How do you feel about Iron Factory Tfs?
I have pretty mixed feelings on them tbh?
I am a BIG fan of Very Small Toys, and I love ridiculous OTT overengineered third party Legends scale stuff where it's like £60 because this tiny toy has the transformation of a deluxe scale figure, haha. So I like the IF stuff being that style of stuff, and I do think some figures look really good in their distinctive style- the 'boxy in a way that becomes greebly and super detailed looking' vibe they tend to have going on, you know?
But for a lot of characters it looks less like toys that are designed to be at a small scale and more like toys designed the way a larger toy would be an then just scaled down. The amount of detail in the design combined with how much that detail comes from loooots of Parts all vying for attention means a lot of their designs become so noisy and muddled at the scale they're at. I think a really good example is comparing the IF Jazz with the similarly-scaled Newage Jazz (and for Legends scale 3P, I usually prefer Newage):
The IF toy is bigger, but it's nowhere near as clean. It looks more complex, impressive on paper for such a small toy, but because the complexity is all boxy parts stacked on boxy parts on a very small-scale toy, the detail turns into noise. And the transformations are all SO fiddly. The Newage Jazz (which I have) is tiny but so crisp and clear in its design that it just feels perfect.
It's not all bad, though. Some of their toys wind up translating in pretty fun ways to this style. Their third party DJD set was infinitely more affordable than the MMC one (RIP to everyone who bought that entire thing, good god), and look shockingly good at their scale; I think Milne's slightly less rectangular approach to designing silhouettes is just a good match for the IF house style since it breaks things up more than the greebly tiny boxes that you get with their more G1 stuff?
(Also, they're a combiner, which is wild.)
It also works well when they branch out into bigger, "it's technically Legends for the characters' size" stuff, such as the very funny "Legends" MTMTE Maximus armour/Minimus they did, haha. That's fun. (I really want the Minimus, but I'm not fussed about the Maximus armour so I'm just begging the universe to throw someone who wants to sell just Mins in my direction...)
However. It must be said. Their female molds all suffer from godawful half-anime faces that is COMPLETELY out of line with EVERY other design for no other reason than Make The Girls Extremely Cute And Girly, which i loathe. Stop giving us male characters based meticulously on their canon designs and female characters completely redesigned because lol what nerdy collector dropping £80 on a three inch bit of plastic cares about accuracy more than cute sexy girl eh???? EUGH. Hate. Hate. So mad one of the only CH Arcee toys (a deco I adore) is on THIS shitty mold.
Why are their faces like that.
Anyway. Yeah, mixed bag, but there's some gems in there. I broadly prefer Newage though!
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»»————- *gasp. The audacity! I'm the candy!! >:( *picks up bugs spray, shakes it furiously. ————-««
"UWAHHH! How cool! Tatsu-senpai of this world! Your a huge fire breathing dragon...! The vast multiverse is a very cool place indeed!"
Hiiro looks amaze at the sight of Tatsumi huge form. He was the huge flying reptile that come saving him and aira after all.
Tatsumi slowly surrounded with a magic circle and before long be appear before them with his semi human form as the tail and horns still there.
A few scale here and there is like a beauty mark.
"Ahaha~ hiiro- Kun your so optimistic even from another alternative universe of yours." Tatsumi smile as he welcome his new friends.
Through the two of them keep hearing something being smack to bits.
Splat.
Splat
Splat
" Ah. Aira are you playing a game?" Hiiro realize the sound coming from the phone on his breast pocket and take it out to see aira stabbing bees that's trying to approach a flower in a game.
(( It's called bee smasher. I downloaded it to have a stress relief you see~ I CAN'T WAIT TO DO IT IN REAL LIFE~))
"ooh.. I see! Then carry on then. " Hiiro smile as he put the phone back to his pocket and look at tatsumi who giving him a stare.
"You two have come here for me?" He seems knowledge enough to understand what they wanted.
"Hiiro-kun. I don't wish to destroy the so called chaos butterfly. After all. He is still Mayoi Ayase. Our dear friend and companion." He quickly says his side.
"We should talk about this with him. I once talk to him before you two arrive. He ask me such odd question about the mc of this world."
(( Ye... Talk sense to a delulu. That's a good plan.(・∀・) ))
"Oh! Aira did you agree with tatsumi? If so. We could do that but I will still destroy him! Ahaha. I promise my brother and Mayo-senpai that after all." Hiiro can't seems to understand the sarcasm lacing aira voice.
((Btw which ship is this world.))
"Ah. You ask the same or exact question Mayoi have ask me." Tatsumi seems to be surprised at Aira question. "It's HiMERU." He added.
(( Which one? The ore ikemen or the cry baby.))
"Aira-kun. Pls refrain from calling kaname-kun a cry baby. His just too emotional child." Tatsumi quickly tells aira off from his rude words toward his friend HiMERU.
" it's HiMERU." He once again says.
(( Oh it's 3P. Damn the world sure is hilarious~ the love triangle I know previously have very sharp edges that outs for each other neck when certain virus isn't around. AhahaHAHAHA.))
"??????" Tatsumi and Hiiro look at Aira worriedly as the screen have lagged for a moment and a notification appear that says
[ Warning! pls click here to Feed magi to the wild child ]
"Ah... It says I should click here...hmm. ok..." The younger Amagi follows the instructions and press the notification.
(( Damn mc ... You really know me too well... Wish you know what I want too >:())
Aira commented as a candy pop out beside him and caught it. He give a hopeless smile before he nom on it. The pixel butterfly slowly disappear from edges of the screen.
Aira emerald green eyes that once dull for the long while since he become stuck in that phone. Finally brighten up.
(( We should hurry... Chaos is out for HiMERU.))
Aira tells them what he learn from data of the world. His eyes golden ring glow brightly.
"Ah... But today is..."tatsumi seems surprised by what Aira says but his words cut of sort when the huge blast of chaos energy blasted through the sky;
BBBBOOOOMMMMMM
((30% life force parish... 25% slowly draining out of energy... Chaos 85% out of hundred taken control of this world...))
As he read the data showing in the screen. Tatsumi transform back to his dragon form and breath out dragon flame in the incoming wave of chaos, deflecting it's effect to try area he could protect but their surrounding slowly drained out of life.
(( ... HiMERU - Ore-ikemen-san life force is slowly fading away. Kaname Toujou-san is wounded. Mermaid Mayoi Ayase-san have fully been absorbed by chaos. This world destruction will commence in exactly 3.15. minutes. ))
Aira who acted like an A.I and reported each details with nonchalant and monotone as Tatsumi grab hold of hiiro and fly toward the direction of destruction. Hoping to save his friend.
"HiMERU!!!" tatsumi yelled out in worry as he saw from afar his fallen friends, he could hear the sound of crying of Kaname from afar and saw a bloody scene.
(( The world of deep blue sea... MC. As well this world shall end in a minute ))
Aira proceed to show a timer and counting the end of the world as they arrive in the place.
"...oh~? Aira-chan~ we meet again~"
(( 45... 44... 43...))
Aira ignore the call of chaos through he did show an image of him holding a bug spray:
[ L.O.V.E bug spray: Repel all love rivals. Repel them from life too.]
As he continue to count down.
"Hiiro-kun~ and tatsu-san~ oh my aren't we complete here~ would you three come with me."
"Sorry not Mayoi-senpai. But I will have a 'chat' with you before I destroy you!" Hiiro point out as he look at the chaos in the other side of the world in its end.
Tatsumi went to check up on HiMERU seeing their wounded and dare state.
He quickly held them and they both disappear to his space where he put the other surviving living form from his universe for safety.
"Tatsumi Kazehaya... " The older Toujou who's holding his younger brother arms through almost at the end of his life force.
As Kaname cried hopelessly as he saw he cares about fades away yet all he could do is watch. It felt so drainful.
Aira press something in the screen, a magic circle appear beside Tatsumi, red-pink magi candy appear and Tatsumi gives a thanks as he feeds some to the two brothers.
Kaname slowly fallen asleep and HiMERU time pause in the moment before the last fragments of his life fade away.
"HiMERU... Kaname... Please rest for a while..." He mumble as he give a sign of a cross as thanks for his able to make it on time to save them.
He went to what left of mermayoi, a pink pearl containing a fragments of his soul and a bit of mc of this world. And put it to the space.
Once everything returns to normal he would fix the world and everyone would able to go home. That's his job after all as a guardian and a watcher of this au.
(( 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...))
"Amen..." He smiled as he watch the world once again turn black of the distortion world. He seems fine with it as he manage to salvage living beings of this universe when he have a hint it will happen since a year ago.
He manage to salvage at least 80% of people of this au. He still sad as his not able to save the 20% but it's already as far as he can do as a single man doing such task.
The au might have come to distortion but the people of this world now lives inside his domain till it's safe.
"Anyway what was that Chaos butterfly-san...? Sorry I was just finishing my task." He turn to look at the other sentient alkaloid from different au.
(( ......this alternative universe have fully fallen to distortion... All data now gone... Gottdamn...))
Aira finally snap out of his trance of being a force AI for the group. He hates his job.
"Ah... Tatsumi-san is really one of kind." The chaos complimented.
"Why thank you. But I really would like to ask. Not to go rocking havoc in any plain of time and space, chaos butterfly-san. Well at least give me more time to prepare." The dragon kin tatsumi laugh at the compliment. He isnt mad or anything. After all, mer mayoi have told him a year ago about something bad would happened.
"It be like Noah arc all over again after all." (Tatsumi)
(( You mean like endgame since chaos is damn purple man. He already snap out the existence of haft of the billion multiverse...
))
"Aira. Are you ok...? But theres no notification saying your being too feral. So I guess your fine!" Hiiro look at the phone, in search for the same notification like earlier. But find none.
((... Hiiro-kun~ you see if I'm being feral. ( ꈍᴗꈍ)
I would try going out of this barrier mc made for me or more like for you all because I'm very very dangerous (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*.✧
and become the second chaos because why not~? (。•̀ᴗ-)✧
After all you keep calling me feral since earlier. ( ´◡‿ゝ◡`)
I'll show you feral. (人 •͈ᴗ•͈)
I'll show you all fucking feral when I'm out of this phone.(. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)
For example...I will fucking kill all bugs in sight.(・∀・)
Like a bee and spider....◉‿◉ ))
Tears start to fall from his eyes as frustration and annoyance of everything come rushing in. The three look at one another. Even chaos wonder what's up with this kid.
"... Are you ok???" Hiiro ask him after a long pause.
((Huhuhu hiiro, tatsun, even the damn you chaos... ITS YOU FAULT. IM SUPPOSED TO BE BACK TO MY PLACE!! NOW IM FORCE TO WATCH ANIMAL PLANET BUGS LIFE DOCUMENTARY. SO HATEFUL!!!))
"..." What???( tatsumi, Hiiro, Chaos (mayoi))
»»————- note ————-««
(1) sentient stigma of diamond: tatsumi Kazehaya (dragon kin) || Level SS magic or stat.
(2) AI - AI || sub-pun Ai for artificial intelligence as his stuck in a phone as avatar and since he can gather information about idol in the canon enstar story. That's why his job is to help with the information about the new au. He can assist the 'live stream's of each au he knows including the distorted one as well ESPECIALLY his own au. While doing his job.
(3) if you know, you know. But if you don't then don't.
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