danth
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I could understand someone asking to take down the pictures if there was an artbook coming out, but I really doubt that. More likely it's some sad, deluded individual hoping they'll get rich selling the originals to Harmony Gold.
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Like I said before: stingy bastards.
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Yeah, I want to see them too. PM me if you can share!
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I don't want anything bigger than 1/72. We have enough huge valkyrie toys. I want something small enough to fit in my hand and swoosh around the room. And something cheap enough so I can buy fleets of 'em. Also, I don't think enemy mechas are worth making at larger scales.
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Yeah, I'm hoping for more than just Macross Frontier toys from Bandai. Let's see some SoC grade 1/100 VF-1's, VF-4's, enemy mecha, the works. Yeah, they should totally do that, even if the toy line loses them millions of dollars, just for my personal joy and satisfaction. Totally.
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Damn, what's with all these stingy bastards ending up with Mospeada lineart?
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Neat little find: Super Condor in Mospeada
danth replied to 1st Border Red Devil's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Totoro, if you can find two, you can sell the other to me at a mark-up. Or does anyone know of an online store that sells Hobby Japan back-issues? -
Oh crap...they're making all of them? That's $280 I need to put away. Because damn those look cool.
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Neat little find: Super Condor in Mospeada
danth replied to 1st Border Red Devil's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I like the Condor and Super Condor designs as destroids. I seriously doubt that they transform, even if they have little wings and intakes. I think the Legioss looks like the Condor because the Legioss' armo soldier mode was based on the Condor. To clarify, I think Aramaki/Kakinuma designed the Condor specifically as the Legioss' prototype in the Mospeada world. -
You know, I can't take it anymore. Screw SoC for not doing Macross and Mospeada toys. All these other properties getting beautiful well-made toys. *Sniff* It's just not fair.
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Whoa! I'm not usually into figures like this, but these are beautiful and look super poseable. The faces on that Haruhi figure are amazingly anime accurate. So who's the knight chick?
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I agree that the bike should at least try to match the finish of the hardsuit. It definitely needs a shinier finish.
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Ah crap, somebody get Toynami the hell away from the beautiful Beagle. The Beagle is supposed to be my spiritual salvation. Don't laugh, you've all seen the pictures. The thing is gorgeous. The Harmony Gold taint is strong, any association can bring ruin. Twoducks: Skip Rey. I love Mospeada, I love Rey, and I love the ride armors. But the CM Rey simply doesn't work in bike mode.
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It was perfect in the sense that it didn't have parts breaking or falling off, everything lined up and snapped together tightly as intended, it's wheels could spin, it had tight joints, and it could hold the beam cannon. It was sturdy and it worked. Plus I paid only $30 for it new. And I had no problem getting Stig to ride ithe bike, although his fat legs did make it kind of goofy.
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I think you're both right. I like the CM because it had the potential to be great. The Stig looks great in both modes, and nothing in the design is inherently wrong, but the windscreen breaking, the looseness of some parts, the non-spinning wheels, and the fact that I had to cut off piece of one forearm peg to make it work is pretty ridiculous for a tiny $60 toy. It's 2008 for god's sake, and toys in Japan are WORSE than they were 20 years ago? Look at the Gakken bike, that f*cker was perfect. I think it looks great, and the plastic doesn't feel or look cheap to me. The problems are bad glue and the fact that they made the design 90% perfect and then gave up on the wheels and forearm guards area. I opened my Ley CM the other night. Oh my god. The forearm are doesn't work AT ALL in bike mode. It's a f*cking joke. Like I said, they gave up too soon.
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I just want to say something. Don't get your hopes up regarding the Megahouse. I believe, in all likelihood, the CM will end up being the superior toy, with the exception of the breaking windscreen. And CM might do a second release with fixed windscreens, or even replace broken windscreens. Overall it's a beautiful toy with correctable flaws. The Megahouse, on the other hand, is not PT, has really ugly proportions, and is coming from a company not known for great toys. All in all, I prefer my CM, with it's windscreen held on by sticky-tack, to the Megahouse, purely on looks. And I don't predict a better build quality for the Megahouse. But if you already like the looks of the Megahouse, by all means, go for it. I'm just saying, it might have problems too. And if they both have problems, I'll take the pretty one, which is the CM in my opinion.
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What ever happened to Bandai's supposed plan to re-release the VF-2SS plastic model, among other models?
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1/60 perfect transforming vf-1 from yamato?
danth replied to Shaggydog's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
26 possible letters, 10 numbers...we'll say 9 numbers since they probably won't use both zero and the letter 'o'. Then four characters in the captcha code. The odds would be (1/35)^4. That's a 1/1,500,625 chance...of it happening to you on any given occasion. The chances it happening eventually on the internet with, millions of people seeing captcha codes every day, are much higher. God I hope my math is right. -
Yeah, I'm in love with how they look, it just makes it that much more frustrating that the windshield brakes and the wheels don't spin. My windscreen is now being held on by sticky-tack. It probably holds better than glue, and it's easy to stick back on if it does come off again. If only I could find some that's transparent. Dude, am I the only one having trouble keeping my forearm guards on in bike mode? Especially the right one where the forearm guard's peg hits the metal wheel strut?
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This is a great point. Some "opinions" are more like unfounded claims. But there's also this idea that criticism itself is bad, that a negative opinion is somehow less worthy than a positive one. That's what I don't like. I also don't like being subtley mocked for sharing an unfavorable opinion.
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I can't take it anymore. I'm sorry if this offends anyone. If you complain about people on internet toy forums bashing toys, you're just a douchebag. Please. F*cking. Stop. There's nothing wrong with praising or defending a toy. And there's nothing wrong with bitching or complaining about a toy. That's the whole point of internet toy forums. We're passionate, otherwise we woudn't be here. But the old "if you don't like it then don't buy it" line is high douchebaggery. It really means "shut up." Seriously. If you're only happiness in life is buying toys, and our complaining is causing you to think critically about your purchases, you have my condolences, but we're not going to stop critiquing toys. And no, complaining about toys is not nearly as common on Macrossworld as defending and apologizing for toys, or lectures on negativity. For every complainer there are five whiny crybabies who think their toy is being maligned. PLEASE STOP THE CRYBABIES. And now that I've complained about complaints about complainers, the circle is complete.
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1/60 perfect transforming vf-1 from yamato?
danth replied to Shaggydog's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
You totally pulled a Borat. -
I'm hoping CM will pull a Yamato and send out new windscreens to their customers (like Yamato did for the Garland's shoulders). Not sure how we in the US could get the replacements though.
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The windscreen has a peg sticking out of it that goes into the bike. The peg is part of the windscreen. The windscreen is also glued to the bike. I think the glue chemically weakens the plastic around the peg until it's brittle and flaky, but doesn't form a strong bond between the windscreen and the bike. So the windscreen just flakes off when touched, leaving the broken peg behind in the bike.
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Question for anyone who knows: Is the Tread cockpit/nose in bomber mode also the head in robot mode? They look so similar, I always wanted to think they were the same part.