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    I’m close to finishing my 3D scan and post-processing of the Strike armor. My post processing removed the hollow underside of the cannons. I hate “waffles.”
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    Skirt color seems reasonable if I understand your point. Using the same grey as the thighs would have left the figure with dark-grey T-shaped “twig and berries.” The jokes would write themselves.
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    1/55's revisited

    26662 replied to kanata67's topic in Toys

    But I’m in 100% agreement: his armor set is really impressive!
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    1/55's revisited

    26662 replied to kanata67's topic in Toys

    There’s a more elegant solution. I prototyped it back in 2001 but I was a super-poor grad student and didn’t have on-demand access to a CNC at the time. I’ve nearly got my workshop up and running. Finally. I’ll upload some pix of the full armor set at some point: my honey-do list dominates most of my free time. 🤪
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    Seconded. I've got pre-orders with half a dozen companies. 2025 is shaping up to be especially painful.
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    Jesus, Mary, and Primus! Devy’s seen better days.
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    A promising future. We’ve got a 1,000 sq. ft. house now but we’ll upgrade eventually to a place where I can celebrate my hobby properly. The Lewin Metroplex is a work of passion and art IMHO, but it has some design deficits that I intend to correct via CNC and metal casting.
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    Introducing Lewin's take on Metroplex. I don't have space for it so it's going directly into storage as is. Shipping label said it was just over 100 lbs. but it sure felt a lot lighter than that. The shipping estimate was 40-70 days by boat, and it took 43 days from date of purchase to delivery.
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    Is your price a little too reasonable? Someone's angling for a moonshot with their listing: I bought the trio of visual archives way back when. Never even opened them because I have zero display space. One day...
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    I think I may have posted to the wrong thread. Let's try this again: My two Sv-262Hs Draken IIIs arrived today (Nashville, TN) from Amazon. I’m glad they were packed together inside a larger box because Bandai(?) provided zero clearance/buffer/packing material to protect individual units (see pic).
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    I'm a mog. I'm my own best friend. We ain't found 5#!+!
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    Pfft! I didn’t pay any attention to the poster. Thanks! That said, I don’t recall seeing fast packs on a Legioss before now. I’m wondering if a Legioss w/ fast packs can merge with the Tread.
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    Might be right if it’s the same company producing all these model kits (see pic).
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    Any ideas on these five “ports?”
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    +5 pts. for “Monster.” MW’s got some scholars up in here. 😃 I’m gonna hate the belly kibble, but I’ll pick up two. I don’t have room to display my bots, but if I did, I’d use this figure as a centerpiece to bridge/anchor my Transformers and Macross collections.
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    Do I see double “missile pods?” One for each shoulder? I like it.
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    I’m afraid to ask…
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    A.M.E.N. There was a golden window during which we had no idea just how good we had it and just how sideways things could get.
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    Both of my Haslab Omega Primes arrived in pristine condition: Hasbro spared no expense on the packaging. I'm glad getting to the affected part required minimal transformation/effort. After giving it some thought, I'm not entirely convinced toys are arriving broken. I run a fledgling (read: super-tiny sole proprietorship) manufacturing business and spend a good amount of time assembling/disassembling products. Given that experience, if I'm Hasbro, there's zero chance that I'm having employees transform toys before shipping them out. I would want all of the tolerances sufficiently snug and for all of the ratchets to make a crisp and satisfying click for the buyer to enjoy on day 1. I'm betting that the *majority* of damages we've seen online thus far are the product of folks following Hasbro's instructions but applying a little too much force or applying force along a sub-optimal vector. Is Hasbro blameless? No. I think Hasbro shoulders much of the blame for failing to anticipate this entirely avoidable situation during product development.
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    Your best guess at a fanmode is righteous. Well done! I'm not familiar with the animation or the earlier mainline release of these figures so I can't really suggest any alternatives. I feel bad for those folks whose bot(s) arrived broken or broke during transformation. But I'm exceedingly thankful for the folks who got theirs before me and put out an alert on the potential QC issues. I **rarely** transform my bots - hardly ever handle them out of packaging because I don't have any room to display them - but at least now I know what to keep an eye on next time I pull them out of storage.
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    ...and yet your handle is "Sanity is Optional?" 🙂 Preach on, brother. I might fall victim to the late tax on this one, but I'm with you on wait-and-see.
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    Got my shipping notice from Hasbro: Both are scheduled to arrive Wednesday. I wasn't/am not all that familiar with Deathsaurus so I didn't bother ordering. The figure looked fine and the price wasn't terrible given everything included. Just didn't have a connection to the character.
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    I'm jealous. I ordered two (in the same order) within milliseconds of the preorder option going live. I'm wondering now if ordering more than one somehow puts you at the tail end of the queue.
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    I could not disagree more. I love how blurring the visuals really captures just how crazy-fast and frenetic the action is to a bystander, because we, the audience, are bystanders ourselves. You might not have gotten far enough into season 2 to see three scenes where highly skilled hunters are dumbfounded that they can't follow the action because it drives home the point just how OPed our protagonist is compared to S ranks. Those particular scenes would have been far less impactful for me if the animators had animated smooth and clear visuals of each battle. My preferences aside, I totally get your point and I can understand someone wanting a bit more from the animation. I can't wait for season 3!
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    Speaking of voice acting... Just started Devil May Cry on Netflix. I'm 4 1/2 minutes into the first episode and I am in love with the voice acting! Producers of Lazarus: THIS IS HOW YOU VOICE AN ANIMATION!!!!! [And the animation itself is top notch too. I'm not familiar with the IP so I have no idea if what I'm seeing here is the usual or an exception.] Edit: I hope I didn't speak too soon. The protagonist showed up at about 8 minutes and the voice actor is only slightly better than the typical English/American talent.
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