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  2. mikeszekely
    Agreed. But you should be able to find him (at least for a little while) on Amazon, Hasbro Pulse, Gamestop, BBTS, etc. I haven't heard anything, but there is a new Tron movie this fall. Now'd be the time.
  3. Seto Kaiba
    The easiest way I've found is just eBay or Yahoo Japan Auctions via a service like Buyee. It can be a pain in the butt, but good quality secondhand copies of a lot of these books are surprisingly cheap... or at least not hideously painful. Then again, after more than 20 years of importing books and magazines and DVDs and Blu-rays and so on from Japan I suspect I have become numb to the insane cost of physical media in Japan. The short story collections are going to be one of the first subjects for my new book scanner, since unlike my absolutely ancient flatbed scanner it has built in OCR so I don't have to do all the transcribing by hand. (The Windows Input Method Editor and I are the most bitter of enemies.) Yeah, Aegis's VF-19A is probably the most iconic machine from the game. Enough so to appear in other games, get plamodels, several toys, etc. VF-X-related baddies seem to really lke the VF-22, possibly as a result. Manfred's signature VF-17 in the game notwithstanding, his cyber-ghost comes at Ozma in a VF-22S and Havamal's commander Ushio Todo also has a personal VF-22.
  4. mikeszekely
    Well, Sonic's not the only two-pack I got over the weekend. Is there a reason to choo-choo-choose the other one? It contains this guy- Hearts of Steel Optimus Prime. Let me get this out of the way right off the bat... I'm disappointed that he's a Deluxe. I mean, I don't mind that Deluxe-class Primes exist, like Devastation Optimus on the right here, but the thing about Devastation Optimus or Core-class Optimus is that they're basically G1 Optimus, when we also have options for G1 Optimus that scale with the bulk of our collection. We don't have a Hearts of Steel Optimus at scale (aside from a fragile and impossible-to-find-now third party toy), just this little one. Having said that, though, I can't complain too loudly because Hasbro kinda nailed this bot mode. I mean, if you look at Guido Guidi's concept art for the series, they nailed all the major details, even allowing for a surprising number of painted details to keep the colors right. Honestly, I think he's just missing some lines on his toes and some yellow paint for the triangles on his forearms. It's a clean figure, too, with little in the way of kibble that wasn't part of Guidi's design. And while we're looking at he sides and back, I want to call attention to the backs of his shoulders, where there's some nice molded details of gears, like you can see the inner workings there. It's a really nice touch. Prime's accessories are this gun, which is half accurate to the comic book. It's just missing it's rear, like if you imagine Megatron's fusion cannon having the barrel and mount but not the eyepiece on the back. There's also this blue rectangle. Prime's head has a ball joint, but it's flipped so the stem is in his head and the ball is in his torso. Maybe they should do that more often, because it gives Prime pretty good up/down/sideways tilt. His shoulders rotate, no problem, but the big shoulder pads do limit his outward range to about 75 degrees. His biceps swivel, and he's got maybe 120 degrees of elbow bend. No wrist articulation, though. His waist swivels. His hips can go a little under 90 degrees backward and a little over 90 degrees laterally, but due to his hip skirts he's limited to about 75 degrees forward. His thighs swivel, and his knees bend about 120 degrees. His feet have a very slight downward tilt and about 45 degrees upward. His ankle pivots are a tad disappointing, though. The actual joint is designed in a way that he could have 90 degrees of pivot, however, the side of his leg comes down so low and doesn't give his foot clearance to move around it, limiting him to something like 30 degrees. Prime holds his gun with no issues, and the blue rectangle can plug into a 5mm port on either forearm like a non-really-comic-accurate shield. Unfortunately, he lacks any other bot mode storage, which is a shame. I can live without a place to put his gun, but I wish he could have carried the shield on his back. Prime's transformation is surprisingly interesting. I mean, you can probably tell at a glance that his head has to tuck into his chest, and his arms wind up tucked behind him while his legs make up the part with the wheels. But what's neat is how you get there... you don't merely open a hatch, tuck in his head, then curl up his forearms and fold the shoulders back. You actually pull his head and arms away from his torso, and the entire assembly flips over so that when you move it back his head goes into his chest naturally. Then, because his arms aren't actually long enough to make the whole top of the engine, the backs of his legs open up to form the sides and rear. Then his gun becomes his smokestack and his shield becomes the roof. When I first saw the pictures Hasbro released I thought Prime looked a little stumpy. Actually, though, it's pretty close to the concept art, up to the panels that are made from the backs of his legs and the blue roof. In the concept art, they should both be silver/gray... because based on Guidi's concept art, Prime should be longer because he should have a trailer part. DNA, you wanna get on that? As noted, the accessories are integrated into this mode because the gun turns into his smokestack and the shield into his roof. Which works well enough, except that I mention again that I'm not a fan of the shield. But if an upgrade trailer comes along and replaces the roof shield, I really don't have anything to complain about besides the figure's size. Of course, even size is a pretty small complaint- as long as he scales with other Hearts of Steel releases it technically doesn't matter if they scale with other Generations figures, and it's not like Hasbro's charging for a Voyager here. The set's $60, and split two ways that's $30 each... a little more than a normal Deluxe price, but with more paint than a normal Deluxe, so. I think you definitely get your money's worth with Prime; good paint, solid articulation, and adequate accessories with a transformation I rather enjoy. I'd definitely give Prime a recommendation... assuming you want his partner. Which we'll discuss tomorrow.
  5. Overeatitese started following Macross Frontier: Grace Report
  6. Overeatitese
    Not sure, but you might check the settings or look for fan-subbed versions online.
  7. Today
  8. Big s
    Same for the most part. Wouldn’t mind the VF-11 from 7 with the awesome armor packs though
  9. M'Kyuun
    I still have interest in certain crossovers: I'd like stuff like a Spinner, a Batmobile (Tumbler or '89 or Arkham Knight), perhaps a Light Cycle, the APC from Aliens, and Airwolf, just to name a few off the top. I think all of those are iconic enough to get the crossover treatment. One caveat, however: I'd want them to be their own characters apart from any others in the associated shows or films. I know that wouldn't happen, but that's my personal want. If that really is a ML tease, then I think that spells good news for potential buyers, as just a white Optimus is only half the package. I think buyers will have to accept a lot more concessions compared to previous releases for it to work. For me personally, it'd be worth the departures from the G1 toy, which was primarily a big red slab, for it to work as armor, and it would obviously have to break up into bits and partsform onto the various apropos body parts. That would work for some fans, but not all.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    This is also acceptable. Bonus points will be awarded if it comes with a campy musical number.
  11. pengbuzz
    Or:
  12. Seto Kaiba
    In all honestly, while I am fully expecting an ending to GQuuuuuuX that lands with all the grace and subtlety of a seagull that got into someone's bottle of Everclear, I will proclaim the whole thing a smashing success if... Or, as a consolation prize...
  13. Big s
    I enjoyed the episode as weird as it was and definitely enjoyed that certain song at the end. Let’s see if the final episode sticks the landing or just flops like a fish
  14. Yesterday
  15. Big s
    Who???? I honestly have no idea who he is, so I don’t know if this is good or bad
  16. sh9000
    My 2 main wants from this line are a VF-31A and VF-11B. I'd gladly get multiples of both.
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  18. sh9000
    By iydensetu.
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    sh9000's collection

    Images added to a gallery album owned by sh9000 in Macross Collections

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  22. sh9000
    Fully agree. The crossovers started off pretty good but now I've lost interest in them. Possible Missing Link Ultra Magnus tease.
  23. sh9000
    Toy packaging.
  24. pengbuzz
    Saw that and reported a couple of them; way too many posts!
  25. sh9000
    Vultureman and Skycutter.
  26. sh9000
    Jurassic World Rebirth.
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  28. sh9000
    Jada Toys Street Fighter II Sagat x2.
  29. Shawn
    We got hit with a spam bot earlier today, about 150 accounts created, so we temp closed the forum registrations and did the needful cleanup. Will enable again soon (couple days) once we see how to further tighten things up a bit. Thanks for your patience! Shawn
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