Recent content by KingSwoop

I saw this today. I was very disappointed by the anti-immigrant message. If not for the insane (and successful?) gaslighting in the film, I might talk about the figurative neck snap moment. Or tried to overlook it entirely and focus on the fact it's otherwise pretty fun. But bang, zoom...

I saw JWR Sunday. It was competent, but pretty bad. 100% of the deaths were predictable (... at least after one character jumps in to save another). Twice "OG" Jurassic Park dinosaurs get treated as punks and kill nobody. Plus the premise of the movie is stupid: 1. Dinosaurs are dying...

More like GPS Starscream.

Oh, sure. I'd really like a Leader (or even Voyager?) Scorpinok based on the G1 comics; but given how... lame... Fort Max's alt mode is, it's easy to get it perfect and super poseable... and still have room to do something else with it if they wanted to.

TR Fort Max is a heavy Metroplex Retool. I think there have been listings of a Leader Class Comic Fort Max... maybe that's an IDW-era tank, but I'm kind of hoping it's the "smaller" Fort Max from the G1 comic book, more in scale with Comic Scorpinok... himself comparable to Power Master Optimus...

One of the 13? The one that turns into some vague cybertronian vehicle and has a distinctive weapon like a hammer, frisbee, or coat rack?

Physical Media or poof... it's gone forever.

Thew posted this video today, which seems on point. Keep in mind the Kabaya kits are meant to be cheap and tiny and don't try to replicate the transforming and poseability of mainline toys. Now, admittedly, a wing does fall off when transforming, but you'll note that's not the kind of joint...

Frankly there is a joy to assembling a model kit, but as I noted earlier one of the best thing about the Classics Seeker mold is that you can mix and match to make customs, and with a model kit it'd be even easier. So we get an action figure model kit that transforms, but because of the...

I only saw Zoids Wild on clearance @ Ross and bit on the whole set, why not? But when CN was running Zoids and Hasbro was releasing them alongside the 2.5 anime they dubbed for it (including half a season of the craptacular, other studio to cut money, Zoids fuzors) Zoids were right alongside...

Hasbro's been making some iffy decisions of late. What I am saying, though, is that TakaraTomy is in a good position to do this if they want, and I'd love for Hasbro to do it. If Hasbro would like to continue to not produce toys and license their stuff out to other manufacturers... that's on...

I have a hard time imagining a transforming model kit is harder to do than, say, a motorized model kit, and TakaraTomy does Zoids, so... it seems possible. I'm sympathetic to worries that joints could be a problem, but it's after the 1990s, so Hasbro knows how to do ball joints, and practically...

That might be an issue, but that might also be one of the reasons Zoids moved to not having sprues? In any case, if they can release Zoids Wild in the US (even if they did it poorly), I think they can do it for models. Does it though? Remember, these would be designed to be assembled by...

For better or worse, I think we have to accept that a Deluxe-scale/quality model might go for like $30; MAYBE $25 if it's at mass retail alongside deluxes (which are also ~$25). This would be comparable to similar size TakaraTomy Zoids & Bandai Gundam models. Of course there's also a question...

One of my favorite transformers molds of all time is Classics Starscream. It's excellent in both robot and vehicle mode (Legacy Seekers have really cumbersome arms, a much more pronounced chest gap, and those terrible break-waiting-to-happen chest hooks... ugh...). But what pushes this mold...