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  1. David Hingtgen
    Sword alone kills it. You do NOT mess with the most iconic thing in the entire franchise.
  2. David Hingtgen
    Don't worry, it's totally not worth it and you actually get more out of it from reading a description of what it's supposed to be, than you do from actually seeing it.
  3. David Hingtgen
    I turned the droid-body upside down too---it "fits her" much better that way. As for clutch power---the robot arms are ridiculously loose, and they were never too tight before. And yet the red lightsaber bars that go very near them---THOSE have some clutch power! They don't come out of their clips without a fight.
  4. David Hingtgen
    Of course, another option is to simply not spend 95% or more of your available funds at a time, then pending charges etc won't put you at the limit. I see way too many people spend $768 of an $800 paycheck etc then wonder why their card gets rejected.
  5. David Hingtgen
    They're going totally toon-colored, red bumper and all:
  6. David Hingtgen
    Rodimus sucks. But Hot Rod is awesome. I totally want a new MP Hot Rod----car-mode only, scaled to the other MP cars.
  7. David Hingtgen
    For Bluestreak--heck, for me it's pretty much "whichever came first"---I'm equally happy with toy and toon versions. But toon colors came out first, so that's what I have. Though I do feel a bit of nostalgia for the all-silver bright-silver toy version, as him and Sideswipe were my main 2 "beloved Autobot toy cars". But the black hood just looks SOOOOO cool... Anyways--best pic of MP UM so far:
  8. David Hingtgen
    Both, actually. Even alt-mode is mistransformed, and that's really something.
  9. David Hingtgen
    Pics from the Tokyo Toy Show are starting to come out. There should be much better ones in the next 12-24 hours, but here's the best one so far of MP UM:
  10. David Hingtgen
    Having ZERO interest in Skyfires of any sort, I've been avoiding those threads. But now it seems like I'll have to go have a peek...
  11. David Hingtgen
    I'm always much more fond of boosters and missile pods, than armor. I still think the YF-19/YF-21 have the lamest armor of the franchise----it's basically just another layer of sheetmetal that's the size and shape of the area it's covering (YF-19 legs, YF-21 belly). (and the YF-19 shoulder and YF-21 forearm armor bits are just pointless)
  12. David Hingtgen
    The YF-29 sure didn't, but it got one.
  13. David Hingtgen
    I sure hope so, because black+grey looks awesome: If not Grace's, then give us more game recolors. Purple stripes look awesome on the -27:
  14. David Hingtgen
    I would follow up with the main/current class terms used in the fandom are: Legion/Legend Basic/Scout Deluxe Voyager Leader Most other classes are short-lived or uncommon. "Ultra" is still fairly commonly used to describe 3P stuff, size-wise. (truly, classes indicate price-points, though most people use them to indicate size--but as the years go by, you get deluxe-sized voyagers and vice-versa and overlap etc) All in all, Deluxe and Voyager are the two main terms you'll encounter---they are the most common types in the main lines, and their designations have remained the same for years.
  15. David Hingtgen
    I just can't get past that it looks 100x more like "off-white paint" than the "super-faded chalky red with rust and primer showing underneath" we see in the trailers. It's rusty Magnus, not rusty Prime.
  16. David Hingtgen
    MP-10 is still vastly simplified compared to how it "really" would look like: I'm not saying red steps are wrong---I'm just pointing out that silver isn't! (thus, painting Evasion Prime's bits on his shoulders silver, doesn't go against his G1 alt-mode's look---unless you are being utterly slavish to exactly how the toy is, and not taking into account the real-life truck at all) It'd be like saying Skywarp should have silver tires, not black, because that's how the G1 toy was... Other colors are certainly acceptable/appropriate, even if it's not exactly how that little bit was in G1.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Considering that those are the cab entry steps, silver is the most-appropriate color in alt-mode. Really, it's the G1 toy that's "wrong" there. They simply painted it ALL red with no highlights/details at all. It's no different than G1 Sideswipe's air intakes being red---they simply didn't have the budget for additional paint-apps, while the Masterpiece does and paints them black. Same for the cab's air horns---they wouldn't "really" be solid red, despite how the G1 toy was painted. Yes, even I reference the G1 toys above all else for colors--but they should not be referenced for the smaller details that simply weren't painted back then. Reference the real thing in that case. Yeesh, otherwise MP Sideswipe would be like 99% red...
  18. David Hingtgen
    Well yes, you can fairly easily remove her "holding pen" and keep things mostly intact---but I plan to completely remove the whole "octagon" styling. Anyone else have very loose arms on the repair droids? I'd bet money those are "made in China" parts. They seem slightly off in color (too pale), they are not a plate/brick (LEGO never has China make essential/basic parts, generally just studless/accessory bits), and they have that "off" feel to them.
  19. David Hingtgen
    I plan to replace the (4x6?) "wedge-tile-car-roof" bits with simple plates. Also, despite Unikitty being awesome---she's gotta go. That whole area is literally designed around her. She can just go down in the reactor room. PS---screen cap: It's not QUITE what's in the box. Notably, Unikitty's "hold-down"---has several more pieces/joints, and the area it attaches to has some grey pieces in blue instead. I'm sure there's a few more bits that are different too. (also, the LL929 stickers are mirrored from the box---though I think the box looks better, otherwise the stripe angles are weird)
  20. David Hingtgen
    Nobody outright owns their planes anymore. Even the biggest and best airlines lease half their fleet straight from the factory. The plane will spend its entire life, factory to scrap yard, in that airline's colors----having never been owned by it. Planes and locomotives get leased for decades at a time.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Gotta be lease. NOBODY has 100 747's. Maybe JAL did at their peak, but not now.
  22. David Hingtgen
    On my -19, the ankles are very stiff left/right tilt, loose forward/backwards tilt. If they could just be rotated 90 degrees, it'd work fine. (as it's NOT going to suddenly "tilt all the way left and fall over" no matter how loose it is in that direction)
  23. David Hingtgen
    At least the 0 actually used wing-carried missiles in the anime, and they won't be forcing you to buy "concept art" with it like with the YF-19.
  24. David Hingtgen
    Mine's not even done yet but I figured that yes you could remove much of the under-wing structure. They seem to serve more as a "template/jig" for building, than as truly necessary parts. Would love to see some new wingtip pod ideas.
  25. David Hingtgen
    This is going to be on like every website soon: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=96373 An INSANELY huge and detailed Star Destroyer.
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