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So cool. Thanks for sharing. I’d love to see that Starscream! I always loved the voice acting for this character in the animated series I remember as a kid.

The Earth/Central New UN Forces approved the YF-24 Evolution No.3 prototype for mass production as the VF-24 in 2057. The program's about 1 1/2 years ahead of the YF/VF-25 and YF/VF-27 programs by the Macross Frontier and Macross Galaxy emigrant fleets. The only variant yet mentioned has been the VF-24A, yes, and the details are predictably pretty sparse. Honestly though, don't let yourself feel "locked in" by what the official media says. The (partially redacted) YF-24 Evolution blueprints were shared to all New UN Government member governments galaxy-wide. It's very likely (bordering on a certainty) that multiple emigrant governments working with less resources than the fantastically wealthy Frontier and Galaxy fleets either opted to purchase export variants of the VF-24 directly from Earth's government or just used their own locally produced technology to fill in the various gaps left by the omission of Earth's proprietary developments and produced their own version of the VF-24 via a build-under-license agreement. There are likely a bunch of slightly different local variations of the VF-24A with slightly different capabilities depending on who built them, which could go anywhere from differences in equipment and armament to changes in appearance.

After watching Legacy get progressively worse and worse over its three year run, I'm feeling like 2025's been a pretty great year for the brand. Age of the Primes brought us Vortex and the Aerialbots, not to mention a number of the mythical Primes the line is named for, including a very excellent modern Star Convoy. On the Studio Series side we got a whole new Devastator, a cool Deluxe-sized Optimus to fight him, and an impressively cartoon-accurate Megatron despite turning into a tank. What more could we ask for? Well, a new Deluxe Seapsray, for starters. It's a little weird that third parties have dipped into the Seaspray well many times (iGear, Maketoys, ToyWorld, X-Transbots, Magic Square, NewAge, and Dr. Wu have all done a Seaspray, and Fans Toys has done him twice) but in the last 40 years we just had the original (and the G2 repaint) and Titans Returns (unless you count the Bayverse one). Hasbro's finally giving our boy a proper Deluxe-class glow up... in a Walmart-exclusive line of decos based on the G1 toys. *sigh* It's like Velocitron Cosmos all over again (though Cosmos did eventually get a re-release in Legacy, perhaps Seaspray will be more widely available later...). The "retro" deco fortunately isn't all that far off from the cartoon, though. I'd imagine a purely Sunbow deco would put an Autobot badge on his tummy while losing the painted "stickers" on the sides and the black windows. Maybe use a slightly darker blue plastic. And they'd likely do a different head without the vents and with blue eyes on gray instead of a blank black visor. Those are the sorts of details that are just changed enough to get me to re-buy without making me feel like the retro deco isn't good enough for now. Seaspray's sole accessory is a rather generic gun. It's very hollowed out, but painted silver and does the job. Seaspray's head is on a ball joint, though there's very little tilt available, and swiveling his head is awkward with the propellors in the way. His shoulders swivel and move almost 90 degrees laterally. His biceps swivel, and his elbows bend over 90 degrees. His wrists can tilt up and down a little for some reason, but they don't swivel. His waist does have a swivel, however, if you bend his hips it'll get caught on the white armor on his hips. Speaking of hips, he can move them 90 degrees backward or laterally, but he's again limited to only about 45 degrees forward due to the collision of the white hip armor and his torso. His thighs swivel, and his knees bend 90 degrees. Despite how you'd think he transforms, there's no up/down tilt on his feet, and his ankles only pivot about 30 degrees. Seaspray holds his gun just fine in either hand. He's also got 5mm ports on the outside of either forearm, on either bicep, under each foot, and on his back. While these ports might work well with old Weaponizers or Junkions or whatever, the "magazine" on Seaspray's gun is longer than the 5mm peg, so in bot mode his gun can't really go anywhere but his hands. Seaspray's transformation is weirdly complicated, sometimes unnecessarily so. Like, ok, his spine has to bend backward to tuck his pelvis and shorten his legs, and parts of the floaty bits fold out from under his feet so that they're not too big in bot mode. We're used to seeing stuff like that. But, why do his arms have to swivel 180 degrees? Why is all the yellow stuff around his head on multiple hinges that extend it out from his body before turning the propellors? Regardless, the alt mode is mostly good. His shins are properly visible on the top, and there's an Autobot badge where the G1 toy had a rubsign. Things do get a little messy toward the rear, where the extended yellow bits don't even tuck his head in as well as the G1 toy did, stretching everything a bit too far behind the blue and capping it with a random white flap that half-heartedly covers his face. Seaspray's propellors can spin. He lacks any kind of wheels to roll on. While Seaspray does have two 5mm ports on either side, again, the gun can't really plug into them. Hasbro's solution is to put a small peg on one side of the propellors. This mates with a port on the side of the gun. Which is fine, but... ...there's a TON of empty space under his feet. More than enough that his gun could have stored totally out of sight, if Hasbro had just has the presence of mind to design some way for it to have secured under there. As I prefer hidden weapons to weapons randomly stuck to their Earth mode "disguises," this is a huge missed opportunity. Seaspray is... well, if I'm being honest, a tad disappointing. Don't get me wrong, he's the best Seaspray Hasbro's done (in a Sunbow style), and short a hypothetical but likely toonier repaint probably the one you want on your shelf. But I can't shake the feeling that they tried to get a little too creative with the engineering while not leaving themselves enough time to polish it. If they would have simplified a few things, refined a few other things, and made a way to store the gun under the feet, they would have been flirting with greatness here. As it is, you'll have to make due with "pretty good."

And something I came across at an FYE entertainment store was this little Transformers model made by Blokees. (No, I never heard of them either...) But this is Arcee, I think from one of the cartoons. A bit different from the standard, but I thought it looked kind of cute, I like Arcee and Transformers, and so there you go! Not a very involved kit. You don't need glue or paint, and it took me about twenty minutes with some spru cutters and a light sanding stick. There is sope there to paint more and weather it, but I was just in mind to simply assemble something rather then engage my entire modeler-self, which, sadly, has not completed anything in a very long time... so it was nice to get this out and put together! And she comes with a nice base and flight display arm. Very cool. Now I guess I should start that Trumpeter Starcream... She does need someone to fight against after all.

finally! a new Patlabor after so so so SO long.

Watched Marvel Zombies. I enjoyed way more than i thought i would. Way better than anything live action in a while.

Gotten a little aged over the last year of intense combat!

Misa, my number 1 anime crush! Hikaru was stupid for taking so long!

Maybe it will be Vision's quest to save Wanda.

RIP Poster Master!

Dunno if this is on anyone's radar, but apparently MR got the molds to the old Diamond Select phaser and communicator. Not sure whether it's missing any major functions, but I was not expecting the price to be anything this reasonable, and I just decided to order one on impulse. https://www.masterreplicas.com/collections/star-trek/products/star-trek-phaser-type-2-2266-69

At BBTS - $126 USD without added taxes https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/339432?utm_source=Advertiser+&utm_medium=Link+&utm_campaign=Ad+Program+&utm_content=Enewsi+&utm_source=Advertiser &utm_medium=Link &utm_campaign=Ad Program &utm_content=Enewsi

Duel of the Fates (Prequel edition this time). Let it begin again. 👹

I wish Moderoid did theirs in 1/72, mostly since the model world usually sticks to that scale, but I am glad that they’ve done so many designs from the series so far.

A lil rough around the edges, but still looks pretty cool. I bet in real life without being able to zoom in that it looks even better

Just needing a top coat and a wash. There are no decals. I rushed this as much as possible and it shows in some areas, but I’m good with it. Lots learned with this one. I know that this is a precursor to F.S.S. MH design ethos so I figure it’s no problem making this look dirty and weathered unlike all the high gloss pristine F.S.S. mecha. 😉

From certain angles, the SV-262 Fighter can look a bit dumpy.. But I love everything else about this design. Keith's Hs still has the better colors overall, but I'm happy Bandai made Bogue's variant. Hopefully Bandai gives us the 262Ba before the release of the next Macross show. If Bandai wants to continue to be lazy the Ba would be a perfect VF for it - just needs light remolds on the wings and head.

nice!

Revisited an early build today while waiting for some paint to dry. I think this was my 4th build since starting this hobby? I didn’t know much about panel lining then and still don’t know much about weathering. I decided to add some brown oil wash to it and see what’s up. It sure looks dingy now but I feel like it really brings out all those nice details. Also all the messed up decals and poor seam line removal are all there as a reminder of how I have grown. Baby steps. Here is before taken last year and this is today after the wash

I really don't know why people are so down on it. I liked it better than Fantastic Four or Superman when it comes to movies I've seen this year.

Great looking f-15 J-kai. Luckily the 1/72 stuff is close enough in scale to the 1/60 moderoids so they don't look too out of place next to eachother

I see. Thanks for the heads up. The search continues.

Just a word of caution: IKEA discontinued the Detolf, so you’d have to see what other alternatives they have for glass display cases. The biggest drawback is that none of their other offerings really have that unobstructed look that the Detolf has. 🫤

That's awesome.