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  2. MKT

    Macross CMS Figures

    MKT replied to rnurmin's topic in Toys

    Glad you managed to score it. Surugaya JP is a great place to get individual, old trading figures like these.
  3. TangledThorns
    My wife used to teach dance (jazz, hip hop, ballet, etc) and I showed her the dancing Chinese robots and her concern is the same as ours. In the video below is the Chinese robots from last year that is nowhere near as maneuverable from what we just saw this year. At this rate it won't be long before we see robots walking or working among us doing whatever they are supposed to do, hopefully safely too. Who’s laughing now? China’s humanoid robots go from viral stumbles to kung fu flips in one year https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/china-humanoid-robots-spring-festival-gala-unitree-tesla-ai-race.html This is from last year!!
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  5. TangledThorns
    I blitzed through episodes 2 through 5 as they're shorter than typical GoT episodes. Fun show and not as brutal nor complicated as GoT or HotD that some may prefer. HBO Max has found their Star Wars with GoT and makes me wonder how long they can milk it for?
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  7. grogall
    True, but there is one problem with small boxes!.... Yep, me too! It's good enough to add to the collection, but looking forward to see what they announce next, which might be end of next week! 🫢 Cleaner box art! 😉
  8. JB0
    In fairness, as often as holodecks malfunction with catastrophic results, WOULD it be safer than actual space pirates? Or would they be trapped in a death game while people struggled to bring the rest of the academy back online and reset the holodeck safeties?
  9. JB0
    It's still graphics cards, we just got used to paying scalper prices so they seem reasonable now. I'm hoping when the AI bubble pops, all the graphics cards and RAM they're hoarding dumps onto the market all at once and prices for those items just craters.
  10. JB0
    I'm personally deeply disappointed with Bristleback and Slog. (The teal+gold one and the gold+black one). They're both very far off the original designs, and not really in a good way. However, I greatly appreciate that Hasbro didn't decide to replace gold plastic with yellow plastic for these two, as I've seen them do for other characters with a lot of gold. Slog fares worse, and because he forms the upper body of Monstructor, his faults carry forward into the combined form's chest. His monster mode has gone from short and stout to tall and plump. He still looks like a difficult-to-define lump of gold plastic, so I guess he has that going for him... His humanoid mode is much lankier than I expect for a Slog, making him the only one whose humanoid form I have complaints with, but they're minor aside from the Slag-style hood over his head. All-around, he is the one it is most obvious is repurposed from a design that was never meant to be him. Bristleback originally had cool bladed wings that are totally absent from the new toy in favor of a huge armored shell that totally off-balances his color set and changes his image. He was a much sleeker robolizard-thing originally. But I GUESS it aligns with his original toy bio, where he hated becoming a pretender because it turned him from swift and nimble to slow and bulky. I'd give them credit if I thought it was intentional. Icepick(thea teal+red one) has the weakest transformation, but it's... actually pretty faithful to his original toy presentation, honestly. He has the same problem Optimus Primal has, where he transforms from a humanoid robot into a humanoid robot and the result is somewhat underwhelming. His leg-mate Scowl(yellow+purple) is actuall;y much improved in the update, in that he actually HAS a monster form instead of just pulling his head down and walking on his knees. Birdbrain(black and purple) is ... well, I like it even though it's deviating fairly widely from the original. I never understood how the original was supposed to be a bird, and this one has wings... but on his head for some reason? The potato monster form looks more like a sloth demon than the vulture theming he was supposed to carry, but that vulture theming never carried forward to the original robot, just to the pretender shell. Wildfly(red and yellow) is Wildfly. My only comment is the robot head sticking out through the monster head, but... that's honestly not far off the original either. On the whole this is better than I expected when the possibility of the Dinobot six-pack becoming Monstructor was put forward, but... it's not GOOD. There ARE some things I'm genuinely impressed with, though. And I especially like that Icepick and Scowl are flipped "upside-down" so their heads are at the knees instead of buried in the feet. I just like how it looks, especially for a combiner that's intended to be a horror show. Or as some would say... "Monstructor." A picture is not always worth a thousand words. ------------------------------------------------------- The original Pretender Monsters were also pretty weak, in all honesty. Despite my very strong opinions on them. They were basically Micromasters, with all the rich engineering complexity that subline was known for, so their transformations were ... minimal, to put it charitably. Figure I'll attach a photo of the original Monstructor here for reference, since I know he's late in the original line and fairly obscure. Image stolen from TFWiki. I know where my originals are, but I am not brave enough to push Birdbrain into the solid mass of ancient decaying gold plastic that is Slog. Also, my Bristleback's shiny metal rear-end shattered some time ago, so I can't exactly plug a fist into his exhaust pipe.
  11. 26662
    TY! I’ve never heard of Popcultcha. I need to check them out. Mandarake and I are old pals, but I’ve not used them since the tariffs kicked in. I’m still on the fence with the MPG line. They look great and the cost is not too terrible, but I’m not sure I’m ready to start collecting yet another “masterpiece” line.
  12. lechuck
    Barbatos Boomerang Mace equipment pack. My guess would be a release sometime in Q4 '26. https://hobby.dengeki.com/news/2920146/ Edit: Forget the silhouette, here is what it will look like. https://www.taghobby.com/archives/899848
  13. 26662
    This. I was still a grad student when the first Bayformers (my first time using that term) movie was released. My labmates knew I was stupid-obsessed with TFs, and since we all enjoyed playing hooky now and then, we caught the first matinee showing available. I still remember apologizing to them for making them suffer through that experience.
  14. Big s
    But that might chafe down there or pinch in the bad way, but I guess whatever you’re into. Lando seemed to have similar taste and really liked the wider hips.
  15. shazam
    Hot Toys you have done it again! More of the same product with tweaks and extra costings. You can get a Hot Toys 1/6 scale Thor figure with "nicer" hair for a premium price. If you did not pick up the Hot Toys 1/6 scale Iron Man Mark 43 the first time, then the 2.0 would be a great addition to have. Better shoulders, head sculpt and lighting throughout the figures body. I can still see some gaps in the shoulder area, so I am not sure how much of a reduction there is. I'm surprised that the Jack Sparrow figure shown is not listed as being an Artisan Edition. The only person that would buy a figure like this would be Justin from Justin's Collection. He can then tell everyone how much better this figure is than previous figures and you should go out and buy it.
  16. borgified
    One more...
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  18. Papa Rat
    @electric indigo Very cool. Excited to see this. @Chas Looking good. Well I’m adding another build to the bench. It’s getting a little hectic but organized. The KOG 7777 is about to get gloss black tomorrow in preparation for some GOLD. The FSS Phantom GK is all pinned and ready for sanding and surface prep before priming. I have a little step through van I just test fit, a Wave LED mirage about to be test fit, and now I’m test fitting a Plamax Bellvine figure. About to be a painting traffic jam soon. All fun stuff and plenty to keep track of. edit. I forgot I test fit the Tiger Moth pirate blimp awhile back and that just needs surface prep sanding etc and then it can get primed.
  19. shazam
    The first two units ($319.99 AU each) were pre-ordered through Popcultcha. I emailed Popcultcha two weeks ago as the purchase link for these items was no longer available. Since then the item is listed "Out of stock". Through emailing Popcultcha, they let me know that Hasbro had indicated that they would give an update in the near future on when the next shipment of figures would be arriving. I also used PayPal where I could pay these units off over 4 payments. https://www.popcultcha.com.au/transformers-optimus-prime-style-generation-mpg-17-takara-tomy-9-5-action-figure.html The other two units were purchased through Mandarake. I could only order one unit at a time. I could get them for 15,000 yen ($154 AU) each and paid around 5,500 yen ($56 AU) for EMS postage. You can use Transformers Masterpiece for your search or ( Masterpiece G ) attached. I have noticed that the price on these units will drop down from time to time while checking back with the link. It's cheaper for myself to buy these units from Mandarake and it takes only a few days to be posted to my address. Takara Tomy Masterpiece G Optimus Prime Style Gen. MPG17
  20. electric indigo
    Please stop trying to make humanoid robots look like humans. I mean, what's the point? I'd rather interact with a cool looking droid than a not-quite-there plastic zombie doll.
  21. electric indigo
    Very cool. I love the muted colors.
  22. Graham
    Nice box art. Looking forward to getting mine.
  23. M'Kyuun
    Like others here, my only concern is whether or not they're making Macross toys. With Arcadia silent these days, it'd be nice to have another company competing with Bandai in the Macross market.
  24. M'Kyuun
    The speed at which this disease overtakes its victims is frightening. It makes Dr. Hawking's comparatively long life with the disease all that more curious and amazing. I wasn't aware of Eric's work, as I only watched a handful of eps of Grey's Anatomy when it first premiered. I had to Google him as his name wasn't familiar to me. Nevertheless, at 54, this strikes close to home for me as well. Dane's commitment to his craft in the face of his suffering and deterioration are commendable. He's lost to us, his family, friends, and fans, far too soon. RIP
  25. M'Kyuun
    This topic devolved quickly....🤣
  26. M'Kyuun
    Indeed he did. I'm quite frank about my vehement dislike of the Bay films; I think they're utterly irredeemable as entertainment, let alone Transformers media. However, there are those who like them, quite a few I've gathered, which led to their making bundles of money for Hasbro, who in turn, funneled some of that cash back into toys. The overcomplex, illogical, mechanically unfeasible, and shardy look of the Bay-bots forced Takara to push the boundaries of their engineering skills resulting in some of the most complex toys we've ever seen from the company. Moreover, those funds helped pay for excellent shows like Prime and Animated, each of which explored unorthodox aesthetics which informed the toys, which also benefitted from Takara's stretching their engineering skills for Bayformers toys. Additionally, as you said, it drew new generations of kids into the Transformers fandom and the results are manifest in the still thriving franchise we have today. For that, Mr. Bay deserves thanks. I just hope Hasbro reconsiders letting him direct another film, as I doubt it'll end as well as they're anticipating. I think they should focus on doing quality animation. Quality. It's a terrible shame that Transformers One did so poorly at the box office; I hope it'll redeem itself on streaming. It was a good Transformers film, light years better than all of Bay's movies put together.
  27. Big s
    It was sold out the other day, guess some more got added. I hope they eventually do them with chrome finishes.
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