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I've ordered that twice through sellers who never shipped. Might have to finally order it from one of the more expensive ones.

Depa Laboratory - lots of laughs! https://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv348462410 May'n Symphonic concert Oct 12t - clear folder!

This is quite a surprise. I'm glad Bandai is rolling forward with more M7. But this version, once again, makes me miss Yamato. Easy pass.

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Isn't the 171 explicitly an almost ground-up redesign that only superficially resembles the 17 and is canonically smaller and slimmer? Like the real world Hornet to Super Hornet but in reverse.

I don't have a family so it would be just me, but for a good movie I'll still plop down in the semi-uncomfortable chairs with the overpriced (yet happily oversized) 'small' soda and popcorn! I'm not too critical on most movies I see and, so far, the only movies I've regretted seeing in the theater were Tank Girl, Event Horizon and Superman '25. And since I've really liked most of the Mandalorian, unless they really F it up, I'll probably enjoy this too, just on the massive screen!😁

Talking a closer look at this again: Strike Valkyrie? Unrelated, your flooring looks like mine: narrow oak from the 60s. Crazy-good quality, but are they ever creaky after 60 years of foot traffic. One day I’ll brave the crawlspace no-see-ums and fasten them more securely.

Regarding MPG Soundwave, I'm surprised that they're only repainting MP-13. While I still consider it a good take and a good figure, it's a bit dated and a new figure is in order. That said, I continue to use my MP-13 in my display and I bought FT's Soundblaster repaint, mostly for their Ratbat, but the figure itself surprised me with just how excellent it is. I daresay it's the best Soundwave, color and name changes notwithsatanding, in my collection. Perhaps Takara just didn't feel like competing with it and leaned on the nostalgia instead, what with MP-13's heavy G1 toy styling. I love Evangelion, but much like their VF-19 take, way too much is sacrificed to create an unholy amalgamation with Prime such that I'd just rather have non-crossover versions of the VF-19 or Eva Unit 01. I'm sure there's an audience for these crossovers, but I'm not part of it.

Hahaha. How dare you insult my baby like that. I will do my best to properly represent this creep the best I can. 😜

The 19P and kai have different shoulders from the19F and S though, so shouldn't it make more sense to just scratch build the shoulders entirely? Is there a reason to have this planned before it becomes obvious that bandai definitely won't do the 19F or S? Because the way things are going, it looks like highly plausible that they will come around to making those.

The thing is, I don't think these toys have much of a skeleton to speak of. A lot of mechanism and structure is already molded into the underside of the outer shells. They do have some separate pieces of internal braces, tracks, ratchets etc, but even those must be tabbed in or glued to the outer shell, so they mostly have to be new parts to conform to the new shell. And those really only make up a minor fraction of the total parts, compared to the externally visible parts, including exposed undersides, insides, and extensions etc. Even identical looking parts to the old ones need to be new parts accomodate the changes caused by the other new parts. Otherwise, the parts are just hollow appendages. Take for example, the VF-19's chest. The lack of chest cannons means that whole shell needs to be a new piece just to fill the hole, despite having identical details to the YF. All the associated swinging and sliding mechanism would then be deleted for the new chest because they serve no purpose. Then theres the head change, and the way the head needs to conceal without the old shields fancy features, you basically have nothing left of the old torso, other than the spine thrusters and the pilot egress hatch. Sure they save on a lot of guess work with transformation, but they need to mostly make new parts nonetheless, especially when everything from hips down/backward of intakes were intended to look different regardless of proportions. As for art style between M+ and M7, I see the latter as generally much more melted lol. If you were to challenge the size and scaling across series, what would it mean for the VF-22 that appears in both M7 and Delta, which features 171? Or going the other way and comparing those to the 21 and various 19s, all the way to the 19 Advanced, which fought alongside 171s. Should the 17 show up there and tower over its former co-stars that have their size and scaling made clear against the later CG valks?

So... ah... maybe not as exciting as some of the other cars... but... I bought a loaded 2026 Honda Odyssey Elite. Not much of a flex, but I paid cash for it? Picking it up once the factory delivers it. My other car is an EV6 GT and despite it being a KIA it'll smoke the vast majority of cars on the road and is fun to drive - so that's my offset, yeah. Besides that. Pretty sure I'm turning into my dad now - queue that insurance commercial.

Found my MUSHA registration card yesterday - including a mint CIB copy of Hellfire. My MUSHA is now complete-complete.

Something that makes the Fire Valk Optimus look absolutely sensible by comparison? Though to be fair to the design, I don't think it's going to work until it's painted. The colors are really the only thing that will make that recognizable as anything remotely Evangelion-related.

I guess that really depends on how much the family loves these characters. If they loved them enough to get through season 3 and still be satisfied, then the movie will probably make everyone happy with buttery popcorn and all, but if they’re not that into it, then I’d say wait on it and save some cash for something else

It’s so ugly……..I love it. Can’t wait to see how this beast turns out

Oh, I have a lot more intensive mods for this than just the fins planned. They're just generally in the way, and look out of place at the location they're mounted. If I can pull it off, I'll probably make it some new wings, and see if I can finally get my Master File VF-19F. At the very least I'm going to be stripping and repainting the red. Fortunately, Bandai (for some inexplicable reason) couldn't figure out how to make the fins turn, so they just slapped a spare set of shoulders in the package that I can happily chop the fins off of, and still keep the stock ones as a spare set. Like.. the fact they chose to do that is baffling on multiple levels, but I at least appreciate the convenience.

Yamato painted them the correct color. Bandai just trolling us now.

Forgive me for cracking up a little at this... They finally give us white gear, and it's on the one valk that canonically has them painted a different color

I'll forgive the janky VF-17 if Bandai gives us a red Miria version! (Staying in fighter mode, of course.)

Ne`I think the tooling that's needed to be done on a 1/35 version of the Valkyrie would make it really expensive and also not as desirable as a series! After all a lot of people are still fine with the 1/60 scale! As for the VE-1 I'm still positive this will be a thing, since it is cannon and very desired by collectors, although it is only seen for a couple of seconds on the screen! The Super Ostrich showed that this kind of model is very desirable to collect! But it's sad that they are taking the time about it! If they do, do a 1/35 version it might be something special for the 50th. anniversary of the series! The release of the Roy Focker with GBP, was a sign that the series is not dead, thankfully! But we will have to be patient for future releases!

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Yeah, that might have been me explaining the knees, but my point here was something a little different. If you look at the original battroid art, the YF-19 and VF-19 absolutely share the same proportions. They're fundamentally the same skeleton with different body panels. If they were cars, they'd be the same chassis with different body kits. From the toy manufacturing side, what I'm talking about is the internal skeleton that the valks transform on, independently of what any exterior panel is molded to look like. Whatever the exterior looks like, you can probably draw a very similar stick figure between every one of the major transformation joints, and the mechanisms involved will be mostly identical, with the same measurements between them. The big differences come from the way Bandai and Yamato/Arcadia approached their own designs. The Yamato and Arcadia YF-19 and VF-19 both compromised the length of the legs to make the battroids stockier, so they both have to extend the legs for fighter mode, leaving those knee gaps. But the fundamental proportions of the designs, the "skeletons," are the same between them. On the Bandai side, they made the conscious decision to model their YF-19 (and the VF-19 Advance) on the updated animation style without any mass shifting. The legs are proportionally longer and skinnier, so they were able to avoid the knee gap. Some people didn't like the changes, but it helped Bandai pull of a very slick fighter mode. While we don't have the DX Fire Valk yet, we can make some general assumptions, and it's very likely that it will share the same "skeleton" proportions with the DX YF-19. Once you figure out a working set of those measurements and mechanisms, it helps a ton to be able to re-use them, which is why they're doing the same for the VF-17 now, rather than re-designing it to match the original animation. It's just a lot less work. Far as the animation goes though... eh. On the off chance that we did get a modern animated version of the VF-17, I feel like it would be cutting way too many corners to just tweak the model like Bandai has done here. It's practically unrecognizable as the same valk. For the VF-19 and YF-19 though? The YF-19 was drawn in the M7 style, almost literally. Macross Plus and Macross 7 came out concurrently in 1994. The animation styles of the two were a little different, but the line art was all drawn around the same time, and is very similar. Also, something to keep in mind with the animation... Bandai can write whatever lore it wants about how the VF-171 is supposed to use the same components as the VF-17. Truth is though, trying to reconcile those designs between the two shows is just flat out impossible. The sizes of the valks in M7 were insane, and no amount of lore manipulation can make that make a lick of sense. Like, just for comparison. The 171 looks like its wings/waterline are about 6 feet off the ground. The VF-17 was animated to look absolutely gargantuan by comparison. The only way we know what size the valks in M7 were supposed to be is Kawamori's official notes, because M7's art scaling was not at all grounded in realistic sizes for any of the fighters. It really didn't try to make anything look as realistic as the other series did.

Just picked up my two and quickly unboxed one. Looks great.