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  1. Mechapilot77
    honestly as far as pure looks...kinda damn cool. what i don't like is the striping that should terminate at the ab grills but since its too high up goes all the way across. not accurate to g 1 prime. also, they are referecing one episode where screamer pretends he is optimis and dresses up. only thing is you never seee the wings. all you see are his head and sholder tower intakes. this thing loosk like it references that episode as much as it does ROTF prime/jetfire. granted it looks kind of cool ( prime with wings is just a cool thing because he alwasy lacked flight in g1 sans a jetpack)..but it not accurate. at $320 i iwll probably pass. that being said however, if you remove all that stuff its still a cool looking prime...but maybe not a $320 cool looking prime. Also, didn't Hot Toys start down the diecast road with their recent iron man figures? isn't this the prefect opportunity to use it more? those lights have been there since G1 prime toy although more accurately placed back then. they've been this way (as seen o mp-10 and this thing) for so long now that its almost part of this aesthetic queues to say, "this is g1 prime". look at a toon screencap...
  2. Mechapilot77
    you are talking star saber...he i stalking DMK-03. lol. i agree teh design of movie prime 4...doesn't even look like it can tranform. they just made a robotic knight. there is nary a hint of vehicle kibble anywhere.
  3. Mechapilot77
    what do u guys use to remove grease btw? i feel like anythign that would remove the grease to a satisfactory level would also remove the paint/tampos etc.
  4. Mechapilot77
    even those were not nearly 100%. yes i'm old enough to have played with some "vintage" ones in the early 80s. we go tthem in the states as godaikons (sp?) and i also playwd with my cousin's stuff overseas. not 100% diecast. not that yoju'd watn 100% diecast anyway.
  5. Mechapilot77
    at first i was like wow that vf-11 skull...then i was like WOW that vf-19 skull. that skull squandron roy fokker deco never gets old.
  6. Mechapilot77
    i'm not a star saber expert but i think saber is the space brick that turns into the smaller bot. the other flying space brick is not armor for the other space brick (they fly separately) but does transform into the "armor" (if you will) that turns saber into star saber? sort of like powermaster optimus prime in that regard...the trailer doesn't have it own separate bot mode...space brick #2 doesn't have its own bot mode so far as i know.
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    is it me or did they elongate the legs a bit or make them thinner? like an mp grimlock with scoria's platforms, the legs look a little too supermodel long.
  8. Mechapilot77
    mechs look cool if a bit generic. although i'm not really digging the art/style of he way they draw the characters...its very children's anime look...yet the mecha is very "real robot" aesthetic. kind of a clash. i was thinking of signing up for crunchyroll anyway..seems like its available there.
  9. Mechapilot77
    i don't know how anyone can not like that awesome opening form ACE R. i have both games and cant raelly figure out how to play them (the controls?) i gave up after a hal f hour or so of struggling. i suppose there are english manuals online but i coudln't find them at the time. :-(
  10. Mechapilot77
    i think the 1J is only shown in DYRL in the GBP, and yes it has grey visor and different hands. man i love the 1J.
  11. Mechapilot77
    the only thing that matters is "It's the price people are fairly willing to pay, right around $150." i'm not aware of their cost structure, internal company metrics or anything like that. it all starts with "if i make something like this, how much will people pay for it?". now knowing or guesstimating those two things people at the company do the math to see what makes sense in terms of "is this a viable business for us giving our cost and overhead"? perhaps in 2008 they figured people were only willing to pay X amount. now in 2013 they figure people are willing toe pay 1.5X etc. Also we have NO CLUE whether or not the valk making part of the business ultimately caused teh "demise" of yamato, or if it was something else completely unrelated, or perhaps done for other reasons (texes, debts whatever).
  12. Mechapilot77
    i did not have an issue with it when i watched, but sometimes netflix in general will have issue with specific episodes of shows or specific movies. no matter what you do it'll be unwatchable for a little while. hasn't happend to me in a a while but when it does...i just do something else or watch something else. for some reason it doesn't say "title not availble at the moment" or whatever there message is from when something is messed up. its like it doesn't know what its trying to stream is messed up. i usually just go back to it a day or two later and it will be fine. i suspect that is what will happen to you too. its annoying but doesn't happen often in my experience.
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    yeah i loved BSG and this show does sort of recall that one in some ways...its awesome. i already binged through the whole thing and am currently rewatching.
  14. Mechapilot77
    totally. mine might see alt mode once if that. lol. the skyfire alt mode could totally fly though...like in space. haha. kinda fits in with a lot fo the later TF "flying" alt modes...spaceship looking things that would have not once chance in teh atmosphere if not for insane levels of thrust (essentially ...think of a jetpack lol).
  15. Mechapilot77
    seriously. look at the feet, the enlarged hip area, the overall blockiness. its almost as if whoever did the redesign of the vf-1 into skyfire...saw this and took it a few more steps further.
  16. Mechapilot77
    wow that is a detailed analysis dave! btw, are you looking at these under flurorescent lights to see easier? Anyway, to be honest I just like consistency. it'd be nice for those collecting dyrl if all the valks were the same "off white" (although i'm not sure thats an accurate description) as the yamato. i'm not super fussed about the intake covers and feet though it'd be nice to have consistency there as well. that being said, what i would prefer for the dyrl valks would be (and this is in my dream world and will never happen probably so don't shoot me)...a very very light grey instead of off white...sort of like some of the bandai 1/55 (not sure if just the reissue was like that in 2001/2002 or if they always were). back to the real world, i think arcadia really kinda screwed with a lot of collector's plans when they released the bright white (with a few pinkish uv sensitive parts) for those yamato 1/60 collectors looking to round out their collections. fortunately for me, i have all i wanted from dyrl already...well i guess it'd be NICE to have a vf-1s max...but i'm not about to hunt one down if i have to pay a lot for it. :-)
  17. Mechapilot77
    i call it revisionist history or not canon for actual G1 especially because they are deviating so much from the actual robot designs used in g1. . :-) canon for "united franchise theory"....sure.
  18. Mechapilot77
    for some people yes, but i got to disagree. g1 trypticon is still iconic. i couldn't care less about a video game only trypticon (also didn't like his design so much when i googeld it) and i'm sure many are teh same way. and yes animated blitzwing is a more important character to his fiction than g1 blitzwing was but clearly animated one was an homage to the g1 character in many ways so the classics toy is homaging the g1 one directly and then anothe rtime by referencin the animated guy....arguably. lol
  19. Mechapilot77
    so over the weekend i totally binge watched and finished season one (heck it was only 12 episodes afterall) and have to say...i'm a HUGE fan so far. bring on season 2!! now to go read the manga and see any differences or added detail. haha.
  20. Mechapilot77
    i have a v2. its pretty great, definitely the best VV..but not without issues. if these hang around long enough i might pick up a second (a V3 this time i suppose? don' know the difference between 2 and 3) if i can get good price.
  21. Mechapilot77
    yup my first exposure was late 80s too with "clash of the bionooids" i really did not like the voices of the people who dubbed it. i was thinking "wow, this animation is far better than SDFM" though. SDFM had its moments (adn still my preferred version of macross), but DYRL blows it away with animation quality and iconic moments etc. its too bad all these years later...we still can't have a bluray of it with english subtitles. :-(
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    is it? the pilot is a DYRL roy though..but it has the red triangle...near the cockpit the arcadias did not have...perhaps its a decal? also they are not pinkish...but that is hard to tell unless under the right(wrong) light.
  23. Mechapilot77
    yup that stand looks nice even if its only for one position. i never opened my 30th anny valk...wasn't the stand that came with that one sort of similar?
  24. Mechapilot77
    best buy ever!!
  25. Mechapilot77
    call me crazy but i think the FP ones look pretty awesome...if i was INTO "CHUG", i'd get it but a 7.6" figure from FP with a targetmaster? that will be expensive if they stick to their premium pricing scheme and the inlcusion of the targetmaster seems likely for them to try to justify a high price...i would not expect them to be much cheaper than the "MP Style" offerings form FT or GP I think the FT ones look great so far. I already have a scoria. gigapowers look ok too but not a fan of the exposed dino legs in bot mode (unless its sludge) as...i had the g1 toys already. I also like the FT aesthetics better so far. Size...well, gigpaowers will be slightly bigger but both will still be too short compared to the upcoming giant magnus. who knows, maybe i will get both sets if macrosss stuff form arcadia and bandai is slow this year. haha
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