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Here's hoping no one has to die for this to be resolved.

I snagged a PO way back so have not been paying attention on availability, but it is currently up at HLJ https://www.hlj.com/dx-chogokin-vf-19-kai-excalibur-nekki-basara-special-banc676269

Not really a pose, just it's the only one time I transformed the SV-51 CF many moons ago. This was when Yamato's products had nice sculpt, but not so much on the tolerances. It was pretty floppy, so thereafter it spent the rest of its years in Fighter. The Arcadia's SV-51 feels so much better in hand.

Had the same issue as well on my Fire Valk, on that particular panel not lining up on one side in Fighter. It's just due to the mega stiff hip joint that makes aligning that panel quite impossible unless hips are disassembled & lubricated.

Yeah, I'm just holding off shipping anything until another option exists. Thanks for the info though, good to hear the details confirmed.

Yeah I'm buying next to nothing from overseas as long as these bs charges are in place. Something very wrong when shipping for an expensive toy costs more than the actual toy. Looks like all my stuff is going to sit in HLJ PW until a certain someone shuffles off the mortal coil and takes his tariffs with him. I'm saving a lot of money at least by not buying anything.

I first saw them about 1 1/2 years ago for a lot more, and didn't pull the trigger on them. Then they popped up again about a month later, different seller, and they were half the price. I recently saw these pop up on Yahoo Japan for a more expensive price, but don't see them now. If anyone is interested, they have a short story in them, some data on the valkyries of the game, and some character backgrounds. Other than that, it isn't a telling of the story, but the art is quite good.

NICE swag!

Lol, can confirm that I just received a 'duty invoice' from DHL. The breakdown is $24.91 on top of the 5200 Yen I paid to use DHL (since it was the only service available). Get this duty fee breakdown: $1.31 Regulatory Charges $6.60 Duties $17.00 Tax Processing Sooooo, if it weren't for the 'tax processing' charge things wouldn't be so terrible. Maybe Japan Post will get this figured out and be able to give us an affordable option again. Right now, it sounds like DHL is the big winner (though I'm sure their business is way down with everyone else's).

I think that no matter how good BRV AAM missiles get, there will still always be a need for dogfighting capability, due to rules of engagement limitations. Just because you have the capability to shoot someting down at BRV range, doesn't necessarily mean the politicians in charge are always going to allow it and there may be cases where visual ID is required, so a robust WVR / dogfighting capability may still be needed. Even if it's only maybe needed 1 time out of 100, I feel it's still better to keep guns and the capability to dogfight.

Bandai will just released it and after a few years release renewal one what you guys wanted. Bandai is lazy to be correcting expensive DX toy Compare to model kit they just do it right.

New swag just arrived.😊

Enough for today. My arms are tired. 😜

It seems a bit funny...a lot of war/conflict sequences (extremely over-simplified) seems to be this hybrid idea on how waring parties fight, say in WW1 or earlier...(and I'm sure Tora! Tora! Tora! or something even older) drives some of our narrative on how we thinks a Fighter plane/foot soldier, ship or whatever would fight in the here and now. I remember seeing the promo or propaganda on how the RAH-66 Comanche would redefine the battlespace of the future...except for what has been happening in the Russo-Ukraine war (I'm sure if you are a gunship pilot, you might have already have done a serious re-think about your job). I don't have the knowledge base to clearly articulate what I am trying to get at here...if you watch enough documentaries or see enough stories on how fighter planes (such as the F-4) did not need guns be/c AAMs and radar will solve all.... ...until it didn't. And then we come to 4th gen fighters - which had guns. The tech of radar and AAMs got better...well, most of the time anyways. So is the idea of getting into a furball past its expiration date?

@PointBlankSniper @Chronocidal Images of the VF-17 and VF-171 from the same video that claims the legs are the same. I can't understand Japanese so you'll have to re-confirm if you can understand native Japanese or if it's possible it was misunderstood (as i can't confirm it one way or the other with the link you provided). Anyhow, the scale comparison in the video displays the 17 and 171 vall side by side and i found a video just for the 17 and screen grabbed further images.

I hope the original real Tron is in it. That would be a great and big surprise.

Unusually severe typhoon season over there, so most likely will be delayed. Which is kinda ok for us US-fans with regards to waiting out the ridiculous tariffs in addition to the ludicrously high shipping fees nowadays...

Thanks! I am hopeful Arcadia don’t go out of business and continue feeding our plastic addiction 🫠 speaking of which, is SDF-1 reissue likely to be delayed next month? Sounds like factory production coming to a halt or something..

Thanks @PointBlankSniper, really appreciate the link. i remember watching this youtube channel and may have posted another one of the channels video on here in the past.

another comparo... https://twitter.com/006zgundam/status/1972453816198115417 Seems a wee bit bigger than the older Actic Gear/Actic Gear Next ATs, indeed.

Nice acquisitions @Angesdad - congrats!

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Yes sir. TV VF-1S Hikaru Ichijo sans super parts. All the details are TV style.