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Hacchaka has a review up for Shin Getter 1. Looking forward to receiving my copy, but a bit worried about the wobbly hips, waist and ankle joints mentioned in the review. Hopefully just an isolated case.
https://hacchaka.net/archives/52096345.html
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Aside from the standard retail edition of Kaen, there will also be a limited TT Mall version (designated MPG-06S). This will be a bigger box that apparently can house all the previous Trainbot boxes and will contain additional stands for all six as well as having the beam sabre and sword plated.
https://www.taghobby.com/archives/714329
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In case anyone missed the initial pre-order for HMR Orguss and still on the hunt, it is available through Amazon JP right now.
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6 hours ago, MKT said:
Quick playtime with the Legioss Zeta..
Still amazed Sentinel has given us a nice sculpt in Fighter, even if the vertical stabilizers are kinda tiny:
If compared to a Macross valk, the Legioss looks chunky, blocky even. Macross valks have tidy underbellies, yet despite the Legioss's bottom looking like a mess following closely the line art, somehow I love it as much as I like Macross valks.
The size difference between a same-scaled Legioss & VF-1 didn't really hit me until I put them side by side. Couple of re-processed old pics:
Now, patiently waiting for Sentinel to show more progress on their Tread and confirmed PO date. Come on Sentinel!
I don't know how others feel, but to me there is nothing cooler then having mecha from different franchises in scale with each other and displaying/posing them together.
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I know next to nothing about Warhammer, but in case anyone here is interested, the Royal Mail is issuing stamps to celebrate the 40th anniversary.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-65766495
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MP-58 (?) Hoist also incoming.
https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/mp-hoist.1244198/page-17#post-21362945
I'll say this, it was terrible idea for the cartoon to lean more into the compromised toy designs for season two instead of continuing with the streamlined redesign of season one. That being said, Takara has done a good job of recapturing Hoist from the cartoon.
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In case anyone missed the first time around, there is going to be a second round of pre-orders for Astraea II and Proto XN tomorrow.
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I am hoping they get around to making the Ozma variant with the much better head design.
And knowing my luck that would be the one they decide to do as P-Bandai.
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17 hours ago, no3Ljm said:
I had to chuckle at this bit in the review (auto translation used).
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It's up on Amazon JP for anyone that wants to get this delivered real fast.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B0C4KZLR84/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Netflix is reviving the Transformers: Forged to Fight game.
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Blitzway's Mazinkaiser toy to rule them all?
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Did anyone catch that there seem to be two versions of the intro in the final episode of Picard?
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4 hours ago, Big s said:
Yeah and every mg seems more like a recycled kit unfortunately.
Not to mention that 90% of MG kits are now P-Bandai only.
The once mighty MG line has become a shadow of itself lately.
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10 minutes ago, jenius said:
I thought we were going to get hi metal stuff.
Was teased, but Bandai is too busy pumping out non-canon Valkyrie variants that nobody asked for.
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Useful scale is pretty much crap for any of the offerings.
In fiction the Orguss is listed as being 8.7 m tall.
HMR at 17 cm ~ 1/51
Moderoid at 16 cm ~ 1/54
Variable Action at 21 cm ~ 1/41Why is it so hard for these companies to design the Orguss with a more universal scale like 1/35, 1/48 or 1/60 in mind?
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7 hours ago, Big s said:
P Bandai high grade on the way. I couldn’t read what scale on the pics at tag hobby
Maybe 1/35 scale?
Plamax looks bigger and they don't seem as small as the old 1/48 Actic Gear stuff from Takara.
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Hopefully the HG comes as close to that Battroid silhouette as possible.
6 hours ago, Big s said:I have a weird feeling that they will do their best to milk the mold. Although those will probably just be p Bandai releases
Agree. Although I could see Gamlin's 22S going retail to coincide with a Basara VF-19 Kai when they get around to it.
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On 4/15/2023 at 5:58 PM, Scyla said:
Just buy the other Crossbone Gundams and you are fine.
[edit: ] Nice pose!
Your call has been heard, Bandai is relentless 😄
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1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:
When? The Enterprise-D first faced a Borg cube that wasn't even trying and was massively outclassed in "Q Who". They only survived because Picard threw in the towel and told Q what Q wanted to hear about being in over his head. Then in "The Best of Both Worlds" they were still outclassed and unable to deal meaningful damage to Locutus's cube (which led to the Wolf 359 massacre) and only managed to survive through the use of Confusion-Fu to abduct Locutus and exploit a weakness in the Borg hive mind's software that, by accident, resulted in the cube self-destructing.
When the Ent-D fired its phasers taking out a big chunk of Borg cube after initially being held by their tractor beam. Or when the stardrive and saucer section provided enough resistance to rescue Picard. I never said that the Galaxy-class could outright beat the Borg, but it was/is able to hold on to a certain point and not immediately fall over like you make it out to be.
1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:It was actually the most heavily armed and most defensible starship Starfleet had at the time, and to the Borg it didn't even rate as a threat... which was its saving grace. And that was to the Borg three decades ago.
I wonder if the Defiant was rated as threat by the Borg cube during First Contact, probably more like an irritating fly to them.
1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:Why would they trust their lives to a ship that's slapped together out of salvage over one that was never crashed into a planet and needs a lot less resources to run?
There's familiarity and then there's practicality. The Enterprise-D is the familiar choice, the Defiant is the practical one.
Having familiarity with something IS practical.
1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:You missed an important detail. The Defiant did fight the recently-modernized Lakota to a standstill, but the Defiant was explicitly holding back and the Lakota was explicitly not. The Lakota's captain and crew had been told by Admiral Leyton that the Defiant had been commandeered by changelings and that they should destroy it at all costs. The Defiant's crew knew the Lakota's crew had been lied to, and were actively trying to minimize the damage to a friendly ship that'd been deceived into attacking them.
The finer detail to this is that the Lakota was actually also holding back, it wasn't until Admiral Leyton ordered Captain Benteen to go all out with their weapons that the Lakota stood down.
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On 4/16/2023 at 8:18 PM, Seto Kaiba said:
I'm not sure that argument tracks.
Sure, the Defiant didn't solo the Borg cube in First Contact... but then, it was never meant to. It was meant to fight as part of a fleet, and as a small escort warship aggressively min-maxed for combat it was meant to punch way above its weight class with disproportionately heavy armament and tank hits that would cripple or even destroy Starfleet's larger and less specialized ships so that it could hang in a fight as long as possible instead of being one-shotted. That's exactly what we see in First Contact, and in its prior appearnaces in the DS9 series. The Defiant was part of the fleet that intercepted the Borg cube and it hung on in that fight all the way to Earth, tanking hits from weapons that we'd previously seen one-shot Starfleet ships at Wolf 359 like a champ. So much so that she's noted to still be spaceworthy and repairable after the fight ends.
The Defiant occasionally was shown struggling against Jem'Hadar attack fighters, but mainly because there are just so bloody many of them.
Not sure what you are trying to tell me here?
The Enterprise-D had to deal with a Borg cube twice on its own and held on damn well admirably. A starship design not intended for battle, no ablative armour, no pulse phasers and no quantum torpedoes to the rescue. It too was deemed spaceworthy and repairable by Starfleet after its battle. And as I mentioned above, if it were not for the suicide attack, we basically saw again how an unprepared Galaxy class would soak up a heck of beating to survive and still keep as much of the crew alive on that initial Dominion encounter and would later become Starfleet's most veritable and valuable asset in the Dominion war.I am not really questioning the Defiant's qualities, it has its place. I just don't subscribe to the dogma that only that ship is good enough for battle because "built for Borg". The Defiant is an option, but not necessarily THE option.
Besides, why would a command crew not take the ship they know the ins and outs of best over a ship they've never set foot on (except Worf) - that makes no sense. I would think humans would function better in an environment that is more familiar to them.
On 4/16/2023 at 8:18 PM, Seto Kaiba said:By the same token, let's also not forget the many times the Galaxy-class was depicted as a one-hit-point wonder in TNG or that newer classes like the Sovereign-class were developed specifically to address the Galaxy-class's deficiencies in a defensive role.
It's probably even worse now, since the Enterprise-D is 30+ years out of date technologically and literally built from reclaimed garbage and war surplus parts.
Drama effect? Defiant and Voyager weren't exactly immune to that either. And I never claimed that the Galaxy-class is unbeatable or could not be surpassed. Of course the Enterprise-D (or Galaxy class) without any current Starfleet tech. upgrades is going to have a tough time, but that basically applies to the museum piece Defiant as well.
On 4/16/2023 at 8:18 PM, Seto Kaiba said:... actually can we muse for a moment on how completely F'ed up it is that Geordi spent twenty years painstakingly reconstructing the Enterprise-D. If it were anyone else there would not be Unfortunate Implications, but as it's Geordi in a series that's depicted every member of the TNG cast as broken and miserable... is reconstructing the Enterprise-D for the Fleet Museum Geordi's way to "atone" for having inadvertantly caused the ship's destruction in Generations? How much time did Geordi take away from his family over TWENTY YEARS to painstakingly restore the totalled saucer section, replace the stardrive section, and repair the whole mess using salvage and war surplus parts?
The crew are basically flying Geordi's midlife crisis project car into battle with the Borg.
Pretty absurd musing if you ask me, not once did I get any type of inclination like this from Geordi these past couple of episodes. Broken? He has had a good Starfleet career, has a family, brought up and shaped his daughters as decent people. Sure there was that disagreement with career path of one of the daughters, but that's already been resolved and it wasn't a catastrophic breakdown in relationship. As for his Enterprise-D project – it's just a pastime that gave him fulfilment, pride and joy, nothing more and nothing less. Maybe it took the twenty years because he wasn't constantly at it and spending time with his family? Or it took time to source a star drive section... or the right computer core... or warp core...? And flying into battle with a ship that has been rebuilt with the heart and soul of its former main engineer can not really be a bad thing.
On 4/17/2023 at 4:44 AM, Seto Kaiba said:If DS9 is any indication, she's a hell of a lot tougher than Galaxy-class tough and on more than one occasion was shown to fight on an even or superior footing against far larger ships.
I remember the Defiant having a lot of trouble getting past a heavily upgraded Excelsior-class U.S.S. Lakota and only gaining the upper hand after some creative thinking. Now imagine the Defiant going up against a "fit for Dominion war" Galaxy-class of that time.
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Hopefully this comes to fruition. I have resisted any white Strike Gundam and packs until now, speculating on Bandai actually doing this.