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  2. mechaninac
    You mean, like Paramount did with ST: Starfleet Academy?... I do think D+ will have much better returns with what is just the pointless filler that is Maul than P+ had with the THE MESSAGE-bloated cringe-fest unintended parody that is Academy, but the decision to approve a second season without proving the viability of the first comes from the same place unearned confidence and arrogance. At least in Filoni's case, CG animation is his wheelhouse, though he should steer clear of Live Action; nobody has been able to ever find Kurtzman's forte, other than being a consummate BS artist.
  3. shazam
    ThreeZero - Robotech - VF-1J Veritech (Max Sterling) ROBO-DOU 8" Action Figure x 3
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  5. Roy Focker
    A 2nd Season? Its creator and showrunner must have really impressed one of the heads of Lucas Film. Just imagine how good it must be to approve a 2nd season before any audience or critic feedback. Filoni is blessed to have Filoni working for him.
  6. m0n5t3r
    Finally received my 40th Anniv. Hot Rod. So relieved to have not gotten a lemon and the weeks of waiting and worrying are finally over. Just the usual minor qc stuff that took a couple of minutes to touch up. I was so focused on the updated colors of this release that I never really paid attention to the accessories, and when I got it I just felt kinda indifferent about the color update... either deco is fine with me. But what I never realized I wanted or needed that came with this release is the fishing rod! It's probably the only accessory I'm gonna be displaying this Hot Rod with .
  7. sh9000
    Batman.
  8. Valkyrie Hunter D
    Schway! Yeah, that's gonna a must-buy.
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  10. sh9000
    Comparison with Leader-1.
  11. Lolicon
    My first instinct was to fill in the leaks with some white liquid putty before I emailed them about it. I haven't read any of the forums about it. Why in the world would they use grey putty on a white ship? Looks like I'm picking up some white putty. My last bottle of Tamiya liquid putty solidified long ago...
  12. M'Kyuun
    I haven't gotten mine yet (still in Japan when I checked tracking yesterday), but your description is quite apt compared to the several vid reviews I've seen thus far. Toyrise was going for a simplified, playable approach to the Legioss while still producing a faithful rendition of it and in that they succeeded. My main niggle remains the limited arc of motion for the font part of the feet, and the open forearms to a lesser degree. I figure some of these TF third parties might be able to address that as they do with so many TF toys. Small shame that all the little doors don't open on the legs to show the rockets, but it's a small sacrifice. The Sentinel does it brilliantly, and the Pose+ will, too, so I'm content with my high-end toys featuring all the bells and whistles while the Toyrise does what it was meant to do: be a fun toy first and foremost. I'm looking forward to getting my copy and I'm glad I decided to get the Omega, as the design appeals to me, I like the colors, and it'll be great to have a Legioss that's easier to transform and handle than the more complex and fragile-feeling Sentinel. The Toyrise is about the size of a leader class Transformer, so technically, since these first three Toyrise versions are non-canon, one could incorporate them into their Transformers collection if they so desired. Slap a faction symbol on there and make up your own head-canon.
  13. Chronocidal
    I don't properly remember how diver mode generally works, but I did take a good spread of fighter and bot mode pics. Honestly, these are so close in fighter that's hilarious. Sentinel is 8.5 inches long with a 6.4 inch wingspan. The Tomy is 8.4 inches long, with a 6.1 inch wingspan, though you could say the Tomy cheats on the length a little by not collapsing the feet quite as far. Either way, they're just really close. Height-wise, the Sentinel grows more, so it comes out about an inch taller overall, closer to 7 inches than the Tomy's roughly 6 inch height. Overall? The comparison I was expecting was something like a DX to an HMR.. but I think that's actually underselling both of them in a couple of ways. The Sentinel feels incredibly over-engineered, but it pulls off the design amazingly, in ways no one had tried before. The Tomy version just feels like someone decided to take more creative liscence with the transformation, and then asked "How can we do this for half the price?" And I do not mean the Tomy feels cheap by that. It's obviously simpler, but compared with the complexity of the Sentinel, it's also a lot more fun to mess with. The Sentinel feels like a (very small) high-end collectible. The Tomy just feels like someone wanted something fun to mess with in the same scale, and at a much more reasonable price. I'd say they succeeded in that. It's really enjoyable to transform, I just yanked it out of the package without even looking at the instructions, and was posing it in a couple of minutes. It just feels like it could use a little paint on things like the landing gear (which do give the chest ground clearance, by the way). Sadly one of my copies also came missing the yellow end-cap on the right arm, so I'm going to have to try and navigate HLJ's customer service about that one. It's not a complex part, so maybe something I could also scratch up a copy of, but if these get released stateside, I might try service on that end. Honestly, I'm kind of tempted to pick up more of these guys, they're just very fun. I went and ordered a second copy of the black one when the reviews started hitting, but the green was sold out.
  14. Papa Rat
    @derex3592Congrats. Now just make the $255 look like a $ million.
  15. Papa Rat
    I so wish I was able to find the vinyl or plastic versions of anything BGC. Your build is inspiring me. Hanami time. My wife and I were in Japan for Hanami 8 years ago. Such a beautiful time. 🌸
  16. mikeszekely
    Aw, too small to run around and pew pew with. They look similar in size to that ChangTiao core class-style Megatron.
  17. sh9000
    Batman Beyond.
  18. sh9000
    https://www.usagundamstore.com/products/macross-frontier-dx-chogokin-vf-25-messiah-valkyrie-top-gun-maverick-ver-action-figure https://toyarena.com/products/bandai-dx-chogokin-macross-frontier-vf-25-messiah-valkyrie-top-gun-maverick-ver-action-figure
  19. AbdnAllHope
    Mine arrived today from HLJ. First reaction.....it's fun.
  20. sh9000
    Combine.
  21. Big s
    Sometimes you just gotta have a lil laugh I hear they’re working on more animated silliness and I can’t wait.
  22. sh9000
    Marvel Legends Emma Frost Diamond Form x2.
  23. Big s
    Yeah, it’s definitely some madness going on. Wish these were available stateside.
  24. TG Remix
    So not to over-exaggerate or anything, but it's only chapter 1 and it might be one of the best stories I've ever read from the franchise. It's kind of embarrassing to admit that I actually got emotional reading through it all lol. I've always been an advocate on playing around the themes and positions Zentradi has in the bigger world since SDF, and Chelsea as the main protagonist a wonderful character to show those through her lens. I'm already privy of her backstory details, but even without that you get a real good idea of her character, struggling to fit into the larger culture as a Earthling (a failed idol career from being racially tokened, and her parents all but disowning her for not "understanding culture,") or fitting as a soldier as a Zentradi (being scouted for Klan's Pixy Team as a Queadluun-Rhea pilot mostly because she's a Meltran, and her hesitating to shoot down a Nousjadeul-Ger pilot after seeing his face.) Coupled with her interactions with SMS characters, old and new, you really get a real good sense of her, as if we knew her for years. On that note, it brings up very interesting implications for the bigger world of Macross. Chelsea's parents unfairly ridicule her for being the person who is the reason why Zentradi aren't accepted by Earthlings, and pretty much everything surrounding the Koperl's recon squad. The disconnect between "culturized" Zentradi and "rogue" Zentradi is uncomfortably disassociating, with the implications that some, including the NUNS high command, don't even see the latter as people, even though all first generation Zentradi like Vhirler were more or less in that same position. Although the conversation between him and Wilder seem to suggest a common practice where a Zentran scout is sent to a rogue fleet and see if they'd surrender, at least a possibility to prevent any casualties or in the best case scenario, them being adopted into NUN control. And when things inevitably went south, I was surprised to see a Minmay Attack being utilized, I even got Macross II flashbacks when the Ghosts projected holograms of Sheryl. Interestingly enough it argues the actual effectiveness of it, both in its actual story and in-universe, where it makes a jab at how movies and tv shows have Zentradi lose all of their will to fight the moment they hear music and how "that isn't how it really was." I do love the self awareness Kodachi seemed to have with that, because it very much is in cases like Macross 7's Chlore Fleet, ironically years later with Macross the Musicalture's Neo Zentran movement, and even Frontier itself with Temjin's rebellion! If anything you can argue the sense that not only it is pretty haphazard in its actual practical use and plays further with how non-cultured Zentradi are perceived by others. All in all, wonderful first impression, and I am figuratively and literally jumping in my seat for what the next chapter has to offer. Thank you so much for sharing this with us!
  25. Seto Kaiba
    Well, the first two episodes of Maul: Edgelord Shadow Lord are out on Disney+ as of today. It really is proof - as if more were necessary - that Dave Filoni still has not mentally or artistically moved on from The Clone Wars even as that series approaches its 20th anniversary. There is just nothing here. The first two episodes of Maul: Shadow Lord are an empty, meaningless exercise in nostalgia for nostalgia's sake. One person in my watch group called it a "member berry smoothie", whatever that means. Stabba Badguyman one-dimensionally revenge-murders his way through a parade of nameless mooks in pursuit of his non-specific revenge against a largely ill-defined group of people. Maul is basically the Star Wars equivalent of a chuunibyou character. 😅 The one upside is that, with his constant nattering on about revenge, Sam Witwer's Maul sounds uncannily like James Urbaniak's Phantom Limb from The Venture Bros.
  26. derex3592
    Well, here they are....the two MOST expensive model kits I have ever or WILL ever buy.....$255 give or take a few cents to get them to my doorstep from HLJ....and that was the CHEAPER of the two ASS RAPE shipping options from them. I'm out. Done. Over it. Never again buying anything overseas until this tarriff madness stops, and the jacked up shipping rates subside, if they ever do.
  27. wm cheng
    Gorgeous @Lolicon! I'm still waiting for my shipping notice - us Canadians usually gets the shaft. I was wondering if anyone on here would be getting it. Are you on the Facebook Tomy sites? The official Tomy site has been censored to be mostly positive, but this site has a lot more complaining, but also more information on fixes; https://www.facebook.com/groups/873995894505608 It seems like Tomy repairs light leaks nowadays with grey putty. There's so much talk on them. Did you see the threads with the water-based white Vallejo putty that people are doing themselves which seem to look better IMO.
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