treatment

Got some time today and played it a bit more straight campagn now.

Selected Hikaru again, of course.

I got up to the second part of the Everlasting whatever dimension or something, with the confusing moving vertical lines.  The first part was in GERWALK mode and rather easy, but Basara's VF-19 keeps getting annoying as a tag-along. 

Enough for the night. I'll pick it up maybe next weekend.

That said, my favorite dimension so far is the Remembrance, where Regulds, Missile-Regulds, N-Jers, and Q-Raus are the enemies.  It's just really cool to battle against them than against the Vajras, Varautas, and Drakens.  At least, visually.

Guess I'm just so easy to please with DYRL enemy mechs...

My HM-R RSC with others...
 

moar non-wotafa yt...

Wonder if the YF-21 needs to be unlocked.

As such, I'm tryihg out Gamlin and Basara's VF-19 gets to be annoying...

from TD-Forum: https://bbs.toysdaily.com/forum.php?mod=redirect&goto=findpost&ptid=470399&pid=8213334

HM-R compared against the ThreeZero RabidlyDog:

11 hours ago, MKT said:

Pics:

 

 

WHITE landing gears! 

Hmm.

Bandai seems to really luv the 2000 Flushes/Clorox toilet bowl cleaner canopy color...

Here's my Hikaru screenshots so far from my PS4:

No FAST-Pack installed, yet, tho. Not sure if the FP needs to be unlocked via achievements...

https://twitter.com/simsim5479/status/1771766924096991665

web-translated:

https://twitter.com/simsim5479/status/1771839452383433177

web-translated:

add/edit:

https://twitter.com/simsim5479/status/1771840364602700198

web-translated:

No Wotafa nor MarkH, yet, but here's another YT of it:

3 hours ago, shazam said:

 

Quite nice overall.

As such, the various sprue marks are very disappointing for such an expensive and weirdly difficult to procure item. Hacchaka diid mentioned in his review that it is mostly bare plastic, too.

Damn Bandai for idiotically extremely limiting inventory and distribution for such an awesome item.

2 minutes ago, Graham said:

Yeah, 100% confirm the game as installed from the physical PS4 disc version includes Hikaru and his DYRL VF-1S.

I installed the game while logged into my Hong Kong Playstation account,

I did not download or install any DLC.

While I think I do have a Japanese Playstation account, I haven't logged into it for years, probably since the Macross 30 days I guess.

I don't know if that was applicable to the Switch version, but the way I understood the news before, only the Japanese PS4 and PS5 disc-releases will already include the so-called Hikaru/DYRL DLC.

The localized non-Japanese PS4/PS5 releases (discs or otherwise) will not contain the DYRL stuff like Hikaru nor even Minmay's art on the cover.

mine arrived today, too.

both packages are as big as my old ipad 10.2...

PS4 contents:

this guy's from hk, iirc.

surprisingly, he didn't provide CCs/Subs on this review for yt auto-translation. 

his reviews usually contain CCs, tho.

as such, I get the impression that he is just not that happy with his 171EX Revival purchase:

16 hours ago, sjoebarry said:

add a dramatically torn cape and a red bass guitar, and it'll be a nice homage to Canti...

Which got me thinking...

Can it duplicate Canti's badass poses at all?

If it can, then that will be totally awesome!

22 hours ago, Mommar said:

Is it just me or is it taking Amazon Japan an inordinantly long time to ship packages these days?

just got a dhl-text this morning regarding tuesday-delivery next week for my order...

saw this posted at TD-Forum:

https://bbs.toysdaily.com/forum.php?mod=redirect&goto=findpost&ptid=254653&pid=8212575

2 hours ago, jvmacross said:

Thanks again for posting this...I had apparently received the amazon.jp email about this too but it was buried in my junk email...LOL

Anyways, the form was easy enough to submit...they just wanted your shipping info and a copy of your purchase receipt, in my case it was my paid invoice from AJ...

I did not read anywhere on the link about not being able to fulfill non-Japanese orders, but hoping for the best...but expecting nothing...

In either case, I went ahead and just bought one off auction...I think the card may be the same for all releases, PS5, PS4, and Switch...however, I think some of the other "extras" are specific to where you ordered your "limited" edition from....a waiting game now...the one item I am looking forward to the most is the special book and the art card with the Mikimoto "Macross the First" style character art....oh and, of course, the special box art featuring the same Mikimoto graphic....

Yeah. I hope they do fulfill it for overseas purchasers.

fyi.

(web-translated):

The webform to fill out is below that message at:

https://form.bushiroad.com/form/macross_si-ws0314

You will need a browser that will auto-translate the fields to english (or any non-japanese) for you.

My Missing Link C-01 was delivered today.

pictarz....

usual sucky amz-jp packing

Underside to check for crotch tabbing issue some owners have been reporting recently:

C-01 vs MP-01:

C01 vs HM-R JetFire:

C-01 vs UW-04 Devy:

Other notes:

I had to loosen up the thigh-screws as they were way bit tight when trying to rotate the thighs the first time.

Other than that, no issues found so far.

Despite Takara nerfing the Trailer by removing the spring-launcher for Roller, this C-01 is a pretty awesome release!

another unboxing/review of Missing Link C-01 Convoy/Optimus Prime in english this time by an american in tokyo

add/edit:

Another unboxing/review in english:

hacchaka pictorial review of the MB Kampfer...

https://hacchaka.net/archives/52105913.html

sample:

not Wotafa's, but more than good and lengthy enough. Very informative!

Articulations galore!

He's got a Classic and a Pepsi Convoy to compare this new C-01 with.