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  2. sh9000
    https://www.usagundamstore.com/products/macross-7-dx-chogokin-vf-19-kai-excalibur-basara-nekki-special-action-figure
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  4. Mommar
    I thought this was going up tomorrow. Juggy going to be $70 too?
  5. mikeszekely
    Blue Booster was packed with his buddy, Wingtail. Prime, though, gets someone to fight instead (which I prefer). In this case, it's Hearts of Steel Starscream. Starscream is, again, roughly Deluxe-class when I would have preferred a Voyager. I'll note, though, that he's a tad shorter to the top of his head than Prime, which does create the sense that they're in scale with each other, if not other Generations figures. Starscream's accuracy is a bit harder to judge than Prime's, though, because concept art exists for two different versions. I went and looked at the comics to see which one was used and found that not only was he drawn very inconsistently, even from panel to panel in the same issue, he was often colored just as inconsistently. Indeed, in one of his first appearances he's actually colored more like Armada Starscream than G1. I'll say that Starscream most resembles a version of Guidi's concept art that appeared as an variant cover. That concept art used a lot more gold for some joints, so maybe Starscream needs more paint? Or maybe not, since almost none of the gold was used in the actual pages. Starscream sports lots of detail from the comics, including the Kawamori-esque hip wings, the fins sticking out of his feet, the hood over his head, at the scalloped "ears." All-in-all, I think he fares pretty favorably for a Deluxe. Starscream comes with a pair of gatling guns. The molding is pretty good, but I think it's a bit lost in that light gray plastic. Again, maybe accurate, but a little of the extra color from the concept art could have made them really pop. Starscream's head swivels, no tilt. Kind of hard to get at it, anyway. His shoulders swivel and move laterally just shy of 90 degrees. His biceps swivel, and his elbows bend a tiny bit over 90 degrees. No wrist articulation, and sadly (too common for Starscreams) no waist swivel. His hips can go about 75 or so degrees forward, backward, or laterally, which is below average but honestly adequate for most poses, I think. His thighs swivel, and his knees bend 90 degrees. His feet can't tilt up, but they can tilt 90 degrees downward (mostly for transformation) and his ankles pivot a little under 45 degrees. Starscream's guns can mount on his forearms, as would be typical for his null rays. You don't even have to remove them to transform him. If you like, though, he can also hold them in his 5mm fists. Starscream's transformation is about folding things upward, but in waves. First, his chest and arms hinge up over his head so the top of his torso tabs into his back. Tuck the arms back under the wings on his back, and then you hinge up the part with the lower pair of wings. Once they're spread and connected to the upper wings, his waist hinges upward, too. From there it's just a matter of making him do a split, swiveling the thighs 180 degrees, bending his knees, and tabbing his legs into his lower wings. Starscream's alt mode is reasonably accurate, but missing some stuff. Like, the little winglets sticking out of his feet should actually be a continuous wing running through his feet. Other than that, the front's fine, but then we come to the back. His got a sort of gappy, unfinished look with visible fists where the design sketches called for lights and chimneys. The red part sticking out the back is accurate, even down the wheel under it, but here's the thing. The design notes that's supposed to be his robot crotch. Here it's a part hanging off his butt, while his actual crotch is folded up underneath. Now, I'm no expert, but it seems to me that they could have used his actual crotch for this part if they'd simply opted to swivel his waist 180 degrees and bend his legs the other way (which would have given him the benefit of a waist swivel). He at least rolls, of the aforementioned wheel in his butt and another pair under his legs, and all three wheels are actually accurate to the comics. His guns, again still mounted to his forearms, protrude from the front in a manner that is also comic accurate. I guess another way of putting it is that Starscream's alt mode is a weird and not particularly aerodynamic mish-mash of biplane and train, but that's the fault of the design and not the toy. So... the toy is pretty good! Maybe just as good as Prime, even, in the sense that you can see how it could have been stellar with a little more budget but is ultimately one of the very best Deluxe-class toys I've reviewed this year. So yeah, this set is definitely worth picking up. What's more, we know Hasbro is going to do at least one more two-pack from Hearts of Steel with Bumblebee and Megatron, and I'm kind of excited for that now. If we're lucky Hasbro can continue to milk Hearts of Steel the way they were doing Shattered Glass for awhile.
  6. woodsider
    @Papa Rat @Thom @MechTech Thanks guys! Yes the show was good to me. @SteveTheFish Yes IPMS has come a long way when it comes to Japanese SciFi/Gundam modeling, but in my experience there's still the old timers who couldn't care less. Besides SCGMC, IPMS is pretty much the only game in town in terms of exhibitions. I'd like to see one of those IPMS guys put that Monster together and then let's what they say!
  7. pengbuzz
    In other words: Mobile Derp Gunderp.
  8. mikeszekely
    Following up on this... wife's car is STILL in the shop. The order the dealer placed for a replacement battery was cancelled (Hyundai makes them, and apparently they're hording them for new vehicles). We're obviously NOT happy. Thinking about buying the wife another car, then putting off an "everyone can use it, especially me when the weather is bad and I don't want to drive the Porsche" until the lease for the Kia is over. Must be electric, wife prefers SUVs, and riding in my Porsche has given her a taste for luxury. Thinking the BMW iX might be a good fit. Thoughts? Edmund's really liked their long-term fleet car as it was fast, comfortable, has a great interior, and it was one of the most reliable EVs in their fleet. Only downside seems to be the exterior, which the wife and I agree is kind of fugly (but fugly is kind of BMW's MO, I think).
  9. PointBlankSniper
    Nice, just when it's at the point where every show is supposed to exposition dump to try to make sense of itself, we ge for the classic "random bs, go!!!11!!1!" ending instead.
  10. Bolt
    Nice job ! The wooden base is cool.
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  12. Goodman Models
    Here’s some early pre-shading and making the lift arm assemblies.
  13. reaper7092
    I found a strange problem. The knee position was obviously stretched. Considering that so many years have passed, it may not be the same person who made and modified the 3D model. After roughly making some parts, I tried a simple assembly, mainly to observe the corresponding structure and position (there are still many interference points and mold penetration) Unfortunately, there is still a long way to go before the final completion
  14. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, I've had a similar feeling about the series from a very early point. Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX doesn't bother to develop any of its main characters, it derails the development and motivations of the secondary ones who actually run the story, it drunkenly stumbles through a premise from a previous series and then frantically rushes through a bunch of familiar plot beats to tick off some obligatory appearances on its way to what seems set to be an uncharacteristic-for-the-franchise happy end. When you think about it, all Studio Khara really did here was give Mobile Suit Gundam the Rebuild of Evangelion treatment. The Beginnings movie is basically Rebuild of Gundam 1.0 and 2.0 which recap the original story and its different outcome, and GQuuuuuuX proper is Rebuild of Gundam 3.0 where a radically different outcome is depicted.
  15. danth
    Not a fan of the 2004 Nightforce camo pattern. It's just...plaid.
  16. Seto Kaiba
    Oof... yeah, that sounds even more brutal than what we have to deal with here in the US, shipping-wise.
  17. MILKAUTICO
    Any update?
  18. Lolicon
    Bandai probably going to charge 18000 or more.
  19. Lolicon
    PF 0D still the best valkyrie toy ever.
  20. sh9000
    It was a little cheaper at Gamestop and with free shipping so I preordered from there. https://www.gamestop.com/collectibles/figures/products/hasbro-marvel-legends-series-gamerverse-gargantos-6-in-action-figure/426313.html
  21. sh9000
    6/18/88.
  22. General Rasp
    I put my pre-order in for Gargantos via BBTS. https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/319533?o=1
  23. sh9000
    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/harold-and-kumar-sequel-in-the-works-1236292052/
  24. pengbuzz
    Careful... I just might do a cartoon of that!
  25. sh9000
    Nightforce Beach Head and Quick Kick.
  26. sh9000
    Iron Man Mark VII Black and Gold.
  27. sh9000
    Car Tuned '79 GMC Vandura A-Team Van x2.
  28. sh9000
    https://www.amazon.com/TAMASHII-NATIONS-Macross-Excalibur-Chogokin/dp/B0F62BC2MB
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