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  2. davidwhangchoi
    Great write up!!!🔥
  3. Scyla
    I will try to get one, since the prices to ship to the EU are not outrageous. Nice Devastator review @mikeszekely. To me the biggest criticism would be the black hole in Devastator’s chest. It is very unsightly to me. The upsides is that DNA has a lot to do and Hasbro can improve over the Studio Series one. With only three data points it is hard to determine but assuming the releases of new Devastators is getting faster and faster I predict that the next one from Hasbro will be in 2029.
  4. Today
  5. Mommar
    DHL is going to cost 3300 yen plus 15% of the price of the item. You should be able to easily do the math from there.
  6. Seto Kaiba
    Lookin' good. The artbook promises to be a bit of a doorstopper. It's 60% bigger than planned, up to 240 pages from 150.
  7. sh9000
  8. sh9000
    Ordered a couple of Tomahawks at Hobby Genki. A little cheaper than HLJ.
  9. sh9000
    I never was able to get their Optimus so I probably won't even try to get this one either.
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  11. sh9000
    https://www.toyark.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=78302&d=1757096871 2nd Transformers Generations Studio Series TFTM Megatron.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    The Summer 2025 simulcast season's drawing to a close. A lot of the titles I tried this time were pretty mediocre at best, though there are a few excellent standouts. I'm definitely hooked on Secrets of the Silent Witch. Enough that I'm eyeing buying the light novel and I really REALLY want a second season from it. My Dress-Up Darling is having another excellent season, which makes me wonder why it took so bloody long to get it. Marin and Gojo are just adorkable and I love them. Betrothed to My Sister's Ex is recovering a bit in the home stretch now that they've finally decided to sh*t or get off the pot when it comes to the sister thing and is finally getting some proper closure. I wouldn't call it great, but it's head and shoulders above a lot of the rest of the season. Ruri Rocks is still great edutainment... though it has one of the thirstiest fanbases I have ever seen and it doesn't even have much fanservice. Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl remains cute and inoffensive to the end. I kind of wish they did more with the Lily's comically overprotective dad. The Water Magician is worth watching. Not because it's good, but because it's genuinely impressive how indistinct it is. It is isekai at almost maximum possible genericness, to the extent that its most distinctive point is how little it has to distinguish itself from the rest of its genre. It's a fascinating paradox. I had high-ish hopes for Detectives These Days Are Crazy!, but its humor ran out of utility pretty fast and ended up being less a detective parody and more just pratfalls and jokes about how Mashiro's stupid. Dan da dan started out pretty interesting, but it's honestly not doing anything for me after the Evil Eye got introduced. I was pretty shocked that See You Tomorrow at the Food Court ended up being just six episodes long. It was fun in sort of Azumanga Daioh way. It feels like it should have been a full season.
  13. Seto Kaiba
    First, a quick reality check. Most OEMs develop a common platform for multiple markets and rebadge as necessary for different trim levels. Second, another reality check. Brand "nationality" is mostly BS. Pretty much every large OEM is using parts developed and manufactured all over the world and the only thing that makes that brand belong to a specific nation is where final assembly takes place. The era of an automaker's development being localized to a single country is long since over and most cars are as multinational under the hood as your average Star Trek cast. Third, a point of fact I can't really blame you for not knowing. The Hornet/Tonale program was not brand-specific or region-specific during development. It was a single program developed as a common platform for multiple markets and brands. It's quite inaccurate to say that's "attempting to sell an Alfa Romeo as a Dodge". As to why we don't see more of them... well... they made the mistake of having the Hornets built at Pomigliano d'Arco alongside the Tonale version. 🙃 Only in the sense that final assembly does not occur in the US, to be frank. It's only really a "European" engine in the sense that initial production was in Termoli. That's not where it was designed, and it's not even the only place it's built. This also contains a lot of inaccuracies. The main factor slowing adoption of EVs in the US is a lack of charging infrastructure and the woefully neglected state of the US electrical grid. Western Europe and China's more cosmopolitan provinces don't really have that problem, which is why EVs have been much more readily adopted there. EV adoption is only accelerating in developed nations, and the US's temporary regression is not going to have a substantial impact on the growth of the EV market because pretty much every OEM is by default developing for global sales and that means still having to comply with emissions regulations in South America, Europe, Asia, etc. It just means a temporary reduction in the number of EV options on offer in the US. Those emissions regs will get tightened again, and we'll see more electrification because that's the most effective way to improve the efficiency of these systems. Bro, I think you may want to dial the arrogance down to a more reasonable level and recognize you are attempting to BS someone in the industry. 😜 Clearly you DO need the explanation, because almost nothing of what you've said has been correct thus far. You missed my point completely, I'm afraid. As I explained previously, there are company standards that are internal to a single OEM, but there are also government standards and international standards for which compliance is not always optional. Every OEM selling in America has to comply with FMVSS, for instance, or they will be prohibited from selling their cars in the US. It doesn't matter if your car was made by Chevrolet or Dodge or Ferrari or whoever there are hundreds upon hundreds of applicable standards (many of which are non-optional and government enforced) in its design. They do not "each do things their own way" in most things. Standards governing things like the pitch and depth of screw threads have been a part of the industry since the 1910s. Every conceivable part of the car has at least one, and often far more than one, applicable government or international standard involved in its design. They're still on the road because, well, combustion engines are a mature technology that hasn't really changed much in the last sixty or so years and older models from before the advent of computerized control are a lot simpler at the cost of being a lot less efficient and safe. See the above about a lack of infrastructure... which is more a government problem than an EV problem if we're being honest with each other. There is a very definite problem in that it does take quite a bit longer to recharge an EV with a 480V or 800V battery than it does to just pop a nozzle in your fill door and pour out some 87 octane. That's one reason why electric vehicle standards are evolving as fast as they are. The search for a better, faster charging system to get that time down to around the same level as just hitting up the gas station. With Teslas, of course, your main problem is going to be that goofy J3400 connector that only works with Tesla-branded chargers. Unless you're bringing one of their adapters (a device that bears an unsettling resemblance to a bit of equine anatomy), you're kind of hosed in a lot of places where Tesla doesn't have a presence since most public chargers are the older J1772 design that isn't compatible with Tesla's charging inlet. If you're stuck using the Level 1 wall-wart... yeah you're going to spend a small eternity charging your car's battery because that's sub-2kW charging. Believe you me, I am intimately familiar with the technical limitations of EVs... I am literally spending my workdays inventing ways to overcome them. 😜
  14. Thom
    Hoping for a good recovery for you @pengbuzz!
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  16. Hikuro
    I tried my hand at getting Mixmaster at Target yesterday, it showed 4 were available, sadly, looks like all 4 were taken. It even says today, limited stock 3 available but it just doesn't seem to be updating correctly and no one would look in the back room. Could confirm though there's a peg and a tag for him! I'm not gonna worry about it though, I have him on pre-order on BBTS, he'll be apart of my loot and I"m sure available in the coming weeks. My Skydive did show up, so that makes Superion's legs finished. I guess I'll take the win on that one.
  17. pengbuzz
    Thanks; much appreciated. Thanks; neither did I.
  18. Stampeed Valkyrie
    Cracker Barrel is a brand based in the south eastern US. I seem to sit an the most northern of its locations in the Mid Atlantic area, and nothing really north of Texas in the Central US. with possibly a few locations in the SW US. outside of that, I am not surprised if you have not heard of it. right.. which is why they back peddled faster then anything else. Obviously not most people.. I don't expect this brand to last forever but alienating an established brand for people who don't go there.. great idea! fail This is a car thread not a Cracker Barrel thread.. my reference is still valid.. back on target. No its not... maybe its the failure to grasp this that makes the point. Dodge is an American Brand.. its not European.. putting EVs aside attempting to sell Alfa Romeo's as Dodge is doomed for failure. I don't see alot of Hornet's.. why is that? 1 reason is that the people who want a Tonale will go the Alpha Romeo route.. And most people know its not an american car. The hurricane, is an engine that stellantis has had some major issues with, and on top of the fact that putting a European motor in an American Muscle car.. is another fail. And finally onto EVs the market in the US is already saturated at this point, maybe its all the rage in Europe but that is not natural. EVs will live and now die because the only way to push EVs is to force mandatory compliance with unelected bureaucrats making arbitrary rules. Thank god for Cheveron deference and Trump torpedoing Cafe standards.. but that is another topic. Count me in on the Luddite team if it means we can get vehicles that act more like cars and trucks, and less like smartphones.. I think you might need to lower the gas on your gaslighting.. I also don't need an explanation on what a Technical standard is. so pulling this right out of the weeds.. again.. I didn't think I needed to explain that Chevrolet and Dodge are different companies each manufacturing a product that is the same but also different. Outside the commonality of a combustion engine (ie runs on gas) they each do their own things their own way. But what I can explain is that these cars are 56 years old and still on the road. Here is some homework for you.. EVs.. take one from outside of your City and drive anywhere to another state that involves rural anything. You might have some luck in the NE US, but outside of the major cities your gonna get into trouble. Add temp extremes like cold or excessive heat and its gonna be even worse. EVs are at best local only vehicles so long as you live in or near metropolitan areas. Meanwhile I can borrow my neighbors 92 Honda Prelude and go from coast to coast with a couple of tanks of gas. Not that he would let me mind you.. but its a feat impossible with the current lack of infrastructure and EVs on the market. Real world example time.. former employer chose to purchase 10 Tesla Model 3s for sales and fleet use between the Major cities in the mid Atlantic, NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC.. etc. Worked great until that footprint started to expand further south and west. I can give you one example of taking one from Baltimore, to Philly, and then west to Pittsburgh and eventually Columbus was a bust. We ended up swapping the vehicle to a standard Accord in Kingston because the charging would have added an additional workday in travel time. This was 2022.. the gaps in charging station locations was pretty readily apparent which limited where we could travel. PA Turnpike anyone? And finally with all that said.. I don't even have a disklike for EVs.. I just recognize their limitations and without some major remedies easy pass.
  19. PointBlankSniper
    Gray on gray looks great. The shades and patterns you used actually make it look more serious than the 31A. The wing now looks much cleaner and simpler than the dog teeth delta wing in contrast. I can only think of some minor refinements to try. I think just the hard black on top of the head just stands out a little too much, in a way where you can't tell if it's a painted surface or a giant gap. I'm thinking the calf's brown gray or the feet's dark gray might work there. And maybe unify the canopy's mascara to the same shade if you change it. The stabilizers could be a place to try some simple shapes and division of grays. The outline thing doesn't quite match what you have going on with the overall plane, especially with the underside of those stabilizers being plain. I think that small and irregular tapered trapeziod with a thin line on the chest is a styling you can try on the stabilizer and maybe spread around to other parts if you want to experiment with more patterning. Kind of like sparse tribal markings in small areas. Maybe the legs could use some. Maybe as like for like juxtaposition, steal the 31A's chaos logo to replace the star, just to see how it looks lol
  20. Big s
    I’m still hoping for you to fully recover soon. Didn’t realize things went that deep
  21. Adriano
    Você poderia disponibilizar estes modelos pois link site não esta funcionando. Você poderia colocar este modelos google drive.
  22. Papa Rat
    Best of luck to you. Hope you have a full recovery. ♥️
  23. pengbuzz
    UPDATE: Still waiting for my arm to heal; the skin is mostly closed, but the veins and the tendons in my wrist were damaged. My PCP is sending me to a couple of specialists to check the extent of the damage.
  24. Big s
    I agree, but unfortunately it’s not the overseas stores at fault over things. It’s something that’s unfortunately also creeping on a lot of stateside places of many retailers of different products due to either parts of products made overseas or the entire product made overseas. I do hope things change soon, because everything seems to be getting pricey these days
  25. Big s
    I guess that’s why I haven’t heard of them until recently. I’m old, but not that old yet.
  26. PsYcHoDyNaMiX
    Yup or contact the proxy service/site you purchased from to see if they can do something for you.
  27. PsYcHoDyNaMiX
    @RavenHawk, I'm not sure which state you reside in but depending which (in this case most) BBTS also charges state tax (which is also another consideration). I'm guessing you're aware of this since you have probably frequented BBTS more than I have (which has been nil in the last 6 years for me). Tariffs is a ton of crap because we already get charged state sales tax for most states... so tariffs are pmuch doubling up on taxing. Opps, strayed off topic cause it hurts the wallet. Back to the main programming.
  28. sh9000
    https://www.toyark.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=78304&d=1757097008 32nd HMR CF VF-1A.
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