FEATURE: Iron Man 3
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IRON MAN 3
Original Creators Original Material Director Cast Production |
After the massively-successful blockbuster that is The Avengers, it all comes back to the character that started it all — IRON MAN. Unlike the first two movies featuring the character, this one has two major points to address. The first point being that this is the initial entry to the "Phase 2" movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or to simply put it, post-Avengers. These are expected to give the audience an idea of how these characters coped with the events in New York. For the second point, remember Iron Man 2 and all its shortcomings? Well, everyone is kind of expecting that this movie will deviate from the issues that plagued the second installment and if possible, be better than the first one. So the question now is, does Iron Man 3 deliver on both fronts? Continue Reading – Iron Man 3
FEATURE: Guest Gallery – LBX IKAROS FORCE & LBX IKAROS ZERO
Continue Reading: Guest Gallery – LBX IKAROS FORCE & LBX IKAROS ZERO
FEATURE: Prehistoric Futuristic – Part 1
ARMAMENT FACTORY | METAL GEAR REX · MOE MOE BLOCK – HYPER ARMORED BLOCK | HAB-0003 T-REX
MECHA CATALOGUE | Collection Features
FEATURE: Mobile Suit Gundam AGE
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MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM AGE "Three Destinies will form History" Original Creators Director Mechanical Designs Character Designs Production |
Two years after Mobile Suit Gundam 00 ended on a relatively excellent note, Sunrise decided to take the next Gundam series on a different route. The Gundam franchise has stood the test of time for 30 years and for it to continue further, a new generation of audiences must be introduced. To realize this, a collaboration with game studio Level 5 (Professor Leyton, Inazuma Eleven) was formed to produce a series with the task of being an introductory series for the younger demographic to the Gundam mythos. And after 49 episodes to elaborate its unique narrative, was Mobile Suit Gundam AGE able to deliver the drive that will usher in the newer audience to sustain the franchise? Continue Reading – Mobile Suit Gundam AGE
FEATURE: Triple Threat
HG 1/144 | AGE-1 GUNDAM AGE-1 NORMAL · HG 1/144 | RX-78-2 GUNDAM VER.G30TH · HG 1/144 | GN-000 0 GUNDAM (TYPE A.C.D.)
MECHA CATALOGUE | Collection Features
FEATURE: Third-Party Products
G-System 1/35 | GUNDAM Heads
The mecha/robot collecting scene is pretty crowded nowadays. Manufacturers continue to dish out lots of releases, backed up by the fact that people will always buy them. These people, the target market of these companies, are often divided into two — there’s the mainstream consumers and then the collectors (the niche of the two). While the former won’t be too critical of these products and will buy them continuously, the latter will be, simply because they’re collectors. They have standards at which they hold their collection to and if these companies don’t have anything to offer of that caliber, what would they do? Continue Reading – Third-Party Products
FEATURE: Real Steel
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REAL STEEL "Courage is Stronger than Steel" Original Material Director Cast Production |
The concept of having Robots playing major and pivotal roles in Hollywood movies still has a long way to go when talking about captivating the mainstream movie crowd. While the TRANSFORMERS movie trilogy (and IRON MAN to a lesser degree) have proved that this is possible to some extent, many still have second thoughts when watching a movie that’s filled with these machinations. Simply seeing these robots in a trailer will easily turn off many and leaves the genre’s niche market to like it no questions asked. So, where does REAL STEEL fit in all of these? Continue Reading – Real Steel
FEATURE: World War Robot Portable (WWRp)
World War Robot Portable | ARMSTRONG Engineer 0G
In collecting mecha and robots, there are usually two styles a collector is exposed to. First is the (often) Japanese style of elegant-looking humanoid machines that follow a motif (i.e. Samurais for Gundams) and second is the weathered, worn-out look that one often sees in novels or games. (i.e. MechWarriors/BattleTechs). This separation is further emphasized by the availability of merchandise that represent the robots in question. There is an abundance of the ‘clean robots’ while it’s quite difficult to see the other as it’s not as marketable as the former. Continue Reading – World War Robot Portable (WWRp)
