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This is definitely looking like streaming fare.

Jada Toys Street Fighter II Blanka x2.

So Clash of the Titan, Spaceballs and Airplanes did it!!😁 And kids in the 2020s can now hear sh*t and f*ck on regular TV. At least until the dialogue hits the limit per episode...

Came here to say that. The system probably updated over the years on what was allowed for each rating. Amazing what we 80s kids grew up with, lol.

According to wikipedia, PG-13 as July 1 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_film_rating_system

Pg13 these days kinda replaced the old pg standard. Not sure if the first Spaceballs movie was before the change. Clash of the Titans had a lot of stuff that would be in an R rating today and that also had a pg rating. That movie had gore and occasional nudity throughout the movie. I think clash was 81, again not really sure when the change in the ratings system hit

Had to look it up but had no idea that SPACEBALLS was rate PG, it had a lot of sex innuendo and adult language including one F bomb. "I bet she gives great helmet", lol. On a slight note I can see why it took so long to make a proper sequel as we have had lots of STAR WARS spoofs in recent decades. Notably from ROBOT CHICKEN and Family Guy.

My first 1:72 aircraft, the VE-1 is bigger than I thought. The test fitting is good. Lots of seam removal needed and lots of very delicate parts. I love the design so much. Such a chunky little buddy. It has sooooo much more detail than any of the old kits I have been working on. It’s going to look awesome once it’s painted.

That’s an awesome lineup! I’ve got a soft spot for Macross II—something about the music and pacing really clicks for me. Fingers crossed we’ll see Macross Plus get the same love soon; it’s long overdue for a proper modern release.

She was standing tall with her helmet between this and the other adult Klan. This one's armor and face are my favorites. io games

Maybe in an alternate reality

I still think this has a neat car mode that says "Batmobile" to me, albeit a bit cartoony. I'm not at all into Sonic so I passed on this set, but I recall this and his partner both having good alt modes. What really impresses me from a noteworthy perspective is that both of these are individual new molds. We have long-time established characters that don't even warrant that treatment, so that stings a bit. Anyway, the alt mode of his partner is of particular interest to me and I'm looking forward to the next review.

Yes, i love this kit and i'm still excited when i think about building it. I'm looking forward to matching the two up! I should have ordered an extra Mirya for a custom.

No, I just said I didn't see how it made a difference, and that-- Tell you what: I'll solve this for you. I just put you on ignore, so that way you don't have to worry about me commenting on any of your posts. My best friend was just diagnosed with Glioblastoma; I don't need this crap today. Departing topic.

On that note...😆

I agree that the Queadluun Rau is a great kit for the $$$ Heres a pic of my build from Last year

I would think that should be a no-brainer ( but I don't have the market research to back that belief up).

I’m rehoping they do a Max figure to go with it

Thanks! Yeah HobbySearch has the Q. Rau but I missed their Milia preorder. HLJ has both available though.

Preorders are still up for the Mirya, and the Queadluun Rau isn’t too tough to find in stock and is surprisingly inexpensive for how big it is. I highly recommend the Queadluun Rau. It’s a great kit and from the promo pics the Mirya figure kit looks great as well

Sometimes, you gotta go fast! But should you go fast to Target for this guy: Transformers X Sonic Blue Booster? Blue Booster is a roughly Deluxe-sized figure of a robot that looks like Sonic the Hedgehog, but isn't Metal Sonic. And to that end, he's got some gold where Sonic has his flesh-colored arms, and some more gold where Sonic has his flesh-colored underbelly, and a little gold where he's got his flesh-colored face, plus some white "gloves" on his otherwise Sonic-blue body. And the obviously-car feet and fender shoulders sell the idea that this Sonic is also a Transformer. But where they kind of lose me is the face. Like, he's got a regular face with a mouth and a little button nose, but instead of Sonic's eyes there's a blue visor in the shape of Sonics eyes that weirdly connect above his nose. Another minor gripe I have is the white on his legs. Sonic doesn't have white on his legs (unless you count the tops of his sneakers, but that opens up a new avenue of complaining that his feet aren't red), and these parts only seem to be white because they ran out of room on the blue sprue but had room left on the white one they used for his arms. Gotta keep those costs down, amirite? That's also why, despite not needing room to fold in his hands or anything, there's plenty of hollow spaces on this figure, including his the backs of his forearms. Blue Booster comes with two accessories (for himself). The first one of Sonic's iconic rings, with a translucent blue filling. The other is one of the item boxes from the 3D Sonic games. A spinner inside has an invincibility sparkle on one side, and an Autobot badge on the other. Blue Booster's head swivels and has a slight sideways tilt on a ball joint, but a transformation hinge that doesn't lock in place gives him pretty good up/down range (if you ignore his chin sinking into his chest). His shoulders swivel, but he relies on transformation hinges on the wrong side of the swivel for lateral movement, giving him Hot Rod shoulders. Even though, what range he has is only about 45 degrees. His biceps swivel, and his elbows bend 90 degrees. No wrist swivels, but he does have a waist swivel. His hips go forward, backward, and laterally 90 degrees. His thighs swivel, and his knees bend maybe 120-140 degrees. As designed he has no up/down foot tilt, but if you open the flap on his heels you can give him some downward tilt, and he's got 90 degrees of ankle pivot. The bottom of the item box has a handle that folds out with a 5mm peg, allowing Blue Booster to point the top of the box like a gun. It's not super convincing, but it is what it is. As for the ring, the translucent center has a 5mm peg. This peg can plug into a port on either of Sonics hands, turning the ring into a shield. If you want to keep his accessories together, there's also a 5mm port on the item box, but there's no other robot mode storage. Blue Booster's transformation is a bit like Earthrise Wheeljack, where the arms curl up to the sides and rear, the feet make the nose, the legs hinge and collapse sideways, and the torso has to spin but also flaps on the torso have to spin separately to keep the cockpit on the correct side. It's pretty straightforward, which is both good and bad. Good, because there's nothing frustrating to trip you up, but bad because there's nothing particularly interesting about it. Blue Booster's alt mode is the Speed Star, Sonic's car from the Sonic Racing games. It's... mostly fine. It is, for Speed Star, what a lot of mainline figures are to real cars. The shape is fine, broad details like the headlights, grill, and taillights are picked out, but it's kind of devoid of finer details like the actual bulbs in the headlights, the black part of the grill, the insides of the rims, or the Sonic badge on the hood. I'll also note that, while it is fairly indicative of what you see in the games, the Speed Star's cartoonish proportions don't allow it to blend with other Transformers as neatly as previous ones have. Blue Booster's cockpit can open and close in alt mode. There's no seat or cockpit inside, it's largely a leftover element of his transformation. And in what I consider a pretty big negative for this figure, there's no storage in for his accessories in alt mode, either. I'm of the opinion that some of the Transformers crossovers have been pretty genius. Back the Future, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Knight Rider, and Ghostbusters all took some pretty iconic pop-culture vehicles from a period contemporary with the original cartoon and turned them into original Transformers characters. Others have made a bit less sense due to being much less iconic, but the N1 from The Mandalorian, the two Jurassic Park cars, the pizza van from Stranger Things, and the F-14 from Top Gun were still decent Transformers that blended in with your other figures. Heck, even the G.I. Joe ones, which I haven't been into as a Transformers fan, is pretty neat for Joe fans for turning into scaled vehicles for G.I. Joe figures to interact with. But at this point, the crossovers seem less like genius moves and more like Hasbro is pimping Transformers to anyone who wants a crossover. A year ago, maybe, this could have been a movie tie-in, but right now it just seems random. The robot mode is too Sonic for Transformers, but too Transformers to be Sonic, and while the alt mode is mostly-game accurate the proportions just don't mesh. For Blue Booster alone, no. I'd say pass. However, you can't buy Blue Booster alone, he's packed with another figure. Tune in tomorrow and I'll tell you if that figure makes or breaks this set.