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With all this discussion about Macross M3, I'd like to ask is there any new information on the giant insectoid biological weapons that appear in the game? After Macross Frontier was released, I've always wondered if the insectoid biological weapons in M3 were in anyway related to or developed from the Vajra.

It kinda gives me Marvel #1 Cover vibes. I saw someone saying it's based on some of the Studio Ox illustrations.

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Hey; I just wanted to follow up and see how that worked out for your Miria 639 figure. How is that doing?

That's how I lost my 1/48 VF-1S Roy; the thing pretty much crumbled to bits on me, even after keeping it out of direct light. On mine, it was the back piece where the tail attached, and then the upper arms. I never was able to afford to replace it (ended up crippled after buying it), and still cannot afford a replacement even some time after this happened. 😭

Really don't care for this version of MP Prime. As previously mentioned, he looks like a new version of MP-10, and we've already had that flavor. What bothers me more is the overall aesthetic of this one: it feels off to me, and not in a "not G1-toy" version or "not cartoon" version type of way. To be frank: I'm tired of the "toon aesthetic" myself. It may sound stupid, but in a modification of the G1 "toy" version, I've actually been wondering about a back of the box art series where we have the very Japanese looking Optimus with the dark windshields, silver hands and such. Starscream, Megatron and all of them in that original piece look somewhat different, and rather unearthly with how their eyes are depicted and such. Anyways, that's just me I suppose. But this newest iteration ("MPG") isn't doing it for me. I also think other series could use some time in the spotlight. I love G1 and all, but fans of the other series really deserve an MP line for their faves.

Maybe so.... But I'm glad I stumbled upon this pop up store. I didn't get a chance to get the original J, let alone this one last year. So I'm a happy camper.

Sigh... this is why I gave up on Gundam after the final nail which was TWfM; the franchise as a whole has lost its' way.

I still wish they make the YF-19 in HMR

I haven't either, just recalling what I read. Thing is, they didn't copy Yamato's sound booster, they just popped out another production of the original HM version, so the Yamato bracket design wouldn't work. They just skipped a step by never making Fire Valk-specific shoulder panels.

Preordered Bully Maguire at Hasbro Pulse.

Transformers Generations AOTP Air Raid x2.

Yeah, there isn't much difference between them to warrant buying a new one at a higher price. Could have given us a new head with a more accurate eye patch and retro looking arm. This one got a little bit of red paint.

Bandai is holding out any new variants to raise prices?

yeah i missed it when it was on sale at jungle long time back. Still stings cos after that it seldom popped up and then the price climbed...

Oh I haven't messed with the sound booster yet so I didn't know the holes were for that. Seems kinda janky to me when pretty everything is just a copy of the Yamato 19.

I’ve got the pilot and canopy ready to go. Will get new pics up soon!

Hey guys, Take your time and have fun with it. Keep your expectations in check. Everyone’s first effort is not going to turn out as it is in your mind’s eye. There’s no substitute for experience and you will learn as you go along and get better and better results as you absorb new ideas and techniques little by little. Part of the fun is learning those new things. Lots of great pointers from the other members. Best of luck with it!

Sweet. Solid color stands too. Although I'll continue to use my clear stands instead.

Feels like I'm starting to make some progress now, what with finding Slingshot earlier, and now Studio Series Voyager-class Scrapper has finally arrived. Well... the more things change, the more they stay the same, eh? 86 Scrapper is smaller, more tall Deluxe than a Voyager. The molded greebles are slightly different. 86 Scrapper's purple is a little less red, his green a little less yellow. The details on his chest are painted to look like the cartoon, where CW Scrapper's chest and abs are painted to look like the G1 toy. Yet, for a line dedicated to screen accuracy, 86 Scrapper has lost the gold and silver on his pelvis. His arms have gone from too short to a little too long. Yet those small changes seem to highlight the things that are the same... the head sculpts are nearly identical. Same wheels on the shoulders and legs. Same way his feet bulge out at the sides under the wheels. Maybe it's not super apparent in these phots, but the hollow spaces are in the insides of the forearms and the backs of the calves are hollow on both figures, and the shovels fold onto their backs in the same way. The accessories are similar, too... kinda. I mean, given that the CW Constructicons came as a set, who can really say what bits belonged to which Constructicons specifically? What I can say is that Scrapper comes with a trio of guns. One gun is based on the G1 cartoon and has no analog in the Combiner Wars set (though if you bought the Japanese Unite Warriors set instead you got a similar gun). The other two gun combine into Devastator's rifle... just like CW Devastator's rifle split into two parts. I'll note that the sculpt is very close to the CW version, too. I could write that off like, "well, they're both Devastator's gun, what else would they look like?" Except that the CW rifle is neither totally toy nor totally cartoon accurate, making it seem like Hasbro/Takara recycled their previous work instead of going back to the source and designing a cartoon-accurate weapon. But I digress. Scrapper's head swivels, with some up/down tilt (just like CW). His shoulders swivel and can move laterally 90 degrees, plus he's got a bit of forward/backward butterfly (improved from CW, who lacks the backward butterfly). His biceps swivel (same), and his elbows bend 90 degrees (improved, at least from the CW version, though the UW version did have working elbows). No wrist swivel or waist swivel (disappointingly same). His hips can go 90 degrees forward, backward, or laterally (nearly the same). Thighs swivel, and knees bend 90 degrees (same). His feet can tilt upward (improved), nothing down (same), and his ankles pivot 90 degrees (improved). Scrapper can hold his gun using the 5mm ports in his fists. He can also hold the two halves of Devastator's gun. While he does, you may have noticed a small peg on the edge of his shovel. That happens to fit a small hole on his black gun, allowing for bot mode storage. Alas, there doesn't seem to be any bot mode storage for the Devastator gun. 86 Scrapper's transformation is extremely similar to the Combiner Wars toy. 86 Scrapper's chest opens so his head can fold inside instead of collapsing. His elbows bend backward 90 degrees before tabbing into his sides, but his arms still tab into his sides. His legs tab together, then his calves fold up and over his thighs, while his shins fold up over the fronts of his thighs and his feet fold flat against the insides of his shins, exactly like the CW toy. Again, it's weird how some details have been improved, like paint on the rims and a driver's cabin with a shape more like the G1 toy/cartoon... but how they also still copied details from from the Combiner Wars toy like the larger front tire and the enclosed driver's cabin that aren't G1 accurate. Scrapper rolls, and though there are technically two hinges on his shovel the one hinge is clipped down so only the one closer to the bucket works. There are tabs on the sides and slots on the back for weapon storage. The official configuration is to take the barrel of Devastator's gun and use a slot on the side to grab onto a tab, then a tab under the back of Devastator's gun to plug into one of the slots on the back of Scrapper. Scrapper's own rifle uses it's 5mm handle to plug into a port on the back of Devastator's gun. You have other options, though, if you want to get creative. It's worth pointing out that Scrapper's black gun also has a tab, and can plug onto the back of his alt mode while you can leave Devastator's gun off entirely. In a way, Scrapper reminds me of the time I had to write a research paper as part of a senior project in high school, then had to do a research paper with nearly identical requirements as part of a freshman project my first semester of college, so I made a few tweaks to the spots my high school teacher dinged me on but otherwise turned in the same paper again to my college professor. That's pretty much what Hasbro did... while there are a number of small improvements like better joint tolerances and elbows, the overall design and engineering are still so close to the Combiner Wars toy. A toy which, I remind you, was not particularly complicated and much larger, which makes the notion of Scrapper being a Voyager a tad questionable (even if his smaller size does mean he scales better). 86 Scrapper isn't a bad toy; in a world without the CW version I'd probably be talking about how good he is (how great he is, if he were a Deluxe). I can't help but be disappointed, though, that Scrapper is basically a decade-old design with minor improvements. If you're coming from Combiner Wars, the overall solidity, the tweaked colors, and elbows are probably still worth the upgrade. If you already have the Unite Warriors version, though, you might want to stick that one unless the size bothers you.

🤨 That's not quite how it works. The SoC can output to 4k even if it wasn't docked. The reason the onboard display isn't 4k is because rendering on a 4k 8" display is stupidly small at native resolution. A 4k 8" display has a 550-ish PPI. Even if you drop the resolution to 1080p, you still have to use each of those 8.3M pixels. An 8" 1080p screen has ~279 PPI, which would be very crisp at that size. On top of that, it's refreshing the screen at 120Hz. That's the best we should do for that size of a screen. Yes, driving 4k on such a small device uses a lot of power, but it's also a waste of power because you can't read anything that small. You have to drop the resolution, which would be a waste of a 4k screen.

Even though the new Major Bludd is pinless, I think I'm fine with the first release.

The most interesting thing is that he used the left over spruce pieces and then added putty before sculpting the pilot.