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  2. Mog
    Eh, I’m enjoying the show well enough. It’s basically a Star Wars underworld story with characters that are not completely good or evil. Even the lead investigator falls into this with an estranged wife and his being an absentee dad to his son. We’ll see how the story and characters pan out. But there’s enough here to keep me interested.
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  4. borgified
    Teaser for Laser Powered He-man
  5. Roy Focker
    Hamil is also a voice actor and Filoni is a cartoon guy with lots of power in a world with very few production studios. Never trust the praises of a working actor.
  6. nightmareB4macross
    It’s so super subtle in fighter mode that I can’t see where the Kai and Optimus forms meet. Wow. 🫠
  7. derex3592
    If Dad were still alive and kicking, he would SO have all these on his desk at work! Hahahaha!
  8. Seto Kaiba
    Seems to be a bit of a pattern lately. Didn't The Acolyte initially pre-announce a second season and then walk that sh*t back after audiences laughed the show out of town? I'm not so sure. Starfleet Academy was absolute dogsh*t, but it at least made an effort to appeal to both die-hard Star Trek fans and casual viewers alike. Maul seems to be a creatively bankrupt exercise in pure fanservice that has no appeal to speak of outside the die-hard Star Wars fandom. The plot doesn't even make sense unless you've seen, and clearly remember, Maul's return and his extremely short-lived stint as a crime lord in a tertiary story arc in an a cartoon from over a decade ago. It's a pretty cringe-inducing in its own right given that the 51 year old co-president and chief creative officer of LucasFilm served up a story so thinly written it feels like it came from recording a ten year old playing with their action figures. Kurtzman's actually a pretty capable writer of action serials and mindless action movies... he was a writer on the likes of Transformers, Hercules: the Legendary Journies, Xena: Warrior Princess, Alias, the Hawaii Five-0 reboot, Sleepy Hollow, etc. He's just hopelessly out of his depth when he has to actually develop characters. Remember, the OT cast have historically described George as a terrible writer whose work needed a lot of polish to be remotely usable. What was it Harrison Ford said to him? "George, you can type this sh*t, but you sure can't say it!" Saying someone "knows George's (creative) sensibility" feels like a backhanded way of saying someone can't write for sh*t.
  9. M'Kyuun
    'Preciate the info. Seems a fairly straightforward toy to transform, although it does have some locks, like the crotch vent, that necessitate a certain order of operations so as not to break it. That said, hints like this are helpful.
  10. TangledThorns
    Mark Hamill giving Filoni some deserved love. 'He Knows George's Sensibility' — Luke Skywalker Actor Mark Hamill Gives New Star Wars Boss Dave Filoni the Thumbs Up https://www.ign.com/articles/he-knows-georges-sensibility-luke-skywalker-actor-mark-hamill-gives-new-star-wars-boss-dave-filoni-the-thumbs-up
  11. M'Kyuun
    I hadn't even considered that possibility but now that you mention it, I'd love a version in Skywarp's theme.
  12. grogall
    Hobby Japan Web has an interview with Koichi Takazawa "Wave" and their continuity of development of their 1/24 scale kits wich we should know soon what the next release should be.... The new kits are quite nice and detailed, But lack the paint application from the Bandai Hi-Metal R line but are also made for the modeller! But I think both lines are the best we can get at the moment in both toys and models! Maybe the golden years of Votom's? just hope they don't overdo it and people have no more interest when the marked is flooded.... But for now the releases from both Bandai & Wave have a high degree of quality! 🤗
  13. wm cheng
    The nice thing is that it's water-based, as opposed to the Tamiya stuff, which is more lacquer solvent-based. You can just use a wet q-tip to wipe the excess down while its wet so there's no sanding of any extras. It's too bad they got the B-deck stripe colour wrong, I think I might re-paint that light grey and do a wash on the saucer edge sensor bands but otherwise it seems like a pretty nice representation (if I ever get mine and the seams aren't too bad) https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CgLE81yPn/ https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EgrP6kLh2/
  14. Black Valkyrie
    It would be cool if they produce it in the Seeker colour scheme.
  15. Apok451 started following Stands comparable to yetistands
  16. Apok451
    Well damnit, now I need to buy anotherr valk......
  17. AbdnAllHope
    I've found the legs are much easier to deal with if you open things up a bit. Pivoting the smaller nose wing part first allows you to pivot the chest, wings, and arms up out of the way.
  18. mechaninac
    You mean, like Paramount did with ST: Starfleet Academy?... I do think D+ will have much better returns with what is just the pointless filler that is Maul than P+ had with the THE MESSAGE-bloated cringe-fest unintended parody that is Academy, but the decision to approve a second season without proving the viability of the first comes from the same place unearned confidence and arrogance. At least in Filoni's case, CG animation is his wheelhouse, though he should steer clear of Live Action; nobody has been able to ever find Kurtzman's forte, other than being a consummate BS artist.
  19. shazam
    ThreeZero - Robotech - VF-1J Veritech (Max Sterling) ROBO-DOU 8" Action Figure x 3
  20. Roy Focker
    A 2nd Season? Its creator and showrunner must have really impressed one of the heads of Lucas Film. Just imagine how good it must be to approve a 2nd season before any audience or critic feedback. Filoni is blessed to have Filoni working for him.
  21. m0n5t3r
    Finally received my 40th Anniv. Hot Rod. So relieved to have not gotten a lemon and the weeks of waiting and worrying are finally over. Just the usual minor qc stuff that took a couple of minutes to touch up. I was so focused on the updated colors of this release that I never really paid attention to the accessories, and when I got it I just felt kinda indifferent about the color update... either deco is fine with me. But what I never realized I wanted or needed that came with this release is the fishing rod! It's probably the only accessory I'm gonna be displaying this Hot Rod with .
  22. sh9000
    Batman.
  23. Valkyrie Hunter D
    Schway! Yeah, that's gonna a must-buy.
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  25. sh9000
    Comparison with Leader-1.
  26. Lolicon
    My first instinct was to fill in the leaks with some white liquid putty before I emailed them about it. I haven't read any of the forums about it. Why in the world would they use grey putty on a white ship? Looks like I'm picking up some white putty. My last bottle of Tamiya liquid putty solidified long ago...
  27. M'Kyuun
    I haven't gotten mine yet (still in Japan when I checked tracking yesterday), but your description is quite apt compared to the several vid reviews I've seen thus far. Toyrise was going for a simplified, playable approach to the Legioss while still producing a faithful rendition of it and in that they succeeded. My main niggle remains the limited arc of motion for the font part of the feet, and the open forearms to a lesser degree. I figure some of these TF third parties might be able to address that as they do with so many TF toys. Small shame that all the little doors don't open on the legs to show the rockets, but it's a small sacrifice. The Sentinel does it brilliantly, and the Pose+ will, too, so I'm content with my high-end toys featuring all the bells and whistles while the Toyrise does what it was meant to do: be a fun toy first and foremost. I'm looking forward to getting my copy and I'm glad I decided to get the Omega, as the design appeals to me, I like the colors, and it'll be great to have a Legioss that's easier to transform and handle than the more complex and fragile-feeling Sentinel. The Toyrise is about the size of a leader class Transformer, so technically, since these first three Toyrise versions are non-canon, one could incorporate them into their Transformers collection if they so desired. Slap a faction symbol on there and make up your own head-canon.
  28. Chronocidal
    I don't properly remember how diver mode generally works, but I did take a good spread of fighter and bot mode pics. Honestly, these are so close in fighter that's hilarious. Sentinel is 8.5 inches long with a 6.4 inch wingspan. The Tomy is 8.4 inches long, with a 6.1 inch wingspan, though you could say the Tomy cheats on the length a little by not collapsing the feet quite as far. Either way, they're just really close. Height-wise, the Sentinel grows more, so it comes out about an inch taller overall, closer to 7 inches than the Tomy's roughly 6 inch height. Overall? The comparison I was expecting was something like a DX to an HMR.. but I think that's actually underselling both of them in a couple of ways. The Sentinel feels incredibly over-engineered, but it pulls off the design amazingly, in ways no one had tried before. The Tomy version just feels like someone decided to take more creative liscence with the transformation, and then asked "How can we do this for half the price?" And I do not mean the Tomy feels cheap by that. It's obviously simpler, but compared with the complexity of the Sentinel, it's also a lot more fun to mess with. The Sentinel feels like a (very small) high-end collectible. The Tomy just feels like someone wanted something fun to mess with in the same scale, and at a much more reasonable price. I'd say they succeeded in that. It's really enjoyable to transform, I just yanked it out of the package without even looking at the instructions, and was posing it in a couple of minutes. It just feels like it could use a little paint on things like the landing gear (which do give the chest ground clearance, by the way). Sadly one of my copies also came missing the yellow end-cap on the right arm, so I'm going to have to try and navigate HLJ's customer service about that one. It's not a complex part, so maybe something I could also scratch up a copy of, but if these get released stateside, I might try service on that end. Honestly, I'm kind of tempted to pick up more of these guys, they're just very fun. I went and ordered a second copy of the black one when the reviews started hitting, but the green was sold out.
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