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  1. MacrossJunkie
    My Hikaru VF-1S arrived today and I got to mess around with it some. In terms of looks and the feel of it in my hands, it just blows away the Yamato 1/48's and the Yamato/Arcadia 1/60 VF-1's. It just has such well sculpted lines and proportions, especially in battroid mode where the Yamato 1/48 had arms that felt too skinny, awful hands, and a far too long nose cone, The details are crisp. It feels like it might be about 80% heavier than the Yamato 1/48's from all the extra metal content. The poseability of this DX is leagues better too. I was never happy with the Yamato and Arcadia ones. The leg motion was fairly limited without having to resort to weird looking leg positions. You couldn't get a good wide leg stance and the ratched feet further limited the stances you could have where the toy could stand on its own. The DX's ability to make a wide stance along with the feet being on a ball joint gives so much more freedom. Even the little pilot figure is better. Instead of having shapeless blobs for hands, it actually has thumbs as well and the arms are positioned so that the fingers and thumbs go around the flightstick and throttle in the cockpit. A really nice touch indeed. I just have a few nitpicks, like the arms being held in place in fighter mode through friction alone, the large gap between the folding flap and the backpack, and it being hard to handle in fighter mode without constantly knocking the stabilizers on the legs or the head lasers out of place. Now I just need the DYRL FAST packs to be re-released at a reasonable price along with the missile sets. It's dumb that those missiles are their own separate release and don't come with the toy or the FAST packs for the price they're already charging for them.
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    I wish the 1/60 version came with the same stickers. The 1/60's GBP sticker sheet was rather lacking. It does make quite a difference.
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    I don't have my DX VF-1 in my hands yet and now I'm already dreading finding it to be a mess when I finally get it...
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    That's entirely possible that we're helping the machine learning algorithms with our selections. I too fail them often. So I guess I'm not human. But seriously, I don't know if when selecting all the squares that contain a traffic light, whether the yellow pixel from the traffic light housing that's sticking out into the next square counts or not.
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    By the subject I thought it was a gallery of Macross Miniatures and not a Macross Mini-Gallery. Haha. I guess they're still both technically correct since nothing is 1:1 scale. Marvelous photos and custom work!
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    Thanks for that explanation. I had no idea what they were talking about at the very start of the first episode. This clears it up better for me. Yeah, I thought everyone's aim was hilariously bad. Literally the safest place to stand was right in front of each other's aim. In many scenes. the protags literally stood still right in front of the inbit and didn't get hit. Same goes for the reverse. There was a scene in an early episode where they're in a forest and a giant monolith of a bear shows up. They're literally standing a meter and a half away, practically point blank range given the bear's size and it's not moving around... just standing up with its arms out to helpfully present the largest target possible for them, and they still can't hit it. It took the inbit coming along, firing... and missing, to resolve the standoff. And yeah, what's with Stick blowing his entire load (of missiles) in a single altercation as if he had an unlimited supply? And apparently he does have an unlimited supply because he magically gets them all back. I think Stick has a dimensional item storage compartment up his ass and that's where he "Sticks" all his missiles for the Legioss and ride armor. Ray: Stick, where did you get a full set of replacement missiles? We weren't carrying any. Did you somehow just pull them from your ass? Stick: Why yes. Yes I did. Want one? Ray: Ah... no, I'm good... thanks...
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    You set it to monitor a specific page. Like a search results page. You can monitor the whole page or a specific element or elements of a page. The more narrow you can restrict it to, the fewer false positives you'll possibly get. For example if you monitor the entire page, if there are ads on the page and they cycle, you will end up getting an alert everytime the ad changes. I usually pick the element of the page that contains just the search results. If you have a page for a specific item, but it's not ready for preorder or is out of stock, the I usually just have the part that says preorder or out of stock selected so when is ready to be added to cart, that should change. I haven't used Yahoo auctions before, but same principle. If no one is selling a taka 1/55 VE-1, then your search results show no listings. So you pick the search result area and if a listing shows up, it will alert you that there was a difference detected on the page. You can set it to alert you in various ways, like a windows pop up notification, play a ding, or email you.
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    Distill Web Monitor. I have it installed for both Chrome and Firefox.
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    Anyone else wish that even if Arcadia doesn't make a TV version, that they'd at least make an SDF-1 attachable Prometheus and Daedalus? Then we could at least have our own Macross the First version.
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    You could frequently check if Mandarake lists any, though they don't have any listed in stock right now. Barring that, you're probably better off at this point waiting for a re-release or just get the Zeta when it comes out, unless you have some online retailers based in Australia that were offering them. In which case you use a web monitor to check if any have become available for pre-order due to customer cancellations. I ordered mine long after all the windows had closed and by chance, was around when one popped up on BBTS and my web monitor alerted me. It seemed to me like that was a combination of a side effect of of them destroying most of civilization which allowed nature to reclaim a lot of areas and possibly a bit of terraforming to help make things more suitable for themselves, but don't quote me on that.
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    With COVID and the recent events in HK, I'm surprised it's still planned for this year at all.
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    While looking around, in regards to feature set, this bot software looks pretty good, although it's $101 just for the standard version alone. https://www.botchief.com/ Seems to be written in C++, claims it doesn't require programming knowledge, can use chrome as an editor, and apparently can even solve captchas too. I'll just stick with the old F5/ web monitor method though... for now at least. Also I don't really trust this sort of software unless I can see the source code.
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    It's been so long ago for me since I've seen the Mospeada saga of Robotech back when it aired that I hardly have any recollection of it and even then, I don't think I caught all of the episodes back then. With the Legioss bringing some interest to me for Mospeada, I tried watching the original on Amazon Prime Streaming today. I can't say I was bothered by the music, voices, and such as I didn't have much attachment to the Robotech version. That said, I have to say, I found some of the characters pretty annoying and overall, it felt like it was lacking in the story department and the individual episodes were a bit disjointed. Like the inbit go straight to Earth from their home planet and invade... why? It wasn't because of the HBT energy source that was developed drawing them there like Robotech's excuse with protoculture the fuel bringing the Invid to Earth because it's made from the flower of life. They just happen to be able to detect it when something using HBT is active. It's not because Earth was particularly suited to them, they had to evolve their form to make the most of it. It just felt like they decided to try to kill off humanity and take the planet because they could like a bunch of bullies in school looking for someone weak to beat up and steal from. There many other issues I had with the series as well. In the end, I felt a little let down and I decided I just really liked the mecha designs rather than the anime itself.
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    Did they also fix the mismatched reds between the plastic and painted parts on this re-issue?
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    Is that basically an upsized version of the masterpiece seekers? That toy must be massive being at 1/48 scale.
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    Well, a lot of stores do that and it still doesn't help... They buy up the stock at the normal price and then sell it at a marked up value later.
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    That Zeta looks amazing. I told myself I would just get the Eta and that would suffice, but now that I see the pic for it, I want that too... I'm digging that gun as well. Didn't they say something to the effect that if the legioss does well in sales, then they'd likely do the tread?
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    Here's something I've been wondering about. A good majority of North American sites I go to have some form of captcha, like type the characters you see in the box or click all the boxes that have X. However, none of the Japanese sites (that I've gone to anyway) implement this. Wouldn't that stop the automated bot scalpers or at least reduce them if they used some sort of anti-botting captcha scheme?
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    Could be also to also extend the bullet travel through the gunpod and so provide greater accuracy and exit velocity. Out of universe, it's probably just because it's a cool gimmick.
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    I randomly saw his transformation vid for the Legioss being suggested on youtube, so I got curious. Prior to that, I had no idea the Sentinel Riobot version existed and thought it was an old vid about one of the older Legioss toys at first. I watched it out of curiosity and was surprised it was something completely new and was blown away from the engineering of it and how they managed to get the fighter proportions done so well. I blame him for my purchase of one too. If I hadn't seen it, I would have remained blissfully ignorant of its existence.
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    Yeah, it was only a week or two ago that I recall replying that $40 or so for DHL shipping seemed about right, in response to a post about DHL shipping being around that much. Then I get hit with this. I could understand another 20-30% markup or so over time, but this seems really sudden and this is a 85-90% jump in rates.
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    For the super tight shoulders, has anyone tried using some lubricant or would that just end up taking it to the opposite extreme?
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    Ugh... finally got my shipping quote from Mandarake for the Hikaru VF-1S I ordered. ¥7810 for DHL shipping. Wow, what the heck? I thought it would be around $40-44 for DHL as I've had in the past for similar sized/weight packages. Did they up their rates dramatically?
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    There's a separate symbol for after tax yen? I had no idea. I can't recall ever seeing it either. I tried googling it to see what it looked like but can't find anything about it.
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    It was a lot less than ¥40,480. I looked at my order receipt for the VF-0D from HLJ from back in 2014 and it showed ¥33,120, not including shipping.
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