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Shame they didn’t “fix” the elbows.

I prefer forums by a large margin as well. I’ve been a member here since the early 2000’s (even though my post count implies otherwise lol) and it’s a much more personal experience. As soon you start reading someone’s post, you already know who it’s from without seeing the name. On the other hand, social media is filled with random posters who you’d be lucky to see more than once - that’s, of course you were interested enough to look at their username.

I was a mod on Djforums.com and when our forum activity slowed to a crawl we moved to Discord. I can’t say it was for the better. There’s just something cold and sterile about it.

Big thanks to Shawn and Graham for keeping MacWorld going!

Minmay does not approve 

That looks so much better. I don’t understand why they couldn’t just do that to begin with.

I hope they have the tolerances up to snuff, otherwise it’s going to be a gappy mess.

On 4/15/2025 at 2:05 AM, jenius said:

Bandai has done white landing gear on prototype before and then they don't end up that way so we will see. 

Ya, it looks like the landing gear is simply moulded in white. I bet dollars to donuts they’ll paint them silver lol!

I saw it last month in the theatre and while I enjoyed the first half (the reimagining of the OYW) which I believe was shoehorned in for “reasons” , I absolutely hated the second half - it just turned into another version of The Witch From Mercury. 
i don’t think we’ll see much reference to anything U.C. after this.

That being said, it was awesome seeing Gundam on the big screen. I hope the next part of Hathaway is released in theatres too.

14 hours ago, Big s said:

I’m guessing Elizabeth Olsen. She said in a few interviews that she doesn’t want to be a part of anymore avengers movies after they screwed things up in that Dr Strange movie. She didn’t specify if that means out of the mcu altogether or just out of Avengers stuff. I guess she was angry about constant changes and such. But being honest, she’d probably take the paycheck if it’s offered 

I still don’t understand how / why she lost her accent between Age of Ultron and Civil War.

On 3/5/2025 at 10:50 AM, Tking22 said:

It doesn't hurt that Aaron Paul is a phenomenal actor and gave a great VA performance, he really sold the whole conflict and character. 

I knew that it was Aaron Paul, but all I kept hearing was an angry Homer Simpson.

14 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

With all the origami going on, I would thought it'd be simple to just fold the loincloth in half which would look better.  Regardless, the alt mode looks quite sleek and I would be all over it if it weren't for the dull colors.

Touch Toys seems to have a thing for loin cloths

3 hours ago, tekering said:

Hasbro's been manufacturing Transformers for over four decades, but continues to screw up their promotional photography on a regular basis...

ThreeZero's batting a thousand, by comparison. 😅

That looks like a Transformer you’d see in an old Sears Christmas Wish book.

Where did that articulated hand come from?

23 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

For mechs this scale, the builder is most likely using these Technic turntables controlled by worm gears to effect rotation. They can handle a far greater load than the smaller purpose-made ratcheting joints which makes them ideal for large scale builds. The UCS AT-AT, for example, uses them in the hips and knees. Very effective. The only drawback is that they are not quickly or easily poseable relying on the manual rotation of a knob or a special tool, like the AT-AT, to effect rotation, a slow process.

Thx!

Worm gear was the first thing that came to mind. I was just thinking maybe LEGO came up with something more robust and practical for larger mech builds by now.

23 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Wow... that looks awful.

I thought it was ugly when I could only see bits and pieces of it in the trailer, but seeing the whole thing at once is just 🤮.

Does it have three arms in this picture?  And what the hell is going on with its feet?  I can't tell if it has elf shoe-style feet or it's got spiked stiletto heels like something out of Five Star Stories.  

 

Its name is "G-Quacks"... I guess it invites the inevitable joke that the production team certainly are.

In development since 2018 and this is what they decided was showready?  Yeesh.  

Uuuuuuugly. I thought it was something from Virtual On at first glance.

It looks like it has something protruding off its back making it look like it has 3 arms.

And then the feet: I’m thinking it’s like half of a foot with a single pivot point on one side with a bit of a stiletto heel. Not sure. Definitely don’t care.

Now give me the next part to Hathaway, gundamit!!

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Id like to know what they’re using for the joints.

10 hours ago, Big s said:

With all the talk about actual Spider-Man movies, I forgot about this one

I thought it was already released and bombed so hard nobody talked about it.

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Funny, the OG comic had a February release date too.

That’s impressive. Can’t wait to see the whole thing

My son just walked in on me watching episode 1. He asked me what old PS3 game I was playing lol

19 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

I'm not sure thy could pull off an 89 Batwing without some massive weirdness to use the wings, but that old F-19 concept would make a solid platform for a transformer, just because it's such a solid brick of a plane with not much wing to get in the way.  

Granted, it might wind up needing some Sv-262 style plastic origami to transform into a chunky robot of any sort, but I am surprised we've never really seen that one.

On the other hand, I'm actually disappointed we didn't see them pull out an X-30 Conquest crossover during all of the GI Joe releases.  All they really had to do was repaint this one.

 

I have the yellow repaint Terrordive and he’s such an under appreciated figure IMO - great bot mode with really good articulation for the time, and a plane mode that doesn’t have arms hanging off the side.

OMG, that poor, old valk in the back has a club foot.

On 9/22/2024 at 6:23 AM, nightmareB4macross said:

Bandai’s erratic choices of mecha sizing is so unappealing.

I think the only reason I keep buying these is to compare them to Yamato/Arcadia sculpts. 

Really wish they would scale better.

22 hours ago, WhatBoutMyStar said:

Yup, given that they've already shown the Mirage and Hayate HMR 1EX, you'd figure it'd be easy enough for Bandai to just go ahead with production and sell these. I think they would've sold well and would've been much more popular than the non-canon 35th Anniversary Messer grim reaper deco.

I’m still holding out for the red one

Now I understand the price point

That’s a very surprising price. I was expecting closer to $300.

Tempting…

6 hours ago, sjoebarry said:

 would have been cooler........

If this ever gets the DX treatment, I will buy mass quantities.