Graham

13 hours ago, Big s said:

The $200 price tag is a bit too rich for me, but it is tempting since it has water slide decals included. Hopefully that will become a trend in upcoming kits.

I personally hate waterslide decals, I find them a real PITA to use. I'm a quick builder............snap together and panel line only. So I prefer either dry rub transfers or stickers (which are getting much better in recent years).

On 6/28/2020 at 11:20 PM, carlsylar said:

What's with the old man untrimmed eyebrows? 

I gave up on season 2 of IBO after struggling through season 1.

That Unicorn MGEX is an easy pass for me for the following three reasons:

1) ¥23,000 is a bit more than I'm willing to pay for a 1/100 scale Gunpla. For that money I'd rather just pay a bit more and get a Metal Build Figure.

2) I'm not really into light-up gimmicks.

3) Although I like the Gundam Unicorn anime, I've never been a fan of the RX-0 Gundam Unicorn design. I don't own a single model or toy of the Unicorn. The Jesta and Jesta Cannon are my favorite mobile suit designs from the Unicorn anime.

Year, not a fan of an of the Gundam Astray designs.

12 minutes ago, carlsylar said:

Personally I suggest Qan for it is still at a cheap price， but it has the arm issue which will break during transit. 
May I suggest R4 Exia which will release next month. It is a exia and quite looks like oo qant

 

 

Hmm......goes off to Google R4 Exia

6 hours ago, Kuma Style said:

Sorry, WTF is that????? Michael Bayesque mes of parts?

So after finally watching Gundam 00 TV series  season 1 this month and currently half way through season 2, I'm in love with the Exia design.

I've already bought Metal Build Exia  and Metal Build Exia Repair 1.

My Metal build Exia is currently configured as Exia Repair 3.

Currently trying to decide whether to buy one more Metal Build Exia to have it displayed as original Exia or buy a Metal build 00 Qan (T)? I only can afford one, not both.

Thoughts?

I've no emotional attachment to 00 Qan (T) yet, as I have not seen the movie yet. Is it a good figure?

On 6/13/2020 at 7:33 PM, Black Valkyrie said:

 

 

 

Did this appear in a side story manga or what?

Question for the hive mind.

Although I've built a great many Gunpla over the years they have for the most part been MG, RG and a very small smattering of HG, as well as some older non-grade kits back in the early 90s.

However, I have never built a Perfect Grade kit. Now I'm thinking about it.

While I'm mostly a UC timeline fan there are unfortunately no UC-era PG kits that I really like (I'd love a PG V Gundam, V2 Gundam, RX-79G Ground Type, RX-93, XM1 Crossbone, but alas they don't exist). Existing PG UC-era kits such as the RX-79, MKII, Unicorn, GP-01/GP-01FB, Zeta are just not Mobile Suits designs that I'm attracted to.

So the only PG Mobile Suits that I like enough  to buy are non-UC era designs, with my favorites being the Exia or the Strike Gundam.

So for those that have built the Exia or Strike PG kits, which is the better choice in terms of  fun factor, frustration factor, details, gimmicks, long term durability, poseability, long term tightness of joints etc?

To be honest, despite being a Macross mega-fan since 1982, my interest in Macross has waned in the last few years, since the train wreck that was Macross Delta and the lack of any decent new Macross TV series or OVA after Delta.

Also, despite loving the VF-1 design after having bought nearly every variant of the Takatoku 1/55, Bandai 1/55, Bandai 1/100, Yamato 1/60 v.1, Yamato 1/48 & Yamato 1/60 v.2, I've become deathly bored with the VF-1 and have no interest to buy the Bandai Hi-Metal-R or Bandai 1/48. Burned out on buying the same mecha in the same colours, with only dubious possible minor improvements again and again and again.

These days, although I keep an eye on Macross, my interests are more airsoft and Gunpla.

For the most part I've always said and wrote day, month, year. Just the way I was taught.

For example 1st January 2020. Although occasionally when speaking I will say month first, probably because I do deal with a lot of Americans in business. But I'll never put the month first in writing.

Writing the month first just seems wrong to me.

Smallest to largest unit.......day, month, year is a logical progression.

I'd be interested to know if any other countries do it the US way and put the month first? Personally it's something I've only ever encountered from Americans.

17 hours ago, Tochiro said:

You’ll be happy to know then that a second movie has been announced and is indeed currently being worked on :-)

Wasn't that announced like 2 years ago?

I'd pretty much given up on it already and assumed it was cancelled.

On 5/16/2020 at 3:08 AM, Kelsain said:

It’ll be interesting to see what Zeb looks like in this line. No rerelease of Kanan?

It' past January already and those figures are not released,

Or is that the stupid US, nonsensical, ass-backwards date convention that the rest of the world does not use?

On 5/8/2020 at 6:39 PM, brannon said:

Its gonna be a fun summer

Hmmm............to be honest not sure how I feel about this. 

The Crossbone Gundam is one of my favorite Mobile Suit Designs, but this kinda strays a bit too far from the look IMO.

1 hour ago, carlsylar said:

Hope for the next year, this year of 2020 Bandai will only provide us: Metal Build Astray Golden Frame white version, Strike Sword pack, Eva Unit-02 2020 version and Tamashii Limited Destiny.

Nothing in that list of interest to me.....sad

18 minutes ago, Shawn said:

And to actually CONTRIBUTE something here, how about an old-school Macross 7 Fire Valkyrie Toy Display

 

Wow, never even seen that before.

Just finished binge watching Dead to Me season 2 on Netflix with my wife this weekend. I hope there will be a season 3.

Now watching Colony season 3 on Netflix.

10 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

I just finished that second episode and Filoni is THE GUY that should be running Star Wars, especially after Lucas departs this Earth. He gets it, better than most fans. Filoni explaining Anakin and family made me rethink my appreciation for the prequels.

Also, KK is bad. Just bad. Her rudely injecting herself into the conversation the way she did and watching Jon Favreau's body language to her said it all. 

 

Yep!

Really Hoping we get news of a Metal Build Crossbone Gundam X3 soon or a Crossbone Gundam X1 Full Cloth.

Or my dream, a Metal build Assault-Buster V2 and V-Dash Gundam

Too much Astray and Seed stuff recently. Not my cup of tea.

On 5/6/2020 at 10:35 PM, Bolt said:

So true..

Very.

At least the awfulness of episodes 8 and 9 were balanced out by the amazingness of The Mandalorian and Clone Wars Season 7.

7 hours ago, JakCrow said:

That's going to be huge.

That's what she said 

But seriously, I already placed my preorder a few weeks ago and impatiently waiting for more pics.

2 minutes ago, Graham said:

I saw a link today about Hot Toys season 7 Rex and Ahsoka. See if I can find it again.

Here it is:

https://exclumagazine.com/2020/05/04/hot-toys-tease-16th-clone-wars-captain-rex/

Ah, it only mentions Rex. I must have recalled incorrectly about Ahsoka.

19 hours ago, Mog said:

If Hasbro and Disney were smarter, they should have had the following figures ready to be revealed for today:

* Ahsoka Tano - Siege of Mandalore version;

* Maul

* 501st Clone Trooper - Ahsoka paint scheme

* Jesse - ARC trooper version

* Gar Saxon - Maul-Mando version

* Bo Katan

Doesn’t surprise me, but that’s just how it’s been.

I'd buy all of those at once, especially Jesse, 501st Clone Trooper Ahsoka paint version and Gar Saxon.

17 hours ago, Dobber said:

Agreed, I’m also surprised Sideshow/Hot Toys hasn’t made any Clone Wars figures and that they are rereleasing Cody bit haven’t made Rex??

Chris

I saw a link today about Hot Toys season 7 Rex and Ahsoka. See if I can find it again.