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  2. electric indigo
    PLAMAX & Hasegawa
  3. Dynaman
    I love the Eagle but $540?! OW!
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  5. Mommar
    Without thinking I cancelled my order at Amazon Japan, though I think I had to pay up front. At any rate, it shipped via DHL and they credited me the difference in the lower price. However, I was not charged shipping nor was I charged for tariffs.
  6. Thom
    Nice!
  7. Powered Convoy
    Finally managed to get my hand on the ever elusive DYRL Concert Minmay (from wave 3) with the clear hair. I personally didn't think the clear hair variant existed since they moved away from them by wave 3, but I managed to get one after scouring Yahoo Japan, Mercari JP, and eBay for months. Since the hair is less translucent than the older ones, it's hard to tell in auction photos but this one looked translucent and it ended up being so. Some comparisons with the opaque hair. Opaque Clear Comparison
  8. davidwhangchoi
    my legion 7 motherboard fried due to a power spike. looking at some newer ones.
  9. treatment
    moar... full-scale of SDF-1 pics below at https://twitter.com/temple_river_r1/status/1983542406562938892 web-translated:
  10. MisaForever
    Nothing from Nin-Nin yet. Gonna start biting my nails soon.
  11. Big s
    Yeah, definitely fun and didn’t exactly expect that until
  12. Big s
    It’s kinda like that for Indy and Star Wars and Willow and even the early Marvel films that aren’t nearly as old. Once the mouse 💩s on things, it’s kinda hard to go back and enjoy things from better times.
  13. danth
    My preorder is listed as in stock but with no way to pay, and no email notification. I guess they're figuring out shipping cost?
  14. sh9000
    Billy Kane. Ryuji Yamazaki. Blue Mary.
  15. sh9000
    Two-Face.
  16. Actar
    Alrighty! I just got my VF-19 Kai in hand! I absolutely adore the matte finish, and it gives it a very different feel from the Arcadia version. Everything feels solid enough, but some of the joints on mine are annoyingly loose like the Gerwalk joints on the legs. Speaking of the legs, I have to ask you guys if any of you have experienced this. Transforming from Fighter to Battroid didn't pose any issues. However, on the transformation back to Fighter, both legs just refused to swing back down at the hip even after disengaging the locks. Only after forcing them and getting a horrendous "click/snap" sound on both sides did they decide to move again. Since then, they've been working just fine. I've had no issues with this mechanism on my YF-19s and VF-19 Advances, so I'm kind of at a loss as to what happened. I first assumed that maybe I didn't pull the legs out enough, but that didn't seem to be the case. Then, I assumed that I didn't compress the locks enough, but that didn't seem to be the case either. Then, after forcing them, I noticed that there was a bit of grey plastic lying on my desk after the transformation, which I assume broke off from somewhere. Was there some extra flash on the transformation locks or did they change the mechanism to function differently and I just broke something? Again, for what it's worth, they seem to be working perfectly fine now.
  17. mechaninac
    What modern Disney does to all IPs under its umbrella has that effect on all the OG stuff. I, for one, find it extremely hard (more like impossible) to watch the original and prequal Star Wars trilogies precisely because of the extreme bad taste the sequel travesty has left in its wake; same goes for Marvel... not even the good stuff predating the Rat is any fun to watch anymore. It's a real shame that in their arrogance they broke the chain of good will, wonder and nostalgia that built those franchises into the juggernauts they once were.
  18. Duymon
    Threezero reactive armored Ingrams are great. Just need for unit 3 to finally ship
  19. treatment
    https://twitter.com/taka_dos/status/1983472291737678261
  20. mikeszekely
    Star Shuttle comes packaged with the creatively named Red Tank, aka Warpath. In some ways you could argue that Dr Wu did a better job than Hasbro, as he's got white on his shoulders that appears on the character model that the Kingdom toy missed, and the white in his torso leaves a bit more red on his tummy that, again, the Kingdom toy left white. However, a complaint I'm hearing is that Red Tank took the name a bit too seriously; he's a very vibrant red, not the muted brick color that I think most of us would expect. I can say that I definitely think they're right, he is too bright. However, it doesn't bother me a ton, YMMV. For such a tiny figure the paint is pretty good. I mean, the treads are entirely red plastic, so they didn't just paint the white parts, they painted the black between the wheels. Other than that, not a ton to note. He cleans up about as well as any Warpath toy. Like most of Dr Wu's little Extreme Warfare dudes, Warpath doesn't come with any accessories. I wonder if that's why he's done so many minibots? The G1 minibots didn't come with any guns, so maybe it feels more appropriate? Truthfully, I know a lot of people want Dr Wu to do more guns for these guys, but at this scale I don't really care. In any case, Red Tank's head lacks any real articulation. I mean, you can kind of have him look down, but it's really folding his head into his chest. Shoulders are ball joints that swivel and move laterally 90 degrees. Elbows are ball joints that act as bicep swivels and bend 90 degrees. No wrist or waist articulation. His ball jointed hips can go forward, backward, or laterally 90 degrees. The limited movement around the ball is also all the thigh swivel you get. His knees bend 90 degrees, and he's got a tiny downward foot tilt and little under 45 degrees of ankle pivot. Red Tank's transformation isn't super complicated. The head folds into the turret, and armatures shift the shoulders back and down so the arms can form the back half. The tricky bit is using the joints in the right order to line up the feet and legs, with the inside of the foot flipping out and up to fill in the gap between his legs; if you don't have the order just right or everything lined up, chances are you're going to pop a ball joint out of the socket. Like the Kingdom toy, the flaps that fold out of the feet still leave quite a bit of a gap between the front treads. The white/light gray plastic that leaves a white/light gray patch on the rear is more cartoon accurate, though. Is it a perfect rendition of Warpath? Probably not, but it's not the worst I've seen, and the tank is maybe an inch in length, so I'll cut him some slack. There's no wheels or rolling treads or anything, but the turret does spin, and the tank's gun barrel can be angled down slightly or up to about 60 degrees. A working turret is all you really need in a tiny tank, right? I'll say this for Red Tank... he's not my favorite Dr Wu figure, but he's not the worst, either. He's fine. The fact that he's a main G1 cartoon character means you probably don't want to leave him out, and the fact that he comes with the quite good Star Shuttle means you're probably going to want the whole pack anyway. So do it! Do it with the knowledge that the Datsuns are coming...
  21. treatment
    Seems the only things different from the original is that the Macross-sticker is now blue and the caution/warning stickers are now horizontal with additional BigWest labeling: from https://twitter.com/sakutom3/status/1983532391731015782 downscaled: --- also... https://x.com/taka_dos/status/1983472291737678261 web-translated:
  22. TangledThorns
    Yeah, WEAPONS is a well made wtf kind of movie that is very entertaining. Definitely worth a watch.
  23. TangledThorns
    Watched the original TRON on D+ last night and for the first time it felt dated and kinda lost my nostalgia for it too. I think ARES is to blame for that loss of nostalgia.
  24. VF25-F
    Re record of Btooooom! ED
  25. davidwhangchoi
    i'm waiting for the sound booster p-bandai special combo. hopefully bandai makes the rest of sound force. Bandai should've copied the Yamato VF-17S and made a similar clone.
  26. electric indigo
  27. aurance
    Looks like you’re right about the see through gap from the side.
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