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  2. sh9000
    Super7 O-Ring Back to the Future and Universal Monsters.
  3. sh9000
    Lucky. I haven't received my Zentraedi figure or 1/12 Max.
  4. sh9000
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  6. sh9000
    SDCC.
  7. PixelatedShinobi started following Macross Books
  8. PixelatedShinobi
    Got a very nice assortment of artbooks, manga, and LNs today! At some point in the future, I'd love to scan some of this, the 30 artbook and Nyan Dora especially. Alto Meets Sky is gorgeous enough that it /has/ to be shared. Unfortunately, I don't have proper scanning equipment, and I'd also ideally like to find second copies of them to take apart. For now, they'll be personal treasures. I'm very excited to have a copy of Wired Warrior, included in the short story collections! In image: Macross 30 Complete Visual Guide Macross F The Wings of Farewell Official Complete Book Macross F Nyan Dora Macross Frontier Diaries Macross Frontier Memories
  9. PixelatedShinobi
    The "Nome" theming might also be a connection drawn to everyone's favorite (mine, at least) Galactic Fairy?
  10. treatment
    here's the new McD-jpn nostalgia-bait ad using at least three beloved 80's anime series... https://x.com/McDonaldsJapan/status/1938416994446958647 web-translated: here's the direct link to the video if you prefer... edit: apparently coz it's the 100th anniversary of the Showa era in Japan this year...
  11. grundee
    Looks like if you ordered from BBTS you will be getting the figure.
  12. David Hingtgen
    I often run with the side of the case off, so lots of air...
  13. Mommar
    Thanks for the update. Odd the Walmart one is a full month later.
  14. Dynaman
    I'm thinking more of the content - it was the quintessential late seventies / early eighties apocalypse universe with martial arts thrown in. I can't see them getting the vibe correct any longer.
  15. mikeszekely
    Who is, of course, Commander-class Long Haul. Where the the first three Constructicons were slightly improved but pretty similar to their Combiner Wars cousins, thankfully, that's not at all the case for Long Haul. I don't think that saying Long Haul was the worse of the Combiner Wars Constructicons is a particularly controversial statement. He had a huge upper body with dinky little arms and thick-but-stumpy legs, and a weird transformation that made his shins part of his bed but had him wearing the majority of it like a cape. Studio Series Long Haul is still a thicker boy than the skinny cartoon model, but with proportions that are more swole than "giant baby." With black arms and no silver anywhere but his face his colors are more cartoon accurate, too. There are some flaps on his back, but nothing like the Combiner wars version. If we're being technical the animation model doesn't have the wheels on his legs; I do wish they had hinges to fold against his calves, but it's far from the worst thing ever. It kind of feels like nitpicking to even bring it up, but then again I could just be cutting him slack because he's such an improvement over the CW version. I mean, look at this! Opening his front is a necessary step in transforming him, but the designers went the extra mile and included some molded engine details that they even painted silver. Long Haul comes with a pistol that's, oddly, in two parts, a green handle/receiver and a black barrel. I've also decided that the rest of the accessories in the box are also Long Haul's; you've got Devastator's hips and thighs, the center portion of his chest shield and the two wings (which do, by the way, have tabs that fit into slots on Scrapper so you can have the flying loader mode), and Devastator's forearms/hands. The Devastator parts all fit together in a non-Devastator fashion. Lift the hip skirts and move the thighs into a sitting position, where you can then tab the skirts into the thighs. The kibble on his butt will wrap around under the thighs and between the knees. Then the center of the chest shield uses a pair of tabs to plug into the hip skirts, while the wings fit onto tabs on the sides of the thighs. The fists fold into the forearms, then pegs that fold out the backs of the hands plug into peg holes on the top of the kibble wrap. It's like a little trailer. I wouldn't say I needed his combiner parts to be a trailer, but it's a handy way to keep them all together at least. In fact, I think my only complaint is that there's nowhere to store the Devastator gun parts that came with Scrapper on the trailer. Getting back to Long Haul himself, it's not just his looks that have improved. His articulation is much better as well. His head is hinged, so he can't really look up or tilt his head sideways, and he can only look a little. His head does swivel, though. His shoulders rotate and move slightly over 90 degrees laterally. His elbows are ball joints, so he can actually bend his elbows forward 90 degrees and not just waggle them sideways, plus the ball joint doubles as a bicep swivel. No waist swivel or wrist swivels, though. His hips can go forward, backward, and laterally 90 degrees, and his thighs swivel. His knees are interesting. There's a joint behind the red panels that you can use as a knee that bends over 90 degrees, with a skinny "thigh" behind the truck bed. However, Hasbro seems to have intended that as a transformation joint, and gave him another, separate hinge below the red panel. That one, due to the tires on the backs of his leg, gets less than 90 degrees, though. So why not use both, and get nearly 180 degrees of bend? Lastly there's his feet, which don't tilt up or down but do have 90 degrees of ankle pivot. Long Haul holds his gun without issue in either hand. He lacks any other storage for it in robot mode. SS86 Long Haul's transformation is a bit closer to the G1 toy than the Combiner Wars toy. His head tucks into his chest, but you have to open it to make room, and his chest folds up. His legs fold around to become the truck bed. And his arms tuck underneath, but they fold up in an unusual way with the fists pointing backward instead of toward the front. Long Haul's alt mode is pretty good. There's a bit of a gap between his feet and backpack that don't quite sell the idea that the "hood" over the cab is actually part of the bed, and there are gaps along the sides where his shoulder joints have to fit through. Speaking of the bed, it doesn't look like he'll be hauling all that much since they're full of robot leg. But his arms are tucked away nicely, and the cab, grill, lights, and smokestack details are all cartoon accurate. There's a little space between Long Haul's legs, and you can capture a purple hook on the trailer in that space so Long Haul can pull the trailer. Again, not something I necessarily needed, but it's at least some attempt to integrate Devastator's parts. As for his own gun, you simply plug the handle into a 5mm port on either side of his bed. I'll cut right to the chase... yes, I recommend SS86 Long Haul. He's such an improvement over the Combiner Wars version that he justifies the entire Commander set, and then with Long Haul and Hook at this scale you might as well buy the other four- two of whom aren't out and I haven't even reviewed yet. Yeah, Long Haul is good enough to make you replace all your Constructicons. But should you actually replace Devastator? Unfortunately, we're going to have to wait for Mixmaster and Scavenger before I can answer that.
  16. M'Kyuun
    Agree. Regarding the SAP, I had some trouble getting it to wrap around the back jet boosters in fighter and GERWALK modes. I finally managed to get it to stay on, but it didn't give that satisfactory feeling of being completely secure. Today I transformed it from G mode to battroid, and that antenna finally broke. Fortunately, Bandai must have been aware of the issue (those parts really should have been made of metal for durability) and gave us two extras, so that problem was remedied. Anyway, once I got the thing into B mode, the SAP went on perfectly, no issue. Ironically, I figured I'd have a worse time in battroid, but nope. Even with all that weight, it stands and poses like a champ. Having been handling Macross toys for 20+ years, I was a bit surprised that the arms just float in fighter mode without any method of securing them into a "proper" position. Like I said earlier, it's purely up to the handler's discretion how high or low those arms hang, and subsequently the legs by din of their tabbing into the arms. The legs don't have a hard tabbing point either, merely tabbing, just barely, into the arms, which leaves a lot of room for interpretation. I try to keep the arms up as tight as I can under the body so the legs follow suit. I keep enough space for the wings to sweep freely without hitting the legs, and that looks right to me. Everything regarding the build does feel good. The central metal frame was indeed a smart decision. The knees, too, benefit from some metal parts, so this toy, far more than my VF-4 or VF-0D, lives up to the "high-metal" name. Screws don't count. Welcome. Cheers! While I don't think it's an impossibility, I do think that this particular design is very well served at this scale where smaller metal hinges can be utilized to bear the weight of the entire toy. On a larger scaled toy, common sense and physics dictate that more robust joints will be needed, and as those joints become larger, so too does their obtrusiveness as they impact aesthetics and the overall mold. This toy was executed very well. It's not perfect, but what is? I'd still love to see companies like Sentinel, Moderoid, or Arcadia tackle it. Heck even a company like Touch Toys, with their proven track record of innovative transforming aircraft, would likely produce a pretty good toy. Since Macross II is pretty much the black sheep of the franchise, I doubt they'd take as much issue letting other companies outside of Bandai make toys or models of it. The backpack on mine closes fine so long as the long double-hinged panel within is situated properly depending on the mode. Perhaps check that hinge to make sure it's not getting jammed up on something. I do find it odd that it has no latching or tabbing mechanism to keep it securely closed. Like the design itself, this toy is an oddity amongst its valk brothers and sisters.🙂
  17. Big s
    Except for the weird chin hair
  18. Seto Kaiba
    Not to mention the Nobel Gundam in Mobile Fighter G Gundam already totally looks the part of a magical girl-themed Gundam since its motif is sailor fuku... so much so that even the Gundam franchise itself has joked that it looks like Sailor Moon, and the high-mobility version from the manga is acknowledged to be based on Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon S. Woof... yeah, that Gundam ain't winning any beauty contests.
  19. Big s
    Just because there’s a manga doesn’t mean that we get a show, even if there’s a kit. That particular kit is also a web exclusive rather than a standard release making it more likely to be looked over. Not saying they won’t ever do it, but if they were doing an anime, they more than likely would do a standard release. There have been a few others like the one from double fake or the recent g-line kits that also came from a manga, but are also web exclusive.( by the way, those G-Line kits are really great and totally worth getting and probably would do really well as standard releases.) but I really doubt they’re gonna give them an anime anytime soon. I wouldn’t mind being wrong in some cases though
  20. PointBlankSniper
    Well, SD Gundams with original stories are all basically fantasy already. Build Divers already had a dude stuck in the game, although that was somehow linked to a real alien planet. The next thing they seem to be pushing for, with a kit to accompany the launch, but don't have the balls to commit to animating, is the new Gundam Eight manga. Seems like it's some sort of post (alien invasion?) apocalypse survival thing. Something about the last 258 humans on earth using the lone Gundam to survive, and it looks like an ugly AF unpainted tryhard kit bash of conflicting geometry and a lot of pla plates. Since I have no hope of the mechs looking good, I'm hoping it's at least really about aliens, and they don't show up in humanoid mecha, or turn out to be space humans... It would be great if they go all in with the desolate space horror, and use ugly space monsters, since the gimmick is that the human head count is finite. Last thing I want to see is a kitbashed pla plate Zaku with a Char clone inside. Maybe if it doesn't suck, they will animate it.
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  22. MinmayMusicManiac started following Anybody else a member of the Mechatalk forum?
  23. MinmayMusicManiac
    Just curious as I'm also on mechatalk.net where we talk about various other mecha. The only one i know who for sure here that is a member is @Seto Kaiba but I'm just wondering if there's anybody else who uses it other than us.
  24. sh9000
    https://variety.com/2025/film/news/the-batman-2-script-done-matt-reeves-1236442972/
  25. sh9000
    Hasbro often updates slowly. I barely received my tracking number for the Cobra Rattler today but my Cobra Rattler already arrived yesterday.
  26. Big s
    Just finished the first three episodes and I do agree with everything you’ve said. I don’t think I’m at hate levels for this show yet, but I don’t think it’s gonna get much better. One thing that’s really annoying is the soundtrack choices. They chose a bunch of songs with cussing for some odd reason, but didn’t think about this being in Disney, so every song gets weird censoring. It’s really annoying. If you’re not gonna allow the language, then just choose songs that don’t use it. They even had to censor the cross eyed bear song, which seems like an odd choice for the scenes chosen for it anyway since it’s about an older dude taking advantage of a younger girl while an older dude is driving around with a younger girl. I’d have to say that the first couple episodes are annoying, but third episode builds some interesting tension that could have been better if the situations weren’t so dumb. Overall, I’m still undecided but really don’t think it’s worth watching for most people
  27. captain america
    Captain's Log--supplemental. Again. I'm happy to report that preliminary casting has begun, and the castings are looking phenomenal, as usual! The final molds are just about done, and the extraction process has left me with a few parting "gifts". Sometimes that's the cost of doing molds right.
  28. Duke Togo
    F1 was a good time. Definitely a theater movie.
  29. Roy Focker
    Just got my Rattler shipping notification from FedEx. Still says shipping pending on Pulse. I'll be skipping the Snow Cat.
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