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  1. remind me...who do we like for web exclusives. i remember anime export used to carry those somehow right? i know hlj, amazon jp doesnt usually....
  2. so is it confirmed fugu=valkyrie factory or are we thinking "most likely"? yeah its a bummer the arm armors aren't tv style. i've never had a valkyrie factory ko valk but i do have a couple of there super/strike parts sets. i hope this thing at least can look ok even if it transforms poorly. the KC one is just....it just misses the mark aesthetically and hanldes very fiddly. also a yamato mold based design is preferable to a KC one, again assuming it mostly functions and looks good.
  3. i been kind of out of the loop on these revivals. are they basically the same as the renewals with matte plastic instead of glossy? to be honest i prefer matte quite a bit but i dont' think i want to replace ALL my frontier valks lol. if they do the canon fodder i might replace those because .... you know triangles and stuff. they've been back in their boxes for most of a decade now (not sure when lol) and i feel like i i take them out i'm gonna discover some broken bits. ahha. ouf of all the canon fodder in macross to do a mini troop build (3 of them), i picked that one! lol. anyway, i've always loved the 171 design especially in battroid mode so i'll be keeping an eye out for 171 revivals but don't think i need a matte alto. we'll see if that changes. haha
  4. catching up here...i see fiorvanti (xtb overdrive) is getting the love he deserves. its a great bot but the one weak spot is the lower leg and foot design. it depends a bit on gravity to hold some of the armatures in place (so foot needs to be down so the load transfers up the armatures assuming they are straight to support the leg). my copy is hampered by some loose joint in his lower leg system (the one thats pinned and not a screw unfortunately) so its a bit of a pain sometimes to pose correctly. There is a guy selling a filler for the lower legs that will definitely solve the stability problem but i haven't got mine in yet. once that problem is fixed it will become one of my favorites i think.
  5. looking awesome tekering. there is zero chance of me doing that (i'd probably mess it up) so i'm just going to appreciate yours and i agree...sentinel shoulda done that already for the prices they were charging for these IMO.
  6. i thought it was a kitz osko because of the name then i looked at it. clearly yamarcadia mold looking. listed at 9.45" tall though...thats bigger than yamato/arcadia. its either OSKO or showz messed up the height measurement (which happens a lot).
  7. someone was looking at a chunky monkey when they decided on deco. the grey reminds me of one of bandai's reissues from early 2000s too i think. its not canon but it looks like a really nice deco. really do like that grey. just don't like kc's vf-1 design that much to get another one.
  8. You know I'm coming around in the deco. Doesn't look half bad to me now at all. looks kinda good. So... 2024...wallet can breathe. Hopefully this thing won't be too too expensive. I know it's smallish like the vf-1...so hopefully that helps.
  9. Man the pose+ alpha is huge. That's a mospeada collection centerpiece type of toy. It is relatively "reimagined".... A touch more so than sentinel's which are reimagined slightly too but seem to keep the feel of the original designs. The pose+ , at least in these prototype materials shots looks "updated" to me. I was one of those that held onto the evolution toys legioss even while collecting the sentinel's because I wanted a larger representation of that design and I think it's anime ish looks and proportions were nice. They did however lack detailing for a figure that size...these pose+ seems to have addressed that by doing some made up details, but aesthetically seems to work ok. I almost wanna track down a b2five ride armor now. Hmm...
  10. Do the heads appear a little bit too big to anyone else? I think that might be my biggest nagging thought about these. I really hope they continue and make resgults and glaugs too. We never got those in yanato 1/60 and if these guys are somewhat "close enough" so will any enemy mecha be too. Sadly HMR is th only "scale" where we have had decent enemy mecha toys (one of my main motivations to by any of those). It's to be determined how good KC's regults will be. I have a feeling 3zero vf-1s are about to eat KC's lunch at such a similar scale and better pricing. if I were kc I might have some more "shocking price" sales. I surely wouldn't want to be a retailer holding much KC vf-1inventory at this moment.
  11. So...its bigger than KC's 1/72 so can't play with them, and smaller than yamato/arcadia's 1/60? Guess it goes by itself or maybe its close enough so if they are in different modes (say battroid for 3zero and fighter for yamato) they can play? haha. i think we (a lot us) have a sickness. we need this design in every transformable version (i do the same thing with my TFs, like ...how many different optimus primes are enough....the answer is there is never enough!). I'm at least curious enough to give it a go on at least one. haha. this one to be honest looks pretty good even if the proportions are bulkier (similar to KC's giant thick intakes in some ways but not others). seems to prioritize battroid (batttleloid or whtaver R calls it) at expense of others. anyway bring it on. although i love the bandai dx...the yamato/arcadia are my favorite line of Vf-1(for a variety of reasons). can 3zero displace a 15 year old toy? btw i also think people may be underestimating how big a difference .7cm is at this size. if the yamato is a 6 feet tall person, the 3zero will only be 5' 9.5" person. we all know meeting a 6 footer in person feels pretty different than meeting someone who is 5' 9.5".
  12. frankly i'm still holding out for an arcadia release myself...PF or not. I have several of the DX valks and they are awesome but in some ways i still like the yamato/arcadia ones better. the presentation is lighter touch, more refined. Bandai seems to love things like oversized lettering on their tampos and just invents tampos on certain decos (angel birds anyone?). also i'll never rebuy the same volume of valks as i did during yamato 2.0-2.2/arcadia days so each valk adds value to the other ones, you know?. the super ostrich may the the last version i never got that i still want...granted sometimes angel birds is appealing to but i don't "need" it the way i need the super ostrich.
  13. been a long time since i had an order wtih amiami....whats their shipping like these days (if i don't need the quickness of EMS but dont' want the slowest option....say normal air parcel)? Last time ordered from them was probably pre-pandemic. their pricing seems better than hlj usually. i've been using amazon jp for lots of stuff past few years but thought to return to try some of these other options again.
  14. the one at the show doesn't seem to have panel lines on the chest and shoulders as dark (and looking bad) as the earlier photos. hopefully its like that vs. the earlier photo. Also this build does look thicker and chunkier overall. Look at the legs too. This isnt a svelte yamato//arcadia copycat. it doesn't look bad. i might give it a chance.
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