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…just rechecked my moderoid mospeada preorders, as suspected they have again mysteriously disappeared…done w HLJ
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You won't think it's so terribly cheap once you see the MSRP. 🫣
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mikeszekely replied to mikeszekely's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Walmart, I'm guessing. Someone found Walmart's product page for Astrotrain and it got shared. Walmart didn't have it set to "coming soon" or "temporarily unavailable" or whatever, so people were able to create orders even though Hasbro hasn't actually solicited it yet. Personally I didn't bother. Walmart has such a bad track record fulfilling preorders even under normal circumstances that I had little faith in "oops we accidentally left this page working" orders actually securing me anything. I'll wait for Pulse/Amazon.- 17962 replies
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kajnrig replied to wolfx's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Caught up on Demon Slayer. Mild spoilers, mostly tagging for a wall of text: But blah. It eventually finds its way back on track, and it's been a fun ride overall. Here's hoping the finale trilogy movies meet expectations. -
Pre-orders start 14 January. Man that exposed forearm gap just makes the whole thing look so terribly cheap to me...
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M'Kyuun replied to mikeszekely's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Where'd you find a PO for SS TFTM Astrotrain? I've been looking for pics and POs with no sign of either. I even checked Tomy's site to no avail. Same for Hasbro Pulse. My sincere hope is for an all new mold to correct the WFC toy's many issues, but since Hasbro likely won't, I hope they'll at least give the Siege toy a much-needed overhaul to correct the glaring flaws of the original release. Likewise the inevitable Blitzwing.- 17962 replies
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NECA - Flash Gordon (1980) - Flash Gordon (Final Battle Version) Ultimate 7" Scale Action Figure x 2- 961 replies
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Well, bandai in this area is not like gundam that so fast to release the model kits. Usually tiny session SD macross we wait for year or years zzz..hope they can improve on that. Since this line is like model kits quality I wonder why they didn't make to model kit and let us have fun building it. Nowadays their model kit can have detail designing like RG gundam. Also I hope Bandai can release the fast pack parts compatible to Tiny session Valkyries. And I also like tiny pilot and opening cockpit hatch. I use the miniature figure from RG gundam. And I hope someone can make the SD Mospeada the plane and the bike with.perfect transformation. Haha
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Big s replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Light fixture still counts as toy, car headlight is crossing some boundaries- 961 replies
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“Bloody Hasbro shows me holding my bo-rifle in gun mode on the cardback, and they don’t have the damn decency to even pack the rifle version with me!” Moggy. . . fixing Hasbro’s omissions since forever.
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Thom replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
It's more the case that a light fixture will get ornery. Ask how I know...😊- 961 replies
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I need to correct this statement, as I just remembered that I owned a small Dollar Store VF-1 toy as a kid. Mine was mostly blue and IIRC, the biceps, thighs, feet and fists were grey on my copy. Otherwise, this was the toy that I had. I grew up in PA about six miles south of a little town called Ridgway. Regarding tv, weekly afternoons from about 2;30 (about the time the bus delivered me home) until around 5PM, Saturday mornings from about 5AM until 11-12:00, and Sunday mornings from about 5-8ish I'd say, I watched all sorts of cartoons. During the weekday afternoons, I mostly watched GI Joe, Thundercats, & Transformers . I remember Silverhawks being on, but I never got into that show. My friend must've had better cable than we did b/c he had The Galaxy Rangers on his tv crystal clear, while I had to arrange the 'rabbit ears' on my little 13" B&W tv in my room to try and get it. It was a chore to get it to come in with any clarity, and when I did it was still usually pretty grainy and hard to understand. So, I think it came down to the quality of the cable package you had, and I think ours was probably on the low end. I was always an early riser, and quite dedicated to watching my cartoons, and I don't recall ever seeing Robotech or Voltron on at any time during my childhood. I knew of them only through the toys in the Christtmas catalogs, and I never got any of those toys. IIRC, my first brush with RT was when I was stationed in Florida during the early 90s. However, I only caught snippets of it here and there and never quite caught anything that really piqued my interest (like valks flying around battling the Zentradi- that would've certainly struck a chord). I've still never seen any of the OG Voltron, but I loved the Netflix show. I tried to get into the 2011 Voltron Force show (with Garry Chalk playing some military bad guy), but I just couldn't get into that show. I absolutely love the Lion designs, though. We were supposed to get toys of them from Mattel, but the show got axed and the toys never materialized, although early versions of them were shown at SDCC. And that's the closest we ever got to having toys from Voltron Force, but boy would I love to see a modern take by the likes of Moderoid, Sentinel, etc. It's still my favorite incarnation of the Lions and Voltron, and arguably, if those early mockups are a good judge of the toys to follow, would've given us some of the most articulated individual Lions in the history of Voltron toys. What a shame they never came to pass. Looking back now, I don't ever recall seeing RT Alpha toys in the catalogs. I vaguely remember VF-1s, and of course there was Jetfire. That Monogram model, though, is the only Mospeada related toy that I owned as a kid, and ironically, I didn't know it was Mospeada, let alone Robotech. I knew it wasn't actually Gobots, as branded, but as to its actual origins, I hadn't a clue. It was just something random and very cool to my younger self.
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@M'Kyuun & @Big s I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, and I had to race home from school to grab a VHS tape and record RT, I think it was either on at 3:30pm or 4pm, either way, I could not wait to get home and watch it. Voltron & GI JOE were first thing in morning if I remember correctly. In 1986 I got a bootleg of DYRL uncut (Zero subs or dubs) and my mind exploded!
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Seto Kaiba replied to wolfx's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
More new season stuff... Jujutsu Kaisen's third season has started, picking up where the last one ended with the start of the Culling Game arc. The part where the original manga began seriously inflicting darkness-induced audience apathy on casual readers. It's a tournament arc, and IMO a bit of a pointless one since its villain's ambiguous goal being little more than "for the lulz" and it only really serves to put off the final confrontation with the story's big bad (Sukuna) by putting two dozen or so cannon fodder characters in the way so what's left of the main cast can farm them for powerups. -
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Big s replied to jvmacross's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Finally got around to finishing the show. Got derailed a lot by the final season of Stranger Things and a lot of personal matters that kept me from wanting to watch anything with a lot of death and despair over the holidays. pretty good show overall and luckily no one seemed to be putting up spoiler bait for the show since Stranger Things kinda stole this show’s thunder. Probably would’ve benefited from finishing before that show or coming out afterwards. Either way not bad, a bit of a few frustrating characters kinda get in the way of making the show perfect, but still pretty great overall. Pretty gruesome at times and some of the deaths hit pretty hard here. Kinda gave the show a you don’t exactly know who will survive kinda feel. The odd connections to other king stuff kinda gave a castle rock kinda feel, but way more dialed in than that show ever was. Now I guess I gotta find time to do a rewatch of the It movies -
Could’ve also been an odd timeslot. Out here Voltron often came on early morning and if you didn’t get up early enough you’d miss it and everyone at school would talk about what big monster got diagonally slashed to death. Robotech oddly showed up right after school and if you didn’t hurry home, you might miss it. I remember when Dragon Ball first aired and it was super early on Saturday mornings, something wild like 5 am before the show took off and got popular here. Transformers and GI Joe and a few others had later afternoon time slots that allowed for hang out time with friends though and probably why some shows were watched by more people.
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Big s replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Still counts as a toy till you get in a heated argument with a neighbor and run him through- 961 replies
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I remember passing on this figure, but perhaps I shouldn’t have. Looking at this pic I quite like the costume.
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MKT replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
lol that is a fun interpretation of its arms!- 961 replies
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I'm having a blast with one of the most fun to manipulate.