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  1. Scyla
    I think this looks great. Can’t wait to see it in color and the alt-mode The reason why I think it looks great is because I expect a Legacy Needlenose reshell but this looks like it actually transforms into a jet and is not a box underneath a jet. The head also has some hinges on it so I wonder if they are there to flatten the head in jet-mode or maybe it is a Headmaster that transforms into Basara. The cockpit seems a bit small to house one but will see. I also love the guitar. I might buy to if the guitar is big enough for the Yamato Fire Valkyrie to hold. I find the inclusion of the truck parts odd. I mean it doesn’t seem to transform into a truck, so why have the smokestacks on the arms. I‘m ok with the chest design since it is not meant to be a VF-19 Battroid-Mode but a Transformer (i.e. a living organism).
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    On the contrary, like Raiden, Predaking is tiny.
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    Understood. From your explanation I can see why a designer would choose a established torso configuration. Maybe a symmetrical docking approach where each bot forms one side of the torso or Long Haul forms the upper torso to have wider shoulders from the extra mass could be interesting configuration, even if Devastator has the same torso bots.
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    @mikeszekely do you think with Craner and Tipper being their usual self (i.e. the torso) do you think Mecha Invasion missed an opportunity do do something interesting with Devastator seeing how interesting the arms turned out?
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    Any shape can fly if the thrust is high enough.
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    From the silhouette presented last year I think that is fair to assume that the alt-mode will be a jet.
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    Saw this in my feed as well. Absolutely crazy build. I would like to know how it expensive it would be to source all the pieces.
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    Just got billed for my HotToys Darth Revan from HLJ. This item was scheduled for release for 07/31/25. I don’t think I had a toy come in 7 months early. I thought I had some more time deciding if I want the toy or not. Guess it wasn’t my decision after all.
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    Don‘t know about the chest gap. Was Hook‘s head black on the gray proto? It seems like a gap on the toy itself to me:
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    Devastator is odd looking. The gap (?!?!) in his chest is even more off-putting now in color compared to the gray prototype. And why are the leg robots off center on the thighs? Is it a reference to the off center feet on the G1 combiners?
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    I think it is also an availability my thing. When I got into anime in the mid nineties, I was glad about every new release because there was so little of it (to me Bubblegum Crisis and Plastic Little were the best thing since sliced bread because there was nothing like it in western media). Plus the companies licensing the titles in the West did already some curation for their customers, filtering out what was too derivative and focussing on the "classics" and titles already being successful in Japan (like Dragonball or Evangelion). On the other hand some of the less stellar titles were probably chosen by the western licensees because of novelty and shock value (like M.D.Geist or Urotsukidoji) Nowadays you can just watch everything of every season and filtering and curation is up to the viewer. Which is super tiring and not many people can do that.
  12. Scyla
    Preorder for the Metal Build Crossbone Gundam X1 Half Cloth at Anime Export (¥49980, pay now): https://anime-export.com/index.php?product=87392 [edit:] Sold out.
  13. Scyla
    I think you can’t go wrong with MMC at the moment. I just got their Incertus (G1 Protectobot Groove) and he is such an awesome Transformer (not just a converting toy robot). Easily the best Transformers toy I bought this year. Fans Toys is currently really falling out of favor with me since their super G1 toon style is neither doing the character justice nor playing to the strength of Fans Toys fit and finish.
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    Count me in as being unimpressed. Something gone missing from the original design. The original toy of the Blacktron Renegade had this big loading bay in the center of the ship that is missing from this picture. Also the original design had a think, swan neck connection between the main fuselage and the cockpit that is also missing here. Of course it is hard to tell from this one picture how the final toy will look like so my opinions can change. For example a container could be included that fit in the empty space in the middle or even the vehicle shown in the image. Still, while I think the Galaxy Explorer was an awesome recreation of the original toy, this is a miss to me. Doubly sad because I have no nostalgia for the Galaxy Explorer and all the nostalgia for Blacktron I. [edit:] Some more pictures from TFW: Still meh to me. But it looks a lot better in the picture on the box.
  15. Scyla
    Sure, Metal Builds tend to have more stylized designs and are mostly from non-UC timelines and. They have a metal frame and are usually fully painted. Chogokin Gundams are mostly action figures of designs already existing in the form of a Gunpla kit. The usually have softer sculpts (since some of them are upscaled) and less paint. Then there are Fixed Figuration Metal Composite Gundams which are Katoki Hajime designs. All of them are 7-8 inches tall (1/100 scale). Personally I enjoy the Metal Build line the most. I like the stylized, sharp sculpt and all the painted on details. They are usually hard to tell apart from pictures but seeing them in person the less intricate construction, duller sculpt and missing paint becomes more apparent. I would never trade my MB Freedom Gundam Concept 2 for the Chogokin one.
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