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  1. Mechapilot77
    if i was takara and i saw everyone online talking about and preordering apollyon, i'd announce mp-25 be megatron too lol. who knows though with takara? myabe they think hasbro asia's gold mp-05 will stave off megatron hunger. ps..it won't lol
  2. Mechapilot77
    so 7.2" tall from a company that is pretty new to transforming mecha and they want $350 bucks for it? as much as i love that design ( i built the robotech transforming model kit revel released back in the day!) there is no way in hell i'm paying that mjuch for it. $200 TOPS and that is a stretch for a small figure like that.
  3. Mechapilot77
    oh man i had baron von joy. he was awesome diecast goodness. great alt mode likeness too. wonder where he is...somewhere at the rents house. i could probably find it. lo the tank guy was cool too. he was beige and dark green camo? defendor was his name possibly my favorite gobot ever. if the the 3P TF world does him....i think he will sell. looks very awesome, kinda mecha like too. here is a link to a pic http://www.collectiondx.com/gallery2/gallery/d/586609-3/P5310298.jpg
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    personally i don't like what bandai has put out there in the vf-1 model kit arena or the hi metal that much...proportions look awkward. also please no metal on metal ball joints. 1/60 scale or bust since everything macross is that scale anyway (dx chogokins valks are close and of course arcadia stuff). the only thing that is hard to do that i'd want....a waist and or ab joint. havent' thought out the sepcifics on how to do that but it'd be nice to have a vf-1 that can do that.
  5. Mechapilot77
    nah this thing will get discounted. they are going to get over eager and produce too much thinking all voltron lion force fans will like it, plus its from an unknown company. i think its about half half here in this thread in terms of who prefers it to the 10+ yera old toynami one. to put it in TF terms, its just too "CHUG" or reimagined. i think people who grew up remembering voltron vaguely but never actually watching the show religiously during first run or having the toy (or its famous lionbot KO) might like this, but for guys like me who have an ingrained mental image of voltron in our heads...this just isn't him. it looks sort of like it but just ins't "right. " so we aren't "hating", but merely defending what our mental image of voltron is. the toynami one while not a great piece...aside from the small wings, looks "right" to us. it immediately evokes the mental image in our head. voltron was never "mech" to us...but more superrobot.
  6. Mechapilot77
    hmm, i 'm not sure about that. the hasbro black series appear mostly (except the undersized leia) to be accuarte to the 6" (1/12) scale. The SHF iron man is JUST short of that (the figma btw is not). it remains to be seen what they do with the star wars guys (they did just put out model kits in the proper 1/12 scale..well they they are marked 1/12th adn will be out this month), but hopefully they do go pretty close to 1/12 scale. personally if i was bandai i'd have developed both those kits and the SHF together and see what engineering/sculpting you could shared and what you couldn't. we shall see i guess.
  7. Mechapilot77
    hmmm yeah still not digging it. if it goes down to $180 or so like VV could be had at one point i might think about it though. the aesthetics just look off to me. torso/shoulder area and hips area. i prefer the 10 year old toynami's proportions and joints. the head/face sculpt is kind of cool and different though.
  8. Mechapilot77
    yeah i'm pretty pumped for those. i just cancelled my order for the vader model kit from bandai. the recent star wars black vader is ok but i am assuming this will be better (from the looks of it)
  9. Mechapilot77
    yup those datsuns are IMO the best bang for the buck in collectible quality transforming robot collecting these days. Under $50 (well smokescreen was more) each shipped/imported from japanese sites, well articulated...great sculpts. super fun. wheeljack is great too but they did raise price on him slghtly as well. he is also great (but IMO lacks some paint but of course opinions are varied on that!).
  10. Mechapilot77
    which huge falcon is that? and are those the 3.75 inch or the 6 inch troopers?
  11. Mechapilot77
    can't wait to get home! this is waiting for me there! woot
  12. Mechapilot77
    bandai just showed like 70ish new sh figuarts figures at tamashi nations. check the link below. not much marvel stuff...but maybe they are just getting started. between shf and figma i hope we get at least one good hawkeye, widow, and fury though (neither have shown those, both have announced or released thor, ironman, cap, and hulk). a loki, chutari, and ultron would be nice too. http://www.tomopop.com/tamashii-nations-2014-event-reveals-some-70-new-s-h-figuarts-35843.phtml i'm most excited for the star wars figures and ....rock lee! lol.
  13. Mechapilot77
    dx chogokin vf-1's would probably cost me a hell of a lot of money unless bandai stops at just the hero valks. they'd need to be materially better than the yamato v2 to justify that. if the y could figure out a way to add some hip.waist articulation into a vf-1 that would be a big deal to me. their 1/72 and hi metal efforts so far look off to me...the proportions are not what i hvae in mind when i think vf-1. they'd have to fix that too. oh and...lets not forget the awful metal on metal ball joints that loosen up on their own over time...keep that shiet out of any potential future vf-1 dx chogokin!
  14. Mechapilot77
    bandai has partial control of the media/fiction....i can bet it was bandai who insist the vf-19 isamu colors appear in the frontier movie....so they could get a license for a yf-19 look alike and go for the kill on arcadia. i don't want macross to turn into gundam but having choice is good. so far...the legs look way better on arcadia's but we'll see once this is in hand. i've got to have one i admit....since this is a an exclusive..no preorde madness.!
  15. Mechapilot77
    the mmc mirage is part of their new line, using new resources...so hopefully they won't hti the stumling blocks as bad as reformatted line tends to. also the line has been described as "studio ox" inspired mp designs so should fit better with the mp line than most other mmc stuff (which loosely fits with classics but is ina slightly larger scale etc.) anyone catch the omnigonix interview on that TF podcast? that guys sounds CLEARLY australian and said his standard for trasforming planes was macross (even mentioned he had an yf-19 in front of him during the interview). ! HMMMMmmmm
  16. Mechapilot77
    If we already have the stands, can we order just arms and adapters?
  17. Mechapilot77
    that new double mounting positin arm is awesome. can save lots of space this way and display valks in a formation. sweet
  18. Mechapilot77
    is this the xplus thing? if so its probably vinyl right? i know their giant godzilla stuff is.
  19. Mechapilot77
    its not a takara release. they usually don' t get hasbro asia exclusive stuff. if they do it'll be more expensive anyway. only jp market releases from takara will be cheaper at hlj, at, amiami, NY etc.
  20. Mechapilot77
    hasbro asia can suck it with those prices. no stand, no missiles no coronation...let's charge more than ultra magnus! lol. i can't beleive takara is lettign this go on and lending thier name ot the packaging etc. i'll wait for a proper takara release with preorder discounts from japanese stores. if not, my custom painted one will do indefinitely.
  21. Mechapilot77
    "This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media." sounds like a bootleg? doubt you will get bluray quality iehter. if dvd quality is ok i think animego released dvd versionf of the original macross around 7-10 years ago?
  22. Mechapilot77
    whatever it is, i can't wait. i'll just so i hope its stylistically different enough from frontier where it doesn't feel like we're watching the same thing. for instance i don't think the yf-30 is different enough from the other frontier era valks to be different enough to be the hero valk in the new series. that is just using valks as a talking point but i feel the same way for the art style, story telling etc. for example frontier felt way different than zero, as did zero from m7 etc. i hope the fact that bandai is involved yet again, doesn't mean we get essentially macross frontier style with a new story/chjaracters etc.
  23. Mechapilot77
    someone should just hollow out that chest area and put a magnet there. have a metal painted stripe piece in all the colors of the rainbow...granted all stripes need to be done and heads in all colors. somoene would makea killing. you'd just need to re-engineer the torso slightly. hehe. yamato arcadia never did this precisley because they need to sell more valks but cmon how awesome would that be? hehe that being said i need another full armor 1j in my life. hehe
  24. Mechapilot77
    that soundwave.....gotta say its a must buy for me. i love clear toys like that ( i own ghost starscream too...wanted the vf-25 alto fold edition but cray cray price). also burnt orange is cool! as is chrome. that thing might not be "soundwave" but its cool as hell. whats even better? the clear cassettes! microcassettes look best clear because thats how a lot of them were if i recall correctly!
  25. Mechapilot77
    hmm, for me this is off aesthetically. the chest and torso is way re-imagined for me. the hips aren't right. legs attaching sideways to the crotch piece looks really odd for big figures. the legs should attache above..to the hips. theyve done an ok job trying to hide this but it still sticks out to me. granted its not an eyesore to the level of say fanproject's steelcore (3p transfomer) but its gonna b very obvious in person.
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