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is this going to cost 400 plus like the last mp optimus that kept breaking?

Calling @Lolicon you disassemble to weather, any advice?

Nexus Prime is hot as hell, and I want him right now. Edit: What a way to start a new page.

Some in-color pics of the Plamatea GiTS SAC Motoko: I've been tempted to get the Hiya one but hesitant cuz of the facesculpts and price (and the disjointed looking butt ). I like the faces on this much better. Anybody here familiar with building Plamatea kits? Watched a couple of builds on YT and only one faceplate was pre-painted and the rest you had to put stickers on, so I'm not sure if the first bullet description above is accurate. From the vids, it seems like most of the parts are molded in their proper color. I hope this will scale well with the Figma pants version.

Oh, if you just mean removing the entire backpack, that might be easier. I think someone showed the rough disassembly in an older thread when they were documenting painting the gear.

I sort of meant the entire backpack part, both fins attached and all, its just gotta be a screw or two right? guess now I'd have the orange and the light tan being off...I'll just need to close one eye when I squint

The disassembly really is a nightmare, it's why no one does it. Bandai has a bad habit of gluing things together, then screwing them together, then gluing panels over the screws so you have no way to access anything. I would be similarly pissed about the tails, but I just display the VT-1 with the boosters on it to solve the issue Though I guess I kind of adjusted to them on the Yamato? Bandai didn't invent the stubbies, they just copied them. I still want to see someone do this with them, though.

Can I just re-rant on Bandai completely blowing it on the VT-1 tailfins...seriously this looks idiotic. I have a burner DX VF-1D...how hard is it to swap out the tailfin backpack on a DX? Where are the DX disassemblers around here...is it hard? The orange on the VF-1D is slightly off, but maybe it wouldn't be that noticeable if I squint.

If you saw this inconspicuous looking box in a store, I bet you wouldn't know it contained a Master Grade sized knockoff of a Real Grade God Gundam kit: From my brief inspection, it looks like the color pallete of the RG God Gundam was accurately copied and the plastic is of good quality. Looking forward to a good build session.

Definitely looking forward to this!

My goodness, a manga based GitS anime AND a new Patlabor show. What year is it again?

yeah that was like "Wait what?" Sounds like she may have died from a sudden illness. I know she had some health issues that her internal organs were not in their proper locations. I don't know if that was something to do with her passing. But she's gonna be missed. Means we won't be seeing any future reunions with Home Alone movies, and well, Her character already passed on in Beetlejuice so there's that.

And don't have Portuguese-Brazil XD

I’m a little surprised. I ordered the regular Battle Pod and I got the Heavy Artillery version instead. I can't say I'm disappointed as I still like the toy. I was planning on getting the artillery variants after i checked out the normal Battle Pod first to see if I liked it. I was also worried that the Heavy Artillery variant would be hard to stand up with the weight of the missiles but I'm happy I was proven wrong. Question, does the Heavy Artillery version come with it’s own instructions or the one for the original Battle Pod?

Ype, all here remebmer about rocket-car XD

Play with it and let us know your thoughts. After I wrap up my DX GBP I'm probably moving on to the artillery pods.

New product pics. Prime Smokescreen (who we already saw) Liege Maximo. I kinda prefer the robo-Loki in The Covenant of Primus, but it's G2 accurate. And finally, Nexus Prime, and though I suspect a lot of you will just see this and shrug, I can feel the rage from the other board that shan't be named and I haven't even swung by there yet.

This kit's a bit late coming, because it was sitting and waiting for Deletus to come it at TCP before I shipped. But this is DNA's DK-61 kit for Legacy Vector Prime. When I reviewed Vector I said at the time that retooling Jhiaxus didn't really do enough to properly do justice to the character, and that was when he just had to represent himself as a character from Transformers Cybertron. But with Age of the Primes giving us figures for the rest of the Thirteen, all of which have been brand new molds, it's really looking like Hasbro did Vector dirty. But is it something we can't remedy with an upgrade? We see here that DNA included new shoulder pads, new forearm armor, new shin armor, new armor for the sides of his legs, new shoes, new wings, a new sword, a sword holder, and a little gold bit. Also included with my copy was a second sword in blue plastic and a extra sword holder, though they were wrapped in a bag and tossed casually into the box rather than having a spot in the tray. To begin, we take the shoulder pads and kind of slide them over his existing ones. Note that there are pegs on one corner, those pegs should be on the back of the shoulder pad. In all honesty, they way they slide on doesn't feel great, and I've heard others complaining of breakages. Fortunately the forearm armor works a lot better. It simply uses a 5mm peg to plug into the ports on his arms. It's not perfect, since the forearm armor is kind of stuck on his arm instead of wrapping over it, but it helps. For the legs, first we're going to take these skinny pieces, and see this hinge they built onto them? They clip into the vestigial ones on Vector's leg, where Jhiaxus' little winglets went. Just plug them in and then fold them over onto the little hook tab The shin armor has little hooks that grab the bottom of the shin and the molding near the 5mm ports on the sides of his legs. The connection is very tenuous, though. If you're cool with making this mod permanent, DNA does suggest using a little glue to attach the shin armor. To attach the shoes, first you have to remove the toe guns, then the pegs on the shoes plug into the 5mm ports on Vector's feet. Plugging the toe guns back on helps secure the shoes in place. Again, not perfect, since his hips and thighs are straight ported from Jhiaxus and still missing some of Vector's details, but it does cover the wires on the stock Jhiaxus legs and gives him his gun toes. The biggest upgrade here might be the wings, which are hinged and have some paint on them in addition to being significantly larger. To attach them, first we have to pull the stock wings off the split mushroom pegs, then it's just a matter of pushing the new ones on. The new wings do a much better job of giving Vector that caped look, though they do make the figure a little more back heavy, and one of mine doesn't like to stay on. Lastly, we've got his new sword. I have mixed feelings about it. One the one hand, it's big and painted and pretty dang cool. On the other hand, not every sword needs to be some anime zweihander, and the stock sword has tabs for the Cyber Planet Key that the new ones do not. For that matter, the stock sword has a 5mm peg that plugged into the port already on Vector's back. For the new swords, you need to use this C-shaped bit. The flat tab goes into this slot above the 5mm port on Vector's back, then the sword can slide into it. The fit is, even when the sword is all the way in, kinda loose, and the fact that it connects with a tab instead of a peg means you can't angle it like the stock sword to be drawn over a particular shoulder. I think there's no real question that the new parts do bring a bit more cartoon accuracy to Vector, but how do the new parts affect his transformation? Well, that's where this kit kind of starts to break down for me... before transforming him, we have to remove the sword and holder, the shoulder pads, and the shoes. Once they're off, you transform Vector almost as you normally would, but instead of folding the wings down to the hook tabs that are now covered by the extra armor we put on the sides of his legs, we fold them down to plug into the tabs on said armor. The foot armor pegs into the leg armor with the toes pointed forward and the soles facing out. You'll notice a slot under the toes. The sword holders can plug into those slots, and the swords can slide loosely into them for alt mode storage. Meanwhile, there are these 5mm ports on the struts holding the wings. This is where the stock sword stored in alt mode. What DNA wants you to do here is take the pegs on the corners of the shoulder armor that I mentioned and plug them into these ports. You may recall we had a small gold bit that we haven't talked about yet. This fits into the T-shaped gap on the back of Vector's torso, which is the nose of the spacecraft. Near as I can tell, the two small rectangular slots on either side are all that was needed to secure the torso for robot mode, so no complaints here. And there's the vehicle mode... once again, the wings are proving to be the big improvement. The new shins don't interfere with anything, so they're fine, and the little gold filler works for me. I'm not super fond of the feet on the sides... having the toe guns pointed forward is kind of cool, but the fact that they have to partsformed, and the toes removed every time they go on and off his feet, is a pain. I think it would have been much smarter for DNA to design feet with the toe goes that simply replaced the stock feet entirely with ones that could transform like the stock feet. Partsforming the shoulder armor is similarly a pain; I get that Vector had big shoulder pads in Cybertron, but if they'd made them just a little smaller and angled them just right they still could have folded down with the stock shoulders and not needed to partsform. Ironically, the one part I would like to partsform is the forearm armor. They stick out from the already-chunky bottom of the spaceship, so it can't sit flat on the ground anymore. Too bad all the available ports are taken up by partsforming feet and shoulder pads. And here's the rub... while all of this does technically make the robot mode more cartoon accurate, that cartoon is Transformers Cybertron. Which does not necessarily have to apply to half G1-ified Covenant of Primus designs used for the other Thirteen. And here's the Covenant design. Now, if we're lucky, Vector's Age of the Primes release later this year will be a brand new mold, but I wouldn't hold my breath... I'm expecting the Legacy toy again, though possibly repainted in gold with red wings. So for now, I think I do recommend the DK-61 kit for Vector Prime- it's worth it for the wings- but as with a lot of DNA's recent kits I don't think I'll be using all of it. I'm probably going to ditch the shoulder pads, and replace the stock feet and DNA's shoes with Chinese 3D-printed feet that, as I suggested, transform the way the stock feet do. That'll still give me the improved wings, legs, and forearm armor, and I can partsform the forearm armor onto the spots where DNA wants you to plug in the shoes.

I added three more additions to the collection. Animage magazine Dec. 1984 Animage magazine Dec. 1994 Anime-V magazine Aug. 1998

I’m late to the party, but I finally got one.

Whoa! Silent Mobius! Haven't thought about that one in quite a while. Last night I did the decals on my pla-MAX VF-1J. ( also did a quick pass on the tiny figure from the VF-1A kit.) And a first pass with a middle gray oil wash in the panel lines tonight.

1/30/26 Official Gundam Channel makes Char's Counter Attack available on youtube. (as always these things are limited and Gundam Channel may change after a certain period which is why put a date in the post)

These movies are so divorced from reality, it would not surprise me. And it might make it good!

Still trippy to realize that the Home Alone mom is the same actress as the Schitt’s Creek mom. RIP

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