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  1. MKT
    Absolutely beautiful!
  2. MKT
    Hellfire missiles bouncing off invaders' backs? Send out the Legioss instead... Despite the toy not being very large, it can be made to look quite imposing. (And just a few minutes ago, I noticed the shoulder sensor is mis-transformed in these latest pics. This will bug me for days to come... until I'm annoyed enough or find more inspiration to take more pics again.. sigh)
  3. MKT
    Same experience here with loose joints too. Also, the hip / waist lock keeps wanting to slide back up whenever I move the toy, it is pretty annoying. There's the criticism of Sentinel Tread's lower legs, but now I'm reminded their Legioss also has the nearly the same issues. There's no lower leg rotation, and ankle range feels very limited. It's a challenge to find some nice poses without having the feet looking dislocated or at some weird angle..
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    Yup.. Back then I wasn't really familiar with Gunpla - I happened to come across a modeling exhibition by a local distributor, and at that moment felt the urge to obtain a kit of an old transforming Gundam toy I used to have as a kid (found out much later it was a ZZ). The RG Zeta was the only one I found there that came close enough to what I remember of that toy, so I went home with it and if memory serves, built it much later. Although it didn't handle well after I was done, I do remember being impressed that no glue or paint was needed, unlike my very limited modeling experience when I was like perhaps just 11, being given a model kit of a car, and then could only afford the cement and couple of paint colors after skipping some lunches.
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    As much as I like the sculpt, Sentinel's really not much fun to handle in Soldier. It can be too fiddly.
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    LOL the RG Zeta was the first ever kit I assembled years ago, and I didn't dare to start transforming it since stuff would just untab & fall off just by touching it. It really made me think all model kits are that fragile in handling, and influenced me to cancel the VF-25 kits I had PO'ed at that time. Thereafter I moved straight to the DX to start my Macross collection.. Thankfully a few Gunpla kits I had that came after were nowhere as fragile..
  7. MKT
    https://anymoon.com/blog/?p=18595#more-18595
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    That FB video has no sound, so couldn't hear what the person was saying regarding the height of Toyrise's, but eyeballing his ruler puts it in ballpark of 14cm up top of his head minus the head laser. Thats about the height of the HMR VF-1. On SentineI's, I was pretty sure its shoulders were all covered up, but not so much after all:
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    Been listening to certain playlists over past few weeks as casual background music, before gradually realising they are AI music. At first, I thought only the vocals are AI, but it seems everything - composition, arrangement, instrumentals are AI generated. It really mimics high production value, and unlike most of current AI images or videos which I suspect most of us are able to tell apart from the real thing, if I were to just listen to the track without any context I wouldn't be able to tell that it's something generated in just minutes.
  10. MKT
    I do hope Toyrise's Legioss do well so we continue to get other stuff inspired by Breaker's line. Safe to say Sentinel won't be releasing more of Breakers as Gate's ride armor didn't seem to do so well.
  11. MKT
    Re: the feet. They do stick out, though doesn't seem as egregious as other non-Sentinel ones. There isn't the hip rotation feature to tuck the legs further into the chest intakes in Fighter. I assume that's for simplicity purposes. It then looks like they adjusted the lower legs to be slightly shorter so less mass sticks out the back. Shorter legs mean stockier Soldier mode, so they mitigate this by angling the feet downwards to that stiletto position to make it look taller again. That removable cockpit module just reminds me the VF-11 now.
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    Cynical me thinks Bandai will not release the FPs separately for above mentioned valks, but release it as a set with the valk again. Seems to be a very Bandai thing to do lately.
  13. MKT
    Pretty reasonable - smack in HMR valk price & size territory. Amazing they managed to keep the opening cockpit in Soldier, and one-upped the HMR by giving integrated landing gears. In fact, it looks to be PT like the bigger Sentinel. Even the pilot figure is articulated just like Sentinel's. Given all the above, it's curious they chose to have the forearms exposed without any covering panel. It's such a Takara TF thing to do.
  14. MKT
    I mostly skipped through here and there, but there are some bizarre engineering choices. One that really stands out is how the hips don't even secure to the nosecone in Battroid.
  15. MKT
    Excellent review as usual. Pretty surprised on the limited range of motion on the lower leg, I can only speculate Sentinel wanted to ensure stability with all the heft, moreso when combined with the Legioss on its lap.
  16. MKT
    I totally forgot Evolution Toys ever made the Legioss lol. It's just so out of mind that I almost swore there isn't any until @tekering's pics above.
  17. MKT
    That's a very nice custom @Mog. The gatling is really the icing on the cake, and wow it's motorised too.
  18. MKT
    Not often we come across Yamato v1 custom, this looks pretty awesome.
  19. MKT
    Forgot the colours are based on Takani’s art, which makes it even more cool to me now.
  20. MKT
    Found another pic online, this one seems clearer of the face. It’s a different face sculpt, this one is based on Rick Hunter in the Shadow Chronicles. Agree, the Jolly Rogers looks kinda odd here. What threw me off more from the in-hand pics are the colors. I was expecting to see dark, low-vis, gunmetal-type shades as per the single image put out by Toynami earlier, but now it’s just a light blue color.
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    Some pics of the SDCC MoShow / Toynami Cyclone by Teddy Gorospe on FB:
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    What I like about this variant is that it's not a straight color swap of the red bits to yellow. There's a sepia-like tint applied to all the colored bits of the armor which works quite well to my eyes. What I don't like - it's another one of those BS lottery schemes to obtain one. Not sure if I wanna pay the almost certain hiked up secondary prices for it.
  23. MKT
    I think, when KC did a renewed push last year on the GBP that included free base valk (the first ‘upgrade’ he’s referring to), response must have been quite tepid. If I’m reading correctly, it now sounds like there will be a v3 VF-1 with more metal. Hopefully it finally solves all the shortcomings of the current mold.
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    It’s his reply to one of the questions in that FB post.
  25. MKT
    Perhaps 1/60 is influenced from his days at T-REX, and he did work on some of Yamato's Macross stuff. But not complaining since it's the best scale going smaller than Sentinel's. Didn't work out any numbers, but 1/60 would prolly be in the ballpark of the HMR VF-1 size.. I can see it being a good desk toy.
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