Hobby Drifter prefers Fukuoka

Beautiful! 😻

Someone said Republicans are school shooters and Democrats are the Uvalde cops and man…

Oh, hey, look what bullshit showed up in my FB Memories today?

Those 12% chu-hai drinks that knocked me all the way on my ass.

Lego-compatible karaoke booth. It is just a bit too small for Minifigs. :(

Still tweaking the recipe and I haven’t started working on making it look pretty yet, but this spicy breading *tastes* great.

Getting a decent crispy spicy chicken sandwich in Japan isn’t the easiest thing to do.

You suck

On the one hand, not knowing a damn thing about most of these characters means I can be introduced to ‘em without any preconceptions.

On the other hand, they’re characters from 80s cartoons, so it’s not exactly a shock when a guy named Miles Mayhem turns out to be a fuckin’ bad guy, is it?

Love the Skybound TF comics but *really* wish they’d stop trying to make me care about GI Joe or MASK.

Speaking of the profile, I lowkey dig how the designers left that little flap on the back of the arms as an homage to the G1 original.

It’d have been simple enough to add a hinge, but leaving it stationary doesn’t detract from the silhouette and serves as a nice throwback.

I’ve got the original releases too and iirc the giftset version was announced like six weeks after Godbomber was released, which was kind of a kick in balls.

But having God Ginrai, Super Ginrai, and Godbomber displayed together (without having to convert them) was pretty sick 😂

Easily my favorite MP since Star Saber (with all due respect to MPG Super Ginrai).

MPG-17 Optimus vehicle mode

MPG-17 Optimus vehicle mode

MPG-17 Optimus robot mode with blade accessories

MPG-17 Optimus robot mode with blade accessories up close

I'm, like, a sensible collector. I am unswayed by attempts to be self-consciously slick

But this is so god damn cool man

Screw it, toy of the year
(Is what I would say if I hadn't pre-ordered AMT-02...)

Also, since I *needed* the instructions to get these converted, I had to be reminded of the out-of-nowhere pervy shot of Minerva in the included comic.

What the fuck was THAT about?!?

Almost NOTHING clips together securely. Everything is just kinda “get it somewhere near this position and try to line up the extremely flimsy connection points.”

These are *probably* gonna stay with me because God Ginrai is my dude, but it will be a LONG time before I handle these again, if ever.

I will go so far as to say that they look above-average in vehicle, robot, and combined modes (but fuuuuuuck those “base” modes, right?)

But the process involved in getting them from one form to another is perhaps the most frustrating slog I’ve ever seen with mainline Transformers.

Took the better part of an hour, but got Legends God Ginrai back into the box (and stuck Go-Shooter in there too).

Again, all the props in the work to TakaraTomy’s people for turning an Ultra Magnus into Super Ginrai and whipping up a God Bomber on what had to have been short notice.

Looking forward to seeing the finished figure. 😃

That sounds awesome 🤩

I don’t think it was me, sorry

Trying a different Japanese alcoholic beverage every day in February

Day 3

The bafflingly-named Takohai from Suntory.

Very pleasant and refreshing. I’d drink this recreationally if it was on a nomihoudai menu, no doubt.

Pretty sure it doesn’t contain octopus

Nintendo-branded Yakuman Mat

There’s something you don’t see every day.

I’m at Daiso and the checkout line wraps around the entire store.

If that’s not an indication of how the economy is doing, I don’t know what is.

No new pictures.

Where are you at mentally?

Big Powered combined mode looks way better than I could have ever reasonably expected it to.

If a proper Dai Atlas is ever released, I’d probably keep the Legends one for display in that configuration

Sketch of Optimus Prime wearing cap like the one worn by Liam Conejo Ramos

“Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.”

You can plainly see how this Legends Godbomber influenced the MPG version, but the MPG one avoided some of the missteps of Legends.

And tripled the price, but that’s a whole other topic

What TakaraTomy did with regards to remolding Hasbro toys into faces more familiar to aging Japanese Transformers fans was admirable and, at times, downright impressive.

I just don’t think they always made for very fun *toys*.

*finally* putting Legends God Ginrai into storage, since the Masterpiece version now has that spot on my shelf.

Holy hell, but this thing is a pan in the ass to transform and the instructions just straight-up suck

A different Japanese alcoholic beverage every day in February

Day 2:

Torisu Highball

Sketch of Optimus Prime wearing cap like the one worn by Liam Conejo Ramos

“Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.”