lot skinnier, especially in the arms. And like I said, Kawamori has the luxury of working backward from Fighter, and from VF-1 to VF-11 to VF-19 to VF-25 to VF-31 a lot of the transformation elements are pretty similar, with the big evolution seeming to be how they scrunch up the cockpit and nose. I'm not saying this as a critique of Kawamori's work, I'm saying that Takara was first constrained by using real-world aircraft then double-whammied by Sunbow replacing the Diaclone mecha designs with Floro Dery's character models, which (especially in the first season) often deviated wildly from the original designs. When you start with a toy that had kind of weird proportions and arms that were half part of the fuselage and half add-on fists, turn it into a cartoon with more humanoid proportions and normal, blocky arms, then turn it back into a toy that has to be faithful to that cartoon, something's bound to give. And, I mean, yeah, I think it's definitely possible, with enough parts and engineering, to have a totally accurate F-15 turn into a totally Sunbow robot. I agree that designers could make better use of what the plane actually has and translating that into what the robot needs. But at even a $50 Leader price? On a toy that still has to meet US safety standards to be sold in Walmarts, and very likely doesn't have a license from Boeing even be all that accurate in the first place? Last I checked even Newage charges more for a toy that's half the size. And it gets even worse when they have to do it as a Deluxe that also has to be a part of a Combiner. Like I ultimately said, Has/Tak's jet Transformers are far from perfect, and I do get how that can be frustrating for someone so into aircraft... but I gotta be realistic about what they can and can't do with a $20/$35/$50 trying to capture the nuances of an often poorly-animated 40-plus year-old cartoon. ...newer Transformers media, though, doesn't quite have the same excuse. The guys who worked on the Bay films could have worked backward from an F-22 the way Touch Toys did with the J-35 and given us a cool Starscream, instead of the mess of scrap that we actually got. But they didn't. But even then, there's the matter of budgets... SS Starscream? Best they could do on the budget at the time (was that release all the way back when Voyagers were $25?). The MPM, though, that was proportionally thicker and far messier? No excuse. So... like Bumblebee and Cliffjumper? 😄 Shifting gears a bit, I know you're a big fan of the tapes in general and Dr. Wu's specifically. Make sure you check out the 3P thread.😉
  24. VF25-F
    May'n will be in Edmonton, Canada this weekend (8th to 10th) for Animethon!! Accompaning her is JUNNA from Macross Delta and Hidetaka Tenjin, illustrator for many gunplay boxart especially for Macross and Star Wars (Only on Friday) . If you are in the neighbourhood, do drop by! https://animethon.org/guests
  25. mikeszekely
    It's a fair price, especially with an OLED screen, but I'd recommend budgeting for a RAM upgrade to go with it. Aside from a short weekend trip I haven't really traveled lately, definitely not like I used to pre-COVID. I'm glad I upgraded my desktop when I did, but I'm not really sure I even need a laptop anymore, at least not for the time being. For what little gaming-on-the-go I do these days (mostly just sitting for 45-90 minutes while my daughter is in her dance class) my ROG Ally X is handling well enough.
  26. M'Kyuun
    Part of the problem is that Takara & Hasbro shrink the jets so that the robot modes will all be roughly compatible. However, most jets are much larger than cars. The F-15 is over 63 feet long, roughly 5.5 to 6 feet tall from the bottom of the forward fuselage to the top of the canopy, 18 feet tall from the ground on extended gear to the tops of the vertical stabs, the fuselage from intake to intake is about 9 feet wide, it's nearly 43 feet from wingtip to wingtip, and the C series, likely the inspiration for the Seeker, weighs 27,000 lbs empty. It is a big machine, much larger than the average car. If they scaled TFs with fighter modes appropriately, most would need to be leader scale relative to deluxe and voyager scaled cars. Larger planes, like Silverbolt's Concorde mode, would have to be upscaled tremendously (and, I realize, unrealistically) to scale properly with the average car bot. Scaling definitely makes a difference, but I must point out that Takara rarely uses the forward fuselage to form any part of the bot and it usually just hangs off the bot's back as so much kibble. Same with Concordes or SR-71s- all that lovely long fuselage which could be made to encapsulate arms and part of a torso, but they never use it as such. Considering all of Kawamori's valk designs which approximate real world aircraft, and all of his variations in planform and transformation schemas, I think the problem lies with Takara's exceptionally narrow approach to designing transformable jets and less with their proportions. They can make very small cars and motorcycles transform with well-integrated robot parts in the alt modes, so jets should offer far more real-estate, and thus creative options, to utilize towards realizing a robot mode. Too, look what Touch Toys is accomplishing. I realize we're well beyond the scope of what Takara and Hasbro can produce at their budgets and other limitations, but still, they're pulling off some impressive engineering. On the other end of the scale, I think Newage came up with a brilliant schema for their Seekers. I love how they used the chest intake bits to form part of the lower forward fuselage, thus eliminating that bit of kibble for a more accurate F-15. It's still not perfect, as the legs don't have the proper taper to the augmenters, the intake ramps aren't quite the right shape, and parts of the arms protrude from the belly. However, unlike pretty much every official Seeker except MP-03 and variants, the bottom of the forward fuselage reaches to nearly the base of the inlets, which is accurate to the real jet. I hate it when they put a foreshortened forward fuselage on their jetformers- it's analogous to making the entire cabin section of a car only half of its normal width.
  27. M'Kyuun
    Yep, the chorus sums it up nicely. Haven't heard that song in a long time so I appreciate the reminder.
  28. davidwhangchoi
    lowest priced 5070 laptop i've seen. Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 10: 15.1" QHD+ OLED 165Hz, Intel Ultra 7 255HX, RTX 5070, 16GB DDR5, 1TB SSD $1337.49 SPECS: 15.1″ WQXGA (2560 x 1600) OLED with aluminum lid, 16:10, 165Hz, <1 ms response time, 100% sRGB, 500nits, VESA True Black 600 Certified, Dolby Vision support, TÜV Rheinland Certified, X-Rite Certified Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX Processor (E-cores up to 4.50 GHz P-cores up to 5.20 GHz with Turbo Boost, 20 Cores, 20 Threads, 36 MB Cache) Windows 11 Home 64 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU, 8GB GDDR7, 128-bit, 115W (incl. 15W boost), up to 798 AI TOPS, 4608 CUDA Cores 16 GB DDR5-5600MT/s (SODIMM) 1 TB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe Gen4 TLC 5MP with Dual Microphone and E-Shutter 24zone RGB Backlit, Eclipse Black - English (US) 80Whr Battery Starting at ~1.9kg / ~4.1lbs Ports: Left: USB-C® (USB 10Gbps) with Power Delivery 3.0 65W-100W & DisplayPort 2.1 USB-C® (Thunderbolt™ 4, USB 40Gbps) with DisplayPort 2.1 (Models with part number 83F0) USB-C® (USB 10Gbps) with DisplayPort 1.4 (Models with part number 83LY) USB-A (USB 5Gbps) Ethernet (RJ45) Right: 2 x USB-A (USB 5Gbps) Headphone / mic combo E-Shutter Button Rear: HDMI 2.1 Power-in
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  30. Phyrox
    I sold my Legioss to help make money and room for my Tread. Always liked it better. No plans on getting another. Although this Tread is so nice I might get another of these if we get different versions. I love it though, very nice piece.
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