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  1. RyuRoots

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    The destroids are good to hear confirmed, but honestly I hope they don't spend too much more time on DYRL. The only thing I still want from that is a VE-1 (which I would be *very* excited for, granted). That said, maybe they should release some HMR VF-1As in the Hikaru/Kakizki/Max beginning of movie liveries for those who didn't get the original hi metals for them way back when. I already have them and their super packs, but I imagine that some people were drawn in with the HMR Roy or Hikaru VF-1S and haven't since had an opportunity that wasn't super overpriced. I'd like it if they started doing VFs from other shows. Maybe take another crack at a VF-19 now that they're (hopefully) not dumb enough to make gun mounting in fighter mode an impossibility and landing gear being part of a display base that the plane just kinda flops onto. I'd be interested to see them try a VF-25 or VF-171 too since, triangles on the latter notwithstanding, Bandai did a pretty good job of both in a larger scale I think.
  2. RyuRoots

    Hi-Metal R

    My Milia came in today and as some people said of the HMR Max, it's VERY gray, not even close to the white it should be. Though I passed over the HMR Max since I had the original HM and after giving it a repainted chest gap filler from a 1A, I've been perfectly content with it. So the way it is now I kinda like it, since Max's colors are correct and Milia's livery is similar but different. I know some people would get annoyed if their M&Ms weren't perfectly matched (understandably so), but I kinda like the variation. Plus, it makes me think of an inbetween/compromise of her original Valk and the black stripes it had in M7.
  3. RyuRoots

    Hi-Metal R

    That VF-1A is exciting news, and I think I'll be pretty happy with it for the most part, but do the parts that are supposed to be white look way too gray to anyone else?
  4. RyuRoots

    Hi-Metal R

    Worst part is they don't even need to do that. They made a VF-1A head sculpt for DYRL Kakizaki, Max, and Hikaru (even if they were web shop exclusives) that were pretty good and could easily be carried over.
  5. RyuRoots

    Hi-Metal R

    And? Doesn't help anyone that wants to collect in THIS scale. Yamato did a lot of things, and I don't really care. Good news, but a bit disheartening that they're only showing Max. I'm not really that excited since I have Max's from the original hi-metal line; I just want Miria's. At least for a 1J. I am *really* hoping they put out a cannon fodder VF-1A (the #1 thing I was looking forward to when HMR was announced, not more DYRL skull squadron rehashes) and a VE-1 sooner rather than later.
  6. RyuRoots

    Hi-Metal R

    I still don't understand the obsession with metal. Is it an american thing or an older toy collecter thing or what? I mean yeah, the name is kind of misleading but it's an english name from a japanese company so...that's the mystery solved right there as far as I'm concerned. And I don't think that many people will care about the name, especially the only market Bandai cares about (which certainly isn't us). I *super* want the M&M valks and a generic 1A. I can take or leave the Spartan and Monster, but I'm all over a Phalanx if they put one out. If they were at an event this recently then it's good that Bandai hasn't forgotten them but it's more than a little annoying we still have no details about them.
  7. Just be prepared for the Zaku III HGUC to have painfully little mobility and being a fix-up job all-around. The basic sculpt isn't awful, but much like the Guncannon it very strongly shows its age...and unlike the Guncannon, I doubt it'll get a 2.0, at least not anytime soon. The Zssa in its proper non-boring colors being a web exclusive doesn't make me optimistic, at least. Only other UC kit I want to touch on is Zeta Plus. It's a gorgeous kit, and i tonly really needs a bit of touch-up paint to look glorious. If you don't have an irrational loathing of partsforming gunpla, it'll be a fun time. I have one in Amuro colors and it's one of my favorite kits. I also actually have almost all the HG Federation MS kits from AGE, and they're respectable models. Show was atrocious but it had a lot of great designs. Worth noting is that the Clanche (both versions) and AGE-3 Orbital kits come with their own very simple proprietary stands. Orbital and the Adele would be my votes for best of the lot.
  8. RyuRoots

    Hi-Metal R

    I've been worrying about that. It seems strange to make a big announcement and then shelf it, but I've given up trying to make sense of Bandai's decisions. Here's hoping Shizuoka doesn't let me down.
  9. I find it pretty annoying, personally. I have an HGUC Z+ A1 in Amuro colors, a Nu, and...I've passed on the original Gundam since it's just not that interesting. But I *adore* the early/mid UC designs and I've always been a fan of Amuro. I've also always been a stickler for scale. I really don't understand the point of a RE100 DIjeh. It won't be in-scale with my Z/ZZ HGUC suits, and it won't be as detailed as my MGs. I guess I'll pass and just hope they make an HGUC someday. It leaves kind of a bitter taste since I've been wanting a good Dijeh kit for a while.
  10. That the resultant film will be terrible is a 100% guarantee; I'll absolutely see it, IF it ever actually gets made but I sure as hell am not paying theater (aka highway robbery) prices for it. But that's always the rub, the people that "adapt" these things never understand the base, or care to. Most likely scenario is that we'll get a gruff white american male soldier american pilot. Who is an american. Who will proceed to blow up a bunch of evil faceless aliens and win over his CO and/or Katy Perry analogue before stopping the evil aliens' attempts to glass Earth in some gross parody of mechanical design, which aside from design is guaranteed to be in the blandest shade of gray imaginable. Funny thing is I think you could get pretty far by just taking a decommissioned F-14 and painting it white with red stripes.
  11. Not that Sony is especially known for making intelligent decisions, whether they involve movies or no. This'll still be stuck in development hell forever, where it deserves to be. But for the sake of discussion, let's say this has any chance at all of existing. They COULD ride in with Mospeada, theoretically, but Macross is the only part of Robotech anyone cares about at all if we're being honest so that's the part that they'd want to "adapt". Even ignoring the legal quagmire that is Macross outside of Japan, we should all know by now that it will be *painfully* Hollywood-ized, and I would be shocked if the mechanical designs were anything above "utterly disgusting". This is more amusing than anything to me. I can't fathom why in the world Sony would waste any money on this (barring the simple "poor decisions" explanation). A long-irrelevant butchering of a 1982 animated series' film rights which have been stuck in development hell for years: something worth picking up, apparently.
  12. Agreed. It's sad because normally I'd be all over a 171EX with gray highlights. Looks a lot sexier than Alto's with the red imo.
  13. RyuRoots

    Hi-Metal R

    I have 7 in total (DYRL Skull Squadron with super/strike packs is 4, Hikaru and Max TV-1J's, and a spare VF-1S to display without the packs) and they've all been transformed a fair bit, never had any issues. Can't say I've heard of any issues like this before now, but sorry you've had trouble with them, Frogze.
  14. RyuRoots

    Hi-Metal R

    True, but the VF100s line itself disintigrated in general (much like the VF-25's FROM that line). But yeah, Bandai does do this a fair bit. There are several MG Gundams that never materialized from trade shows too, like F90. So while hopefully everything pictured will get a release, there's no guarantee, strictly speaking. I also think it's an atrocious idea to ask for an integrated heat shield/landing gear. Yes, I LOVE horrifically flimsy and fiddly parts. Because at this size, that's what they'd be and it's hard for me to imagine otherwise. "perfect" transformation has always been one of the most overrated things possible in the world of toys, for me personally. Better to have something that's stable and pretty in every mode on offer...to a point, anyway. VF100s is the *other* awful extreme. Not that I'd call that stable. I'm fine with upgrading the toy in various ways, of course. I do hope they still look right next to the previous wave of VF-1 Hi Metals once they're finally on shelves/in our homes though. It'd be awful to put the new Valks next to my old ones and have them seem mismatched. That's a big plus of collecting within a single line. ....not that this would put me off anyway, probably since I *really* want that brown 1A. To think, "I'll just get Roy's Valk" has turned into ten valks and growing...
  15. RyuRoots

    Hi-Metal R

    The gun can't attach to it in fighter mode, and the "landing gear" is really a set of three cheap display pieces that don't even really connect to the fighter. That said, I think those are its only real flaws; how big those are depends, of course. The painting is crisp, transformation is fairly easy, and it comes with a stand, unlike every other VF Hi-Metal toy. If you like the VF-19F/S and want it in this size, then I'd say go for it.
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