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I thought it was already determined that the Toyrise Legioss was 1/60 according to this tweet. https://x.com/sakichooboys/status/1922596757168374217 So it'll be a little smaller than the Sentinel. We've seen pics of it on a stand that looks equivalent to a Tamashii stage mech stand, so it's going to be a relatively smaller figure.

Granted, 900 years is a very long time indeed (for Humans) and things can change a lot in such a substantial period. That doesn't mean that what they did made sense, though. One of the many reasons fans hated it was that it didn't make sense in context or out. 😆 Trying to launch a new story off a springboard made of pure idiocy and character shilling is probably not the best idea. Literally everything about the Burn is stupid. That's why, when the idea was originally pitched back in 2006 as the premise for a stand-alone animated series called Star Trek: Final Frontier it got no farther than a handful of rough story treatments and some concept art before CBS said "No thank you". Kurtzman et. al. actually managed to make the bad idea behind Final Frontier worse.

I thought it was Military Operation Soldier Protection Emergency Aviation Dive "Armor" not "Auto"....did it change at some point? Or just a goof? and if curious for the version with the missiles it says 'exclusive' on the front of the box (auction pic) The back says Robotech?? This must be international boxing once size fits all. The old Legioss didn't say Robotech.

LOL....yep....brown-washing... And yes...can't really say anything negative about his acting...

Very true. He is in so many things because he is such a good actor.

Goes to show how well that show stuck (stunk) with me... And see, my idea was already better than anything STD() came up with! But the truth remains that 900 years is a loooong time. Even half of that. Nothing stays the same, so an isolationist Earth coming about after the catastrophe of the Burn is not an impossibility. And I think it would have been better if the Burn had been an attack, but then there are so many things about the Burn that are just silly anyway.

I'm absolutely fine with the design and overall look of the Alpha. There's a lot of people probing about the "scale" of the figure. Lots of hopeful fans are wanting a cheaper 1/48 alternative from Sentinel. But for some reason they don't seem to understand that Takara does their own thing and not follow the "scale" method. I'm guessing this thing will probably be close to Commander or maybe even Leader class.

Phazon Suit Samus + Morph Ball

Yeah saw that. It’s 5,000 more also though.

Is Wave actually making it or just distributing it from another company? Looks a lot more hefty than what they usually make, but a lot of their more ambitious kits have been from other companies like Academy doing the Galient kits or Orange Cat doing the Tekkaman ones. As far as this one, it’s not my favorite from the show, but I definitely like the details and the little dude. And is that little dude actually articulated? Looks like it has several joints. I might have to get this one

I think that would be brown washing, but to be honest, I like Pedro a lot and even if he is in everything, at least he usually puts everything into his roles for the most part.

I wish the actual Intrepid looked like that. 😆

Is the dark weathered looking Kamjin just a prototype or an alternate version that’s going to be available for purchase? Not a fan of metallics in the armor, but at least it’s the least offensive one color wise, but if that flat green weathered version is available, I’d definitely purchase that one

By former ILM Modelmaker John Eblan.

I’m just hoping it’s as simple as a web exclusive release

Thanks for the pics, really cool to see details on how it goes together

Nice sculpt, size, articulation, heft, sturdiness, and transformation.

Booth tour.

Sorry for all the troubles. That water heater had to be tough. We had to have one replaced just the other year. Ours house is on a slope where the main floor is in top and the bottom floor is set up as a bedroom, but we’ve just been using it for storage and laundry. The water heater is behind the bottom room in an odd crawl space where you go downstairs and then crawl up into a an angled floor because of the slope. Luckily it didn’t explode or anything, just kinda died. But getting the replacement was a pain because everything had to squeeze up and take some tight turns in there. And of course it went out right after the pros replaced it. Kept having to crawl in and relight the the dang thing. Turned out there was a problem with the thermo pile and had to get new parts and another repair crew. anyway, the VT-1is looking really cool. Sometimes it’s fun to try some new techniques

I think all of my stuff will come in by 2045.

I'll add this to the TIE variants collection.

https://www.toyark.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=78091&d=1753487007 2nd Transformers Generations Studio Series TFTM Hook and Long Haul.

That's a big crowd.

Saw it yesterday and enjoyed it. Disney played it really safe with this one....no controversial moves really....unless you want to say casting a Hispanic to play Reed Richards was white-washing....I have read some of the hate online directed at him, but it’s never directly due to his ethnicity....mostly due to on-screen fatigue of him being in all of the most toxic franchises and genres, which unfortunately seem to elicit the worst in folks... Anyway, nothing really surprising or unexpected throughout the entire movie....may even go as far as saying it was a bit predictable....yet still an enjoyable Summer Spectacle...Hopefully Marvel can keep it up for the next round of superhero movies...

I finally got back to my cursed VT-1 after 9 months off the hobby. A lot of stuff had happened, my basement hot water tank exploded and wet the bottom layers of my workbench, then when it was beyond repairs, they replaced it with a on-demand boiler but had to drill two holes for the intake and exhaust. Instead of drilling the holes right close to the boiler, they went across my basement ceiling to drill in the opposite side - right over my hobby workbench covering it with a layer of very fine brick dust over everything (including all my brushes and airbrushes) - ARGH!!! I tried to shop-vac it but it was so fine that it went through the filter of the shop-vac and blew it everywhere in my basement - it took days for the cloud of dust to settle! That pretty much killed any interest I had in completing this model for a while. Then I found out about a new technique using acrylic ink to mottle the paint surface for scaled weathering that I thought I'd try out and learn something new - its mostly more appropriate for the TPS Navy planes like F-14s. It's funny that I spent most of my modelling career trying to paint a smooth finish colour only now to lean ways to make the solid smooth paint look mottled and distressed! Unfortunately again it didn't turn out as I hoped. I hope to let everyone know so many things went wrong with this build, but don't loose hope, whenever I swore off of it, after a few months off, I was able to figure out ways (probably my OCD thinking about it before going to sleep) to fix it (easier when you don't care about it as much anymore and it no longer becomes as precious and I was more willing to experiment). Unfortunately, I was in the middle of also experimenting with new paints (I almost always used Tamiya acrylics because of the easy clean up) but with all these new techiques, I needed a stronger/hardier paint, and started to look at Mr. Color lacquers now. But with this mix of paint (and repaints because of that horrible Alclad clear coat wrinkling eating away at the Tamiya undercoat that I had to re-sand down everything) the Acrylic Ink using the Tamiya X-20A thinners attacked some of my paint underneath again. I was so discouraged that I didn't even take any photos of that, I wished I had. When this technique is done properly, the effects are phenomenal! https://luftraum72.com/layered-ink-patina-technique/ I do urge people to try it - I'm starting to get the hang of it after a few false starts, luckily you can undo a lot with the X-20A thinner (except when it started attacking my older Tamiya paint - you should only do this over top of Mr. Color lacquers) Except I kind of over did it - too heavily weathered for a trainer! So I masked up everything again, so spray the original colours over top of all the weathering lightly so you can still see the mottling underneath but it toned down the effects. I think this is the 4th or 5th time I've had to carefully re-mask everything and respray everything on this model - I felt like I've build 3 or 4 of these now 😛 The final stretch is in sight! I'm finally happier with the finish, its still a little too weathered for a trainer, but I do like the weathering patterning, I will keep the semi-gloss sheen instead of going flat matte to keep it looking a little "newer" or better kept.