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First trailer of Anaconda

Nice prop.

Yes and yes 😄 It's a great kit, but not for beginners, and pretty much in the expensive zone.

@nightmareB4macross It's coming along and looking good! @tekering That is a LARGE diorama! Sorry the 3D pritning came out rough, but it was a GREAT save! @Papa Rat The VF-1S came out great! Are you going to put a metallic finish like mica powders on your Mirage? @pengbuzz I'm sorry to hear about your arm and am praying that damage heals quickly! @505thAirborne I like your color choice. Thankfully Tamiya rattle cans are good. @Thom Those scoops look cool! Did the kit not have something like them on it. The Dougram will not be ready for our show in October. But since the Z'Gok is less involved, I'm giving it a shot. Gotta have that Zeon mono eye action. Got this idea from a guy on Youtube. It's a simple mechanism. Gearmotor, spur gear with ONLY 4 teeth, and two pinion gears driven by them in opposite directions as they come around. Next a pink lit eye will be made for it instead of the plastic placeholder. Thanks for checking in! - MT

Ahem. (2:59) When even McCoy has to ask, maybe it's more than just a "meme"...

Such fantastic photos. Is this your work? and is it the 1/72 Platz resin model

It prints out nicely as a decal and has an inbuilt alpha channel. noticed you were going to do one yourself. this is from the Fairy air force at war manual.

Hello Dr_Breen. Maybe you can use this

Don't forget this is still not mass produced copy. And i don't think it can weight 1.7 kg without a lot of metal

They’re reliable, but slow & their tracking numbers appear to be fictitious. I’ve ordered twice, once on pre-order. It feels like the old 1990’s mail order where you just have to trust the process.

What’s wrong with the articulation? Looks like a double joint with a swivel joint where the elbow meets the forearm

From those pics, I can see some weakness in the articulation design of the elbow (see picture). I can also notice there is no metal hinge, all is made of plastic or other equivalent material, except the screws.

I’m rooting for eye guy. I like how he counts with 💩. I don’t know the numerical value of 💩, but it was the best part of the episode. personally, I’m just watching this as a flawed comedy and I feel much better about that decision. I can’t take anything seriously in this show, so I’ll just enjoy it for the laughs. I kinda get the feeling that she’s either gonna sacrifice herself to save her bro or be the only one left after everyone gets killed off. But I don’t know if they’re planning a second season of this silliness. I just remembered, 💩is the universal symbol for pie

I can’t remember if it was Prometheus or covenant that brought up the company from blade runner.

@SpacePirateNeko Best wishes on your health !

Yeah, especially in this era of streaming where a series might have as few as six episodes and may end up wasting a nontrivial percentage of its runtime setting up story hooks for a second season that probably isn't coming. (e.g. The Acolyte) I agree, it would have worked better if there had been more build-up to it. As it is, it comes out of nowhere and the explanation is hot nonsense. The writers determination to have a "pure evil" villain is just silly, and there are so many plot holes and highly unscientific arguments in Batel's massive leaps of logic that it sounds more like she's just a crazy person. It essentially turned into a whole plot reference to the first Doom movie... with the whole "genetically engineered into an angel to defeat demons" schtick. That part was never the problem. We've had that kind of weird temporal shenanigans before... like TNG "All Good Things" with the anti-time anomaly. Kirk's womanizing is massively oversold by fans. I've been rewatching the remastered TOS with friends who've never seen Trek before, and while Kirk has several old girlfriends he's almost never actually hitting on anyone. I was actually pretty happy SNW acknowledged and then dismissed the meme, with Kirk's concern for Uhura being mistaken for hitting on her and him acknowledging he's in a complicated/messy relationship with his future baby momma Carol Marcus. (Kirk in the '09 movie is based more on meme Kirk than the actual one in TOS.)

If you want to have a detailed look and discussion of the set here is a review by Jang:

Assuming that Expanded Universe lore is canon. In most franchises, it wouldn't be. Oh boy, "Emergence". Here things go emerging again. We've got idiocy, we've got negligence, we've got corporate malice... it's basically the Xenomorph's superbowl. Seems like they've settled on "Strange Brew" by Cream for their opening reference in the last couple episodes. Did they run out of money to license music for the sake of one on-the-nose lyric? I would like to credit Smee with the first actually-believable reaction by a person in this work. Every story where immortality is a fixture of the plot needs to have that moment where someone is reminded forcibly of the important difference between functional immortality and complete immortality. It's one thing to be The Ageless, it's quite another to be impervious to physical harm. The Hybrids are the former, not the latter. Well, OK then. In most Human cultures, murder is considered a dick move. So we have a new narrative problem. Who do you root for when absolutely everyone is a maximally sh*tty person? We had a protagonist until a minute ago, now we just have some kind of Villain Battle Royale. I'm gonna have to say I'm joining Team Horrible Space Monsters. Somehow, they're the least horrid people in this story. Time for some unnecessary digressions! We get a closeup of the weapons that the Prodigy troops are carrying. One looks to be a forerunner or variant of the pulse rifle seen in Alien: Romulus and Alien 2. Another seems to be the same M134-based minigun seen in Predator. This was meant to build tension and then deliver a sharp shock, but it falls flat because the outcome was so incredibly obvious and cliched. You can't do horror effectively if everyone in the story is behaving like an idiot with no sense of self-preservation. It stops being scary and starts being unintentionally funny. You can tell that this is a dock by the rusted generic shipping containers just sitting places. That's a thing that docks have, right? Do Star Trek-style transporters exist in Alien? Because this episode has a lot, and I mean a LOT, of people just popping right TF outta nowhere the minute it's dramatic to. Someone really loves that scene at the end of Goldeneye where Bond and the girl discover the patch of grass they were making out on was like the one patch of grass in eyeshot that WASN'T a dude in a ghilli suit and three helicopters nobody noticed appear as if by magic. Well... decisions were certainly made. Not good ones, in my opinion, but decisions nonetheless. I'm going to go ahead and call it now.

Agent 24601 (Classic Suit). You guys should know who this is right? Edit: Just found this later after my post. This is where it was originally announced from So if anyone wants any of these, got to HK and wait in line to get your copy with other scalpers in the long line line up for it (not telling a joke here. It's a thing and everyone there goes ape**** over it)

I concur. I just put together the second of the Speed Champions Lamborghini two-pack (the blue one) and applying the decals was a pain. Moreover, there are, TBF, a fair number of printed parts included in the set as well, but as it turns out, one must exercise diligence in applying the stickers so that they match up with corresponding printed parts. I didn't realize until after I'd already applied the ones on the slopes of the hood and they misaligned with the printed complex slopes forming the edges of the front end. Thus I had to pull the one off and reapply it so that it lined up. The other one was close enough so I didn't bother, but it's stuff like that that sticks in the craw. I get why LEGO maintains the sticker option, but on livery or detail heavy sets like the SC line, I kinda wish they'd just print everything for a smoother frustration-free build process. I'm looking at that Mattel Honda set and thinking how useful any number of those parts would be if LEGO made them too. I like that Mega Skystriker/H.I.S.S. Tank set.

Well, Fireflight showed up, so we're back to the Deluxes. Fireflight was going to be a tricky one, I think, because if you look at his Sunbow design he's got wings on his legs, sure, but he's also got wings on his back. Maybe the artist was trying to capture the the tail on his back and drew the horizontal stabilizers too big, I dunno. AOTP Fireflight has just the wings on his legs (with the stabs on his heels). He has the cartoon-style head instead of the masked toy head that CW Fireflight had, which I personally consider a bummer but I can't really fault Hasbro for it when cartoon-accuracy is the new order of the day. He's got paint on his chest to accurate mimic the cartoon, right down the blue squares on his pelvis (though it looks more like they're on his waist), though he's missing an Autobot badge on his left breast. All-in-all, significantly more accurate than the CW toy, but again, not without its flaws. Aside from the missing wings/stabs on his back, he's got black hips and black feet that should be white, and the molded lines on his shins are details you'd expect on Slingshot, not Fireflight. What you would expect are kneepads that are conspicuously absent. Fireflight's transformation is exactly the same as Slingshot's. He doesn't much resemble a real F-4, but to be totally fair, neither did the cartoon. The alt mode is NOT licensed, and aside from being noticeably wider, really isn't that far off from the cartoon. What's more, his legs and arms integrate with the fuselage pretty well, giving him one of the better jet modes on a modern Transformer toy. Comparisons to Slingshot are because, by and large, Fireflight is the same toy. He's even got the same guns! Same arms, same waist, same hips, same thighs, same shins, same feet, too. But he's got a new head, new chest, new back, new backs of the legs, new wings, and a new cockpit. Looking down on the jet modes, the only part that's immediately noticeable as the same is the tail. So, while Skydive and Air Raid definitely could have used a little more time to cook, I'm pretty happy with Fireflight just like I was pretty happy with Slingshot. He's much better than the CW toy, and a pretty solid figure overall. Hmm, that didn't take long. Might as well combine them, then. Take apart the extra chunk that came with Silverbolt, and get your leg parts ready. Take Air Raid and Skydive in their jet modes. Fold the front of the jets backward, fold the wings backward, fold the horizontal stabs backward, and spin the vertical stabs 180, like you're going to robot mode. But then, using a second hinge in the noses, fold them back again so they sit lower. Tuck their heads back, then plug them into the backs of the legs. As with Menasor, attaching the leg bots will push in a mechanism that causes flaps the close on the fronts of the legs. Start with Silverbolt in jet mode. Fold up the tail and nose like you're going to robot mode, and fold the wings back. Spin the Superion head 180 degrees and you're ready to attach the body. There's slots under Silverbolt's crotch; plug them into the pair of tabs on top of the body. Secure the body by taking the flap on the back and folding it up so the 5mm peg plugs into Silverbolt's butt, then folding the chest part up so the square shaped bits on the inside fit into the holes on Silverbolt's chest. Connect the legs by sliding the combiner pegs into the ports at the bottoms of the thighs. In theory, you can take Fireflight and Slingshot in their jet modes and place them on the arm parts. Then, as you transform the arms, the armbots will naturally split at the waist, just like they did with Menasor, and you just fold the wings back. In practice, I couldn't get them to work, and I found it easier to poke a spudger into their tummies and split them manually, then attach them after the arms were transformed. However you did it, the black connector goes over Silverbolt's feet to attach the arms to Superion. Finally, we have our combined Superion! He's a bit blocky, and his legs are more or less identical... which is entirely cartoon accurate. The overall design and proportions are much better than the Combiner Wars version. My objective complaints are pretty minimal... he's missing some blue squares on his shins, and in the cartoon his mask was much darker, almost the same color as his helmet, not silver. Aside from Silverbolt's you can pretty much leave the Aerialbots' guns in their usual alt mode spots on their wings... except that if you do you don't quite have enough space between his legs for him to stand straight up. Maybe they should have been off-centered, like Devastator. 😒 You can pull the guns off the wings on the inside and plug them onto the sides of the legs, though they'll be visible in robot mode. More ways that AOTP Superion improves on CW... articulation and stability. His head is on a ball joint that has a decent downward tilt as well as some slight upward and sideways tilt. His shoulders rotate on ratchets and can move laterally 90 degrees, also on ratchets. His biceps swivel, and his elbows bend 90 degrees on ratchets. His wrists swivel, as does his waist, though Silverbolt's tail can get in the way of the latter. Hip skirts hinge up so that his hips can move forward and backward 90 degrees on soft ratchets and 90 degrees laterally on clickier ones. His thighs swivel, and with the leg bots transformed properly his knees bend 90 degrees on ratchets. No up/down tilt on the feet, but he's got about 60 degrees of ankle pivot. All-in-all, this is a Superion you can pose without him falling over and/or falling apart. There's options for Superion's gun. The option I like is to plug Silverbolt's gun into the barrel, then there's a square hole on the underside that fits into a square peg on Superion's forearm, like an arm cannon. This is is the cartoon-accurate way, and the hinge on the rear even allows Superion to bend his elbow without the gun getting the way. The other way is to fold a peg out from the bottom. This peg can he held in Superion's hand, and a second square hole behind it fits on the forearm peg. This method allows Superion to look like he's actually holding the gun, but if you plug Silverbolt's gun into the barrel it winds up looking too long. Lastly, here's how he stacks up with Devastator and Menasor. He's a tad short, but my Menasor has the DNA kit with the bigger feet and longer thighs. I reckon a DNA kit for Superion might even him out a bit more. While I do think that all of the Aerialbots are improvements over their Combiner Wars versions, I remain kind of disappointed with Air Raid and Skydive, kind of impressed with Fireflight and Slingshot, and think that Silverbolt's somewhere in the middle. Superion, though, is a major improvement over the Combiner Wars version. While it'd be nice if the leg bots contributed more to the gestalt, what Hasbro did here looks cartoon accurate and is leaps-and-bounds better in articulation, poseability, and overall sturdiness. So, despite my misgivings on Air Raid and Slingshot, yeah, you should probably buy the whole set. Superion is definitely worth it.

It's BANANAS that after all these years, we haven't gotten 6" flightsuit Max & Miria from KC or anyone else. Got tired of waiting. 😉