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  1. tekering
    Thanks for the side-by-sides, guys. Very illuminating.
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    MP Transformers? Sorry, I still don't follow.
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    I'm sure I have no idea what you guys are talking about...
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    Yes, but I find that dismissive "they" to be problematic. Most of the poor animation was done by Toei (including the movie), but all the truly reprehensible work was done by AKOM (including most appearances of Tantrum). I just think it's unfair to tar Toei with the same brush, since they obviously tried harder than AKOM... A little harder, anyway.
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    New Age figures are generally too small to scale with my Iron Factory, Magic Square "Brobdingnag," or DX9 "War in Pocket" (not to mention the even larger MechFanToys) figures... ...but I made an exception for their exceptional Bumblebee, who's fine being a little smaller.
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    Don't listen to them, man. They're all the same! Doesn't matter how many colors they paint it, how many parts they add to it, or even what scale they produce it at; VF-1 toys have been virtually identical for nearly two decades now. You only need one, really. You only need one...
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    Fascinating! I'll have to try reproducing that effect. Is that the latest release?
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    It was not. They simply had no guide to how the characters were supposed to transform, because the toys hadn't been designed yet! It's ridiculous, but apart from Ultra Magnus (who was based on a Diaclone Convoy variant), the new movie characters were designed with only a vague idea of how they could be translated into toys... which is why G1 toys like Kup, Blurr, and Wheelie sucked so badly, why Galvatron, Springer and Wreck-Gar looked so little like their onscreen characters, and why Arcee and Unicron didn't get figures at all. What's even more ridiculous is how the same problem occurred 20 years later, when Hasbro approved the Bayverse designs (absent of any input from Takara's design team)... which is why the 2007 movie line sucked so badly. In fact, the problem persisted for over a decade. And now we've gone back to CGI cartoons that are so slavishly accurate to the toy designs, their articulation is limited to what the toys can achieve... and they carry around unsightly kibble as a result. Like, didn't anyone learn from Energon?
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    The new VF-1J (w/GBP) doesn't look pink to me at all... ...but it's definitely a brighter white than my Yamato versions (which are closer to ivory). I think the Yammie 1:60 had more tempo, though.
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    Kitzconcept is in Hong Kong, and they ship directly from their factory in China. Nothing to do with Japan Post.
  11. tekering
    It's not the hands that are flipped, it's the arms. That's why the elbow joint isn't visible, but the wheels (and screw holes) on the shoulders are. It's clearly been misassembled.
  12. tekering
    Sentinel's Legioss is still available under ¥30,000, so there's plenty of stock to go around. The Riobot Stig and Ray ride-armors, however, will cost you more. They've definitely appreciated in value.
  13. tekering
    Look more closely, guys. One of them should look plainer than the others... but it doesn't, because it's no longer stock.
  14. tekering
    Not good enough for your toys, I fear... although you may not notice until you've had to pack them up for a while. Direct sunlight will have a bleaching effect, but it's the indirect sunlight that does the real damage. Uneven discoloration is the most prominent and annoying effect, and (not unlike COVID-19) the damage may already be occurring, despite an immediate lack of symptoms. The only halfway-effective solution to yellowing is an absolute zero-tolerance policy, from the moment the toy is opened: no exposure to sunlight whatsoever!
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    Who says you can't polish a turd? Looks awesome!
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    Oh, fer Chrissake... I can't even.
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    I appreciate the expression of differing opinions, and alternative points of view. As a lifelong fan of Trek in most of its incarnations, I have followed each new iteration with interest (with the exception of Star Trek Beyond, which I held out no hope for after the excretable Into Darkness)... Discovery won me over early on, and didn't completely lose me until its disastrous descent into the mirror universe; second season started out better, but ended worse. Picard I was cautiously optimistic about, but quickly disillusioned me with its apocalyptic tone and nonsensical plot; I only finished the series out of morbid curiosity. Lower Decks was as obnoxious as the trailers indicated it would be, but it's actually starting to grow on me. I find the characters more tolerable with each episode, and the tone much more consistent with classic Trek... not to mention its overall aesthetic (which Picard and Disco sadly abandoned). Thank heaven for small mercies. That sounds a little self-deluding... I think it's important to consider majority opinion (critical as it may be), and be prepared to defend shows you see merit in. Nonetheless, I often enjoy a little self-deluding myself, and find it uncomfortable when somebody knocks off my rose-colored glasses. Despite the depths to which Trek has sunk of late, I don't actually expect anybody can screw it up as badly as The Rise of Skywalker screwed up Star Wars. That was a truly unprecedented disaster.
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    I like MEP's Breetai, and I'll happily support their Jonathan Wolff head.
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    Yeah, that detailing might be appropriate for 1:48 scale, but it looks absurd blown up to 1:12. Plus, there are a lot of prominent gaps visible. The whole point of the buttflap/hood is to cover gaps, not introduce more. Ammonite designs get no respect.
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    No, dude... Gundams are big. The HY2M Gundam is 1:12. My wife actually offered to buy me one, back when they were only a few hundred dollars... but I just couldn't justify the space. Now, of course, they're a few thousand (if you can find them at all). Still, I'm more tempted to spend the money on a huge Gundam than an SDF-1 half its size.
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    It's worse than any Takatoku I've ever seen. How many years of sunbathing did it take to achieve those results, @vladykins?
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    It doesn't look like the right shape... ...and it's certainly not mounted properly... ...but a centered position is appropriate.
  23. tekering
    As a fan of pulp sci-fi films, the names "Tyrell" and "Avengers" have very different connotations for me.
  24. tekering
    I'm neither a math geek nor an engineer, so I don't have much to contribute to the discussion beyond my own experience: As a child, I took good care of my toys; I removed and discarded the packaging, of course, but I rarely lost accessories or broke anything. As a teenager, I displayed my toys with pride -- particularly the Takatoku or Gakkens -- but they were exposed to sunlight, because I didn't know any better. The first toys to show obvious signs of UV damage were my Kenner Star Wars figures... Some, like my original Luke Stormtrooper (left), were very expensive to replace. For the most part, though, discoloration wouldn't be visible until the figures were removed from sunlight and put into storage, or packed for moving. After a period of weeks (or months), a very unpleasant surprise would be waiting when they got unpacked. As an adult collector, anything I consider of particular value (or anything molded in white plastic specifically) never sees a glimmer of UV light. Windows are completely boarded up in my toy rooms, doors remain closed, and every pre-existing light fixture has been replaced with LED lamps, with white (so-called "cool") LED bulbs used exclusively. Thanks to these precautions, no figure I've bought in the last two decades has shown any discoloration at all, despite the hot and humid Japanese summers (and very little ventilation). However, we all know that plastics can be unpredictable, and sometimes we don't know what conditions our toys were exposed to before we acquired them in the first place. This is a particular concern for collectors like @sqidd, who buy a lot of product on the secondary market. For me, my biggest problem is not with the figures themselves, but with the clear blisters they're packaged in; for example, I have Star Wars figures from the same wave, bought at the same time, from the same location, having been displayed for years in the same environment... ...yet most have perfectly clear blisters, while others have yellowed significantly. Sometimes it's simply unavoidable.
  25. tekering
    MEP Toys wouldn't be anybody's first choice, but... beggars can't be choosers.
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