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I can't see them doing a second batch. Especially when the number of them in the market increased dramatically when the GBP set was released. Heck, there are 15 of them on Mandrake right now. Bandai would be nuts releasing them again.

9 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

Gorgeous work as always by LEK, but I must say, the style throws me a bit on the Legioss..  I don't remember Mospeada's animation ever being that detailed.  

LEK = Better than real life!

11 hours ago, connor99 said:

Agreed. Nice work, sh9000!

He didn't paint that. LEK did.

1 hour ago, no3Ljm said:

I can’t remember coming across a TWE item that became a shelf warmer.

I can't remember a new Valk release I wanted less.

1 hour ago, TangledThorns said:

Raised by Wolves is a pure sci-fi show and its great being so, doing stuff that I don't see other sci-fi shows do and reminds me of the sci-fi books I used to read back in the 1980s.

 

It's bonkers. And I like it a lot. I just hop they have a plan to tie all of this madness into a "point".

So, Raised By Wolves season 2.

I have no idea what is going on. I hope the show creators do. They don't have very many episodes left to pull this thing back to some sort of situation where everything that is going on makes sense. I still like it (hoping for a payoff). But I'm getting worried.

19 hours ago, General Rasp said:

Just curious, what site did you order from?

Bombusbee

5 hours ago, autoNamed said:

Do we expect Bogue to be free of the QC issues present on Hayate?

No idea.

CCS Toys Getter Review Part Dux

I just spent some time designing/ 3D printing an adapter so I could get this guy on a YetiStand (I don’t like colored stands). Anyhoo, I spent some more time with the figure and I want to amend my previous review. I still think it’s a great figure and worth the money. But……..I’m pretty disappointed with the paint apps and/or the lack of them. Some of it (too much) seems like raw plastic. And the main color choices are just too muted. If the red was actually red, preferably with some metallic in it (just a little) and was glossy it would pop a whole lot better. And the white is kinda semi gloss where it should be at least gloss. Or even better, pearl.

The figure just doesn’t pop like the previous CCS releases and I feel a little let down. I love the sculpt. It’s the perfect size. The frame is a brick. And it comes with tons of stuff. It just doesn’t jump out at you when you put it among a lot of other toys.

Would I buy it again? Sure. Would I have paid $10 more for better paint apps? Sure would.

Your mileage may vary

4 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

 As to the engine situation, I imagine 'rule of cool' is primarily responsible for the flames coming out of so many orifices; however, it stands to reason that it likely has a standard engine up front and the completely exposed rocket engine in the rear. It's obviously not a turbine engine, so it would have to be a fuel driven rocket engine. 

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negatives:

I think the love angle between Batman and Selena was a bit forced- there was really no chemistry there, and no basis for chemistry really; I think they made better working partners. They complemented each other.  Similar to Anne Hathaway's Catmoman, she doesn't embody the character as much as we've seen in The Animated Series or even Michelle Pfeiffer's over-the-top performance in Batman Returns. Kravitz's Selena takes in strays and shows off some neat fighting moves, but that's a long way from the almost super-humanly agile and acrobatic Catwoman who identifies more with cats than people from the toons and comics.

The Batman's Penguin was a very grounded departure from his short, rotund and long-nosed depiction in toons, comics, and Batman Returns. In fact, he's so devoid of any of the traditional characteristics of the Penguin character that one would be easily excused for not recognizing him as such. Colin Farrell plays him as a typical NY style gangster, accent and all, albeit with a scarred face that's never explained. Perhaps in the sequel.  

The Riddler, again, is devoid of most of the traditional trappings of the character, aside from his wont to accompany his crimes with perverse riddles. I liked the overarching point to the riddles, but the character himself was played, in stark contrast to Penguin, as the stereotypical heavy-breathing loon, at times wailing his lines and punctuating other lines with the odd shouted word to get his point across. It didn't work for me. I was hoping more for the perfectly smart, egotistical, and petty Riddler we got in the Arkham Asylum games, but Reeves and Dano took the character off the rails into full-bore crazy-town.  I wish they hadn't.  Too, the little preview of what is undoubtedly Joker seemed off to me as well.  Mark Hamill and Heath Ledger have both left indelible marks on that character- heck, even Cesar Romero, mustache and all, played the character well in the old '66 show. I can understand wanting to put your own stamp on it, but just from what little we saw in The Batman (he's in shadow or just a voiceover in his scenes, but there are enough clues to pretty definitively say this is the Joker), I get the sense he's going to be ramped up to over-the-top crazy or just weird. Too, the actor playing him needs to work on his Joker laugh.  

Given the hype about the brutality, I was somewhat disappointed.  I was hoping for Frank Castle levels of brutality, albeit without the killing. I don't think he was any more brutal than either Bale's or Affleck's depictions. I loved the trailer where he continuously beats the guy while he's down- it's savage and unnecessary, and I was hoping that was going to be the bar for this film- an over-necessary show of force that scares the bejesus out of the bad guys, which would make sense for such an unconventional vigilante early in his career trying to establish a reputation amongst the criminal element. Perhaps they had to dial it back to maintain the PG-13 rating, but I'd love to see an R-rated Batman film where he can really unleash some cruel, unusual, and completely deserved punishment on the bad guys. 

Almost forgot- his gliding scene was a bit interesting for its lack of, shall we say, grace. Too, he seemed unnerved when taking the plunge, as if it was his first time, after two years of being Batman. He was obviously prepared for the eventuality, but seemed a little reluctant. He'll need to work on that in the sequel. 😉

 

I'm wondering what engine is up front.

The one in the back is a twin turbo Chevy LS motor with some sort of goofy piping to make that "rocket" thing happen. My guess is that it's some sort of dump valve (off the turbo's) situation with spark plugs in there somewhere to light off an artificially rich condition created by the ECU. They may have gone as far as to plumb a couple of fuel injectors too add more flame too.

The rear jet/flame thing has zero function other than looking cool.

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!!

5 hours ago, RealJayDee said:

...... but want to pay as minimum premium as possible

That's odd. Most people look to spend as much as possible.

43 minutes ago, TangledThorns said:

Got Paramount+ super cheap for 3 months at $2 but their original content doesn't seem that great when compared to HBO Max and Netflix obviously. Lots of CBS prime time and Star Trek shows that I'm not interested in though Halo is coming soon this month to Paramount+. Any suggestions?

-Ink Master (even if you aren't into tattoo's the art is great). And I HATE reality shows. It says something I like this one.

-Yellowstone

-Evil

-The Stand. It wasn't great. But I'm glad I watched it.

When I saw Evangelion for the first time I thought right away that it must have been what inspired Pacific Rim. I hadn't seen Pacific Rim for quite some time. My wife picked Pacific Rim for the movie tonight. She has seen all of the Rebuild movies. I told her to watch for how much it has in common with Evangelion (in a dumbed down American way). The opening monologue/ exposition dump/ montage hit all of the "surface" Evangelion high points. Even some of the visuals.

Clearly PR is a very dumbed down version that has zero depth to it. But, it's still fun to watch.

12 hours ago, Black Valkyrie said:

 

, love the Batmobile.  

5 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

  And the car was awesome.

Was there a second motor up front? If so, what kind? Internal combustion?

4 hours ago, 505thAirborne said:

 

4 hours ago, Jumbosan said:

May anybody can tell me 

 Can armored parts set  use with Movie edition VF-1S Valkyrie (Hikaru Ichijo use)?

because i don’t have vf-1j 

Yes

On 2/26/2022 at 10:24 PM, 505thAirborne said:

FYRE is hilarious (in the sense of what a train wreck it turned into), watched it twice. Need to check out that HBO doc. 

When you watch it keep in mind she is using a fake voice the entire time. It makes it soooooooo much better!

3 hours ago, Tking22 said:

Affleck Batman at least gave us the most Batmany fight in movie history, that fight scene from BvS was straight from a Batman Arkham game, it was fantastic.

 

 

My problem with Batfflek was that Afflek is just too famous for being him and not much of an actor. It's hard to suspend your disbelief when you can't separate the character and Matt Damon's BFF/ JaLo's boyfriend.. I think he did a good job. I just couldn't see him as anything but himself.

If he was a top shelf actor he could have pulled it off in my eyes. 

I've never seen the Twilight movies so this new one won't have that issue for me.

On 2/20/2022 at 2:04 PM, Grey728 said:

 however, I can't seem to get over the colors CCSToys used. It comes off as more orange/red and brown/red than hot rod red/dark red especially when I compare it to the other Shin Getters I have. Is it just me? Am I the only one bothered by it?

 

I just got mine out of the box. In a vacuum I don't mind the colors. But, I agree. It's a little too orange.

I think mine looks a little more red than yours. That of course could just be down to the pictures being different. My pic is in a room with soft light. My displays have warm 3000K LED's which makes it look even a little more red. You look like you're rocking maybe 5000K of bright white/blue light there?

19 hours ago, 505thAirborne said:

This is a spoiler free review. 

Cliffs Notes from what I can tell is he liked it.

6 hours ago, Sanity is Optional said:

Out of curiosity, looked up the MSRP for the 1984 version of their Ecto-1:

$1390

Fun fact. The actual cost of the real Ecto 1 in 1984 was $1500.

1 hour ago, pengbuzz said:

More exposure, wider distribution of the OVA's and series,  and better promotion of the products/ series overall. One reason I ever knew about RT/Macross was the models coming out in the stores before the series did!

In other words: give the people a chance to see what we all fell in love with years ago (even if we found out it was Macross later on!)

What age demographic do you see them being able to tap into?

58 minutes ago, TangledThorns said:

 

Recommend Tinder Swindler and Fyre on Netflix next then. Both are documentaries and the Fyre Festival is mentioned in Inventing Anna and found the few major things in common with all this is young people that are sociopaths that live on Instagram. Unreal.

 

 

Seen em. Loved them. No idea why I like them so much.

Check out the HBO doc on what's her face that had the scam blood testing machine startup. Very similar to Fyre and Inventing Anna.................. but $9B

26 minutes ago, Slave IV said:

If anyone else is willing to sell me Japanese toys for so low, it puts them out of business, I’d be happy to shop with you!