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Oof that price.  That's approaching regular SDF-1 pricing isn't it?  This is gonna be a hard pill to swallow but I've always wanted this plane...  It's not quite as big as a 1/48 but towers over a 1/60 VF-1, right?

This thing needs to have some insane build quality and razor sharp QA..  two things the past releases haven't exactly been known for from what I have read.

As someone who never has gotten a VF-0 at all but has wanted one for awhile, I'm glad to see this.  I'm sure that will rapidly deflate into abject terror when the price is revealed.

2 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

There's one called X-Base Wireless Power Station. But not sure if this is what Tekering have.

http://www.x-base.com/products.html

 

Huh.  Innnnteressssstinggggg...

What brand of lighting product/kit/ecosystem is that being used?

16 hours ago, Saburo said:

Finally got around to opening these guys. 

Outstanding photo, Saburo

Why on earth would you want the non premiums in addition to the premiums?

The baby pods look cool, I wonder if those tiny babies people bake into king cakes for Mardi Gras would fit into one xD

16 hours ago, Slave IV said:

Nice haul and pics!

Thanks

Finally caught up in this massive thread and figured I'd check in with a few recent and assorted "stuff and thangs" that I've managed to open so far

Figurarts BB-8 added to the droid lineup
i7 8700k (to replace an aging i5 4670k) & mobo
Figuarts TLJ Praetorian (w/heavy blade)
Figuarts TLJ First Order troopers and Executioner
Figuarts Iron Man Mk II re-issue (holy crap this figure is awesome, I believe there's even diecast in the legs)
McFarlane Tiny Tina!!! (holding a teeny tiny Figuarts baby Groot from the pack with Rocket which I haven't taken out yet)

PS. Yall are killing me with the Eaglemoss and Aoshima Star Trek ship pics... ugh I want!  Especially that Aoshima holy crap I wish I'd known about that when it was "only" $150.

I like the panel lines and the colors, but agree that the sculpt itself looks a tad too angular and almost harshly blocky.  Glad to see no light up visor gimmick.  The way it looks now is less like a $300 toy (as it did in 2015) and more like a $150-$180 toy.

One quadrant at a time?  Slowly?

The Pit Road 1/24 car is available at Amazon 3rd party for about $62 right now https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J8D0T4W/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I forgot to mention one of the screw covers was loose inside the plastic tray

Nice, lol

For what it’s worth I have 5 Yamato 1/60s and never experienced the issue with that hinge till now with my first Arcadia. Anyway, couple pics. She’s a beauty!

Woo, I finally got it.  I didn't do the unlock quite as those pics describe (thanks for those!) but I must have gotten close enough and it finally moved and nothing broke.  Thanks all!

Ok here are the problem areas. The parts trying to separate and the hinge that won’t budge

It's at my office, I'll try and take a pic of the issue tomorrow.  It will flip up 90 degrees but the upper part doesn't fold to bring the pack back towards the back.

Holy crap I cannot get the backpack on this girl to flip up all the way without parts of it starting to split open.  Any tips on how to free up that hinge?

Ooh I just realized these will be my first 1/60 valks with those dang option parts, finally.  I still can't fathom how no one has those up on Shapeways or something.

Thanks for the heads up at NY.  The price is the same as the PO price, yay!

lol no just print the background scene of all of them as they were in the movie

Or build them out of lego?

Nah just print out a background of them and put it behind the figure

Took a chance on another 3rd party Chinese accessory, this time for Figuarts Tony Stark.  It arrived yesterday and I have to say, I am completely thrilled with this piece.

On 10/6/2017 at 1:16 PM, wm cheng said:

They are much smaller than the first movie and they sync up to the pilot movements so much that these robots look like they move at a human scale (but in slo-mo) - no sense of weight or inertia - argh!

 

We must agree to disagree...  Maybe its the bright daylight, but it "flattens" the cityscape behind the robots and makes them "pop" out of the scene.  The new suits are soft spandex, where as the original suits are "hard" suits like an astronault (they had to hold liquid to suspend the pilots from the inertia & g-forces).  Yes, I don't like darkness to hide stuff, but the rain definitely added depth and reflections to the nighttime battle sequences that this daytime sequence looks so flat - there weren't even reflections of the robots in the glass of the office towers.  Also there's just no comparison between DoubleNegative (VFX for this movie) and ILM (VFX for the original) they aren't even in a similar ballpark. 

 

Maybe that's why they can move like they have no weight or size and just dance about with martial arts!  But yes, the original Jaegers were like taller than skyscrapers (50-60 stories) and now they all look to be around 15-25 stories tall.  They move and fight just like Transformers - argh!

 

Agreed.  I'm disappointed so far with the trailer and how unrealistic they've gone with the Jaeger scale and movement.  The first film had a sense of tension and suspense in the battles because you knew the kaiju had superior speed and reflexes.  It was down to the pilots to outsmart the animal instinct.

I just really hate how unthoughtful and careless the writing is so far.  It's insulting to the thoughtful audience that has faithfully followed Star Trek all these decades.