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  1. David Hingtgen
    And it's here. 5 days door to door, that's pretty good for EMS from Japan.
  2. David Hingtgen
    Now? When was it ever not?
  3. David Hingtgen
    Package left Chicago this morning----and just arrived back in Chicago tonight. Exact same building. I'm not sure if it's actually gone through USPS customs or not.
  4. David Hingtgen
    I just recently shipped a package from Yahoo auctions Japan (via proxy) and it was about 50 for EMS, 70 for FedEx or DHL. Went EMS. Got to Chicago one day after shipping from Japan. Will see how long customs etc take.
  5. David Hingtgen
    If you're gonna do it, go all out----THIS is the all-time best bare metal scheme:
  6. David Hingtgen
    I assume you know more, but can't say more?
  7. David Hingtgen
    I'm a big Pipes fan, but I think the new mold isn't very good for his character. I mean, his name is PIPES. His original toy was notable for having BIG CHROME PIPES. And here we have white plastic arms in truck mode, that really don't look very exhaust pipe-ish. And his skinny guns stick on his big white deck-plate-feet? Eh. But I couldn't really find a good 3P version either It's amazing that he seems so hard to do well. So many go to ludicrous backpacks (worse than G1 sometimes!) and also, like Hasbro, seem to miss the point, and not give him big chrome PIPES. Everyone's trying too hard to base him off the toon, when the toon itself kinda missed the point, and gave him white arms that aren't made from his PIPES. White thighs are fine, but he really needs to have silver/chrome arms so that truck mode is right. Or transform such that he has big silver pipes as a truck while retaining white arms as a bot, if you want it as toon-based as possible.
  8. David Hingtgen
    Well THAT's interesting: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43228/f-22-raptor-covered-in-mirror-like-coating-photographed-flying-out-of-nellis-afb
  9. David Hingtgen
    Because it's MP-44, that's why. The mold that epitomizes "toon accuracy over common sense, aesthetics, and alt-mode". An utterly ridiculous transformation, all to still end up with a huge backpack in robot mode and an inaccurate alt mode full of seams. Also, it still has "stripes in bot mode yet no stripes in truck mode". And they're not silver, either.
  10. David Hingtgen
    They should paint Karen green and Bautista blue and Pom gold, just to mess with people...
  11. David Hingtgen
    Give me silver thighs, waist, and stripe. I will never accept him having a white bumper and grill etc. ::insert "Superman's hair doesn't have blue streaks" argument here:: It still boggles me that so many companies do so many versions and repaints, yet still never do that obvious basic color combo. Basically I want the G1 toy colors, but not slavishly G1----blue eyes, not yellow, etc. Or put another another way----"fix" the toon colors to make sense based on the alt mode. Chrome/silver/metal not white. And it makes no sense to have faux-stripes in bot mode when they don't put them on alt-mode... (have silver stripes in both modes so it makes sense----they're drawn on the model sheet yet colored red----another "persistent animation error")
  12. David Hingtgen
    Only if you boil it down to an 8-pack of crayons, hue-spread-wise. The -31C toy doesn't match the show, and the new -31AX doesn't match anything that came before. No, none of them are bright scarlet red. But it doesn't mean they match each other, nor the show. (of course, having not seen the movie, I don't know what shade the -31AX is truly supposed to be). But I do know the DX -31C doesn't match the TV series nor most other -31C merchandise.
  13. David Hingtgen
    Looks even redder than the 31C. Bandai's really doubling down on the "not gonna make her valk purple no matter it looks on the show".
  14. David Hingtgen
    Bumping, wondering if there's any changes/news? It's been a couple years, and COVID has definitely affected intl shipping----anyone have anyone to recommend, or know of anyone that now should be avoided? (I've recently spotted an item I've been trying to get at a decent price for YEARS, has sold well within my budget over at Yahoo Japan several times the past few months---yet it goes for 2x to 3x as much on Ebay) I've never bid on Yahoo Japan, but I'm going to have to, as it's the only way I'll ever get it, it seems.
  15. David Hingtgen
    I feel the issue with the Scarecrow minifig is the color the head's molded in---it's too close to flesh and the eye-surround print color, so it ends up looking more like a bald head with big eyes and scars, than a bag with stitching. If it'd been molded in dark orange or nougat or something, I think it would have worked better.
  16. David Hingtgen
    So the red w/gold Sv-262 is Char's, right?
  17. David Hingtgen
    Maybe it was the fulfillment of a life long dream. Maintenance guy had a beloved toy F-15 long ago, joined the Air Force, finally got his chance to make it real... I do wonder if they had to custom-make the stencils, or if they had "1960's B-52 size" still on-hand.
  18. David Hingtgen
    I find it ironic that they skipped right over a generation (or two or three) of engines, most notably the MD-80's JT8D-200 that held a lot of promise/likely choice in the 80's, and ended up with the successor MD-95's engines. (717 my ass, it's a Douglas plane!) Anyways----someone likes insignias. On the drop tanks, and XXL on the wings:
  19. David Hingtgen
    LEGO *does* have larger ratchet hinges that can hold significant weight, but they're in only in one or two shapes and rarely seen in my experience. (I'm thinking of the ones in the Silent Mary set, as they hold up the entire front half of the ship).
  20. David Hingtgen
    So the bolts/discs on Not-Walkure's outfits----purely for style, or maybe holo-projectors or something? They seem to have fairly "standardized" locations (shoulder, collar, etc)
  21. David Hingtgen
    I saw a lot of posts on other forums saying it was better than expected, so I at least gave it a shot---and it's not horrible? I'm certainly interested enough to watch a second ep, and see where it goes. Also, David Kaye is in it, so that's an automatic coolness point.
  22. David Hingtgen
    My money is on Bandai knowing about this a while ago, and is the real reason for refurbishing the mold. The Alto reissue was likely just a "test-run", in preparation of doing Max and Milia* ones. They wouldn't spend the money fixing it up like they did just for an Alto reissue. *if they make it, it'll sell, even if not seen in the movie. Or do a white one for Mylene, or a Mirage, or...
  23. David Hingtgen
    Not to mention that Milia's an alien that are generally believed to live much longer than humans. It'd be rather pointless to apply human retirement rules to her. What's she supposed to do for the next 100 years?
  24. David Hingtgen
    Fixed.
  25. David Hingtgen
    I don't need another DX -29, I don't need another DX -29...
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