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Hulkbuster.

I think I will get the set.

Sergeant Hound.

Box art.

The gameplay mechanisms of Space Waves are among its most remarkable features. The main goal is straightforward: survive and destroy any waves of enemies that approach. But the execution calls for a blend of fast reflexes, astute judgment, and cautious resource management. Enemies in the game Space Waves get more complicated and unexpected as the game goes on, requiring the player to constantly adjust and plan.

Well... I may end up being a lot kinder to Alien: Earth this week. I made the poor decision to rewatch the Predator movies over the course of a long flight and part of a vacation, and I forgot quite how terrible most of them are. Then Event Horizon put the cherry on it by releasing a prequel that completely ruins the cult classic movie's plot. Anyway... time to cross my fingers and hope Alien: Earth can clear the incredibly low bar I've set for it this week. "In Space, No One..." Is it just me, or are there are a lot of wildly inappropriate soundtrack choices in the credits of horror/action type movies? Well, there it is... the usual Alien sequel "horror movie idiot" behavior that makes you wonder if Weyland-Yutani only hires suicidal people who want to be eaten by space monsters. How very Star Trek. The quality of the writing in this episode is noticeably higher than the rest of the series so far. The difference is not small. They could almost be doing actual horror here. All they really need to do is lose the one crewmember whose death grip on the idiot ball risks turning this episode into an Idiot Plot and asking one guy to be less overtly creepy. Noah Hawley et. al. want to call back to the original Alien with this episode, but ultimately do a very poor job of it for one reason: The crew of the Maginot are standard horror movie idiots. Alien worked as well as it did because the crew of the Nostromo were professionals who did everything they could, to the best of their ability, to survive and it still wasn't enough. With one exception, the crew of the Maginot seemingly want to become Purina monster chow. There's a very effective bit of tension building when Morrow interrogates... Unfortunately, the big reveal is also a painful fumble. OK, that's a new one. That's a stupid new one, but that is definitely a new one. So now we're all caught up to episode 1. Best episode of the series so far by several parsecs. A shame it stopped painfully short of being actually good horror thanks to a cast comprised mainly of no-sense-of-self-preservation horror movie extras and a bungled villain reveal that broke Knox's Ten Commandments.

I'm not exactly sure what wave this figure belongs to, as it was originally slated to be released nearly a year ago, then in April of this year, but it's just now finding it's way out after every other figure in the current wave of Studio Series figures (except Mixmaster😡). This figure is Deluxe-class Transformers One Elita-1. Near as I can tell, based on the concept art, the design if this toy is broadly accurate as long as you don't go nitpicking it too hard... but nitpicking too hard is kinda my thing. So, let me first say that the wheels in her calves are accurate, even if they don't shrink the way they do on her CGI model, and kudos to Hasbro for hiding the other wheel... mostly. Things kinda start breaking down in the torso. The rear wheel is kind of folded up comprises the bulk of her torso... the animation-accurate chest and tummy is kind of just a flap tabbed loosely into that wheel. From the back it's covered by a fairly prodigious backpack that's basically the entire top of her alt mode folded up. Her forearms are also suffering from having the screen-accurate bits molded onto the insides of large alt mode panels that extend beyond her hands and elbows. As far as accessories go, she has the rifle she used in the movie, which is similar too but not exactly the same mold as the one that came with Bumblebee. She also comes with a miner jetpack. Elita's articulation isn't bad, but it's not my favorite. Her head is a hinged ball joint with decent up/down/sideways tilt, but it's a tad on the loose side. Shoulders are also ball joints that swivel but only move laterally about 60 degrees. She lacks dedicated bicep swivels, but her elbows are more ball joints that provide a swivel in addition to 90 degrees of bend. No wrists, but her waist swivels. Her hips are *sigh* even more ball joints, that can go forward and backward about 90 degrees (as long as you move them outward slightly), but only about 75 degrees laterally. Her thighs swivel, and her knees are double-jointed and good for nearly 180 degrees of bend. Her ankles are more ball joints, and though they provide some up/down tilt they sadly do not provide much in the way of pivot. Her rifle can plug into either hand via the usual 5mm handle. Weirdly, the handle is hinged, though it doesn't actually need to be. As for her jet pack, there are two tabs (marked in pink) that fit into slots on her back pack. But you'll note that those aren't the only tabs. The wider-set tabs (marked in red) fit into Pax/Optimus' backpack. The unmarked horizontal tab at the bottom fits into Megatron's backpack, and the same tabs that Elita uses also fit into Bumblebee's backpack. Alas, there's no way to plug the jet pack into Sentinel Prime or Starscream, but they're already flyers so I guess that's fine. Elita's transformation has some neat tricks, but I think it's ultimately undercut by her Deluxe-class budget. Her head, chest, and tummy fold forward, revealing the wheels inside. Those wheels are folded in half, and they have to unfold and shift slightly. The outsides of her biceps spin around, and that's about all that's needed there. Her backpack opens and then several panels inside just keep unfolding. Her shins open and her knee spikes tuck inside. Her ankle wheels and feet tab together, then her feet shift up toward her knees, while here knees use the double joints to set the upper joint into a space behind the lower one. Tabs in her forearms near her hands lock into her thighs, while the open shin flaps fit into slots on the outside edges of her arms. Then you close it all up by plugging her backpack flaps into tabs on the backs of her arms and thighs to solidify the top. As with Starscream, be prepared for parts to just come off. For me, both her heels came off, the hinge connecting her neck to her chest came off, and her entire chest came off at one point or another as they're just friction clipped on. Inconsistencies in tightness or looseness of her ball joints have also caused me to pop an arm off at the shoulder once. The impression I get is that this toy isn't exactly inaccurate, but it's too wide. The open shins should be tighter against the body of the vehicle and wrap underneath, while forearm kibble should wrap up and over the rear wheels. You can also sort of see her head and feet just chilling under the vehicle. Again, I get the sense that this was just the best they could do managing her robot mass with a Deluxe-class budget. The spirit of just barely doing what it needs to do but could be way better continues to her alt mode accessory storage. The jet back uses a 5mm port you might have noticed to plug into a peg dangling off the back of the vehicle. As for the gun, one side has a tab, and you can plug it into the 5mm port on either side of the vehicle (in what was her shoulders). But, the shin panels stick out so far, and the barrel of the rifle is so long, that the rifle can't actually point forward while doing so. Instead, you have to have it pointing backward, which just looks awkward to me. Compared to the Generations/SS86 toys, it seems like Hasbro likes to take shortcuts on Studio Series figures. For the most part I've liked the Transformers One figures better than the Rise of the Beasts toys, at least, and based on Prime, Bee, and Sentinel I've felt pretty comfortable saying that the Studio Series figures are at least better than the mainline TFOne toys. That said, I think Elita-1 is probably my least-favorite of the TFOne Studio Series figures- not really bad, but clearly compromised due to budgets. Pick her up if you've already got Prime, Bee, and Megatron and want to complete at least those four, but if you're not into the TFone figures Elita is definitely no the one to start with.

The review will be in 2 parts, it will stop at the intermission. Some info before we begin. This is the BIGGEST Macross concert to date - 19,000 people. Total sold out for both days (26th & 27th July 2025) Only the 27th concert was Telecast LIVE to certain countries. We settled down into our seats, the screen was showing the title and rules for watching. After awhile the telecast started and we are taken to K Arena, Yokohama. BG music from Frontier already playing. We could see the audience eagerly waiting like us, for the concert to start. At the point where ‘Innocent Green’ was being played, the stage became brighter. It’s a huge wide stage (26 meters)! The 1st song was ‘Sacrifice’. It started with May’n singing from a glass booth(balcony) on the right top part of the stage, around 10 meters from the ground. She wore a white ‘priestess looking gown’. The main screen showed a ruined Observatory like structure. She was joined by Megumi who was on the far left of the main stage dressed in a white gown also. At the top of the main stage, was the 1/1 scale YF-29 Durandal (Alto’s plane) resting on the stage and weathered. Without completing the song, the stage goes black and a minute later the lights came back on. We see Megumi there. The scene now changed to the interior of the Observatory. She started singing the 2nd song - Labyrinth of Time. Halfway through she’s joined by May’n (still in the glass booth) singing a slow Diamond Crevasse. At the end of the song, we saw the 1/1 scale YF-29 slowly rising (this thing is huge!) from the stage with smoke effects into the air (30 meters above the stage). An impressive sight with a rising soundtrack! Everyone was excited! First time seeing something like this! As soon as it reached the top the stage, a loud crack sound effect and the stage goes dark! This represented the ending of The Labyrinth of Time where Alto’s YF-29 located him and flew off to fetch him back to Sheryl. Amidst the smoke effects, May’n (in her Sheryl inspired blue military costume) and Megumi stood on the top tier of the main stage. They sang ‘Triangular - Fight on stage’! The background screen shows a close up view of the Macross Quarter. YF-29, and the rest of Skull squadron (VF-25s) began to fly around the Quarter! The next song was ‘Welcome to My Fan Club’s Night!’. Only May’n remained on stage. The crowd loved it as she gave a strong finish. Next up is ‘What ‘bout my star?’. May’n sang with a softer/cute voice. Her expression were more playful. She came down to the Main Stage, where all the musicians were and we can see a quartet of strings. She then strolled down to the SMS stage. She ended the song with a heart sign pose. The next song got the crowd screaming! Northern Cross! She stood on the top tier stage. The background visuals looked like she warped out from another dimension! The chanting of the audience at Yokohama gave everyone rising expectation! Even for us who were watching in the cinema, felt like we were there! Each time she reached the end of the chorus, she would belt out the lyrics, full of emotions, the fans totally loved it! One thing I noticed missing, in the past the fans would follow her doing the ‘Northern Cross sign’ with their light sticks but after Covid-19, it’s no longer followed! The song ended with a fantastic finish! Stage went dark and then the familiar opening to Sagittarius Gogo 9pm - Don’t be late! Another guaranteed hit! May’n ’pulled’ off her Blue Military costume to reveal a sexy black leather strap costume also inspired by Sheryl! The fans shouted a ‘WOW!’ She shouted ‘K Arena! Listen to my Song!’ . She strut down to the main stage and confidently delivered the song! At one point, the main screen was showing what looked like a hundred missiles doing that ‘Itano Circus’ thing! When come the chorus part, she ran to the left side and looked at the fans from the Arena to the top floor, acknowledging their presence and then ran the length of the stage to the far right, doing the same there. All this while the fans cheer as hard as they possibly can! Super fun song! Then it’s Megumi’s turn. She appeared somewhere in the middle of the Arena, wearing an orange dress. As she walked slowly to the SMS stage, she sang her iconic ‘Aimo’. The audience turned their light sticks to green. A beautiful haunting piece. The next song was ‘Neko Nikki - Cat’s Dairy’. The Main screen showed colorful shapes and stars. She sang in a sweet but mature voice. Next was ‘Ánata no Oto - The Sound of You’. Delightful. Following a streak of Ranka’s best songs was ‘Seikan Hikou’, where in Episode 12 Ranka arrived in time to save the day in Micheal’s VF-25G armed with amplifiers. That scene was recreated here with the YF-29 coming down and hovered above Megumi at the top tier of the stage! The stage goes dark once the song concluded. From the dark came the song ‘What ‘bout my Star@Formo. She made her way down to the SMS stage. Once she completed the 1st verse, she was joined by May’n (sexy outfit) from the top tier stage. They then met each other at the main stage. Time to engage with the fans. May’n shouted ‘K-Arena!’ and Megumi shouted ‘Yokohama!’ The crowd responded in kind. Then May’n again shouted ‘K-Arena!’ Megumi hesitated and then shouted ‘Yokohama!’. They then introduced themselves and the title of today’s concert. They thanked everyone attending the concert including those watching the LIVE telecast. They looked at a camera and want to hear us cheer but what they got was cheering from Yokohama audience! May’n then request the Yokohama fans not to joim in. They both looked at the camera again and encouraged us to cheer. Of course we cheered though we know they can’t hear us. Next, they called out to those at K-Arena! May’n shouted ‘AREEEENA!’ , the crowd in the Arena section replied in a tremendous roar. Then it’s Megumi’s turn - ‘Level Three!’ and followed by 5 and 7. And finally ‘Everyone!’ Then May’n shouted ‘Megumi!’ She let out a loooong cheer! Which surprised everyone! Megumi then shouted ‘May’n!’. An May’n does the same but goes down on the knee as if out of breath! They then thanked everyone for their continuing support of Macross F. Coincidentally, today (27th May) is Alto’s Birthday! So the 2 of them devised a greeting and asked everyone to join in - Happy Birthday Alto Kuuun! (stress on the Kun!) What followed felt like a comedic moment, where Megumi spot a cute voice and introduced the next set of short commercial jingle songs from the Macross F movies. Since it’s a Karaoke, May’n invited the audience to join in. The 1st was Pink Monsoon (1st ever time performed in a duet), they sung the song back to back and May’n doing all the sexy moves! Next was the Nyan-nyan song (May’n), Dynamic Chougokin (May’n), Daimaru Seminar (Megumi), Starlight Natto, Ninjin Loves you yeah!(when Megumi sang the crowd shouted Ranka! But when May’n sang the crowd shouted May’n!??), Koi wa Dog Fight and finally Gira - Gira Summer. The song ended with a salute pose with their body bend backwards! May’n was more extreme, wondered how she could bend that far back without tipping over! Seriously these two were having a good time and playing around on stage! Stage goes dark afterwards . A wormhole appeared, and the YF-29 started descending from the ceiling. Alto’s voice (Yuichi Nakamura) began to broadcast. The plane reached Earth, tilted upward as it descend through the atmosphere - fiery scene with fireworks shooting from underneath the plane. Once cleared, it was blue skies and the plane tilted downward - to reach Yokohama - lots of lights and fog effects. It even tilted left and right (flying thru turbulence). Finally it arrived and the plane tilted upward and rise back up to the ceiling as if flying over the audience! Then the stage goes dark. This was actually an Intermission!

Interesting, so it has weapon mounting points on the shoulders, legs and wings

Operation Night Strikers has hit the market: For me, Night Striker alone along with its Zuntata soundtrack makes this one a worthy purchase. This also sets up the sequel quite nicely:

Honest Trailer.

Definitely not the best of the season. SNW has done some good humorous episodes but this was clearly an example of trying way too hard. Which is a shame as, other than Mount acting way over his pompadour to be Captain Conehead and the Una/Doug-thing, there was (I think) a good story hidden inside the whole mess. I really liked Chapel's iteration, as she was not flamboyantly over the top, and I would have really liked to have dived deeper into her cutting off Kolby and her friends. Uhura brainwashing What's His Name could have floated a third of the episode with the rest anchored by La'an's decent into villain-hood. If they had done this with the intent of telling a drama rather then bending over backward to twist it into a comedy it could have been a really strong episode. Instead, it was dragged down by the weird hair transitions, the slow-mo walk and having the actual mission solved in under 10 seconds. I did like seeing Kirk again and interaction with Scotty, though his reason for being there was pretty flimsy. It seems the Federation isn't all that big anymore if the Farragut is still right around the corner. On racism, I have to say I didn't see any. To me, what they were showing was nothing more than the usual Vulcan logic-bred arrogance that we've seen all through Star Trek. They were literally stating facts that Spock was only half Vulcan, so yeah, 4.5 Vulcans.

Looks like we'll know very soon!

Pretty much the whole thing!

Mospeada Another Genesis, is this some side story? I wonder how much these will be. Twich

Need parts? Found this on EvilBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/226948256646?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338722076&customid=&toolid=10050

Finally saw it yesterday and boy am I glad I did not pay the money to see it in a theater. The only real problem is that it was lackluster. And the lead just didn't have me believing he was Superman (I didn't like the previous Superman movies but I bought into Cavill as being Superman). A bit of the other three supers was OK (when being used for comedy) but they really didn't need to be there at all. The final kicker is if Lex can create a pocket universe Superman should have been no problem at all.

I'm more shocked that Disney is doing explicit gory depictions with the IP and in animation on top of that! 😮

I wish I had the space, but unfortunately, it’s the 1/144 version for me

Nah, I bought it.

Yeah, looks interesting but they are squeezing blood from rocks still.

Hasbro Pulse exclusive.

Wow! Tremendous work!