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official Tamashii site fore renewed Layzner is now open, with lots of PR pics: https://tamashiiweb.com/item/15795/ General Retail release this time.

That's actually Reeman Squad from the OVA Origins of Ambition (previously known as Roots of Ambition)

Not my thing also. But they are kinda cute.

That's a pretty low bar though. 🤣

They got the toilet fixed. After turning it off and on again. ... And then had problems connecting their tablets to Wi-Fi. "I have two Outlooks and neither one works." is now a sentence that was uttered across the gulf of space, as is "We're going to power-cycle the toilet." The future is dumb. Possibly the most mundane problems in the history of space exploration, which I guess is a good thing. Hopefully the working toilet means the number of times official mission transcripts include the phrase "there's a turd floating through the air" remains one.

Compared to today, Earth is rather sparsely populated in Macross after the First Space War. We see a number of emerging cities and towns in the aftermath arc of the original series, but thereafter we don't really get to see much of the planet aside from Macross City in Alaska. Presumably any housing that they put up for housing clones destined for emigrant fleets was either demolished or subsequently repurposed as regular housing for Earth's ever growing population. It's far from the only place to live in the solar system, though. There are space colonies at the LaGrange points, surface bases and cities on the moon and Mars, "satellite cities" orbiting Venus and several outer solar system gas giants, resource stations on various other moons etc.

For those that have both, can we get some comparison pics in all 3 modes, of the Omega and the Sentinel Legioss toys, with a ruler included in the pic please to show size.

Looks like Cavico Choipla series is getting into the Birkhoff Squad, let's hope Bandai gets a hint! 🤗 not my cup of tea.....

They’re really trying way too hard on this line. They had full costume, sleeveless and now shirtless. I don’t even want to know what the next one is

They had the budget to either get a rocket up or get a torpedo down.

If it didn’t have the street walker heels, it would be even shorter

That would be nice, but since I display all of my Bandai valks in-flight it's not an issue for me. However: Can anyone explain Bandai's insatiable need to tint the canopies on their valks?

Here’s a size comparison between a Hi-Metal R and a ThreeZero Valkyrie. Its interesting how the Legioos and Hi-Metal are almost the same height in Battroid mode, but closer in size with the ThreeZero in Fighter mode.

Anyway, this release is as real-life jet a scheme that Bandai is making of a Macross VF. Isn't that a good thing? Now, if only they could also make the darn landing gears white.

Welp, so much for me not pre-ordering any more Bandai valkyries...

So, about that cloning program in Macross, so how empty is Earth? Given that you would need to house clones before putting them onboard colonization ships.

Agreed. I thought the same thing. It would have been a better representation of Optimus Prime. And yet I do really enjoy the goofy looking Sentai vehicle it ended up as.

After playing with it for a while, the proportions in Battroid mode reminds me of a hybrid super-deformed figure like those MGSD Gundam kits.

I need to pick this up. I was at Walmart a couple days ago and saw it, but thought it was just a repaint of the Studio Series as well. After seeing various reviews though, I’m kicking myself for not picking it up then when I had the chance.

This figure arrived from Pulse, like two days before I happened to go to Walmart for other reasons and find a whole bunch of them. This is the Walmart-exclusive Deluxe-class Retro Wheelie. When this figure was first announced I actually mistook it for a repaint of the Core-class SS86 Wheelie, and there's definitely some immediate similarities. Both have a backpack, both have wheels on the backs of their calves, both have wheels embedded in their forearms. But, lo and behold, it turned out to be a brand new Deluxe-class mold, and side-by-side you can see that the Deluxe is significantly larger, with shoulders that are closer in, a more tapered torso with an actual pelvis, more rounded lower legs, and feet that simply look like feet. Coming around the back, we can see that the backpack is a bit different than the Core-class toy. The other big difference is that this toy is colored to match the G1 toy, rather than the cartoon. So, even if you're not into toy-colored repaints, take note of this review as I expect most of this will apply when they inevitably release this toy again in cartoon colors. Wheelie comes with a lone accessory, his signature slingshot. As befitting his larger price tag, Deluxe Wheelie has a bit more articulation than the Core-class toy. I believe his head is on a ball joint. It swivels, and there's a little up/down tilt, but nothing really sideways. His shoulders swivel and move laterally a little over 90 degrees. His biceps swivel, and his elbows bend a hair short of 90 degrees. His wrists swivel, as does his waist. His hips can go 90 degrees forward, a little more than that backward, and just shy of that laterally. His thighs swivel, and his knees bend 90 degrees. His toes bend downward, largely due to transformation. His ankles pivot as well, but under 90 degrees. Wheelie's slingshot has a 5mm peg for a handle, and it plugs into either fist. There are tabs on the sides of his backpack that his arms tab into for alt mode. I don't think it was intentional, but a hollow slot on the handle of the slingshot allows it to plug onto those tabs for bot-mode weapon storage. Speaking of alt mode, the engineering is actually very similar to the Core-class, there's just a bit more of it. In both cases the chest forms a large chunk of the front, with the head hidden in the cockpit area. The difference is that the cockpit is tucked into the backpack, not the entire backpack, which allows the rest of the backpack to form a more natural rear end to the vehicle. The arms still make up most of the sides, including the rear wheels, but panels on the backpack hide his hands a little (which were showing by default on the original toy; mine has an upgrade kit). The hips still shift so that the legs hang out along the bottom of the vehicle, with the front fenders coming off the legs and mating with the chest. But rather than forming the nose of the vehicle from his feet, this time the nose folds out from behind the chest and his feet remain tucked under the vehicle. The result is, for the most part, a better car than the core-class. From the back, there's still some visible fingers and some transformation joints, but overall the shape is a bit more cohesive. The nose and the rounded rear benefit the most from the new engineering, sure, but the fenders are more flush, an attempt was made to hide the hands, and there's not a massive visible ball joint anymore. I suppose, in theory, you can use the 5mm port on the rear of the vehicle to plug in the slingshot. However, there's a tab under the nose that's definitely meant for the slot in the slignshot's handle, giving you a more out-of-the-way option for alt mode weapon storage. The bump in engineering this figure gets from being a Deluxe has, I feel, improved Wheelie's proportions, articulation, transformation, and alt mode. That's all good! Wheelie does have one flaw, though, that might make you think you're better off with the Core-class you might already have, and that's his size. I've always thought of Wheelie as the smallest of the Autobots, as he was often depicted as just a little over a head taller than Daniel. When they designed the Core-class toy, they took pains to make sure it was about the same size as the slug version that came with Grimlock. But this new version of Wheelie, while still being on the short side of most Deluxes, is a head taller than SS86 Bumblebee. So, I'm not really sure if I want to recommend him or not. It's like, pick your poison, do you want the figure that's better in every way but out-of-scale, or do you want the one that's in-scale but a bit crap? I mean, for an original mold, the proportions are still very obviously cartoon Wheelie and not G1 toy Wheelie, so like I said a cartoon-style version is more or less inevitable. And, I don't know, maybe for cartoon G1 Wheelie the Core-class is good enough. But the Retro version can pass for an IDW Wheelie, I think and in IDW he was depicted as a bit bigger.

So yeah, converts to armo-street worker.

Just saw it, we really enjoyed it. I'm a big Star Fox fan so couldn't be happier.

Overall, the response is really great on this. I wonder if more than Bandai expected.

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Did Howard Wolowitz build that toilet?