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  1. danth
    It's an internet forum for mecha anime fans, of course we're going to critique mecha toys. I'd like to point out the absolute hypocrisy of your take, too. If you don't like critical comments, you don't have to read them. And if you don't like hearing the opinions of mecha toy fans, you don't have to hang out here.
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    Someone is going to use those transparent tracks as part of a huge spaceship or space base. I got two copies of the Lightyear XL-15. Honestly I probably should have just bricklinked the canopies but I felt like buying an actual set. In other colored canopy news, there's a pink airplane windscreen in the Ninjago Crystal King mech set, and an orange Speed Champions windscreen in another Ninjago vehicle set, and some large Trans Neon Green (?) panel pieces in the Friends Roller Disco. The Mission sets look cool. Lots of good prints. I'll probably snag a few. Trying to decide whether to buy some mech sets or just the new joint parts...
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    I once had to wait in a virtual line to enter the Lego website. Seriously. This was like a year ago. I've never seen that on any other website. It felt pretty ridiculous.
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    Hmm, maybe in space it has a yellow force field/heat shield or something? I guess we'll know when we see the movie.
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    I wonder why the Chogokin XL-15 doesn't have the bronze/yellow canopy that some of the other toys do.
  6. danth
    Wow @that trailer. Getting definite Appleseed vibes from those armor suits. The helmet looks like the Guges head: And the knobs on the shoulder armor remind me of the knobs you frequently see on shoulder/knee pads in manga: The enemy space ship looked a lot like the big ship from Gall Force:
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    Dang...those minis look pretty neato. Doubt I'd ever play the game though.
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    I think I like the proportions of the old Zillion toy better than this new one. In the new Tricharger's vehicle mode, the shield doesn't even begin to hide the arms. And the wheels seem to stick out more in robot/armor mode.
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    Truth! But hope springs eternal.
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    I love how instead of Lego actually releasing something new, they're just releasing more licensed stuff in different scales. Already released 23 different X-wing sets? No problem, release a mini scale trench run! Already produced 50+ different Star Wars pilot minifigs? No problem, make a large scale X Wing pilot helmet! Already released 38 different Harry Potter sets with the title character included as a minifig? No problem, release a large-scale buildable Harry Potter "minifig"! Like JHC can I get just one effin' non-NASA Space set?
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    Also they need to hurry up and do '85 Snake Eyes.
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    These are just unbelievably good. Better than anything Hasbro has done in the last 20 years, by far. Too bad they're $50 a pop!
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    That would make a cool SNOT wing edge on a UCS-style Classic Space set.
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    Yep, it really sucks. I was thinking about this, and I think the Classic Space issue is a lot simpler than people realize. Disney has a licensing agreement with Lego for Star Wars, obviously. They get money for each SW Lego set sold. If Lego sold regular Space sets, that would obviously compete directly with SW, so each Space set, to Disney, would be money lost. Obviously you can't have a license agreement like that. Space is simply forbidden while Lego has Star Wars, as part of the licensing agreement. That's the only way the licensing agreement could possibly work. And it's even worse now that there's Lightyear. There's undoubtedly a very detailed contract outlining what Lego can and cannot do in terms of competition with Disney sets, and NASA sets are obviously exempt, while sci-fi Space is not.
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    Whoa. Apparently the above character is Mandora from Thundercats. Never seen her before. She looks really cool though!
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    I bought that book just for a better look at those! Yeah, love Project A-ko. The mecha, the characters, the action. It's top notch.
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    For some reason this reminded me of the crappy Battleforce 2000 "Combined" mode where the vehicles "combined" into a base by setting them next to each other. Remember that? That included a little pod too!
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    Yep, ramshackle buildings seem to be the in thing. I think there's a strong lemming effect, where once a submission is approved, we get a lot of copycat submissions. Ramshackle fishing shop? How about ramshackle tree house? Ramshackle pirate island? Ramshackle blacksmith shop? Ramshackle dwarf house? And people answer "yes". That's the worst part. They vote in those things over and over. Why? I find it hard to believe that the people just demand more dilapidated rooftops. I think it's just the lemming effect. They want to vote for a winner. So they vote for whatever won last time. It's bad enough that the Lego designers even had to start removing the drab & busted roof tops from submissions. Compare the original Blacksmith Shop submission to the released set and you'll see what I mean.
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    Up for preorder today, and sold out today.
  20. danth
    So I got my Snake Eyes & Storm Shadow two pack and was pleasantly surprised that Hasbro didn't just slap together these figures from whatever old molds they had on hand including the wrong parts like they have in the past. I guess they really are just recreating the molds completely. I haven't removed them from package and can't speak to the build quality.
  21. danth
    Will definitely be watching this. I loved Get Out, and enjoyed Us.
  22. danth

    Arcadia VF-5000G

    danth replied to daBlah!'s topic in Toys

    These things are not mutually exclusive. I love M7 music generally and hate Planet Dance.
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    Arcadia VF-5000G

    danth replied to daBlah!'s topic in Toys

    Between this and the Tread, it's gonna be a bad time to have a mortgage in California.
  24. danth
    There we go. More retro o-ring figure two packs. I'll gladly scoop some up. I still predict major Hasbo f*** ups, but we'll see.
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    Anyway, this happened in the old Genesis: Legend of Zor comics: I don't have the actual comics so I don't know how much more actual fighting is depicted.
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