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Awesome modeling & photography. The execution is just flawless.

I just think falling for one guy at first sight and then falling for the next guy she has a conversation with is a bit of some hoish behavior. I actually figured that’s what was gonna happen

Who would've thought getting food poisoning today would end up not being the most nauseating thing to happen to me today? I caught the latest episode of GQuuuuuuX and I am so done. Take the pen away from Hideaki Anno. Take the whole goddamn studio away from Hideaki Anno while you're at it. My opinion of this latest episode can best be described as " a strangled noise of unmitigated general disgust". I've often said that the Multiverse is the last refuge of the creatively bankrupt. Its introduction to a franchise is almost always an admission of creative defeat... that the studio is officially Out Of Ideas and can only keep the lights on with hack-tier writing that relies on recycling familiar characters they don't have to develop through tweaked versions of the same old familiar stories. Now that's a bit rude and more than a bit unfair... Her background is never specified in the original Mobile Suit Gundam TV series or Encounters in Space. It's just implied that she had a rough life before she met Char. Tomino's original Gundam novelization made her a refugee from Side 5 (Loum) who ended up living in the slums in Side 6 before being found and taken in by Char and then the Flannigan Institute. In Mobile Suit Gundam: the Origin, she's a girl from a poor family in India who's been taken in by a gang of criminals who use her Newtype precognition to help them cheat while gambling. It's only in Tomino's 1997 Gundam TV series novel Secret Meeting - Amuro and Lalah .. ... that Lalah's background is given as being a young lady from India whose family sold her into indentured servitude in the exclusive Kabas brothel frequented by the military elite. She absolutely wasn't there voluntarily. She was a de facto slave until she repaid the debt she owed to the brothel's owners. In the novel, and implicitly the OG Gundam series, Char met her in the brothel while bumming around Earth after being reprimanded for Garma's death. He was so taken with her (and in awe of her Newtype powers) that he spent his savings to buy out her indenture (pay off her debt) and took her to be educated at the Flannigan Institute in Side 3. Since Char never had to go to Earth in this Alternate UC, he never met her and thus never freed her from Kabas... so she's still there (against her will) trying to work off her debt in UC 0085.

I hope June the Swan isn't too far away.

My Fugu Jetfire finally arrived today and while in the midst of trimming some of the excess flash I discovered to my dismay that the pins holding the shoulder ball joint flaps on are too short so that, at least on the left side, it only penetrates one side of the hinge allowing the other side to sag precariously when manipulating the arm. The right side seems like it has a stronger hold (for now), but its pin, too, seems to have been clipped too short and it's only a matter of time before it too sags under the weight or stress. Suggestions welcome for what may work as a replacement. I was thinking about trying to find a heavy-duty paper clip. Anyway, other than the issues already pointed out, I'm pretty pleased with this fig. The coopting of Yamato's V2 VF-1 was a good choice, and at 1/60, he's still at a workable scale relative to CHUG. More than the unlicensed use of the Yammie(Arcadia) VF-1, I'm gobsmacked by Fugu's audacious and unapologetic unlicensed use of the original G1 artwork both front and back of the box, minus a few Engrish misspellings in the bio. That's pretty bold. In hand, though, it definitely invokes some serious nostalgia. I'm hoping Toyhax will eventually get around to making a small set for this guy- at least something to address the lower legs, which still bear their original Macross livery.

While Takara is doing Transformers Wild King in Japan and Hasbro is getting Transformers Cyberworld ready to go in the West, it seems Transformers Earthspark still has a few dying gasps left. I found this out at my local Target today, when I went it not particularly expecting to find any new toys but leaving with a pair of new Deluxes, the first of which is Hashtag. Hashtag kind of threw me, at first. I remember her being kind of blocky and bulky, but the figure here seems a lot more curvy and, dare I say, feminine. Well, turns out I'd only watched the first season of the show, which honestly I didn't care for much which is why I never noticed that there were two more seasons on Paramount Plus, with the last episodes releasing just this past October. Apparently Hashtag scans a new alt mode in season 2, and this figure is based on that design. To that end, the sculpt is pretty good for a Deluxe, with just a bit more arm kibble and a backpack that you wouldn't see in the show. Like many Deluxe-class figures from the Earthspark and prior Cyberverse toy lines it's really some odd paint choices that are her real problem. She has molded triangles and stripes on her knees that are left unpainted that should properly be blue and gunmetal & yellow, respectively, and her collar is painted silver but not her neck. The treads on her feet aren't painted. But weirdly, they painted the bottom of her chest blue as if there should be a window there, but her entire chest should be solid purple. Likewise, her pelvis is black, but it should be the same purple as her waist. Hashtag comes with a pair of accessories. First, she has a small pistol. Second, she has something like a pickaxe. I don't recall either accessory in the cartoon, but to be fair I've come to realize I've only seen about half the available episodes. Hashtag's head is on a ball joint that can swivel and look down slightly, but lacks upward and sideways tilt. Her shoulders are ball joints that swivel and give her about 75 degrees of lateral spread, but her shoulder and backpack kibble kind of limit the outward movement when her arms are raised, almost like Hot Rod shoulders. No dedicated bicep swivel, but her ball-jointed elbows allow for swivel in addition to 90 degrees of bend. No wrist or waist articulation. Her hips are ball joints that can go a little over 90 degrees forward, a little under 90 degrees laterally, and about 45 degrees backward before kibble gets in the way. Her thighs swivel, and her knees bend 90 degrees. Her feet are on ball joints so they can swivel, tilt up and down a little, and pivot a bit under 45 degrees. She can hold her pistol, no problem. The handle of the pickaxe does allow her to hold it as such, but there's another 5mm port on the side that lets her hold it more like a crossbow. She can also stow her weapons in bot mode. For the pistol, you have to lift up her backpack and fold out the flap inside. A tab on top of the pistol plugs into that flap, then you can tuck everything back up. Once you do, you'll notice a 3mm port on the bottom of her backpack that fits nicely with a 3mm peg on the pickaxe's handle. Transformation is simple, but effective. The backs of her arms open and her hands fold in. Her shoulder pads swivel up and line up with her arms, then her shoulders scrunch up so her arms tuck in against her body. the front of the truck hinges off the top of the backpack and slots in between her shoulder pads, and you also need to fold out the inner flap of the backpack before you tuck the roof against the arms. Her feet spin 180 degrees then fold flat, then her lower legs fold around just below the knee back over the sides of her thighs, tucking into the edges of her arms. That flap from her backpack fits between her legs to finish out the bed of the truck. And, yeah, truck. I thought she was a surveillance van, but since she'd originally copied one of GHOST's vans and GHOST is apparently disbanded after the events of the first season, I guess Hashtag rescanned a civilian truck. My frist thought was that she looks pretty decent, aside from some kibbly hinges on her tail. I mean, she's even got gold paint on her rims, painted headlights and marker lights on the front, and painted taillights on the rear. Alas, her rims should be silver, not gold. The black "grill" on the nose shouldn't be painted, it should be purple. The bumper bits below the marker lights should be gunmetal, and she should have silver door handles, running boards, and silver around the light blue stripe on the sides of the bed. Her pistol stows in alt mode exactly like it does in bot mode; lift the flap on the top of the bed, jam the tab on the pistol up into the underside of it, then push it back down into place. With the bed back in place you can use the 5mm peg on the handle of the pickaxe to plug it into a 5mm port on the bed. A tab on the bed will also fit into a slot on the pickaxe, to keep it lined up. I guess it's supposed to be like a two hook? Hashtag, like all the Earthspark Deluxes, is a step down in quality and engineering from what we're used to in the War For Cybertron/Legacy/Age of the Primes lines, sure. I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that, despite being called "Deluxes," they're a little cheaper than the mainline Deluxes. And while I didn't care much for the plot of Earthrise and its wasted potential, it did give us this menagerie of new characters. As someone who picked up Twitch, Thrash, and Nightshade during the initial build-a-figure waves when I had higher hopes for the show, I'm not sorry to see the line die but I am happy to get a complete set of Deluxe-class Maltos before it ended. What's more, despite a little kibble and a few color inaccuracies, I think Hashtag is actually the best of the five by a wide margin. I suppose, if you haven't bothered with the other four, there isn't much point in buying Hashtag unless you just really want another fembot in your collection. But if you were hoping to get all five of the new Terran Transformers living on the Malto's farm, I can confidently say that Hashtag was worth the wait. Hashtag isn't my favorite Earthspark Deluxe, though...

That's a rather jarring size difference! That said, I'll take Romulus all day long over the SS86 fig, as he presents accurately, has excellent articulation, and can turn into a proper Walther P38ish pistol, which is what separates a proper G1 Megatron from every wannabe G1 Megatron that doesn't. Don't get me wrong, as I like what Takara has done with exception of the tank's carelessly realized turret which, IMHO, spoils all the effort put into the tank's well-done base. Moreover, at nigh $60, one is not wrong to expect a little more from a leader class toy and that more couldn't have been done to make that turret more believable within that budget. Anyway, I intend to get him, but I do certainly hope the third-party upgrade kit makers come up with some nifty fixes to address that particular glaring wart.

Holy crap, the regular 91 Ghidorah wings are actually flexible!!!

Kaiju Daddy hasn't updated with new releases for a month now but the last rumor straight from the Medicom store in Japan was Rogue was due sometime in June.

The book is okay, extremely camp (by design.) I got it mostly because I love the design of Kitt Carter and the artwork is really great.

Bandai 1/55 CF VF-1A.

Either that or someone will do some unethical thing by cloning a brain and hooking it up to a suv

This is kinda what I was expecting when fujimi said they were doing macross stuff

Hot Wheels Track Fleet Transformers Ultra Magnus x2.

Good lord, imagine getting blasted in the face with this thing (Shooting begins at around the 6:07 mark):

A hero for all.

That's not the DX VF-31 toy. You can tell by comparing the shape of the hinges on the tail fins and the canards. I'm pretty sure it's the Bandai 1/72 scale model kit.

Budo. Hawk with MMS.

Tickets on sale tomorrow.

More of this please! ♥️

Godspeed Redcorn 😢

It’s just so weird. It had to be shared. 😆

Saw these on the internet. I'm very sure that this is the DX VF-31J. Does anyone here know or try to give it a custom paint job? The VF-31 cannot be disassembled as completely as the VF-25. I tried disassembled mine before and it did not go well. Many parts are glued together. Any comment and experience sharing are greatly appreciated.

Wrong scale and wrong manufacturer to get excited about. Though I won't lie, I'd drop a load of cash to get proper 1/48 kits of all of the fighters from Bandai (in their ACTUAL scales this time, please? Size them to the pilots and filming miniatures, not the stupid gonked-up EU specs. ) And please can we have a non-electronic X-Wing kit already? It was all sorts of the wrong kind of fancy. I just want a nice kit. The Fine Molds one was really good, but had a few clunky details that Bandai nailed much better.