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  2. Old_Nash_II
    Return of the Golden age of chambara movies?
  3. Scyla
    I have it but it stays in Ultra Magnus mode. The white Prime has troubles standing on his feet (at least in a static A-pose) because the heels are not straight, they are slightly slanting upwards) and too short. The other thing that is annoying to me is that they painted small red rectangles on the inner robot’s forearms so there is a uniform Red torso in armored mode. It really sticks out in the white Prime mode and I don’t understand why they couldn’t engineer a flap to cover those areas and have a pristine look for the inner robot’s forearms (it is also absent from FansToys product photography). Other than that it is your standard FansToys fare: great sculpt, great paint, great materials, great silhouette, very accurate, nightmare transformation. He even has above standard articulation compared to the average FansToys piece. I think it is pretty great but I have it for the Ultra Magnus mode. While the Masterpiece one is fun to transform is has the standard low production values most Takara MPs have and has odd proportions and limited articulation.
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  5. Scyla
    I would never transform the Metal Build Zeta Gundam. I think even if it came in Wave Rider mode I wouldn’t do it.
  6. grogall
    Found it very interesting that the a-hole too mount the base is actually integrated in the first two releases as well! But the manual never mentioned it....
  7. Lolicon
    I'll get a copy, but while it looks a different, I don't see anything that makes it clearly better than Yamato's version. Let's see if Bandai actually gives us white landing gear like on the HMR. I'm willing to put money on them being unpainted diecast. Knowing Bandai we'll probably get just the standing Basara figure and no sitting figure for the cockpit.
  8. electric indigo
    I can already say that I love the color grading they did.
  9. DeltaE27
    I’d say calling the animation consistent is a slight stretch. We see Vrlitwhai wrestling with that same model of Valkyrie, and he’s supposedly bigger than your average boy, er, Zentradi. But he looks to be about the same size as the Valkyrie. Heck, unless Vrlitwhai is the same size as that Zentradi guard, how is he supposed to get through that door? And yeah, we see valkyries depicted around the same size as the machines they’re fighting all the time too (ie, Max vs Milia for a few split seconds when they’re on screen together, and the seating room inside a Q-Rau is well documented). So yeah, I fully agree that scale chart isn’t used when animations were being made. But the result isn’t something that’s *more* consistent, it’s something that’s *less* consistent. Whoever a Valkyrie is fighting always seems to be about the same size as it (see, silly glaug melee attack animation for a low-quality example. I also found a screenshot of Valkyrie vs Regult where they’re about the same size). Vrlitwhai is equivalent to a Valkyrie is equivalent to a standard zentradi is equivalent, on a bad animation day, to a Glaug. frankly I think the more likely explanation is it’s just easier to animate scenes where everything is roughly the same size… So if I’m a model company, and I have a license for production of a design, my two options are 1. to comb through the original anime and the reference material I have been given and decide based on contradictory information which size I’d like to go with. Perhaps this is based on being able to fit a zentradi in the cockpit, but even the zentradi aren’t consistently sized. It also means using a lot more plastic to scale everything up. 2. Using official figures that I’ve already used in the past (and for all we know may have been provided by the license holders?) to size the design, and as long as I never make a model of the pilot I’m fine. Personally, I find the discussion of scale fascinating but I think accusing the company of not doing their homework by sticking to official sources for their licensed product is a bit… unfair? But I also imagine this might be too much of a tangent for a thread about hasegawa kits, so…my apologies!
  10. ImChris5115 started following Bandai METAL Line (MBuild/MStructure/GFFMComposite/MRDamashii/Gundam Chogokin)
  11. ImChris5115
    Metal Build Zeta Gundam - Transformation
  12. pengbuzz
    The Armored Core game series did this idea better IMHO...
  13. JB0
    Oh, yeah, it was definitely a dumb thing in a dumb cartoon. One might say it was less coronation and more bad comedy. But really, the entire franchise is dumb and goofy, so I just embrace it for what it is. The fact that half the Constructicons don't even have mouths makes the trumpets that much funnier to me.
  14. Big s
    That was top gun 2
  15. electric indigo
    Bandai is still in the game:
  16. Big s
    It just looks cartoony. I think they could’ve done better
  17. Big s
    On which one. They both look kinda scary
  18. Big s
    I know one existed, but wasn’t sure if it was released here officially. I know they tried to bring the show here many years back and maybe it had something to do with that.
  19. Big s
    It seems mostly just junk suits and worker leftovers. They do seem a bit worried about the authorities though. I don’t know if this will be the formula for the whole show, but I have a feeling it’s just the starting point to get to what’s upcoming. Since there will be the two gundams and one being specifically tracked by Zeon. It also seems that the first episode gives hints that the main character will go to earth. There may be enough going on to start a conflict of sorts between earth and Zeon, but it’s probably gonna be a bit down the line
  20. Valkyrie Hunter D
    A short directed by the great Masami Obari himself:
  21. Beltane70
    While it’s part of the lyrics, “Lonely Soldier Boy” is not the name of Mospeada’s OP song, the title is actually “In Search of Lost Dreams”.
  22. Big s
    Not yet, but probably soon
  23. Big s
    Didn’t they already do those. I have a Mando kit in my backlog, but I thought they already put out the ship
  24. Big s
    Is that the Tomytec? Looks sized about right for the pilot finally
  25. tekering
    Oh, I can oblige you there. ☺️
  26. KOG Water Dragon
    Did they announce a fighter version yet?
  27. anime52k8
    Has anyone picked up Fans Toys Margh? This might be weird but I kind of want it just for the white prime.
  28. MinmayMusicManiac started following Mospeada
  29. MinmayMusicManiac
    Honestly in my opinion I really like they made Yellow sing in Robotech as they feel like real songs especially the song Lonely Soldier Boy (not to be confused with the Japanese OP of the same name)
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