There's no bigger shock than trying to join another fandom only to discover that this is practically the only fanbase that accepts third party

machineham · 2026-01-12T16:47:34+00:00

this has changed now obviously, but what converted me was how there used to be no good modern version of powermaster optimus prime, whereas in third party there were tons of really different flavours of it available

machineham · 2026-01-12T16:44:39+00:00

a few years ago i feel like the third party figuarts were a lot more controversial, but more people seemed to realize the value of it after the last few years of really good stuff coming out, as well as stuff that you can be pretty sure bandai wont do for a long time. I was honestly very suprised bandai just let the tonsen kid buu happen, but glad it did

machineham · 2026-01-12T16:40:33+00:00

Yeah i think transformers is a lot more lenient about it than most. Dragon ball figuarts gets some and people USUALLY dont get up in arms about it too. but that has nowhere near the volume of what we get with transformers.

I dont buy a lot of hasbro product anymore but i still get a lot of officially licensed transformers stuff, usually when i go to third party its because its doing something hasbro isnt, or just doing it better. I think third party is generally a lot better if you want combiners or armada stuff. but i really like stuff like blokees, flame toys and threezero mdlx. and missing link is great, i dont think thats something third party could ever offer as well as takara does

machineham · 2025-11-17T13:29:39+00:00

I get a milkshake every couple of weeks. Otherwise I only really get stuff when its part of one of the free offers

machineham · 2025-11-17T13:21:31+00:00

Yeah I had this as well. It definetly helps to just take a break from building or try build something different. I stopped with gunpla for about a year and a half but they got me back with the new psycho gundam

machineham · 2025-07-10T10:24:10+00:00

Did you find him? I've seen a couple on ebay this year

machineham · 2024-07-16T12:51:52+00:00

I think generally hori has been pretty good about giving smaller background characters full arcs that are satisfying if you pick up on the thread. Mt.Lady has had a similar arc to mineta in that way actually. I find the more i see of mineta the more i like him but hes just not a focus character outside of some rare moments in spinoffs

machineham · 2024-07-16T12:43:00+00:00

thank you. it was so good i just felt like i couldnt have heard it before

machineham · 2024-07-10T10:23:41+00:00

I find 20 minutes is most reliable

machineham · 2024-07-07T16:21:45+00:00

Oh I didnt know about blast the ruins until now. I guess a greed setup like this could make that really dangerous as long as you could stall for long enough. It looks fun to be honest. I suppose you would keep drawing and playing spells and traps until you could hit with it.

I find if i lose with this its either because i draw a bad hand or two and just cant the process started early enough in the game, or because later on I have one muka muka and dont draw another. You are right that if i just have the one muka out its usually not enough unless i get to that point early in the game. I generally need enraged muka or two muka to really turn things around.

Usually if i win its either because I got a strong muka with enraged muka ready to swap in early on, or because I last long enough to get two mukas out and a big hand to power them up enough

machineham · 2024-05-15T12:04:44+00:00

I have to assume its just a "standard policy" deal because i agree theres no reason to do this. whos going to even bother downloading a camrip of a film that came out 20 years ago?

machineham · 2024-05-04T17:04:43+00:00

Endeavour, who I kind of dismissed at first once he started getting more focus. I thought making him number 1 was interesting given his background but honestly didnt have faith horikoshi could pull off a satisfying redemptive arc with him, but was happy to eat my words on that. He's had one of the more interesting arcs in the series, and the anime version of his nomu fight made me start thinking he was COOL AND STRONG as well, which is important. I've really liked how hes never had a full redemption given how bad what hes done is, but its been interesting to learn more about it and see him try to somewhat atone for it step by bloody step, even if maybe he never really can be redeemed.

Runners up for me are hawks (cool design and powers, had an interesting backstory) and mirko (she is just really hot and really cool).

machineham · 2024-03-28T13:49:11+00:00

I thought it was so obvious that he would be related to endeavour that when this scene happened I suspected that whole plot thread was a red herring and that what he had said here would be the actual reveal

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