I’ve had the Valkyrie Factory Strike Hikaru for a few years. I feel the quality is pretty great and there’s no weird smell I can detect. It has the full Arcadia premium tampo printing as well. I understand they altered the head mold a little but looks fine to me. Right now it’s wearing a set of Arcadia GPB armor which fits perfectly and I have its knockoff Strike armor on a Yamato CF 1A which also fit perfectly.
In short, these were cheaper a few years back when they debuted and were a great deal. I’m not sure that Valkyrie Factory produces them anymore as you see fewer listings and at higher prices. Plus with this Fugu Models making the jet fire variant, maybe the molds have changed hands. But I definitely preordered one and look forward to getting it. It sure looks like ShowZ is getting a great response on them since they’ve been on the main page for weeks and there are lots of comments from eager buyers who hated the Kitz Concept version due to build quality.