Valkyrie Hunter D

He was a rockstar in the video game industry, R.I.P.

The Ride Armor is so chonky compared to the more recent, stylized versions.  I love it.

If there's a Mugen Calibur, I can hope an Ovelon Gazette will arrive later.  

55 minutes ago, J.T. Silversmith said:

yeah these look real neat!  If the Truck Ironhide turns into is real, what about the Helicopter?  This is the only thing I have found so far, a Hellhound from Patlabor with the landing gear on the wingtips and tail like the new Blackout.  I am not very familiar with helicopters in general so perhaps one of you has a better idea.

 

  

It a completely fictional design, but there may be hints of a Tiger Eurocopter gunship in there:

29 minutes ago, J.T. Silversmith said:

The front grill of the VelociRaptor 6x6 truck mode has I-Hide sculpted on it.

Nothing a little styrene and glue couldn't fix if I were so inclined. 

I'm real curious about this Overgear series.  It just might pull me back into TFs.

Hawt! In my head canon they would be Roadbuster and Whirl.

I think it's a good thing when 3rd party companies veer into more grounded designs:

This 1/100 scale "GUS" is putting out serious Jesta vibes.  And I do love me some Jestas.

19 hours ago, Magnus said:

Yeah seriously.  I'm one of the suckers who got burned on the 1/18 Airwolf shenanigans a few years back, and am desperate to get one. 

That was an absolute cluster.  I hope other backers find their way towards Ramen Toys' Airwolf.

On 4/28/2025 at 10:59 PM, sh9000 said:

Airwolf in 2026.

My order of the RG Sinanju replacement parts arrived today:

There isn't much to the package, just one tray of parts and a sheet of instructions that's all in Chinese.  Now to dig out the Sinanju.

1 hour ago, mikeszekely said:

I'm happy for anyone that's into these He-Man crossovers, but He-Man looks like he's wearing a kid's Optimus costume he got at Walmart.  

More like a yoked midget wearing a costume.

11 hours ago, danth said:

That does look nice! I'm interested to know the ratio of printed parts to stickers.

I was curious about that too, and here's what the sticker sheet includes:

Everything else (lights, door handles, and manufacturer symbols) are printed.

Great effort on Mattel's part for this kit: there's a thick, well illustrated instruction book with a history lesson on the car, a metal plaque that can double as a keychain, and the bonus Hot Wheels toy looks slick.  The options of building a left or right hand drive NSX along with matching manufacturer symbols are nice touches:

Mattel could do better with the brick pieces themselves, however.  The red bricks are simply aren't as lustrous and deeply colored as Lego pieces.  Just a minor niggle, nothing to make me stop looking forward to future kits especially with Mattel renewing their partnership with Ferrari.

Got lucky at Walmart:

The other Brick Shop kits look pretty cool and the added Hot Wheels car is a nice bonus.  This was the first kit in the lineup that starred a car that I truly liked though.

1 hour ago, anime52k8 said:

Number 10 though...

The gamers have spoken.

Yeah, eat your heart out Bungie Inc.:

21 hours ago, kajnrig said:

Just bringing this back up because I got curious about the scale of this thing, and it's apparently (relatively) TINY.

~17cm tall versus even the Kotobukiya 1/100 kit's ~22cm.

Sure it's still about the size of a MG/MB/GFFMC/etc. Gundam, but at nearly 4x the cost of that kit, I would have wanted it to be at least the same size. Hopefully for you who buy it, all the bells and whistles makes up for it.

Yeah, if it was larger I'd get one.  It doesn't even have any figures of Liquid or Grey Fox (R.I.P.)  to establish scale.

On 9/8/2025 at 11:07 PM, Big s said:

I might pick that up, I got a rg sinanju unbuilt and that might give me the motivation to finally dig it out and slap it together 

I'm in the same boat.  My backlog of unbuilt kits is so old that I haven't gotten to build my Sinanju.

I'm surprised there's no available aftermarket metal frame available for the Sinanju yet.  I bought one for RG Nu just as a trial, and it worked out quite well.

This is the kind of product I wish more companies would make:

It's a set of replacement joints from 107 Toys to make the RG Sinanju kit sturdier.  IIRC that kit used waist joints from the smaller Gundam Mk.II, resulting in a Sinanju that cannot support its own backpack and torso weight.  Now if 107 Toys can aim their creative guns at the self-exploding RG Zeta Gundam kit...

A new challenger awaits:

I'm guessing they changed the fork covers for legal reasons (even though it looks like it will come with the original covers)?  I can't find details on it just yet.  And with pre-orders asking over 50 USD for it, I reckon it won't be too big.

Operation Night Strikers has hit the market:

For me, Night Striker alone along with its Zuntata soundtrack makes this one a worthy purchase.  This also sets up the sequel quite nicely:

19 hours ago, Scyla said:

OMG yea, this and a Metal Gear Ray is what’s missing from my "important mecha from my childhood” collection. 

I was so mad that I missed the ThreeA Half Sized versions.

Apparently it is already on display (and looks super tiny):

I guess after seeing the Back to the Future train I was expecting something bigger, but this is nice too. 

Oooh, this will be interesting (and expensive):

22 hours ago, renegadeleader1 said:

There's always Cobi if you need something cheaper. They're a great display piece if remove the pilots.

I haven't kept up with the Cobi catalogue lately, that Phantom looks cool.  My boys and I had fun building their Concorde and Huey kits so I'll probably get their Phantom too.

Brick Veteran's 1st Phantom set is going to be a gorgeous example of a USN F-4J, and here I am with a depleted play money budget:

Sheik Mainland has been releasing their mech kits of original design, but I'll be damned if their upcoming kit is not a Zenith wanzer:

It's not just you, BM's prices are generally expensive for me too.  I only buy a set from them if it's an aircraft I truly desire in Lego form.  From previous postings of BM's owner, the bulk of the cost comes from manufacturer lincensing costs and custom printing prices.

This new Atom brick line is a little better on the wallet.  If a F-14 kit is made for it, I might bite.