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  2. Mommar
    Well that means I officially won't get it.
  3. MKT
    Ah that is true.. I haven't handled my 1/60 Sound Booster, so I just assumed it was further forward. Pic from Anymoon:
  4. Chronocidal
    Maybe I'm forgetting things, but isn't this basically where the booster mounted on the Yamato too?
  5. Today
  6. VF-1A Grunt
    Hear me out for a minute. I’ve always thought that the DYRL movie design team decided to stretch out the -1A head to make it a little longer and sleeker. It’s hard to really say because of the weird way the TV artwork was done and the many variations from one scene / one episode to the next, but I think you can see it by comparing the original line art to the movie. Ignoring the lens, I think the area between the front “face” and the round “neck” under the head is stretched a bit in the movie version. The movie version’s “chin” also doesn’t hang down as low. SDFM TV: DYRL Movie: Again, I know it’s not definitive because the movie art is more detailed and may just be a better a more accurate representation of how the head was always intended to look. However, you can see the same longer, sleeker look I. The artwork for the 1985 Bandai transformable VF-1A kit: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/bandai-0505197-vf-1a-valkyrie--1076235 Finally, acknowledging that the Master Files aren’t “canon,” apparently they saw the same thing when they included these two versions of the -1A head in their Battroid manual: When it comes down to it, I’m totally fine with the way it’s represented in the Plamax Battroid kit, but I also think the way the Master File book presented it as early and later variants of the head is a really cool idea.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    Nah. Speaking as a filthy casual in the Star Wars audience, my gut reaction to The Acolyte is that it reads like a product of the same Fanservice First development process that shat out the likes of Solo: a Star Wars Story, The Book of Boba Fett, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Why? Because The Acolyte is fundamentally a backstory dump. Casual viewers don't care what the characters or factions were doing before the story started or after the end of the story. If those details were important, they'd have been in the main story not some spinoff made decades later and only tenuously connected to the films. What the Sith were doing a century before the Jedi realized they were still around isn't something that has any real bearing on the story of the film trilogies, so casual viewers won't really care. This series is meant to appeal to the die-hard fans who are here for the continuity nods and the in-jokes. That transition started waaaaay before the prequels, man. That grew out of the original trilogy's biggest sequel-induced plot hole when Empire Strikes Back's big twist revealed that Obi-Wan had lied to Luke about his father's fate. That got progressively worse when Yoda and Obi-Wan doubled down on it from "a certain point of view" in Return of the Jedi and Luke followed up on it by getting all smug and preachy with Vader on Endor and with the Emperor on the Death Star. The prequels just took that existing development and ran with it full tilt.
  8. MKT
    Lol I thought Season 4 had been stealth cancelled. Now it suddenly pops up again.
  9. Big s
    But weren’t all the super poseable ones based off another company’s resin garage kits and the 1/100’s just copied from Banpresto
  10. MKT
    Like the way you custom set up the glass shelves. I’m not very familiar with Monster Hunter property, but do you have Kitz Concept’s Rathalos? It’s currently at 50% off..
  11. Spark-O-Matic started following VF-1AG (Armored GERWALK) 3D Printed Prototype!!!
  12. Spark-O-Matic
    Looks great! good job! I would buy one or two depending on what they go with. 100% if you size it up for the ThreeZero Valks. HM-R is good too
  13. Lolicon
    HMR VF-19 too https://www.hlj.com/hi-metal-r-vf-19-kai-fire-valkyrie-banc660855
  14. Spark-O-Matic
    Ok thanks! I might just keep the money aside for the Elitseeker as I know its going to be impossible for me to keep one of these clean even inside a case. I've got two full time air cleaners & dehumidifiers and still dust is endless. dust itself, often from people have trace oils on them .
  15. Lolicon
    YF-21 preorders open again at HLJ https://www.hlj.com/dx-chogokin-yf-21-gard-gore-bowman-machine-banc655165
  16. Spark-O-Matic
    No one knows anything about the business contracts unless the companies themselves provide the info publicly or its leaked or changes in the products themselves demonstrate an unspoken change. good guesstimate's can be made from experience and observation, but that's about it.
  17. sh9000
    Target Exclusive.
  18. sh9000
  19. Radioguy
    One of them. There were also strike parts sets unto themselves.
  20. Old_Nash_II started following [Netflix] The Witcher
  21. Old_Nash_II
    First look on Liam Hemsworth in Geralt on Season 4
  22. Dynaman
    Not nearly enough advertising in the right places for that. Outside of this group and D+ I never hear of the show. The problem with the Jedi is they went from being Wise, humble, kindly Obi Wan and somewhat cantankerous Yoda to a bunch of pompous jerks that thought they knew it all (and knew nothing) in the prequals. This upcoming show looks like more of the same.
  23. mikeszekely
    I guess, before the flood of Springers I ordered for some reason arrives, I should get this out of the way. Dr Wu has released new versions of Destroy Emperor, his version of Galvatron. Now, I have the original version of Destroy Emperor, as seen on the right. I opted to get the new release in toy/Marvel colors, but it's also available in a lighter Season 3 purple color and a clear purple scanning version. All three versions feature a new a new improved head sculpt, and the first batch is going out with a replacement head for the original release, which I've already installed here. The robot mode is fair enough, but the alt mode was always a bit iffy on this figure. It's hard to hold it against Dr. Wu, though, giving that this was one of the first Extreme Warfare releases, it's tiny, and it's relatively inexpensive. I mean, inexpensive enough that I didn't mind picking up the toy/Marvel colors. Now, it's worth pointing out that the original release of Destroy Emperor came with Dr. Wu's Soundblaster. This time, regardless of the color, you're not getting Soundblaster. Instead, you're getting Destroy Planet. Destroy Planet is Grand Galvatron, a character that never actually existed. In The Headmasters anime, Galvatron came up with a scheme to use the energy the Decepticons had been gathering to turn the entire Earth into a new Unicron-sized body for himself. When Sixshot realized that Galvatron planned to incorporate his lieutenants into that body he left Galvatron alone to fight the Autobots, and Galvatron wound up defeated and buried in ice. Despite never realizing his dream, an image of Grand Galvatron did appear in the series, and I dig having a toy representation of it. The toy itself uses the head, arms, and legs of Destroy Emperor, but attaches them to a new spherical body. Purchasing the toy or translucent versions of Destroy Emperor gets you a Destroy Planet that matches the colors of the original Galvatron release. If you skipped that one and want to get the anime-colored Destroy Emperor don't worry, the purple on that Destroy Planet matches the toy it's packed with. In robot mode, Destroy Planet's articulation is similar to Destroy Emperor's due to using the same limbs. The real difference is the transformation. Actually, the limbs transform fairly similarly, with the arms curling up and the legs folding over the thighs and tabbing into each other. The trick is getting the limbs stuffed inside the new spherical body. The arms are simple enough to fold it, but the legs are attached to a swiveling base that has to be turned just right to get the legs to line up inside the ball. There's also technically no official storage for his cannon, but if you have everything lined up right you have just enough room to toss loose inside Destroy Planet's body. I don't recall that Grand Galvatron had an alt mode... just the one shot of his spherical, Unicron-esque body with his head and limbs dangling off of it. But the Dr. reasonably assumed that if Unicron had a planet mode, so would Grand Galvatron. And, yeah, it's just the spherical body with the limbs and head folded inside, but what else would it be? I dig it, anyway. So, should you pick up Destroy Planet? If you don't have Destroy Emperor, then I'd say yes, I strongly advise picking up the anime-colored version of Emperor and Planet. If you do already have Destroy Emperor, though, Destroy Planet is more of a novelty, and you've also got to be in for either the toy or translucent repaints of Destroy Emperor. For me, I really enjoy the novelty of Destroy Planet, and I'm a sucker for Galvatron in his Megatron-esque toy colors, and at just around $25 this set was an easy purchase for me.
  24. twich
    Check the metal swing bar as it attaches to the legs…. Twich
  25. Yesterday
  26. no3Ljm
    Marvel Legends 85th Anniversary Hulkbuster
  27. no3Ljm
  28. jvmacross
    In hindsight, the HG/BW "deal" actually decreased the available options for consumers....BW isn't doing anything with DYRL outside of Japan and seemingly never will....seems dumb for HG to have relented on this issue....we probably could have had at least KC DYRL VF-1's had things remained "unchanged" or HG was smarter at negotiating....LOL
  29. no3Ljm
    Out of curiosity. Is this the one you guys are talking about?
  30. no3Ljm
    Kind of heartbreaking but it is what it is. It's going to be awhile before we hear Amuro back again. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-05-22/gundam-voice-actor-toru-furuya-admits-to-4-year-affair-with-fan/.211053 https://www.cbr.com/toru-furuya-one-piece-dragon-ball-voice-actor-affair-apology/ https://comicbook.com/anime/news/anime-actor-affair-toru-furuya-one-piece-sailor-moon/
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