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    Yeah, it's not a logical 1:72, but it's the biggest Regult I have... and it's a heck of a lot closer than the so-called 1:72 Glaug, which (by pilot scale) is closer to 1:150. And the more I look at the anime, the more I find myself coming around to your way of thinking. The Zentraedi are never depicted as 10 meters tall; they're all at least 12m when interacting with UN Spacy mecha, and much larger still when interacting with humans directly. It's just such an inconsistent mess. 🤨
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    And I bought the first box set release with the upgrades... ...then a yellow set... ...and then I gave up trying to keep track of all the goddamn repaints they put out.
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    Cheaper? You never mentioned the cost in your "Overlord" review, but I was shocked to discover that Magic Square charges as much for their Legends-scale Motormaster as X-Transbots is charging for their Masterpiece-scaled "Graveyard!" I mean sure, the XTB trailer was a separate $200, but still... Did you actually pay $130 for a 3P Legends?
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    The Slave I toy originally released in 2010 was repainted in Empire Strikes Back colors for The Vintage Collection in 2013. It retailed for $69.99. The exact same toy was re-released last year (in the same Vintage Collection) and is available directly from Hasbro Pulse... ...for $157.99. "Youch," indeed.
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    Facebook, primarily... or this thread:
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    Well, the robots-in-disguise thing was never taken very seriously...
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    1:32 scale, by Moscato calculation... which would make it nearly 1:24 scale based on the official stats.
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    Oh wow, I totally missed that review. Cheers, Mike!
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    The grey arms are toon-accurate, of course: The choice to split the cars in two, however, only makes sense if you're going the Studio Ox route, depicting Drag Strip and Dead End as the actual arms (rather than just big shoulder pads). Having half a car stuck on each grey forearm isn't accurate to anything, and just looks ridiculous. 🤨 Unfortunately, it seems to have suddenly become the default solution: Even Magic Square is doing it now.
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    Regardless, decals wouldn't be able to hide those grey arms... ...or do anything to disguise the fact that Dragstrip and Dead End have obviously been ripped apart.
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    I finally got a Menasor I'm content with... ...aesthetically, at least. XTB's "Monolith" (the so-called "youth" version) gives you the option of a cartoon-style profile with additional toy detailing, harking back to the classic Masterpiece styling of Shogo Hasui. Color, proportions, and sculpted details are all superior to the other options I've seen. However, it's virtually impossible to transform the trailer into a robot without breaking tabs in the process. It's unbelievably counter-intuitive, and the instructions are hopelessly inadequate ("fasten the five buckles of the protrusion in the direction of the arrow"). Easily the least fun I've had with a transformer in years. Remember the nightmare of MP-5 Megatron? What's worse, it lacks ratchet joints where they're most needed -- namely, the ankle joints that hold the damn thing up -- and the hollow legs barely handle the weight of the upper body. Menasor is always ready to topple forwards (or backwards), and it's difficult to find a decent pose he will pull off effectively... and that's with an empty torso! I haven't even added the weight of "Gravestone" himself. I don't dare put him up on the top shelves with my other combiners. Now, to be fair, I've had very similar experiences with smaller combiners (TFC's "Hercules," "Uranos," and "Warbotron" spring to mind), so it's nothing new for 3P. Still, ToyWorld established a new standard with "Constructor," and both Zeta and MMC have followed suit with their MP-scaled combiner teams. "Monolith" feels like a significant step backwards in engineering.
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    I accept your challenge, sir. 😅
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    I'm thinking twice at ¥15,800. I've never spent that much on a transformer that small, official or otherwise. Sorry, TakaraTomy. No sale.
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    Very clean photography! Your weathering and panel-lining would look great on a larger-scale subject (1:48, 1:72, even 1:100), but it doesn't make a lot of sense at this scale...
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    Awesome, thanks. At 20,000 yen, so am I...!
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    I must say, that's the most photo-realistic CG toy rendering I've ever seen. Hell, the .jpg artifacts look like dust, even. Not nearly as chunky as he used to be... 😅 ...but as Raiden's torso, he kinda has to be.
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    Roughly equal to Siege Jetfire, then. Wheeljack, of course, is the only Victory character to have received a toy version of late (since Perceptor's not out yet). Hell, the only reason Wheeljack appeared in Victory to begin with is because nobody even bothered to tell the writers that he'd been killed in Transformers: The Movie, which just goes to show how badly the franchise had been mismanaged in Japan.
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    Actually, there's no need to specify, 'cause every DX VF-1 release to date has sold out. Regardless of what Valkyrie (or accessory set) you're after, the secondary market is your only option.
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    For the individual robots, it's entirely possible -- FansToys, XTB, DX9, MMC, Toyworld and Zeta have certainly proven as much -- but it'll never be possible with the combined modes, because of how ridiculously oversized the combiners were consistently depicted in the animation. Thankfully, we have a lot of cartoon-accurate figures at smaller scales these days, so between Earthrise/Kingdom and 3P Legends, you'll probably find a satisfying size for whatever mode you choose to display your combiner teams in.
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    With all the inaccurate shapes, proportions, colors, and internal mechanisms evident, scale is the least-distracting issue. However talented, the artist clearly has only a passing interest in the source material.
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    I only know of the Banpresto figure from 1998.
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    That's why this Star Saber is the only one that interests me: ...and why MMC's "Carnifex" is the only Overlord I'll ever need.
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    You mean a VEFR-1?
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