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  2. pengbuzz
    I'd post about it, but another one of my posts vanished, this time in this thread. I'm done trying to do anything here; I don't need this, so I pulled the rest of my latest posts to save them the trouble. Enjoy the board folks; I'm out.
  3. M'Kyuun
    Opposite situation: Haslab Unicron arrived as a ball (just like in the movie!) and I turned him into a robot, and thus he has remained. I've never attempted to transform him back and I'm not sure I want to.
  4. Big s
    Finally trying out Wonderman, three episodes in and it’s a total snooze. I don’t get why it seems to have high ratings other than the people reviewing it a Hollywood types that love Hollywood references. But I’m kinda used to Disney having shows where the first couple episodes are lame, then things pick up. Unfortunately I’m almost at the halfway point and this show does something worse than being totally bad, it’s just extremely boring with no bits of humor or anything to break up the monotony. The acting seems to be well done, but the Mandarin completely steals the show but there’s really not much show to steal. Maybe episode 4 will be better, but as is this may not be as infuriating as Iron Heart or as bad as She Hulk, but it might be the absolute most forgettable live action show created for Disney plus. Probably why nobody is even talking about this show even though there hasn’t been anything on the platform for a few months other than Hollywood critics.
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  6. Chronocidal
    They gave the same care to the A-Wing I think (ignoring the guns.. they need a re-mold, but that's an easy 3D print replacement). It's tough to judge from some film miniature photos, which seem to have a ruler for scale that doesn't make sense, but when you consider the parts used to build the A-Wing, the toy looks almost dead-on filming model scale. You know, unless Hasegawa and Tamiya happened to put out F-14s and F-16s in even bigger scales than 1/32. Although, I suppose it's possible they just used RC aircraft models, or maybe cast custom parts? I always thought the parts looked very specifically like certain pieces of the early Hasegawa 1/32 F-16 kits, but it's possible they just upscaled them and cast their own after prototyping with the base kits.
  7. grogall
    I think everyone is just being way too negative in their expectations lately! You have to think like @Shawn and it will happen! I'm positive the VE-1 Elintseeker is going to happen this year, I'm positive so it will happen! 🤗................😉
  8. Big s
    Sometimes even bad Nick Cage is still good, but Crazy Nick Cage is always best
  9. Big s
    I totally agree. Looks like total trash
  10. tekering
    Incidentally, here's a decent 1:6 X-Wing: It's not perfect, either, but it sports a much better paint job, accommodates a pilot figure, and it's totally scratchbuilt -- no 3D-printed parts at all! 😲
  11. Big s
    Totally forgot about that game
  12. Big s
    I think they should’ve put his lady on the stand instead
  13. tekering
    I fear you may be waiting an eternity. 😕 I can't believe how good Hasbro's TIE Bomber still holds up, TWENTY-FIVE years later...! Their TIE Advanced from '96 was so lousy, they had to produce a new sculpt from scratch last year... 🤨 ...yet the TIE Bomber was so proportionally-accurate, it's almost a 1:24 studio-scale replica. Somebody really cared back then. ❤️
  14. sh9000
    DK-07 Reissue.
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  16. sh9000
    VF-25G.
  17. Negotiator
    Arms/elbows look terrible. Like a bootleg.
  18. mikeszekely
    I transformed mine into a ball. ...I just never turned him back into a robot.
  19. Negotiator
    I have the studio cell. I will never transform that thing into a ball.
  20. M'Kyuun
    Glad to hear you're warm and cozy once again. Hopefully the source of the water can be found and remedied lest your furnace woes continue. I do indeed marvel at MMC's ingenuity and talent when it comes to engineering these things. In a number of ways, be it full-scaled intricately designed cassettes or all-in-one combiners, MMC is doing things that no other company is even attempting and doing it with the sort of style that would make Jazz happy. 😉 I have all of MMC's main character cassettes except Frenzy (the red one) and IMHO their weakest efforts were the condors, which are still pretty good. I wish they'd found a different solution for the wings, but we're here to talk about Forte (Ramhorn). Honestly, I can't recall if I've even ever seen the Sunbow episode(s) that he was in ; for me, it was always about the fact that a cassette turns into a cool red rhino. Even the G1 toy, which I have sitting on my desk as I type, managed to evince an organic shape reminiscent of the actual animal, moreso even than MMC's take, which is exaggerated to more closely resemble the animation. Nevertheless, I absolutely love how he looks. Side note, out of curiosity, I decided to actually look at real rhinos to see how the G1 toy and MMC's takes compare. I figured MMC had it in the bag with that prominent shoulder hump and descending line down the back, but in fact, most of the pics I saw show the shoulder and pelvic humps at about the same height with a gentle curve between, which is how the G1 toy presents. The animation tended to omit the pelvic hump, putting emphasis on the shoulder. It looks cool, even if it's not perfectly accurate to the actual animal or the G1 toy by comparison. Credit where due, Takashi Matsuda, the designer of most, if not all, the G1 cassettes, deserves a shout-out for creating one of the coolest gimmicks in all of Micro-change, which went on to become a major part of the first wave of Transformers toys. Most of his animal designs do a great job of copying the salient features of the animals they portray, an impressive feat given the small, thin wafer template he had to work with. I'm forever a fan. I'm also a long-time fan of MMC, most notably of Alex Kubalsky, who designed all the MMC cassettes, and Jesslyn B. for her sculpt work. Again, credit where due. Beyond the upscaling, MMC's two greatest achievements with this line are giving more thickness to the bodies of the quadrupeds allowing for more realistic shaping and stability, and the inclusion of the weapons in the transformation. No partsforming here. Kubalsky, when he worked at Takara, was the first designer to give greater dimensionality to a cassette with the 2009 Universe Classics 2.0 Hound and Ravage. Ravage's jet packs were also part of his sculpt, albeit unpainted, too small, and misplaced above the hips instead of sitting outside of them. Still, it was step forward in design and I appreciate it. IMHO, it's still better than MP Ravage which fared the poorest among the MP cassettes, alas. This was a radical rethink of how a cassette could be designed, and it seems he's dialed it to 11 since becoming part of MMC. I wholeheartedly agree that the scaling of these, at least in bot mode, is far more complimentary overall to the MP line. Moreover, their sophisticated transformations, the excellent sculpt work, the high level of articulation, and other features/ details all reach what we've come to expect from MP standards. It is slightly lamentable that no oversized Soundwave or Blaster figures exist in which to place these guys (they'd be huge comparatively), but that's ok. I'm glad we still have the micro-cassettes and folks like KFC and Fans Toys, as well as Takara themselves still making "MP" level cassettes at the original micro-, or mini-cassette scale. I'm equal opportunity- I'll take all the transforming cassettes you can give me regardless of the scale. Funny that they wrapped the instructions around the case. Jaguar's, I recall, came folded around the cassette like the liners of the old 80s and 90s cassettes. it was yet another cool feature. Guess maybe there were issues doing that? IDK. Very, very much surprised that Toyhax did no labels for either Tempo (Steeljaw) or Forte. These things are beggaring for old 80s styled cassette livery and Toyhax never seems to let an opportunity like this slip away without an overabundance of stickers to complete the look of your toy and charge more money in the process. I'd be down for sets for both- still waiting.... I'm also wowed with every one of these cassette releases. MMC's engineering prowess is understated, IMHO. I don't own a MP scaled Blaster, so I don't have one to stand next to the cassettes. I've no room for a MP Blaster in my Detolf anyway, so I guess it works out. I'm also anticipating their Ratbat. I hope it's better than the condors. I have high hopes it'll be another impressive addition to the line. As I said in my mini-review, I hope they go on to do the rest of the cassettes as well at this scale and level of engineering. I'm in for all of them (except the drone, which is a boring design amongst the rest). Great review, Mike!
  21. Dangard Ace
    Apparently Dawn Moreno is coming. Great that we’re finally getting some comic figures but where the he’ll is Kwinn, Oktober Guard or Dr Venom?
  22. Froy
    The extra head in that bundle could actually be the one with the white goggle. Only in very rare instances the TV armored VF-1J is presented with a white goggle.
  23. Swann
    Promo poster for Vol.IV Long Thoughts LP. It is a oddity for sure.
  24. rsvictor1976
    I don't have either and wouldn't mind owning one of them. The Studio Cell figure does look great and I was considering getting one, simply because the Haslab one is way too expensive now. From what I've seen on YouTube, the Studio Cell Unicron isn't easy to transform either though.
  25. jenius
    If it's the 1J Hikaru again they should make it a TV super bundle with a TWE Miria in a similar set up being available a month later...
  26. nightmareB4macross
    They already did this with the GBP-1J Bundle set.
  27. Froy
    If Bandai is going to pull one more of this dumb moves at less they should throw in a grey goggle head like yamato did back then.
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