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  2. jenius
    Probably not a popular opinion but that could be a good thing.
  3. GMK
    This looks so good!
  4. Today
  5. Convectuoso
    Part of the Kickstarter
  6. HardlyNever
    Put the boxing gloves on the Plus boys.
  7. Big s
    Don’t forget that build contest this Saturday at Hobby Town stores. This guy could be a contender
  8. Duke Togo
    Interesting that they're going with "Dune: Part Three" over "Dune: Messiah." I wonder why. My guess would be because it's less of an adaption of the book and more of its own thing.
  9. Valkyrie Hunter D
    "Mom, I want Armored Core." Mom: "We have Armored Core at home." Armored Core at home:
  10. mikeszekely
    Where there's a Kickback and a Shrapnel, you can bet that a Bombshell isn't too far behind. So here he is, Dr. Wu's Beetle Horn, their Micromaster-sized version. Once again, next to the Legacy version for scale. From the knees up, I think Beetle Horn is coming across how you'd expect. The silver details on his yellow torso panel are cartoon-accurate. The rest of the torso goes for purple, as to date I believe only BadCube has tried to pull off Sunbow's bizarre decision to make Bombshell purple in alt mode but gray in bot mode. His arms, unlike the Legacy toy, are properly solid black. And his thighs have to circle details on them. Like Claw Worm, he's got a bug leg molded into his shoulder, but in his case that is cartoon-accurate. Also like Claw Worm he trades his usual wrist gun/bug leg for a more insectoid bug leg on his forearm. His remaining bug legs (also part of his shoulder on the G1 toy and vestigially present on the Legacy toy but just kind of vanishing on the animation model) are on his robot legs. Unlike Claw Worm, though, they're on the backs of his legs, mostly out of sight. Despite keeping the bug legs out of the way, things do go off the rails a bit on his legs. There are silver ribbed bits that seem to mimic some molded detail on the G1 toy, but that detail was never stickered or painted, and flat out doesn't exist on the animation model. And to cap it all off, they painted his feet purple, which is a waste of paint because Bombshell's feet should be black. Beetle Horn comes with a tiny gun. Again, the sculpt is a bit soft, due to it's very tiny nature, but I think of the three his gun came out the best. Beetle Horn's head swivels. The antenna is down about as far as it goes; it can be aimed upward more. His shoulders are ball joints that swivel and can move about 75 degrees laterally before his bug legs poke into his collar. Ball joints in the elbow give him bicep swivels and 90 degrees of elbow bend. No wrist or hand articulation. Waist swivels, and ball-jointed hips go 90 degrees forward, backward, and laterally. His knees bend 90 degrees. He's totally missing any kind of foot or ankle articulation, and he doesn't have thigh swivels. Those would be my biggest complaints with the articulation, but his legs are very small, and I might guess that the hinges and mushroom pegs needed for that articulation are perhaps too delicate at that size. After all, tiny, delicate parts are why his gun doesn't peg into his fist. Like the other two Insecticons, his gun clips around the fist instead. Instead of covering his face with the too of his head, Beetle Horn's head swivels so his face is under the alt mode. His arms fold back, like the G1 and Legacy versions, and his legs fold over his thighs like the G1 toy. However, first you have to rotate his waist 180 degrees; unlike the G1 and Legacy toys, Beetle Horn's beetle butt is made from his shins, not the backs of his legs. Panels also open on the backs of his legs. This gives his legs the clearance to fold the whole way around, but it also moves the rear bug legs into position as well as gives the arms something to tab into. Aside from the extra purple robot toes and unnecessary silver details on his butt, I think the insect mode comes across pretty well. The shape of his robot legs is a bit flatter and rounder than the Legacy toy, so the shape feels a bit closer to the G1 toy. The extra flaps that tab into his forearms blend in well enough that they don't really affect the alt mode shape. The rear bug legs are a bit more insectoid than the G1 toy/animation model, but I don't necessarily hate that. I think the only thing I'd really change would be to paint a line over the bug eye to simulate the hinge on the original toy. To be fair to Dr. Wu, though, I had the exact same complaint with the Legacy toy. Once again, no alt mode weapon storage, and one again, the alt mode doesn't really do anything. You have very limited up/down articulation on the horn, and limited swivels on the rear insect legs. The other four legs are fixed. Now, it could just be because Bombshell is my favorite of the Insecticons, but Beetle Horn is my favorite of the three Dr. Wu Insecticons. His articulation is about on par with Claw Worm and a little better than Grasshooper, and his insect legs are a bit more out-of-the-way that Claw Worm's. I do wish he had a tad more articulation, but that goes for all the Insecticons (and most of Dr. Wu's little guys, honestly), and there are a few odd deco choices, but nothing too egregious. Another easy recommend from me... assuming his pack in partner is good. Tune in tomorrow and I'll let you know- for all three Insecticons!
  11. Dynaman
    Better than a comic book. I would still only really be happy with a live action one. Nothing against comic books but I'm tired of all the clickbait out there saying X! is getting sequel! When it is really saying a limited edition comic book is coming.
  12. mikeszekely
    I feel like I'm in bizarro world. Everyone's piling so much hate on DLSS 5, and I'm sitting here thinking, "yeah, that looks pretty good." Everyone's so focused on Claire from RE9 looking all yassified, but I'm noticing how it makes characters in Starfield look like actual humans and not robots wearing the faces of humans they skinned.
  13. Yesterday
  14. Big s
    I can never get sick of those two characters. It’s odd because one is the guy that says the most from the og show and the other says the least
  15. 505thAirborne
    After looking at my Battlestar's, Vipers, Raptor & Raiders, it still boggles the mind that Moebius never made either Cylon Basestar. I can still get the old Monogram kits with no issues, but the few Re-imagined Basestar's that do exist are Rare & $$$$. So, I present to you the crudest & quick mockup of a Basestar (Cardboard & tape), size feels right compared to my Galactica & Pegasus. I might try using craft foam board with a mix of styrene to build something far more refined and as accurate as the Lords of Kobol will allow. Just the beginning stages, time will tell how this experiment turns out.
  16. danth
    People always say they're sick of CC and Snake Eyes, but damn do I want this treatment for the Snake Eyes silent issue!
  17. JB0
    I mean, that's what DLSS has been from the start. They're just taking the chains off now.
  18. Big s
    Yoda looks disappointed that he can’t give a pinch
  19. Big s
    I liked the first two films, surprised when they announced another one, but my lady is excited for it as well
  20. Big s
    Somehow he returned and many other people thrown down a hole or stabbed with a lightsaber. That’swhy this scene gave me a moment of hope in a crappy show. Her rotting corpse filed me with joy to to think that maybe they were done with this kinda 💩, but I guess Star Wars is always gonna be the death and resurrection show
  21. jvmacross
    Nice....did you buy them at retail or did you receive them as part of the KC Kickstarter?
  22. jvmacross
    It all culminates with Palpatine's return....somehow....
  23. ImChris5115
  24. borgified
    So Zero Showa villains Hot Toys?! Just keep on milking the Showa Hero’s to keep your ideal Kamen Rider marketing idea lineup happy. Not impressed at all. 😤
  25. Seto Kaiba
    Nah, I'd say superhero comic book fans are at least as bad in that regard. Star Wars at least has a story with a sense of direction and intent. Superhero comic fans have spent decades huffing the copium and making excuses for stories that go nowhere and do nothing, full of characters who never change or develop beyond shallow stock characterizations, and which end in reboots when sales slip or soap opera stasis becomes impossible to maintain any longer. All that and a bunch of the art is traced from TV, porn, and stock photos. The Star Wars fans may have been conditioned over decades of "canon" Expanded Universe content to accept and praise slop that would get a D- in any creative writing class, but they still have standards enough to reject a real turd no matter how much fanservice it's wrapped in (e.g. The Acolyte). They're more discerning... just not by much. Star Trek and Lord of the Rings kind of have the opposite problem. Star Trek is suffering because it's currently in the hands of creators who, in many cases, either do not understand it or actively dislike the aspects of its story that made it into the cultural icon it is. They keep trying to take it in darker, more dystopian directions in order to make it more Star Wars-like and action-friendly and don't understand that the reason audiences hate it every time they try is that that's fundamentally antithetical to Star Trek's identity and core themes. Lord of the Rings is trying to keep milking a brilliant adaptation of one of the foundational novels in western fantasy, but they've exhausted the available body of original narrative material and are trying to scrape a prequel together by adapting the book's appendices! They're trying to spin a dry, historical abstract about Middle Earth's prior history into this epic fantasy tale in its own right and struggling because they're adapting something that wasn't important enough to include in the main story and having to fill in the gaps with material of their own devising. Small wonder it doesn't test as well as adaptations of the main story. Star Wars is suffering because its chief creative officer and far too many of its showrunners have excessive, even obsessive, devotion to the source material that paralyzes their creativity and leads to endless retreading of old ground.
  26. KOG Water Dragon
    I'm mostly interested because it's small enough to display 3 each - 1 per mode. I have the Hasegawas for fighters and the Bandai 1/72s which I would leave in battroid, but I was never going to get another set of Bandais for gerwalk.
  27. KOG Water Dragon
    Still waiting.
  28. TangledThorns
    That's a good teaser, felt like a full trailer. Glad WB didn't abandon DUNE.
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