Mommar

On 5/10/2023 at 9:36 AM, David Hingtgen said:

"The hinge that often breaks" at the waist, because Bandai uses split pins there that slowly expand over time.  

The entire valk's 2 main halves are held together by that hinge, and it's plastic.  Mine cracked apart while sitting in fighter mode with no packs/boosters attached, under zero stress/weight.  

 

This is a -29, but it's the same piece/issue:

I guess I'll be doing some inspections today...

Classic Drax and Moondragon are a pleasant surprise.

I wish they had a version without the skycycle too.  The vehicle itself looks great but I'd like a few Hawkeyes but I don't want to spend $50 a pop and have a fleet of cycles too.

22 hours ago, MKT said:

Whether it’s due to mold degradation or not, but off the top of head there are a few fit issues observed for the VF-25 WWM scheme that weren’t present in the older renewals:

1. The nosecone in Fighter doesn’t seem to close as well as it should, leaving a slight gap.

2. The gunpod doesn’t fit properly into one of the arm tabs in Fighter, so it would be very hard to display Fighter with its gun.

3. The crotch lock in Battroid is not as tight, & so unbuckles rather easily during handling.

Not sure if these issues have been fixed for the new 25F Revival though.

 

I'll have to disagree with 1 and 2.  The tab is a bit more stiff and hard to angle but the nose cone snaps into place very solid.  And I haven't had a hard time fitting the gunpod in fighter at all.  The crotch lock does seem to be looser however.

It's a shame they didn't take the opportunity to tweak the boosters to have a sliding or rotsting mechanism to give the shoulders more room to manouvre in Gerwalk.  You csn see multipme times in the animation where the boosters just kind of nudge themselves over to give the animation more space.

Four new Mafex figures and the new Plum Gradius 2 Vic Viper model (yet to be panel-lined/glued in spots)  The Cyclopse figure is being almost unanimously reviewed wrong concerning his paint apps too.  Great figure.

16 hours ago, borgified said:

Got to have time snap a pic of GR, Symbonite Spidey, Blade (first version) one of these days.. 

Anyone for this tomorrow? 

I'm up for this.  The other three IM's were good and the proportions on this look way better than the Hasbro.

19 hours ago, Tking22 said:

I got my Ghost Rider in and holy hell I'm in love, what a fantastic figure! Worth the wait? Eh, maybe, definitely worth the price IMO. I paid $250 for Dredd and his bike years and years ago, with inflation Mezco easily could've charged $300 or $300+ for this set. I've got my Marvel Knights basically complete, I gotta get them all together and get some photos. 

I guess we are of different opinions.  I found it a let down.

According to my e-mail we're about ti find out if Freeze was worth the wait next.

To be honest, without the weathering it really doesn't look right in that lighter blue either.

I'm not really interested in another scale VF-1 but it's ThreeZero, they don't half-ass things.  I have to check one out at least.

Black Knight and Cersi pre-order link

https://www.amazon.com/Avengers-AVN-Legends-ANV-Brown/dp/B0BDJ6F4ZN?tag=enewsi-20&ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls_failed&dplnkId=847ea046-de1a-4463-acdd-db5a43a484b9

https://anime-export.com/index.php

Green Goblin is $144 US.

I'll take all of those, please.

52 minutes ago, Roy Focker said:

It was good. Not really needed but good. Can we just wipe season 1 and 2 from existence? I think that's what this show tried to do. Episode isn't without its flaws. No cameos by half bro Wesley or Data's daughter. It did feel disconnected from the Changeling plot. 

Small spoiler the Titan is renamed. But like why? I think Titan's actions during the whole conflict proved itself worthy of starting its own legacy of ships being named after it.

Because for the few things they did do right across 10 episodes they're still largely morons.

12 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

Marvel Legends.

How did you get Yondu already?  My pre-order is still waiting.

That is pretty ridiculous.  But it seems one or a few of the workers aren't assembling these things correct at all.

It's the Black Series team so I don't agree with the elbow/knee implementation but overall this is a real banger of a figure.  I highly recommend picking up an Indy.

On 4/12/2023 at 6:30 PM, mog_kupo said:

First Joy-Toy mecha

Hey, how is that?  I have a few of the warhammer figs but these giants mechs are really cool looking.  I just can't justify the shelf space.

To be honest I'm surprised Kicker ONLY has 30.

On 4/14/2023 at 1:59 AM, no3Ljm said:

No worries. For specifics, the Captain Type is what Arcadia is going to release. The Production Type is still undecided. As far as the color goes, we're not 100% sure which is accurate due to the fact that the more lighter photo we saw is taken at the convention. Whereas the photo above is more from a controlled light scene which it might be how it's going to look on the final release. Let's hope.  

We already know the color, there's just a bunch of people here who don't want to admit it.

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

 

There's a much bigger problem in that thousands and thousands of junior officers will have had to endure the trauma that comes with assimilation, not just mentally but very likely physically too by the time the old farts get back to save the day.  

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That's actually a checkmate scenario.  Best case you save most of them and they're nearly all broken from the trauma.  At worst you just wiped out an entire generation of junior officers forcing more senior in rank and age or wildly young, inexperienced and untrained to take up those positions.

6 hours ago, borgified said:

I actually read your write up in Gollum’s voice (Andy Serkis) @Mommar. 😆

Pretty close, that was Mike's voice from Red Letter Media making fun of The Force Awakens.

"Lightsabers!.. Tie Fighters!... Borgses!...  Enterprises!.."

And all the idiots clapped.

Honestly, not worth the money or 29 month wait.

On 4/6/2023 at 3:23 AM, sh9000 said:

 

 

Dude, that Ronan figure is awesome.