andersonh1 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:13 am
Massive summer haul: we have been house hunting for over a year, made a number of offers and finally had one accepted. We're moving next week, so we've been packing everything we own and there are stacks of boxes all around the house. It will be very nice to finally get this process over and done with and be able to relax in new place. We've been in the current house for 15 years, and I think the change will be good for everyone.
Congrats! That's awesome.
Lotta stuff since my birthday came and went, some preorders came in, and Ross had Siege on clearance...
SW Black Series ESB Vader - really, really good.
SW Black Series Mando Stormtrooper - excellent, very well designed, fantastic articulation, and shiny armor.
GI Joe Classifieds Snake Eyes deluxe - outstanding boxed set, next-level design for the price. You can get all the accessories aside from the long spear and the weapon rack with the Red Ninja though.
Ant Man & The Wasp blu ray
Danger Diabolik blu ray
PS4 Hitman 2
Star Wars Bandai 1:12th Artoo Deetoo model kit
PS4 Doom 2016 - outstanding game, aside from a little aggressively stupid platforming.
Overwatch Hanzo, Genji, Pharah, Mercy, and Zarya - These feel a little dated for Hasbro's 6" design team, they are very 2013 articulation and paint. For full price, never, but for $3.50 each at Ross on double-clearance, they make decent villains for my GI Joe Classifieds and MCU figures. I'm glad I'm not a fan of the game, these are ALMOST good enough but never quite there.
Snap Ships Sabre - I like all 3 instruction designs, the main one being my favorite. It's a fun system, never gonna be as robust as LEGO but the ships are good whooshable things.
Snap Ships Scarab - decent, not as good as the Sabre because all 3 designs are pokey and a tiny bit droopy.
Jurassic Park Amber Collection Dilophosaurus - decent but not worth $30 with this paint and sculpting, needs a little more finesse.
Star Wars Galaxy's Edge Cookbook - a very nice gift
SW TVC Poe's X-Wing - excellent new design, the pinnacle of X-wing toys
WFC Rotorstorm - preodered this and it's finally here. I passed on Spinister because I didn't like the colors, somehow these garish near-G2 colors aren't as bad to me. Great new headsculpt, lots of personality in that face. Good figure although getting it locked into alt mode requires some careful adjusting of the lower facade cockpit's inner systems to get it to tab right.
WFC Earthrise Astro Squad - not a bad little set, some weird compromises in vehicle mode with an odd slant to the shuttle wings and a clearance issue with the back arms not letting the wings in the back sit flat, but I like that they paid lip service to each bot having its own separate vehicle mode. Decent little transformations.
WFC Combat Megatron - a free make-good for my problems with Snake Eyes and Exhaust, Combat Megatron is silly and woefully G2 for an unproduced item. The white is more prevalent than the original, and that includes pointless white paint on the fists that gets sloppy to avoid painting the hole. Doesn't have the ankle problem, but the mold overuse is showing with very sloppy ankle and heel spur joints popping out during transformation. The miner Megatron-inspired head sculpt looks good, but you can barely see it with the white plastic and black face. I'm using it to bolster my Decepticon numbers for my WFC figures, treating it like a dumb-dumb Megs clone.
WFC Earthrise Coneheads Dirge & Ramjet - I don't like these that much, the material is thinner than the Siege figures, the figure design is somehow WORSE than the CHUG Seekers with a bigass gap in the side of the torso that you can see through to the back, there's unchanged slots from Starscream that just don't get used, the brick under the vehicle mode is offensively large, and there's so much less detail and articulation than the Siege Seekers it's almost painful.
WFC Siege Ultra Magnus - $18 at Ross. Pretty good figure with a compromised vehicle mode both the truck itself and the "trailer" (it's an RID UM homage so it's not a trailer) that can't store anything without some serious creativity. Not remotely worth $50, although better than voyager-class figures in this line.
WFC Siege Astrotrain - also $18 at Ross. Better than expected train mode and bot mode, unacceptable as a leader-class when it's shorter than most voyager-class without the add-on shoes. I love the train mode, don't care for the shuttle mode as it's obvious there was supposed to be something covering the back half that's missing. The backpack is lame in every mode except train tender, and even that's not great. Weapons are cool at least. If they had done more with the backpack and added some lift-off thruster blast effects, maybe it would be worth it, but it woefully needs that shield for shuttle mode.
WFC Siege Shockwave - $36 from HTS ebay store. I like this figure a lot but it's also not passing as a leader-class, although its additional supplies are much better than Astrotrain's. The base figure has some stuff in common with MP Shockwave and a nifty enough submarine/spaceship/gun mode, though the spaceship is way better with the add-on parts. Fantastic light piping in bot mode, decent alternate light piping in vehicle mode. Hover platform instructions aren't included, which is a shame because it's neat and part of what sold me.
WFC Siege Air Strike Patrol - $4.50 from HTS ebay store. A little overhyped, only my second Micromasters from WFC at all and they're only fine, not impressive in any one mode, and neither rock solid nor totally sloppy in any of the modes.
WFC Siege Springer - $13 at Ross. Better than expected but with a few really awful instruction choices that nearly tricked me into breaking the figure by how confusing they were. Cockpit in both modes is too small merely to accommodate a hinge that could have easily done the same job with a bigger cockpit by having the hinges inside rather than out. Excellent weathering paint, the best of the ones I've seen by far. Decent in all 3 modes, chopper mode should have worked harder to hide the front wheels and lock down the front winglets. Worth getting if you're a Springer fan.
WFC Cog - $8 at Ross. Easily the worst of the 3 Weaponizers, there are things to like about this set as a bot, even the vehicle mode as Gasket and Grommet are passable aside from the robot head peeking out. Weapons are weak sauce though, and there's huge gaps in the back of Cog's bot mode behind the head and lower legs.
WFC Mirage - $8 at Ross. Not quite as bad as I expected, a decent G1 Mirage in bot mode but feels like it needed more sculpted and painted details, and in vehicle mode the arms just being there could have been moved back so easily to cover the facade chest that it's disappointing. Likable but not worth full price.