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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/james-ransone-dead-the-wire-it-chapter-two-actor-1236456278/ In the end, Pennywise took one with him.

I saw some company shapeways used to sell these but no longer in business. Is there anywhere I can get these anymore? My old yamatos are having broken shoulder hinge problems 😢

Love the paint job on the Robo Dou M&Ms. I was thinking the same thing... was there a dream sequence part that I missed where Ben got to finish his steak and became a squadron leader?

The couple is reunited. Ben Dixon's... VF-1J? 🤔

Finally received my Riobot Legioss reissue with Robotech branding at the back of the box. Very satisfied to finally complete the Legioss trio. Although I did it backwards... Iota, Zeta and Eta last . Just quickly took a peek to make sure it's the latest reissue with the golden eyes like the Zeta. Too bad though about the Tread. That Robotech branding may have something to do with it becoming a Japan-only release. My crazy theory is Sentinel either drastically cut their planned production numbers to only serve the domestic preorders and totally disregard all the confirmed international preorders... OR... they went ahead with their planned production run and somewhere (probably a warehouse in China) there's a ton of Treads just lying around waiting for whatever issues that came up to be resolved.

Those do look good paired in that way. Slightly off color but good enough.

I appreciate it Vic!

Thank you for your support!

Thank you for kind words! I do have the threezero adapters in stock, but I just haven't found the time to upload them yet. SDF-1 may be down the road, but we have no plans for kitzconcept line ups. I will do my best to make those threezero adapters/promotions available before Christmas!

yay!! https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/11307991 Feb 2026 release

That looks just like assembling a model kit! On a tangent, I never thought of using red jetfire armor for the milia, and 1990 super armor for the max blue! Looks like it was just mean to be

ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!! @MacrossJunkie, glad to see you are continuing the tradition with such excellent work!

It always annoys me that we have never had (as far as I know) a detailed, mass produced Gunstar collectable toy.

I guess it really won’t be as big a deal next year since max will be gone from the bundle and Hulu will merge into D+. Just kinda sucks that D+ had made such a big promise to have its own content and really they will just have Hulu’s content

Saw this one up for preorder at hobby search, sounds pretty cool and would love the translations since the description says it gets into the design process for those classic kits which were in many cases were way ahead of their time

Actually, isn't that about right as far as the size of the fighters go? The VF-19 is 18.47 meters in length while the VF-17 is 15.63. The 171 is just barely a little longer at 15.65. That's almost a difference of 3 meters which should be pretty noticeable. The Yamato VF-17's are about the same length as the Bandai VF-171's when I set them side by side. The main difference is that the VF-17 is quite a bit wider and chonkier. Regardless, this thing is still too skinny for the VF-17S and various details are still wrong...

I will give Bandai backhanded credit for one thing.. their pilots are always so tiny, the 17 almost looks the right size.

I wonder if they'll do a cannon fodder brown version next? I'd love to see a 1D trainer.

2026 is slowly trickling in, I guess. I'm sitting on one Studio Series figure, since he's a repaint/slight retool, to cover in a Repaint Roundup. While we wait, we can talk about Age of the Primes Leader-class Big Convoy. Big Convoy (who, oddly, is named Big Convoy on the Hasbro packaging despite Lio Convoy being renamed Leo Prime), is a figure I've wanted in my collection for awhile. I think that's partly because I love it when you take an "Optimus" style head and slap it on a design that's mostly red and white (or light gray) and reduces the blue to an accent color... like Lio Prime before him, G2 Optimus and G2 Hero Optimus before them, and Fire Convoy/RiD Optimus after them. Of course, there's also the fact that Magmatron was a 2024 Commander release. I confess, though, to mostly being familiar with Big Convoy through clips of the Beast Wars Neo anime, which was drawn to make him look as heroic as possible (though I'd never really noticed how asymmetrical his arms are)... ...and I kind of forgot about the fact that a lot of the Transformers from this era were kibbly shellformers. Big Convoy is no exception; his own head is almost crowded out by "shoulder pads" made from large chunks of his alt mode head. The bits of mammoth on his forearms and calves are unmistakable, but I'll let slide for being fairly unobtrusive. His hip skirts, though, are mammoth legs that just stick straight out behind him. Like, how's this dude supposed to lay down on his recharge slab at night? He comes with a good number of accessories. He's got a little pistol that I don't believe the original toy did, and I have no idea if he ever used in the show. He's got two red hooks called "Mammoth Hakens" that the original toy did have, a Matrix that the original toy had, and a big ol' piece of mammoth kibble that the original had. So... Big Convoy's head is a ball joint with a limited up/down/sideways tilt. His shoulders swivel and move laterally 90 degrees, and dedicated hinges that give him butterfly joints. His biceps swivel, and his elbows bend 90 degrees. His wrists swivel, as does his waist. If you can work around the kibble, his hips can get just about 90 degrees forward, backward, and laterally. His thighs swivel, and there's an additional swivel just below the knee, though it's primarily for transformation. His knees bend 90 degrees, and though he lacks up/down tilt on his feet he does have nearly 90 degrees of ankle pivot. OK, lots of gimmicks to get through. So, he can of course hold his gun or the Mammoth Hakens in his hands. There are also 5mm ports on his forearms and shoulders where you can attach accessories like the Mammoth Hakens. Not pictured, just because I forgot at the time, the mammoth legs on his hip skirts can swivel around so they're pointing forward. There's molded details on the bottom, as well as 5mm ports for blast effects, because they're supposed to be hip-mounted cannons. When he's not carrying them, the pistol can plug into a 5mm port on his back. As for the Mammoth Hakens, if you open the kibble on the sides of his legs you'll find 5mm ports on the white parts where they can plug in. This is basically where they went on the original toy, except instead of merely being pegged it they were spring loaded and could be fired out of his legs like missiles. Speaking of, the armature holding the mammoth kibble on his back can rock back, and the kibble itself is hinged. You can move it just to get it away from his head, but you can also swivel it to reveal painted, non-firing missiles underneath. The tusks on the back kibble are removable (indeed, they're not installed in the box). They just plug onto pegs on the kibble. There are also pegs on the mammoth kibble under his forearms, allowing you to plug the tusks in there like melee weapons. Not that he needs them... the kibble can open to reveal "Mammoth Tonfas" you can flip out. Then there's the big chunk of mammoth kibble that was an accessory. Well, there's a 5mm peg on it. You could plug it into his arm like a shield... Or, using a 5mm port near the peg, you can plug it sideways onto a 5mm peg on his pack. The peg itself is on an armature that moves out a bit to help you get the clearance to get it around the other mammoth kibble on his back and hips. I think it makes him look busy and back heavy, but I suppose it's cartoon-accurate. Also, like the toy and cartoon, the kibble can half-heartedly transform into a large cannon, the aptly-named Big Cannon. The new AOTP version even has a fold out stand to help him keep it up that the original didn't, but on the other hand it doesn't have the firing missiles the original did. With the new stand, I can't help but think that it reminds me of the Hyaku Shiki's Mega Bazooka Launcher in Z Gundam. Finally, there's his Matrix. The butterfly joints allow him to bring his fists together so it can peg into both of them, like he's holding the Matrix out in front of him. When he's not holding it, you can flip open the front of his chest and plug it inside. It's an interested detail that the space behind the chest hinge is molded to look like Optimus Prime's tummy grill. OK, finally we can transform this guy! To do that, spin his head around and push his "ears" in. Take the back kibble and swivel 180 degrees, so the missiles are pointed straight up, and then fold them toward each other so they tab together. Fold them back, then use the red armature to fold them forward again over his robot head. Rotate his forearms so that the mammoth kibble is facing you, then use the transformation hinges in his shoulders to bring the entire shoulder joint behind his back, with his arms pointed straight back for now. Swing the mammoth legs on his hip skirts around, then fold the skirts up so the mammoth legs plug into the spaces his shoulders just vacated. Fold his heels in, open the kibble on the sides of his legs, then open the white part and fold his feet inside before closing the white part back up. Swivel his legs BELOW the knees, so his shins are facing each other, and tab them together. Bend his knees 90 degrees the wrong way, then use the hinged ball joint to swing the leg kibble around and inward to fill in the side of the mammoth. If you did it right, it'll tab in to two places on his side and one on his leg. Bring the small panel on the kibble around to fill in the top of the rear leg, then bring is arms down so that the peg holes on his forearms lock into pegs on the back of his waist. Bring in the big cannon to fill in his butt, back, and the gap in his head, open his ears, and you're done. In an effort to be more cartoon accurate Big Convoy eschews the two-tone fur of the original toy for a uniform brown, and he's got white eyes with painted pupils instead of green. Aside from the usual hinges, seams, and occasional visible robot kibble, he looks fine. I'll note that, while partsforming the tusks isn't strictly necessary, to have tusks that curve out-to-in in mammoth mode but also curve upward in robot mode you'll likely want to swap the right to the left and vice versa. The tusks and Big Cannon are part of his alt mode, then. The Matrix can just stay in his chest. As for the rest of his accessories, the leg kibble that turns into the mammoth's sides have a pair of 5mm ports each. You can plug one Mammoth Haken into each side, then plug the pistol onto one side so it's partially covering the Mammoth Haken. And... well, that's about it. The Front legs are hinged at the shoulders so they can move forward, but not backward, no swivels, no knees, and no ankles. His trunk has a quartet of hinges to give it some articulation, and his tail is hinged at the base so it can range from pointed straight down to pointed straight out his back. His ears can flap. And that's it for alt mode articulation. His head and rear legs are totally immobile. What's more, because the actually cannon doesn't swivel on the mammoth kibble the way the original toy's Big Cannon did, he can't do Mammoth Tank mode. The barrel of the Big Cannon is always in his butt, and can't come out of the head. Big Convoy is one of those toys that feels hard to judge. In a lot of ways, it's true to the cartoon and original toy... even when that means reproducing the flaws of the original design and delivering a shellformer with too much alt mode kibble. What's more, while Mark Maher and Tomoki Tatsumi clearly put a lot of effort into retaining gimmicks like the Mammoth Hakens and the Mammoth Tonfas, the inability to do Mammoth Tank mode feels like a step backward. I think Prime afficionados and hardcore fans will appreciate having this character in Generations scale with good articulation and many of his accessories will want him despite his flaws, but I think the G1 crowd or more casual US-only Beast Wars fans will find him a tad disappointing.

I did found a Macross cel for about $50. On that "M" auction site. It was a scene from Miss Macross scene time stamp 22.21. That blonde chick who lost to Lynn,

At the TN store in Akihabara. Hard to tell from the pic but the 17S is tiny next to the 19. Bandai truly did just recycle the 171. Battroid

Let the Star Wars begin.🫠

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