Hikuro

32 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

 

i got a bad feeling about this.

3 hours ago, Big s said:

I’m gonna try and watch this later today. As far as narrative, it’s totally skippable, and maybe one of the best examples of how stupid gundam can be.

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

That bad?  Really? 

56 minutes ago, no3Ljm said:

Yes. 

 

Agreed, it was pretty much as useless as that stupid mini web series they did called Twilight Axis. 

Wow I'm surprised no ones posted since Hathaway is out now on Netflix. Took me about two sittings to finally finish it. Sort of felt anticlimactic but that's cause I didn't realize this was gonna be a multipart film. English cast was good, I could of sworn Cristina Vee is playing Gigi but maybe I'm wrong?

I guess, while I'm impressed with the quality of the restoration of the footage, my issue is on 2 fronts. 1) Please do not use the "updated" audio, or at least present the option of the original. 2) Why are we going Blu-ray when the format I'd much rather have would be 4K? 

1 hour ago, mikeszekely said:

That's not good.  Planet of the Monsters was pretty boring.  City on the Edge of Battle started to show some promise, but it was all squandered on the just plain bad The Planet Eater.  I'd expect almost anything to be better than that trilogy.

Wasn't aware that Singular Point was available to watch on American Netflix yet, but now that I know it is I guess I'll check it out.

It and the final Kenshin movie apparently are available so I binged Godzilla and just started watching Kenshin...and honestly I'm enjoying Kenshin more than Godzilla. I dunno maybe I'm just not that big of a Godzilla fan...sure I've seen a lot of the movies on TV when Scifi channel was worth a damn, but this series just didn't do it for me. I think it's the monster designs, when you're basing all your monsters on an ancient kind of japanese art style using CGI cel-shading techniques, it just doesn't look good but tacky and doesn't fit the rest of the animation style. There's also the science in this series that I had so much trouble trying to understand....it was just to much for me. 

Okay I finished it a bit ago.....I realllllly don't like those monster designs at all.....and felt this really took some liberties from Shin Godzilla. Would I say this was better than the trilogy series Netflix did? No.....not really.

Personally I'm gettin tired of them rehashing the same characters again and again and again. If you're going to continue a line from Classics to I guess...WFC/ER/KD then make more characters. Don't just release Optimus, Soundwave and Megatron 3 or 4 different ways. 1) it confuses parents who buy these for their kids. 2) It ups the scalping ratio for the versions that fans want. I just would like to see a number of classic characters make their rounds....we really haven't gotten a proper Blaster, Brawn, Gears, Insecticons, gosh who else hasn't really shown up or gotten a good figure yet?

Well I'm looking forward to the havoc trooper for sure.

It wasn't bad. Wasn't to thrilled they re-wrote a particular character's back story, but I'll survive that, not the first time this has happened in the SW Universe.

I wonder if Baker is getting a bonus for all those voice overs lol

2 hours ago, tekering said:

To be fair, those were adapted with Neil Sedaka's permission, and he's properly credited (both onscreen and the various soundtrack releases).

Fascinating, nonetheless:

Keep 'em coming, guys!  This is amazing stuff. 

 I mean it's pretty off track from BGC but in terms of ripping off other peoples music and not giving proper credit Fire Bomber's Power to the Dream is pretty much a rip of Power to the people by John Lennon....but I'm sure a lot of people know that.

I felt it was trash. I was at hooked for those first 7 minutes and then whammy, lost interest with this Cole Young guy. Worthless character, even worse of a fighter, I mean without spoiling things he was just a worthless freaking character that even his one special character tie in as  factor for the whole film made almost ZERO sense. 

As I sit and try to take in what this movie was suppose to be versus what it ended up being, I feel sort of ripped off. It had a ton of potential to be something cool but I felt like I was almost watching Annihilation again.

I admit, I pretty much stopped playing any form of franchise since MK3 and the death of Arcade centers. And I lost a lot of respect for the genre when MK2 Annihilation was out. But that 7 minute teaser was nice, so I'll give it a shot this weekend.

46 minutes ago, JB0 said:

Oh, it was a quantum disruption in their star's subspace microsignature? That makes a lot of sense, it's no wonder the romulans didn't notice until it was too late.

caused by a wizard....

11 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

I know.  Believe me, I want it.  But not as much as I want to stay married.

EDIT: On an unrelated note... Rattrap is decent for a Core class, but I'm not sure he's actually supposed to be that small.  I mean...

I think... I think I'm going to have to track down a Thrilling 30 Rattrap, huh?

DOUBLE EDIT: Yeah, I Ebayed Rattrap.

Also, after doing some shopping, taking some pictures, and rearranging my schedule I can provide a review a day for another week, and @M'Kyuun you can feel free to read without skipping because I'm pushing Huffer to at least Thursday, but more likely Friday.

I’ve actually still got my thrilling rat trap and rhinos and no intentions to replace them with the kingdom line. In fact besides missing airazor and tigatron I pretty much got the maximal cast collected and I think they all look good together.

ordered Galvy, Rodi & Scorpi. That's pretty much all I'm caring over. I liked my old Generations tracks so I'll be good there. Don't care for the Ark and I'm very satisfied with my old Generations Rhinox.

I was able to go to Toy Dojo but I had a really hard time trying to gauge what was there and of course they don't price tag anything so I wasn't gonna be like grabbing every box and asking the price and working my way around on what I wanted lol.

I did however manage to score MP Sunstreaker which was a must, and I grabbed Optus, they had a few of them left so I figured for sure. I actually really like him, I'm not sure where I'm gonna put him since he doesn't exactly fit into anything, but I thought he was really neat. I'm glad though he came with an extra pair of digits cause one of them was already missing when I was transforming him into bot mode so fixed that. Sad that I can't get him to revert back into vehicle form...his legs won't collapse and it has already gotten signs of stressing the plastic at the knees behind the leg. I'm not sure if I'm missing something or there's some kind of a trick cause you can see the tracks inside the legs where it should slide down in...but some reason when it starts to collapse it just stops like there's an obstruction in both legs.

1 hour ago, mikeszekely said:

Toy Dojo?  Asking because a little hole in the wall might have some stuff that a popular store like Toy Dojo sold out of a long time ago.

If you're looking for stuff that works with WfC (Siege, ER, Kingdom, and Studio Series 86) there isn't really a ton of stuff, partly because between WfC and some gaps filled with Prime Wars most of the major Season 1-3 characters are done, and mostly because even non-MP 3P stuff is just too big.  

That said, if you just want cool robots, I see they have Optus Pexus in stock.  Now, I'm sure you probably have an Optimus Prime or 12, but the incredible amount of articulation MMC built into the figure makes him one of the most fun toys I've owned, and one I'd highly recommend.

Honestly, almost anything MMC is good.  Reformatted is their CHUG-ish, IDW-ish line, although as I noted it's a bit big for WfC (Pexus and their Megatron, Tyrantron, are taller than Siege Magnus and almost as tall as SS86 Grimlock).  Ocular Max is their MP-style stuff.  I'm also pretty fond of Fans Hobby, who've tackled stuff like Overlord, Laser Optimus, and the Monsterbots (but avoid their Armada Optimus for now) and DX9 (MP-style stuff you can actually play with).  Planet X is good if you like the old War for Cybertron/Fall of Cybertron games.  If you're cool with Bayverse designs that don't look like they should transform but somehow do Unique Toys has done some interesting stuff.

If you're specifically looking for MPs that HasTak hasn't bothered with, they can't seem to get he license from Porsche so Maketoys Downbeat (Jazz, if you can actually find it) and either Ocular Max's Hellion or X-Transbots' Toro (Cliffjumper) are good buys.  You could also check out Transform Element's Phantom (Mirage), to help close out the season 1 cars.  Oh, and DX9 makes a figure called Richthofen that's a fantastic Powerglide.

One figure I'd recommend, dunno if they have it or not, is DX9's Carry.  He's an MP Rodimus Prime.  Now, sure, Takara already did Rodimus with MP-09.  Carry's different, though.  For one, he's based on the Studio OX style, so he looks a bit tougher, a bit older, and he's got massive wings.  For two, he doesn't do the Hot Rod thing.  There's no car, no young face, etc.  Because, three, there's no trailer.  Or rather, the entire space camper turns into the robot.  The cab doesn't detach, and there is no battle platform.  And, four, they pull it off with some interesting, fun engineering that makes transforming him something you'll actually want to do.  Those reasons make Carry one of my favorite 3P figures to this day.

yeah it's toy dojo. Last time I was in there they had a few interesting things, I think some Fans Hobby stuff and some MMC's but it's been a month or two since I last went there....it's quite the drive.

But this has given me some ideas on what to look for so I appreciate it. 

K....so this might be a tall order. Saturday I'm going out to a little toy shop in Austin that specializes in Transformers, but also namely in 3rd party goods. Is there anything I should take a particular look at getting? Most of my collection ranges in the generations-seige lineup, but I do dabble once in a bluemoon in MP like figures. Mainly looking for stuff that HasTak hasn't released character wise or even seem to be going in that direction. 

That to me is a hell of a lot sharper looking than what it was long ago seeing how they were SD sorta looking. I may end up just getting this just for the hell of it since I enjoy side scrollers, and I do like the new graphics.

surprised there hasn't been anyone voicing their opinions on the show thus far. I just finished watching all 7 episodes and I feel, the show has some potential but it really seems to just drag on....7 episodes that could of very easily been done in 3, maybe 4 and given us some more with the remaining 3-4 episodes. 

Im not saying this was bad, but it certainly didn't feel good and didn't capture what made Pacific Rim a cult hit when first released  8 years ago. I do hope the series continues and maybe give us a little more than 7 episodes and a bit more action. 

I'm wondering if he gets a sword as some kind of a nod to him in the Regeneration One series, just missing his shield. 

13 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

I really want the rest of the first wave SS86 figures, but I checked my local Walmart and Target last night and another Target today. Nada. Walmart moved their Transformers stuff and had nothing but Netflix Wheeljack. Target has a bunch of stuff, but it's all that Buzzworthy Bumblebee stuff. I may get impatient and wind up overpaying on eBay again.

Agreed. Local Walmart is moving inventory for spring stuff and there were 5 Netflix wheel jacks and a few dinky cyber verse figures and nothing else.

when I went to Target yesterday they were pretty much just empty of anything but 1 kingdom prime figure and bumblebee junk. 

I mean in all fairness Cara’s contribution to S2 wasn’t much but it was at least more than Karga. 

These last two days I’ve been really great for figure purchases. Amazon sent out cyclonus and I just love this guy. While on my way home from work I picked up Primal at a local Walmart. And yeah like stated, there’s some quirks I’m not to fond of but he’ll go well with what beast wars figures I’ve collected in the generations line up.

then today I was told by a forum member on tfw of another Walmart down the rod having Jazz, Blurr and Hot rod studio figures. So I got those three picked up without issue.

I really feel like that these figures will probably be the last I’ll collect once hasbro finishes both these series. I’ve been very satisfied by both WFC and the studios series.

I just got Netflix Soundwave and Elita-1, considering that I was fairly happy with the what was it, power of the primes Arcee? I decided to skip Earthrise and wait when Elita was released. Yeah, I'm not a fan of her overall transformation being a shell former sort to speak. But Soundwave I think is a rather fun toy. There's a few things kind of stiff in the transformation such as cover parts on the legs that then peg into his side during cassette mode. And I feel bad for totally missing out on Rumble and Frenzy and Ratbat to help complete the cassette addons.