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  1. Mechapilot77
    interesting the red kneew smoved up to the thighs. also the incorrectly applied speaker sticker (everyone did it that way though) from g1 makes it int the deco. is it niver than MS voice ripple? looks just as nice if not better TBH. also where are people seeing $25 for boost? lol thats crazy and its not a must have but at $25 i'd have to...
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    FWIW if anyone is interested in titan omega or commander class jetfire....they are getting reissued for original retail prices (too lazo to find out where but i know at least bbts hasit up and they are calling them reissues.) commander class siege jetfire is IMO one of the gem of the modern rfc mainline transformers. oh this week's tuesday announcement is some redeco of one of the "fastrack" (who i have no idea who he is, hasn't shown up in netflix's series yet) called Black roritchi. no idea who that is other than its a japnese g1 thing and he goes with scorponock/black zarak?
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    other than the articulation, i can't say i like where this is going. the cad renders actually looked better. he has teh opposite problem from meteor. giant head instead of a pin head. mp-11 got the head size right IMO. even mp-3 was acceptable sort of. not sure why there is another smalle rwing behind the wing. it looks like it folds over as their is a hinge looking htin on the leading edge of eh actual wing. is it actuallyt he tail planes? if so they are too large. actually on secodn look that isn'ta hinge but something for those tailplaines i'm guessing to tuck behind? call me old fashioned but i like all that in the lower legs somewhere even if its visible. this sunbow accuracy obsession leads to worse lookign figures. yes it looks more like the toon model but i guess thats ot what i want. haha. heck i prefer soemthing even more toy like i guess . this artwork ain't bad. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Starscream_%28Transformers%29.jpg not that we'll get something like that ever even if they do a plus toy variant but doesn't that look refreshing cmpared to slavish toon look?
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    that is what i did and while gabriel is an awesome g1 omega....after having watched siege - if you want THAT omega he looks different enough...also if one is building a siege/ER collection gabriel looks off because of the very g1 look that lacks much detail. titan omega if he is still available anywhere (honestly brick and mortar might be easier at this stage?) looks pretty cool too though i don't like his hips. also he looks cool in the show so there is that.
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    thanks! i do however think that looks "too" blue. it was more bright white with a hint of blue in the show. also "Clear" 3D printed parts are usually frosty. was hoping for some either pale blue injection molded plastic (like an acrylic maybe?) or something metallic white with transparent blue. that being said i don't have a way to make that happen so i may get that one for now. lol. hopefully someone else will make something (is dr. wu you still making stuff? those skybreaker swords were the right blue if a i remember).
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    binged his recently. WAY better than the Combiner wars trilogy...like a bajillion. not that it was a high bar to pass. enjoyed it a lot even though its nothing special as far as story telling or animation. Its cool to see G1ish sorta kinda designs animated in modern (albeit budget) CGI. skyfi.....jetfire has never looked better (except as the g1 toy lol). he stole every scene he was in. starscream was great too. prime....just isn't prime without cullens voice or that calm and powerful leadeership style. best thing TF related i've seen since tf prime...which was better - but i like g1ish designs way better than the budget cgi toonish bayverse inspired desings of tf prime (there wer of course gems). i have hope that earthrise will be good or better. based on teh toyline for kingdom though....i fear the ending of the trilogy will be something i really really dont like. *sigh* now....someone makea jetfire blade already! lol
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    had no idwea the robot hero ones were improved. the seeker mold is large enough in jet mode for me though! haha. good job on the paint. so nice. was the thundercracker already toy colored or you went from light blue to that?
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    Hi-Metal R

    Mechapilot77 replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    we need all those. man back in those days i was so high on this line! enemy mecha and destroids!! so like...disappointing after all this time they are still no shows. also what happend to SHF breetai in scale with these HMR guys?!
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    true but state sales tax on $250 must be added FWIW so that would end up more like $276 for me whereas amazon gonna come in right around $250 shipped depending on exchange rate. of course we all pay the sales tax come tax time as use tax though obvi! :-P
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    anyway as far as the released sketches go a few questions and observations 1. i'm not sure how the waist swivel is gonna work - going by takara's record it will have one and an ab crunch hopefully but again don't see how it gonna work. 2. THICK. this guys is thick. he's got a lot of stuff folded up onto his back- a transformation strategy we are seeing a lot of recently hopefully this dosen't effect the stability and posability too much. also he has a bit of a potbelly with that cockpit and stuff sticking out further than one would normally imagine. also is that a fake cockpit? 3. can his wings angle upwards in bot mode like mp3, mp11 and some others do? 4. he has a big head but that is consistent with the model they are going with even though his head is often shown not to be THAT big (its oftentimes shown bigger). still i think its a touch too big. hopefully the aftermarket addresses that? 5. what does his f-15 mode look like? hope its a real as they can make it and not intentionally cartoonified. 6. proportions wise...he's a bit lanky and i guess sometimes he was drawn that way. i do prefer when he was drawn less so, but its just a preference. 7. his shin "thrusters".... are wide and flat and look like design details...not a 3D part. this is dumb. it needs them. earthrise got this right. as did previous mp3/11. 8. YEAH no more elevated head/collar/fueselage area! I realize that is why mp-03 boxart photo was a top down view looking back in retrospect. you notice it much less! 9. he has no buttflatp BUT, his backpack goes lower than his butt kinda ruining the silhouette (blacked out you'd thing his butt is that low and his legs shorter)...i think this is worse than a buttflap honestly. 10. his hips, knees and ankle joints basically are in straight line....thats good!! unlike mp-44 btw. 11. the main thrusters appear a bit too small, this can be seen by how small they are compared to his feet. 12. I wish his hands are rounder, chunkier, and more bubbly. on a side note his forearms look good. most of the sculpting/curvature looks well done. 13. his intake stack being behind his head (looking form the side) is a good choice. he was often drawn that way and hey...he can look sideways not wihto9ut staring into his intake stack. overall i am cautiously optimistic. he isn't as toon simplified as some others so it looks better to me than some recent releases...hopefully price isn't rdiculous and QC is good as well as engineering chioices. i have meteor but i'm lukewarm on him these days. i also have a dozen + of older seekers (mp3/6/7/11, igear, coneheads, igear coneheads) that i guess i wont' be unloading...they each have their own charm. i even love greenscream still FWIW. the only design i have more of than seekers is VF-1 Valkyries. lol.
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    WOW, lol right at the 20 second mark. jetfire is ozma wiht a mini mini itano circus. definitely an homage...forgot what scene in frontier (or was it a frontier movie or game?) that ozma is standing on the ground and launches missiles like in the same pose.
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    yeh the houquet color is a WTF until you remember she would get lost in teh sea of red(S) and white in her normal colors. still i hope someone paints theirs to the real colors. i am a bit miffed that for $250 usd we still get pilots molded in a single color and completely unpainted. in the world of 3P TF's you have headmaster figures that are a similar size, are painted and transform ... and they come with much cheaper toys. lol.
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    totally forgot about this, but checked this thread due to even bbts having this for order (was there to check on something else). guessing amazon jp cheapest with shipping... shipped via dhl to usa for a total ofï¿¥ 24,857 Cannot imagine the "cheaper" places coming in cheaper after adding shipping...too lazy to go through the process of adding to cart on every place...just went with amazon jp. wasn't going to go all in on this line too (they are spendy for what they are) , but if they do a tlead i guess i can unload my toynamis alphas and betas. that being said, despite being crumbly handed i'm quite fond of them. i haven't seen them in years (boxed up in and stored inside sealed packages in my storage area)..wonder if they still hold together or if they'll fall apart taking them out of the box. no doubt the betas will be fine but the alphas...who knows? my evolution toys guys...only opened a couple of them. nice presence but they just aren't very good toys. love the proportions, sculpting and look on them (in a different style from teh toynamis or these rcent sentinels) as well as size. wish they had a bit more detail like these guys do (if they did i'd visually prefer them to sentinel's effort)... i kinda wonder....how many versions of legioss/alpha are people keeping? i have had basically zero display space for a while (and that iwll be the case for another ocuple yeras before i move out to the burbs) and i wonder what versions i'll display when i finally have proper place to display things again. lol.
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    mike, wow that looks nice. great write up. he looks great. i do wish he had more detailing on him. i remember the look of unicron in the movie when they did close ups of him transforming...he had lots of detail. that could have ben conveyed in more panel lines etc. that being said, the haslab one has that but this unicron does just about everything better. the one other complaint i have is that his wings and the ring around teh planet mode are too small IMO. i dont' know if its accurate to the source material though but they look a tad small.
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    5.89" with heels!! so she 5'11" with heels on. a lot of women are. haha. we all know their figure scalign isn't 100 percent accurate...its always slightly larger than 1/12 but....i don't care that much. cool armore design...i don';t like southern cross/robotech masters enough to spend $80 on a figure of jeanne/dana though. i MIGHT be interested if they were doing hovertanks (obvi not the same 1/12 scale but in a good scale to handle and play/display) too but it doesn't seem to be the case at least...yet.
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    i thought he was 1/63ish or so that was the common thought at the time. i've not measured myself. EDIT** actually at around 13inches he is a 1/60th scale f-15 as an f-15 is 64' long. 12.8 inches would be 1/60 exaclty googling got to to a tomcat being 63' long. 756 inches. 1/72 scale would be 10.5 inches. i could see a 10+ inch jet from that 7" robot guessing the transformation scheme....guess we will see though.
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    a 7 inch robot mode height i assume. i'm not sure but it looks to grow in alt mode. in alt mode i assume it'll be a fair bit larger than 1/100 scale. closer to 1/72 than 1/100 is my guess.
  18. Mechapilot77
    pretty good alt mode but yeah, i'll leave it to our resident expert to comment on its relative accuracy. the weathering job is...not good but i guess not horrible. would have picked soemthing other than coffee stain brown as the color to do the weathering with. this would look aces with a custom repaint...at least in jet mode. we haven't seen the underside bu i suspect its actually cleanish because of the lack of bulk to the robot. overall i like it. wroth $50...probably not - but i grew up with top gun X transfomers was in my brain since the 80s so there is that! preordered! it would be a shame if this doesn't get redeco'd into TF X Gi joe Sky striker btw. haha cmon hasbro!
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    does nota ever reissue stuff? Can't find their gauntlet and head set.
  20. Mechapilot77
    love seeing line art but i can see that the proportions are wildly inconsistent and why its so tough to go from 2D to 3Don this mospeada stuff. also after looking at it some more... the sentinel is even granting generous interpretation departures of the line art...more or less and updated design...in the spirit of the original but not trying to actually be the original design as far as i can tell. great thread guys
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    wait where did you get those mini figures or is this photoshopped?
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    dang already missed the preorder already? hopeuflly 2nd version still has the g1 80s style pacakging and the rod. if i get it i am tinting that thing real dark or really reflective because its nuts they are releasing as is like that.
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    do you think we'll get the two seaters? if a 1D comes out I NEED it as much as this roy. the 1D, roy's 1S, and hikaru's 1J are like the trio that mean the most to me as an SDFM fan. sure completing vermillion would be nice as well as max and mirria's 1js and of course browies and brownie 1J but i don't want to repeat the 1/60 v2s and go for near completion.
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    might be same person. loves to use the word "beautiful", if thats his tell. haha same logo as well. https://www.ebay.com/str/lunaparkjapanshop anyway i ordered because i missed out not getting one anywhere. was hopign ny wold mark up and relist...didnt happen. giviing this guy's website a try. paypal should have my back if in 6 months times nothing happens.
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    OMG, now this IS PREMIUM finish. i think i'll admire from afar though. best valk ever from the looks of it.
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