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  1. Scyla
    To me cover 1 says: Fun day at the military boarding school Cover 2 says: Trying to survive WW3
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    Why is the visual language of the cover art so different?
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    Today’s episode of 100 Girlfriends was awesome… *sparkling* 🤩
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    Since Hot Toys is venturing into ToR with Darth Revan and Darth Malgus, are there any rumors that they planning to release a Bastila Shan from KotoR?
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    Yapp. I can recognize that the Titans Return and Kingdom ones are more solid toys but I love the alt-mode (no H Tank!), the creative way it transforms (all in one if you can keep everything attached), the asymmetric nature of it. I‘m probably the only person that likes this toy and my judgment is blinded by the potential I can see in it (if it only had been a Voyager class as initially planned) but it is still the best retail Galvatron in my collection and I love it!
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    @mikeszekely, @anime52k8 Of course you’re right. My point was that the MMC releases were very rough when it comes to their design and build quality and yes of course they had a bigger budget. For example the legs on Knight Morpher Commander are just rectangular slats of plastic that can’t even close properly. And yes the first release of KM Commander was prone to breaking due to translucent plastic clips in the chest that hold the arms in place in robot mode. You can tell that it was (probably) the first design of an aspiring toy designer and the first product of a new company. What I was getting at was that - putting the constraints of Hasbro when it comes to the production of these toys and the different price points aside - to me the 15 year old design by a novice toy designer still "looks" better than something designed by an experienced design team today. And I find that fascinating. PS: In the same way I find it fascinating that Hasbro never managed to release a Galvatron that outshines the Universe 2.0 one (to me).
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    I find the jet modes on HasLab Liokaiser laughably bad. Like Combiner Wars bad. Besides obscurity I can’t comprehend why this is a HasLab project. There is nothing special to the toy that I can tell.
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    Hearts of Steel two pack: I find it fascinating that these toys (to me) look worse than their 3rd Party counterparts from MMC released 15 years ago. Especially Starscream (and Optimus in alt-mode). Doubly so because it was the 1st and 3rd release of brand new company and some of the first 3rd party robots ever.
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    Next HasLab Transformers project: Liokaiser More pictures here: https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/02/07/haslab-liokaiser-revealed-531292 @M'Kyuun won’t be too happy about the way Hasbro engineered the jets
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    Some improvements to the new Lego Renegade by Jangbricks: While this looks better the biggest issue, the empty space in the middle is still there. Also the missing swan neck behind the cockpit is distracting. Argh, I really need to track down an original set
  11. Scyla
    Maybe that is why the FansToys Maverick has these weird conformable fuel tanks and the wrong droop snoot design. Both features serve no reason and could have been omitted or implemented more faithfully.
  12. Scyla
    Repaint are a thing but most of them are D4Toys exclusives (they are available through BBTS). Most releases have been repainted at least once: Dark Star Saber, Dark Victory Leo, Shattered Glass Drift, SG Prime, SG Megatron Nemesis Prime, Power Burst Tarn. Of the top of my head, most of them were some sort of exclusive. SG Drift was a regular release but he also had different accessories while the others were straight repaints. No repaints so far: Jazz and Rodimus. They remolded Tarn into The Fallen The only mold that had two repaints was Optimus Prime as Shattered Glass and Nemesis. After a quick ebay scan aftermarket prices don‘t seem to be that outlandish between $100 and $200 above MSPR. Some limited releases like Power Burst Tarn seem impossible to come by. IIRC there was a silhouette of Thundercracker during the last trade show where Flame Toys showed new and upcoming product. So I would say it is likely but probably as some sort of exclusive. They usually don’t sell out immediately and they are usually available at BBTS. I have most of the Kuro Kara Kuri Transformers and I have gotten Starscream a couple of weeks ago, so if you have any questions let me know. [edit:] This is the picture I was mentioning. Not sure if this is real or a photoshop or if it is actually meant to be Thundercracker but at least it has a blue outline:
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    @M'Kyuun I‘m on the exact opposite side I‘m very excited about this and how it transforms. Looking at this picture @Black Valkyrie posted Basara Prime hopefully be different than just a box under an aircraft. At least the legs will look like proper VF-19 engines. I‘m curious if and how the chest and arms will transform since I can’t spot joints that indicates a upper torso transformation. And I don’t see a way for the arms to move behind the central fuselage. I‘m confused why Takara felt the need to integrate truck parts into the design. Neither the Rathalos nor Shield-D Prime feature any truck parts. They just look like the thing from the franchise but it turns into a robot with an Optimus Prime head. However, with Basara Prime the designers felt the need to include chest windows, lower leg vents, and most perplexing of all, smoke stacks. Plus the revealed design looks nothing like the silhouette that was revealed in 2024. I wonder if BigWest or Kawamori took umbrage with the initial design and demanded changes. If you are interested I collected my thoughts why this is a Macross 7 x Prime crossover on the site that shall not be named: https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/t-spark-zone-event.1271687/page-11#post-23045251
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    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).
  15. Scyla
    On the contrary, like Raiden, Predaking is tiny.
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