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2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

That "young crowd" is strictly imaginary.  This is a spin-off from a 2008 TV series. Anyone familiar with these characters in their original context is likely at least in their mid-20s.🤣

1 hour ago, Duke Togo said:

20s is young.

Let’s be realistic, they’re probably mostly the parents of the 20 something’s that were trying to introduce Star Wars to their younglings. They’re probably still trying with the grandkids though 

I was expecting structure arts trading kits, but I kinda figured they’d be further down the line. I loved their Front Missions kits and I’ll probably get these since they’re starting with more classic designs and hopefully they show some improvements since this will probably be their third line.

first set is a box of four kits at Hobbysearch was showing for about $80, Hlj has em for $94, but I figure shipping and taxes and such will probably play a bit here and there.

some entertaining accessories and of course different ways to customize em.

figure I’d start a new thread since they weren’t Kotobukiya kits and I couldn’t find an alternative section for them. I’d imagine that they’re probably gonna make quite a few sets since they did so many for front missions and Armored Core seems a bit more popular these days.

9 hours ago, Thom said:

The moment from Dr Strange was just an example of the same. And Gunn does do some good character moments, but it's just a preference of mine to have comedy separate from dramatic moments.

Other than a couple of Krypto scenes, I kinda doubt there will be much of the comedy to get in the way of Superman. Of course it’s too be expected that there will definitely be some, I just don’t think that the drama will be contrasted as much or as often even though it’s guaranteed to be there at times

5 hours ago, 505thAirborne said:

Last night was so good. 

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If I remember correctly, we don't see the very last conversation between Joel & Ellie until the end of the game but we see it last night. Damn, Pedro sold that scene for all he was worth as well Bella. Another nice intro scene, with a quick glimpse as a teen Joel & his father have a moment. 

And of course, Ellie's birthday at the museum in the space capsule, they nailed it!! 

 

Definitely a heavy emotional episode. But now there’s only one to go supposedly and I guess the big stuff may have to wait till next season whenever that is

3 hours ago, grogall said:

Wonder though why Bandai didn't mold these in a blue colour then!? And thanks for reminding me of mahq.net! Yes great resource, Thanks! 👍🏻

It could be that these aren’t finalized and were just showing them in standard green till things get closer to actual production, or they may just be option parts to allow you to build and paint those specific ones

2 hours ago, sh9000 said:

 

Still weird to think that he has a pretty good chance of being Bill Burr’s brother 

1 hour ago, TangledThorns said:

Looks like good sci-fi to me. I wonder if ALIEN will see a similar animated treatment?

With AI going the way it is, I wouldn’t doubt that a lot of projects will end up animated down the line.

8 hours ago, Papa Rat said:

@MechTech Time flys that’s for sure. Having a clear cockpit immediately reminds me of Wonder Woman’s invisible Jet. lol. Just imagine seeing a person flying through the sky in a seated position cracks me up. 
Anyway, thanks for the input on the Monster. I l have been trying to find some ball joints etc…and like you mentioned, they appear to be sold out. 
The hunt continues. 

Sometimes when extra part sets don’t exist, it’s a good time to check the bargain areas for kits you might not be at all interested in and scavenge them for parts since you may actually get everything you need dirt cheap. Things like older small high grade kits or even some of their newer stuff goes on sale 

5 hours ago, jvmacross said:

Maybe the majority of his customers like the metallic paints....I don't think anyone has ever brought it up on the KC page...unless complaints like that get deleted....KC has a history on doubling down on poor choices in the past....

I’d rather they did the colors in dull or at least just gloss, but the metallic and odd color choices are the things that bug me. 

1 hour ago, jvmacross said:

These look excellent...but I hope the metallic painted figs are the variants and not what was pre-ordered during the Kickstarter.....the heavy armor with the metallic does not look as bad, but still prefer the flat paints...

Also...of all things to get creative on.....why pink gun straps?

I hope KC can address the shipping situation for US customers soon....

I’m betting they’ll still be metallic. They have an odd obsession with metallic paints. Kinda like a child that got into Warhammer and found out there were metallic paints and is still stuck in that “every thing must be metallic” phase. 

As far as the pink gun strap, that’s like asking why with any of their odd color choices. Why metallic bubble gum on the light armor?, why purple where it’s supposed to be dark grey? Why does the heavy grunt have metallic brown armor instead of greyish tan? There’s so many odd color choices that I’m impressed that Kamjin got away with metallic green instead of yellow or any other random color of the rainbow metallic 

1 hour ago, jvmacross said:

That's Sentor Binx in a New Republic cell.....lol

I don’t think the new republic really had prison cells, just transport ships where prisoners escape easily and become pirates or First Order members. 
I think Binx and Deedra met in transition and that’s where Phasma was conceived. that’s how Phasma gained her luck abilities, unfortunately Dedra’s bad luck powers counteracted Binx’s doof luck powers.

29 minutes ago, grogall said:

Now just waiting for the Bloodsucker AT, Has this unit been done in figure format from any company before or just in model form from Playmax?

 

Yeah, the Actic gear was pretty cool and max factory had an older toy and I think cm might’ve had one as well 

2 hours ago, grogall said:

Eh? Left side where the upper torso has a different shape... the sniper variation is on my right but maybe your left!? 😉

But still some nice variations, but was more wondering for HM-R variants and what's still doable, Funny though that the Bloodsucker AT is being done as a figure before being done as a model by Bandai. Since these are two different devisions inside Bandai Spririts I wander if they cooperate or can just do their own thing?

Since Sunrise is now owned by Bandai they may as well milk it for what its worth! Find it amazing though that the series wich was considered a flop is actually still really strong after 40 years and how many companies have produced V.O.T.O.M. AT's in various scales for this series! And we still get too see new variants which we don't recognize...

 

Sorry, I was half asleep and probably thought you meant standing to the left rather than pictured on the left.

Not sure about it, but it does have that kind of battler custom sort of look.

and I’m not really surprised that Bandai hasn’t done the bloodsucker yet. They only seem to be doing scopedog variants and Wave had their kit, max factory also did a recent kit and theirs the toy, so I’d imagine it’s gonna be a while if they ever decide to do a non scopedog

and I don’t really think Votoms was a flop. Gundam was a flop in its og run and got cancelled and same with southern cross and a lot of other anime in those years, but the creators always expected Votoms to get cancelled and they were surprised after each one of the story arcs that they were able to continue. Supposedly that’s why they planned the show in that way to have an ending in case it ever got the early axe. I think their success even surprised themselves 

14 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

More on display and going into production.

Surprised that these weren’t first since the brownie in heavy armor is the first one ever shown in the series climbing out of a regult and that type of armor is very common with the regult pilots.

41 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Maybe Director Krennic will arrange for Dedra to have an appropriately entertaining bunk mate to help the time pass more easily during her stay on Narkina 5. I can think of a few people in the Star Wars universe who would make ideal companions for her...

Senator Binx was too loyal to the empire to be imprisoned by them.

1 hour ago, Shawn said:

I can't believe the size and heft of the injections molds...like seriously how do you maneuver them around, and how much room do you need to store them? Its just crazy,
There was a Dengeki Hobby or HJ 10 years ago or something that had an article with pics of Macross molds from Bandai, including a pic of the 1/200 Monster if I recall
I just can't remember where the heck I saw it

I think it was dengeki. I remember an article showing it and I really only bought the magazines with appendix items as add ons, (lots of cool add on parts for gundam and such like the GM wagtail parts) but I may be wrong about it and just got excited for Macross news. I believe it came out with the first rerelease of the Monster since they had to do some extra work with those particular molds and the article talked about the difficulties with that particular mold. If I remember the Monster didn’t come out with the first set of Macross rerelease kits due to those problems and came out the next big anniversary set

1 hour ago, sh9000 said:

Macross Mechanics Summer 2025.

Lots of new kits to feature 

2 hours ago, grogall said:

New Bandai HG Scopedogs shown at the Hobby Show in Japan!

What kind of AT is the left one? Looks really interesting! 

 

Looks like some kind of sniper custom. Can’t say I remember that one at all. Although I think the head should have its mid and short range eyes since the scope of the rifle seems connected to the head and would function as the extreme long range scope. Basically looks like it has redundant long range vision and no normal range vision and might just trip on a rock. Then again maybe on the other side of that scope is the short range lense

Bandai really likes milking the Scopedog for any variants they can, but how about something else every now and then

3 hours ago, jvmacross said:

You must have forgotten that as great as Andor was...it's still "Star Wars"......a franchise where characters can return from even death.....somehow

I was kinda joking about her making that kind of comeback, but after reading this comment, maybe it’s a decent prediction. I’m gonna laugh pretty hard if there ever is another mention of the character

4 hours ago, Thom said:

A good dramatic story could be so much better than just a string of exposions and superfast action squences, just to use Bay's Transformers as a comparison. Don't get me wrong, I do like Gunn's films, the earlier GoTG movies especially. But that Superman trailer looks like it's going to have a dozen villlains, or enough flashbacks for a dozen movies. 

That being said, this could be a real good film. There are sequences that I really like, but some have me worried. Krypto bouncing all over a badly wounded Supes just for the LOLs is one of them. Cheapening a dramatic scene just for laughs could seriously hurt the tone of the film, and Gunn has done that before. The scene from GoTG, when Quill gets the others to help him defend Zandar and Rocket comes out with his a-holes line. Funny, yes, but it was a gag moment at the expense of an emotional scene when the team is finally pulling together. 

Different movie, but the same thing happened in the first Dr Strange. The moment he decides to stand and fight is really cool scene with him drawing on the cape and then looking into a mirror - and then the cape starts trying to caress his cheek. A dramatic moment cheapened by the gag.

I hope he hasn't started leaning on it like a crutch - rather than growing past it.

I didn’t know he had anything to do with Dr Strange. But I do think Gunn knows how to do comedic bits and somehow have great heartfelt moments. I think the inclusion of characters like Krypto and Guy Gardner are gonna give some little laughs here and there, but probably won’t rely on them throughout. I think Gunn will give us a more heartfelt Superman movie than the Snyder version. Gunn seems able to give some great moments while Snyder kinda has to force a moment and his films kinda lack heart. Not gonna say we won’t get a cheap laugh here and there though, but Superman historically has always had those kind of moments.

2 hours ago, jvmacross said:

So maybe the elbow piece should have been molded into upper and lower parts?  Maybe it can rotate and it just isn't being posed correctly?  Either way not really an eyesore to me, I'm more dissapointed in the metallic paint job....it's like KC thinks the customers who PO'd the regult with the pilot back in 2022 are being rewarded with a metallic variant...

If it can rotate, it wouldn’t be too bad, but I doubt they could have easily molded the pads to the top and bottom pieces at that small a size. Not saying it couldn’t be done, just that it would take more creative engineering and might limit the bend of the arm. 

6 minutes ago, Papa Rat said:

Have you messed with super glue to build up those friction areas? I imagine once a pose is established I will leave it be for the most part. 

Super glue is a little risky because if you build it up too much, it can be a pain to sand back down. It’s also more solid and can wear out a bit sooner. While something like a bit of gloss can be almost rubbery and give a little grip. I’d suggest an acrylic though since it won’t glue the parts like a lacquer might. And the gloss can always be reapplied if things do wear down. Just thin it with a bit of water and let it drip into the joint

1 hour ago, Papa Rat said:

So it begins. I now have three kits in motion as I wait for paint to arrive for the previous two.

Test fit went ok. Yeah this is going to need some extra TLC. I want to put some ball joints in hips for more stability. Maybe put some weight in the feet too? One of the more pressing issues are the arms and hatch. I need to figure out how to make the arm articulation tighter and rear hatch sit flush in the closed position. They just flop down and can’t support the weight. Not sure how to approach that. 

I just used a little extra paint into the joint there. Gloss works pretty good as well, but those methods will only work if it’s not played with too much 

2 hours ago, Bolt said:

Yep . I will be looking forward to seeing all the flashy customs and high end builds of this kit tho..

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll probably check out as many builds of this as I can, just disappointed that I won’t be able to join in the fun

34 minutes ago, Thom said:

That's the thing, I don't really want 'chaotic.'

Chaotic will at least be better than emo