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Yes sir I will upload more pictures before it , I have to improve some joint and articulation, Thanks

Can you please share me some references images so that I can improve my design, it will be helpful for me

Thanks for your valuable feedback, the cockpit has internal details like like pilot seat and display

Kind of sad to consider, but that basically boils Bandai's entire marketing strategy down to FOMO (fear of missing out). "Better buy everything we release, no matter how much or little you like it, because you never know when we'll release another thing you actually want that will interact with the thing you never bought in an essential way."

Yup, we can naturally surmise Bandai may release a fold booster + weapons pack for the YF-19, with the fold booster being compatible with the YF-21. But time and again the only predictable thing about Bandai is its unpredictability. Folks still waiting for DYRL Max VF-1 after Bandai included the blue roundels on the Strike packs ages ago.. I wouldn't be surprised that for WWM fold booster & weapons pack for YF-19, Bandai will choose to make it a bundle set with the valk all over again.

Be interesting if they go so far with G1 Missing Links to get to Megatron, as it would be difficult to justify a non-Walther alt-mode going by the criteria so far, or if they went with a (originally) non-Takara mold like G1 Shockwave. I'd def go for Missing Links on both of those.

Thats good to know , I wanted to get one but I didnt want my wallet cleaned out since i missed pre order. How much was Mandarake shipping from Japan to the states?

Most of us won't notice the tiny stabilizers on the back of the legs because 90% of the battroids will never leave their sprues sitting in our piles of shame

I think they've been that way for decades... We'll know how they handle equipment packs once the YF-21 releases. It comes with fold booster struts, while the 19 lacks that as well as weapons and fast packs. Bandai is literally setting themselves up with the need to demonstrate how they will handle these things under WWM releases. I wouldn't be surprised if they just prove they will only continue to release incomplete collections for decades to come though lol.

Watching HIGHSPEED Etoile's latest episode, and while it was already easily the worst thing out this season it's actually getting worse with each episode... which is impressive in its own very strange way. Episodes 3 and 4 are almost the exact same story of Rin bumping into a top-ranked driver in public, missing absolutely every clue as to who they are even though the're making ZERO effort to disguise their identity and doing things like signing autographs for fans, and spending the entire episode with them blissfully unaware of who they are until they spell it out to her. She's also apparently so bad at racing that the series decides to stop showing the races... it skips straight to the results and when she's not disqualified she's in dead last against even the unmanned cars.

Bandai not only not completing a series now, but make you buy multiples just for little accessories. Want speakerpods? Get the 31J with speakerpods.. Want reaction missiles? Get the 31J Kai.. Want supers? Here's the bundle set. I really wonder how they will handle the Armors. So far, there hasn't been WWM releases for standalone accessories that traditionally have been P-Bandai / TWE only. They chose to make them into bundle sets for WWM, so I wonder if there will be VF-25 Armored or VF-31 Armored bundles one day, just like the VF-1J GBP. The US MSRP would be crazy though..

If anything, this release will likely sit below MSRP even in Japan for a while after release, like the Revivals VF-25G & VF-171. So an even bigger price difference to US MSRP.

Nin-Nin-Game about $187.57 Hobby-Genki about $208.41 Anime-Export about $208.41 EMS, UPS, and DHL about $42 Fedex about $32 Registered Air about $31

In for Missing Link Bumblebee and Cliffjumper. It will be nice to see them in their small box toy packaging like the original Takara G1 releases.

Hyper Bomb. Elec Man. Cut Man.

Yeah no thanks. As sexy as it is I can get nice looking VFs/YFs for half that. LOL

Sentinel Riobot 1/12 Mospeada Side Story Genesis Breaker Intruder Gate.

Amiibo Samus Zero Suit. She’ll complement her other self..

Yeah about that... in the same shipment from Pulse that brought me Missing Link Convoy, I also received this guy, Lunar Cruiser Optimus Prime. Yes, Optimus Prime. It's kind of funny how Takara spent years calling Optimus "Convoy," only to use more Western naming on very Japanese exclusives (and this might just be the most Japanese Optimus since Optimus Exprime and his bullet train alt). But as far as your collection goes, Lunar Cruiser Prime fits surprisingly well with modern Generations figures. He's just tad taller than Volvo Optimus or Earthrise, and about the same height as Reactivate Prime (which, I suspect, will be the height of SS86 Optimus). Aesthetically, LC Prime does a good job of retaining the core Optimus design. The head's a bit squished and could use more silver around the eyes, but it's G1 Optimus. Remove the vehicle kibble on the sides of his legs and from the waist down he'd pass for G1 Optimus (although an extra yellow rectangle on his crotch and some blue on his undercarriage would have been nice). It's small, but he's got his chest grill, and some red on his lats and forearms maintains the idea that red is one of Prime's primary colors. Thing is, I've always thought that white/light gray looks good on Prime, too, hence my appreciation for stuff like Lio Convoy and Laser Optimus, and I definitely don't mind it here (although his biceps and shoulders could honestly have been red as they're covered in alt mode). Despite being white, his shoulders retain the basic block shape, and tubes on either shoulder stand in for his smokestacks. Even his chest, which is clearly not from a cab-over-engine truck with square windows for pecs, is still some kind of window bisected in the middle. The shellformery nature of the figure is a bit more apparent as you spin him around. The sides of his legs have large wheels and fenders, though to be fair so do a lot of other Optimus toys. His calves also have wheels shoved into them, with panels kind of haphazardly folded over them. His forearms have large panels made from the sides of the vehicle. And a good portion of the alt mode is folded up into a big ol' backpack, which I wouldn't mind so much if it weren't for the one antenna poking out the right side. Seriously, Takara couldn't figure out how to engineer it so it folded the other way into the backpack? Lunar Cruiser Prime comes with just two accessories, and they're really more about his alt mode. You get a satellite dish, and a solar panel. LC Prime doesn't get any weapons. He also doesn't come with a Matrix. Sure, you can clearly see one in his chest behind the windows, but it's molded into his torso and not removable, which is becoming something of a rarity in modern Prime toys. Prime's head is on a ball joint for swiveling, and it has very minimal sideways tilt. The stem is attached to a flap that doesn't really lock into place, though, and working with the flap you can get decent up/down tilt. His shoulders rotate and can extend laterally 90 degrees, plus they have some backwards butterfly motion. His biceps swivel, and his elbows bend a little over 90 degrees. His wrists swivel, and his fingers are hinged at the base so they can open. His waist swivels. His hips have one of those joints that connect off-center from the pelvis, so they can only move a little bit backward but they can go something like 120 degree forward, and they can still do 90 degrees laterally. His thighs swivel. His knees bend over 130 degrees. What's neat about his knees is how his knee pad stay put and additional mechanical details slides out from inside as he bends his knees. His feet can tilt 45 degrees up or down, and they pivot over 90 degrees. Although Prime doesn't come with weapons and his hands are articulated, they're still functionally 5mm ports and he can hold most accessories with 5mm pegs. His satellite dish doesn't have a 5mm peg, though, it has a smaller peg that fits into the port on top of either of Prime's "smokestacks." As for the solar panel, I prefer to simply fold it in half and connect it to his back, where there are two small tabs that fit into two small slots on the panel. You have other options, though. There's actually a small 5mm peg under the slots that has just enough clearance to slide into Prime's hand, allowing him to carry the panel as a shield. The 5mm peg also has a smaller peg at the end of it. So, you can swivel on of Prime's smokestacks and plug the panel into it, allowing him to wear it on his arm. Prime's wheels unfurl, giving him the room to fold his legs over his thighs, and his entire lower body shifts behind his torso to make the bottom of the vehicle. His chest opens to allow the rest of the vehicle's nose cover his grill abs, and after his arms butterfly behind him windows on his sides flip up to cover the joints. The JAXA panels on his forearms are visible on the sides, but the entire roof, the rear of the vehicle, and strips of the sides between the JAXA panels and the windows come from simply unfolding the roof. This alt mode, licensed from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota, is a semi-real vehicle in that I don't think any have actually been produced, but Toyota and JAXA (along with a number of other companies) are actively developing the Lunar Cruiser with the idea that it could be used in conjunction with NASA's Artemis program as early as 2032. I suspect that Takara shares in Toyota's national pride over their contribution, as this figure is detailed and accurate to Toyota's concept designs. It's got the four front and two rear wheels, accurately capturing the metal wheels Bridgestone designed for the Lunar Cruiser. It's got the reflective orange windows, the headlights, and the winch in front. It's got the trio of antenna, albeit relatively thicker than the actual antenna. It's got the trapezoidal section on the rear with what I think are fuel cells, and a little silver hook that I think is a mount for a robotic arm being developed by GITAI. And it's got on one side the tube for the solar panel. On the actual rover it seems like there's a cover that opens and the thin solar panel actually unrolls from inside. The tube is hinged, so it can swing out from the vehicle and stay in sunlight. Rather than use the solar power directly or to charge traditional batteries, it's my understanding that the solar power is meant to convert water into breathable oxygen and hydrogen for fuel cells similar to what Toyota uses in their Mirai sedan. If usable water can be found on the moon (which is looking increasingly likely) this sort of technology could be used to power not just the Lunar Cruiser but entire bases or settlements without the need to carry a lot of heavy fuel from Earth. I digress, though. On this figure the tube doesn't open and isn't articulated. You merely use a tab and slot on one edge of the panel to plug into a corresponding tab and slot on the tube. Meanwhile, the satellite dish plugs into small articulated armature above the cabin. The articulation allows it to point straight up, or to angle forward. The dish is really part of the Lunar Cruiser's design, but if you want to drive your Lunar Cruiser around at night with the solar panel stored away there is an option for that. While it can't roll up into it's tube, you can fold it in half, open the back of the Cruiser, and slide it under Prime's arms. When Volvo Prime (and the Christmas version before him) came out he was hailed as an exceptional update on Optimus Prime, marrying much of the familiar elements of the G1 robot with a realistic, modern truck. However, as a modern "Classics" Prime I actually prefer Lunar Cruiser Optimus. Sure, the Lunar Cruiser might not be a practical disguise on Earth (although Toyota apparently has a concept EV based on the Lunar Cruiser that I could see evolving into a new FJ Cruiser). But I feel like, as a robot, Lunar Cruiser Prime has a chunkier, more dynamic shape than Volvo Optimus, more interesting aesthetics, and better (if only a little) articulation. He's a bit of a shellformer, but he wears it pretty well and transforming him is pretty straightforward. The alt mode is well done and incredibly cool, and potentially historic if the Lunar Cruiser makes it to the moon. I wish they'd engineered a better way to fold up the one antenna on his back, to maybe have given him a rifle (though I understand that a weapon might not jive with the notion of peaceful space exploration), and to perhaps have engineered a way for the Matrix to be removable, but overall those are pretty minor complaints on what is, overall, an excellent figure. Definitely worth checking out.

That's the MACROSS Spirit.

Yeah. Even under the WWM banner, it's still cheaper getting directly from Japan.

how come the new release doesn't come with speakers? 320 us prices, i would like reaction missiles and speakers

320? US prices ....hard pass

Yeah. Just won't look at the back too much. 🤣