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  2. Radioguy
    Update: Show-Z is now saying the stickers won't be included in the stock shipped to the USA. I'm guessing the tampos being removed will hold true, but I guess the implication is now is whether the box will make it through. Yes.
  3. sh9000
  4. sh9000
  5. sh9000
    IMAX Trailer.
  6. sh9000
    Marvel Legends Daken x2.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    Please do not give Dave Filoni ideas... as third Tales of series clearly shows, he is clearly desperate enough that he's not particularly picky.
  8. Big s
    That only works if the refrigerator is lined with lead, or that stuff from Smilo Ren’s helmet
  9. Today
  10. pengbuzz
    Please don't get me started on Ideon; I still have nightmares about that show (just ask @Seto Kaiba!!)
  11. MechTech
    @Papa Rat Cool! I haven't built one of those in decades! Looking forward to it! @nightmareB4macross Thanks for sharing that! I forgot about that awkward designed head! - MT
  12. Seto Kaiba
    Caught the new episode of GQuuuuuuX today over lunch... and it's legitimately boring. Once again, the most interesting part of the story is the implication that Big Things are happening offscreen back in Side 3 and we just don't get to see any of it because it's much more important that we watch a 16 year old spoiled rich kid sunbathe or get stuck in a train station locker. Since GQuuuuuuX is Studio Khara's baby, I think my nickname for it is going to be "Kharbage". Short for "Khara's Garbage". The writing is incredibly weak, the characters are badly underdeveloped even five episodes in, and many of the designs are sinfully ugly. It's like Studio Khara showed up to a game and creativity pitched a perfect no-hitter. The most interesting part of it thus far has been finding out what became of the iconic One Year War characters in this alternate history.
  13. davidwhangchoi
    GTA ^ pic has a playstation controller and a white ps looking console. I guess they prefer the playstation over the xbox
  14. Stampeed Valkyrie
    Yandere Dark elf is exactly as you described. As for good ones this season.. Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman - good so far. Not groundbreaking but its not isekai trash.. just sayin. Kijin Gentoushou Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentōshō - this is very good. seems to by flying under the radar on most places from this season.
  15. jenius
    I feel like I just got lost playing Ecco and wouldn't know where to go...
  16. jenius
    Is the new version up for pre-order?
  17. Chronocidal
    Oh? That's kind of awesome, but also annoying, since I had already started stripping the leg packs on one of mine. Still though, good to know! I'll probably just stash that set and use the clear parts one one. I had already ordered a third shortly after receiving my first pair, so we'll see if I get notifications about it soon.
  18. pengbuzz
    Then they can do the sequel to Rogue One where Andor and Jyn Erso survived by hiding in a refrigerator.
  19. Seto Kaiba
    Assuming Andor's story continues to skip forward one year for each three episode story arc, the Ghorman massacre and Mon Mothma's speech about it should occur in the block of episodes that drops tonight. Season 2's first block of episodes started in 4 BBY. The second block was in 3 BBY. This next block should be set in 2 BBY, the same year as the Star Wars: Rebels episode "Secret Cargo". That was the episode that depicted the final leg of Mon Mothma's escape from Coruscant to the rebel base on Dantooine after she made a speech in the Senate about the Ghorman Massacre. That last batch of episodes should be in 1 BBY, the year before Rogue One.
  20. Big s
    I have a feeling that the Ghorman massacre part two won’t be till the last batch of episodes
  21. Seto Kaiba
    Nah, you got about nine hours left. DARK.
  22. M'Kyuun
    I think there's a caveat to observe, however, regarding the higher prices and declining quality of toys: demand. I don't know about any of you guys, but I can't remember the last time I saw a kid in the action figure isle looking at, well, anything. Today's kids are largely fixated on electronics and social media and not so much on little plastic figures. I think the market is absolutely dependent primarily on people in their forties and up, with a contingent of younger folks buying toys, but not to the level we were invested in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Toys were our method of escapism, acting out imaginary scenarios, telling stories, or just having physical manifestations of those things we saw and liked on the big and little screens at the time. Video games were rudimentary when we were kids- there was no realism, no Horizon: Zero Dawns with gorgeous realistic landscapes and fluid movement to realistic looking humans and creatures. Cartoons filled that role to a lesser extent, and to that end, kids for the past three or four decades have no idea about the splendor of spending a Saturday morning glued to the tube for four hours straight watching back to back cartoons, making the hard choices when two shows you like are on simultaneously and there's no DVR to simply record one. Of course, we had VCRs, but if you forgot to set it or the tape was bad quality, or someone inadvertently taped over your show, such was life. I'm digressing. The point I want to make is that while we older fans and collectors bemoan the declining quality of our precious playthings, from Hasbro's POV (I'm not sure how the toy situation is in Japan, but it seems to be booming in China), I think the decline in interest, and thus sales, from what is ostensibly their target market, i.e. kids around 8-14, has fallen off significantly thus their reluctance to pour more resources into their production and seek other avenues, like video games or movies, to keep them relevant and profitable. I think they're fully aware that it's the older adult fanbase keeping the line going, but we are getting older and eventually 20, 30, 40 years down the line most of us will be one with the Matrix, so, while I wish far more resources were being thrown at Transformers, they have a responsibility to themselves and their shareholders to invest in things that will be profitable in the future, and sadly, I don't think that will be plastic figures, even super-cool ones that can turn into other things with a few twists, turns, and flips. With that bit of reality in mind, I try to be thankful for what we do have, and for the commitment we see from the designers who share their passions for these things. I'm glad Hasbro made the smart move to put them on these streaming events, as it creates a personal connection to the toys and it lets us see that there's true creativity and desire to make good toys in spite of constraints. It's easier to forgive some of the flaws knowing that their hands are often tied by budgets and other factors. Finally, I say it often, but it bears repeating: we're most fortunate that Transformers not only still exists as a living property, but one that's to all intents thriving when so many other 80s toylines are as extinct as the dinosaurs. I'm grateful.
  23. Mog
    Seriously, I need some Ghorman’s getting massacred. Gotta fire up a rebellion.
  24. Duke Togo
    It can and has. This is the way. Also, is it 9PM yet? I need more Andor.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    Oh come on, Star Wars was already double dipping with May the 4th and Revenge of the 5th. It can't annex the whole bloody month.
  26. TangledThorns
  27. Thom
    A real cool collection of Macross builds!
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