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  2. tekering
    The clothes make sense to me. The moustache, however, does not. 😒
  3. M'Kyuun
    Ah, elucidation most appreciated. I wasn't sure what size/price class these were in, and forgive me, but I likely didn't read your review of the core-class Dinobots, as I've no interest in core-class. Either way, these aren't for me, but as you say, it's cool of Takara/Hasbro to retool these guys into Monstructor, combining gimmick and all, for those to whom they appeal.
  4. TangledThorns
    Dang. This kinda hits close to home as Eric was my age and married one of my 90s crushes. I recall when Eric announced his diagnoses with ALS but didn't think it would kill him this quickly. To me, ALS is scarier than cancer. RIP. Eric Dane Dead at 53 After ALS Battle https://www.tmz.com/2026/02/19/eric-dane-dead/
  5. mikeszekely
    To be fair, Monstructor is a retool of Dinoking, who himself was a repaint of the Core-class Dinobots. If you'll recall from my reviews the were never the best, as Core-class toys were pretty limited by their budget when they only had to do a robot and alt mode, but the Dinobots (and Dinoking) were further hampered by having to do the combining gimmick. Frankly I'm impressed that that Hasbro even bothered to do any remolding to make their alt modes look a bit more like G1 toys (sans Pretender shells).
  6. Chas
    Got most of the panel lines on the Minerva done. Got a good start on the in scale fighters too.
  7. sh9000
  8. sh9000
    Poster Series Predator 2.
  9. sh9000
    A face only a mother can love.
  10. sh9000
    Star Wars TBS Momaw Nadon.
  11. Valkyrie Hunter D
    Bimbot technology is accelerating at a scary pace.
  12. Mog
    You know how hard vomit and cantina barf is to get off of Wookiee fur?
  13. Roy Focker
    A Wookie wearing clothes?
  14. M'Kyuun
    Sheesh! These look like cheap toys you'd get out of one of those coin-operated dispensers where the little toys come in plastic bubbles. Can't believe these are part of AotP line. Fortunately, I've no interest, so money saved. Lots of vitriol and criticism toward SS86 Astrotrain, much of it earned, alas. As more pics of it surface (especially screenshots of Hasbro's stop-motion video) showing it from different angles, I fear I must agree with a great deal of the criticism. I'm coming around to wishing they'd done a heavy retool of the Siege toy to address its most glaring deficiencies instead of producing this figure. SS86 Astrotrain is simply not a good capture in virtually any context. Train mode is his only redemption, and only just.
  15. M'Kyuun
    Well, we can argue the impracticalities all day. 😄 No denials here. But, to my very core, I have always loved the idea of robots, especially bi- or multi-pedal ones, and most especially, those that transform from one form into another. A real-life valkyrie would likely inspire an aneurism of pure joy in my brain were it to manifest for real. For me, that would be the pinnacle of technology- nothing else would summit that advance except perhaps cybernetics at the GitS level. I'd love to see either-or come to fruition in my lifetime, but I'm dubious of both. I definitely don't trust Elon Musk's Neuralink, mostly due to my distrust of Elon Musk and his motives. If this was happening at MIT or some other high-level institution of learning and science, I'd be less apprehensive. However, even if Neuralink proves moderately successful, we're still in the embryonic stages of that technology. We're still a loooong way from GitS level cybernetics, although folks like Tilly Lockey and her incredible cybernetic arms developed by Open Bionics are advancing the technology in impressive ways. Ms. Lockey strikes me as a rather impressive young woman; she's conquered what for most would be a debilitating condition and with incredible optimism, grit, and technology, has emerged as a positive and capable influence for amputees and those born with congenital lack of or disfigured limbs. I think it's no hyperbole to say she'll be a leading figure in the advancement and co-opting of bionics as we've only known it in sci-fi.
  16. Dynaman
    And hard to put armor on. Tanks generally only have strong armor in the front now (part of the reason it is kept low profile). Armoring a humanoid that way would still take up a lot of the surface area and on parts that need to be flexible.
  17. M'Kyuun
    Well, a lot of what makes sci-fi fun is indeed its speculative nature. In other words, the concepts proposed are cool, but often have a dark bent to them, especially in the hands of unethical corporations or politicians who'll take even the most benign technology and find a way to twist it for gain at the expense of society's welfare. In a fictional setting, that's great fun. However, when those technologies emerge for real, caution and apprehension are necessary lest we find ourselves collectively in a quagmire. I think a lot of these corporate execs and politicians feel like they're above it all, as if their wealth can insulate and protect them, and in the short term, it likely can. But they're human, too, they have families, and we all live on this ball of rock with no other options. Eventually, the consequences will reach them or their successors, and that's reality. One need only consider the proliferation of micro-plastics in nearly every body of water on the planet or climate change (I don't believe for a second that thousands of scientists got together to create a phenomenon on false pretenses. There may be a bad egg here or there among them, but I'm inclined to believe that most scientists are diligent in their methods, well-meaning and honest in their ethics, and are evidence driven. They're curious by nature, guided by the scientific method, and interested in putting forth the data as they make discoveries. OTOH, a bellicose wealthy politician with no scientific background nor interest therein, but only an interest in furthering profits for fossil fuel companies, with a long history of prevarication and convictions for fraud inspires no confidence whatsoever).
  18. Dynaman
    Very well done advertisement for it. Too bad the movie itself is just not any good. The Doctor(s) were excellent.
  19. sh9000
    https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/357098 The Cylon Centurion (Silver) is also currently available to preorder at BBTS.
  20. Dynaman
    Not so long ago it was graphics cards and data mining. Things will get back on track with memory in a year or two. Till then it is a terrible time to need to buy it.
  21. Big s
    They had some really great stuff. More of a metal side of things, but with that deep vampiric voice. Peter Steele was so different from everything that he just couldn’t be replaced.
  22. sh9000
    Monstructor.
  23. Old_Nash_II
    I understand that science fiction is something speculative, but seeing so many things that have emerged from it, you start questioning the subject. I think since the 1930s, with those pulp magazines that in a way "inspired" space exploration, or even earlier, like in the book The Brick Moon from 1869 (as far as I know), which creates the concept of a space station.
  24. Big s
    I guess they were so popular they had to put more into production.
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  26. Seto Kaiba
    There's a pretty good reason given directly in the episode for why they wouldn't be able to send holograms over... the Miyazaki had no power, so the holoemitters that have lined the corridors of ships for emergency hologram use since VOY "Message in a Bottle" wouldn't be operational. (SAM presumably has something like Arnold Rimmer's light bee keeping her program going?) The idiot ball moment is more "Why was it necessary to go to contested space and put the first-year cadets in actual danger when they could have just as easily simulated this using a training ship or just a regular holodeck where they would not be in any danger of being murdered by space pirates?" We know Starfleet Academy has had simulator training since before the holodeck was even a thing... the infamous Kobayashi Maru test that Kirk infamously cheated was one.
  27. Big s
    Definitely cool, but bipedal=easy target. That’s why tanks kinda got lower to the ground in a lot of designs. I do love a good sci fi concept though and can’t deny that
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