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  2. borgified
    You really have to be a Showa/Heisei/Reiwa Kamen Rider fan to get at least one of these upscaled versions of the many characters of the franchise.
  3. borgified
    $116 USD, July-Sept 2026
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  5. Big s
    Definitely my favorite song of theirs. Followed by Stone Cold Crazy
  6. sh9000
    It takes 10 seconds to find one online.
  7. derex3592
    One day I will stop logging on to the MWF every few years and be able to ACTUALLY EASILY PRE-ORDER something I want from Bandai in a way that's easier than seeking the lost ark of the covenant....But today is not that day
  8. Papa Rat
    Thanks so much! That KOG you hooked me up with is starting to take shape. Also my first resin kit arrived and is taking a bath in degreaser. A new adventure begins. I have lots to learn.
  9. Black Valkyrie
  10. tekering
    A collection to be proud of.
  11. tekering
    They don't get much rarer than this... The Kubrick Star Wars DX Series 2 chase AT-ST Driver. It's taken me FIFTEEN YEARS to track one down! 🥲
  12. TangledThorns
    That was too cheesy for my tastes. I thought Xfinity's ET Superbowl commercial was waaaaay better.
  13. sh9000
  14. sh9000
    HISHE.
  15. sh9000
    Mirage Shock Commando Triceraton.
  16. sh9000
    Star Wars TBS Nightsister Merrin.
  17. Froy
    Some are going for lower than 20k yen at mandarake. Don't know how they manage tariffs but shiping is not like super crazy.
  18. Axelay
    OK, I guess I will roll the dice on that one. I fear what the shipping charge will be,
  19. Big s
    I was under the same impression. I thought for sure they would just use the actual voices, but I guess I was also wrong
  20. shazam
    Bandai - Dragon Ball Super - Dragon Stars Series - Super Saiyan Blue Gogeta (DBS Broly Ver.) Action Figure x 3
  21. Abse1998 started following Final Fantasy structure arts model kits.
  22. Abse1998
    Oh wow 😀
  23. grogall
    +2
  24. Big s
    I guess it’s about time for Revoltekkaman Blade figures
  25. Tking22
    I was under the impression the original actors were voicing their characters in this series, and this was the "out" to having more adventures when they were actually kids. Gotta say, I'm less interested now, that seems like a missed opportunity and I don't know why Netflix didn't spend the money to get the actual actors to return, it's voice work, they could record it anywhere.
  26. sh9000
    Preordered Powerglide and Swerve at Walmart for $24.97 each.
  27. sh9000
    Kamen Rider Amazon.
  28. Seto Kaiba
    The bridge module Excelsior had as a transwarp system testbed wasn't that much bigger than post-commissioning bridge it entered fleet service with. Of course, it also makes sense for a testbed starship to have extra stations on the bridge to monitor all of its various systems during testing. (Though it actually had fewer people stationed on it than the fleet service version did. NX-2000 Excelsior's bridge seated 13, the service version had 17.) It took me a bit to figure out why the Academy-class starship's bridge feels so uselessly huge. It was so stupidly obvious I can't believe that I missed it. Look at the walls. Up to now, almost every Starfleet starship bridge we've seen has been liberally festooned with consoles around the outer perimeter of the room. This goes all the way back to the TOS-era Enterprise where every inch of wall that wasn't the viewscreen or turbolift door was occupied by a console of some description. This tendency was carried over into TMP's refit, and from there into practically every other Federation starship design. There are a handful of exceptions like the Ambassador, Galaxy, and Olympia-classes that put most of their consoles across the rear 90 degrees or so of the bridge, but practically every Federation starship before or since has positively ringed the bridge with consoles. What's different in the Academy-class USS Athena is that the bridge is still practically a ring of consoles... but the walls have moved outward 6-10 feet on each side, leaving all the previously wall-mounted consoles freestanding in the middle of the room. The actual bridge is an island sitting in the middle of Deck 1, with a huge walkway around it like it's a zen garden in a Japanese estate. Instead of wall mounted consoles, the bridge seems to have five viewscreens around almost the entire perimeter of the room. The one mounted starboard aft seems to be pulling similar duty to the big Master Systems Displays on older starships, while the others don't seem to be being used for anything. So there's just this massive ring of NOTHING around the actual bridge... and because they're using holo-comms instead of the viewscreen, the actual viewscreen is pretty much surplus to requirements 90% of the time. All things considered, I'd assume that's a negligible concern at worst. After all, in the 32nd century Starfleet ships have clearly advanced considerably from the 23rd and 24th century designs we know. They've been able to delegate a lot of repair and maintenance work to autonomous robots, they've made programmable nanotechnology a core feature of almost every part of a ship's structure down to things as mundane as the crew quarters furniture, replicators have been commonplace for almost a millennium, and surely they've improved the output and efficiency of things like the impulse reactors and warp core in the intervening centuries. The Athena has, by any reckoning, at least two warp cores and possibly more than that depending on how "disconnected nacelles" work... given that we've seen that at the very least the Saucer section is capable of independent warp travel without the nacelles or engineering section. If they've gone all the way back towards early TOS explanations, the Academy-class may well be able to lean on THREE warp cores worth of output to provide for its energy needs. (Which makes Braka's attempt to steal one of them feel less like a major crime and more like pickpocketing.) Shipwide holograms have been something ships could manage on the energy budget of the late 24th century, so that's clearly no problem. (Back before the "warp core" was invented as a concept, TOS Main Engineering was the impulse reactor room at the back of the saucer section and the warp drive's power system was inside the nacelles themselves. The whole reasoning behind the nacelles being a thing was that any power source potent enough to warp space and time must be radioactive AF, and thus should be kept away from inhabited sections of the ship and be jettisoned if needed. If the nacelles are powered individually like that, and the saucer has its own warp drive as we saw recently, that's 3 warp cores if we assume the secondary hull lacks one or at least two if they're doing things the newer way.) They've got enough spare juice kicking around to give everyone a personal transporter and tricorder built into their commbadge and officers on space stations are shown literally unmaking the bed at the molecular level each morning.
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