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  2. F-ZeroOne
    Hi, to the best of my knowledge the film called “MegaForce”and the toyline called “MegaForce” are completely unrelated. Presumably a trademark lapsed at some point, or given the state of toy licensing at the time, the toy producers were completely unaware. Lego Space and Robotix are good shouts! I always got the impression “Zoids” was more popular in the UK than the US. We got a pretty good comic book (I think it merged with “Spider-Man” in the UK eventually; it may just have ran as a back up strip there and I’m misremembering) with art by Steve Yeowell (possibly best known for his work at “2000AD” with “Zenith”) and I think one of the “big” comics writers also did scripts for it, I want to say Grant Morrison? The UK comic book continuity was more or less separate from the Japanese background material. When I first started travelling to Japan, I used to see “Zoids” kits all the time (the original Tony releases, not the later even more detailed toys and model kits), really wish I’d picked up a few. I’ve frequented a few local toy fairs recently and they seem to be fairly scarce as “classic” toys go, I’ve only seen one out of half a dozen shows I’ve been to.
  3. Mog
    After tweaking Stig and Yellow’s angles slightly:
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  5. Urashiman
    On the plamax VF-1, most of them are hidden. The ones that do show are sanded down. It is also important to use glue which is bonding surfaces by dissolving them and then joining them. Also - clamps. Use clamps to make sure stuff is sticking together until the glue dries. Then I use sanding papers and sponges. 180/320 600 1500 In that order. It won’t go away fully, but most of it.
  6. Shawn
    I tried disabling it many times but they kept bringing it back, so it just sort of hangs out there, some people use it some people don't. I agree with the sentiment of this being more a discussion board and less like a 'here is some cool content, give me a quick vote yay or nay'. But I also understand most people come from the like/dislike world of social media so this is a missing piece of the normal/expected experience. Given the choice of a like dislike, or someone breaking out the 'post' button and making a comment, I personally prefer the latter, even it if is nothing more than a 'hey that's cool'. Just feels more personal to me, but it also probably removes a ton of quick 'likes' because it does take more time and effort, and I know we all do an insane amount of multitasking. I've been reading the next version of Invision Power Board (ver 5) is a big huge giant change from what we are living here today, so we may be coming to the 21st century regardless of me kicking and screaming
  7. Big s
    Definitely a cool toy for the imagination. I only had a few as a kid, but a friend of mine would find less than complete sets at cheap goodwill type places and would use the motors and stuff to make odd mechanical creations. I always wondered why he never got into the whole battling robot thing. He seemed to have had the concept long before that battle bots show aired
  8. tekering
    We never had ZOIDS or StarCom where I grew up, but I remember being quite taken with ROBOTIX: Despite sharing much of the writing and production staff (not the mention the voice cast) of Transformers and GI Joe, the short-lived Robotix cartoon was lackluster and all-but forgotten today. 😅
  9. m0n5t3r
    I was thinking HG didn't bother before cuz it was just the Legioss, and really just the blue one since that's the only one with the high production numbers and possible reissues, what with the red and green ones not being as popular. It's entirely possible they couldn't touch the ride armors since they were stylized modern reinterpretations of the original ones from the show. But with the release of the Tread, which has a much higher retail price, plus the upcoming Toyrise Mospeada stuff and the Pose+ and Moshow stuff, they decided they wanted a piece of the action... just my 2 cents. Anyway, I hope things get sorted out soon and the Tread gets reissued and made available from international vendors. I'm really tempted to get the one I saw available on one of the online shopping sites we have here, but for $400.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    The reason I think he managed to break the nose off the plane is that the camera/LIDAR modules are a part of that nose block and they're visibly still on the aircraft in that shot.
  11. Bolt
    Great stuff !
  12. Stampeed Valkyrie
    So going through my list and that is a wrap on Fall 2025 anime season.. One Punch Man S3.. where to start.. Honestly watch the first episode and the 12th episode and call it a day. Everything else was a snooze fest... and yes I know it stuck to the source material.. but this was just boring. I have a bunch more to wrap, next on my list is finishing May I ask for one last thing, then probably Marie. and a few other I can't remember off the top of my head.
  13. Seto Kaiba
    The Acshio/Akusho district is never given a proper official explanation. Officially (in-story), the district is an environment ship that isn't registered with the 37th large scale long-distance emigrant fleet's administration. It attached itself to one of City 7's portside docking ports and has accessed power, oxygen, and other resources from the City-class ship without authorization. Somehow, this state of affairs was either not noticed or not corrected before the fleet departed Earth and apparently nobody has bothered to do anything about it in the seven years since then. While there are surely laws prohibiting an emigrant fleet from simply abandoning an inhabited environment ship in deep space, that it seems like nobody has even tried to take any action on it gives it the distinct ring of a cover story. There's a neglected environment ship the fleet government has no jurisdiction over conveniently attached directly to the fleet's capital and flagship, with a hangar and airlocks capable of supporting next-generation VFs, and it just happens to be home to the unwitting subject of a secret military program? Macross 7 Trash at least makes it feel a little less implausible with the revelation that there are at least a few districts in the fleet that would count as "rough neighborhoods". It seems to work a little differently, series to series. When it comes to the Megaroad-class as seen in Macross: Flash Back 2012 and Macross M3, the artificial sky appears to be projected directly onto the ship's transparent hull sections. In Macross 7, City 7's sky is presented as being a hologram or other image projected from the interior of the shell onto the exterior of the dome. This is demonstrated in the show's first episode when one of the operators mistakenly begins powering down the shell's artificial sky projection instead of lowering the shell the way Max ordered. The Akushio district has an artificial sky too, though it isn't clear if that's projected from the shell or something projected locally. In Macross Frontier, the titular emigrant ship seems to be using both approaches simultaneously with the sky of Island 1 being a projection from the shell and the skies of the various Island modules seem to be projected directly onto their domes since they use retractable armored shutters instead of a shell and most of them are tens of kilometers away from the rear end of the Island-1's shell.
  14. Shawn
    Over Christmas break, met a fellow MW member up in a Costco Parking lot in the LA area who happened to have bought that Mospeada Legioss Armo-Fighter Hanken cel from last year. It was HUGE! With so much crazy detail. Lighting/glare was horrible which scrambled the focus, sorry, but at least you can sense the scale of it sitting in the back of an SUV. Amazing piece!!! It was quite funny seeing people walk by wondering what all the fuss was about. If anyone ever finds out where the 2 Mosepada bike versions are, make sure to let me know
  15. Big s
    I think the guy was just having fun with his toys
  16. Big s
    I had a couple, but really wish I had more. It was a super cool concept almost more realistic ships and fighters with pilots that had magnetic feet to kinda give more of a zero g kinda feel. Also was just watching the intro for the show on YouTube about a month ago and that was actually pretty cool
  17. Big s
    I don’t make comments for a reputation from likes, but if someone wants to tap the button and doesn’t want to be known, I don’t have a problem with that at all. I’ll just take it as a silent high five or something
  18. JB0
    Man, I remember StarCom. I never had any of the toys, but they were right up my alley, as was the cartoon(what little I remember of it). Zoids is one of those franchises that for years I was just completely unsure how it failed to land on me. Learning more of the history in the last couple of years, I know how I missed it entirely... and it turns out I actually didn't, but only barely. For a very brief time, the line was available in the US under the name RoboStrux. And I lusted after the RoboStrux toys, but never owned any(few in America did). But I definitely SAW them, and they stuck in the back of my mind for years and years. Every so often I'd see these toys in my head again and I would try to find out what they were, but "robot dinosaur toy" is NOT a useful search term. When I started seeing Zoids stuff it looked weirdly familiar for some reason I couldn't place. This ALSO bugged me until I was looking at the series history for some unrelated reason and saw the variety of attempts made to sell it internationally and when I saw the RoboStrux name it pulled some truly ancient memories back out of the mental coffin they'd been consigned to in a huge "holy crap" moment.
  19. Papa Rat
    Looking great! How are you handling seam lines or are they placed in inconspicuous places?
  20. Urashiman
    @pengbuzz awesome! Seems you got a few nice friends. about the VF-1. Only some decals left and venier thrusters here and there. Provide done tomorrow.
  21. Hiriyu
    On the flip side of that though, sometimes I will tap the 'like' button in specific cases where there's not really anything of value that I can add to a conversation, but just to let the poster know that their contribution is appreciated and isn't being ignored. Oftentimes it's regarding subject matter that I have less than minimal knowledge of, but where a member posting has obviously expended substantial effort to do something useful, or just cool, for others.
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  23. shazam
    Mondo - The Real Ghostbusters - Peter Venkman 1/12 scale figure x 2 figures
  24. Chronocidal
    I... have no idea what I'm looking at. They're making Robotech figures... right? That's what these are supposed to be? Or did I miss a memo or something?
  25. jenius
    Terminator 2 meets Captain phasma.
  26. sh9000
    Ash Williams.
  27. sh9000
    The teaser with Cyclops is damn cool.
  28. sh9000
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