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No, but with the release of DA, you DO have the Shogun Warriors comic trio... they look great together!

Thanks! There's a little write up on my site, linked in the first post. Build-wise, it was a pretty standard recast resin kit... it's an older kit, so it's got quite clearly hand-made details, including panel lines that are sometimes a little wavy, and details bits like on the vents that were obviously pieces of plastic strip that weren't quite flush with the edge of the vent detail. I didn't spend too much time cleaning up the kit beyond mold seams. There's still a little bit of one big mold slip on the left side of the rear torso, which is visible in the pictures. The kit is rock solid now, as I pinned the crap out of it with brass rod... two in each hip so they don't swivel, two in the feet, along with some green stuff to fill in the gap where I articulated the ankles, two in each shoulder, and one or two in each arm segment. I had some nasty blisters from my pin-vice!

Hi all, This guy's been sitting on my shelf for a year with busted arms, and I finally took him down to fix him, and realized I never actually photographed the finished kit and posted it. I figured with the Moscato Glaug on the horizon, I'd better post my Glaug before it was made to look like the Matchbox toy by comparison! Full write up of the model on my site. 1/72 Glaug with 1/72 Scaletiger!

Oh god... watched the trailer twice already. It's simply amazing... weapons doing real damage, realistic destructable battlefields, and proper mech maneuvering. I cannot wait. Not too terribly surprising that we see it from the Davion side... they're like the Ultramarines, or Cygnar, always the 'good guys' for the fluff. I'd love to get to play as the Dracs as well. Is the planet listed in the beginning in the Draconis March? My CBT history is beyond rusty, but 3015 is in the Davion/Kurita war, isn't it?

While I really did not like RotF the second time I saw it, I have to give it credit for getting me out of my slump and back into working on my JP G1 collection I just won a loose Metrotitan body on YHJ in great condition with the stickers... it'll be a snap to repaint some Metroplex parts and have me a toy I never thought I'd get! Watchin a bunch of other stuff as well, including Micromaster Rabbicrater, the exclusive little guy who came with the original Zone VHS in Japan. A niche toy for sure!

MW4 got me to finally buy a Joystick... altho, for 5 I could motivate myself to get a really nice new one, with force feedback and all. MW3 definitely is the best of the series tho, even if I never really could get that one to work with a stick. 3 gives you alot of appreciation for the classic rugged Bushwacker medium 'mech And nailed home my love for the Anihilator 100-tonner... quasi-Clanner design ehtos combined with really big weapons bays meant that I was running around by the end of 3 in a sniper monster with an ER Large Laser and ER PPC in each arm, with a Gauss Rifle in the torso. A well placed Alpha Strike would shear a limb right off most heavies from across the map! I really hope we see something like the campaign and salvage systems from 3... the way it was handled with buying and trading in 4 Mercs was fun, but the total tabletop campaign style of 3 was really something special.

AGH! Teasers!! So.... we need info! If it IS MW5, I LOVE the idea of doing alot more to set the 'mechs and fighting in 'real' environments... the previous games always had that classic flight-sim backdrop to them, where most of the scenery was simply different colored pieces of turf, with the occasional building or something thrown in, with no people or life to them. I think my favorite mission in all of MW-dom was in 4 Mercs, when there was an actual city-fight, even if the city was unpopulated.

I totally voted right.... she looks more plasticy.

Is Yamato USA going to be releasing this, by chance? I'd be way more likely to finally whore myself out enough to get the big guy if I could buy it off the shelf here in the US. And I looked thru the directions for tweaking the waist joint... while involved, it looks fairly straightforward. Anyone handy with a few hand tools shouldn't have any real problem getting in, doing the job, and getting out again.

Huh.... I thought I was just seeing things. There's a little bit of Roger Rabbit oddness in the scene where The Doctor examines Sam as well.

Yeah, I post on a bunch of different places, TBDX included. I know alot of people liked the AG line alot, but they never did anything for me.

Ahh... Fulcy Hips, THAT's why I had no idea. My first valk was a 1/60 Max 1A ^.^

If I'm not mistaken, those are Jung Chao customs... like the ones Emerson has for sale. I'm not nearly old enough to remember it, but those were the pinnacle of Macross toy-dom before the modern push. The hands on the MM pair have been replaced with something else for sure, and the heads are customized... I think you'll find the nosecone shape has been tweaked as well. Still not sure what the OP is actually asking about the legs tho... the 1/55 has articulated legs.

Ir's really tough to say at this point... it seems for the most part that all the VOTOMS lines that were kicking died out within the last year... we've seen nothing from Yamato since the Turbo Custom and the RC fig, no new DMZs, and really no new plamaodels from Bandai that I know of since the Fatty's... the Actic Gear line is probably just as dead. Sucks too, since the Actic Gear line was the only one with good variety besides Scopedog variants, even if the toys were ass.

There's three Arcee bikes, pink, blue, and purple... one of them takes an absolutely devastating hit while helping Sam and Fox evade the 'Cons, never to be seen from again. It was actually pretty sweet, bc/ with their spindly bot modes, the big hit just trounces the poor Autobot...

No... Revoltechs are alot shorter than the 1/12 Chirico (which is a phenomenal figure!), and with the 'big nut' cut hips, you'd never get them into a sitting position to fit them in there.

Sweet mishapen christ... I think that is the worst!

Just got back from the film... as one of the biggest and loudest nerdraging haters of the first film (I won't watch it, and my friends know better than to ask), I went into this one expecting worse than nothing and was pleasantly surprised. The plot is both minimal and secondary to the action, and that basically worked for me this time around. The robots were rendered WAY better than in the first film, and even if I still don't agree with the design choices of Bayformers, you could tell what was going on in most of the action scenes in this one. There are plenty of throwaway robots, which does seem odd, but I guess is an attempt to add more gravity to the action. At least some of the robots had semi-meaningful dialogue, and thankfully there seemed to be much less squishie-only screen time. Micheal Bay's potty mouth humor is still present tho, which lead to all of my actual problems with the film... it was loads better written than the first IMO, but the potty humor is still jarringly uncalled for. ANY humping gags in a movie are too many, and there were way more than one in this. The testicles were also really shockingly tasteless, combined with the fact that Devy has no vehicle members with any wrecking balls, so you know they are one hundred percent a gag Bay thought was clever. And I can still see the complaints with how the beginning went... I like the whole pro-active 'Con hunting strike force, and it seemed to work for the most part, but Prime executing the 'Con in the beginning was really out of place. Prime DIES in the animated film because he won't put down a fallen foe... WTF? One more thing that did bug me... exactly how many Constructicons were there? They seemed to be everywhere all at once... having them be clones/army builder grunts would have been fine if they'd actually established that fact beforehand. All in all, I have to see it again so my little brother can see it, and I may end up buying some toys, so it's already leaps and bounds above the first one for me. I voted for Grimlock in the poll way back when

Yeah, that needs some 'spleenin... it actually looks pretty good!

Helllllllls yeaahh! Isn't this the project that developed out of the corpse of the American McGee's Alice film adaptation? I assume they'll end up pretty similar anyway, and I am stoked!

VFTF1: Agreed... Metroplex was one of my first 'big' G1 purchases as a budding collector, and is one of my favorite toys. The amount of play value in base mode with the Scramble City combiner sets is just mind blowing, and brings a smile to my face... wish I had room to display 'Plex

Oh I'm sure that after an hour the novelty wears off and it's a totally boring toy, but like Pete I just really want to know if it works!

Unbelievable! Always great to see a new Mostacat buildup. You're gonna make me regret not getting in on this, but I just don't have the space... I've got the WF recast Glaug kit, which is decent looking, if undersized, but even that takes up a ton of space on my crowded college-student-living-at-home-still shelves.

Haha, wow.... that missile rebuild is a labor of love, and it paid off! This model came out fantastic dude. I especially love the Fully Armored Iron Man shoulder pin-up! Looks great in the family shot as well... I've got almost all of those, but have only built one of them

Encore Star Saber and Vic Leo would be AWESOME, but would cost a ton at retail... most people don't realize until they get the toys just how HUGE those two figures are. I really need to get the Encore Bruticus... that's a good looking set. EDIT 2: I also just realized that I have a complete set of limb bots for Computron in my stash... I really oughta get a Scattershot!