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    I made a meme
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    While Chrono Trigger is my favorite video game of all time, I’m not a huge the 2.5D semi pixel art style they implemented for the Live a Live remake and such. If they want to sway me over with the remake, they need to do something really, really special. The SNES version is a flawless masterpiece to me. I know I’m setting myself up for failure but the remake will only succeed if it makes me feel like my 14 year old self playing Chrono Trigger in 1996 on a CRT TV on an original SNES. I still have that SNES, that controller and that cartridge. But no CRT and I’m not 14 anymore.
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    I just had the idea that it would be funny if Hasbro would scale down Omega Prime to scale more accurately with the mainline and sell it as a Commander/Titan toy. It wouldn’t technically mean that Hasbro sells a Haslab product at retail and they could max out their investment.
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    I wonder if I will be able to order one via HLJ/amiami. The Seed Freedom one looks cool and is not too on the nose with the source material.
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    Wotafa’s review of the Zeta Gundam: Looking at more reviews I wished they would have found a way to cover the hinge in the chest. Looks way too much like a toy. I wonder if we will get a Zeta Plus (red and blue creamsicle) from that mold. I would also like to add that the Metal Build Zeta looks like a Transformer; what are you doing Bandai?
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    Metal Build Hyper Mega Launcher preorder at Anime Export (¥13980, pay now): https://anime-export.com/index.php?product=91561 [edit:] sold out now
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    I can understand that. For me the word that comes to mind is "regular". It feels like a (Metal) Robot Damashii release missing something special. It could very well be that this perception changes in hand but looking at reviews it feels very mediocre (but not in a bad way).
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    I’m not surprised. I’m sure the outlook of having to pay a high tariffs payment probably doesn’t help with enthusiasm from the US fandom.
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    What are your main grievances? Mine would be that it has not enough accessories (hello, $100 hyper mega launcher add on set). My main issue is that it looks not stylized enough. He almost looks like the Ver. Ka version. There are some differences and I’m looking forward having the opportunity to looking at one in person. Thank’s to the review I cannot unsee how big the head of the MB Zeta is. Hacchaka’s comparison with the MG: MG Ver. Ka:
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    As a big M7 fan I think the screaming face is a great addition. Love the standing Basara: Ore no uta o kike!!! I think I might buy two of the SynergenX Transformers Basara Prime if the guitar is big enough so I can give one to this VF-19Kai. Yeah, the spine in Fighter-Mode is ugly. Too bad they didn’t try to implement a cover that goes over the head turret to give it a more smooth looking spine. I think it will look better with a VF-19F/S head laser though.
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    I’m still salty that Bandai didn’t continue the TMNT line. I want a 6" cartoon accurate Shredder and this one looked so good.
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    I think the challenge is in the placement of the white Prime in the G1 toy: The waist of Ultra Magnus is not where the waist of the Prime is. Likewise, the knees of Prime are at the waist of Ultra Magnus. I don’t think those are insurmountable odds but I feel they would have to change ML Convoy to give Ultra Magnus more articulation. I think they could skip the waist joint but I don’t see them skipping knee. I also think as a fan of the Missing Link line you would like Takara to stay as close to the original as possible. That cloud potentially look very weird so my train of thought was just a white Convoy would be much more likely. And Takara already released a repaint of ML Convoy with Sentinel Prime.
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    Gundam Fix Figuration Metal Composite Wing Gundam Zero Rebellion preorder at Anime Export (¥49980 pay now): https://www.anime-export.com/index.php?product=91302 [edit:] sold out (04/28/25)
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    I wonder if the ML Ultra Magnus will be a white repaint of ML Prime, without the car carrier.
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    I only applied three stickers: Curtesy of the Macross Mecha Manual: https://macross2.net/m3/macross7/vf-17s-nightmare.htm The rest of the stickers are hard to apply and look good since they are clear backed and have huge transparent areas of sticker material that need to be carefully trimmed (without damaging the marking) to make them look proper. It is a shame that Yamato didn’t even apply the base level markings. If you want to make it look stealthy, why even paint the yellow stripes.
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    I would be interested in a ML Grimlock. But that means I would want the rest of the G1 Dinobots too and I don’t think this will happen.
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    The text mentions that there will be more info released on 04/24/25. This could mean that preorders will start at that point (or the day after) or that infos about the release, including the preorder date, will be released at that day.
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    I have it but it stays in Ultra Magnus mode. The white Prime has troubles standing on his feet (at least in a static A-pose) because the heels are not straight, they are slightly slanting upwards) and too short. The other thing that is annoying to me is that they painted small red rectangles on the inner robot’s forearms so there is a uniform Red torso in armored mode. It really sticks out in the white Prime mode and I don’t understand why they couldn’t engineer a flap to cover those areas and have a pristine look for the inner robot’s forearms (it is also absent from FansToys product photography). Other than that it is your standard FansToys fare: great sculpt, great paint, great materials, great silhouette, very accurate, nightmare transformation. He even has above standard articulation compared to the average FansToys piece. I think it is pretty great but I have it for the Ultra Magnus mode. While the Masterpiece one is fun to transform is has the standard low production values most Takara MPs have and has odd proportions and limited articulation.
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    I would never transform the Metal Build Zeta Gundam. I think even if it came in Wave Rider mode I wouldn’t do it.
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    Could you imagine how much better Pipes would have looked like if his chest detail was done this way?
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    For me FansToys is really going too far with their super toon look. I think their Constructicons would look so much better with the old design approach with more surface detail and better proportions. I really miss the days of FansToys translucent plastic over silver greebles that looked so good. While I have Ghery (and Wright on the way) I think MMC will deliver the best Devastator package. While FT has the best combined mode and XTB the best robot/alt modes I think MMC will be the best overall. MMC also uses the all-in-one approach and usually takes great care of their engineering. That means their Devastator will probably be fun to handle too. I really hope Takara’s Style Gen MPG line will be a success and steer the MP line away from slavish toon worshipping so that the 3rd party companies will follow suit. I also think it is odd that FT follows a more integrated approach for their Devastator (but it is not an all-in-one). Again this is detrimental to the Constructicons as a whole. Wright would look a lot better if the backpack could collapse into the space where the block with the arm resides. Ghery and Wright could also much better proportions if all the structural parts of the combiner were reallocated to a Devastator frame. I’m also worried that the 3rd party companies won’t see all the Devastators to completion. From a toy manufacturing perspective the US market potentially being inaccessible due to tariffs must hurt those companies in some way.
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    Thanks for the link. I will see if I can get one during the release for MSRP. I can still buy it for inflated prices afterwards.
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    Thanks, I don’t think it will come back in stock since it was a pay now preorder I think but it is worth the try.
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    Does anyone still have the product page for the Metal Build Zeta Gundam from Anime Export? I missed the preorder and trying to snipe one on release date but I lost the page because I had to clear my browser history.
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    I‘m not surprised that the costs for game prices are going up. They have been around the $60 range for years (or even decades). And they have been getting cheaper instead of more expensive (if I remember correctly I paid roughly $75 in the EU for Majora‘s Mask when it was released in 2000). For some reason, despite inflation and exploding development costs, publishers decided to stick to the $60 price tag while developers tried to implement new schemes to offset the rising costs with micro transactions, additional service fees, day 1 DLC and life service games. Personally I would rather pay higher prices than dealing with those hidden fee schemes. But now that these fees are a accepted reality we will get both. Higher prices and additional fees. Yay Nintendo is probably also anticipating tariffs in the US which is why the prices are so high. If the tariffs don’t materialize, they will just cash in the offset as revenue. A win win situation.
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