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.

I wouldn't mind the standard color scheme for the 0D like the ones with Shin & Edgar during training in Ep 2.

I think it would be hilarious if they started making landing gear out of hard white plastic, but then painted them gray or silver.

Holy crap, you're right! Haha I didn't recognize it because it was all fragmented with other stuff mixed in.

Agreed and the green wasn't even uniformly consistent.

It looks very close. Great job, particularly considering how much harder it is to match metallics, imo.

Oh nice. You put the double stripes on the non-centered head lasers too and even managed to get the curved line on the circular part. The whole thing looks great with the extra decaling. 👍

The mold looks good, but they made the same mistake Arcadia did with their original VF-0D release regarding the color and later fixed with the premium finish edition. It's too dark and saturated.

They must have put this sticker sheet together at the last minute because that news was from October 26th. Nvm, 26th of last year.

They changed it from the original release. The text makes no sense at all.

Yeah, I would say zero chance. They don't even bother making the stuff that does show up, much less things that never do 😛 Also, there's not even any art of it in the booklet that came with the Zettai Live blu-ray. It shows all 5 with supers on, but only Hayate, Mirage, Chuck, and Bogue 31's have armors in the booklet. So maybe with the supers, but no armor for Arad. Would have to get one of the other 31AX armor sets and paint the accent color to match his supers if an Arad version is desired.

Makes me wish Bandai had made some Cheyenne II destroids.

I'm sure it's mostly this. At the very least, Yamato had shown they were capable of of making waterslide decals. They included them with the kit versions of the VF-1 and SDF-1 which had to be essentially built like a model which is for a more specific subset of the fanbase. Also decals are more delicate than stickers. That said, the stickers look like crap, especially if you just peel them off as is and apply them without trimming the clear parts away. It wouldn't kill them to include both stickers and decals so people at least have the option. OR just sell them separately if they want to be greedy about it and let them be available through online stores like HLJ, Anime-Export, etc. I'm already paying $12-20 for 3rd party decals sheets when available, but that's just it... "when available" and they often aren't for most things. Give us the frickin' option, Arcadia! I like your stuff, but knowing there's no waterslide decal alternative to those crappy stickers makes it harder to want to buy your non-premium finish editions (if there is even a premium finish version available).

The card said it was a reference model and that they were considering both DX and HMR versions. It seemed to imply they wanted to have something for M7's 30th anniversary in 2024, So I wouldn't necessarily say it's not coming out. Just that a DX VF-19 Kai might come out.

The DX version does look like it has the mechanisms of the DX YF-19 from what little I can see of it. It doesn't have the chunky wing hinge and has similar folds and flaps on the top as the DX YF-19 has.

It also has the fatter intake lip that the YamArcadia VF/YF-19 have as well as the groove in the gullet below the cockpit for you to wedge a fingernail into which is not present on the Bandai VF/YF-19's. Hmm, the hinge connecting the wing to the leg is also identical to the YamArcadia implementations compared to the Bandai VF/YF-19. The HMR really does seem like a downscaled Yamato VF-19 Kai after looking at it more closely.

I like both the Arcadia and Bandai YF-19. However, I do feel the Bandai one edges out the Arcadia one, because of the tampo printing (although a bit too much. Two steps forward, one step back...), the lack of a deep groove in the inner thigh (I hated how the Arcadia version required separate pieces to cover that groove), how the space on the inner side of the legs for the arms to fit into the leg is covered up nicely, lack of gap in fighter mode at the knees, integrated neck cover built into the shield (makes it actually perfect transformation), and included heavy weapons attachment which was a nice extra. Also the ankles were not floppy like the Arcadia. The Arcadia wins with regard to how the wings fit better with the FAST packs on and doesn't have that stupid tab sticking out like on the Bandai. The official photos with the supers on were basically false advertising. IMO, the Bandai one was executed better overall. However, based on what we were shown of the Bandai YF-21 so far, I have to say that the over-14-years-old toy from Yamato is superior to what Bandai was able to come up with. If we can't have something that's great in fighter and battroid modes, I'd prefer something that at least excels in one mode instead of something that compromises greatly on and looks mediocre/bad in both (yes, I've left out GERWALK simply because it's a mix of the other two modes. If it's bad in the other two modes, worrying about GERWALK is a moot point). It's sad since I've been wanting a new YF-21 made to modern standards. My hopes were high after what they were able to pull off with the VF-19 Adv/YF-19... Here's to hoping that Arcadia can pull off a great revision to the YF-21... and put out a premium finish for it because I'm so done with stickers and having no perfect waterslide decal alternatives.

No idea about any ties to NY, but I had my pre-order with them for the Max 29 and got it without any issues.

I have two 171 CFs. One in fighter mode that has the broken triangle and one in battroid which didn't at the time. I'm too afraid to check. It's basically Schrodinger's triangle. I don't know the outcome until I partially transform it to see, which I likely never will.

That's plain awful. I moan about the shipping costs being up to $60, but I'm thankful I don't have to deal with customs and duties on top of that. Rising fuel costs and high inflation really sucks.

I would love if they actually improved the mold a bit too. The super and green one was basically a v1.5 with an improved hip/crotch, using the renewal VF-25 mechanism. But it still lacked the detail and refinement that the renewals had like panel lines and such, which they tried to compensate for by way overdoing the tampo printing, plastering random markings and stuff everywhere.

It kind of looks like it will. The dark shapes behind the clear pieces look like they could be LEDs. Even if they aren't lights, I hope they leave it easy to disassemble to allow for modding. Is it me or do the side panels on the leg in that pic look removable? Like... say... for a city?

I think the only one that came close to that color was the FP version of the Yamato 1/72 YF-21?

I just edited my post. Check the first link.

They're from many years ago, so I doubt it. However, you have better options now as you can go to ebay or other places and get some 1/60 waterslide decals for the VF-1 and they should work just fine. Something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/392912244406?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=JBPAMr0eQYi&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Avoid this though. https://www.ebay.com/itm/132263930355?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=eQq8BKGURZ2&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY The No Step actually say "NO STLP"