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  1. MacrossJunkie
    Not to mention even finding decals for the non-PF to begin with. Those stickers it came with just don't cut it. I didn't care about the panel lining, but the decals alone made it worth getting for me.
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    I'm on the fence on this one. Unlike other releases where I actually like them, the implementation of this DX YF-21 is rather disappointing to me, so if I get it, it would just be to collect it. It's at VF-25 v1 levels of disappointment to me. I wish they would have made more effort to have the battroid look good so that it could look good in at least one mode since fighter mode was a lost cause anyway. Those tiny anemic arms just kills it for me. It boggles my mind that they made all that effort to have thick legs, but then completely disregarded another key aspect of the battroid's shape. This DX never skipped leg day, but has never even heard of arm day. Here's to hoping Mr K at Arcadia gets around to revisiting the YF-21.
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    Gah, I think you're right. That is exactly the line art's silhouette. Consider my hopes dashed.
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    I hope that's the silhouette for the actual sample. The bay doors look longer than on the one we've seen so far and the forearms aren't scrawny.
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    Yeah, my biggest gripes too are the extremely short fuselage like the Yamato 1/72 YF-21 and the tiny twiggy arms. At the very least, it should have big beefy Popeye forearms to resemble the Q-Rau. Not the emaciated noodle arms the DX has going on there. I feel like whoever is designing this toy has no love for the YF-21 and what we're getting is the result of that.
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    I've been on the fence on getting some of these joytoy 40k figures as I didn't really want to start another collection, but after happening upon the custodes and Bobby G figures earlier this week, that pushed me over the edge and I had to order them. The sculpting and paint application, especially on the custodes looked great. Well, G man could be better, but I can fix that myself. Hoping The Lion comes out soon.
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    Hopefully if the G does well, then they might consider putting out a B variant.
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    Personally, I'm not too bothered with how it gets to a particular mode as long as the end result is the mode looking right. So far, it's not achieving that and falling way short. I'm still holding out hope that a new prototype wasn't ready to be shown yet so they showed the same old prototype we've already seen for years. I love the YF-21/VF-22 and would like to see Bandai do it justice.
  9. MacrossJunkie
    Yeah that. Sorry, I actually don't really know what's the difference between Hi-Metal and Hi-Metal R. I don't really follow those lines so I'm rather ignorant about them. To be fair, I don't know how much of that 21 proto was supposed to be a parts-former, so it's possible they could only achieve that look through swapping legs and other parts. The old D'stance garage kit/model also achieved very good proportions aside from the neck in fighter mode being too long. I'm disappointed that the Bandai version just looks bad in all modes, like they couldn't decide which mode to focus on and it was designed by committee.
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    Seriously. The only thing good about this is the leg thickness and its placement in battroid mode. Everything else about it seems like a step or two backwards from the Yamato. They had a really nice looking HMR prototype years back. I wish this looked more like that.
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    Saw a post about this on Reddit. Was happy to see it wasn't vaporware and came here excited to see more photos of it and see what revisions they made to it after all this time. Disappointed now that it looks to be the same old thing they trotted out years ago.
  12. MacrossJunkie
    Just opened mine up despite it arriving yesterday. Overall, looks pretty good. I wish the wings locked in position or something. I was surprised and a little disappointed that, despite the size of the ghosts and the price, these ghosts don't feature any landing gear whereas the Lil Drakens did. The super parts for the ghosts snap on and seem to stay in place pretty well. No worries about pieces falling off during handling.
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    Apparently, BigInJapan has them in and the package is heavier than they expected so I got another payment request for additional shipping charges
  14. MacrossJunkie
    Like I said. either the molds or the factories they're using are getting increasingly sh@#$y ... most likely a combination of both. Things don't fit as well or as tightly as the earlier releases due to degradation, but also missing glue, broken parts out of the box, misassembly, missing parts, etc. Now that these are world wide releases, I wonder if they're considering the feedback from customers outside of Japan or if it just goes into the trash, completely ignored.
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    On the upside, I'm saving a lot of money having no new valks to buy for a long while! Seems to suit them just fine to milk molds that are probably past their prime, resulting in toys with increasing numbers of issues. Either that or the factories they're using in China are just getting increasingly worse.
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    I don't have the revival versions, but if their releases with the VF-31AX and Max's YF-29 are any indication, their quality control has seriously suffered. They have had various problems that weren't issues for prior YF-29 and VF-31 releases. I think that is what people are talking about, whether it be degradation of the mold or bad plastic or whatever else.
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    That and the extra tampo markings. It's true though that if you spray a matte finish over top of either of them, it comes out the same in the end. I can also attest to the fact that the new matte finish that the newer stuff came out with does not in fact make the surface any less hydrophobic, so you have to spray very carefully and lightly to prevent any pooling.
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    Yeah, I think you're right. In any case, I think it's shameful that they knew about breakages, delayed the release, and then apparently that time spent didn't seem to resolve anything.
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    My VF-19S broke in practically the same place back in the day. Except I wasn't transforming it when it broke. It was standing in battroid mode in a sealed case and after a week, I found it lying down with the leg having come off on its own. That same peg had seemingly disintegrated because there were crumbled bits of plastic and was impossible to glue back together like that.
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    How the heck are there so many broken pieces? Didn't Arcadia delay the release because they found so many breakages? I recall they had some photos many months ago with a whole table of presumably faulty YF-19s.
  21. MacrossJunkie
    Man, those new supers look practically purple. I was hoping they would re-issue the armored packs at some point, but I'm afraid Bandai will monkey's paw it somehow.
  22. MacrossJunkie
    Still very pricey for a 70 class card. but then so is everything about this generation of cards from both green and red camps.
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    Thankfully, at the very least, the moratorium on the import tariffs that would have made certain pc parts like GPUs, motherboards, and such even more expensive had it expired has been extended further.
  24. MacrossJunkie
    Man, I was so eagerly awaiting the 7900 XTX thinking the performance would be where AMD claimed it would be and with the performance per watt improvement that they claimed. AMD was pretty truthful about the Zen 2 gpus and the Ryzen CPUs so I had no reason to doubt them this time around. Too bad it was nowhere near the 50-70% improvement over the 6950 XT and the the Lovelace chips actually turned out to be more power efficient than the RDNA 3 chips. After finding out what a disappointment the 7900 XTX was, I ended up getting a RTX 4090. No melting cable issues here and I undervolted it so it's drawing much less power while not really losing much performance. Now I'm doubly glad I ended up getting the 4090 as it seems the reference design for the 7900 XTX is having heat issues, which der8auer believes is a problem with the vapor chamber design. Apparently there are far more reports of this issue than the melty connectors for the 4090 ever had.
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    I wouldn't mind the standard color scheme for the 0D like the ones with Shin & Edgar during training in Ep 2.
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