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    Like Menasor, they're spring loaded and close when a bot is plugged into the calves. Unlike Menasor, it sounds like any of the four Deluxes can go on any of Superion's limbs. I haven't confirmed it but I think wave 1 preorders are coming Tuesday in the States. EDIT: Oh, BTW, the plane kibble on Wingtail's butt is likely supposed to be his fox tails, of which Tails has two.
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    My best guess is to make it just inaccurate enough that they don't have to license the alt mode.
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    Depends on what you mean by "accurate". The AOTP Aerialbots aren't accurate to their real-world jets, no. But they're pretty close to their animation models... I just wish Air Raid had bigger wings and his arms tucked in a bit better like Slingshot's.
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    Yep. Also, Slingshot. Also, hey artwork for Vortex. Guess we already know that Onslaught's the Commander for 2026. I'm hearing that Hasbro will announce their next Transformers Haslab in the spring. I'm like 75% sure it's Gigatron/RiD Megatron.
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    Did you guys know that Cybertron Con is happening in China? And wouldn't you know it, it's the official reveal of Age of the Primes. Hopefully we gets some more info and clearer pictures soon, but here's what I've managed to wrangle up for you guys so far... Sonic Collab Titan-Class Star Convoy. Looks like he has all the gimmicks of the G1 toy, including a Micromaster Hot Rod! Forget Devastator and Superion, Star Convoy is my most-anticipated 2025 release now. Commander-class Silverbolt and Superion. Bot and combined mode looks good, but it looks like Superion's using similar engineering to Menasor, and the rear half of Silverbolt's alt mode is a massive brick of combiner kibble. That said, if you look closely you can see what appears to be a while veritcal stab folded over, so the current theory is that Silverbolt turns into a jet that combines with the brick of kibble to become a bigger, blockier jet (though, even without it, he's definitely a robot with a jet on his back tha turns into a jet with a block of robot kibble on its belly). G2 Grimlock Armada Red Alert Wasp Primus Solus Prime Some artwork for Onyx Prime Skybyte Heatwave (who's probably a Bulkhead retool, just saying) and Crasher (who's the same Earthrise Mirage retool we already got in Velocitron) Slingshot's bot mode with art for his alt mode and art for Air Raid's bot mode and his jet mode
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    The show might be good. Heck, it might even be great! Animation isn't everything... I didn't care for the animation in the Netflix Ultraman anime, but I loved the show. I'll need to watch an episode or few to decide if the plot and characters are something I'm into or not. All I'm saying for now is that's the worst mecha to bear the name "Gundam" in 45 years.
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    I think it depends. For Gundam specifically, I don't think it did Iron-Blooded Orphans any favors. But I think it worked ok for 00 and Age* where there were more significant time gaps in between.
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    Surely you're not referring to the people who are pointing out, correctly, that the GQuuuuuuX is less Gundam and more Hot Garbage?
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    Every time they do a new Gundam TV series I think it's the mechanical designs can't get any worse, and every time they prove me wrong. Aerial was worse than Barbatos, and this thing is new levels of bad.
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    I'm right there with you, but flipped around.
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    I'm not either, but it's better than the mechanical designs. Woof. I gave SEED crap at the time for rehashing a lot of the One Year War but worse, but twenty years of crap* have made me a lot more forgiving of it and 00. *TV series, anyway, Unicorn and Thunderbolt were pretty good, and Hathaway's Flash was a good start.
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    The thing with Batocera is that it's an entire operating system with the emulators baked in. It takes some work to setup, but once you have the PC you installed it on basically becomes a console, with gorgeous menus separated by console, with box art for games, all navigable with a controller. It supports a ton of controllers so, with adapters, you can use the original ones, but I'm content with using one of 8bitdo's.
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    Yeah, probably something like that. Or shipping, since the VF-11 was coming up about $33 and the Super VF-11 was coming up $28 with $5 shipping. To be totally clear, I wasn't doing an in-depth search for them, I just typed "Hasegawa Macross" into Amazon and looked over what came up. Both were being sold by third party sellers, and the VF-11 was shipped by Amazon while the Super is shipped by the seller. Anyway, thanks for the help. To you too, @VF-1A Grunt. Yeah, I can see on Hobby Search links you put up that the Super has the same sprues as the regular with instructions on what parts not to use for Super mode. Seems like it's better to buy the Super and just build it without the super parts, and just keep them around it case I want to change it up later.
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    Sorry to necro this thread, but until Bandai makes an HMR VF-11 I was thinking about grabbing a Hasegawa 1/72 VF-11B fighter kit. I'm seeing two different versions, one that's just the fighter and one with the super packs. The one without the super packs is a little more expensive... is there something in the details of the non-super version that makes it a better fighter if I prefer to display my Valks without FAST packs?
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    Hi-Metal R

    mikeszekely replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Aisha had a VF-19E, but like the A it was basically still the YF-19... but pink. Macross The Ride gave us the VF-19EF, which in turn was the basis for Isamu's VF-19EF/A in one of the Macross Frontier movies, but they too looked like the YF-19. Heck, aside from new boosters and some SMS markings the VF-19EF/A was even painted the same as Isamu's YF-19. It's too bad. I love Macross 7, honestly, and I don't mind the existence of customized one-offs, but I prefer military hardware without faces. And as much as I dig the YF-19/VF-19A and the VF-19F/S, I can't help but think that a variant that combines the sleeker body of the F/S with the longer wings and canards of the Fire Valkyrie/P, a more traditional head, and maybe a nice Skull Squadron deco would be my idea VF-19. I haven't committed to buying the HMR Fire Valk, but if Bandai does retools I'd buy either a YF-19/VF-19A (VF-X2 colors, maybe), and either a VF-19F or S. I'd maybe even go for a VF-19P if it's the mostly-white original colors and not the red-goo one. It'll be a darn shame if Bandai quits on the HMR line before I get a VF-11 and VF-17, too.
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    Hi-Metal R

    mikeszekely replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I know the 19A and a few other variants are basically the YF-19. Then the 19F/S have the smoother lines of the Fire Valk, but without the canards and with stubbier wings. Were there any variants (besides the P) that have the refined shape of the F/S but the longer wings and canards of the Fire Valk?
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    Well, the fall Steam sale has finally begun. Not the hugest deals for me, but I'm picking up Space Marine II and Silent Hill 2 at 20% off, plus Metaphor: ReFantasio, Visions of Mana, and Star Wars Outlaws at 25% off.
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    That's a darn fine looking Peg. Maybe I should get one...
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    Also easier to do since you can plug in an external monitor and power without a dongle.😉 Partly since COVID, partly since my daughter's getting older and more involved with activities and it's just harder to make time for it, but I don't really travel that much anymore, so I'm not super concerned with having a good laptop or whether I'd prefer it or an Ally when I travel (but I'm not lugging a laptop, even a small one like my currently Zephyrus G14, to a dance class). But I definitely don't want/need it to replace my desktop for gaming. I've gotten to a point where I actually prefer not to couch game on the living room TV- I prefer the solitude of gaming after everyone else goes to bed on a 32:9 OLED, and I still prefer a mouse and keyboard for a lot of games anyway. I'm not sure if everything I think is happening will happen entirely in 2025, but yeah, it's going to get a lot better with better chipsets, better upscaling, and better Windows support. But I think my priority for 2025 is a better desktop with at least an RTX 5070.
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    I gave it some thought, and with my other planned 2025 PC upgrades even if a super affordable, way better Z2 Ally 2 comes out I can't see myself buying in until next Black Friday at the earliest. While none of the Ally X's features are probably enough to sell me on their own (though that battery upgrade is huge), combined they add up to make the Ally X a lot more convenient for me... as huge as the battery is, not needing an extra dongle to use a charger and XR glasses at the same time is also a big plus for me. More and faster RAM and improved buttons, sticks, and ergonomics is icing on the cake, plus I realized that the screen might actually be an upgrade for me, since I got the original original Ally and apparently it's only rated for 400 nits vs 500 on later models and the X. I've heard the speakers on the X are better, too. Using my OG Ally as a dedicated retro gaming platform, a platform I was going to invest in sooner or later anyway, and cashing in some credit card points for a gift card also helps justify/offset the $700 price tag. I'm biting the bullet.
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    Yeah, I don't mind turning stuff down to low settings, or even using 720p, but if I'm going to turn the settings down all the way I'd at least like to hit 60fps. I think if had confirmation of a release date, specs, and a price I'd be more inclined to wait. If I buy the X I was thinking I might replace Windows with Batocera. I'd been thinking about building a Batocera box; I'd already built one on a Beelink mini PC for a buddy, and re-using the Ally instead of buying a similar mini PC helps justify the cost. No, the majority of my use is while my kid's at dance. In addition to Monday, she has another two 45 minute days. Sometimes I take her to piano classes, too, but usually my wife handles that one. Other than that, in the summer I'll take her to visit her grandparents. Sometimes when she gets involved in an activity like baking cookies or something that doesn't really involve me I'll bust it out. On super rare occasions I might use it to play on the couch if I have free time during the day, but that's rare. The bulk of my gaming is after she goes to bed on my much more powerful desktop. I was thinking that $700 is the Black Friday deal. EDIT: Thinking about what @Test_Pilot_2 was saying about the non-proprietary egpu connection... that's actually another good point. I was already thinking about replacing my desktop sometime next year, after the RTX 5000 series hits, since my 9th-gen i7 is getting a bit old. A basic enclosure and PSU would allow me to re-use my RTX 4070 and make a Switch-style "dock" if I want to play on my living room TV...🤔
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    I'm thinking about buying an ROG Ally X during the Black Friday sale. A part of me thinks it's hard to justify, since I have the regular Z1 Extreme Ally and the X uses the same chip and the same screen. But there's some real nice quality-of-life improvements... extra RAM leaves enough for the system and the GPU, plus the RAM is faster, you can use full-sized NVME drives, two USB-C ports means I can use my Virture XRs while it's charging without an adapter, and double the battery means I might get through my daughter's two-hour Monday dance classes without needing a battery bank or an outlet.
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    If your buddy wanted the games because he just wanted to play them, he's probably ok. In my (limited) experience sometimes repros flat out refuse to boot, are loaded with some sort or romhack, but most of the time there was no real software difference than a legit cart. If he wanted them as a collector, though, yeah, they're basically worthless. As for EZ-Flash, I don't remember which one I used, but I had one way back in the day. It was good for most games, but it didn't have the motion sensor for games like WarioWare Twisted or the light sensor for the Boktai games. I think it might have had issues with the clock for some Pokemon games, but I'm getting old and don't recall. I think maybe newer carts have more features. The game selection screen was pretty basic, and it didn't offer any extra features like cheats or save states. As long as the games you want to play work and your main goal is playing on the original hardware it should be fine. FWIW, a similar device like the R4i DS Gold was the way to go for original DS games, but for the 3DS you're better off getting a big SD card, installing custom firmware, then downloading the games you want through the Homebrew store.
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    Yeah, the G9 OLED. I love it, it's the same height as my old monitor but the way it curves into my peripheral vision is so much more immersive, especially in racing games. Turns out to be better than I though for productivity, too... I finally get all those dual monitor people.
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