Rhubarbarian

16 hours ago, Big s said:

I just checked out of curiosity and there’s one fairly close to me in Ontario CA

We have one in Santa Anita and ironically, it has a bunch of otaku stores in it that would cater to this forum.

Don't know if anyone has had this but the connector pin on the display arm for one of my Legioss completely sheared off: 

I don't think there's any way to get a replacement for it from Sentinel, but it looks like the Archi stands from GokinPlus have a Sentinel adapter that should work? I've been meaning to try out some Archi stands anyways, so I guess this is the thing that pushes me over the edge on ordering some.

On 12/26/2023 at 11:00 AM, no3Ljm said:

Did Bandai included a canopy shutters accessory part to go along with the helmet-less Isamu with this release? The Full Set from what I remember didn’t have it. Thanks.

Just to confirm, no, there is no cover for this.

I also have the loose head cap and one of my ankles doesn't want to stay extended either. Jenius' transformation guide mentions the bottom panel thing so that may have been an issue on previous releases.

I remember battroid locking together pretty securely on my VF-19Advance, but the head/shoulders pop off from the nose cone super easily on my YF-19. They're easy to pop back in, but it's pretty annoying. Things generally seem to either be "too tight" or "too loose." The joints that are tight are crazy difficult to move out of place; the wing roots and the nose cone particularly gave me a lot of trouble. It was generally was a lot less fun to transform than the VF-19.

5 hours ago, danth said:

What is that floating head? Is it Aramaki Sans?

You can see it incorporated on the tail of the bike, behind the seat. Looks like a recon drone.

On 2/16/2024 at 2:54 AM, no3Ljm said:

I can never not see Optimus Prime playing basketball when I see the Nu Gundam with the Sazabi's cockpit:

I felt like I overpaid for the Metal Build Kampfer at P-Bandai (I did), but now that the money is in the rear-view mirror I'm just excited to get my hands on it next month.

Ha, I also got the e-mail and came here to see if anyone had any specific info on it.

AmiAmi does update their photos and re-lists a figure whenever something gets a design update, so I don't think it's super unusual. I tried doing some surface digging, but the Tamashii Nations sites/blogs/Twitter X accounts didn't have anything on it that I could find, so I guess we'll find out tomorrow.

Usually there's a spike at the end for kickstarters, and given the rate people have been backing the project, I'm not super worried. Macross II will look incredible on the OLED in 4k.

The movie is currently doing the theatre circuit, and Anime Ltd. is supposed to be doing a four-volume vinyl release of the soundtrack this year. No official word on a streaming or blu-ray release for the OVA or the movie, but I imagine it is coming pretty soon.

Like Seto said, if you don't want to wait, your best bet are the old DVDs. They are surprisingly not super expensive; I remember having to pay kind of ridiculous prices for the Megazone 23 DVDs before they did the blu-ray re-release.

Season 2 is eight episodes, same as season 1 (not counting the Atom Eve special).

VF-1J Milia DYRL, VT-1, and VF-1S Roy DYRL have been the ones I've been hoping for, with slowly diminishing expectations of them ever happening. I've mentioned it before, but I am forever flummoxed that they haven't milked this mold and done an annual Tamashii web exclusive release of the missile pack. I guess the focus lately is on worldwide releases for Frontier and Plus.

Yeah, it reminds me of the hyper-detailed VF-1 statues you see for sale for 600 bucks on BBTS. They're detailed and well-painted, but the aesthetic is a complete mismatch IMO.

I am kind of interested in the soldier mode cockpit, but I have a weird hang-up about cockpit orientations in transforming fighters and I like seeing manufacturers do the mechanics of making them functional. Dunno if that's enough to get me over my distaste for the RT brand/HG.

I also didn't realize he was 70. Just seemed eternally youthful to me.

In addition to the ones people have mentioned, he did a great heel turn as Pavel on Tron: Uprising. 

Man, this latest round of announcements was such word salad, I genuinely thought they were trying their hand at animated projects as well (god knows the live-action stuff hasn't been going anywhere since Tobey Maguire still had star power and was potentially attached to the project). Maybe I just read too much into them resurrecting the Robotech II brand for the latest round of toys.

23 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

On 7/21/2023 at 10:49 PM, jenius said:

I LOLed when they said the love action was a victim of the strikes... Rrrrrrright 

They haven't been honest about it since it was announced, why start now?

(Though in all fairness, with the WGA on strike they probably can't get any more bargain basement story treatments to pretend that the project isn't dead on arrival.)

HG definitely wouldn't be WGA, but their writing would fall under TAG if they were doing union animated productions. I would wager pretty much any sum of money they'd be non-union if they ever got around to making anything, though.

They had standard voice talent on Shadow Chronicles, so most of those guys have SAG cards, but generally actors can work on TAG/non-union animated productions without it being considered crossing picket lines.

This is all moot because - as you both have noticed - this is just a smokescreen for the fact that HG doesn't have anything. I'm just confirming it's not any strike-related activity holding HG back.

On 7/6/2023 at 1:01 PM, Stampeed Valkyrie said:

I picked up the Max version of the YF-29 here,   which is a release I probably would have passed on with my overall aversion to Delta.   Figured I would toss em a bone since I was there.

Ha, I did the same thing. Honestly, it was cool to be able to walk into a store, see a shelf full of Chogokins, and pick one up and take it to the register like a normal consumer product. No pre-order madness, no shipping, etc.

I'm actually glad I did because the blue really works on the YF-29. Probably my favorite paint scheme on it now.

14 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

I'm not familiar with Totally Spies, but a quick Google search doesn't seem to indicate any connections among the producers, production companies, animation studios, etc.  In fact, it seems like most of Totally Spies work was done in France.  I suppose it's possible that Warner Bros Animation/DC Studios hired former Zodiak Kids & Family Studios France writers.

The animation for Superman seems to coming from Studio Mir, the same people who animated the Netflix Voltron cartoon.

Bobbypills did the opening, they're a French vendor. That'd be the only link I could come up with.

The showrunner/EP was the SD on Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus and most of the crew was regular Burbank animation people, no cross-over there either.

5 hours ago, jenius said:

Lol, that display is so lonely... Like mom just dropped it off for the first day of school.

Well, that was too good a springboard to pass up.

IIRC, that's just the neck cover for GERWALK mode. I checked @jenius' site to be sure, and you can see an image of it here on the VF-19A.

I love the YF-19/VF-19, but it unfortunately has my least favorite GERWALK mode of any variable fighter, so I can't say I've ever used it myself, haha. Hate how the arms sit on top of the wings.

7 hours ago, sjoebarry said:

I bought my full set edition from someone who kept the missiles...

Now you can have that experience, officially from Bandai!

Yeah, keeping the fold booster/armor packs would have definitely lessened the sting. I would mutter about them removing the missiles/cannon, but I'd still buy it. Much less tempted with everything removed.

I feel like they wanted to remove everything to make the extra "full set pack" tempting enough to buy, but then knowing Bandai they will then proceed to never sell that pack. 

Guess an extender clip for fighter mode so the gunpod doesn't have to bend in the middle was too much to hope for. Neither's a great option, but the bending gunpod on my VF-19A always particularly irked me. Lack of extras is a real downer, too. 

Delaying the YF-21 for a WMM release does make a lot of sense in hindsight, though, if that's their plan. M+ was more popular over here than it was in Japan IIRC. 

I'd justify my distaste by saying it's not very lineart accurate (and it's not), but really, I think it's just an ugly, unpainted part right in the front of the VF. Weirdly, I actually think it's the one spot where the Renewal is a step backwards from the V1 - I think the V1's plate is both more accurate to the artwork and more visually appealing.

It's not a huge sin and I love the VF-25 despite it, but it's definitely the place I would have refined a bit given the opportunity.

59 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

I was just hoping they'd finally paint that stupid crotch plate.  

Yeah, seemed like the obvious place to give us a fix. Guess they had to leave room for the Re-re-renewal in ten years.

2 minutes ago, Mog said:

That’ll go perfect with Sentinel’s hot pink Houquet!