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  1. Scyla
    Wait, Sauron is a regularly sized minifig? He always struck me as taller as a regular human, maybe troll sized.
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    Some impressions from the model exhibition at this year’s Shizuoka Hobby Show:
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    With regards to the AMT Rodimus I wonder how expensive it will be. He seems to be roughly the size of K^3 Rodimus and the prototype is painted the same way (maybe with reduced detail, hard to tell without the K^3 next to it). Plus someone already posted that it will have die cast metal parts. So if it is the same scale, has the same amount of paint, the same material mix and has the added complexity of a transformation I can see the AMT Rodimus being as expensive (because it doesn’t come with all the useless accessories K^3 Rodimus) as the non transforming Flame Toys one. I wonder if Transformers fans are willing to spend as much for a transforming IDW Rodimus that don’t have the Flame Toys version already. Personally I want Takara to leave the Flame Toys designs alone. I want Flame Toys to release more K^3 figures and not force a transformation mechanism into them or compromise their designs in order to be transformable. One commenter mentioned that maybe Flame Toys releases aren’t selling as well as expected and thus they want to recoup money by collaborating with Takara. I can also seeing it the other way round: Takara is trying to capitalize on the success of Flame Toys.
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    I had the chance to visit the Shizuoka Hobby Show today and was able to take some pictures from the Takara booth. Please enjoy:
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    Here is my image from the show
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    Are you going to transform it? I‘m super interested how the toy holds up after all these years.
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    The new wave of Mega Man toys is available for preorder at BBTS: https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Search?Brand=1755&Company=341&o=1
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    Sadly there doesn’t seem to be a way to add all pieces in just one set. Maybe I can figure something out once I have my set in hand.
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    Hacchaka's review of the MB Type D add on set: https://hacchaka.net/archives/52108293.html
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    Very nice, definite buy. I think Elecman was the first Robot Master I ever defeated when I played Mega Man for the first time on my Game Boy.
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    I‘m disappointed in the Lego Artemis 1 set. The start ramp takes up most of the bricks (I read somewhere that it’s 22/27 bags in the set). The rocket is significantly smaller than the Lego Saturn V, even if the team rockets are almost the same size. And the set comes with copious small stickers that will be a nightmare to align. (images courtesy of Stonewars.de)
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    I preordered one from HLJ, thanks.
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    I thought the idea is that after WW2 they diverted from our reality by focusing their effort on developing better nuclear fission reactors instead of going the integrated circuit route our reality took. So it’s not like they were stagnant for a long time. All their electronics look a bit old fashioned (i.e. CRT based) but powered by mini nuclear reactors. It was how the game designers envisioned in the late 90s (at a time were the whole flat LCD screen in your hand aesthetic wasn’t a thing) to signify that the Fallout universe is different from ours but still familiar and the franchise ran with it
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    I might have to get the Hot Toys Darth Revan. How much is the MSRP? HLJ has it for ¥40000 but I guess they have to import stock from HK so that might not be the best route to go.
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    There is not much story overlap between the series and the game because the series takes place much later than the first games (that are also set in the California area Fallout 1&2 but start at 2161). The Bethesda games are set. Fallout 3&4 (2277 & 2287) take place in the North East of the US and Fallout 76 (2102) in the Appalachian area. The show takes place in 2296 so quite a bit apart from the first game. There are some location cameos like Shady Sands but I haven’t found a lot of overlap between the games besides general themes and the setting.
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    That looks like an eclectic mix of materials and finishes. It doesn’t seem to follow any kind of pattern. Do we know why this is the case snd were Bandai is drawing its inspiration from? I think I couldn’t come up with something like this, even if I tried really hard.
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    Some would say (like myself) that Powermaster Prime is the better G1 Optimus Prime toy. And I want a good version of it. Sadly Takara seems unable to produce good Masterpiece toys anymore. They struggled before, producing some of the worst figures in my collection, but especially some of the Carbots, Megatron and Optimus were quite good. I would say MP-10 till MP-22 was the golden age of the Masterpiece line. I will following the release of the toy and maybe buy a Nucleon Quest version if they do it but I‘m preordering this. However, after how bad MP-49 Nemesis Convoy turned out I not so certain on the Nucleon Quest one either. Oh well, FansToys will eventually run out of US G1 toys so they will come to Ginrai if you give them time.
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    I don’t understand what is going on here. I might be sour because the MPG Raiden I bought is mostly terrible but this looks like another half-assed effort to me. Besides the arms that look like the designer just gave up I wonder whats up with all the mis-colored parts? The blue showing on the hinges in truck mode, the half and half colored chest block in super mode, the visible blue thighs in the cab chest block and the blue colored hinges on the shoulders in super mode. They all look out of place. I‘m not a line art expert but does the super mode backpack is supposed to look like that? Especially the area behind the head. Ever since Power Baser that area is of particular interest to me since man Power Master toys seem to struggle making the area look purposeful. Looking back I think Make Toys still made the best looking Power Master Optimus Prime. All the G1 versions seem to struggle to look cool to me.
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    I’m sure the will do the new Desthwing Terminators eventually. It was just unfortunate that: 1. they didn’t release any regular Deathwing Terminator troops and 2. GW just released new Deathwing Terminators when JoyToy announced theirs. I wonder what the communications with GW sounded when JoyToy decided to release the Deathwing. I hope they do announce Sammael in his jetbike soon.
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    So the front of the thighs are chromed and that’s what’s causing the shadow. The arms sticking up in trailer mode remain a mystery.
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    So for me the he looks like his alt mode would fit right into an G1 MP carbot collection. However his robot mode doesn’t. For me the G1 design for the car bots are: 1. Simplified detail with regards to greebles and sculpt (since the toys and the cartoon were less sophisticated) 2. Chunky limb proportions, especially in the legs. 3. Large parts of the alt-mode making up sections of the robot-mode (like chests for Jazz or the legs for Prowl). Yes, Drift looks like Drift but I would preferred something more in line with the MP Autobot lineup. For example, the chest could be the hood of the car, the shape of the legs would be more simplified or the feet could be integrated into the lower legs. I‘m not criticizing MMC on that since it might have been a case of wrong expectation management on my side. When they announced an IF Drift this was not the robot mode I had in mind.
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    I was looking forward to this one. But I'm taken aback by the disconnect between the 80s car alt-mode and the modern IDW robot-mode. Maybe it was faulty reasoning on my part but I would have expected and wanted a much more "G1" looking robot mode. I don’t know for whom this is for. We already had an IDW Drift (futuristic alt-mode and all) from MMC in the Reformatted line. We have the Flame Toys stylized one and the transformable knockoff one. So I'm confused. It seems like MMC's IF line is a continuation of Reformatted but at a larger scale without a consistent art style?
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    I don’t know, I would have preferred the new Terminator and Deathwing Knights GW released recently than those old sculpts.
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