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    Preorders for K3 Jazz are up. He is "only" $310 but a super barebones release. He doesn’t come with a gun and a shoulder rocket launcher but a combi weapon acting as both: I will also skip the D4Toys release since the exclusive piece is only a screaming face. I would like to have more weapon options but I said before that I hope he doesn’t come with superfluous accessories so I guess Flame Toys can’t win. More images available here:https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/02/10/flame-toys-kuro-kara-kuri-jazz-official-gallery-product-information-475501
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    Apparently the preorders for Soul of Chogokin GaoFighGar are out: https://www.anime-export.com/index.php?product=64852 ¥37000 release date 07/23.
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    Jazz is looking good. I’m not too keen on the thigh swivels and the holes in his forearms. I wonder if this will be a cheaper release or if they include some useless extra piece (like on Rodimus) to get to the $400 MSRP.
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    I’m confused why the Strike Gundam is getting so many different releases. Three variants of the original Suit and two releases of the Strike Rouge. Yet we have no powered down version and we only ever have two variants of the Strike Freedom. And the Strike Freedom is, to my knowledge, the more popular one. Very odd.
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    Are they reusing the cloth piece from Kuro Kara Kuri Drift?
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    Here is a machine translation for the Zelda set:
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    Preorder link to amiami for the Metal Build Change Getter Robo 1: https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail?gcode=FIGURE-150453 On sale 02/03/23 11:00 JST Available for preorder at anime export: https://www.anime-export.com/index.php?product=64653 [edit:] Sold out now.
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    It is iffy. The original had lots of fit and finish problems (like not staying together all that well). It also had the gun tonfas hanging down in fighter mode I reckon. So it is not as good as the VF-31 from the Delta TV show. Could they fix the issues for this release? Maybe, but I think it is unlikely since we heard nothing about that.
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    Massive Lego leak for potentially upcoming sets (website is in German): https://www.promobricks.de/lego-leak-umfrage-2023/157463/ Most interesting to me is the UCS Sail Barge in roughly Minifig scale. The leaks apparently come from a survey were they showed unannounced sets to the participant.
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    Yeah you are right about the G1 classification for Skyquake. I think because of the garish colors Euro G1 and G2 just run into each other. I'm a bit surprised that we didn’t see Nemesis Leo Prime but I guess it was too close to the release of the regular one. Anyhow, Bishoujo Bumblebee: Source: https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/01/30/concept-design-and-colored-sculpt-reveal-for-kotobukiya-bishoujo-series-transformers-bumblebee-474312 She looks super sassy. Love the way they evoked Bee's chest windows. Well done Kotobukia. I wonder if she could pull off a Char Aznable cosplay with that cowl. [edit:] Adorbs…
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    Instead of Evo Leader Prime Skyquake I'd love to see the repaints like Prime Dreadwing, Machine Wars Starscream or G2 Skyquake. All those are more appealing than Prime Skyquake. Nice review on Tarn. Can’t wait to get mine. I probably will buy the purple redeco of the DJD to complete the Tarn trifecta.
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    @jvmacross, next preorder: VF-31AX Hayate Custom reissue: PO date 02/02/23 (by @MKT).
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    I think that depends what you are looking for. I think the Transformers G1 cartoon looks poorly dran and poorly proportions so I prefer something more stylized; an idealized version of the character. However this bears the risk of looking out of style pretty quickly, while I don’t think my thoughts about the look of the G1 cartoon will change any time soon. I like how the side chest pieces flare out. Not sure about the rest
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    In hand images of MP Skyfire: I'm happy with my FT Phoenix. More images: https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/01/28/transformers-masterpiece-mp-57-skyfire-in-hands-images-474118
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    Over at TFW they posted a translation of an interview at a Tamashii Nationa event in Korea on the topic of the Metal Build and Metal Structure lines: https://www.passion4fun.com/tamashii-features-korea-2023-intervista-ai-planning-manager-delle-linee-metal-build-e-metal-structure/ Sadly the original translation of the interview was in Italian but someone posted a automated translation: https://www-passion4fun-com.translate.goog/tamashii-features-korea-2023-intervista-ai-planning-manager-delle-linee-metal-build-e-metal-structure/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en Lots of interesting tidbits in there about upcoming and current releases, well worth a read. Presenter: When will the Metal Build line end? Hiroshi Nagase: There will be no “final product”. Gundam will continue to be proposed and marketed, as long as you continue to love it we will continue investing our energies.
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    There is. It is the Strike Noir. You can see one of the ammo clips on its hip skirts if you zoom ineclose enough.
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    It is an MP Soundblaster situation where you bought the expensive toy only to get Ratbat out of it. I have no interest in Nemeios but maybe I will be pleasantly surprised.
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    Yeah, roughly in that range. You do get a Victory Leo with it though… And Kadmos has some good aspects but the stock head and the weal knees kill it for me. I just wished there was a replacement for the awfully designed ankle joints and the hollow feat. I don’t know what PlanetX thinking putting die cast in the thighs but not in the feet.
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    Yuck! I just bought a $125 upgrade set (+shipping from China) for an upgrade kit that fixes the two most glaring issues of PlanetX Kadmos: the head and the weak knees. Since CNY is currently going on I will probably have to wait till mid February to get it. I'm already regretting my purchase.
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    I kid, I kid. Obviously Legacy Menasor is the better of the two options. And the better toys too. I currently have CW Cutthroat on my desk at work and those combiner limbs are rough to play with. I still hope FansToys will come through with their toy style Menasor since it looks the best to me. Maybe NewAge could make a smaller version that looks equally as nice, since all these 3P MP combiners are too big to my liking. @M'Kyuun I think Lio Convoy's face will look much better in black. Generally speaking I prefer more mecha-like looking beasts like the Perfect Effect ones. The MP implemented the flip from cartoon lion to mecha lion head which it didn’t need to do in my opinion. Speaking of MP Lio Convoy the black version is coming out soon and I’m looking forward to it, even if the verdict on the mold is pretty negative and the last black repaint - MP-49 - was a big letdown for me.
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    Great reviews as always @mikeszekely. A couple of comments: I think the reason why the Leo Prime lion head looks so off because the sculpt reaches uncanny valley levels of almost correct but not quite right so everyone finds it off putting. The designer probably looked at some lion images on the internet and did his best to capture the look but with the missing shading and the yellow eyes without pupils it just doesn’t look right. While the MP or the show model doesn’t really look like a lion our brain is capable to parse it as such. Legacy Menasors robot mode looks really off in the proportions department the combination off the ginormous arms and the tiny shoulder joint just throws it off. I have to look at the Combiner Wars one again. Maybe it looks better? I wonder of some 3rd party company is already working on a trailer replacement that will yield a better robot mode.
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    I have the Ikea Samla boxes (the biggest ones) and I can’t recommend them. When you stack them with heavier items in them their lids can break or get malformed from the pressure possibly damaging the items inside. I stacked them 4 boxes high and had that happen. Secondly, they are narrower at the bottom (so you can stack them with a smaller footprint in the store/warehouse) which makes it harder to play box Tetris with cuboids such a toy boxes. I often find myself having boxes that would theoretically in the container but can’t because of that or boxes unsupported by anything below them being squished between the walls of the container and another box.
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    I think you can pull off such complex transformations but they need to be designed in a way were you transform the toy in chunks that are then securely stored away. During that the toy shouldn’t flop around and all the clearances should work properly. I hate the feeling when you transform a toy and it unfolds into trice its original size while 1000 tiny panels flop around on thin armatures. It is the worst! But this is not the focus of most designers, since companies know that the majority of their customers will take the robot out of the box and put it on display. Plus they don’t to enough testing of the test shots (if they do any at all).
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    Watched Peaugh's review of Leo Prime: During the video I has the thought that the had is so squished because Hasbro needed to save money because the lion head is a big chunk of plastic. So they just squished it in the CAD tool to make it narrower but didn’t change anything else. I think if you would stretch out the head by factor 1.2 it would be a good looking lion head.
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    I’m confused. The Hasbro designer went all out to come up with such an novel hip design for sludge (supposedly for the combiner mode hips) and then the leg shells just dangle there next to Vulcanicus' thighs.
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