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  2. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    A wild last boss appeared was so funny yesterday. Onsen episode.
  3. sh9000
    Happy Anniversary.
  4. sh9000
    Cool.
  5. TangledThorns
    Injured my left hand and can't play games so gave this series a go and it's waaaay better than expected. The pilot was a slow burn but the series got more and more interesting. Good cast and sci-fi story so I recommend it as binge worthy since it's only six hour long episodes.
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  7. Mommar
    Where do you live?
  8. David Hingtgen
    Looks like the nosegear has the same issue as the YF-21, where it doesn't seem to be able to QUITE fully unfold, leaving a kink/gap in the middle of the strut.
  9. treatment
    full-scale fighter-shots at Heppoko's tweet below... https://twitter.com/simsim5479/status/1982436897487290452 web-translated: downscaled sample:
  10. Seto Kaiba
    Understandable. After all, The Rise of Skywalker was a pile of desperate corporate-dictated course corrections in a trench coat pretending to be a movie. 🫤 's kind of why I've been arguing that there's no saving The Rise of Skywalker's big bad switcheroo plot twist no matter how much setup you do. He's still an outside-context problem brought in because the studio probably felt Kylo Ren's villain cred was insufficient to carry the final third of the trilogy.
  11. VF-Zero
    I ordered Ultimate Iron Man yesterday from a local store. It is really a matter of luck with Marvel Legends figures for me. Local Stores don't import everything, but they imported Ultimate Iron Man to my luck. Figers crossed for Gameverse Punisher & Nick Fury two pack. Ultimate Iron Man has a nostalgic value for me. When i saw the Ultimate Iron Man Armor Design, i really liked it so much back in the day and followed Ultimate Iron Man Comics monthly. I was so disappointed when i found out that Ultimate Iron Man series was just a mini series. I was really enjoying it.
  12. Froy
    MAKKUSU!!! A quick snap while cleaning my bead headboard. and testing new phone photo filters.
  13. treatment
    Pilot seat does not rotate on the Bandai DX Kai: https://twitter.com/TakowasaShell/status/1982051807846429098 --- add/edit: Heppoko recently tweeted his DX Kai comparo-pics. Click on his tweeter-links for full-scale of his pics below: https://twitter.com/simsim5479/status/1982443757107908824 web-translated: https://twitter.com/simsim5479/status/1982443761394483657 web-translated:
  14. sh9000
    Yes.
  15. sh9000
    Obviously.
  16. Captain Global
    Apparently as @itachi_neko points out, the battroid pilot hatch gimmick is still present. I find it wierd it's not present in the manual, just a little easter egg. It seems the Yamcadia DNA runs even deeper than I thought. https://x.com/itachi_neko/status/1982369012760940786/photo/2
  17. anime52k8
    that last one is beautiful.❤️
  18. Scyla
    Yesterday was the 3rd party panel of the Chicago TFCon. In true FansToys fashion they rained on the parade of DX9 and 01-Studio by announcing their Datsuns and Broadside: I find it funny that their Scavenger doesn’t look like an undefined blob of a shape (other than FT Bonecrusher): The only thing I’m going to preorder are the Datsuns. Broadside is interesting but at 700mm (28”) length much too big for me. Other than that I am super excited for this years exclusive: Fans Hobby Euro G1 Predator Skyquake
  19. barurutor
    barurutor changed their profile photo
  20. barurutor
    Apparently T-Rex is involved in the Chogokin VF-19 design (along with a bunch of Yamato/Arcadia classics including the Arcadia YF-19), wonder who did the YF-21?
  21. renegadeleader1
    Is that supposed to be a female crimson guard? 🤔
  22. mikeszekely
    Same. Honestly, that's usually the same for me. I've had basically no interested in anything Cang Toys has done (I like Gundam, and I like Transformers, but it doesn't mean I want my Transformers to look like Gundam🙃), no interest in TFC's Abominus, the only Iron Factory stuff I ever bought was their Bruticus, and DST's Aerialbots did nothing for me. I dunno why, but their Constructicons grabbed me, though. Mostly same, WfC Trilogy, Legacy, SS86, and AotP are giving me a lot of what I originally wanted like 10 years ago but felt the mainline wasn't delivering at the time. That said, I don't mind more complex stuff if it's good, interesting, or clever, like a lot of what MMC does, or some of Unique Toys' Bayverse stuff. When I criticize FT's Aerialbots for being over-engineered, I don't simply mean they were fiddly. I mean they took five steps to do something that could have been done in two, and they somehow nerfed a waist swivel while doing it. You specifically mentioned how they managed to make Silverbolt less of a Concorde with a brick of robot underneath, for example, but they way I saw it, sure, that block of robot was thinner, but it was still there, despite all the extra engineering that went into smearing that robot brick out and jamming some of it into the fuselage. Worse, it broke up the line of windows where they added humps to fit everything, so the alt mode looked worse from the top, too. Nope, I meant DST. He's going to be part of their Constructicon set. You may or may not recall, when I reviewed their Hook, I showed that he had the standard upper torso mode, but also a leg mode. In a nod to the IDW comics, you can make Hook a leg in place of Scrapper (who was killed by Spike), and Prowl can form the upper torso. The head that came with Hook already has the crest for "Prowlestator."
  23. Big s
    I remember less and less of that movie every day I guess. I kinda remember the part where they were on top of the star destroyer, but I don’t remember that character and I forgot about the horses I guess it’s kinda like that second Transformers movie where most people don’t like it and some people did, but nobody seems to remember how they got in the desert
  24. Mommar
    The processing fee is $7. Those shops are marking it way up to screw you.
  25. Shawn
    Let's see how these things hold up with applying that pressure in 10 plus years The video showed great excitement about the folding parts behind the head in battroid mode. It looks like it might be hard to align with big monkey hands like mine.
  26. Chronocidal
    Yeah, that's just the natural impact of the insane hip joint Bandai developed. It gives a pretty good range of motion, but holy cow does the entire mechanism of the hips scare me from all the tiny parts. Edit; Also, as a preemptive safety measure, you may want to loosen the screws in the hip joints for ease of use. The YF-19s always came insanely tight, and I know of at least a couple instances where it led to the plastic parts breaking around the screws. I can only hope that the mechanism is similar enough to be able to loosen it the same way this time around.
  27. MKT
    I also keep hearing yes.. Yes.. YESSS! Feels like watching the wrong genre.
  28. M'Kyuun
    S'all good. 😁 FWIW, The FT figs, and the two Dream Star figs I own, are a bit too fiddly for my liking. I've never transformed either back to its plane mode, and while I do like how they look in their bot modes, I honestly wouldn't miss them if I sold them off. Twenty or so years ago, I championed increasingly complex transformations; however, as I get older and my threshold for patience stretches ever the more taught, there never being much to begin with, I find my enjoyment of the fiddlier transforming toys wanes. I think the CHUG+ toys strike an excellent balance for me, and while I still enjoy picking up the odd third-party fig here and there, mostly legends but sometimes MP or thereabouts, or the odd Macross fig (I've only this year begun collecting a few HMR Macross figs and I very much enjoy them), I find I grow weary at times with some of their transformations. Thus said, I can certainly empathize with your frustration with oft over-complex engineering. As much as I really like transforming toys in general, when it comes to Transformers, perhaps the tenacious lure of nostalgia has me in its grip more so than other properties, as I'm unabashedly a G1 fan, although I don't subscribe to the plain cartoon look as so many other fans do. I do applaud the artistic license employed by any number of artists and toy makers over the decades, as they keep the franchise fresh, and lines like Beast Wars, Prime, and Animated resonate with me. However, when it comes to stuff like what Cang Toys, Dream Star Toys, or Iron Factory are doing as opposed to the more faithful G1 takes by FT, XTB, Magic Square, New Age, etc, I'm generally moved by the latter over the former, even if I can appreciate what the former are doing. But, I do own two Dream Star Aerialbots and eight IF figs, so I'm not above dipping my toes into the pool of toys with liberties taken. Sometimes variety is nice for its own sake. Anyway, I hope you derive a goodly bit of joy from your DST Constructicons, as they definitely give the old designs a proper shake-up, and while I'm not compelled to have them myself, I can certainly appreciate the direction and outcome of their creativity. As to what I'm assuming is a reference to DX9's take on a MP scaled Prowl, while I was initially interested, I'm not wholly enamored by the toon-slavish elongated shin-dows or their lack of sublime mechanical details ensconced within, one of my favorite aspects of the original Fairlady Z TF design. Too, I'm not a fan of the toonish three-toes details nor the odd oddly zig-zag rear edges of the doors which lack the subtle upsweep on the rear upper tips. The rest of the design looks OK to me otherwise, but for my taste, I'm still over the moon for MP-17 Prowl, one of my top favorite TF toys of all time. It's a dated design at this point (2013- hard to believe!), but it delivers everything I ever wanted from a Prowl figure since I picked up my G1 copy when I was thirteen or so and it continues to enthrall. However, I get that many a fan likes the extreme toon look so, for those fans wanting that in a Prowl figure, this should be the toy they've been waiting for. I hope it turns out to be an excellent figure, as the milking will be epic, and that too is good all around. If it is indeed so, I may even succumb to FOMO and get a copy in spite of myself. I do love me a good Prowl figure. Cheers!
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