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  1. David Hingtgen
    It seems anytime N-Y alters your order, it'll revert to showing "bank wire". But it'll still work how you originally clicked for.
  2. David Hingtgen
    IMHO, Hasbro has the overall better cab/bot due to the painted marker lights, more "amber" clear plastic instead of lemon-yellow, and bright eyes. Takara clearly has the better trailer. But Prime himself is more important than the trailer. I think Takara's blue is inherently better---Prime had navy-ish blue on the cartoon, too. Not as dark as the G1 toy, but still closer to JP MP-10 than US MP-10. Painting the eyes is fairly easy due to how the head comes apart, but swapping the clear bits is difficult, as is painting the marker lights due to how they're molded. Sadly, MP Sideswipe is impossible to paint his eyes---they're permanently dark. I've not seen anyone manage to do it. I'd have done it the first day if I could.
  3. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, but the YF-19 has HUGE missiles inside, not the little firecrackers the VF-19 has.
  4. David Hingtgen
    Eh, I generally would consider this Yamato's "V3" YF-19, but I'm in the minority. My feeling is that the 1/48 was an intentional one-off change of scale, to make a purposely-not-in-scale-with-the-others, gimmick-filled "ultimate" extra-large VF-1. Basically unrelated to the previous 1/60. Whereas the 1/72 vs 1/60 valks was changing the entire "main" line to conform to a new standard and they are all direct sucessors to each other. (the first VF-11 was more like 1/66 anyways IIRC, they were already moving towards 1/60 at that point)
  5. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, and sometimes tell a red robot from a yellow robot.
  6. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, but we had silver, grey, and black Autobots, too (Sideswipe, Jazz, Ironhide). That way you can't tell ANYTHING that's going on! "Is that a silver goodguy or a silver badguy?"
  7. David Hingtgen
    ??? The US one has more paint apps (on the cab at least), and the stacks are identical.
  8. David Hingtgen
    Swapping the helmet, fists, and legs of Takara's onto the US MP-10 makes the best combo.
  9. David Hingtgen
    It's whatever they retcon it to be. To me, this is a "tweaked" TV Wing Zero. Nothing more or less. Not a redesign, not really a different version.
  10. David Hingtgen
    Skywarp.
  11. David Hingtgen
    So should I read the book instead of seeing the movie?
  12. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, the -19's high-speed mode is pretty much just a couple frames, blink and you'll miss it--and even in the frames it's present in, it's very small. The -21's high-speed mode, while a more subtle change, is shown more clearly/prominently. (plus, it doesn't require anything 'special' to do, it uses the normal transformation hinges)
  13. David Hingtgen
    The -19S/F wings *are* shorter. Not merely look shorter. (though IIRC the Chronicles retconned it to the F having 2 different wing options, including longer -19A style wings---but all the F/S's seen on-screen had the short wings) And the fuselage itself is the same length, it's the wing LERX's/intakes that are extended.
  14. David Hingtgen
    Yup. It's a high-priced adult-oriented toy---with the gimmicks and design that'd appeal to a 5-year-old. They really missed the mark.
  15. David Hingtgen
    We really, really, really need someone to put up some official lineart from the Chronicles etc showing just how different a YF-19 and VF-19F etc really are.
  16. David Hingtgen
    THAT looks awesome. I wasn't very fond of the "tweaked" Epyon asides from the wings, but this is definitely an improvement. It's more subtle than what they did to Epyon. I do hope it has some RG-style coloring, the two-tone red and white/grey on the RD figure looks awesome.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Yup. Movable surfaces suck. IMHO. (not as bad as detachable limbs though)
  18. David Hingtgen
    Really, what was Mattel thinking with the keys and where they went? "Yeah, this is totally what people want!"
  19. David Hingtgen
    Yup, I still like the NSX. Really, about the only Japanese car I like. But looks-wise, I think it's equal to nearly any Ferrari. Wish more of its styling found its way into their "mainline" cars, beyond just the taillights on the Accord.
  20. David Hingtgen
    MMC got necks on their new not-Predacons, and they have much more complicated transformations. Really, Voltron has never passed GoBot level transformation complexity in any toy---it seems every company just does the laziest way possible--see Black Lion's front legs in the new Mattel. As I said before--I want to see a Yamato/Bandai style re-vamp, where they make it much better than before in every way, by trying new things. Get rid of pointless gimmicks nobody ever uses---use the internal space for critical stuff like the transformation/COMBINATION. Why not have two sets of legs or something? Big articulated ones for lion mode that flip inside for Voltron mode, and "small, permanently tucked-up" ones that do the opposite. Etc. Having a grossly-out-of-scale pilot inside is not the best use of space. Nor is having spring-loaded firing heads, for an adult collector toy. Would rather have good legs and necks...
  21. David Hingtgen
    I remember the behind-the-scenes for Ep II. They had entire green-rooms with green-scenery and green-tables and green-chairs...
  22. David Hingtgen
    They said fit, not "God-like". . (Jedi tend to be more lean than buff)
  23. David Hingtgen
    Next movie better find a way to have Faora.
  24. David Hingtgen
    The VF-11 is fine, but the -21 needs belly plates that lock together at the rear, an upper rear fuselage that locks into place and doesn't rely purely on hinge friction, and limbs that don't come off which leads to cracked hip joints. All of which the 1/72 had, ironically.
  25. David Hingtgen
    Justin Hammer however, was intentionally written to be funny.
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