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    Awesome! How's the in-hand feel of the Orguss? Does it have lots of metal?
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    Always wanted a Figma Samus, but the aftermarket prices is just crazy.. This new Samus is available at Hobby-Genki: https://hobby-genki.com/en/figma/20238-figma-samus-aran-dread-ver-metroid-dread-2nd-batch-november-2023-4580590171206.html Will skip though, as the colors are just too far removed from the one I remember of Super Metroid from the SNES days.
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    Oh yes it’s a must for Foggy & Karen to return, even more so with the same cast. The original cast embodied them so well. (Deborah Ann Woll 🥰). I thought there was so much nuance given to all these characters, and Fisk to me was so much more interesting & menacing villain than a Thanos. And agreed that Fisk felt off in Hawkeye, though it was great to see Vincent D’Onofrio in that role again. He really made Fisk his own in the whole DD series, much the same way how Heath Ledger did Joker.
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    Wait a minute.. there’s going to be a new Daredevil series? The previous seasons are really the best Marvel series till date, & was quite sad when they previously announced it came to the end of the road. But now I’m thinking since recent Marvel series are getting progressively worse under Disney, it will be a miracle if this new Daredevil could somehow recapture the quality of its previous seasons.
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    I have this CM's Brave Gokin Griffon for quite a while. Took it down from the shelf for some dusting, and the heft of this thing in hand still manages to surprise. It's as if the whole internal frame is made of solid metal. I guess toys made in mid-2000s generally still have the tendency of having the robust build weight from the 90's or older era, with modern improvements of its time CAD sculpts & articulation advancement that predate toys today. Still, the combination of tolerances of its time & metal in non-strategic areas means the joints can easily become quite loose from handling. But I guess Bud still approves of his ride.
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    It somehow starts looking like a Front Mission mech. If a toy is to be made of this, it could well turn out to look quite different from this illustration, as what we are seeing of the Gate ride-armor.
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    Strike A Pose! revisted...

    MKT replied to dapro's topic in Toys

    Thanks @TheLoneWolf and it means a lot.
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    HMR releasing in just a few days..
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    Strike A Pose! revisted...

    MKT replied to dapro's topic in Toys

    When I first came across these anniversary liveries, they look so far removed from what a typical real jet would look like until I stumbled upon actual anniversary liveries of various air forces. JASDF squadrons appear to be pretty prolific and they have some of the most colorful ones. That said this 30th Anniversary 1J look good enough to my eyes without the additional stickers. On other hand the 35th Anniversary one just looks too plain without them.
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    From Macross Mecha Manual site, the more modern interpretation of VF-1 Battroid line-art taken from the Master Files:
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    If you meant the cracked-shoulder hinge, it should have been resolved. Even for the earlier releases with cracked shoulders, they will not affect transformation & can be worked around with more careful transformation.
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    I imagine the thicker proportions on some parts & rounder sculpt is based on the original line-art.
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    Strike A Pose! revisted...

    MKT replied to dapro's topic in Toys

    Warmed up a bit more to the 30th Anniversary VF-1J. Colorful for sure, but the lines do flow through nicely from one part to another.
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    Just passing by to say, the X-59 is just giving out the Metal Siren vibes.
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    Was hoping the Transporter be released the same time. Otherwise, where are we gonna put the limbs when it is in bike mode?
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    From the pictures on online, it's pretty confirmed that it has some waist swivel going on as well. Hopefully it is secure and doesn't involve the swing bar detaching like the Chogokin. Not bad, at smallish 1/72 scale, it already has most of the innovations of other VF-1 toys that came before it, except perhaps the movable wing flaps that nobody seems to like. Not sure if the whole nose can also be removed ala Yamcadia v2.
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    The issue about the arm-cannon is that it will point straight ahead provided the panel at the rear of cannon is not fully tabbed into the wing. If that rear panel is flushed in fully, then the cannon will point down. Only on some copies people will be able to get both - fully flushed panel with gun pointing straight, and even less if they can get both left & right sides to do the same. So far it has been very random to the degree of flushness vs angle of guns and everything in between.
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    Nice. What are these?
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    Kinda feels a bit like a mis-step from Bandai. Removing so many stuff while maintaining essentially almost same price just leaves a bit of sour taste in mouth for some. Rationally we know why in this new high-cost landscape, but toys are emotional purchases after all. They could have at least announce some improvements or new features to the valk to make up for the price hike, & the new effect parts just doesn’t do enough. At least for the Revivals 25 & 29, there’s that matte finishing & supposedly tighter thigh joints, that makes it enough for some folks who already have the Renewals to extra dip on this again.
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    I like the rounder sculpt in Battroid which makes the Chogokin suddenly look very squarish lol.. On that basis I think Threezero brings sufficient new things to the table for the VF-1 where it has been iterated so many times over the years on a rather fixed design.
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    If Threezero's VF-1 is coming up for PO soon, we'll see if KC will continue on their VF-1 announcement streak. I suspect they will really lose license for the 1/72 VF-1. In one of their FB replies on the special color Roy, they mentioned the current VF-1 will be the 'final version' in reply to someone asking which body version it will be.
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