MacrossJunkie
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Mine's been displayed in a display cabinet since practically the day I got it years ago and there's no yellowing on mine either. Even my 1/48 Yamato VF-1s are fine. I haven't had anything get discolored aside from the good ole Urkel pants v1 RVF-25 and VF-25G which, given the circumstances of how everything else is fine, I am attributing to bad batches of plastic used.
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24 minutes ago, Saburo said:
I am up for a PO madness night, but I haven't been in one for a while too.
It has been a while for me too. I don't think there was really anything for me to get this past year. Nothing new in the DX line aside from the VF-1s which I'm all tapped out on. Everything else has been re-issues, HMR, or other stuff. I guess they don't plan on finishing the Delta movie stuff. Arcadia hasn't released much of anything either, as far as I know. My wallet got a big breather thanks to that though.
This will be the first new thing I'll be getting. As for the PO madness, at least I can be not so stressed, knowing that there will be a worldwide release in case I don't get a JP preorder.
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21 hours ago, Reïvaj said:
For what I understand, there will be a replacement canopy, they've been announcing this for a while:
What the heck are the "Joint parts for Battroid"?
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4 hours ago, cheemingwan1234 said:
Okay, they gave us a swappable seat, but not a cover for the inside of the cockpit for battroid mode. Fun. I mean, if they want to they can do it with how the cockpit is designed.
I'm surprised they didn't include some sort of little swing over heatshield cover on the inside of the cockpit given that they like doing little gimmicks like that.
Also, it's clear they were trying to duplicate this
but they somehow really interpreted the canopy shape wrong and made it way rounded off. In the illustration, you can still see that the canopy should still end up having two points to match the frame.
The Hasegawa model also has that highlighted detail, but the canopy shape is correct there. This annoys me that this got past everyone involved in designing this toy despite going to the lengths of looking at illustrations like the above...
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1 hour ago, no3Ljm said:
Hopefully the plastic are all blue and not painted. That way, it's not going to be a big challenge to repaint the blue if ever we made mistake on removing the tampo prints.
So far, it looks like the base plastic is blue and areas like the gray on the lower leg are painted, but with Bandai, I suppose you never know (*cough* Ozma VF-25 *cough*).
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5 hours ago, Reïvaj said:
On the contrary, I could leave some of the lettering, but all that striping... In fighter mode, it looks like it wears a kilt:
That does look pretty hideous to me. I would strip it all off on the bottom except for the yellow stripe that goes around the engine nozzles. I'm not a fan of the yellow stripes and the 21 on the intake covers either. It's just too much.
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On 12/25/2023 at 2:10 AM, Big s said:
I don’t know if it’s the added color or just the angle, but the arms have a thicker look now. There’s a few minor details that are off, but so far it looks really great. If it weren’t so expensive I’d definitely buy at least one, but I’ll settle for the hg kit.
I think it's just the way it's posed and the angle of the shot. The upper arms still look super skinny to me, but the forearms look thicker here because you're getting a 3/4 view seeing the top and side at the same time.
I think if I get this, fighter mode will be displayed without FAST packs and the battroid with FP since it hides the too-short bay doors.
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1 hour ago, locidm said:
Was the Ivanov one ever reissued?
Yes, I believe so, with the feet issue corrected too.
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I hope they consider re-releasing the 171 NM+ but with fixes to the plastic so that the black triangles and joints don't explode. I have two, one that's intact (knock on wood) in battroid and the other in fighter which had a crumbly shoulder. I'm afraid to transform the one that was intact when I last left it because it's like Schrödinger's Valkyrie. It simultaneously exists in states of unbroken and broken until a transformation is attempted and it resolves itself to one of the two states.
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I don't get why they've done reissues on both SV-51s but something like the 0S has not had one (that I know of anyway) since the release of the premium finish version. I would love to get another one (premium or not) to put in the reactive armor.
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1 hour ago, MKT said:
I actually quite like the ejection pod, even though it doesn't do too much haha. I appreciate Yamato managed to take care of tolerances so it's very flush and doesn't interrupt the lines around the cockpit area.
As far as my 11B and C go, in fighter mode, that pod never sat solidly locked in place. It was very fiddly and would wobble out of place if you accidentally touched it. In my opinion, it was a gimmick that was a slight detriment to the toy, just as the delimiter mode was for the Yamato YF-21. I'd be fine with the pod, if it could lock solidly into place in fighter though. But there's no point even debating it since it's not even a thing yet until Bandai says otherwise 😛
Speaking of detriments for the sake of gimmicks, I hope the attachment for the legs for Bandai's 21 isn't as flimsy as the T-bar attachment is for the 1/48 VF-1 or that the arms don't simply fall off while trying to pose it...
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1 hour ago, MKT said:
That would be better
Thunderbolt FP can then be released with the Ghost X-9
Don't give them any cockamamie ideas! I could totally see them doing something like that.
Would love to have a new VF-11B though. One with properly sized tail fins and better articulation. I could also do without the janky ejection pod.
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I never liked the YF-21's FAST packs anyway, so I would keep them off. However, I wish they would have made this area (in green) more flush.
I dislike that it sticks down like that and that there's even a gap above it.
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10 hours ago, Shawn said:
oh.....so I'm the only one that uses Chogokin gloves?
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I didn't know that was a thing. Do they leave white lint on what you handle or are they lintless?
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2 hours ago, Lolicon said:
@Anasazi37 made a decal set for it. Used it to make my own "premium finish" version awhile back. That was a lot of tiny decals!
Yeah, by the time I asked if there were any left, there weren't any. I was too late to the party =(
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50 minutes ago, Lolicon said:
This is what transformation looks like in Gundam.
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1 hour ago, Duymon said:
so I assume we're getting the YF-21 full set first, and then 3 years later they'll release the barebones version for 1000 yen less?
Three years later, after inflation, it will probably cost the same as the full set did 😛
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17 hours ago, Lolicon said:
The PF VF-4A is a great piece for those who don't have the time or wherewithal to panel wash and decal up the regular edition (and it's a lot of work for sure!).
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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8 hours ago, no3Ljm said:
We can hope that it is, right?
But then if you look closely at the silhouette’s backpack, that is now too short compared to the figure sample that was shown for months/years. Unless ofcourse, that’s the lineart’s silhouette (as shown below along with Fire Valkyrie) or it is indeed a new prototype sample.
Gah, I think you're right. That is exactly the line art's silhouette. Consider my hopes dashed.
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On 10/19/2023 at 8:15 AM, MKT said:
Announcement to show off the prototype yet again. But safe to say it will be released next year to coincide with Mac+ 30th anniversary.
https://tamashiiweb.com/item_character/macross_series/?wovn=en
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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13 hours ago, Graham-Is-Back said:
Any VF-5000 toy is welcome, but I'd personally prefer a VF-5000B, rather than a VF-5000G.
Hopefully if the G does well, then they might consider putting out a B variant.
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I am wondering that as well. Practically everything I have has a clear coat on it except for most of the Delta valks.
That's interesting that two of the same valks stored in the same way have entirely different results. Lends credibility to the theory about some batches of plastic being bad or something.