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  2. M'Kyuun
    I actually own a G1 Jetfire that I bought at a second-hand toy store in Pittsburgh nigh twenty years ago before vintage Transformers really became sought after. I believe I paid $120 for it, still with its original box with styrofoam insert and all accessories. Unfortunately, the stickers were not well placed and in attempting to remove one of them from the inner leg, to my extreme horror and dismay, the paint came off with it. I had a set of Reprolabels that I was going to apply, but after that paint came off, I just put it back in its box and it's been in storage ever since. I also, roughly 20 years ago, bought an actual 1/55 rerelease VF-1A, IIRC. So, to answer your question, I like the Chunky Monkey; it's an anachronistic toy now, but when I bought the aforementioned toys, we still didn't have many good VF-1 options, and to Takatoku's credit, it was a solid toy with decent articulation even at that time, let alone in the 80s. Heck, I still treasure my G1 Soundwave and his cassettes, and I kept him with my CHUG collection until I bought Netflix Soundwave just a few years ago. I still keep my G1 cassettes on display, as I think they're still superior to the WFC/Legacy/SS86 cassettes. They may be flat, but they make for more convincing cassettes and the animal modes still have better articulation than the modern HasTak versions, not to mention looking the parts better, IMHO. I LOVE the cassette minions, be they Autobot or Decepticon, and IMHO, the new shrunken versions represent glaring failures among the otherwise overall well-done modern official G1 updates. I pin my hopes on Dr. Wu to hopefully remedy that situation. To clarify my stance, I don't hate the G1 toys; they were a new, cool idea, and the execution was a bit primitive. With Diaclone, it seems to me that the vehicle modes were the primary focus (making them look like real-world vehicles) and the robot modes, being the gimmick, were done as well as they felt they needed to be to get the point across. I doubt they thought we'd still be talking about them and collecting them 40+ years on. They were made for kids, and most toys have a pretty short shelf life in kids' attention span. It just so happens that we got hooked by the story that Marvel cooked up for them and the rest is history. I was thirteen when Transformers debuted, so already a little older than the target audience, but still in range. But I loved robots and sci-fi. the transformation concept was earth-shattering to me- robots were already the coolest thing on Earth, but robots that could change seamlessly into realistic looking vehicles and stuff like the Walkman and its cassettes, which also could transform!- I was enrapt from the get-go. Likewise with Gobots, but I found the cheesiness of the toon coupled with the lesser complex toys less appealing than the TF toys and more mature toned toon. (speaking of first season). However, even at thirteen and on into my later teens and early twenties, I was disenchanted with most TF toys due to their limited articulation, primarily, and simplicity. Like most TF fans today, I wanted my bots to look, mostly, like they did on tv, albeit in my case, with a little more surface and mechanical details carried over with or from the alt mode. Articulation has always been my sticking point, and while they're getting better, I'd still like to see stuff like wrist rotation, ankles that pitch fore and aft, and opening hands (like they did with SS86 prime and Megs) become standard points among all size classes. Doubt it'll happen, but I can hope. In the meantime, I'm pretty happy with where we're at right now with the Hasbro mainline toys including SS86. We need better cassettes (can't foot stomp that enough), a new improved Astrotrain with complete and realistic looking alt modes, as well as a new Blitzwing that manages the kibble better for a better tank and jet modes, especially the latter. Takara is notorious for making crappy jet modes, so that's a big ask and I hope eventually they'll actually come through.
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  4. Mog
    The Ghost is nowhere to be found, but there’s still a whole lotta shipping going on :
  5. Seto Kaiba
    I guess that depends on how you want to define "run into". Emigrant fleets operate in a manner intended to avoid such run-ins whenever possible. They operate with a massive early warning picket spread across a wide area around the fleet's main group (as seen several times in Macross Frontier) and also send advance reconnaissance taskforces out ahead of the fleet along its intended course to preemptively identify any threats and locate potentially valuable resources and habitable planets so the fleet can plan accordingly. Based on Master File, if a large hostile force is detected in or entering the area then SOP is to execute an emergency fold to leave the area before being detected. If a ship can't flee the area by emergency fold and is at risk of being captured it's evacuated and then destroyed so it can't be studied. The New UN Forces only really fight Zentradi fleets if it's unavoidable. Like to protect an emigrant planet, or if it's not possible for an emigrant fleet to evacuate the area in time to avoid a confrontation. The same rules of engagement almost certainly apply to the Supervision Army if they're ever encountered. They would probably treat the Supervision Army similarly to the Zentradi and hit 'em with the Minmay Attack while spamming Macross Cannon fire and thermonuclear reaction weapons.
  6. Bolt
    I think it's the same plan across the board . Run like hell.
  7. cheemingwan1234
    So what's the go to plan in case if the NUNS runs into one of the fleets of the Supervision Army? Use the good old fashioned Minmay Attack on the Zentraedi crews of the Supervision Army's ships?
  8. Roy Focker
    A few months ago, rumors were flying around YouTube this Bat in the Sun guy wasn't paying people as promised.
  9. Valkyrie Hunter D
    At least it's a true robot, not like that dude they had in a suit a few years ago:
  10. rsvictor1976
    Did you recently get those?
  11. WhatBoutMyStar

    HMR VF-19P

    WhatBoutMyStar replied to BlueMax's topic in Toys

    I finally got around to opening mine up tonight despite getting it about a month ago. The QC is noticeably worse than on my HMR fire valk, which had tight joints all around (perhaps too tight in some areas). Not sure if others have the same issue on their 19P, but some of the joints on the left side in battroid mode aren't well toleranced on mine. Gerwalk joint is very loose and floppy. Knee/thigh swivel is also very loose. Knee itself is acceptable, but still quite a bit looser compared to the right knee. The forearm slider, although it clicks and locks in, is very easy to unlock and slide back down when handling the figure. There's also a bit of wiggle play in that forearm even when it's clicked in. I have none of those problems on the right side, either the right arm or right leg. Overall, all the joints on the 19P, even on the right side, feel looser compared to the HMR fire valk out of the box. Still like the figure a lot though, and hopefully the joint looseness on the left side can be remedied with some floor polish.
  12. sh9000
    I liked the first set of G1 reissues from Walmart and Hasbro Pulse and wish they continued instead of changing the toy deco and packaging. I would still love a G1 Prowl reissue in G1 packaging. The only Walmart G1 cartoon deco I got was Optimus because it came with a trailer and was on discount.
  13. ValkAddict
    I hope you are correct. Hope to score one #someday
  14. sh9000
    I'm kind of glad I don't need to ship mine out right away and pay the expensive shipping cost.
  15. mikeszekely
    My beef with the recent Walmart reissues isn't that they're reissuing 40+ year old toys when there are new better ones... after all, the new better ones aren't what I had as a kid. My issue with them is the new "movie" decos that are also not what I had as a kid. If you're gonna reissue a toy, make it as close to the original as possible so that I don't have to spend a small fortune on one made in the '80s with fingers crossed that it's still in good condition. But if you're going to get a toy with a new, more cartoon-accurate deco, it might as also have a new, more cartoon-accurate sculpt and new, more cartoon-accurate articulation while we're at it.
  16. sh9000
    Return Kickstarter.
  17. sh9000
  18. sh9000
    Burning Godzilla.
  19. Mog
    Gotta snap a pic of the whole Sentinel Legi-crew (and Tread), when you get a chance.
  20. sh9000
    Voltes V Legacy Version.
  21. sh9000
    Titan combiner.
  22. barurutor
    plenty of listings on yahoo japan auctions as well.
  23. sh9000
  24. Bolt
    Thanks for that clarification
  25. sh9000
    DC Multiverse Batman Returns Catwoman.
  26. tekering
    Dan Trachtenberg has stated that Predator: Badlands is intended as a far-future scenario, closer to the Alien: Resurrection setting than any of the other films in the franchise(s).
  27. tekering
    The continued popularity of that 40-year old toy perplexes me. Both Yamato and Bandai have produced more accurate toys, at more practical scales, and in more variations than the original Takatoku versions, yet the outdated and inferior molds get continuously reissued...? 🤷‍♂️ Yeah, I agree with @M'Kyuun about retro Transformers (and Star Wars) reissues, too. 🤨
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