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Ooh! @no3Ljm is back! Welcome back! Whats with all the Mospeada releases this year? Anniversary?

Takara Tomy TOYRISE Series 1/60 AFC-01X Ω LEGIOSS TYPE OMEGA Mospeada Another Genesis

Wait... didn't Starfleet disallow Una's race from joining Starfleet or the Federation for genetic tampering...

I think the main reason is that it has such a broad, level, and featureless top side. It's literally just a flat and wide deck, and doesn't help that every pattern painted on it focuses on it's leading edges, which highlights its lateral width. That and the way the engines are always highlighted in black, as if some hot rod engine mod protruding out of a hood cutout. If it had more longitudinal patterns, body matching engine colors, and maybe some depthwise and vent like paintjobs like the shark gills on the YF-29 or vents on VF-0's airbrake, it would probably look more aggressive

I'm being a broken record here, but I think Bandai has made their point through the lack of accessories with the YF-19's Revival and sprinkled that extra bit of salt on the wound with the inclusion of FP but only fold booster struts on the YF-21. They probably hate the idea of items in anyone's collection having accesories parity lol Maybe if they buckle their own trend to fleece people with Basara's sound booster, it will open the floodgates to more moaning have and Bandai go back and make right with these last few releases. But that's just me snorting a lot of hopium.

Peacemaker.

I'm not so sure that Kirsch is interested in catching Morrow; I think Kirsch is playing on his own team, as I don't think he likes being condescended to by Boy Kavalier (Stupid name. It's more like a descriptive phrase than an actual name). I think on some level he cares about the hybrids, certainly more than Kavalier does, but being more analytical than sentimental, I think the Morrow-Slightly situation interests him from a point of gaining knowledge or perhaps some position of power or leverage over his maker. I'm just waiting for his Soundwave moment: "Kirsch superior, Kavalier inferior!" 😄 Yep, but Kirsch is not telling anyone, which points to a probable agenda. And yeah, on an island that one would assume would have the absolute state of the art info security and monitoring systems in existence, created by the world's smartest douchebag, Morrow's ability to avoid detection by all but Kirsch, whose sole ability to detect it remains mysteriously unexplained, shoots a huge hole in the presumptive infallibility of said douchebag and his technological wizardry. But then again, so does psychologically unbalanced Nibs, as one would think the super-computer brain would be equipped to deal with errant thought patterns and such, but hybrids with flat affects wouldn't make for good tv, I guess. LOL. I'm enjoying the show, but it requires tabling a lot of WTF issues. It's apparently getting great reviews now, but I wonder how it'll hold up under the microscope of time.

So it appears that none of these links are working anymore?

Aside from his communications with Slightly, we mainly only see Morrow interact with the computers on his own ship (the Maginot). In space, nobody can hear FX lazily rip off the original Alien in the hopes that that will make this mess less unwatchable?

"Four and a Half Vulcans" It's funny that we flashed back to the episode where Una was prosecuted for being genetically modified, when what the crew are about to do here is almost certainly illegal. There's a really weird and nonsensical leap in reasoning here. Why is it necessary to go in disguise at all? Why does the injection make the crew racist?! WHY IS THAT A QUESTION I HAVE TO ASK?! I very nearly stopped watching at that point. I am 7 minutes and 38 seconds into this and I am very ready to walk away and skip the rest of this episode. This premise is awful. It's just awful. Genetically modifying someone to change their species doesn't magically implant that species's cultural norms and social values into that person. The whole crew just sort of rolls with the idea that talking like a Vulcan and being a racist arse are just genetic. The opening credits are more than ten minutes into the episode's runtime, and I'm ready to drop the entire episode before the damned title's done. Is this really just going to be forty minutes of Pike, La'an, Uhura, and Chapel being rude and racist to the entire rest of the crew? I think the writers may have forgotten the "Vulcans think Humans smell bad" thing was mainly a problem for Vulcan women, who had a heightened sense of smell. I also think the writers may have Vulcans confused with TNG-era Soong androids given that the episode seems to think being Vulcan gives people Super Multitasking Powers. ... this writing is terrible. I'm not quite 25 minutes into this trainwreck and I'm ready to put this one down there in the Hall of Shame with "Spock's Brain", "Turnabout Intruder", and "Code of Honor". I am unaccountably gratified to see that Star Trek fans on social media are already calling this episode out as inherently racist in its premise. That might be the stupidest plot twist since Dr. Brahms found Geordi's holodeck deepfake of her. Apparently Vulcans are now the kind of generic space elf that is deeply offended by the existence of spices and seasoning. I know it's a popular Tolkien-inspired elf trope, and I hate it. Vulcans are desert-dwellers. They should have a pretty refined appreciation for spices and seasonings instead of being offended by the existence of salt. I'll admit, "Doug of Vulcan" is growing on me. Kind of surprising he's not in Starfleet, considering he seems to be quite the xenophile by Vulcan standards. He's a very T'lyn sort of free spirit. Either that or it's because he's the only Vulcan in this episode who's not being a racist prick. The episode's problem is then solved offscreen, for maximum frustration and minimum catharsis. I cannot begin to express how frustrating that is. This episode has a post-credits scene. That. Was. F***ING TERRIBLE. I have an actual headache from watching that. It really was about thirty minutes of the crew being racist for no reason.

Well, to really appreciate the scope of toy options available to us, one needs to consider both official lines (Hasbro's main line, i.e. currently "Age of the Primes" under the Legacy umbrella, and Studio Series, which is a slightly more premium take, or supposed to be, on characters as they appeared in various media), Takara's Missing Link line which reengineers the G1 toys to feature full articulation and improved complexity all while retaining the look of the OG toys in both modes, Takara's own lines which recreate figs from the Japanese TF shows, the MPG line( formerly Masterpiece), their own releases of Studio Series and mainline toys, oft with better paint apps than their American versions, and other independent lines like their current Wild King show/toys aimed at younger kids. Additionally, there is Robosen, who's producing high-end, sophisticated, fully motorized, self-transforming, walking, talking Transformers. They currently represent the pinnacle of technology as its applied to our favorite Robots in Disguise, even featuring phrases recorded by the original voice actors. They come at a significant price tag, but they're astounding achievements and really cool additions to one's collection. They're a bit out of my price range, but they represent everything that I oft dreamed of in a "perfect' Transformers toy. Lastly, we get to third party companies who've been serving the fandom for about two decades now with figures both faithful to source and with a range of liberties taken in virtually every scale, from legends (slightly smaller than official main line) to Masterpiece, with varying levels of complexity, detail, 'animation accuracy', etc. there are also companies like Blokees, who make non-transforming model kits of popular TF characters, companies like ThreeZero, formerly ThreeA, who make high-end incredibly detailed non-transforming TF figures. I'm likely forgetting a few, but these are the ones that occur off the top of my head. Lots of options for the intrepid Transformers fan. As for the combiner frame system, I'm of two minds: yes, it imbues the gestalt with much greater stability than the poor Combiner Wars figures, but at what point does it simply become an easy crutch to lean on in lieu of better engineering. They didn't use a frame for Devastator, which proves they can make a combiner without it. Granted, Devy has large partsforming bits to complete the gestalt, but aside from the mad all-in-one wizardry of MMC, the vast majority of combiners, official and non, have relied on partsforming bits to accomplish mashing a bunch of smaller robots into a big one. It's an acceptable concession, and one I think most of us, even the most ardent no-partsforming critics like myself, have come to accept, if grudgingly. It's simply the most practical and economical way to achieve the combining gimmick. Hasbro's frame system is a similar tactic, love it or hate it. I'd prefer they used it more sparingly, allowing the limb-bots to actually be the limbs instead of accoutrement on a frame, but I get the reasoning behind it. If there's a cheap and easy solution, Hasbro will find it, although Takara does most of the heavy design work, so it's a good bet they're more to blame for the heavy use of the frame in lieu of more creative engineering solutions. Macross, alas, is such a niche franchise, especially on this side of the Pacific, largely due to Harmony Gold's litigious shenanigans over the last nigh-40 years, damn them. The subsequent rarity of toys, especially high-end toys like Yamato/Arcadia's, cause availability and pricing to put them out of reach of many a fan. It's the sad reality of Macross fans everywhere, unfortunately. I was hoping that Big West's and Harmony Gold's agreement as well as Disney's airing of the majority of the various Macross Series would spark a renewed interest in the franchise in the West, especially a heightened desire for the toys, but that hasn't happened. Thus the anemic status quo remains. I'm thinking he will be able to pull off that pose and probably poses more dynamic than that. They're just teasing us right now. I want to see that list done, too, especially the Datsuns (I want Prowl in the worst way), the cassettes, some of whom, like Ravage, are in desperate need of a good update. FWIW Fans Toys did a pretty good job with their version of Ravage for Acoustic Wave, both of which are pretty peak. I'm really curious how they'd approach the van brothers, as the Diaclone toys just never really fit in well with the rest of the Diaclone car bots, which makes their inclusion in the TF toyline, which seemed to cherry-pick the best looking of the bunch, oddly questionable in retrospect. We have Floro Dery to thank for the much-improved bot modes in the animation. However, Missing Link is all about improving the G1 toys as they were, warts and all, and it remains to be seen how or if they'll attempt to do something with them. We definitely need Soundwave, Megatron, and the Seekers as well. I'm most curious to see how they'll improve both of the latter. I want a fully poseable G1 Megatron.

Pretty cool take on Ken’s theme:

$399.

I want more HMR Orguss releases instead of the one and done.

Emperor Doom.

Player 2 Cammy.

Nope. Deathly silence from Bandai. I'm not gonna hold my breath waiting for these. My feeling is, if Bandai had planned to release the FP's they would have released them together with the Bogue SV-262Hs, following the trend of recent releases which are bundled together with the FPs, Such as Hayate's VF-31J Super, Alto's VF-25F Super, Michael's VF-25G Super, Alto's VF-25F Tornado, Alto's VF-171EX, the recent Brera VF-27 Super.

Honest Trailer.

From the resin prototype of ML Ultra Magnus I can see new joints in the hands, hips, knees, ankles, and Matrix Chamber. Ultra Magnus can finally do its own G1 box art pose. And I also want the G1 Datsun brothers to be released in ML along with the rest of the cars, Seekers, Dinobots, and as many other G1.

I don't think that info is correct. Matt Smith will be in it. https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-starfighter-cast

Star Wars MGS TIE Reaper x2.

The cynic in me is saying watch Star Wars Starfighter not be about starfighters and space combat, but be some Bloodsport knockoff fighting tournament set in the Star Wars universe.