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  2. m0n5t3r
    8k yen?! Wish I could find deals like that for DX Chogokin VFs. Great score
  3. tekering
    Oh dear, it looks like I overshot the mark... It's definitely too big for the figure. 😐 At least, the front part is too big... 🤨 I'm not sure how consistently scaled all the various segments are, to be honest. I'll have to do a little experimenting, and see what proportions best suit the Dana figure. In the meantime, constructive criticism is encouraged. Tell me where you think needs fixing. 😇
  4. mcfly50
    Looks like some of the Japan fans don’t know that the VF-1 Bandai DX can’t be sold in the US and Bandai isn’t going to pay the license to have a TOPGUN themed Valkyrie and not miss the opportunity to sell it to the US market. Would have been great to see a VF-1 though, but it makes sense from a business perspective. Plus this may help push the Macross brand to potentially new fans of a series they can sell worldwide. It would be smart of them to localize the shows they can export with high quality voice acting for new markets too from a business perspective.
  5. treatment
    First off, I'm not a fan of Delta anime. At all. That said, recently got a rather heavily-discounted VF-31AX Mirage a month or so ago. About 8k-yen only coz of a supposedly "cracked" horn, but it ain't a big deal. Think the previous owner was just way too anal about the minor "crack". As such, didn't really thought much about it other than to give my lonely Hayate-31AX a partner since I already have the VF-31C/J partnership also. Once I got it and stuff, I actually really felt a great liking to Mirage's 31AX that I didn't have with the Hayate. Somehow, even with the corny horn (cracked or not) and stuff, it really is a much nicer 31AX and much better to be side-by-side with the VF-31C: Unfortunately, the fitment issue is really bothering me. Guess I just really don't care about the Hayate having the same issue, but somehow, the issue bothers me alot more on the Mirage-31AX: It. just. won't. stay. flushed. :sigh: friggin' Bandai...
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  7. treatment
    That's not quite what I'm getting from gleaning the comments on Twitter about it: https://twitter.com/t_features/status/2038873935316480311 here's a partial snapshots of the web-translated comments so far: And yea, the F-14 still turned out to be the hero-jet of TG:Maverick. The comments above make it seem the jp-fans are also much aware of that fact.
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  10. PointBlankSniper
    Not sure why everyone is complaining about it being not a VF-1 based on the F-14... This is literally the scheme of the F/A-18 from the recent sequel. And the VF-25 is heavily based on the F/A-18. Nakamura Yuichi also voiced Alto and dubbed over Tom Cruise. The jp fans are actually hyped about the voice actor reference of this. They obviously can't sell VF-1 under the Macross name where the Top Gun branding is targeted for. And It's also a common pop culture convention to get collaboration rights for the most recent title from the guest IP. They are also clearly targeting young western fans of the new movie, and not hoping boomer followers of the original to suddenly change their habbits and go out of their way to find marketing of this release and start collecting japanese toys.
  11. Valkyrie Hunter D
    Nice, maybe we can see Kenshiro make Ronaldo's head explode:
  12. Gabe Q

    DX Chogokin VF-17S

    Gabe Q replied to GGemini's topic in Toys

    That's like $100!
  13. Big s
    Did another rewatch of the trailer and it looks yellow to me. Honestly it doesn’t even look off world. Kinda like some of the out of the way spots on the way to palm desert or something. I’m sure most of the movie is off world, but it’s kinda hard to tell other than the aliens and some of the tech
  14. slide
    I don't think I have the eyes, hands or patience for that... Well done! I realized I mentioned my new workbench but didn't post any pics: and I made some slight progress on the Mig tonight: clearcoat and the first few decals
  15. Chronocidal
    Yeah, that's a pretty easy and simple solution, but it did occur to me that the open arm does prevent held weapons from getting completely off-kilter due to collisions. Probably the only benefit to it, but I wonder if the reason it slipped by them could be because of how the Legioss's arms are always drawn as being rotated outward, which has never made any sense to me.
  16. treatment

    DX Chogokin VF-17S

    treatment replied to GGemini's topic in Toys

    As of this posting, if you live in mainland japan, you can now get this DX with free delivery at 15,400y... However, most of us here are not mainland jp residents...
  17. cheemingwan1234
    Just hope they don't name any ship the Kamchatka or the William D. Porter...
  18. treatment
    It is kind of a headscratcher for Bandai to be directly homaging TopGun:Maverick with a DX VF-25F instead of... the DX VF-1 since it is based on the F-14 and all, but barring some licensing-shenanigans again, how about.. the DX YF-19 since Macross Plus has always been associated with Top Gun in the west and no weirdo licensing-shenanigans issue anymore with it. As for the VF-0, tho quite more apt after the VF-1, unfortunately, Bandai has not made a DX version of it. As such, all I can think of is that Bandai has a rather tremendous over-supply of overproduced and unsold DX VF-25F frames due to the Revival and MWW sales failure. Painting and selling these as "TG:Maverick" stuff maybe a hail mary pass to still get some ok ROI, at least...
  19. aurance
    No, it wouldn't be that bad. I touched on this before this thread, but that population size immediately after First War devastation (1 million) is orders of magnitude beyond what's needed for pretty problem-free breeding. (I was a molecular genetics major in college.) If there are hereditary disease issues, it's due to something other than just remaining population. Clustering, etc. But I find it hard to believe government policies/desire for society wouldn't solve that either, other than for the odd groups of hermits here and there. The Valyrian/European monarch gene pool limitations are on another scale altogether. There we're talking about a handful of people, maybe a couple hundred. That caused some problems.
  20. JB0
    https://www.nasa.gov/live/ Here's where NASA's official stream's gonna show up. And "Spaceflight Now" is living up to the second half of their name, they're currently streaming the rocket sitting on the launchpad lookin' all pretty.
  21. M'Kyuun
    I think this should be the standard method for fold-away hands across the board. It closes the arm up nicely and allows for wrist rotation at minimum. It should be THE WAY.
  22. m0n5t3r
    Thundercats for me... sorry, off topic.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    No, it's nowhere near that bad. Most sources agree that the number of Human survivors of the First Space War numbered approximately 1 million.
  24. dur
    I am a sucker for gray valks and I hope they do a VF-25G iceman next! I just wish Maverick was a VF-25S instead of F.
  25. DONW999
    I'm at the final stage of consolidating all the hardware required, The modeling is done.
  26. Shawn
    Hold on...just saw a transformation video of the Optimus Prime Fire Valk from Tomy...you know the people who made this new Legioss toy, and IT gets solid forearms but the Legioss doesn't? No one from the Legioss team ever looked over the cubicle on the Transformers side to see what they were doing and maybe borrow a really good idea???? come on!
  27. Shawn
    Maverick helmet painted on the head? Air Force star and stripe on the wing. What the heck are the kill icons on the bottom of the cockpit? Does it say Pete Mitchell is the pilot? I feel this is a really really really strange crossover. Between the recent Transformers Basara toy to this, it seems Macross can't stand on its own so it needs to partner with a larger franchise. Guess that makes sense, the only show most US fans have seen was the original from Robotech, which isn't licensed here, and all the shows that are licensed have never been seen here, aside from recent streaming changes decades past air dates in Japan. Maybe these crossover items will get more eyeballs and fans into the franchise, which is really wonderful, just not sure this is particular valk is in my personal wheelhouse. (Not bashing this at all, just not my bag) Could someone do an DX Fire Valkyrie head with the mouth open and the Maverick helmet design?
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