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  2. Morgen Black started following Macross figures
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    Macross figures

    Morgen Black replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    They look great! I would like to pre-order. Enjoy, they make a great addition to your collection. MB
  4. ChristopherB
    Excellent work 👏 I love 💗 it!
  5. Hikuro
    It was a slightly better episode, but now we're gonna be in this rush mode with episode 8 being the finale and that kind of pisses me off a bit. There hasn't been any suspense, thrill, or chills this entire season. I mean if I were to compare this series to Romulus, Romulus was oscar performing in comparison.
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  7. anime52k8
    frakking finally. I need more SEED. Also I completely missed the 1.5 being available to pre-order. Was it a web shop exclusive?
  8. davidwhangchoi
    i hope it has some of cheap lecture laser pointers built in to guide the attachments docking
  9. Scyla
    Yay on the Impulse announcement. In other news Hacchaka’s review of the 1.5 Gundam: https://hacchaka.net/archives/52125239.html
  10. davidwhangchoi
    ‘Miami Vice’ Reboot With ‘F1’ Director Joseph Kosinski Gets 2027 Release Date
  11. mikeszekely
    Continuing with the AOTP Deluxes, we have another figure that I think has been anticipated by many for completing a set... it's Venom! I guess it's actually Venin, because Hasbro can't trademark Venom, but to me he's still Venom, so... Without a cartoon to copy, Venom goes for the G1 toy look. Which you think he should nail, getting a brand new mold where the other three Deluxe Insecticons had to make due with remolds of the regular Insecticons, but there's definitely differences. The most immediate diffence is the random patch of translucent red on his tummy. There's also the protruding hinges on his ankles, some minor differences in the proportions, additional 5mm ports on the forearms and the outsides of the lower legs, and a few sticker details from the original that didn't make the cut for tampographs. I never had the G1 toy so I'm not super familiar with it... there's some hollow spaces here on the backs of the arms and legs, but did they exist on the original toy? All-in-all, I think Venom is close enough to the G1 toy that he kind of stands out from the other modern Deluxe Insecticons. Even the accessories—a gun and an axe with a very short handle—are basically the same as the G1 toy. Venom's head is on a hinged swivel, which means no sideways tilt, but he can look down slightly as well as straight up. His shoulders swivel and move about 90 degrees laterally. His biceps swivel, and his elbows bend 90 degrees. His wrists don't swivel, but his waist does. His hips can go forward, backward, or laterally 90 degrees. His thighs swivel, and his knees bend nearly 180 degrees. His toes can bend downward, due to transformation, but not up, and his ankles can pivot 270 degrees, which is way more than you need for posing but also an artifact of his transformation. Venom holds his accessories just fine in either hand... The axe can also plug into a 5mm port on the butt of the gun, and he can hold it by the barrel to create a more natural-looking axe. I don't mind that update at all! The combined axe can also be stored on his back by plugging the normal gun handle into the 5mm port nestled between all his bug legs. Transformation is, I imagine, a bit like the G1 toy. His head hinges forward, then he looks straight up. The antenna on top of his head is has a hinge, so it folds back to kind of tuck into his bug chest. His toes fold in, and his ankles pivot that full 270 degrees so that his feet are against the sides of his legs, then his knees bend so his lower legs encapsulate his thighs and tab together to form the abdomen. Turn his forearms out, fold his fists in, then double hinge the elbows so his forearms cover his biceps. Then push his shoulders into his torso, which will also collapse his sides. Tuck his arms into his sides, then arrange the ball-jointed bug legs to your liking. Again, the bug mode is pretty close to the G1 toy. The shoulders and forearms don't line up quite as smoothly as the original, and he's got a gap and green hinge on top of his bug head that the original didn't have. There's also the aforementioned additional 5mm ports, but that's about it. Bug mode doesn't do much. You can spread his wings like he's flying, though if you want to keep them folded there are tabs on the wings that fit into slots near the 5mm ports on his abdomen. Speaking of ports, the ones that were on his forearms become places to stow his accessories. His bug legs are, again, ball joints, so you have some freedom to pose them. That's really about it. On the one hand, Venom is basically the G1 toy with more articulation, and he completes the modern set of Deluxe Insecticons. That's good! But I think he mimics the G1 toy a little too well for my tastes. Subjectively, I don't think he actually looks like he belongs with the other three. But most of all, I think they should have taken the liberty to improve the original toy's engineering a bit. Like, was their really no way to move the wing hinges between modes? As it stands, he holds his arms permanently at 45 degree angles because his wings keep him from lowering his arms any further. And the wings, which would look pretty cool if they were more vertical behind him, also kind of stick out behind him at a 45 degree angle. His shoulders don't really lock into place, either, having a tendency to collapse when you're manipulating them in robot mode. Frankly, I think he's kind of an annoying. Get him if you got the previous three Deluxe Insecticons and you want to complete the set. Otherwise sit this out out.
  12. F-ZeroOne
    This year marks the 85th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain. In the UK the Spitfire, and to a (sadly) lesser extent the Hurricane [1], are the symbols of the Battle but over the past few years I've become a little bit fascinated with an aircraft that is much less well known: the Boulton-Paul Defiant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton_Paul_Defiant Now don't get me wrong - I'm not one of those people who is going to claim that the Defiant was some kind of latent super-fighter that could have taken on a F-22 and won - but I just find its story interesting. The main reason I've bought it up is that it never ceases to amazes me the little undiscovered side-alleys that still wait to surprise the fan of World War II military history, and one of those I only discovered today was that the Defiant had a single seat, forward firing gun armed [2] variant planned, which somehow I'd never heard of before!: https://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_boulton_paul_P94.html [1] If one were really reaching, one could also class the Blackburn Skua and Roc as "Battle of Britain" fighter aircraft... [2] The Defiant could fire forward, if the gunner locked the guns in position, but only the pilot could then fire them but as he had no gunsight...
  13. mikeszekely
    Soundwave, as well as TFone Airachnid & Alpha Trion, The Last Knight Barricade, and The Last Knight Nemesis Prime, are available to preorder at the usual places. EDIT: Soundwave's sold out on Pulse.
  14. TangledThorns
    So does that mean we'll get a Snakes on a Plan reboot too? lol
  15. Robin-11
    Thank you! I really appreciate it!🙏
  16. F18LEGIOSS2 started following Decals library
  17. electric indigo
    Do we get a lot animal-centered movies lately?
  18. Old_Nash_II
    Final trailer of Courage
  19. Seto Kaiba
    McCoy just likes to snark. It's his main character trait. One of the very first things we're told about Kirk waaaaaaay back in TOS "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is that the man was a certified workaholic with no time for romance in his life. Gary Mitchell described him as "a stack of books with legs". He was such a workaholic that he famously had to be tricked into ordering himself to take shore leave. We do meet a few of his ex-girlfriends in TOS, but it's clear in almost every case that the relationship was short and ended rather badly. Most were in his academy days, when he wasn't quite as career-focused. For instance, the infamously awful villain of the show's final episode Janice Lester, hostile prosecutor Areel Shaw, and hostile baby momma Carol Marcus. In pretty much every case, Kirk's relationships were short and fell apart because he's Married to the Job. Most of Kirk's "romances" onscreen are him either under duress, being manipulated, or attempting to manipulate the femme fatale of the week. Like when he was given a false memory of being in a relationship with an enlisted crewman in "Dagger of the Mind", hooked up with Minamanee under the influence of amnesia in "The Paradise Syndrome", the one-sided crush Miri had on him in "Miri", Kodos's daughter trying to get close to him so she can assassinate him in "The Conscience of the King", the Scalosians attempting to use him and other Enterprise crew as breeding stock in "Wink of an Eye", etc. The man had a grand total of one functioning relationship, and that's one that happened offscreen after Star Trek VI... a woman named Antonia that he met after retiring. Unless you count the shippers (which Kirk makes a meta joke about by calling the mind meld their "first date" in the "New Life and New Civilizations") who see Kirk and Spock as a couple instead of heterosexual life partners. Then it's two. Strange New Worlds's Kirk is on-brand with the TOS depiction... a man generally too busy to be interested in romance, and definitely not the kind of guy who goes around hitting on women the way Abramsverse Kirk did. (The whole introduction of Kirk back in "Charades" was a massive refutation of Chris Pine's dimwitted fratboy arsehole take on Kirk.)
  20. borgified
    Hot Toys is running out of ideas and kitbashing whatever they can to make money * According to HT’s write up “loosely here” - This version of Miles has been infected by the Facehugger and the Symbonite comes forth and changes in the costume has shown up. *
  21. F18LEGIOSS2
    Wings are mounted on the gakken! Knees and arms still need a lot of work though
  22. borgified
    $116 USD, April -June 2026. Anyone want it, then you know what to do
  23. RavenHawk
    I do have some concerns with this figure. I haven't pulled the trigger on ordering it yet, though I'm really tempted. The price is high, which is understandable with current prices and considering the size, but I do need to know that I'll feel like it was money well-spent. I don't have any experience with Pose+ (or Art Storm) except for the Zillion Tricharger, which I've had two of sitting in their boxes waiting for some free time for about a year. I finally took those out and they were... fine. They were fine. Not quite durable enough to be a toy, and not quite fancy enough or with enough higher quality materials to justify their price (I think they were in the $300s, if memory serves). Just not encouraging for me on this one. I do also recall the Art Storm Megazone 23 Garland, which was about this price, shiny, and had some poor reviews once people actually had it in hand. So, still on the edge deciding on getting this (will I have regrets later if I don't?), but these zoomed in plastic shots aren't selling me.
  24. mikeszekely
    I applaud Dodge for both trying something different AND giving customers options. Heck, I hope they really give people what they want and stick a Hemi in the Charger... even if, judging by Ram, the Hurricane is faster, cheaper, and gets better gas mileage. (Tows more, too, but who uses muscle cars for towing?) Bringing up longevity isn't really a selling point for me. I get tired of the same old thing... Longest I've ever owned a car is around 8 years. What's more, I like a lot of the tech they've added to gasoline cars over the years, too... ABS, fuel injection, power steering, power windows, heated seats, auto dimming mirrors, parking cameras, GPS navigation, Android Auto, etc. I admire the looks of a lot of cars from the '60s and '70s, but I definitely don't want to daily a car from that era. The car community is a big tent. It's not about being right, it's about being right for you (or me). I'm glad that Dodge made the Charger Daytona. I'm glad that they took a different approach than Ford did with the Mustang Mach-E. It's stupid and silly, and I kinda love it for that. But I'm also glad they're coming out with the Hurricane version, and I was sincere when I said I hope they put a Hemi version out. Options are good.
  25. MKT
    I know one of the stated goals Pose+ has mentioned is to simplify some aspects to make it more play friendly, but I wished they had stuck to a more canon interpretation on how the wings fold at the back like Sentinel did. The rear will it look more elegant that way.
  26. MKT
    Nice pics and love this one the most.
  27. MKT
    Absolutely beautiful!
  28. Big s
    I think you’d have to photoshop out the blue background
  29. Big s
    More like the new nightmare version but more comedy
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