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  1. tekering
    This line just gets more and more bizarre.
  2. tekering

    Hi-Metal R

    tekering replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    If they accidentally cancelled any of my items, I'd cut them off!
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    That's a helluva scoop, jenius! I'm excited we may be getting a new Legioss toy -- and the fighter mode looks excellent -- but the soldier mode is a real disappointment. The head's huge, the hands are tiny, the intakes are squared-off and splayed out at a weird angle, with an awkwardly wide chest and absurdly skinny torso and thighs. Bummer. But hell, bring on the Bartley and Borough Superior!
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    "Analysis paralysis," that's what it is. The more choices we have, the more difficult it comes to pull the trigger on any individual option... and this constant competition is gonna destroy the 3P market eventually. MMC or XTB? Based on previous experience, I'd have gone with MMC/Ocular Max, but Hellion just doesn't look enough like Cliffjumper to me. Toro has the more accurate chest, shoulders, and overall proportions, and a much better face, I think. Plus, the forearms are clean and simple, not a mess of joints, seams, and compromises. If I may borrow HardReturn's photos to demonstrate: Note he's mistransformed Toro's neck (which should've been rotated 180 degrees so the chin can sit flush with the chest). Hellion looks like a re-use of a different character mold redecoed to look like Cliffjumper -- which is to say, like every Cliffjumper toy we've had since 1984 -- whereas Toro looks just like the Cliffjumper I've always wanted for my Masterpiece collection. Plus, Toro has the realistic alt. mode to match Masterpiece Bumblebee, BadCube's Brawny, and just about every other MP (or 3P) vehicle mode. Ironically, Hellion ends up with a far more G1-accurate alt. mode, despite all the robot mode compromises... but that's not the direction the Masterpiece line has taken with alt. modes thus far. Obviously, to come up with a realistic Porsche 924 Turbo, the vehicle mode had to be much bigger than Hellion's: ...which means much of the car ends up on Toro's back. Frankly, that's a flaw I can live with on an otherwise cartoon-accurate Cliffjumper. Despite the wonky proportions, Hellion cleans up much better in the back, absolutely... but I don't display my figures facing backwards any more than you do. Finally, X-Transbots has come leaps and bounds forward in terms of quality control (which would've been my biggest concern buying an XTB toy), and Ocular Max doesn't have an entirely spotless record in that regard anyway. Toro has the typical tight tolerances I've come to expect from XTB -- and some of the painted red bits on the alt. mode don't perfectly match the red on the molded plastic -- but he's a much higher-quality product than their previous offerings, and easily on par with Ocular Max efforts to date. I never bothered to compare prices -- Macross collectors aren't likely to bat an eye at the cost of a third-party Transformer -- but I imagine the cost difference is negligible. Still, even if Toro were significantly more expensive than Hellion, I'd still recommend him... especially if you like accessories!
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    Masterpiece Cliffjumper in da house! Thanks to X-Transbots, my '84 cast is finally complete.
  6. tekering
    'Cause Nickelodeon paid $60 million for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and they're gonna keep the franchise going as long as it proves financially viable to do so. It's just a shame they put an end to the CGI series. It was much better than it had any right to be.
  7. tekering

    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    tekering replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    September 30th, to be exact (barring unforeseen circumstances).
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    What a time to be alive!
  9. tekering
    In Star Trek lore, of course. But in universe, the Enterprise is a much lower priority for Starfleet. It's a poor design based on a poor design, and one of my least-favorite starships... ...but Eaglemoss did a terrific job with their reproduction. (Ever-present QC issues aside, of course.) And it's completely out of scale with the Shenzhou, because Eaglemoss. But, since their only competition to date is the $9000 ANOVOS model, we can't really complain.
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    Not possible. Discovery is a much more important ship than Enterprise. That's not quite scale-accurate; The Discovery model is 1:3000, and the Enterprise is 1:2500. So the Enterprise should actually be smaller.
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    Love the poster reproduction! I also love the meaningless photo disclaimers. "The picture is for illustrative purposes only." What other possible purpose could a picture serve? The Japanese disclaimer is even more ridiculous. "This picture is an image."
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    Yes, it's underscaled -- as the vast majority of Star Wars vehicles have always been -- but it's proportionally accurate. It looks like it's supposed to. The Force Awakens TIE Fighters had grossly undersized wings, which I found far more inexcusable: ...and of course, their plastic was shite, too. Maybe it would help to have someone from the Marvel Legends design team transferred to the Star Wars line...
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    I accept your challenge, sir! Guys, feel free to bash (or defend) The Last Jedi in the appropriate thread: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/43363-star-wars-episode-viii-the-last-jedi-on-home-media-mar-13-2018/?page=38 The Force Awakens toys were crap, but The Last Jedi line was a significant improvement across the board: Bash the film all you want, but the toys were the best Hasbro had given us in nearly a decade.
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    Dare to compare! They both nailed the anime color. The reds are almost identical!
  15. tekering
    You guys realize Shizuka's just punkin' y'all, right? My most recent purchase:
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    ET Zeta in da house! First impressions, out of the box: It's the Evolution Toy Eta, only in red. The good news is, it's no worse than the Eta... The bad news is, it's no better. The Houquet pilot figure looks terrific. Like the Eta before it, it's hands-down the finest-looking Legioss toy ever produced... ...and, like the Eta before it, it's unjustifiably expensive for its relatively poor manufacturing quality. It shares all the advantages of the Eta, including the ideal proportions and superior articulation, as well as all the disadvantages we've come to expect from Evolution Toy... ...which is to say, it looks like a dream and handles like a nightmare. If you have the earlier ET Legioss release, you know what to expect; there are no unpleasant surprises here. Minor cosmetic changes aside, it's basically the same figure. Apart from the badly-needed (and much-appreciated) addition of a sliding mechanism for the shoulder-mounted sensor array, this Evolution Toy has not evolved.
  17. tekering
    The eighth, by my count. You obviously don't collect 'em.
  18. tekering
    You've got some very cool customs there, man! And I like your Macross fire truck.
  19. tekering
    Oh man, I'd forgotten how plain it looked without the Premium Finish... almost like an unpainted test shot.
  20. tekering
    It shows a lot more potential than anything with Cavill's Superman, that's for sure...
  21. tekering
    It's easy to make a good-looking Bruticus -- even HasTak managed (with 3P add-ons) -- but this is the first (and only) Vortex to match the Sunbow animation model.
  22. tekering
    That's, like, THREE TIMES what I paid for mine last year. Wait for the next one, Checkmate.
  23. tekering
    Disney probably wouldn't have cast Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man to begin with. Sorry, was that political?
  24. tekering
    Even at CHUG scale, $120 is a great price for -- Oh. Just the lynx.
  25. tekering
    Depends on the company... although Hot Toys certainly sets the standard these days. I still use a colon myself.
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