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  2. M'Kyuun
    Concerning Wally supplying SWAT, I was being facetious, but you get the point; it's all a bit ludicrous in perspective. And while I think we definitely have a problem with guns in our country, somehow I think they've gone just a little overboard when it comes to regulating toy guns. At the very least, the collector's market should be something separate, as most people aren't going to go around brandishing something like MP-36 to commit their crimes. Doing so itself should be a crime in my book- awesome toy abuse- minimum 20-year sentence with hard labor- book 'em, Danno! Toys are my life, so perhaps I'm a bit biased. I never gave much thought to the variety and strictness of laws from state to state, but I can understand if places like Cali and NY have far more stringent laws as I assume they have, per capita, far more crimes committed with firearms within denser populations. Still, toys, man! Alas, I step down from my ineffectual soapbox.
  3. Today
  4. SebastianP
    There's a Destroid for everything. Shame we don't get to see them very often anymore.... Speaking of, I decided to rewatch Delta ep 1 to check out Hayate's dance number, and his work destroid is really interesting. It's not the same model as the one from frontier, but it looks related; it should also be decently easy to scale since the containers look like they're just 20-foot ISO containers. I'm a little irritated by the container ship though. At first glance it looks like those could be ISO containers, but when you look closer they're not as tall as they're wide, unlike the real things. So trying to scale the ship's height by the number of containers doesn't work. What I *can* tell is that there's space for at least 20 (width) by 20 (length) by 12 (height) of the small containers we see from the front, though the bigger containers in the back are harder to calculate. If those *are* supposed to be ISO 20-foot containers, were looking at 4800 TEU worth of capacity, which is mid-sized for an ocean-going ship (those go up beyond 20,000 TEU, but also down to a few hundred).
  5. JB0
    I think the US toy gun laws suck too. Particularly as it's an inconsistent patchwork and no one wants to deal with every state being different. I gather that's the biggest issue, several states have restrictions beyond the federal ones and they aren't consistent with each other. Making a single toy gun sellable in all states is very difficult, and fans won't like the results. Folks were upset enough about Classics Megatron, and I don't believe he's CA- or NY-legal these days, so they'd have to go even farther. I don't think Wal-Mart can outfit a SWAT team, though. SWAT gets the fun switch burst-fire and full-auto, and Wal-Mart can't sell that kind of rifle.
  6. Black Valkyrie
  7. JB0
    I was already thinking "a glue Valkyrie's probably canon already", but you've got the receipts.
  8. Big s
    Always gotta wonder if they’re teasing something in those backgrounds on the boxes
  9. Papa Rat
    Yeah please! I see it there in the background. ♥️
  10. Papa Rat
    Gimme gimme. Haha
  11. Big s
    I keep looking at the Max 1-A box and wondering if maybe MaxFactory will do the tv version of the Queadluun Rau
  12. Big s
    Cover for the Tekkaman Blade kit looks cool. Mercy Rabbit illustration for the fans
  13. GMK
    Kakizaki boxing appears to be out.
  14. M'Kyuun
    Makes sense. In Megatron's case, the box is excessively large for the figure and, being practical, I called it out. My criteria differs. My sole focus is always the core figure, how well each mode is executed. While there's no explicit promise of fidelity to realism, Studio Series is generally considered to be their premium retail product line, although they don't always deliver on that expectation. However, just like SS86 Prime, there's a heightened expectation for SS86 Megatron to be the 'definitive' version for lack of a more apropos descriptor. He fails that already by not turning into a pistol. I care not one whit about a small handheld version of him in gun mode when the figure itself should be the gun- it's a superfluous accessory that will remain in the box along with his energon mace and any effects parts. So, given that a gun is not an acceptable alt mode by din of US laws and child safety regs, a tank is a dismayingly acceptable substitute alt mode. The expectation then is that being Studio Series, we'll get a convincing tank with a bit more polish and refinement than the usual run-of-the-mill mainline figure with a similar alt. They did do a great job of crafting his bot mode to look like his G1 toon self without tank kibble ruining the effect. They also did a great job turning his legs and upper torso into a convincing tank base. They only needed to do something more with his scope to make it blend with the arms to affect a more convincing turret, one more bit of transformative origami but I'm guessing that's where either the budget or their supply of care simply ran out, perhaps a bit of both. To me it feels like they got to within 85% of excellence and just quit. The hard part of his design was already solved: achieving a kibble-less G1 Megatron bot mode that conceals the tank bits well. They solved the challenge of converting his gun-grip legs into tank treads convincingly. While the arms are quite a bit blockier than RW tank turrets, I think disbelief could have been better suspended if the obvious giant gun scope sandwiched between those giant grey blocks somehow transformed to blend with and compliment the rest of the turret. I'd rather the budget went to that particular bit of engineering/molding than to any accessories. Since his fusion cannon is an intrinsic part of his character, I don't consider it an accessory. I just wish they'd put forth that extra effort to make the scope form a convincing part of his turret. Hopefully, third parties will rise to the occasion with some interesting solutions. I've still never really handled the G1 Snarl or Slag toys. I believe I saw Swoop somewhere and messed about with him. I bought Sludge as a kid, and I later received my wife's brother's G2 blue Grimlock when he gave it me. Not even sure how or why that came to be. Anyway, I now have a full set of FansToys Dibots ( my first full set of Dinobots-I was so happy!), all six Combiner Wars Dinobots, all five SS86 Dinobots, and all five toy-decoed Newage Dinobots complete with chrome paint, G1 decal tampos, and the lovely clear plastic bits- pure joy and what I wish we'd gotten with the SS86 Dinos.
  15. davidwhangchoi
    snarl was cool. i used to go over a friends home that had snarl and optimus and transform them both all the time
  16. Scyla
    Thanks, totally forgot about these.
  17. Big s
    I really didn’t care a whole lot for it. It was the best of the Disney stuff though, but most of the characters were a bit easy to dislike. K2 was good though, but the main character was definitely lacking. I don’t hate the movie and maybe it will be more likeable after the Andor show
  18. Seto Kaiba
    I wouldn't call Rogue One a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination. I'd call it probably the single best movie outside of the original trilogy.
  19. Mommar
    I forgot I actually pre-ordered a few of the Heat Boys TMNT figures from The Chosen Prime. They sure drag their feet shipping...
  20. Mommar
    Least bad is not the same as good.
  21. Mommar
    Rogue's face sculpt looks truly terrible.
  22. anime52k8
    it's just not the same without the smokey clear plastic dino heads. (also I never had snarl as a kid)
  23. Seto Kaiba
    Rogue One. With the right people at the helm, LucasFilm is more than capable of making worthy additions to the Star Wars's storyline. Their track record when it comes to picking the right people is more miss than hit, though.
  24. Seto Kaiba
    YMMV, but for me the most frustrating part of GQuuuuuuX has to be that the main trio really only just got involved in the plot. We are ten episodes into what appears to be a one cour Gundam series and only now are the protagonists actually becoming relevant to what's actually going on in the story. The rest is just faffing about. Nearly as bad is all the subplots that the series wasted screen time teasing - the slow collapse of the Principality of Zeon after the war, the power struggle between Gihren and his sister Kycilia, everything to do with the Titans, and now Challia Bull's great revelation at Jupiter - are either being left hanging or hastily wrapped up in barely enough time to boil an egg. That most of these subplots are a lot more interesting than the main story does not help. We could've spent time on those instead of watching Machu and Shuji stomp on a string of jobbers in Clan Battles. Seems a safe bet that...
  25. Big s
    So just for reference here’s the pegs on the lower leg of my hg psycho doga. The pegs are trimmed at an angle to allow for easy part separation. There’s other parts of the inside that had some other surgery to allow the knee joints to be added later after the seams are removed, but the main focus here is just the simple diagonal snip to the pegs for test fitting.wasn’t an original idea of my own, but I think I got it out of a magazine many years ago. It’s been so long I kinda forgot exactly where I saw this idea first
  26. Yesterday
  27. Big s
    I guess there’s always a small chance that they do a second season where the feds take advantage of the chaos of the zeon civil war and somehow the not Titans become the oppressive force to keep the colonies in line in the next season. But I got a feeling that every thing is gonna be rushed in the next couple episodes and it’s just gonna be a combat cluster to finish off the show.
  28. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    I really can't see what the endgame for this show is. How they wrap it up that quickly is ridiculous.
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