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  2. Scyla
    @M'Kyuun right, and even Hasbro is trying to unify even different universes into the G1 aesthetic and style with the main line. But somehow the premier collector line, the best Transformer possible is this hodgepodge of different elements.
  3. M'Kyuun
    Well, there's 2026 and beyond, but going hand in hand with the dearth of UT figs is the accompanying lack of Prime-ish or Animated-ish figs. I was hoping at least for a Lugnut fig, hopefully fairly close to the OG. And though it's a serious reach at this point, I was hoping for an Animated Blackout, as he's one of my grails but way too pricey on secondary. An updated Legacy fig would have been nice, even if it had shades of G1 built in. Amongst all three continuities, however, there ar still many characters in need of updates and hopefully they'll get around to them. Their choices are questionable; why not pick a continuity and finish it within a year or two before moving on. Then again, by delving piecemeal, it keeps the line interesting and offers, presumptuously, something for everyone within a year's worth of offerings. I can understand the G1 fatigue, and though that's my main collecting continuity, from both fans' and Has/Tak's POV, I can understand wanting to shake up the diversity of offerings. I'm down for that approach, even if a majority of the offerings within a year's schedule aren't pertinent to my collection. I couldn't care one wit about the 13 Primes, as I have no knowledge of them beyond the fact that there were 13 Primes in the lore (I assume comics). I would love a good set of Aerialbots, but given Has/Tak's abysmal history with jet alts, my enthusiasm is off scale low. My expectation is that once again we'll get cubes with airplane parts attached with out-of-scale small forward fuselages and too many other compromises to name. I want them to prove me wrong in the absolute worst way, but I've been in this hobby since the beginning, and alas I see little reason for hope. ☹️ I'd like to finally have a Superion in my collection, as I love planes and a combiner made of planes is right up my alley, but I'm dubious that this next take will be an improvement over past executions. Again, I hope I'm wrong. I don't think you're an anomaly; having a unified style and design language should be part of a collectible line. If they're too disparate, it makes the collection look eclectic, as my TF shelves, absolutely crowded with figs from across nearly every continuity, and my Detolf, which contains transforming toys from numerous lines, will attest. MP is a prime case, pun intended, of varying aesthetics from MP-01 to MP-10 to MP-44. My personal preference was the Husui era, to whom I shall ever be grateful, gave me my very long-awaited and much cherished MP Prowl, my Grail amongst grails. The toon-slavish aesthetic is not my cup of java, and I'm glad that as of yet Hasbro hasn't gone in that direction with the mainline retail toys. There's a nice mix of toon and toy still evident, with molded details still happily making their presence in the bot modes. But yeah, MP is all over the place, and quite frankly, they've been hit and miss with their designs and aesthetics. MP Skyfire was the last MP fig I bought (FOMO), and before that MP Skids, and before that MP Megatron. Except for the odd fig here and there, though, I've essentially stopped collecting MP and turned my attention more to mainline and 3P legends, which, IMHO, are doing it better at a small scale than the big expensive MP figs. Too, they're maintaining a unified look (toon, of course), but at least they all look good together, at least when standing with other figs from the same company. MS, NA, and IF all have their own approaches and scales, so they don't mix and match well, but within their own company lines, there's agreement, and that makes for a nice display. As an ardent LEGO fan for nigh 47 years, the minifig is an icon, and I wouldn't change it. Moreover, it's a testament to Jens Nygaard Knudsen's creativity and vision that changed how LEGO could be played with forever. There's no replacement. That being said, as someone who loves articulation and finds the minifig a little limited, I would mind it if LEGO introduced a new midi-figure with improved proportions and articulation aimed at older teen and adult collectors. I design mecha, and the minifig's limitations are evident all the time when trying to design around them. I think there's room for both on shelves. Just my $.02.
  4. Scyla
    @Seto Kaiba to be fair every major event in Star Wars takes place on the same 5 planets so I assume those people are quite used to Jedi shenanigans while the rest of the Galaxy far far away has never seen nor heard of them.
  5. Xigfrid

    Sv-303 Vivasvat

    Xigfrid replied to sjoebarry's topic in Toys

    This Lego Moc looks great! I don’t have an X account but if there is an assembly available I would love to test it.
  6. Today
  7. MKT
    Various Banpresto Ichiban Kuji Macross Frontier Premium Prize SD mechs.
  8. sh9000

    sh9000's collection

    Images added to a gallery album owned by sh9000 in Macross Collections

  9. sh9000
    HMR VF-0A + QF2200D-B Ghost.
  10. sh9000
  11. sh9000
    JoeFest Exclusive.
  12. sh9000
    Classified Retro Cobra Trooper. Classified Night Attack Stinger and Driver.
  13. MKT
    Banpresto DXF Ghost In The Shell Arise, Motoko Kusanagi.
  14. sh9000
    Boris Ping Toys.
  15. sh9000
    Update with Juhn.
  16. sh9000
    Star Wars TVC Ahsoka Professor Huyang.
  17. TG Remix
    Kinda lol. I need to actually play and follow the series. Now I'm imagining an extremely salty Shinsei engineer supporting Anti-UN groups because the NUNS turned down the VF-19 for widescale adoption, who may or may not care about the export laws enforced because of the VF-19's conception. Honestly, I kinda like how we see some like the VF-5000 and VA-3 being used past their prime by the time we see them; it shows the passage of time in the Macross timeline without having to completely boil them down to just being old and useless. I still want to see a bit more about what happened between SDF and Plus, just to get more of a grasp on how big the world got since the advent of emigration fleets and planets. EDIT: IIRC there was a tidbit in either The Ride or the Frontier novelization that even by 2058 the Macross Frontier fleet was still in the process of decommissioning their VF-11s, way long after the move to the VF-171. And that's not even mentioning the (un?)official SW-XAI Schneeblume that used the VF-1 as a reference for a stealth VF to pair up with the VF-17! Honestly, the moment I saw the VF-1EX in Delta with its own EX-Gear system I'm convinced those things will be a universal constant in the franchise. If it means anything, the VF-14 is mentioned to have an airframe that's easy to maintain, so it seems like a sturdy machine that can last a bit more than some of its contemporaries, which probably explains why that and the VA-14 was popular with Zentradi pilots. Having a stealth system before it became the norm with the 4th generation VFs I think is a nice bonus too all things considered.
  18. sjoebarry
    Same….
  19. Scyla
    I think Takara missed a big opportunity to give their collector line a unified style and scale. The Masterpiece line was a mess in terms of scale, style, approach and quality all the way from MP-01 to MP-60 and should have been rebooted several times (MP-10 Optimus Prime, MP-29 Laserwave, MP-32 Optimus Primal). And it housed some of the worst toys in my collection. Yet with MPG, the first release, Raiden, was a special design to incorporate as accurate as possible trains, with realistic details that are in scale to one another. MPG Super Ginrai is a super toon accurate version, that doesn’t fit together with Raiden and now they are releasing the Ironhide mold that doesn’t know if if wants to be full toon or follow the old MP-10 style and an obscure repaint of Trailbreaker. *sigh* Most of the other collector oriented lines I collect (like Metal Build Gundams or Kuro Kara Kuri Transformers) have a coherent vision and style even if they are long running lines too. With Metal Build being released since 2011 (the year MP-09 and 10 where released) and they all look good together on a shelf. But the MP line (and all the 3rd party companies following their lead) never had something like that and it is a shame that Takara let that opportunity pass. Maybe I‘m an anomaly as a collector but I always imagined that consistency in a collection was key for most other collectors (otherwise why would you collect a line of toys). For example this is the reason why I don’t want the Lego Minifig to change so all my Lego sets are consistent.
  20. Big s
    What does it mean by pre assembly kit?
  21. shazam
    Great looking Eve figure from Megazone 23 part III.
  22. MKT
    CM’s Gutto Kuru Megazone 23 Part 3, Eve Tokimatsuri. I wish CM’s didn’t skip Eve from Parts 1 & 2, especially Part 1 where the characters are designed by Mikimoto.
  23. pengbuzz
    It's a Reeses Valkyrie!!! *Isamu*: "You got YF-21 in my YF-19!!!" *Guld*: "You got YF-19 in my YF-21!!!" Commercial for those who have absolutely NO idea what I'm talking about:
  24. pengbuzz
    Quick question for clarification: when you say "predecessors", do you mean they became Shinsei, or simply that they predated Shinsei?
  25. sh9000
    Wolverine Revenge.
  26. sh9000
  27. sh9000
    McFarlane Toys Store sale.
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