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Cool, glad you guys liked it, I updated the printed article also though there's not much different there if you watched the vid.

Hmmm, something seems off with that auction... Mandarake had one up for over an evening at 40,000.

Doing mother's day stuff at the moment but hoping to get everything up later today.

I got an update from Amiami about the ET Legioss Zeta saying it was delayed, it's not actually going to ship on 4/30 (I had figured that out). What was curious is the email didn't list a new expected date. So, I hopped on Amiami and see that it's now listed as 5/31. What was really odd, at the time (it no longer says it) the listing was updated to say "Tentative preorder" instead of "Preorder". First time I'd seen that...

If you have really bright lights and a black backdrop you could probably get a similar look (ignoring everything about photography) but you'll find it's pretty fleeting. The glow-in-the-dark paint is very tiny applications so they seem to dim rather rapidly and it also makes them more subtle in all but the most extreme instances.

Great idea, I wonder if they're steering clear of the DYRL launch arm because they don't want to pop up on Bandai's radar... in case Bandai is still considering such a thing.

Oh man, there was the craziest thread way back when Wave did their WHAM SDF-1 about those knees... don't go there!

Yeah, that's not going to represent how most people will see the toy. As you can see on the left, there are some very bright lights shining down on that thing and those lights are immediately out of frame. I then turned off all the lights (including the computer because the camera is so sensitive it was picking up the glow from the keyboard). I used the scene setting for a night-time picture with a tripod. The glow-in-the-dark effect cast a lot of green on the background so I then dropped the exposure a bit in Photoshop to actually darken that picture on the right up a smidge. The average person who isn't going to absolutely blast this thing with a ton of light and then view it in the most pitch black room possible is going to have a much more muted effect. I'm really looking forward to taking pictures in cruiser mode... since it was a bit mistransformed out of the box I went straight to attack mode and have started there. Here's the pic that retained the green glow from the paint, which do you guys prefer?

Proof!

it doesn't seem like that should have much of an impact. Do you have some really strong lights to put it under? The glow is pretty dramatic on mine but I have been viewing it after having it under giant LED photo lamps for a while. My normal room light doesn't seem to have much impact.

I live in a very high cost of living area and my photo rig takes up too much space as it is. My kids have been great so far but I would really have to infringe on space that can be used for a lot of other things and wouldn't have anyone to blame but myself if it resulted in damage. Storage and selling off excess toys works best for me. I also kind of like that I can have house guests come over and it doesn't have to be a point of conversation

What's up with MP-36+?

I have small children, it's safer for everyone.

I would probably hunt down a couple more Spartans and defenders if we got the phalanx and tomahawk.

Yeah... I won't be doing that. I also just put my toys away after a review so the work just isn't worth it.

They probably had a big crate put on a boat and they're in like Wisconsin. It may be another month for bbts is my guess.

Depends on if you use credit card or PayPal.

Just go to amiami and buy directly.

Mine was kinda mistransformed out of the box. Just spent way too much time transforming it. Boy that thing is TOIGHT! It was kinda scary given how fluid my regular version was moving...

My wife is kinda the coolest ever... But when I get giddy about a new toy she makes sure I see how hard her eye roll is.

I'll be putting up a 4k review this weekend. I got mine from NY, came out great.

Showing prototypes is, sadly, no guarantee of release... Though so far we've done well.

Got mine, it was a pleasant surprise when I pulled the ARMD out. The toy is beautiful to be sure. Now to put it together (I'm not touching those sprues).

I'm in a real bad rhythm with packages. Everything I ship EMS seems to go out from the departing country on a Monday and be ready for delivery the following Saturday which is fast enough... except I get things shipped to work so then I don't get them until the next Monday and miss my opportunity to spend time with the item on the weekend :(. So, Ray shipped this morning... we'll see how it does in the race against weekend delivery attempts.

I wasn't even going to open Hikaru until Max and Kakizaki were released but the thought he might have bungled super parts convinced me to pop him open and check it out. I'm happy to say that the super parts on mine are okay.