MacrossJunkie

Got mine today from FedEx. My initial impression while handling it is that while it looks gorgeous, the toy overall feels kind of loose. Particularly the outward swing of the arms at the shoulders, hip ball joints, and the ankles. The ankles are particularly problematic by not being stiff enough and makes the toy want to fall backwards when trying to stand it up. Even worse with the supers on. QC continues to slip at Bandai. The ankles, at the very least, have never been a problem for me until now for the VF-25s and YF-29s which use the same parts there. It's also the first time that the entire gun came out of the turret housing when extending it out. I was pulling on the barrel when the whole extending arm of the gun came out fairly easily. It was easy to put back in, but I never had to worry about pulling the whole thing off before.

The base plate should be slid back, yes. The backplate does not click into anything. it's more or less free floating, but I've never had issues with it flopping around.

This. I usually end up taking the pauldrons off the 29 to avoid scratching the finish off them when transforming them and either leaving them off in fighter mode or snapping them back on after everything else is done.

Maybe it's the combination of colors and the shade of blue they chose to use, but I feel like this one looks a lot better than the other 29's, except for Ozma's (after I fixed it to match the game's which it did not look like out of the box). They even managed to get the tampo printing for the crest on the black swing bar for the turret. It's got that deep blue that looks similar to the blue that Yamato used on the VF-19S and F.

The D'stance YF-21 had a pretty good balance of proportions overall. The only issues I had with it was that the neck in fighter mode was just way too long and could have used some covers over the arms. That Hi-metal prototype that was shown years ago also looked pretty good. While I really want a new YF-21 designed to today's standards, I didn't feel like the one they showed early in this thread was it. To me, it didn't look good in any mode. D'stance YF-21 The fighter is still sleek but why this? Hi-Metal prototype. This seems pretty good too. There was a lot of anime magic in the YF-19 also, but both Yamato/Arcadia and Bandai found a good balance and made them look good in all modes. It would be nice if that same sort of engineering skill could be put toward a DX YF-21.

😁 I guess that would still exclude some adults though.

I was just being silly. I assumed it was months as 180/12 = 15 which is much more reasonable than any other option. Still what a weird way to state the recommended age. 😄

I just noticed this on the Amazon page. What does that even mean? The minimum age of the manufacturer before it's allowed to make the toy? The manufacturer's recommended age of the person getting it? What's the 180.0? Seconds? Minutes? Days? Years? The amount of time it takes Usain Bolt to do that many 200m dashes? 😛

February? Must be getting shipped on a giant raft with two people clinging onto the back and paddleboarding it across the Pacific. 😄

At 20 cm, does that make it even bigger than the QF-2200D? My impression was that the QF-2200D was big for a ghost drone, but not as big as that. I don't feel like digging mine out to measure.

Yeah, after they ADD'd and forgot about finishing the rest of the Delta stuff and went to the VF-1's before the shiny new Delta movies brought their attention back and made them forget about finishing the VF-1's 😁

It's unfortunate that things haven't really seemed to improve in the two subsequent releases and that the QC issues that a range of people experience seem to vary quite a bit. Other than the wing pegs that go into the legs, which I fixed myself, everything else on my Hayate pegs in pretty well and I don't have the low hanging arm guns. My Mirage was a bit more of a mess. A part of the right wing was separated out of the box and won't stay together. The arm block that the guns are attached to won't stay pegged-in in fighter mode, The wing pegs still won't stay pegged into the legs. Probably more issues that I'm not thinking of at the moment. They need to tighten the arms more also. They can't hold up the weight of the gunpod... not that I would try to have it held in hand since the shape of the gunpod and the handle doesn't work with the design of the hands and arms and even the fixed pose hand barely works. Even then, it can't physically hold the gun straight because the gunpod and the arm would have to physically occupy the same space. Such a bad gunpod design, but not truly Bandai's fault for that.

Personally, I have been really tempted to get a PF and possibly just sell the standard one I have now due to the current conversion rate of US dollar to yen. I say go for it!

Bandai: 31, eh? Oh look! A shiny new 1/48 VF-1! That was my impression of where things went.

I was assuming at the time that "Mr. Banana Split’s 29" was referring to the anniversary 29 in Roy colors as it was yellow, black, and white like a banana. So I wasn't making the connection there.

Just asking out of curiosity, but why that specific combo?

I think that would be a pretty safe bet. Luca's ghosts and the Lil Drakens all came with stands.

Bandai seems to be very inconsistent with their commitment to symmetry. They double down on it with Kakizaki, but then lose faith in their symmetry god by not making the left leg of the Angel Birds VF-1 spell out "sdriB legnA".

Love those customs @nightmareB4macross. Man, the Yamato 1/48 VF-1 days were like the golden age of customs. There were many good ones back then. I especially liked Kurt's custom VF-1s, which you seem to have managed to get a hold of. Wish people were still doing them, but it seems quite rare to see a new custom in general these days... or I just haven't paid enough attention.

They look cool on their own, but the concept just seem silly to me. Using the ghosts as boosters, but then putting boosters on your boosters. Seriously? Next we'll have gunpods that shoot out smaller gunpods that shoot. 😁

Right now, they're scattered around in various detolfs around the house until I can find a new display cabinet and everything's a mess. This was the last one I had with the cabinet intact from years ago. I had some stuff to the side also, like my SDF-1 and I forget what else. Not only do I need to find a new case, I need to also figure out how to dispose of the old one. With the cost of shipping and gas these days, it will probably cost as much to ship a new display case...

Okay, I lied. Decided to YOLO and transform it anyway.

Happy to know you like it! No, I haven't considered creating a museum space for my collection. Haha. Though I think I need a bigger display cabinet. Well, I need an intact display case, period... Some years ago, one of the front sliding doors shattered into a million pieces from a bit of vibration, sending glass shards all over the room. That was fun...

Finally got around to start doing Delta era valks. Weathered my Hayate VF-31AX. Took a few pics in fighter mode. Will do the other modes later when the clear coat has dried more.

Pics of Alto YF-29 re-issue in all three modes.