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So evidently Guile went up at Target inbetween the first time and second time I looked for him on the webpage. frakking Target exclusive. https://www.target.com/p/street-fighter-guile-6-34-player-2-action-figure/-/A-94311659

There's some really good worldbuilding in some of those short stories. The audio dramas have some interesting stuff too. It's actually kind of weird how many random civvies SMS is willing to take on and train for yuks. Not just the actor who plays Shin Kudo in Bird Human, but even Sheryl Nome does a stint as an SMS trainee in the drama CDs as prep to play a pilot in a TV drama being produced in the Frontier fleet. (Kinda-sorta explaining how she's able to do a passable job of maneuvering Michel's VF-25G when he gets hurt.) Then there's the bit where Luca and L.A.I. are training to solve the whole Sharon Apple problem by creating a stable AI for unmanned fighters by basing them on the personalities of Luca's classmates.

It’s one of those things where I could swear I saw him jump on a lil scouts and did a quick stab, but I think I had imagined it all these years.

I think that was also in Godzilla vs Bambi, which was a film I was so glad to see on the big screen

Ha. This is what would happen.

I'm painting this small resin Nadia figure. She comes in one part, so just one resin lump. Made by Kaiyodo. I bought it a few years back for only about 2,000 yen. Now this has jumped up in price since then. I just started her eyes but ended up making it sloppy. I need to wait for the paint to dry. I'll work on it when I get home from work this evening. I'll need to do a flat coat after I'm done, then paint her gold jewelery.

The Fallen wrapped up the first wave of AotP, and it looks like we're making progress on Studio Series, too. Today we've got Voyager-class Transformers One Sentinel Prime. SS Sentinel is, of course, bigger than the Prime Changers toy from last year, with colors that are significantly more accurate. His biceps, thighs, and ribs are properly a silvery color, with gunmetal on his lats and in his forearms. He's got the light blue and gold on his legs and knees, but sadly there's no gold on the backs of his hands or the outsides of his biceps and thighs. He's sporting tabs on the outsides of his forearms where the CGI model had fins, but they should properly be gold. Things are a bit messier from the back. The nose of his jet mode is just dangling there, and his wings don't have the shape or textures we saw in the film. Granted, this probably has a lot to do with the fact that Sentinel Prime doesn't transform in the film, and I'm not sure that an alt mode was even designed for it. The box art for the Prime Changer toy actually used a recolored version of Starscream's alt mode, while the art on the Studio Series box seems to be based directly on the toy itself. Speaking of Starscream... does Sentinel give anyone else Seeker vibes? I'd swear we're a retool away from this mold being used for TFOne Starscream if I didn't already hear that TFOne Thundercracker will be a 2026 Deluxe. Anyway... Sentinel comes with his shield, which despite the lack of color is actually more screen accurate than the Prime Changers version. He also comes with a pair of very Null Ray-esque guns. Unfortunately, the one accessory I think he really should have had is the double-bladed sword he used in the movie, but we'll have to wait for an upgrade kit for that. Sentinel's head seems to be on a hinged swivel, so he can look up but he lacks any sort of downward or sideways tilt. His shoulders swivel and move laterally almost 90 degrees. His biceps swivel, and his elbows bend 90 degrees. No wrist articulation. His waist swivels. His hips can go 90 degrees forward and a little over 90 degrees laterally, but only about 45 degrees backward due to his backpack. His thighs swivel, and his knees bend 90 degrees. His feet can tilt down, but not up, and his ankles pivot 90 degrees. His shield clips onto the tab on the outside of either forearm. He can use the 5mm pegs to hold his guns. He lacks any other sort of weapon storage. OK, technically that's not entirely true. The shield has nowhere to store, but the guns can also be plugged onto the shield for a look that I believe is more movie accurate. While we're at it, you can open his chest to flip up a battle mask, and swivel his pecs out a bit. The tops of his shoulders open, and small guns can swivel out of them. His forearm can slid down over his fist to make a Mega Man-style arm cannon. The gold panels on the outsides of his legs open so you can fold out molded missiles. Finally, you can give him a bit of extra height by folding boosters out of his heels and folding his feet down. This is the battle mode we saw in the film. What we didn't see in the film, though, was an alt mode. From his base robot mode, turn his head 180 degrees, and slide both forearms down over his fists. Fold down his toes and fold out the boosters in his heels, but this time collapse them down against his toes and tab his legs together. Pull his arms and pecs away from his torso so you have room to flip his nose up over his head; his pecs will tab into his thighs. Double-hinge his backpack down so that it fills in the gab between the nose and his legs. Swing the tips from the tops of his wings to the edges, then fold the wings down so they tab into two spots on his legs. With the wings in place, you can lock the arms in by slotting tabs under the wings into the backs of his arms, just above his forearms. Then you can finish him off by folding the vertical stabilizers up. Although not seen in the film, the jet mode is pretty consistent with the one on the Prime Changers version, and I kind of like it. It's got Cyclonus vibes. His torso and legs attempt to integrate into the fuselage, though it winds up a little on the thick side. Likewise, they seem to have attempted to make his forearms into more engine nacelles, but the un-aerodynamic shoulders throw it off. All-in-all, it definitely has its flaws, but it's far from the worse jet-mode we've seen. His shield stores on a tab on the back of the fuselage. His guns have tabs that plug into the sides just in front of his wings. It's not documented, but you can also open his shoulders and swing up the shoulder guns. I have to admit, I wasn't particularly excited for Sentinel Prime, but while far from perfect he is surprisingly better than I expected. In fact, I think he's probably the best Transformers One toy released so far. I wouldn't say that he's so good that I'd recommend him if you aren't collecting the TFOne figures, though. However, I will say this... Age of the Primes has me thinking not just about the original Thirteen Primes, but the Lineage of Primes (that is, the Transformers who have carried the Matrix of Leadership between Prima and Optimus Prime, which in the IDW comics was Prima, Nova Prime, Nominus Prime, Zeta Prime, Sentinel Prime, and then Optimus Prime), and I think that with a little tweaking this figure could actually be not Sentinel, but rather Nominus Prime. We already have IDW-esque toys for Nova Prime and Sentinel Prime, so a toy for Nominus would just leave me wanting a Zeta Prime.

Yeah, he never used them ever in the anime. Usually preferred launching the chest rockets instead.

The trailer didn't do much for me, but I have Hulu, so...

Guess this is the project they were discussing at Cinemacon or whatever about sneaking two movies at us.

I've managed to find /alright/ priced listings on Amazon for both of them, so it'll probably just be an impulse purchase when I have some spare cash. I have actually read "A Day in Alcatraz" from Sheryl Nome Visual Collection Final since it's gotten a very nice translation - excellent story.

I still for the life of me never seen Yellow's bike sword/blade/saber ever in the anime. it must be a legend/myth.

For the casual browsers here, most of those customs are made with Yamato 1/60 toys as the bases, and are featured in a series of color magazines, I think there are 5 or 6 volumes now https://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/29133-macross-books/page/34/#comment-1592289

So... that's a bit tricky, since the short stories were run in several different publications including the Macross Frontier novelization (in Vol.4), the Macross Frontier visual collection books, Macross Ace, and in Kadokawa's bimonthly magazine The Sneaker. The easiest way to get almost all of them is to get the two anthologies: Macross Frontier: Frontier Memories and Macross Frontier: Frontier Diaries. Each volume had a new short story written exclusively for it, and between the two of them they collect all but one of the short stories that were published in Macross Ace and The Sneaker as well as the one that got published in the Sheryl Nome Visual Collection. IIRC, the only one that isn't in either volume is Cosmic Egg, which is in the 4th volume of the Macross Frontier TV novelization and in Macross Ace Vol.1. I only managed to score my copies very recently... my main copies have been the ones in Macross Ace and The Sneaker. There's dramatic and there's that. lol That's to be expected... it's a boss machine and the most advanced VF in the game that you get is one that canonically can barely keep up with it because there's nothing to keep the fleshy meats in the seat from feeling the g-forces.

The movie is terrible, but the preview is epic.

Personally, I think A24 has gone so far in the quirky oddball range that now it’s just kinda turned mostly been there done that.

There is no why

Please don’t be a lead up to Predator vs Godzilla

Some Bass, Planes, Cats and Dino’s. I’m in

The Wing-0 VF -0 is really fitting

Yeah I've enjoyed every season so I'm certainly in for another.

I've been enjoying these. Looking forward to more !

I watched the 2nd episode of "Once Upon a Witch's Death" I am still on the fence with this show. This show is sad, but I can't seen to feel it.

Looks good to me, I'm definitely in.