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Oh, FECK yes!! Wayans be back, babay!!

Yeah, so, with news getting worse by the day, I'm thinking I need a new PC *now* rather than "in the future". And building my own (with new RAM!) doesn't look like an option. But it's been literally decades since I *bought* a computer instead of built one, and have no idea what companies are decent nowadays etc. And not even sure where to buy, short of Walmart and BestBuy... Suggestions welcome! Basic wants/needs: Nvidia card, 16GB+ VRAM. Thinking 5060ti as the only semi-affordable option, but may do 5070 if that's all that's available. Would like 2x 2TB SSD's (OS+storage), but a large single would likely be OK. Extra slots on the mobo would be nice, I can slot in as many older SSD's as I have laying around... Lots of RAM! (yeah, I know). I currently have 48GB and would like even more, but at current prices I probably will actually have to downsize. Budget? No idea, but it's not gonna be some $600-900 budget build. 1500? 2000? 2500 if truly awesome? Nice-to-haves: I do value quiet, so a really good, really smooth nice-sounding PSU is a huge plus. Same for cooler. (no water cooling, do NOT trust it to run unattended) Case needs to be decent-sized for easy upgradability without worrying about "will it fit?". Not full-tower big, but more than micro-ATX preferable.

I've been reading a slew of things wrong with this release from mismatched paint, broken legs, disintegrating tabs, loose joints, chipped/scraped paint, stress markings. There's been a lot of talk that Hasbro is really dropping the ball with their releases.

Could have been the other way around. I think they did designs for Southern Cross as well. after a quick search Zillion was 87 and Robotech 2 was 88 , although the development of the series was a lil sooner, kinda hard to find too much info and they almost seem to overlap, so I’m really not sure which came first as far as concepts or shared ideas

This looks stupid, but I can’t remember the last time I saw Vince Vaughn in a movie, so maybe I’ll take a look. I hate time travel and the multiverse, but those annoying concepts are a little easier to take in a comedy than a serious movie or show

This looks kinda crappy but kinda fun at the same time. Might check out a free watch with some cheap microwave popcorn. i just wish these horror things with dolls would quit making them look so horrifying from the start. Nobody would ever touch these things if they already look creepy from the start, like in those Annabel movies. The supposed real Annabel looked more like a friendly raggedy Ann ripoff than the creepy thing from the movies.

Oh wow, yep it's right there. I do love all the experimentation going on. Some of these experiments will land better than others but I'm down to scoop them all up.

In the pics, there’s no visible canopy. I’m guessing either it’s armored or like everyone is saying that it’s just a drone

It's in the 3-mode promo pic @Black Valkyrie posted above. The head IS the cockpit. IIRC, the old drone had no head and still had what looked like a cockpit/canopy shape in fighter.

Ah that's good to know. I can't check it myself anymore as I've already bought another off Amazon and simply swapped out and returned the defective unit.

Metroid in Lego IDEAS: Not too shabby

That battery is just terribly bad placed... Out of joke, I still have the spare head from the GBP bundle and always wanted to try to customize the google but bringing in 2 or 3 little pots of quality acrylics is completely out of question. There are some acrylics that I used to work with when I was in college but don't really want to screw up a DX head.

Grey Visor just r0x0r!!!

It can't be a coincidence the ED-209 Exquisite Super version costs $209, right?

About what size would it be in 1/72?

If I separate the fuselage, I could print one large enough to fit a 3.75" figure. 🤔 At about 1:22, this would roughly scale with the MEGO figures, the upcoming Factory Entertainment BSG Viper, and the vast majority of my Star Wars vehicles... ...oh, and my Max Factory gerwalk, too. 😁 For starters, though, we're just accurizing the vintage 1:35 Monogram kit.

Nin-nin with 23% off? oops out of stock! Here is a link to the series on Mandarake it hasn't shown up their yet but if I see it ill post a link directly! 😉

I love that it says "in outer space" as if "in space" wasn't sufficient. Feels so 80s. I'll have to hunt one down!

Sorry just edited when you posted! Hope you still get the FATTY since it's even rare on Mandarake! 🤔

We haven't seen fighter yet right? Does the drone talk mean it doesn't have a cockpit?

No! They're still ghosting me. It's the Fatty plus the Toyrise turbo custom. I'm working three jobs right now though so all toys just collecting dust any way.

DNA clearly has a hit on their hands with their kit for Godzilla Megatron. Can they keep the streak going? The next kit we're going to look at is DK-75, their upgrade kit for Age of the Primes Prima. This kit comes with a new head, a cape, a shield, a sword, and some bits that plug onto the shield. Full disclosure, the new head is what sold me on the kit. It always struck me as a bit incongruent that, from the neck down, Prima seemed to be a G1-ified take on the Covenant of Primus' knight-like design, but they gave him a head with goofy ears based on the gladiator robot from "The Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4" that was retroactively determined to be Prima. Just my personal option, but I find this decision to be extra unfortunate, as that's the episode that establishes the Quintesson origin for the Transformers, an origin that's been largely rejected in favor of Marvel's Primus origin. This new DNA head has wings instead of ears and a face/helmet that's a little bit Covenant, but also a little bit Optimus. I rather like how it looks. To swap the heads, you have to pop the stock head off the ball joint, and then just pop the new one on. As for the cape, lift the top of Prima's backpack (the alt mode bumper) and you'll see a hole between the two blue orbs. On the plastic parts at the top of the cape you'll find a cutout with a tab that's rounded at one end. This tab, in theory, goes into the hole on the backpack, with the sides of the part kind of clip around the sides of the bumper. In practice, the tab doesn't really do much of anything, and it's the friction from the sides clipping on that holds the cape on. The cape itself is made of cloth, with a wire sewn into the edges so you can pose it. On the back of the shield you'll find a pair of H-shaped sockets. All those little bits have S-shaped tabs on them. For the most part, you'll want to take the bit with the handle on it and plug it into the socket near the top of the shield, and the bit that's smooth on the other sides and plug it into the bottom of the shield. The sword, which is bigger and has a Matrix designed sculpted into it rather than being compatible with Prima's Matrix, still has a 5mm handle and he can hold it just fine. The handled bit we put on the shield allows him to hold it in his other hand. If you prefer, though, the handle is hinged and can fold over. Folding the handle in causes a 5mm peg to fold out, and that peg allows the shield to be plugged into the 5mm ports on Prima's forearms. As an added gimmick, you can slide the sword point-first through the smooth connector on the bottom of the shield up through the handled connector at the top. the translucent blue edges of the shield have hinges and can extend outward a bit. By holding the sword's handle, the combined sword/shield becomes a battle axe. Up to this point the kit seems pretty good, right? Bigger sword, cool shield, nice cape, and (IMHO) a better head sculpt. Unfortunately, the rest of this review is going to be how things start falling apart. Prima's stock sword had a peg on it that allowed it to plug into 5mm ports on the sides of the bumper on top of his backpack. But, the cape is covering those ports, and the new sword doesn't have any peg on it anyway. So how's Prima supposed to store his gear when he's not using it? Well, for starters, you have to take the shield bit with the handle off, then replace it with either of the other two bits (they're identical) that has the H-shaped tab on both sides. That'll allow you to plug it into the H-shaped socket on the back of the cap part. Which... OK, I'm cool with storing the shield on his back, but why didn't DNA simply use a 5mm port on the cape part instead of the H-shaped socket? Then you could have stored the shield with the same 5mm peg that mounts the shield to his arm, and no extra partsforming step to swap the connectors would have been neccessary. But then there's the matter of storing the sword itself. On paper, it seems like you'd want to just slide the sword through the bits on the back of the shield, just like you did for axe mode, except reversed so that the point of the blade goes down through the top first. But again we've got a little problem. The blade flares out where those silver edges are on the sides. This prevents the blade from sliding all the way into the connectors, leaving it sticking way too high on his back. OK, but a lot of Transformers toys don't bother with bot-mode accessory storage anyway. So maybe we just make Prima hold his gear. But a Transformer still needs to transform, right? Well, for the most part, you transform Prima exactly the same way. But once you set him down, you run into your next issue... ground clearance. As you can see, Prima's new face is touching the ground, but his front wheels are not. Seems DNA made a cool new head that should have been a bit flatter. Robot mode accessory storage isn't always a thing, but I feel like we've gotten to a point where alt mode storage definitely is. So how do we store his new accessories? Well, the plastic part of the cape splits into two pieces. This allows you to remove the cloth cape. Now, move the shoulders out of the way a bit, and plug the big tab into hole on the front of Prima's bumper. Just like in bot mode, the sides kind clip over the the edges of the bumper, and that's what really holds it in place. But that means that the shoulders do NOT tuck all the way back in. As for the other plastic part, it plugs onto the two little pegs to form sort of a new grill and bumper, which looks ok, I suppose. Meanwhile, the sword slides into the shield like you do when you store the whole thing on Prima's back... except we're back to using the handled connector. Because the 5mm peg on that connector plugs into the 5mm port on the side of the vehicle that's made from Prima's forearm. And that's it! There's nowhere to store the extra shield connector, and there's nowhere to store the actual cape. This seems to be a case of solidly landing in the middle. I think the new head and cape do very much improve the robot mode, and sword and shield aren't bad. But robot mode storage doesn't feel like it was thought out all the way. Accessory storage in alt mode is worse, as it leaves off the cape. In that case, you might as well leave off the entire cape, not just the cloth part. But you probably shouldn't use alt mode at all with this kit since the new head doesn't have enough clearance under the vehicle, anyway. So, if you like the bot mode improvements and plan to leave Prima in a permanent bot-mode display you might find some value here. But otherwise I can't recommend this kit.

Edit* seems yes! Did you get you're FATTY situation resolved with the massive shipping cost?

My understanding is that these are meant to be drones, based on some of the bits of interviews from the designers that have come out.