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  1. Scyla
    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.
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    Preorder for the Metal Build Crossbone Gundam X1 Half Cloth at Anime Export (¥49980, pay now): https://anime-export.com/index.php?product=87392
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    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.
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    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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    I think the white plastic on the Arialbots looks horrible. It looks like they are cheap knockoffs. The details look so soft they almost look like Legends scale toys. I also think that Menasor was a better looking combiner but maybe I need to take a closer look at it again. I‘m also disappointed that they couldn’t come up with a better transformation scheme than a box under a plane for Silverbolt, especially when they outsourced all the combiner bits to Superions’s frame. If I get Megatronus I somehow have to remove the paint from the faceplate radiator. The way the "vents" are shaped it looks like a mouth instead of a faceplate. Plus the paint is much too bright. He looks like Emperor Zurg:
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    This was not taken by me but it is probably my favorite aeronautical image of all time: I wonder if there is a way to get a high resolution version of that image. I would love to have a large, high quality poster of it on my wall (framed and all). One that I‘ve taken is probably this one because it was my "lifelong" (given the plane was introduced in 2005 and I‘m much older than that) dream of mine to fly on an A380.
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    Every time I‘ve seen the abbreviation AOTP I think it stands for Attack of the Primes. I blame George Lucas for that.
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    When the Full Saber set was revealed I was wondering if you need two sets to recreate the image below. The set only comes with one saber so I guess not….
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    Preorder for the Metal Build Quanta Full Saber Options Set at Anime Export (¥8800, pay now): https://anime-export.com/index.php?product=86996
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    Thanks for the clarification, that makes a whole lot more sense that all the other explanations.
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    China showed a mock-up of their 6th generation fighter jet called White Emperor: Looks like its straight out of Yukikaze or Ace Combat. Source: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/white-emperor-chinas-ngad-6th-generation-fighter-just-mockup-213772
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    Really? In my mind the Soul of Chogokin line is the best of the best that Bandai Tamashii Nations has to offer. Granted I only own the SoC Gunbuster but it is mostly painted and looks great. The difference for me between Metal Build and Soul of Chogokin is that one is stylized and detailed (MB) while the other is screen accurate (SoC). So I would expect SoC Tryon 3 to be pretty screen accurate (which it is) but no extraneous markings (which it doesn’t have). But I would also expect to be fully painted. The problem is also that blue, red and yellow can easily look like plastic. They can be too translucent (red and yellow) swallowing fine details and easily show swirls and other imperfections especially when it has a glossy finish (blue). These colors are prevalent in the Tryon 3 which is why I would prefer a fully painted toy instead of bare plastic Of course I will reserve my final judgement until I have my copy in hand and as I said, the images from Hacchaka make it look quite alright.
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    Hacchaka‘s review of the Tryon 3: https://hacchaka.net/archives/52115187.html They mention that it is mostly unpainted plastic which I don’t care for. However it looks much better in their pictures than in the most recent ones from the magazine.
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    Hacchaka's review of the Metal Build Quanta Full Saber: https://hacchaka.net/archives/52115226.html
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