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  1. Mechapilot77
    lol of course you wouldn't! :-P i only have 4 of those primes. i think i spy wfc siege, pp-01, mp-10, and mpp-10. i kinda regret not getting the lewin.
  2. Mechapilot77
    similarly to you i do focus on one scale (MP). i've been careful not to get into 3P legends too much (only for figures whic i like the legends better than the mp equivalent for some reason...for instance blaster and magnus i prefer the legends depictions to the MP ones i have or had in the case of blaster)...but when the mainline hasbro starts releasing things i like i came out and supported them big time during the WFC trilogy (not beast things anyway) and SS86 lines...unwittingly continuing or rebuidling a "CHUG" scale collection that i had stopped collecting years ago! oh well...i'm gonna be picky from here on out. lol.
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    i did the same, one gnaw for now. if he is good i'll worry about tracking down more and replacing the igears....if i do i'll let you know. i never actually go the titans returns or cyberverse ones so these will be first new ones in a while for me.
  4. Mechapilot77
    Did you use standard solid metal dowel pins or something like slotted spring pins, grooved pins etc? TIA
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    now the question i find myself asking is do i really want to duplicate my collection in every scale and continually upgrade and replace those of same scale? doing i get 3 gnaws to replace my 3 igear sharkticons? do i get SS dinobots in chug scale even though i've got mp scale dinos? do i get wreck gar when the classics toy is pretty decent (though not accurate to g1 source) and KFC's crash hog is pretty awesome in mp scale? i mean wiht macross i REFUSE to completely duplicate what i did with yamato 1/60 in bandai DX format (bandai makes this easy because they will never cover as many variants) though i have picked up a few. hi metal R was an easy buy in due to availbility of destroids and enemy mecha (of course i bought some valks to go with them!).... with TF will i feel like i missed out on SS86 slag even if i like scoria better? the easy answer is to just buy it all but like space, cost, and time/maintenance etc... decisions. gnaw and wreck gar i will get and if i feel i dn't need them will get rid of but slag...i'm unsure.
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    so the new direction of the MP line is they review on case by case or character by character basis what the figure will be like? its encouraging he references MP prowl and lambor though....at least to me it is. i think prowl may be the best of all worlds in terms of giving us a real robot look with some details, an accurate alt mode, AND a cartoon inspired silhouette. i can't think of another MP release that balances those things more to my liking. wheeljack (in either deco) comes close but he has some evidence of a cost savings approach (like the hollow bicep area) too. mp skyfires "alternate" form. lol. hopefully they can make the jet mode look cooler but that won't be accurate to animation. phoenix'x alt mode is better than WFC but still not clean. i can't say find a lot of bad things to say about WFC jetfire though. his very plane jane robot design actually benefits from the detailing (although it could have use a bit more restraint there) that uber toon purists dislike. oh well...he was wfc jetfire and not g1 skyfire so technically IS accurate. his size was too big for WFC though. he was big guy in the series but not that big. in fact his size relation to mp-10/44 is closer to what you see on screen size wise than his size next to the siege prime figure.
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    i think i saw it and said...that looks WAY better than the old matchbox so it got a pass. seeing it next to your photoshop where the canons REALLY reminds me of the feeling of the watching the show..like "thats what was off!". haven't really examined the mospeada line art the same way others have i guess. i hope they fix the canons. if so i'll probably get multiple.
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    you know i thought that wa ayamato 1/60 next to the zeta flash but thats a DX chogokin!? dang. super deformed proprotions aside (i can't put it aside enough to buy it), i wish it were smaller actually. also frost light appears to be awesome. we'll see when its released.
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    kfc's crowning achievement so far i think. i agree.
  10. Mechapilot77
    so that bb movie mpm prime... that is one frankenass truck. its not teh freightliner nor the marmon but a combination of both plus cat ears. lol. wonder if it was done to avoid having to pay either truck maker. lol. also i guess the studio series toy is as much a source as the movie at this point being that people have lived with the toy but maybe seen the movie once or twice. aside from teh cat ears and bent pipes...its frankensteiny but not TOO horrible. bot mode aside from arm kibble and helmet shape is pretty damn nice actually. importantly its not in teh giant ass 12" bot mode 3zero scale. 3P did it "Better" but did they? i say that as someone who has toyworld's effort.
  11. Mechapilot77
    i can't now unsee the canons being super low now. ugh.
  12. Mechapilot77
    so they didn't at all address the worst part of the siege mirage figure. the arms as an engine is still there. they gave it an open cockpit, different spoilers and a slightly different treatment of teh shoulder side panels and called it a day. i think i like the siege one better at the moment and i don't want that beast wars style grimlock at all so skipping at the moment. glad i don't feel the need to get it again i guess but i wish they'd done a ground up redesign like the datsun bros got. the siege is a good mold but could have definitely been improved upon.
  13. Mechapilot77
    the netflix shows were bad but at least the character models look decent, which means the toys look decent enough (well some of them!) also jetfire finally gets to be not a big useless doofus who is just there to give people rides. that being said a character is a character. IDW prowl is nothing like G1 prowl i hear but i bought that g creation rebel because it looks cool and its like g1 prowl in a new body. :-P
  14. Mechapilot77
    any chance its an MP blaster (or MP enough stand in that will fit that lion tape they released)? KFC's is just not good enough for me anymore.
  15. Mechapilot77
    those look really nice together but i'm glad i'm not an idw comics guy because then i would "NEED" all these and most of other mmc stuff too. as is i can pick and choose. haha. i don't know how many times i've almost bought the mmc drift (or derivatives), but i keep hoping someone will pick up the old g creation design they shared forever ago.
  16. Mechapilot77
    color me impressed with the invid shocktrooper (tbh i've never regarded MEP's products as highly). the OVERSIZED one looks way better to me...i know they aren' t supposed to be that big but the 1/48 is not a good sparring partner with the legioss sets out there and are even WAY WAY WAY too small to do battle with the mospeada (cyclones) they actually fight on the show. as tekering pointed out the OS might be look ok (too small to be in scale but looks wise) with the new smaller mospeada coming out (at some point hopefully) from B2five too.
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    thanks for the tip on the desseus drone. finally got a couple of those. (only ever had the earthrise version of that mold which is an unconvincing earth van). if they had gone with the ER barricade mold i might have got a rusty sparkless bot too but not a huge fan of the siege datsunbros mold
  18. Mechapilot77
    yup i used them once before. apparently , i'm going to be using them again since the armored parts set without the VF-1J valk itself is a TWE. honestly, if it goes without drama like last time i'll be happy.
  19. Mechapilot77
    well not only that but its early. they said 4/23 16:00 japan time. thats still hours away! maybe some other retailers will follow the actual timeline given.
  20. Mechapilot77
    dammit missed them all already? they jumped the gun!!!
  21. Mechapilot77
    Love them hands!!
  22. Mechapilot77
    the nora looks even more matte than the yamato one. as far as lighter...maybe. could be the lighting in those photos. i stopped following the sv-51 thread after a while. aside from the feet/ankles were there any issues with that ivanov release? are the wings likely to get floppy like the old yamatos? (they really need a hard lock but doubt they did that).
  23. Mechapilot77
    yeah definitely the TV version. round fingers and bubbly hands. red tipped missiles and the 1982. bring it on. hopefully it won't be too much of a PITA to get one. after the gbp and the 1d i am hoping to be done with the DX valks. i don't need to repeat what i did from the yamarcadia 1/60s. lol.
  24. Mechapilot77
    the slag is better than i initially thought. the proportions are odd but not as bad as i thought. that said, do i REALLY want to get $200 worth of chug scale G1ish dinobots when I have a great MP set? i mean i couldn't resist grimlock (his proportions are great and better then the mp or 3p mp options imo), but the rest of the guys....dunno. they'll take a lot of space too. haha
  25. Mechapilot77
    an in scale invid shock trooper is what...half the height of a legioss? maybe a bit more i think? that samples is a nice size (out of scale but i like that size better).
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