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  1. tekering
    New year, new shelves, new displays. Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉
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    Bummer, I'm missing more than I'd realized. 😐 Thanks for the checklist. ☺️
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    Lavender...? 🤔 The reissue is certainly a more accurate color scheme overall. 😐
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    It's the snub nose and the eyepiece that bother me the most. Otherwise, it's the best injection-molded kit to date. The gun pods on Moscato's Glaug are a little large -- I'll grant you that -- but Hasegawa's are equally oversized, and weirdly detailed. Otherwise, Moscato's kit is exactly what the line art has always depicted: Note mine is still woefully incomplete, but you can see how accurate the proportions are when photographed from the right angle. I think I prefer the feet on the Hasegawa, but the Moscato wins in every other respect, especially size. A 23cm height may be consistent with the official stats for a 1:72 Glaug, but your pilot would have to be 1:150 to fit in a cockpit that small! 😅 Heck, even Moscato's 37cm Glaug doesn't fit a 1:72 pilot properly... but compromises are necessary to match the inconsistent animation.
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    Glad I'm not the only one turned off by that. 🤢
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    It's kind of ironic that NA matched the Studio Series packaging so faithfully, only for a figure too small to scale with SS'86 Optimus. 🙄
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    No, he's a poster dealer. 😅 Season's Greetings, everyone! 🎉
  9. tekering
    Not a purchase, but a Christmas gift from a generous friend...
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    Funny, I thought that's exactly what Dune: Prophecy gave us. Valya Harkonnen could easily have been a heroic character, but ultimately made a choice to embrace her power and take revenge on the Atreides, even knowing the cost to her family relationships and to the Sisters that blindly followed her.
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    Depends on your browser. They won't work in Vivaldi any more, but Safari still displays them fine.
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    Just when you thought the crass commercialization of Evangelion couldn't get any worse, along come McDonald's "Happy Meals" toys... A BigBadToyStore.com exclusive, according to BBTS.
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    Actually, the Hot Wheels classification system claims those boxed ships are 1:50 scale. 😂 Their "Track Fleet" Optimus Prime isn't a particularly accurate Kenworth K100C cabover, but it's a lot closer to 1:64 than most Hot Wheels semi-trucks... ...but still way off, of course. 🤕
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    Hot Wheels are rarely in scale with each other... unless every car, truck, van and motorcycle are actually the same size. 😅 Hell, they claim this Enterprise is 1:64 scale. 🙄 More like 1:6400, Mattel. 😤
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    Moderoid have given us some great kits of obscure military labors, but there are several prominent designs I'm still waiting to see at 1:60 scale:
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    The Aoshima Ingrams are my favorite. The articulation, the clear and vac-metallized parts, the cockpit detailing, and the decals are all superior to Moderoid's. Did you get Unit 2 as well?
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    Strange that Genco's own website has no listing for them... 🤔 Mind you, there's no mention of their 1:20 vinyl Ingram figure, either. 🤨
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    KC's 1:72 Battlepod is virtually identical in size to Hasegawa's 1:72 Regult (which is identical in size to Imai's 1:72 Regult), so the included pilot figure was the only appeal of this expensive toy to me. I'd already canceled my pre-order long before they admitted the figure would be downsized to 1:88th scale (4.5 inches), meaning it wouldn't scale with MEP or Moscato's 1:72 Zentraedi figures... or even the vintage Matchbox offerings. 😒 The final nail in the coffin, however, was the Kickstarter: Cyrus hopes to sell us the same figure TEN times, pretending that all Zentraedi are exactly the same height, simply swapping heads and color schemes. These figures won't even scale with each other, much less anything else in our collections. 🤨
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    Nothung wrong with that. 😉
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    On the contrary, the scale as depicted in the anime was surprisingly consistent -- much more so than, say, the Spartas in Southern Cross or the Legioss in Mospeada -- but official stats (and scale reference line-art) published AFTER the animation was completed have muddied the waters considerably. In fact... ...this image is particularly problematic, as it contradicts both what's depicted in the show and its own internal logic. Despite downscaling Kamjin by more than a third, he still wouldn't be able to fit into that Glaug behind him, even if it were completely hollow! I've been doing extensive research into this for my next YouTube video, including video clips and physical models, and it will definitively debunk the "official" stats once-and-for-all. 🔒
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    And yet still, much too small... 😒
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    I've only seen diamonds on previous costumes -- no hearts -- but the star over the right breast appears in modern comics as well:
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    Thanks to @sh9000, I've acquired Playmates' entire wave of First Contact action figures, most of which are a reliable 1:12th scale: Despite their pristine, case-fresh condition (on unpunched cards, at that!), I was able to get them for less than half their original retail value (THIRTY years ago...!) because Playmates Star Trek figures have aged like unpasteurized milk. 😝 Worf and Riker aren't to scale, of course (or proportionally-accurate, even), so they'll require some customization... and the less said about their Zefram Cochrane figure, the better. 😒 Nonetheless, I'm happy to finally have a few Star Trek figures that will (presumably) scale with Nacelle's upcoming line.
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    This must be a "your mileage may vary" situation. 🤔 Mine shows no signs of deterioration: If only my Beagles could say the same! 😭
  25. tekering
    No FAST packs, no sale. 😤
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