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Being tomorrow would put it tonight around midnight PST, depending on timezones and daylight savings shenaniganry.

@Mog Nice collection! But I clearly see some space near the very edge there. Plenty more room!

Gonna get scrambled!

Here is the only Archi Pro stand I have using a short arm with a 90 degree connector. MB

Does anyone have pictures of the Archi Pro stands with short arms and the 90 degree angle connectors on a Bandai DX VF-1 in fighter mode? I'm curious how far you can angle it without risking it falling off.

Well, I picked up Missing Link Sunstreaker... Unlike Bee and Optimus I never owed a G1 Sunstreaker, so the entire mold is new to me. I was surprised to see that he's taller than Sideswipe. Being that I'm not familiar with G1 toy, I can't really say how many changes Takara actually made. I think it safe to say that he's got some paint and tampographs that were probably stickers on the G1 toy. His forearms also open to reveal some flip-out fists... I think that's new? He's also got some accessories that he original didn't have. The fists, the yellow boosters, and the three rockets came with the original toy, but ML Sunstreaker also comes with a chromed rifle that is, best I can tell, a straight copy of the one that came with G1 Sideswipe, and a Dianaut. The Dianaut has yellow legs and a khaki button shirt with a collar and pocket that makes me think they were going for something like Spike, but then why the silver head? Sunstreaker's head can swivel. His shoulders are a bit weird. The entire arm hinge can move laterally about 45 degrees, and the hinge works like a forward/backward butterfly joint. The arm behind the tire swivels laterally on a soft ratchet, which combined gives you 180 degrees of lateral movement. However, his shoulders don't swivel forward/backward at all.* His bicep swivels, and his elbows bend 90 degrees. His wrists swivel, and his fingers are hinged so he can open his hands. No waist swivel. His hips can go 90 degrees forward, and over 90 degrees laterally, but just a little bit backward. His thighs swivel, and his knees bend 90 degrees. His feet can tilt downward on a ratchet, due to his transformation, but not upward. He's got about 45 degrees of ankle pivot, with his heels on a separate pivot. *Technically I guess you could hinge the shoulders forward on the transformation/butterfly joint and turn the biceps. That'd make the lateral swivel a forward/backward swivel... but it'd look weird, and come at the cost of any lateral shoulder movement. Sunstreaker's new articulated hands can hold his Sideswipe rifle, and the boosters plug into his shoulders same as they ever did. If you want a more "classic" look, you can fold the new hands into the forearms to reveal a port on the other side. You can plug the rockets in them, or even the shoulder boosters, as well as the larger G1-style fists. The G1 fists didn't have holes, though, so neither do these, and cannot hold the Sideswipe rifle. I imagine that the transformation is about the same as the G1 toy. His head folds down into the engine. The feet fold down, the legs collapse and tab together. His chest opens and a bunch of hinges move his canopy down/forward and lift his engine up and into place, then a flap opens on his back and his arms kind of bend and tuck, one behind the other, underneath before closing his back flap back up. For a simple G1 transformation it seems to make a bit of finagling to get everything lined up right, especially going back to bot mode. What's not to like about Sunsteaker's design? It's a fictional supercharged Countach with massive intakes on top of the engine. Again, not really sure what's different here between this version and the original G1 toy, aside from some tampoed details (like on top of the intakes) that were probably stickers on the G1 toy, but otherwise I think it should be the same. As most of us know by now much of the original Transformers line came from Takara's Diaclone line, so if you open Sunstreaker's canopy there is a seat in there for the Dianaut he comes with. The boosters can stay in place on his shoulders, which are now on the back of the car. But that's about it for storage. No place for the rockets or the rifle, or the big fists. I can't really complain; the G1 toys rarely had storage for accessories, either. But that sort of leads into my conclusion... I'm still not sure how I feel about Missing Link. Like, yeah, I have nostalgia for the toys I grew up with. And yeah, those toys had awful articulation. I remember wanting more even at the time. But something else I remember wanting more of at the time was cartoon accuracy. And in that sense, Generations, Masterpiece, and a variety of third party lines are doing a great job of delivering cartoon-accurate toys with even more accuracy than Missing Link. In a way, all Missing Link is doing is giving me the toys I had when I was a kid in a way that's clearly NOT the toys I had as a kid, which kind of makes me want an original G1 toy or even a straight G1 reissue instead, especially when the ML figures cost nearly as dang much. Honestly, I bought Sunstreaker because I never had the original. I think if I did, I'd have probably skipped this one. I'm not sure how many more of these ML figures I'll buy.

So, I wound up getting a couple more GI Joe figures: Jinx and Blowtorch (in subdued olive and khaki colors). “Now my failure is complete!” (Or I’ve pretty much ran out of display space for this shelf): Arashikage Cousins: Ladies Ready for a Fight:

Here we go, a 'best and final' for this particular iteration. Put in the NUNS marks, added a plane number to the cockpit area (per normal Navy markings), and tweaked a few other things here and there. Happy for other suggestions, but otherwise think this one can go on the shelf now and I'll move on to the next distraction...er, PROJECT! Yes, project, that's what I meant! 😉

SOC Daitarn III Renewal

You guys make the call. Up tomorrow for grabs on EXO-6 tomorrow but BBTS has a pre-order for it already at $250 USD (at their cost) Nanjin is really ticking off a fair amount of the customers already (what else is new) in not giving them what they want in their own collection.

Star Wars TBS Ahsoka Tano Padawan.

Sir, this is a Wendys! They released a 1/60 Chogokin of the VF-19 Fire and the HMR VF-19P, but I don't think they have news of a Chogokin 19P yet.

Thnx, things have changed since I was last really active on here.

mine too. But sometimes it is just annoying like what have you seen cannot be unseen. Just like the SMS and SWS issue.

https://www.taghobby.com/archives/881656 Maybe it's me, but the whole MPG line just feels below par these days. I miss that golden period with Kobayashi in charge where releases were more premium and sophisticated.

They’ve been trying at a Blade movie for a while, but something always goes wrong before things get rolling. I personally think a series would be great, but the Disney writing teams seem to have problems lately and should probably wait til they can get enough money together to pay for a good writing staff. Not sure when that will happen since they lost a few billion the other weekend due to mass cancellations for Kimmel and I don’t know how many of those came back especially after the price hike. A good amount of them were already looking for an excuse to finally cancel anyway. And now there’s that weird tariff on movies that will hit Disney pretty hard since most of their movies coming up were filmed or are filming parts overseas.

I've seen it on Tubi recently.

Finished MARVEL Zombies. It's only 4 episodes so didn't take long... Anyways, its well made and interesting. Probably the most gory I've ever seen MARVEL get (more so than Deadpool films imo) but doesn't have the impact that INVINCIBLE or most anime has. Its gory but in a cartoony way if that makes sense. I'll watch a second season if they make one. If D+ is looking for a Halloween themed series BLADE would be a good starter in animated or live action form.

If they gave attention to dagger and axe, I have no doubt that eventually they’ll do lance. Dagger often gets left out, but Axe is a really obscure choice.

Hope they'll get to Lance.

This would be the wrong thread for that since it only covers the Bandai DX (VF-1) or variants like the (VT/VE-1) in 1/48 Series and not the VF-19....

With the preorder being scheduled for tomorrow October 1st, do we have a time slot for the preorder? Is it 5pm JST?

Was there a release of the VF-19P in 1/60 from Bandai? I seem to have missed that announcement and don't see any news on it.

^^An Egyptian-headed Valk with a delicious Irish stout! 😅