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  1. Scyla
    It is an MP Soundblaster situation where you bought the expensive toy only to get Ratbat out of it. I have no interest in Nemeios but maybe I will be pleasantly surprised.
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    Yeah, roughly in that range. You do get a Victory Leo with it though… And Kadmos has some good aspects but the stock head and the weal knees kill it for me. I just wished there was a replacement for the awfully designed ankle joints and the hollow feat. I don’t know what PlanetX thinking putting die cast in the thighs but not in the feet.
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    Yuck! I just bought a $125 upgrade set (+shipping from China) for an upgrade kit that fixes the two most glaring issues of PlanetX Kadmos: the head and the weak knees. Since CNY is currently going on I will probably have to wait till mid February to get it. I'm already regretting my purchase.
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    I kid, I kid. Obviously Legacy Menasor is the better of the two options. And the better toys too. I currently have CW Cutthroat on my desk at work and those combiner limbs are rough to play with. I still hope FansToys will come through with their toy style Menasor since it looks the best to me. Maybe NewAge could make a smaller version that looks equally as nice, since all these 3P MP combiners are too big to my liking. @M'Kyuun I think Lio Convoy's face will look much better in black. Generally speaking I prefer more mecha-like looking beasts like the Perfect Effect ones. The MP implemented the flip from cartoon lion to mecha lion head which it didn’t need to do in my opinion. Speaking of MP Lio Convoy the black version is coming out soon and I’m looking forward to it, even if the verdict on the mold is pretty negative and the last black repaint - MP-49 - was a big letdown for me.
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    Great reviews as always @mikeszekely. A couple of comments: I think the reason why the Leo Prime lion head looks so off because the sculpt reaches uncanny valley levels of almost correct but not quite right so everyone finds it off putting. The designer probably looked at some lion images on the internet and did his best to capture the look but with the missing shading and the yellow eyes without pupils it just doesn’t look right. While the MP or the show model doesn’t really look like a lion our brain is capable to parse it as such. Legacy Menasors robot mode looks really off in the proportions department the combination off the ginormous arms and the tiny shoulder joint just throws it off. I have to look at the Combiner Wars one again. Maybe it looks better? I wonder of some 3rd party company is already working on a trailer replacement that will yield a better robot mode.
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    I have the Ikea Samla boxes (the biggest ones) and I can’t recommend them. When you stack them with heavier items in them their lids can break or get malformed from the pressure possibly damaging the items inside. I stacked them 4 boxes high and had that happen. Secondly, they are narrower at the bottom (so you can stack them with a smaller footprint in the store/warehouse) which makes it harder to play box Tetris with cuboids such a toy boxes. I often find myself having boxes that would theoretically in the container but can’t because of that or boxes unsupported by anything below them being squished between the walls of the container and another box.
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    I think you can pull off such complex transformations but they need to be designed in a way were you transform the toy in chunks that are then securely stored away. During that the toy shouldn’t flop around and all the clearances should work properly. I hate the feeling when you transform a toy and it unfolds into trice its original size while 1000 tiny panels flop around on thin armatures. It is the worst! But this is not the focus of most designers, since companies know that the majority of their customers will take the robot out of the box and put it on display. Plus they don’t to enough testing of the test shots (if they do any at all).
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    Watched Peaugh's review of Leo Prime: During the video I has the thought that the had is so squished because Hasbro needed to save money because the lion head is a big chunk of plastic. So they just squished it in the CAD tool to make it narrower but didn’t change anything else. I think if you would stretch out the head by factor 1.2 it would be a good looking lion head.
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    I’m confused. The Hasbro designer went all out to come up with such an novel hip design for sludge (supposedly for the combiner mode hips) and then the leg shells just dangle there next to Vulcanicus' thighs.
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    I’m happy that you are enamored with the Blacktron set. I decided against it. I have a lot of nostalgia for Blacktron since the era of visor helmets starting with Futuron was my classic space world. Plus the Invader was the inly Blacktron set I had as a kid. But a combination of the high entry price, the stickers and the updated design I felt I don’t need that (not for $190 that is) especially since I have the original. I feel like the new Cruiser design is somewhere in the middle between not faithful enough to the original and not modernized enough to be it’s own thing.
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    The colors look fine. However, the dark green of Suiken hides the kibble and bulk of the backpack better, making it looking it not as elaborate as it actually is. With the bright beige color it is front and center. For me Getsuei is still the best. The arms don’t look fun to handle with all the kibble and the detachable backpack.
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    Yikes, the lighter color is not doing the design any favors. Train mode looks stunning as expected but I feel they should have gone with tinted windows (on all of them) to hide the internals a bit better.
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    BSF reviews and transforms the Wonderful Trans Ronin. He is doing an admirable job with the transformation but sheesh it looks like a fiddly nightmare. If you don’t plan on transforming it I think you are better off with the Kuro Kara Kuri Drift (even if it has that annoying wobbly midsection).
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    I think one of the problems with modern Gundam is that season split because that gives Sunrise the opportunity to tinker with the plot depending on what feedback they got during the first half. Which in my opinion is detrimental to the story telling. So the development in the second half will be whatever feedback Sunrise is getting from the viewers now.
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    I envy every collector that has room for a toy robot the size of a child.
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    One of the reviews I read afterwards summed it up pretty well: "the movie thinks it is much smarter than it actually is". While I liked the opening of the movie (yeah seeing Daniel Craig in the tub playing Among Us is pretty funny) it is already super dated now. I mean who will remember Among Us and Covid vaccinations in 2028? I don’t know why Rian Johnson felt the need to make it that way if if has almost no impact on the plot, other than a bit of foreshadowing.
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    When talking about previous Ocular Max releases I meant the likes of Sphinx, Backdraft and Terraegis who all feel very different from the Compaticons and Protectobots. I don't necessarily think that this is a bad thing either since it seems like a fine niche for MMC to operate in. I can't comment on Saltus since I sided with the FansToys Apache in the Springer wars. Regarding the end of the Reformatted line, I have high hopes for the Infinite Finity line as a replacement but besides Eris: Kultur and Eris: Armada Megatron they haven't shown any new molds besides a rumored G1 Drift. Eris: Kultur was excellent (sans the swirly plastic) so once they release anything besides Eris:Transformer with a tank alt-mode I think it will be a fine replacement for the Reformatted line. [edit:] Totally forgot Omne, which is another good example. Yeah, MMC did an MP Cosmos (which I actually own).
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    Over New Year’s I watched the sequel to Rian Johnson's whodunnit Knives Out: Glass Onion. And I’m sad to say that is a movie with massive plot holes, terrible pacing and useless and nonsensical characters, stupid gimmicks and plot strings that lead to nothing. However, it is masqueraded by good actors, dialog and cinematography, which is tricking critics into thinking it is a good movie. Just like another Rian Johnson movie… Anyhow, since Knives Out received so much praise and I hadn’t seen it, I watched it the next evening and I have to say it is a perfectly good movie that has none of the issues of Glas Onion but all the positive parts. So Rian Johnson seems to be capable of putting out movies with a wide array of quality. Maybe anytime he gets praise for a legitimately good movie he botches it the next time.
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    Witchcraft Works is great. Killer ending too. I also want to be princess-carried!
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    I finished that too. And I have to say it is no wonder that Japan has a problem with the birth rate. Even with in a show where the premise is putting people into a forced relationship to train for real marriage the show runners can’t come to any conclusion for the love triangle. If young people believe this is how it is going to be your society is doom. [remark:] I recognize that this is a gross oversimplification of the problems the Japanese society has but it was just something that came to mind
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    Great review Mike, I think your observations regarding the fun of the transformation is spot on. Ever since the ex-Takara designer AK took over the transformations across the board of MMC products (even characters he didn’t design) are bare non in the industry. Even Takara's own Masterpiece line can’t keep up with them. What is funny is that no one talks about how the build of the OX robots changed since the Assaultus releases. Before that the MMC bots had die-cast and thin panels. Now it is more in line with what made the Reformatted line great: thick, high quality plastics and no die cast. Also the aesthetic changed to a more blocky, less intricate look. For my MP collection I prefer the old approach more but these new release are a joy to handle.
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    @M'Kyuun thanks for your input regarding the shuttle. What I really want is a new UCS version. Like you I can’t stand the nosecone shape of the old one. I had the MPC/ERTL model kit as a child and lots of fond memories attached to it. So I have a certain image in my head how the shuttle is supposed to look. I like the UCS SSD but it is expensive on the aftermarket. I don’t think Lego will redo it so at some point I have to make a decision about it.
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    Yesterday I built the first Lego set of the year, the new Tie Bomber. I'm excited to finally get a new item in my collection of mostly Minifig scaled OT Star Wars vessels. I just need a Tie Interceptor, some Endor Speederbikes, an Imperial Shuttle and a SSD to reach completion. Overall I’m contempt with the set. However, it looks a tad on the small size next to the Han Solo Tie Fighter I have. I also wished for a more evolved bomb dropping feature. I don’t understand why there is no rotating bomb drop mechanism like on the Y-Wing that didn‘t result in an ugly opening on the top. There is a rumored two pack of a Tie Interceptor and Mandalorian Fighter so maybe I will get another piece closer to completion this year (two if the Endor diorama is not too expensive). I worry that this new Tie Interceptor will look too awkward next to my Tie Fighter since it will probably not have the same fuselage as the one I have.
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    I’m usually the same way with pose and display, because I have too much stuff. However I prefer toys that you can easily handle. So all accessories should stay attached, you need to be able to easily hold and manipulate the toy without the fear of damaging it and it should be able to put the toy in the poses you hand in mind for display. My favorite lines at the moment are the Kuro Kara Kuri Transformers and the Metal Build Gundams. And while some of those violate the requirements I stated above (like the Full Cloth Crossbone Gundams), they usually check a lot of those points.
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    While I recognize that these toys are not for me I’m curious what others think about them. So please give a short review while you had time to fiddle with it.
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