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  1. tekering
    These figures are perfect for collectors with neither the motor skills required to assemble a simple model kit, nor the ability to transform a toy... [ . . . ] ...but yet have enough interest in Macross (or Robotech) to commit a significant amount of disposable income... 🤔 [ . . . ] ...which couldn't possibly amount to a viable customer base. 🤨 I expect these to sell poorly, if at all. 😒
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    Hasbro's been manufacturing Transformers for over four decades, but continues to screw up their promotional photography on a regular basis... ThreeZero's batting a thousand, by comparison. 😅
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    Wow, that's even worse than I'd realized... ...given their pack-in figures are a consistent 1:72 scale. 🙄 I guess that's why that Falcon cockpit's so comically oversized and misshapen. Even Kenner's vintage toy did better than that! 😂 Still... MGS ships have nicer paint jobs, at least.
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    Not at all. They've been around since the early '80s.
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    One of those Detolfs does not look like the others 😆
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    I like the sound of a 4' Metroplex, but Lewin's asking too much for a figure that bears only a superficial resemblance to the source material. It's not G1 Metroplex, not IDW Metroplex, not FOC Metroplex, and it doesn't even look like Prime Wars Metroplex. 😒 Also, that "transformation" barely qualifies. 🙄 Looks bloody heavy, too: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1105143837682388
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    Go on, show us what you've done to it. 😊
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    Incorrectly scaled? Incorrectly proportioned? Way overpriced? Sounds just like any other TVC, Hasbro, or Kenner vehicle. 🤕 There are exceptions, of course -- Luke's Landspeeder, the TVC Snowspeeder and Speeder Bikes, and at least one TIE Fighter release was correctly scaled -- but the vast majority are way off, despite how often they're reissued, retooled, and continuously increase in price. Your MGS ships are more accurately scaled and proportioned than Hasbro's, but... not by much. 😒
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    New year, new shelves, new displays. Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉
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    Bummer, I'm missing more than I'd realized. 😐 Thanks for the checklist. ☺️
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    Lavender...? 🤔 The reissue is certainly a more accurate color scheme overall. 😐
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    It's the snub nose and the eyepiece that bother me the most. Otherwise, it's the best injection-molded kit to date. The gun pods on Moscato's Glaug are a little large -- I'll grant you that -- but Hasegawa's are equally oversized, and weirdly detailed. Otherwise, Moscato's kit is exactly what the line art has always depicted: Note mine is still woefully incomplete, but you can see how accurate the proportions are when photographed from the right angle. I think I prefer the feet on the Hasegawa, but the Moscato wins in every other respect, especially size. A 23cm height may be consistent with the official stats for a 1:72 Glaug, but your pilot would have to be 1:150 to fit in a cockpit that small! 😅 Heck, even Moscato's 37cm Glaug doesn't fit a 1:72 pilot properly... but compromises are necessary to match the inconsistent animation.
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    Glad I'm not the only one turned off by that. 🤢
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    It's kind of ironic that NA matched the Studio Series packaging so faithfully, only for a figure too small to scale with SS'86 Optimus. 🙄
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    No, he's a poster dealer. 😅 Season's Greetings, everyone! 🎉
  17. tekering
    Not a purchase, but a Christmas gift from a generous friend...
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    Funny, I thought that's exactly what Dune: Prophecy gave us. Valya Harkonnen could easily have been a heroic character, but ultimately made a choice to embrace her power and take revenge on the Atreides, even knowing the cost to her family relationships and to the Sisters that blindly followed her.
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    Depends on your browser. They won't work in Vivaldi any more, but Safari still displays them fine.
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    Just when you thought the crass commercialization of Evangelion couldn't get any worse, along come McDonald's "Happy Meals" toys... A BigBadToyStore.com exclusive, according to BBTS.
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    Actually, the Hot Wheels classification system claims those boxed ships are 1:50 scale. 😂 Their "Track Fleet" Optimus Prime isn't a particularly accurate Kenworth K100C cabover, but it's a lot closer to 1:64 than most Hot Wheels semi-trucks... ...but still way off, of course. 🤕
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    Hot Wheels are rarely in scale with each other... unless every car, truck, van and motorcycle are actually the same size. 😅 Hell, they claim this Enterprise is 1:64 scale. 🙄 More like 1:6400, Mattel. 😤
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    Moderoid have given us some great kits of obscure military labors, but there are several prominent designs I'm still waiting to see at 1:60 scale:
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    The Aoshima Ingrams are my favorite. The articulation, the clear and vac-metallized parts, the cockpit detailing, and the decals are all superior to Moderoid's. Did you get Unit 2 as well?
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    Strange that Genco's own website has no listing for them... 🤔 Mind you, there's no mention of their 1:20 vinyl Ingram figure, either. 🤨
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