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  2. Big s
    The og film definitely has an unbeatable cool factor with a hefty slice of premium cheese that probably won’t be beat. But I can’t think of a bad Edgar Wright movie, so I have a good feeling that even if it’s not as great that it will still be good
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  4. Negotiator
    I don't have Amazon jp account so didn't think to look. I stalked amiami, hlj ninnin. Hobby genki. Hobby search. all out of stock. Now the girls are $90 and cyclops is 100 on entertainment earth and bbts. I just can't keep justifying those prices for 6" figs with some hands and face plates. Still deciding on asuka because I've waited years for someone to make it.
  5. Scyla
    I think Lego has gone too far with the price hikes. $200 for the AT-ST is insane (and some of the other prices). I’m glad that I am almost done with my adult Lego collection. Yes, Lego was always expensive but this is not justifying any longer. What justifies the $200 price tag for 1500 pieces? It has just one Minifig, and I can’t spot many unique or big pieces on the set that would indicate a high material cost per piece. And the structure of the "turret" ist mostly hollow. They are pricing me out of buying Lego. Not because I can’t afford it but because I am not willing to pay these bonkers prices. I think after I found a solution for my missing UCS Imperial Shuttle I will go back and complete "my" classic Space collection and call it a day.
  6. Mommar
    Targets pre-order system sucks. They put an authorization hold on your card and they will occasionally fall off so they'll try again. If for some reason it's blocked, or you're over-extended or the card has been replaced you have 48 hours to fix it or provide a new card or else they'll cancel. And those e-mail notifications are not obvious. I'll bet that's what happened to that person.
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  8. M'Kyuun
    LEGO was already an expensive hobby, but the recent price hikes have been pricing fans out of the hobby, from what I've read. As for myself, due to space limitations and also the higher prices, I've cut down substantially from just three or four years ago. I'm also more apt to wait for clearances. At this point, the only UCS sets I think I'd buy are the Imperial Shuttle or the Republic Shuttle, although, TBH, given my space limits, I think I'd rather have them both at regular minifig scale albeit done very well. Alas, I'm thinking the Imperial Shuttle set we got in 2015 (75094 is probably the best version we're ever going to get at the regular minifig scale). The current trend is to downsize all the large vehicles even more than they were before which really limits interior space and features like landing gear and such. I love set 75094 and I have a copy on permanent display; it was also a really good parts set, and I have an extra copy for that purpose. The nose was a bit too angular and I'd love to see them release a set where the nose is more rounded and has the fins under the nose within that curvature like the filming model. No official set has done that...yet. I could MOC it, I suppose, but I've got other stuff I'm working on and I'm lazy. As for your shuttle project, I'm always impressed by your talent, dedication and meticulous approach. I wish you every success with it and look forward to seeing WIP and finished pics.
  9. Swann
    Gift bags
  10. Mommar
    I went back and counted. Between Hasbro, Jada, Storm, Bandai and ThreeZero you can have (or soon have) roughly 41 of the 56 playable characters in MvC2. Only problem is nearly every one that is missing is a Capcom deep-cut.
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  12. Mommar
    Evidently a micro-managing pita.
  13. Mommar
    I forgot about it. Was it really instant all over? I saw Prateoria on X mentioned it was still available at Amazon Japan as of 5 am this morning. Of course at 5 pm it was only third party retailers selling for a huge markup.
  14. Chronocidal
    Youch, $200 for 1500 parts is pretty steep. Those prices are feeling pretty high across the board actually, maybe they're just using a ton of really large parts? Might pick up the AT-ST eventually, but probably not going to rush to it. I might burn my VIP points to pick up the Shuttle Carrier 747 at a heavy discount in a few weeks.. mostly because i want to rebuild it. I've been reworking my KingsKnight shuttle heavily for the past couple of weeks after taking a few measurements and realizing the scale could be a bit better for true 1/110, but it involved completely redesigning the main body and bay doors. Still working on the OMS pod design, but it's getting there, and will probably take a few photos soon.
  15. M'Kyuun
    Contrarily, I love the entire nose section which no official LEGO model has gotten right. The whole thing, though, is brilliant. Some new sets have been revealed for August. Among them this new V-19 Torrent (with trans yellow windscreen sure to excite many a Classic Space/Blacktron fan) is a bit smaller than its 2008 original, which actually brings it closer to proper scale as it appeared in Tartakovsky's Clone Wars. The design is a bit different, reflecting how it looks in recent animated Clone Wars related shows, but I like it and have hoped for a release like this. Sadly, it doesn't appear that this model possesses gearing to allow the wings and central foil to rotate into flight/landing configuration like the OG set did, relying instead on ball joints. Disappointing, but I'm still gonna get it. 567pcs,; $65 While the LEGO SW team seems to be leaning heavy into the Clone Wars with the August wave, once again there is no new Republic Shuttle set. The last and only other minifig scaled set came out in 2009 and it is in dire need of a modern update. For some reason, even though it featured heavily in the excellent Bad Batch series, no set was forthcoming then either. It's such a great design and its omission is curious and dismaying. LEGO's 2009 release. Definitely could be better. there's also a new MTT coming. Like the majority of minifig scaled sets, it's been shrunk a bit compared to previous releases. I still have my 2007 MTT which is, IMHO, the best version that they've released. I like the colors of this version but given that the prices have risen on SW sets in particular, and all LEGO in general, I'll likely be skipping it. That droid rack looks a bit off. 976pcs, $160 LEGO's continuing their homegrown animated SW series Rebuild the Galaxy this fall and they've got another oddball release to accompany it. Behold the Force Burner Snowspeeder. Of note, that canopy will likely appeal to Blacktron MOCists. It's also a new mold which makes me think a regular Snowspeeder is likely not far behind. 349pcs, $55 Back to Clone Wars. there's a new, also shrunken, Republic Juggernaut (Clone Turbo Tank) coming. 813pcs, $160 There's also a new miniaturized version of Jango Fett's Slave I similar to Boba's version released in 2021. Notably, this is the first minifig of Lama Su, the Kaminoan Prime Minister. 707pcs, $70 And finally, the set that will likely appeal to a number of you guys here, a new UCS AT-ST. 1513pcs, $200 For reference, the previous UCS AT-ST, released in 2006, had 1068 pcs and originally sold for $80. Thanks to the addition of innumerable new parts over the last 19 years, the finer details are executed far better on this set, as they should be. I still wish they'd imbue these things with appropriate articulation, but I get why they don't. Oh, one more. LEGO's been knocking it out of the proverbial park over the last few years with their Creator animal sets and this one looks to continue the trend. Not sure how many Transformers fans there are here, but this totally gave me Rhinox vibes from Beast Wars. Now they need to make a gorilla that can ride on his back.😁
  16. Seto Kaiba
    When all's said and done, the conflict between the Federation and Zeon actually lasted 43 years. The One Year War may have officially ended on New Year's Day UC 0080, but Sunrise's writers were so unwilling to let Zeon go and come up with a new antagonist faction that the Earth Federation is stuck fighting a seemingly neverending supply of Zeon remnants and splinter factions literally right up to the point that the Crossbone Vanguard takes over as the main antagonist in UC 0123. (Seriously, the last battle against a Zeon remnant is just a couple months before Cosmo Babylonia is founded.) Even then, Cosmo Babylonia's philosophy and goals are little different to Zeon's and the same is broadly true of their successors the Zanscare Empire. Even the Juptier Empire is essentially just Zeon with the social darwinism and contempt for life turned up to 11. I'd like to see them branch out and try something different with the UC timeline instead of just swapping out store-brand Zeon stand-ins. There's a few thousand years to play in before they run into the Correct Century and the Regild Century.
  17. Papa Rat
    Life is super busy right now, but I was able to put in some time on this monster the past two days. Baby steps. Hope to finish this up by the weekend if I can find time.
  18. Negotiator
    lame, all the jp sites instant out of stock as soon as PO went up. less than a minute.
  19. M'Kyuun
    That was my initial impression, too, but it wasn't a good one. 😄 I'm not a big fan of the Orguss mecha anyway, but they are what they are and if that was the inspiration here due to its relation to Macross, it's a bit of a miss IMHO. I think they were just trying anything to shoehorn that stupid trailer/stage accessory in there to justify a higher price. I would have been far more impressed had they figured out a way to transform him so that Prime's chest at least forms a somewhat passable truckish looking front end, but I'm guessing they didn't even try.
  20. pengbuzz
    Yeah... I think by now, the One Year War has been fought and refought so many times in the various series, that Amuro and Char are probably receiving royalties.
  21. pengbuzz
    Thanks MT!! That was the idea! On the note of finishes: I recently found out about a company called True North, that is making a lot of the colors Model Master used to (before Testors punked out), Here's their link: https://www.truenorthpaints.com/ AFAIK, the paints are alkyd enamels, but they have a pretty good selection. I found this site via a review linked on another forum: http://www.modelwarships.com/reviews/misc/True_North/TrueNorthPaints/TrueNorthPaints.htm (NOTE: don't click the link the review has to the site: it's an old link that bounces back to modelwarships.com. Instead, please use the link I first posted)
  22. Bolt
    That looks really great!
  23. Bolt
    They really multi-versed the hell out of GQuuuuuux.
  24. Duke Togo
    Yeah, this looks to be a proper adaptation of the book and not a remake of the Schwarzenegger movie.
  25. anime52k8
    I wonder how this is gonna scale with a 1/100 or 1/60 VF-19? The trailer-stage with the giant mic and guitar might look cool with a proper Fire Valk if the size is right.
  26. Dynaman
    This might be closer to the original book but the trailer really doesn't catch my interest. And there is NO beating the combo of Arnold and Richard Dawson. And the lady saying Arnold was "one mean mother..."
  27. Goodman Models
    Awesome! I’ll be checking these out!
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