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  1. mikeszekely
    I wouldn't get too excited. I expect he's a repaint of Offroad/First Aid. EDIT: Nevermind, reading comprehension fail. I thought you were still talking Combiner Wars. Completely missed the "On the MP front".
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    As long as the movies keep making boatloads of money and Hasbro can keep selling the toys (which, judging by the amount of toys from the last movie still clogging the peg hooks at my local Walmarts, TRUs, and Targets, they can't, but whatever), they will ride this crap train to Mount Crapmore in search of the El Turdrado, the fabled Lost City of Crap.
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    How is that worse? Meh. I like the odd Punisher/Spider-Man or Punisher/Daredevil team up, but Punisher and the Avengers always struck me as a bad mix. I'd say a Netflix TV series, ala Daredevil, would work best for Punisher. As for Spidey, I think it's easy to be cynical and roll our eyes at yet another Spider-Man reboot, but skipping the origin, focusing on the humorous side of Spidey, tying it to the MCU, and having Kevin Feige involved are all good things as far as I'm concerned. Asa Butterfield's a little baby-faced (he looks like an 18-year old playing a 14-year old), but I think he could work. For now, I'm cautiously optimistic.
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    I'm doing the same thing I did with the Stunticons and Aerialbots... buying what Hasbro releases at retail to at least make a complete combiner, hoping Hasbro releases the Takara "corrections" eventually, and buying them if I can. It sounds like Guardian (the Japanese name for Defensor) will be a Takara mall exclusive, and not available until November. That could mean that a Hasbro version could be a long way off yet. Meanwhile, I already have the Legends Class Groove, and when I go out these days I'm keeping my eyes peeled for the the Protectobot Deluxes. Better in my mind to have a Rook and not need him eventually than to not have Rook and never get my hands on a Deluxe Groove.
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    It's too early to say. The first mentions of him were only from last week. This is the first we've seen of him, and he's not even painted yet. If we believe the best in people, then Hasbro really did think we'd be better off with a Legends class Groove, to keep his alt mode in scale with the other Protectobots, and they really believed that the best way to do a modern Defensor was to have that Legends class Groove be an accessory while making a new guy as a limb. And if we believe that, then Deluxe Groove is purely Takara giving fans what they really wanted in the first place, and like Wildrider and and Slingshot, Hasbro might bring him over later. If we're being cynical, Hasbro deliberately left out Wildrider and Slingshot, gave us a Legends class Groove, and created Offroad, Alpha Bravo, and Rook knowing full well that we'd buy the new guys to complete our combiners, buy a Legends class Groove for fear of not having any Groove, and fully intended to sell us Wildrider, Slingshot, and Deluxe Groove later just to get us to buy more toys. Heck, they probably figure that with extra limbs we'll buy torso repaints of guys who aren't supposed to be Combiners like Optimus and Cyclonus just to stick the extra limbs on. I know personally I have Alpha Bravo and Offroad as legs on an armless "Ultra Prime."
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    Alright guys, tell me this isn't way better than the spindly mess of a Legends class Hasbro gave us...
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    OK, Hikuro. I couldn't write much this morning, but I'm home now, and I found the Z3 page. I've scanned the relevant information, and I went ahead and translated for you which is which. If MW resizes it and you can't read it, PM me and I'll email it to you. Now what you should have, when you lay out all the runners, are 2x A, 1x B, 1x C, 2x D, 3x E, 1x F, 2x G, 1x H, 3x I, and one each for short saber blades and long saber blades. The D and G runners are 2 identical ones, and you'd have those even in the regular RG Zeta. The ones that are repeated in different colors are just A, E, and I. The A runners are easy to tell apart. The one with some parts molded in yellow is Light Gray, and the other is Dark Gray. For E and I, the instructions refer to the pinkish-purplish as "Red." Beyond that, you'll kind of have to judge for yourself, but look at where the runner letter is printed. If it looks lighter, that's Light Gray, if it's darker, that's the dark gray. As I mentioned earlier, the parts you do not use are crossed out... actually sort of redded over. So, you look at the regular Zeta instructions. As an example, the very first step calls for you to attach H20 to B6 (or B9), then attach E10. And E is one of the duplicated runners on the Z3 sheet. So, we look at that, and we see that E10 is marked out on the Light Gray and Dark Gray runners, so the one that you'll use is the E10 from the Red runner. If you need any other help with the instructions, just lemme know.
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    I wish I could find my Zeta 3 extra page... You should have two instructions, the same booklet that comes with the regular Zeta and an extra sheet. The extra sheet has the decal instructions, but if you look it also had pictures of the runners that have been duplicated, colored alightly different (even though its printed in black and white), and the Japanese will tell you which is white, pink, light gray, dark gray, etc. (Pro tip: if you can't read Japanese, use the Google Translate app for your smartphone or tablet. It has a mode that will let you take a picture and it will try to translate what's in the pic, and if that fails you can draw charcters with your finger.) Once you figure out which runner is which, you'll see that different parts are crossed out on different runners. So, if the instructions call for part C5, and you have three Cs, look at where C5 is on the runner, and look at the the picture on the extra page. Find the C runner where that part isn't crossed out, and note the color. If it says white, then take it from the white runner and ignore the other ones.
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    That works for me, too. Yeah, I think we all figure that Bruticus is basically a sure thing by now. Aside from the rumors straight up listing Combaticons in an upcoming wave, Alpha Bravo looks even more like Vortex than Blades, and Hot Spot has some slightly odd design elements that practically scream "We're retooling him as Onslaught!" With Titan Devastator and Bruticus, two of my three favorite combiners will have been done. Unfortunately, I'm kind of doubting that they'll do Predaking, as they'd all have to be new molds that don't have a ton of repaint potential, unless the fan's choice combiner uses them. For the record, Superion and Motormaster are my 4th and 5th, King Poseidon (who will never be Piranacon to me) is 6, Defensor 7, and Abominus 8th, for G1 5-or-more non-Micromaster combiners. Missing one out of my top five isn't too bad.
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    No Combiner Wars Computron... yet. I mean, it seems doable. Retool Silverbolt for Scattershot, retool Dead End/Wildrider for Lightspeed, retool one of the jets for Strafe (and probably still have a more G1-ish appearance than the Cyclonus repaint). Maybe replace Rook's clamp weapon thingy with a drill, call him Nosecone. And if Takara makes a Deluxe-class Groove, find a way to retool it into Afterburner. You wouldn't even need an entirely new mold. I'd really like Bruticus and Predaking first, though.
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    Couple more crappy cell pics for you, this time of Superion. G1 arrangement - I don't care for it, because Air Raid and Skydive's arms are really visible. G1 style, with the jet parts of the legs on the back. I also don't recommend this, because Silverbolt's fists get in the way. My preferred arrangement: flip everyone diagonally. I think I mentioned before, but I like to stick Air Raid's gun onto Silverbolt's, and Fireflight and Slingshot's (or Alpha Bravo's) guns on Superion's thighs, in Silverbolt's forearm holes. Skydive's gun goes on Superion's back. Toss in Powerglide, so that Superion is dual-wielding, rotate the thigh guns forward, and drop the nose of Silverbolt's alt mode enough that you can rotate Skydive's gun 180 degrees, so the barrels are coming up between Superion's legs. Now Superion is full bursting, like Freedom/Strike Freedom Gundam.
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    The pipes are kinda lame weapons, yeah... but as I mentioned, they look pretty boss as smokestacks for Menasor. Amazon Mom? What's that? My wife and I are expecting in July; I wonder if this is something I should be looking into?
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    Tom's Hardware currently likes Avira. Honestly, I just use Microsoft Security Essentials (Windows 7)/Windows Defender (Windows , because it seems to be the least in my way. People like Tom's who test these things have been saying that MSE/WD has been going downhill, though.
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    Oh, I had Prime with the student discount when I was in grad school, but I didn't want to renew at the full $99 price. I noticed all my orders, especially when I had spent enough for their Super Saver free shipping, it'd be like a week before they'd ship. And since I use Amazon for a lot of the Gundam models I build, my wife wound up buying Prime again for my birthday. I can't speak for everyone, but I think I use it enough that it's worth it, and I'm certainly glad I had it for these guys! Anyway, it was your links that let me get my orders in, so I think playing checking out their fists is the least I can do for you. So... Dead End's fists are definitely a little looser than Wildrider's, but I guess not as bad as yours? Wildrider holds his weapon (or Breakdown's, or Dragstrip's) nice and snug. Dead End's grip isn't snug, but he can hold his (and Dragstrip and Breakdown's) enough that it won't fall out or rotate loosely. If I put Motormaster's weapons in Wildrider's hands, he holds them about as well as Dead End holds his own weapon. Dead End can't hold Motormaster's weapons; they will fall right out.
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    Do you have Prime? I ordered "Quickslinger" the evening you put up the link, I think Friday, and "Brake-Neck" the next day. I got the shipping notice for "Quickslinger" before I'd placed the order for "Brake-Neck," and woke up Sunday morning with a shipping notice for "Brake-Neck." I think one was coming from Arizona, and the other Oklahoma or something. I don't know how Amazon does it, but I'm not complaining. Oh, and I don't mean that Wildrider has a problem with his fist holes. Honestly, didn't even play with him in bot mode. I mean that pipe is his leg, that holds Menasor's fist foot is either too big, the peg on the fist/foot too small, or most likely some combination of both. It was in loosely, and if he was holding Menasor's sword the weight of the sword would pull the fist out. The reason I say "most likely" is because I just swapped the fist that came with Dead End and the fist that came with Wildrider, and they both seem ok that way.
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    Well, I hope it works out for you, Hikuro. Quickslinger and Brake-Neck arrived today for me, so I can (and will) go back to calling them Slingshot and Wildrider. So, Wildrider... it seems like his hand/foot peg hole is a little wide, and the peg on his hand/foot/weapon thingy a little small. Way too loose. I swapped his with Dead End's, though, and it seems ok. Interestingly, the packaging on Wildrider has him replacing Dead End, not Offroad, in forming Menasor. I gave a chuckle, and immediately tossed any and all "official" combinations, because while Dead End, Wildrider, and Breakdown seem to be equally good/bad as arms or legs, I kind of like Dragstrip best as a leg, and I kind of like my G1 Stunticons better than Offroad. So I have Breakdown and Dead End in their regular spots, but I swapped Wildrider and Dragstrip. I did my best to hide Dragstrip and breakdown's weapons by plugging them into Wildrider and Dead End's doors on what would be the back's of Menasor's arms. Then I put Wildrider and Dead End's pipe weapons in Motormaster's fists, so it looks like Menasor has big smoke stacks. Slingshot's instruction do depict him replacing Alpha Bravo, and the "official" configuration has Slingshot and Fireflight as the legs and Skydive and Air Raid as arms, kind of backwards from the G1 cartoon. I'm content to roll with Hasbro on that one. Slingshot and Fireflight's fists are hidden a little better in leg mode than Skydive and Air Raid's. Meanwhile, Air Raid and Skydive's arms are pegged more securely in arm mode than Slingshot or Fireflight's. So now I've got Offroad and Alpha Bravo as extra limbs. If I collect the Protectobots as Hasbro releases them, and Takara really does release a Deluxe Groove, and Hasbro later makes that Deluxe Groove available, then Rook could wind up in the extra limb pile, too. Then I'll only need Hasbro to screw me one more time (or pick up one of the rumored repaints like Ironhide or Mirage to combine with my CW Optimus Prime for a whole extra combiner.
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    That is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I hoped you chewed somebody out and they gave you some compensation.
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    And I woke up this morning to find a shipping notice for Brake-Neck. So both should be here tomorrow for me.
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    Sweet. Speaking of, I got my shipping notice for Quickslinger. How about you guys?
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    I guess the lesson is never preorder anything and hope that David's guy is always good?
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    David's guy is apparently better than Gundam Planet. I haven't heard jack from them. The G3 is still available on their site, but listed as "backordered" and "June" now. I don't think I'll be preordering anything from them again...
  22. mikeszekely
    Thanks for the tip, eriku! I managed to get an order in, too. Like you said, there's a chance that they'll cancel it, but it's worth a go.
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    I'm of mixed feelings. I mean, it's not like there's no Groove. Like you said, there's the smaller Legends one. And I get why they did it. And the new guy, Rook, seems pretty good. Thing is, I found Legends-class Groove today, and after some pretty good Legends-class guys like Powerglide, Shrapnel, Bombshell, Cosmos, etc, Groove's pretty disappointing. His shoulders don't peg in bot mode, which is otherwise ok. Almost nothing pegs into place in motorcycle mode, which really doesn't look like much of a motorcycle. Honestly, if he really does get a Deluxe figure in Japan, and if Hasbro picks it up like they did with Slingshot and Wildrider, I'm going to have to think about getting him. I kind of think that's Hasbro's plan. Get me to buy the guys they made to make the combiner, then buy the limbs they left out, then buy another torso to use with the extra limbs I wind up with.
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    In another "dammit Hasbro!" move, it's looking like the Japanese version of Defensor is going to have a Deluxe-size Groove that makes limb.
  25. mikeszekely
    Of all the MS to pick from... The other 4 from Wing, the title MS from frome most of the shows from ZZ to G-Reco, any OVA except 0083... and the Red Frame is what's next? I don't understand the obsession with it; I'd rather have had literally any other UC MS, and and any other Gundam from the non-UC shows (with a preference for ones not from SEED, which I feel is over-represented, unless that SEED MS is Infinite Justice, which we should have had by now).
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