Jump to content

All Activity

This stream auto-updates

  1. Past hour
  2. Black Valkyrie
  3. mikeszekely
    I'm so into that. Earthspark wasn't a great show, and way too many of the Deluxes were repaints and retools of Cyberverse toys, but somehow they keep sneaking in bangers like this and Soundwave.
  4. sh9000
    Speaking of Earthspark, here is Cosmos.
  5. mikeszekely
    He'd have to have a remolded head without the vents on the mask, rounder top, and a gray face with blue eyes instead of a black visor. And I wouldn't bet on him shelfwarming. Since no 'toon Seaspray has been announced, even if it's inevitable, people are going to buy the crap out of this one. Think less Retro Gears, more Velocitron Cosmos. Now, what will likely be shelfwarming is Retro Brawn...
  6. sh9000
    My TLEAD order at Nin-Nin-Game is set to private warehouse but I don't have any other orders so I'll probably ship it once it comes in stock. The release date on their listing still says 7/31. Hope Sentinel made the toy packaging thicker for this.
  7. M'Kyuun
    I'm thinking, other than perhaps a change in color tinting, there likely won't be much difference between the retro version and the standard release. Anyway, he doesn't look too shabby. I still like the TR version, but this looks to have some better proportions. If this is anything like retro Gears, he'll be warming pegs for a while. I'm still trying to find Earthspark Soundwave. There are five Targets within 50 miles of my house, and the furthest one (38 miles) shows they have one copy tonight. I may call in the morning and see if they'll hold it for me. There's a Cracker Barrel in Coeur D'Alene and my wife and I like eating there- perfect excuse to make the drive and then make my way over to Target. I don't know what the deal is, but none of the Targets in my area, so far as I've seen, have carried it yet and you can't just go on a main Target website and order it and have it shipped, as it's all geared towards local stores. Hasbro Pulse doesn't carry the Earthspark toys, which is pure bovine excrement, so your only way to get it, without paying exorbitant scalper prices, is to try getting it from your local Target store. If they don't carry it, for whatever reason, then you're essentially out of reasonable options. Considering that this is a toy line geared for kids, it shouldn't be this difficult to find.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    Oh, but I do insist. I love seeing what people come up with for this sort of thing... for much the same reason I enjoy the "Squadron Marking" sections of the Master File books and the Macross Plus This is Animation Special book, and the custom model kit features in Model Graphix, Character Model, etc. It's a beautiful grab bag of "just looks cool", neat references and in-jokes to the series, and historical references to famous fighter squadrons or other things. That's kind of intentional, yeah... One detail that's not really brought up in either series but is fairly important and comes up a lot in supplemental material is that the reorganization of the New UN Forces following the Second Unification Wars (the events of Macross VF-X2) stripped the military of a lot of the authority and unchecked power it previously wielded and decentralized command to the individual (and more autonomous) emigrant governments. As a result of that and a growing reliance on unmanned fighters, the quality of the average soldier in emigrant fleet New UN Forces has declined a bit. The troop quality situation is surely not helped in the least by having PMCs owned by unfathomably wealthy mega-corporations headhunting top talent away from the military with sheer spending power. That said, the presentation of the New UN Forces at the start of Macross Frontier is pretty unfair to them. The Frontier branch of SMS is the very definition of the words "spared no expense". They are the very finest mercenaries money can buy, headhunted away from the most elite New UN Forces units and equipped with the very latest and best weapons, to protect an emigrant fleet sponsored by SMS's parent company on a mission set by the company's founder as a part of his personal obsession with finding a way to overcome fold faults. They're not just the most elite soldiers in the fleet, they're likely SMS's most elite soldiers in the galaxy. Plus the Frontier NUNS initially doesn't have weapons that can hurt the Vajra. Scorning them for feeling fear when they're fighting a fight they have no hope of winning and dying for it is pretty unfair. Once they get better munitions meant for use against the Vajra they give a pretty good accounting of themselves. It's perhaps more blatant and also less intentional in Macross Delta, where the Brisingr Alliance's economic situation means the local New UN Forces are underfunded and less well equipped, though even they still thrash the Aerial Knights despite a massive disadvantage when the playing field is leveled. Macross 7 was perhaps where it was most justified to have an elite unit with ace custom mecha. After all, the anima spiritia users were rare and effectively irreplaceable assets who were 100% necessary to oppose the Protodeviln and their forces. Maximizing their effectiveness meant non-standard gear designed for their non-standard approach to warfare, and giving them gear with the best possible defensive ability was only sensible to ensure that they came back alive. (Why the fleet military didn't assign them a permanent bodyguard unit like Diamond Force or Emerald Force is beyond me... could've saved a lot of trouble, not that Basara would've given them the time of day.)
  9. Today
  10. Papa Rat
    Round two of putty and sanding along with closing off the feet “toes” with .5mm pla so they aren’t just an open void and also added some very rudimentary vents in the void areas on the back of the legs with more of the .5mm pla. Just very simple addition but I think it adds something where detail was lacking.🫤
  11. sh9000
    https://hobby-genki.com/en/hi-metal-r/47494-hi-metal-r-blood-sucker-armored-trooper-votoms-the-last-red-shoulder-limited-edition-4573102676290.html https://www.yoyakunow.com/en/robots/22731-hi-metal-r-blood-sucker.html https://www.nin-nin-game.com/en/hi-metal-r/164889-hi-metal-r-scope-dog-space-combat-version-limited-edition-bandai-spirits-.html I'm not ready to buy one yet but I'll get one from either of these stores.
  12. jenius
    Oops, I forgot to order this one! I'll have to find one in Manda.
  13. Swann
    Brand not episode
  14. 68whiskey
    Oooof A year long pre order
  15. sh9000
  16. sh9000

    sh9000's collection

    Images added to a gallery album owned by sh9000 in Macross Collections

  17. sh9000
    Bandai 1/144 VF-11MAXL Mylene Valkyrie.
  18. sh9000
    7/26.
  19. sh9000
    7/24.
  20. sh9000
    Leonardo.
  21. sh9000
    1/4 Predator and Predator 2 reissues.
  22. sh9000
    If Hasbro were to continue the Reissue line I would definitely want a Cobra Night Raven among many other vehicles completely new and unused for a reasonable price. I'd also buy a Haslab updated Night Raven like the Skystriker.
  23. treatment

    DX VF-27 Revival

    treatment replied to borgified's topic in Toys

    full-scale pics at https://valkyrie-hanger.sakura.ne.jp/blog/detail/276
  24. sh9000
    Cold Slither goes up for preorder for Pulse Premium members on 7/24 and everyone else on 8/1.
  25. sh9000
    9/12.
  26. sh9000
    You do great Macross and Star Trek work.
  27. sh9000
    My 2 Psylocke sets shipped and will arrive by next week. Word is they will be in Target stores on the 20th.
  1. Load more activity
×
×
  • Create New...