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Crunchyroll and Funimation are now...ONE https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/crunchyroll-adds-funimation-anime-sony-1235192876/

And I will not stop until I get a Titan Grand Mal Megatron! Also, Pulse has the newest Beast Wars reissues available. I find Scorponok's price particularly galling with the full fledged Ultra figures being a mere $5 more. Guess I'll be waiting for a sale at Walmart then.

As part of the big Pulse update/restock thing, they're finally offering Core Hot Rod for the new price of 11.99. Not really worth it on its own, but if you're preordering other stuff it isn't terrible.

The eve of the BAT is upon us! Toys are out at retail. WB has posted the entire soundtrack for Youtube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBKadB95sF44svAf6GEN3TTFPJwFdwrmm And early reviews are rolling in. By and large, the response has been TREMENDOUSLY positive. I'm aiming to see it...

The tooling was modified, something Hasbro was more willing to do at the time. Again, o-ring figures and ME figures have different foot peg sizes (ME is smaller) Yeah, part of the problem I’ve observed in the Joe fandom is that there really isn’t a sense of “history”. Largely because the...

I responded but basically: depend on the vehicle. Modern GI Joe figures are a bit bigger than o-ring, but they should work fine for the HISS tank.

Foot pegs for o-ring figures were larger than the pegs used for “Modern Era” figures. The back pegs are also MASSIVELY smaller than the o-ring figures. ME are also generally bigger than o-ring figures, though compatibility varies by vehicle. The HISS tooling was used in 25th so ME figures...

Even then, a LOT of the reissues have not been terribly original selections. A majority of what we’ve seen were heavily used in the first reissue/refresh phase in the late 90s and early 2000s. “New” isn’t very likely in this overall toy climate (GI Joe or otherwise), but I feel there were more...

FWIW, I DO like the Photoshop that integrated the silver into the HISS mode. No, it’s not a “pure” 83 HISS, but after things like HISS 3, Crimson Squad and the black original, a silver version really pops against that line up. But not so much that it would overtly stand out as being...

I also realized part of my issue with the set is something of a “dissonance” between the offerings: The Hisstank mode is based on 1983 vehicle and slavishly recreated. Baroness is a remake of a 1984 figure. Both very retro in concept and execution. Then there’s Megatron, who’s sporting...

Feels too much like what happened with GI Joe 25th to me. Started the same way with some soft reimaginings (Zartan and Buzzer, in particular)…then transitioned to straight remakes. Or remakes of remakes given how crap the majority of the first year offerings were in the line. I see what...

Kamakura was the most interesting thing they've shown in YEARS. It was wonderful to see them pull from beyond the 80s that wasn't a variation of a character from the 80s. The Crimson Guard was looking solid, probably the best iterations since Sideshow's. A solid showing, and the live show...

I WANTED to be excited for this, I really did. But it's just not clicking with me (except that GORGEOUS packaging). The set largely fits what I expected: a chunky robot that (perhaps rather simply) transforms into a HISS tank and an O-ring figure. I think what deflated me the most was...

I'm still claiming a partial victory since it's pretty obvious a LOT of Siege Megatron's assets were used!

It's going to be another Siege Megatron, but with Cobra sigils

Probably easier to drop the paint step for the damage than go through the process of reformulating the plastic. Either way, I'm happy with GalvaTRON and Selects I have. I MIGHT snag him if he languishes long enough to get a price hit later in the year.

In Japan, yes. In the US? Practically non-existent FWIR. It did get ports to the Saturn and Playstation, but not released here. Hell, the Playstation version was a special import release on the PSN. I've had it installed on my PSTV for years now. Red Earth is the REAL gem here. A CPS3 game...

Old school Iron Man villain. Always nice to see Hasbro dig into the well for these sorts of older era villains that don't see much use anymore.

New Adventures might not have gotten a Grayskull, but it still had an AMAZING spaceship/station!

Sounds to me more like an issue with Target’s internal distribution, more than anything. Hasbro’s been doing the “solid figure cases” for years now for online/fan channel venues. I’m suspecting what’s happening is that Target’s not allocating things properly, sending the solid cases to stores...