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  2. jenius
    It doesn't feel like they should but maybe they need an agreement with Toynami to distribute internationally and that's the hold-up? The Tread already has the Robotech license on the back of the box like the latest Legioss reissue. They originally didn't bother with international licensing because they felt the international sales wouldn't be large enough to warrant the headache of dealing with other companies but that may have changed with such a low demand item like the Tread. I could just imagine it being like "Hey, let's pay the 5% and get the HG license so we can sell this wholesale through international channels" and then they get the license only for HG to tell them "Oh, and you have to use Toynami and they want 5% also" and that being where the wheels come off. Who knows though, I don't have anyone left at the company to ask
  3. M'Kyuun
    Much thanks for the mention, and yeah, I felt that most of us here are sci-fi nerds and there really wasn't a place that I was aware of to just share and talk about general sci-fi designs. I figure, too, we'll all learn about designs we've never seen before being an international fandom in one lovely place (Thanks Shawn and Graham!). For example, some of the British sci-fi designs mentioned by @F-ZeroOnein the above post were completely unknown to me-- now my horizons are a bit broadened. The thread did its job. As an American lad growing up in the 70s and 80s, I was also introduced to anime at a young age with stuff like Battle of the Planets, Starblazers, and Speed Racer, moving on to Pole Position, Mighty Orbots, Bionic Six, Ulysses 31, and stuff like Transformers and Thundercats. I never saw but was aware of Voltron and Robotech via the good ole Sears and JC Penney's catalogs. Man, those were the days! 😄 There was, in retrospect, quite a bit of imported anime in those early days and I wasn't aware of a number of them being Japanese shows until I was an adult. It just never really clicked, I guess, but OTOH, there was always something about those shows that made them stand out from American animated shows- more mature themes, for certain, even after sanitization, but just the art style and the attention to details, especially concerning mechanical details, that just weren't there in most American animation. I've curated a pure hatred towards Harmony Gold, but credit where due, the late Carl Macek and folks like him did us all an enormous favor by appreciating the awesomeness of anime and bringing it to Western shores. For that, much gratitude. Ah, the old Mechwarrior games and art. I believe I had a Mechwarrior game at some point for PC, but that was probably 20+ years ago. Anyway, once Transformers and Gobots came on the scene, followed by other transforming robots flooding the scene, the mecha designs from Mechwarrior never really struck a chord with me. Even within Macross, the non-transforming mecha like the Destroid Tomahawk and Spartan never did anything for me. Likewise the Zentradi Regultss and Glaug, although I like how the Regults hop about like birds instead of running. Contrarily, the Varible Glaug and Konig Monster are two of my favorite Macross designs. For me, it's all about transformation. That said, there are robot designs I really dig that don't transform. Chief among those is the glorious ED-209 from Robocop. For me, it is the pinnacle of movie robots, and just a phenomenal design in and of itself. I love it. I know everyone knows what it looks like, but I'll abuse any excuse to post a pic of this beauty.😍 Kudos to Craig Hayes for one of the most iconic designs in sci-fi and film histories. "You have 20 seconds to comply". The T-800 Endoskeleton by Stan Winston. The late great Stan Winston was a design and engineering genius, and his Terminator design has long stood as one of my all-time favorite sci-fi robots. It's as brilliant as it is terrifying (in the best way possible). RIP Mr. Winston Oh, Harmony Gold was definitely trying to reap, or perhaps rape is the better term, what they could from Macross. There are no coincidences where mecha likenesses are concerned.
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  5. Seto Kaiba
    Yes. Initially, anyway. A year or so later there it's no longer a one-off and is in some kind of semi-official limited production. No. The YF-29's weapons are powerful, sure... but they're only impressive by the standards of an average Valkyrie's normal firepower. Yeah, it has a heavy quantum beam gunpod that can theoretically sink a small escort warship in a single hit in beam grenade mode. So does the VF-27. That's about on par with a warship's charged particle beam gun turrets. Its next heaviest weapon, the TW2 beam turret, is said to be the same type used for point defense on aircraft carriers. Its missiles and built-in guns are formidable because they have the same MDE ammunition used on the VF-25 and VF-171. In a way, this broadly mirrors the original RX-78 Gundam. Its beam rifle was an extremely powerful weapon by the standards of Mobile Suits-carried weapons at the time, but the firepower was comparable to a single warship-mounted beam cannon and the rapid proliferation of the technology meant that it went from "extremely powerful" to merely above average in a matter of months. Just five or so large chunks in specific places. Unclear... he does let the YF-29 crash after abandoning it, but there's nothing saying it's unrecoverable. We've seen worse.
  6. Big s
    Mine hasn’t been quite as bad, but still not so great. Hopefully your lady pulls through and she can be back home soon to comfort you and maybe a happy new year will be coming your way
  7. Big s
    I had a mad cat vinyl kit back in the day. That and an ED 209. Fun pains in the butt for sure. Battletech was definitely trying to take the designs they originally ripped off and change them up to make them somewhat similar in shape yet different enough to seem like original designs
  8. Big s
    Did something go wrong with their toys?
  9. 505thAirborne
    Does Sentinel actually need HG's permission?
  10. Old_Nash_II started following Mospeada
  11. Old_Nash_II
    Maybe they waiting for HG permission
  12. derex3592
    Ok, I couldn't resist.... For a kit originally designed in 1963 by the British... and repopped who knows how many times by the Japanese before this copy from 1980, I gotta say, fit is not bad at all! Work on the BUFF continues...
  13. M'Kyuun
    For sure! Sucks that it's not an option, as you get a set of free stickers to address the paint/deco omissions on the stand-alone toys. Despite their 'everything Transformers unified' agreement with Hasbro, Takara's still finding small ways to treat their fans better.
  14. rsvictor1976
    This is the Studio Series one right? I don't remember my Constructicons coming with stickers. I thought it came in a carry on luggage?
  15. MKT
    I think admins can still see who likes what post, as part of the board functionality. I've also found the current like system a bit weird, but I understand the like system has been abused in the past by select members, and thus has been watered down more and more over the years. In fact, it is still being abused today lol, just in very sneaky ways.
  16. sh9000
    I'd buy this gift set if it were released in the US.
  17. Sildani
    No, I see where you're coming from what with the colors and stuff like the wingtip guns on forward-swept wings. Also the shoulder missiles kinda look like red flat pieces.
  18. Sildani
    Macross Frontier the Wings of Goodbye: hero vehicle is a one-off prototype of God-like destructive power crammed to the gills with Fold Quartz of such size and purity that it can only be harvested from Vajra Queens which are themselves extraordinarily rare and ridiculously dangerous to kill. Said hero completely destroys vehicle while saving the day.
  19. sh9000
    Transformers Generations Studio Series TFTM Galvatron x2.
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  21. sh9000
    Rocky.
  22. sh9000
    T-800.
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  24. seti88
    Amusing ...special 'anniversary' stand for a DX which for all intents and purposes, was a cannon fodder valk. Reserving an anniversary DX release for a CF valk...🤑 Eat that walkure!
  25. Scyla
    Great topic @M'Kyuun. As a kid I was already heavily influenced by Japanese mecha without knowing it seeing cartoons and imagery that originated from Japan without me realizing its origins. However, since this discussion has started with Western mechanical design the first instances that had a profound impact on me were (of course) Star Wars and Mechwarrior. Especially the cover of the 1993 SNES game and the Timberwolf mech itself. In high school I was obsessed with drawing the Timberwolf from a head in perspective which seemed easy to to for my 13 year old self; just three boxes and a circle for the cockpit and the missile pods. I never was able to get the legs quite right though. Still it is an iconic design it its own right. Never knowing where it originated from. Looking at the Mechwarrior wiki it seems like the legs and arm cannons stem from the Marauder (aka the Glaug).
  26. Thom
    If someone is going to put it together without paint, that does help.
  27. Lolicon
    Maybe Bandai will print "01" on one of the stabilizers, claim it was intentional and totally not a screwup, and then include a decal sheet for it on the next Hayate 31J reissue.
  28. Thom
    Pretty cool display @shazam!
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