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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.

Threezero reactive armored Ingrams are great. Just need for unit 3 to finally ship

https://twitter.com/taka_dos/status/1983472291737678261

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...

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:

Yeah, WEAPONS is a well made wtf kind of movie that is very entertaining. Definitely worth a watch.

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.

Re record of Btooooom! ED

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.

Looks like you’re right about the see through gap from the side.

it has commenced... https://twitter.com/sakutom3/status/1983078971739910490 web-translated:

Bandai has slapped hard points on everything since the YF-19 full set pack, presumably for play value, even though they won't release any more missiles. So there are more valks than missiles to go around. Meanwhile, they won't add hardpoints back on the revival frontier valks, excluding the armored 171 that they were originally concieved for, despite the 25s canonically using them and even have contours of them molded into the wings. Basically just another fine example of Bandai logic.

Yeah, there was never a loadout in the animation, but it makes sense,. The hardpoints are built into the structure of the wing, and who knows if they might be used for tanks as well, so it wouldn't make any sense to remove them. Also, I'm looking forward to filling up a VF-19P with weapons from the other releases. ... Someday...

At less not animated, Basara was super against using weapons. There is a episode where he gets super up set when Ray tells him to play certain chord that Basara didn't know and it was a command to fire the micro missles that are concealed on the lower legs.

Does anyone ever recall the VF-19Kai having any sort of loadout? Just curious as to why it has hard points. Maybe someone can post pics of the 19 fully loaded?

My wife and I went to see Tron: Ares this past weekend. It was neither great nor terrible, but I found it an enjoyable escape. It told its own story within the Tron universe with some nice homages to the original film and the briefest of references to Legacy. The visuals were certainly beautiful, as one would expect following Legacy. The mid-credits scene makes me hope this does well enough to justify a sequel, as what it promises has more to do with legacy than Legacy.

Aww, they’re in love. Maybe the baby will be a 1S

Yeah, but he was still the best part of that mess

Appropriately, that's the general consensus for The Acolyte as a whole. 😂

1j and 1a!

Yes.

If anyone is looking!!! FINALLY made it to Amazon! Better get it fast! I snagged one today! Showing up tomorrow! Amazon.com: Academy 492645-1/144 USAF B-2A - Scale 1:144 : Arts, Crafts & Sewing

Like no one else is available in the galaxy to save it, right? No one gave a squirt about the name "Skywalker" until Anakin became a Jedi and went on his adventures, and then Luke took up training and got off Tatooine. Between Anakin and Luke, the name apparently faded into obscurity: when Luke introduced himself to Leia in her holding cell (ANH), she said "who?" So since we can't use any of the characters from the Sequel Tragedy Trilogy (for reasons previously stated), it's probably best as you said to do all new ones. Give them a chance to achieve heroic feats and do tremendous things in the galaxy.