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Hey! This is a family friendly site!

Yes, I'll take HMR Hovertanks too!

A monkey that understands lighting and composition extremely well before pressing that button

Never big on Macross II or the VF-2 design but this will be an instabuy for me. 1/100 HMR is the perfect line for a complete collection of various Valks including ones I'm not as nostalgic about. Save the 1/60 money and space for the ones that are more special to me. Certainly helps in this case where the 1/100 looks better than the 1/60.

Lol, people always gotta complain about something right? In the end, I agree darker metal would have seemed perfect but who knows why the choice was made...could be other qc related reasons. I'm fine with it as is.

haha, much harsher than I was nice, I knew Steeljaw for sure.

Oh man! Either way, that Hulkbuster is an amazing figure. It is the definitive Hulkbuster figure to me and something I always needed in my life.

I can see this turning into a thing. Will see how it goes if I have time to get more creative with the pictures. Might wait until I get some SHF Walkure "club girl" figures to add to the mix.

Blaster is a poor man's Soundwave...A cheap ripoff LOL, yep! Guest DJ Messer up in there too! It's a bangin spot!

Thanks! Someone on TFW introduced me to them and I got them from ebay. I think they are actually a Barbie accessory.

Thanks! Interesting thing is, when I took that picture, it was very difficult to get the hands positioned on the turntable in a convincing manner. I always considered Macross toys to be the the epitome of transformable toys and Transformers as 2nd tier but when I got that turntable for this guy, the poses all came easily: Gives me even more respect and appreciation for MP-13, which has always been my favorite MP. The articulated hands definitely helped finish the look but they would be useless if the figure didn't have the arm and shoulder articulation to allow those poses to begin with. So, a 5 year old Transformer has better articulation (in this area) than a brand new, top of the line Bandai DX Macross figure and a lot of the newer MPs are even better? Never thought of that before but it's interesting and makes be a bit more proud of collecting Transformers again. I've lately been burnt out on Transformers and all about Macross but I might pick up and mess with some figures off my TF shelf now.

Totally agree that using a darker metal would be nice. As for the other stuff, honestly I've seen a lot of cool pictures of the Spartan so far and never noticed any of the eyesores you pointed out except the waist and that was when I had the figure in hand and was posing it myself.

Seems like they did it to give the figures the ability to have more dynamic posing in a durable way. If those parts were painted, they would scratch instantly. The reason why you probably haven't seen them in pictures is because they were designed smartly to allow you to use them for posing but still hidden based on the pose. Personally, I really appreciate the extra effort and thought put into those joints. Gives the figures so much more character through poses.

Someone rang?

HMR are nice but nothing beats the old 1/55 for playability to me.

Haha, yeah. If anyone can pull that shot off, it's sh9000!

That's a sweet picture! Where do you find all these things?! (Answer: Duh, the internet) Thanks Saburo! It's an honor to have my photos complemented by you!

Oh nice! Post pics!

Most likely messy for the 2 Spartans.

Expensive? That is ludicrous! I'd rather put the money towards Arcadia "Premium" versions instead if I was trying to avoid the extra cost by printing decals. I hope you packed that 8x13 full of decals though

You can say it got neutered.