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Just pre-ordered one from cdJapan! $195 + shipping.

ZOMG, WHAT IS THIS??

Great advice! I pressed down just behind the instruments and the entire assembly popped a bit and slid smoothly into place. I was finally able to transform my VF-4. Everything's perfect now!

Anyone having trouble pushing the cockpit down during transformation? I have been able to nudge the back, near the canopy joint, but just BARELY. If I push any harder, I'm afraid I'll break it. I've also tried wedging in a thing piece of metal and wiggling around from underneath, but no luck at all

I've noticed that the SV-51 Nora has been "backordered" at HLJ for a while now: http://www.hlj.com/product/YMT00064 Is this actually back-ordered, or is there database just wrong? Is this toy still being produced by Yamato?

Does anyone know where I can find a sticker placement guide for the VF-19? I've flipped through the manual, checked the back of the sticker sheet, and nothing!

See my post from a few days ago -- My white Alto has turned VERY yellow after just sitting out in the open for < 2 years. It was kept on a very high book shelf, out of the way of direct in a very dark part of my living room. No smoke or anything else in the air to discolor it, either than typical NYC air. VERY disappointing. It's different shades of yellow on each part. Clearly its made of several different sorts of plastic (or perhaps the same plastic treated or processed differently). You can see a very clear different in how each part has yellow. I guess I should post some pictures...

Which Plastruct glue in particular? Looking at their catalog they have: Plastic Weld (bonds dissimilar plastics) Bondene (bonds similar plastics) Weldene (seems like its only for styrene) Weld-On #4 Cyanocylates (I have a variety of zap-o-gap brand cyanocylates) The epoxy's GE silicone II

I've had a VF-0A for several years, since the original release. About 2 years ago, after not having really touched it for over a year, I was packing it up to move house. I was HORRIFIED to find that the elbow disc joints (that let the forearms spin 360 degrees) had completely disintegrated on both arms. Is there any chance I can get replacement parts for these? Has it happened to anyone else? I have a bad feeling that it was caused by my idiotic use of Endust to clean it Here are some pictures of the damage. The plastic on both ends of the connection looks to have totally crumbled.

I kept the VF-25 up on a very tall book shelf. I do use CF bulbs, but they are far below the VF and it pretty much sat in the shadows. Very dissapointing. I'll see if I can take a decent photo (the color difference is subtle) and post it; What's interesting is that only specific bits of yellowed, not the whole thing. It's not a gradual fall of either; The nose tip is VERY yellow compared to the rest of the forward fuselage.

I just received a VF-27 for x-mas, which made me want to take my VF-25 Alto down off the shelf it's been sitting on for about a year. DISSAPOINTMENT!! The Alto has YELLOWED! I've kept it far out of direct sunlight. It was very dusty (which I cleaned with some tap water and paper towels). Only some of it yellowed; the very tip of the airframe nose, the arms, some of the nacels around the hip area. I just can't believe this. My Yamato VF-1S also shows a tiny amount of discoloration, but that was after 5 years, and the change was TINY in comparison. Is anyone else seeing this? I've also got some joint floppiness (which I don't remember from the last time I touched this toy) Oh well, guess I have an excuse to buy a Luca or Michel

I hope you paid Big West and Bandai royalty fees before posting pictures of your collection here. I'm going to tell them about your IP theft. God, I hope Tatsunoko doesn't come after me for stealing Mimsy.

All we need to do now is print one of these out in a 3D printer....

I'm very interested. This was my most favorite kit of all from when i was a kid. I used to stare at the catalog pictures.... and dream!

You don't want to use Windex! It contains Amonia, which dissolves Acrylic paints. Isopropyl alcohol is the main ingredient in things like Tamiya thinner. Sometimes I wonder if they add small quantities of other chemicals to the thinner that improve the consistency of the paint.

Can I get an RSS feed for this MW in general or any of the sub-forums?

http://www.geocities.com/takatoysperu/Taka...ss_sticker.html

I've seen Taka-toys' stickers for the VF-0 on his web site, but it does't specifically say if its for the -0S or will they match the -0A. Given that the -0A is pretty new, does any one know if Taka's updated his sticker set yet?

I explained this in my post... it's not a real game, it's just a surgury simulator with annoying cutscenes between levels.

I finally got my VF-0A from Godzilla's friend (it was lost at UPS for a while !!) Fantastic toy. Mine arrived in perfect shape, maybe some of the plastic liner got a bit banged up, but the toy was fine. I love the detail. In some ways its better than the VF-1 (the backpack is far superior), and in some ways worse (the little doors that surround the head in fighter mode seem very brittle). The arrestor hook is fantastic! The landing gear are far better.

Does the 1/100 Turn-A qualify as an MG? I don't know too much about it, but I do recall some reviews that point out all the mechanical gimmickry.

Just a tip to new players --- You can't fight in the water. The first time you turn into a wolf, you find yourself in the sewer system, being attacked by the black worm things. Don't try swinging the controller around to kill them in water. There's no feedback from the game. I was getting real frustrated every time I died during this part. I spent 3 hours before I figured it out. I thought my WII-mote wasnt working

My two-cents on Trauma Center: I've only played the DS version, but reports are that the WII version has exactly the same problem: Great surgury system, but little else. What makes Trauma Center dull to me is that the game is ONLY surgury. You do not get skill points or earn dollars. You do not get promotions & demotions. You do not get "lives". You do surgury, and you if you succeed, you get a score. If you fail, the patient dies and you lose the game. That's it. No saving up points to buy better equipment, or passing off surguries you find boring to other doctors. Nothing. You don't go home after work. You don't have a locker room to store your tools in. There are many *annoying* text-based monologs you will receive from your nurse or attending physician. When you lose (and reload your game) you have to sit through the exact same dialog again. There is no skip option, though you can speed up the dialog. The failure of Trauma Center is that it lacks the simple things that the game industry has learned over the last 20 years about RPGs; it isn't all about hack and slash (or slice & suture); its about assuming the role and living the life of the surgeon. Trauma Center doesn't give you any of that. It's *just* a surgury simulator, with annoying, repetative, stupid cut scenes.

Hey, are these made of a hi-quality, modern plastic? I've build the old Monogram version of these (Leader 1). The detail was excellent for an early 80s kit, but the plastic was very, very frail.