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4 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

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

Wow, nice. So they're doing much better than Lego on that front. 

1 hour ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

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.

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

13 minutes ago, jenius said:

Lol, they don't look good in either mode but I can live with them.

You know that feeling when you're hoping things are mis-transformed in official pics? 🙂

12 hours ago, 26662 said:

I like what Toyrise has done to the rear of the cockpit.  The official design has always looked awkward to me.  I already put my Sentinels in storage, but I think I recall there being a giant opening (in the one unit I inspected) at the rear of the cockpit instead of a solid panel.  That's nonsensical if I'm right.  I need to take another look at them.

Huh, another difference I didn't notice consciously! Good eye. Looks like they're leaving themselves the option to leave off the rear cockpit extension in future releases if they want to match the official design.

9 hours ago, enphily said:

also, top view

Hmm, so what do we think of the feet in fighter mode, gang? They don't stick out too badly IMO. 

I like the price. 

Can't say I like any of the design changes. The LERX position in Armo Soldier mode is surprising, I didn't notice that before. 

I'd like it a lot more in a canon color scheme, and without the high-heeled boots.

I assume the feet stick out too far in Fighter mode until pics prove otherwise. 

I also appreciate that they somehow captured the essence of the box art pose without him looking like he's squeezing one out:

On 8/28/2025 at 7:35 PM, sh9000 said:

38 minutes ago, J.T. Silversmith said:

Based on the shot of the Thigh and the cab lower leg in the last picture I think there is a spot in the "Box Art" pose that was cropped correctly.  Here is my corrected pic

There's the money shot. About as good as I could have asked for. 

8 minutes ago, magicsp00n said:

BBTS is always one of the last retailers to ship, often months behind the others. But they'll come through.

Yay! I won't lose any sleep then. 

4 hours ago, Mog said:

Probably have to look at their fine print about tariffs and the such.  And about preorder prices (and if they can change the price due to increased costs on their end).

Totally spitballing and assuming here, but technically, BBTS is bearing the costs of importing and shipping the goods into the US.  Shipping from their warehouse to each customer would be the cost beared by each customer, right?

Whether they decide to pass those additional shipping and tariff costs (getting the goods into the US) onto their customers would be up to them.

Again, total speculation on my part. 🤷‍♂️

Good to know. But I don't even care about the tariff stuff*. I'm just worried about them not getting any Treads, or not getting enough. 

*I mean, I do, but that's a whole different subject.

Anyone else have the Tread on preorder from BBTS? I haven't heard anything and I'm wondering if they'll be able to honor my preorder. 

The terrible gaps, the bad proportions, the wrongness of the legs and shoulders...it might be the perfect Robotech toy!

It looks bad but I don't think it's a Disney problem. It's late stage capitalism problem. Everything is enshitified, including animation. 

Lower budgets, hiring less talented/cheaper animators, using algorithms/AI to generate in-betweens and animate, manipulating vectorized images to animate instead of hand-drawing more frames, all that. People of course deny that animation studios even do this stuff, when it's proven they do. They will also swear up and down that anime is just as good as ever, when it clearly looks lifeless and sloppy next to hand drawn cel animation. Strong recency bias with anime fans these days. 

2 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

I don't intend to get it as I'm quite satisfied with SS86 UM (one of their best efforts IMHO); however, I'm curious to see how they accomplish this given the nature of the G1 toy and their efforts to maintain the G1 toy aesthetics amidst the upgrades to articulation. I'm thinking this fig will have more concessions to affect a functional bot mode than we've previously seen in this line.

I wish they'd do the Fairlady Z bros and Megatron, as I'd love an articulated form of G1 Prowl to replace the one that I tried unsuccessfully to modify as a kid, and I've always had a soft spot for G1 Megs but never owned the OG toy. ML versions of both would be welcome.

I've always had a thing for Ultra Magnus since my friend had one as a kid. The white Prime is what I was enamored by. Something about seeing Optimus in a totally different color blew my little mind. I've always been a sucker for repaints. I like the Delta Magnus coloring even more, and I assume they'll do him as well. But anyway, the MP Magnus toys don't include the separate cab bot mode, which is what I liked the most about the G1s. So hopefully the Missing Link versions don't have any weird concessions! 

I'm also really hoping for the Zs. And the Seekers, if they're even possible. 

4 hours ago, Big s said:

Part of the og post seems to have disappeared. Originally Swann had made the comment that Global looked a bit like Tony Iommi. And somehow part of my reply post seems to have gone missing since I pointed out that it was the mustache and I had attached a pic of him before he did the added chin hair.

it all probably would’ve made much better sense if things were attached and in full, but they seem to have come in kinda choppy. That and being a Metalhead would help as well 

Ohhh, this was when the forum hiccuped and posts were getting lost. 

I thought maybe I was going crazy, but it was the forum going crazy. 

On 7/17/2025 at 12:17 AM, Swann said:

What is the point of this post? Does anyone know? Three random pics of Global? Why?

On 7/17/2025 at 2:27 AM, Big s said:

It’s the mustache 

What's the point of this post? "It's the mustache." What's the mustache? 

On 7/17/2025 at 10:58 AM, Swann said:

What's the point of this post? A random Fire Bomber post/album cover? What does this have to do with Macross in the weirdest places? 

20 minutes ago, Big s said:

Odd items like that would occasionally pop up a swap meets or were gifted to me by someone that went to the swap meet. The 80’s swap meets were kinda exciting with the oddities that showed up. Never saw one of these toys though, but I remember a transforming Orgus toy way before I ever knew what Orgus was

I bet it was a swap meet! My parents loved swap meets, and did get me some giant Transor Z/Mazinga toys from swap meets. Coulda all been bootlegs too (including my Srungle) as far as I know.

On 8/15/2025 at 9:35 AM, Pontus said:

This has been dragging on for a while now.  I know there was some extra stuff going on, but these were originally promised by last December.

Welcome to Kickstarter. The only way to sell something if you have absolute contempt for your customers. 

(Here's a good explanation of why I say that. It doesn't even touch on the standard multi-year delays.)

I was searching for pictures of the Cosmo Tiger when this unexpectedly popped up:

https://ourstarblazers.com/vault/models1115tf/

Somehow, I received a 1:100 Clover Srungle as a kid right around 1985. My mom thought it was a Transformer. I have no idea how she came upon that thing in Nowheresville California, but she did. My dumb friend eventually broke it. But I always had fond memories of the toy, even if I had no idea what the thing was. 

35 years later I'm laughing at the "MEESHON -- OUTTA SPACE" anime intro on Youtube and it hits me -- was my mystery childhood toy from freakin' Srungle of all things? Indeed it was. $100 bucks + shipping later, and I have it again, basically new in box. I guess not many people collect Srungle. 

The Pose+ has cool features too be sure but why prioritize them over full length vertical stabs and a less gappy fighter mode (esp. around the arms)?

On 8/12/2025 at 8:22 AM, jenius said:

After release, there will be plenty available, probably cheaper than Luna Park. I still see the clear VF-1S popping up so I'm not worried about it.

23 hours ago, Shawn said:

Personally I wouldn't worry too much about the release, even these special web-only releases.
Wait for them to show up on the 2nd hand market, get a proxy buyer, and get it from Yahoo Japan.

So do we think yahoo japan is going to be the best option or might these show up anywhere like HLJ, Ami Ami, BBTS?

19 hours ago, Big s said:

Can you heat the hands with a blow dryer to get them soft enough to grip the weapons and then ice bath to hold the new pose?

that was the trick for a lot of toys, but I’ve never opened one of the reactions 

Ugh, I could try. Do you think the hand will break while cooling if I leave the weapon in?

On 8/1/2025 at 12:49 PM, renegadeleader1 said:

Got the Cobi F-14A Tomcat Top Gun movie tie in today alongside the Mega Blocks XF-14F GI Joe set with the bonus HISS tank in the mail today. It's going to be interesting to see how they compare once I get them put together. I might kickstart my youtube channel with it.

As a Joe fan I look forward to seeing/hearing what you think of these!

I picked up the Reaction+ Jinx, Falcon, and Cobra La Royal Guard. 

Jinx and Falcon are kinda rad but the Royal Guard definitely can NOT hold his weapon without breaking his entire hand. No idea what they were thinking with the completely different size hand holes. Falcon's hands are too open to hold Jinx's weapons so they just fall out. Jinx can't hold Falcon's gun, and her hand grip is so tight she can barely hold her own weapons.

Seems pretty bad when a figure can't hold his own weapons, and figures in the same series can't hold each other's. 

Also I wish the Royal Guard had a little more texture because he's kind of boring. The original has little details all over.