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  2. Big s
    I don’t know which character you’re talking about, but I don’t think I want to watch that happen. But I guess someone has to be with Hondo physically or there wouldn’t be any baby hondos
  3. Chronocidal
    This kind of makes me think it was faulty from the start, giving you all the resistance at first, and then over time the mechanism has just failed.
  4. Big s
    I kinda get a feeling that the red gundam may have been a trigger to her newtype abilities, but the initial activation may have been triggered by her emotional determination. She seems to want it more while the original pilot failed possibly by not being as strongly motivated. Newtypes are weird
  5. Big s
    It’s a 100% mark up on China, but Japan would probably fall under their other foreign tariffs for films. But I really don’t know how all this would work on something that isn’t physical, like a toy from a different country. A lot of the tariff stuff seems very up in the air, more like a concept and I don’t think that the majority in our government (doesn’t matter which side of the political spectrum) understand that anime doesn’t come from America and that the vast majority of animation is done overseas. I also don’t know if they’d consider stuff already released here free of the tariffs or how they’d really enforce something that could be sent over digitally. I also don’t really know what the effect of a movie trade war would be. Some of our films have to be altered to be shown in other world markets, like China and they could just start outright banning our films altogether. Our big budget films might need to make all their money back from U.S. box offices if things get really rough and pretty much every comic book movie would never make their money back. Same could be possible with streaming. Like if Netflix couldn’t get that last season of Stranger Things out to foreign countries.
  6. M'Kyuun
  7. Big s
    I have a feeling that Arii just f***** up the sculpt on the tucked in head. Then again they could’ve tried sneaking something in that they thought no one would notice, but I’m pretty sure they messed up. they may not have had the best of art to go on and just figured it was good enough. Some of the box arts looked a bit funky at the time as well. Arii wasn’t always the best at details or proportions. I’m still surprised at the overall appearance of their fighter kit in comparison to the oddities on the fighter and gerwalk kits
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  9. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    I watched Aldnoah.Zero: Ame no Danshou - The Penultimate Truth . I can sum up this OVA with one line. Why was it made.
  10. M'Kyuun started following The Transformers Thread (licensed) Next
  11. M'Kyuun
    I'm not familiar with the manufacturing processes short of the need for molds and folks to assemble the toys from them. I haven't bought a Masterpiece toy since the release of MP Skids a few years ago, so I can't speak to the current quality of said toys. I predominantly focus on the main line stuff while buying the odd Earthspark toy that tickles my fancy. Having bought hundreds of Transformers toys at this point, I've seen quality go down since the early two-thousands, around 2007, when Classics, the first Bayformers, Animated, and Prime were all coming out, a time I characterize as a golden era of Transformers toys- priced well, with generally more complexity and parts count per size class, far fewer gaps and waffles, and more paint apps make those toys stand out still as some of their highest quality output on the whole. The only real advancement we've seen since is the inclusion of ankle rockers on most toys, not a very substantial step up relative to other current toys and models. Today's toys seem far more constrained by budgets thus the toys have become smaller with more effort to reduce plastic content, both parts counts and complexity have waned, as well as the amount of paint and tampo used. I still think the majority of mainline toys are decent, but any further cuts are going to have detrimental effects, methinks. One area we both agree on is Takara's ability to craft fun, engaging, and solid transformations about 99% of the time. There are a few clunkers, especially their jetformers, but overall, especially compared to most third-party offerings at any scale, Takara succeeds well in making fun and satisfying transforming toys. In that they are still the masters of the genre they helped to invent.
  12. hyp36rmax
    Great! Looking forward to it. Ordered your Bandai DX Stand conversion in the meantime, how often do you restock those? I'm assuming you're printing them locally? Would like to order more 😁 Added seven (7) 1oz of black sticky wheel weights to give them some heft. I have one more idea to tighten up the whole factory DX Bandai base.
  13. WhatBoutMyStar
    Not uncommon for any figure if you transform and pose regularly for ratchets to wear away over time especially if they are soft ratchets and you are dealing with heavy limbs with diecast parts. Did not experience that though with Macross figures because they're usually more display pieces for me but I've had that happen to a few transformers figures where the ratchets just wore away.
  14. Froy
    Worst case is the ratchet teeth just worn out completely and need a complete replacement.
  15. jvmacross
    Agreed....now that she is appatently the co-lead...I can deal with it as well....plus she's really cute so there's that....
  16. jvmacross
    https://time.com/7282543/trump-foreign-film-tariff-international-movie-production-us-hollywood-china/ So how would this even work? So if Disney is paying X to BW to make Macross available on their D+ streaming service....would it now cost double the amount of X to be able to do so? If so....I doubt it would be worthwhile for Disney to continue offering it on D+.....
  17. Radioguy
    Yikes. I remember when a company would give someone something made of gold, like a watch. Well, I don't remember, but I remember plenty of TV and films that had shown that. Back in "the before times".
  18. Papa Rat
    Wow. Thanks for the info and link. I’ll check it out. Thanks for the kind words @MechTech
  19. pengbuzz
    Thank MT: I heard of that a while back and tried it. My bottle of metallic blue acrylic paint STILL won't talk to me after that one! O.o
  20. Tking22
    The actress for Dina really carries the show now, she's fantastic, Bella is still rather meh as Ellie, but I can deal.
  21. 505thAirborne
    Really good episode last night, lots of scenes were straight out of the game or damn near close, so that's a big plus. I still miss having Joel in the story, killing him off so early in the game/story I always felt was a mistake but it's how Neil Druckmann wrote it. Still very entertaining.
  22. Seto Kaiba
  23. MechTech
    @Cheese3 Your Misa figure looks good! I lost the eye decals for mine, so she came out looking more like Little Orphan Annie!🤣 @derex3592 Your work areas are looking great! Congrats! @Papa Rat The paint on your -1D looks REALLY good! Nice shading with the color mixtures. @Chas The mods to your SDF-1 made it look much better! @pengbuzz I saw a video online on how to save money model building. One of the suggestions was to use a watered down solution of white vinegar for a decal setting solution. I always thought setting solution smelled like acetic acid. I would give it a shot! - MT
  24. Seto Kaiba
    ... that is almost exactly what I pictured in my head. This would actually have felt a lot more natural than the hosts of Good Morning Coruscant who looked like they wandered onto the wrong set from a Hunger Games spinoff. With the Hutts reputation for being kind of sleazy (and in The Clone Wars, pretty hammy), they'd make ideal talk show hosts. Especially with their incination to big, booming laughter and their sluglike body profile that'd make them naturals at slouching over a host's desk. About the only Star Wars character who'd make a better talk show host would be f***ing Hondo... but he spends this same period hamming it up as an itinerant space pirate and bothering Hera Syndulla's rebel cell.
  25. Actar
    The bizarre thing is that the joints started off tight enough, but got looser the more I transformed and posed it. Bending the knee fully into Gerwalk configuration seemed to have a ton of resistance at first, not sure if that made it worse...
  26. nightmareB4macross
    That’s the VF-1C. Nice. The kit is labeled as the VF-1D. The version of that head makes an appearance in Macross Design Works and possibly in SDF-M in grey. The 15th anniversary VF figures also had this unique head found on the Super VF-1D GERWALK, but not in the Battroid. 🧐 https://anymoon.com/blog/?p=5625 Very cool.
  27. Scyla
    I think the biggest flaw is that Hasbro/Takara (and this is an assumption on my part) are using the same manufacturing resources for their collector lines (MP/MPG/Haslab) and their $4.99 soap bottle toys. If they design a toy that requires some sort of finesse in production (tight tolerance, crisp paint application, sensible material choices ) their manufacturing resources have trouble building them properly and implement proper QC processes. I have experienced many toy lines from different manufacturers and Takara products have the shoddiest quality of them all. They have many of the issues mass produced toys for the retail market have. Which is not that big of an issue when it is a $20 toy for a young child that will break it eventually but a big deal if you spend $300 on an end all be all collector piece. What is the saving grace is that their engineers are able to design a transformation that is fun, engaging and rock solid. Something that Bandai and Sentinel fail at more often than not.
  28. BroTaku79
    I am only doing that for the Skull Squad limited edition for now. May be in the future, I may offer the Pro series base as a la carte option. Restock had already sold out for the month of April and I should restock mid-late May. Thanks.
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