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I had a choice. That one or the inflatable boat by Ohsato

From the picture there, it looks really great. It’s definitely not one that shows up often.

It was expensive because the box condition is mint

Here are my wallets. I am missing about four wallets. The Yamano Music wallet. Would be the rarest.

The cheapest I’ve seen it was $80

"Stealth"? In my culture, it is expressly forbidden to speak of that... "motion picture". Amongst my people, just theh mere mention of it is considered a vile criminal offense, with the heaviest of penalties and sentences imposed at the sound of even hinting at it. Let me read to you an excerpt from The Annals of Pengulus Baratis, The Great Peng:

I don't know why. Collectors need the microphone to Heavy Metal. The microphone alone is about $250. That's crazy .

It is a cool figure to have

It is a cool figure to have

Thank you

Casca. Shin Godzilla. Godzilla. Superman.

VF-1J Max.

Nice stuff @Swann and welcome back.

I planned to watch this earlier but barely was able to watch it today and I enjoyed all of it. I'm down for a sequel and for Dutch to make a comeback.

Thank you very much for the kind compliments! 🙏

I paid $!60 for it

With the original logo too

It was a VF-1S.

Nice helmet

Macross summer party

That’s a cool item

You know what's better than a two-pack of Studio Series torso-forming Commanders? How about finally getting the MIA Age of the Primes torso-forming Commander the same weekend? That being Commander-class Silverbolt. Among the Combiner Wars torsos I always thought that Silverbolt was probably the best, but side-by-side with the new one really hammers home how off it was. The torso and forearms straight up have better proportions. The deco is also much more cartoon-accurate; the CW toy might have been copying the G1 toy with the red chest going straight across and the all-black shoulders, but AotP Silverbolt's white shoulder wings and red vest with white in the middle is more accurate to the cartoon. I'm a bit disappointed, though, that with all the budget a Commander-class affords it's still not totally accurate. The Autobot badge on his right collar is something you'd expect on the G1 toy, but the cartoon has nothing on the red and a big ol' badge right in the middle of all that white. Less obvious infractions include missing gold on his lats and knees, and missing red on his hips. Like the limbs, Silverbolt is less a robot that turns into a plane and more a robot with a plane on his back. I know it's going to be cause for some complaints, but for better or worse, it's cartoon accurate. You can fold the wings back, like the G1 toy (and how a lot of 3P versions of the character are depicted), but per the Sunbow art they're not actually supposed to be. As a Commander who's slightly smaller than an earlier Voyager release, much of Silverbolt's budget went toward accessories. He's got a gun, a larger cannon, plus large chunks of arms, legs, and torsos for his combined mode. And, just like Menasor's bits turned into Motormaster's trailer and Devastator's bits turned into Long Haul's trailer, Superion's bits do stuff too. Whatever you're doing with them, though, you're going to start by folding in the knees and toes on the legs and sticking them together, then accordioning the arms up (very much like Menasor's) and sticking them on the sides of the legs. This forms what I call "the brick" (though at this point I'm tempted to call it the port-a-potty). Silverbolt's articulation is not too shabby. His ball-jointed head can look up and tilt sideways a fair bit, though downward is pretty limited. His shoulders rotate and move laterally 90 degrees. His biceps swivel, and his elbows bend a little over 90 degrees. No wrist swivels. His waist does actually swivel, but he's limited to a little under 45 degrees in either direction due to his backpack. His hip skirts can hinge up, allowing his hips to move 90 degrees forward on a ratchet, about 45 degrees backward due to his backpack, and slightly over 90 degrees laterally. His thighs swivel, and his knees seem to bend 90 degrees, though using a tranfsormation joint will effectively make his knees double-jointed and able to bend 180 degrees. His feet can't tilt downward, but due to his transformation they can tilt 90 degrees up and pivot 90 degrees. Silverbolt is meant to hold the small gun in either hand. When he's not wielding it, a tab under the barrel can plug into a slot on either side of the fuselage on his back. Side note, I wish the little wings on the gun were bigger. For use with Silverbolt's bot mode, take the brick and stand it up (so that the Superion fists are at the top). Take the torso piece, fold the chest down, make him do a split, and turn the legs so the openings for the combiner ports are facing the same direction as his crotch. Tabs on the brick will plug into Superion's thighs. Then, take the cannon and use a pair of tabs to clip around the cannon, mounting it to the top of the brick. Now you've got a kind of fortified gun emplacement. I guess. It might sound weird, but AotP Silverbolt's transformation is less like the G1 toy or Combiner Wars toys, and a bit more like Kingdom/Legacy Blaster's. You open up Silverbolt's chest and fold his head into it (while folding out Superion's), but you also fold his arms into his torso as well (once you've folded in his fists and bent his elbows backward). This will leave little bits of his forearms sticking out of his sides. Fold his feet up, turn his thighs inward 90 degrees, then use his hips and upper knee (transformation) joint to bend his legs around to his torso. Those bits of forearm sticking out of his sides will slide into a gap in his calves. Once the robot parts are effectively a rectangle, you can lock the wings into tabs on his legs, double-hinge the forward chunk of the fuselage over Superion's face, and rock the tail back into place. Finish it off by opening the cockpit section and folding out the nose. As with the robot mode, Silverbolt's jet mode is both an improvement over the Combiner Wars version but not quite there. Like, it's a lot closer to a Concord than whatever the CW toy was, but the proportions, nose, and wings are altered just enough to be legally distinct. A robot with a jet on his back still winds up being a jet with a robot underneath; in that regard, the rectangle that Silverbolt squeezes himself into is actually a more compact than the CW toy, plus Superion's antenna kind of give me VF-1J vibes. However, his feet are an eyesore. I think it might have been better if they swiveled and sat on top of his shoulders instead of on the sides (though they way they work winds up integral for combined mode). Or, if you look at the Sunbow art, there's black and red nacelles sticking out from under and past the front of his wings (likely a misinterpretation of the G1 toy's chest and shoulders). If the feet could have turned 90 degrees somehow they might have passed as those nacelles. You might have noticed that Silverbolt's hip skirts have molded wheels on on them. The front landing gear unfolds from the back of Superion's head, and his pistol plugs into a port under the nose. Pull the torso of the gun emplacement, and lay the brick part flat. You can leave the torso in a split, but turn the thighs back around so the front is at the front. Plug Superion's but into a the clips you used to hold the cannon on, while tabs on his thighs plug into slots on the fists. Fold the back clip down and plug it into a pair of square notches on the brick, then fold the chest backward over it and tab it into the brick as well. fold the barrel under the cannon, turn it over, and bend the rear slightly so that a peg hole lines up with a peg on the brick (actually Superion's back clip). Lastly, fold out the little wings on the sides. You've now got something that at first kind of reminded me of a fancy airport terminal, which would have worked well with the Aerialbots. Heck, a ramp or something might have emulated the G1 toy's base mode. But, no, Hasbro apparently decreed that combiner kibble must be a trailer, even for planes... So we fold out a pair of red clips. Lift Silverbolt's wings, and the red clips grab onto his thighs while a pair of tabs plug into his butt. Fold the wings back down and they tab into the edges of the brick. For this mode, you're technically supposed to split and fold down Silverbolt's tail (a feature that was designed just for this mode, since it doesn't need to do so for robot or combined mode). I guess the cannon is the tail now? Let's be clear, the idea of a Concord or really any jet hauling around a big brick of kibble, even a big brick with wings, is a bit absurd, and I prefer my airport terminal idea. That said, I don't hate this as much as I thought. There's more wing, the Concord neck sticking off the front, and some Superion chest kibble on the back, but if you ignore that and squint this "super mode" gives me Ark vibes. Maybe this is Silverbolt's Cybertronian mode, then? Regardless, there's no law that says you have to connect the kibble to Silverbolt, and if nothing else it's a convenient way to keep all his kibble in once place. I'll do a review of the combined Superion mode when the other two Aerialbots are released. For now, I actually really like this Silverbolt. On his own merits, yes, he's still a brick of a robot under a plane that turns into a robot with a plane on his back, but that's inherently going to be a thing when you're working from the blocky G1 toys and Floro Dery's Sunbow designs (and before anyone brings up Maverick, just no- he's still a plane with a ton of robot kibble underneath, but one where they ridiculously over-engineered the transformation to try to spread the robot out flatter for minimal gain at the cost of humps on the dorsal fuselage and limited robot articulation, which I don't think is actually an improvement on any level). But he's still a good robot with a plane on his back, and an improved jet with a robot underneath. The combiner kibble doesn't really do anything for me in either robot or jet modes, but it's at least consolidated and read when we do combine him. He gets a recommend from me.

One last update for the weekend. I finished the first round of detail painting on the head. I'll clear coat it the figure tomorrow and start on adding some depth.

That's a really nice set of conversion parts, fantastic job all around.

Summer is here