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11 hours ago, Roy's Blues said:

I picked one up. Still have not transformed it yet. Has there been an announcement on the FP release?

Nope. Deathly silence from Bandai. I'm not gonna hold my breath waiting for these.

My feeling is, if Bandai had planned to release the FP's they would have released them together with the Bogue SV-262Hs, following the trend of recent releases which are bundled together with the FPs, Such as Hayate's  VF-31J Super, Alto's VF-25F Super, Michael's VF-25G Super, Alto's VF-25F Tornado, Alto's VF-171EX, the recent Brera VF-27 Super.

Hmm.....me thinks, I better check my 2x VF-11B and 1x VF-11C to see if that hinge has cracked.

Also need:

• DX VF-31AX Arad and Chuck.
• VF-171 Frontier and Delta Cannon Fodder color versions.

Just about a third of the way though episode 2.

There's a few things bug me, some of which have been mentioned by others already.

• No attempt by Earth's military shown to stop the ship crashing / shoot it down / divert it's course etc. Yes, the ship had to crash to move the story forward, but at least they could have had a short scene referencing this.
• No evacuation warning shown being given to the population of Bangkok. I'm sure the ship was being tracked and the approximate crash site would have been known.
• The crashed ship doing increadibly little damage to the city and the building it crashed into.
• Bangkok having almost no traffic, yeah, no.
• The Prodigy soldiers were supposed to be on a rescue mission, but were not carrying any sort of rescue gear, not even ropes.  Were they supposed to be rescuing survivors with their rifles? 🤣

15 hours ago, tekering said:

 

...and Houquet requires a new face AND a total repaint.

 

 

I think if anything, Yellow is the one most in need of a new face scupt.

On 7/1/2025 at 4:51 PM, Chronocidal said:

Honestly.. that's so dumb I kind of really want it.  

Same. 😅

I ordered directly from Pose+. Had to pay in full up front, but including shipping was only USD 440. 

but as I'm in Hong Kong and I guess it's gonna be shipping from mainland China, shipping was only about 10 bucks.

Got my Pose+ pre-ordered. Can't wait.

On 7/18/2025 at 9:52 PM, guyxxed said:

I actually agree with that sentiment, and it's what led me to start playing around with what a NUNS version of the VF-25 might look like.  I get the idea that a screen full of "hero" valks is visually confusing, but I think the way Delta handled it with differently colored versions for protagonists vs cannon fodder was more than adequate.  And, like you say, the original did just fine with everyone in the same plane.

That's awesome. I would 100% buy a DX of that.

That's not the DX VF-31 toy.

You can tell by comparing the shape of the hinges on the tail fins and the canards.

I'm pretty sure it's the Bandai 1/72 scale model kit.

Just received mine, but no time to take it out of the box yet as I'm at the office.

I've actually been looking forward to this release, as I love the look of the VF-25 with Tornado Packs in fighter mode.

Unfortunately, I no longer have the previous release Tornado Packs, so it's good to get them again.

Seems Bandai have really toned down the Tampo printed markings for this one, which is actually fine for the Fire Valk IMO.

But, if they later release a DX VF-19S and VF-19F, I'm actually hoping for a bit more Tampo printing.

My supplier said he's getting this in today.

But I've no time to pick it up until next Monday.

Never had this issue with any of my DX VF-31 toys.

I'm guessing that one was assembled on a Friday afternoon and the factory worker was running out of glue. 😱

Anybody heard any news about when the Macross II game will be released?

Halfway through watching episode 4 and can already feel myself losing interest in this show.

Just received this at work, so only had time to glance through it. 

Seems to be an awesome book though.

I'm gonna buy 2 or 3.

Love Mac 7 mechs.

It's a bit sad to hear people say they will pass on this and wait for a DX VF-19F, S or P.

I know the VF-19 Kai has always been a contentious design and Basara a polarising character.

Things is, if everybody thinks that way and not enough people buy the DX Fire Valk, then it lowers the chance of Bandai releasing variations in the future.

So, if you can financially afford, it and you at least like the Fire Valk design even a little, then I hope you consider to buy one, to increase the chance of us getting a DX VF-19F/S/P.

I found the first episode enjoyable and will probably carry on watching.

But I don't see myself ever buying any of the toys or models from this show. I personally find the MS designs extremely unattractive.

So happy that the HMR VF-19P is coming with a GU-15 gunpod, instead of a re-colored Speaker Pod Launcher or even worse, no gunpod.

But even though I recently re-watched Dynamite 7 on D+, I can't remember if we actually saw the VF-19P with a gunpod. Will have to have a look again.

With all this discussion about Macross M3, I'd like to ask is there any new information on the giant insectoid biological weapons that appear in the game?

After Macross Frontier was released, I've always wondered if the insectoid biological weapons in M3 were in anyway related to or developed from the Vajra.

Will be getting this on PS5.

Interesting.

2 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

 

If I had to guess, I'd assume they're something akin to the SPP-8 mass driver pod from Master File.  Essentially, a missile that has a volleygun-like multi-barrel railgun in place of an explosive warhead.  It gets close to the enemy, and then it lets rip at short range with a huge spray of high-velocity projectiles like the mother of all shotguns.  This "MRV missile" seems to be made to hit evasive targets, saturating a wide area with missile-launched projectiles instead of a narrow cone ahead of the missile.

That makes the most sense.

Just curious, as I haven't seen anybody mention these MRVs in any online discussion about weapons in Macross before.

I guess re-color of the reaction missile render saves animation budget.

And from an in-universe standpoint, Delta Squadron couldn't use reaction missiles inside Windermere's atmosphere, so if the movie script called for a larger wing-mounted missile to be fired rather than the internal micro-missiles, then Kawamori had to come up with a different type of missile to use.