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  1. Mechapilot77
    after seeing more pics and video....i avoided this page for most of today. lol. i can't see how a macross (SDFM) fan won't order this. i mean everyone has their reasons for what they do but i....need this in my life. lol. don't know how i'm gonna get one with the PO madness but if anybody does it and changes their mind later....LET ME KNOW. i won't pay a crazy markup but i might be willing to pay a little lol...especially i fyou can ship straight to me from retailer. regardless i guess i'll be trying f5 sometime overnight or early morning.
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    On siege magnus i like that there is a white "prime" inside...its cool he is actually different from the actual new voyager siege optimus prime it seems (seems wholy different actually..i can';t tell if there is shared tooling but doubt it based on the cab alt modes looking so different). i'm hoping they redo the MP with this concept (and of course his traditioanl earth alt mode) and give him a waist swivel (seems siege magnus lacks one too). it would be the V3 MP magnus we need. (mp-2 was magnus too!) i generally don't buy main line TF anymore but i may pick up siege magnus because he's a really nice lookign magnus in bot mode.
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    maybe i been out of dx game a while (sat most of delta out) ...but "Then comes Super Parts for $100 - $150. And then Strike Parts for another $100 - $150. And then Armored Parts for $200 - $250." I don't think they costed that much....if i had to hazard a guess based purely on memory...most armor/super packs (other than heavy armored) didn't break $85 or so...some were much less. $150 definitely seems an aftermarket price on those. IIRC, some were as little as like $45-55 for the more basic ones. maybe delta era prices really were way higher? The simple super/strike packs on a Vf-1 though better not be $100 each though at retail. *sign* i rarther miss the yamato days hhaaha
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    i'm still taking this in. yamato's V2 is 10 years old. a solid decade of dominance and a solid decade where almost all premium macross valks have followed the 1/60 scale. Even most DX chogokins are 1/60 ish. U guess this is 1/48 because a 1/48 VF-1 is roughly the size of a say DX chogokin VF-31 or so...so i'd expect the same price points etc. i mean i would have preferred the larger 1/35ish scale super premium fig so i could get just one. haha...also i'm sure it would have had more premium features. this thing though...appears to have solved the waist issue plaguing VF-1 since the chunky monkey days...we all saw the waist swivel in the show (heck actually they ab crunch too but thats just too much to ask a plan fusealage to bend) and it's never been able to in toy form. basically the nosecone area under teh cockpit swivels. that must mean the "t bar" (i'll call it) that carries the legs must in fact have a rotation joint too or else the legs would not rotate with the nose cone. i actually have worked out in my head how this could work (conceptually its not difficult at all how this could work) years ago and i'm happy someone is actually doing it! lets hope this release is a high quality one...otherwise i'm gonna be wishing for a bigger more premium SOC VF-1 soon after. haha. Arcadia's VF-1 dominance is likely up and its likely they knew it was coming...hence they keep rereleasing hero valks with a few bucks worth of tampo more and jacking up the price to eek every last cent out of that 10+ year old investment they made when they were still yamato. sadly i doubt bandai will release the entire lineup of valks the way yamato did (still waiting on HMR to even come close to catching up there but at least hmr gave us zentran mecha and destroids)...from obscure 2 second birds like the cavaliers to specials like the VT-1 super ostrich (which i never tracked down the yamato one....that and the vf-1s max dyrl are the only ones i wanted that i never tracked down). For now...gimme that 1J! to me its still the most iconic valk (even more than roy's skull one). i do hope roy's vf-1S will follow with super and strike packs of course!
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    Waist swivel!!!! Been waiting 30 years for that
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    punch /counterpunch was alwasy a neat idea and pretty cool...i agree a 3P version with a budget would be nice...mp scale please! lol. as for that new prime and sideswipe those seem to be very obviously designed with future retools into earth modes....i can't see why else they look so much like warth modes and like nothing from cybertron ever. lol. still thats teh best looking chug g1 esque voayger prime....EVER? more G1y than potp even.
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    i get the feeling evolution is a bunch of designers or artists (they get the looks mostly right) and leave actual engineering to the factories they contract to build their stuff. these kinds of mistakes look like no mechanical design engineer had much input in the design or even redesign phase...maddening for us engineers.
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    so tfcon happened and i haven' t been on tfw yet but my FB and IG feeds blew up this weekend and i almost feel as if i don't need tfw as much lol. my thoughts -Buster Skywing looks great as he had earlier - good to see this moving along. not sure its for me - i stopped buying "classics" scaled stuff around the time of MMC's femmebots but he isn't so jetfire/skyfire like that i can't see him as a newer SMALLER character. haha. its still too busy overall but i like someone is doing a cool take on this and i love flying things that turn into robots. -MMC's onslaught looks pretty nice except for lack of proper hip skirts etc. probably the best looking onslaught (comparing to zeta's and unique toys' and even TW's CW scaled one) but his combiner mode form looks like too G1 toy and i think it won't looks great in combined mode. sort of replaying feral rex's weak points. so to me still not good MP bruticus exists or on the horizon (zeta's combined form looks decent but the individual bots...ugh...especially onslaught) -speaking of tW -Congrats to MAAS toys - your seekers looks pretty nice, hope they turn out well. if they do rainseeker or cybertron only seeker colors i may get a few if they do turn out well. -theres lots of beasty stuff for which i know crap about - ancestrod or whatever looks cool...not sure who he is but its a cool lion that turns into a bot (way cooler than the optimus lion thing from PE years ago) -no one gonna comment on how small/undersized giga's grimlocks lower legs looks? at least the arms aren't too long like FT's (which i have and have looked past that flaw). -MMC IDW- dang you guys making lots of stuff i guess from IDW but some of those designs.....sorry they're wacked and i'm sure its someone at IDW's fault. just not for me. -FT's warparth....looks more cartoon obviously than Badcube's (who weren't going for that obviously) but something....seems off? speaking of FT, i think the hot rod looks good. i might get him just to have a better looking hot rod for someone to kill in any photos i might take of him. lol. (i once did a short photo series where mp-10b decapitates mp rodimus and puts his head on the tip of a sword lol). -how come on magic square or TE MP optimus at the show? (unless i missed it?) -XTB's stunticons continue to ooze g1 stunticon vibes even if two were held together literally with rubber bands it seeems ahha. hopefullly each release is as good or better than the first. i'll be finishing that set hopefullly. -Zeta's aerialbots...not much to say but it looks like if you like the first couple the last 3 seem consistent in style to the first 2 which is mostly a good thing ( i know the plane modes aren't super accurate and the bot modes are totally toon either but they are still mostly good). i might pick up the zeta aerialbots during ebay flash sales or other sales. bang for buck looks good plus if i have stunticons they need aerialbots to fight. haha did i miss anything cool? haha
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    so are they gonna do the de-ageing thing for the whole movie (like they did with RDJ before)? or is widow gonna look 6-7 (who knows when they'll shoot?) older than the events from after this movie suppossedly takes place? i mean scarjo looks good for her age no doubt but we are going back at least 6 years....probably more like 6-10 so generous make up isn't gonna be enough.
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    i remember those sentinel figures. i really kinda wanted them but coudln't get past those hip joints. the cuts and sculpting also make them look less human and more...robot/android. cool but not exactly what i wanted. i wish SHF, mafex, revoltech, or figma would do the whole set of 5 at least and also some galactor characters. also lol every shot of jun here has visible undies. i bet those artists felt things they didn't understand watching the show as a kid and fully understood before drawing those works. haha
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    so iconic....like a burning memory from early childhood this design evokes so much memory. probably the first japanimation i watched (before i knew it was even japanese). love this deisgn. hope evolution toys doesn't screw it up. lol. whats cooler than ninjas? science ninjas...in space with cool ships.
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    TE's blows takara's out of the water so far. takara i think fell in love with their evasion prime too much...note on alt mode the piece between the two main halves..in this picture from tfw2005. It doesn't line up right in that photo (it didn't in evasion prime either) and it won't in production...am i being pessimistic? maybe....but its just a bad design. also the hinges on the corners are way too obvious! again, another bad design that will not be fixed by tolerances getting better. i will likely get the takara becuase i can't imagine not owning the latest mp op but i'll get one of these others too (probably the TE at this point unless something changes) . TE's has the "feeling" of the cartoon character even more than takara's. i guess we'll see if takara's presumed advanced articulation can save it, because TE's alt mode is also way better. right now TE's bot mode is a tiny tiny bit knockkneed (look closesly at the static pose), but the posed picture shows its not a problem at all. if i was takara i'd be embarrassed.
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    dude, whats with the black text in dark grey box? its very hard to read! just an FYI.
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    curious what display caes is this? reminds me of something one would see in some toy stores?
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    ugh...if they do that i hope they do a "toy" + version with chrome bumper and thighs and a nice deep blue lower legs. that would of course have yellow eyes too. personally i'd love that toy version but i'd want one thats roughly mp-10 deco too.
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    and of coure then we'd need max to complete the vermillion team and of course....then you'd neer miriya. haha. i would want to get all of them don;'t know if i will.
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    despite being a big legioss fan i coudln't pull the trigger on the Eta based on the high price and issues people seemed to have...i think it eventually sold out anyway. If they fixed things on the Zeta that would make it tempting. Any indication in their release history that evolution ever fixes things between releases of different versions/decos?
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    so bandai is doing an iron man mk 50....and a mk50 nano weapons version? really annoying they aren't just add on parts or better yet all in the first version. are they going to do a cap with wakandan shields too? the thos raganork figure has a non removeable helmet. why? at least the upcoming infnity war version looks good. this is a line i truly love and hate. yes i realize i buy $100+ valkyries where the only difference is the head and deco etc.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Mechapilot77 replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    lol yes this is the land of overtechnology, valkyries, and reaction weaponry! at least if the subs i have seen were accurate!
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    FWIW i did hear or read somewhere mmc's will have face colored plastic above his eyes and below the helmet line. that being said...toro just evokes the feel of g1 cliffjumper to me more...especially the spoiler on this chest right under his chin. mmc's looks....updated in a way. the "feel" is off to me but not that far and its still nice, just not "my" cliffjumper. I cannot through it "meet myself from the past, in which I can find a toy i have been dreaming of" whereas with toro i think i could.
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    dang thats nice. hows the quality in person?
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    arcadia is definitely working on on SV-51 as of some time ago, lets hope they show what they have soon. i loved yamato's version but it could have been better and needs an update IMO. also i think yamarcadia fans have been wanting a shoulder problem free VT-1 Super ostrich! we haven't gotten that yet in a non cracking shoulder treatment under yamato or arcadia and with the HMR release imminent later this year wouldn't it be good for arcadia to show their 10 year old mold is still sort of better than the HMR? as for mac plus stuff i'm ton sure we'll see anything as zero and dyrl seem to be getting all the arcadia love so far. also i do wonder how their pricing strategy (price high limit production to a decent but not laarge amount over PO wty) is working out? i miss when plane jane no fast packs V2 VF-1 valks were like 85 bucks personally (and fast packs could be had for 35 bucks). i don't know that i'd buy an SV-51 if it were priced higher than the Vf-0S (which i struggled to justify).
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    for real world cars, i'm the other way - slight sacrifices in bot mode for a cleaner alt mode....granted THERE ARE LIMITS when you can go too far. I think my preference comes from teh original G1 toys whose alt modes while not super accurate were at least fairly clean. like i love downbeat (and hate it too lol) but the stripe below the sidesill near the rear fender kill the alt mode for me...like i don't think i'll ever have it in alt mode again. the sloppy rear/bottom i can rationalize it as as some kind of shitty looking rear "diffuser" or some such thing. if they lef the stripes off that section or made it dark..the alt mode would be "OK". its too bad takara never put out an mp jazz/meister...although no guarantee they will get it right either. also TnR HoVa never materialized either...i can't get past the shins that got turned into ankles (actually not too far off from g1 toy but cmon we need to do better now!) and the flap behind the head on coolsville.jazzy. ....so downbeat remains the best option overall IMO.
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    thats a nice purple on mp toy shockwave....but it ain't g1 toy purple unless. its probably halfway (well maybe a little more toy) between toy purple and Fantoys OG release quakwave to be honest... also they made mp-42 a RED EYED autobot? aside from g1 jetfire...i think thats kinda rare (although i won't claim thats true!).
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    typically i can't get excited for these legends scale stuff. they usaully make great sacrficies (in alt mode usually) to have a decent bot mode with decent articulation. that new skyfire is pretty sweet looking though. its alt mode is....like all this stuff (mostly anyway)...forgiveable.
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