Graham
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I wonder if a lot of Japanese Macross fans are complaining about the DX VF-17S design?
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Yet to actually take the Moshow out of the box and play with it.😅 But, so far I'd say the Sentinel.
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My current Mospeada collection. The oldest thing in the collection is the Mospeada art book on the right of the book pic. The toys are are all recent-ish purchases during the last 3 months, to get some modern Mospeada toys back in my collection.😅 Over the decades , I've owned the old Gakken Legioss and ride armour toys, the Beagle, some Aoshimas and CMs, but they are all long gone, either traded away, given away or thrown away in the case of the Aoshimas.
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I don't mind if the DX VF-17S lacks the gunpod internal storage/ejection gimmick. I just want the toy to: Be slightly beefier in Battroid mode, especially the lower legs. Have all the correct panel lines according to the VF-17 lineart. At the moment, the legs, backplate and shoulders are completely wrong detailwise. Resculpt the head to get of that raised cowling at the top of the head. Get rid of the hardpoints on the wings. Adjust the crotch peice in batroid mode so that it points down instead of being angled forward.
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Now, back to our regular Hasegawa content. 😅
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Big Mad Max fan here.
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This looks awesome, even unpainted. I have zero painting skills so I might actually pick this up as it looks so good.
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Don't have high hopes for this, but will probably still go to see it.
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Looked into Tubi, as hadn't heard of it. Unfortunately it's not available in my country. Will try later using a VPN.
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Yeah, I'm interested to watch it. I watched a couple of episodes back when it first came out but never finshed it. I didn't even know there were English novels. Will have to check if they are available fior KIndle.
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Finally, can understand the issue. Thank you. Still not gonna check and swap mine though, even if they have the problem.
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In my headcanon, I will treat this as a very early development test version of the VF-171 that still used some VF-17 parts, before the VF-171 design had been completely finalised. And it had been assigned to Diamond Force for flight testing. 😅
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My VF-27 Revival will likely stay permanently in Fighter mode, so no plans to check the shoulders on mine.😅
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Is Yukikaze on any streaming service?
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M7 mecha size comparison.
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At a bare minimum I hope Bandai may consider the folloing changes before releasing the 1/60 DX VF-17S, to make it slightly more acceptable: Shoulder armour resculpted to add the VF-17's characteristic twin micro missile launchers, which were priminantly featured in the anime Complete leg resulpt to get rid of the VF-171's leg micro missile launchers, add the VF-17's gunpod port, make the legs slightly more chonky and add correct panel lines. Make the crotch piece in Battroid mode angle straight down instead of forward. Beef up the arms as much as possible. Remove the hard points from the wings (VF-17 never used external hard points). The above is probably just wishful thinking and may not even be possible. To be honest, being a huge VF-17 fan I'd prefer a clean sheet of paper design, rather than them basing it on the VF-171 toy, but I'm enough of a realist to know that is not likely to happen, given the VF-17 is not a fan favourite design. Hopefully one day we get a better VF-17 sculpt in from either the HMR line or the HG Shortcut Change model kit line.
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For further comparison of the VF-17S vs the VF-171, here's the 'detall-up' VF-17 lineart showing full panel lines and other details. IIRC, these pics were first seen in the "Macross 7 Animation Materials" book, published in 1995. Credit to macross2.net for the pic, saves me having to scan the page from my book. 😅 Interestingly, despite their simplified transformation and limited articulation, the old Bandai 1/65 scale VF-17D/S toys from the 90s actually feature most of the panel lines from the detail-up lineart. There is so much detail difference and proportional difference between the VF-17 and the VF-171. You just cannot use VF-171 legs and most other parts of a VF-171 and call it a VF-17......sigh. Being a huge VF-17 fan, the more I look at the Bandai DX photos, the more depressed I get.
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I think that no matter how good BRV AAM missiles get, there will still always be a need for dogfighting capability, due to rules of engagement limitations. Just because you have the capability to shoot someting down at BRV range, doesn't necessarily mean the politicians in charge are always going to allow it and there may be cases where visual ID is required, so a robust WVR / dogfighting capability may still be needed. Even if it's only maybe needed 1 time out of 100, I feel it's still better to keep guns and the capability to dogfight.
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New swag just arrived.😊
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Just picked up my two and quickly unboxed one. Looks great.
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Just received the Genesis Breaker book from CD Japan. 😊
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I hope Bandai get enough complaints about this that they consider changes. Honestly, I can't believe they are being this lazy.
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It's shocking how much better proprtioned the Yamato looks, especially in Battroid and Gerwalk modes. I was originally thinking to order 2pcs of the Bandai DX VF-17S, but now I think I'll just get1pc and keep it in fighter mode. Unless Bandai significantly reworks the sculpt between now and release.
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The 1/65 VF-17D/S is still one of my favorite Macross toys.
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I'm hoping that Bandai will make some last minute changes to the DX VF-17S to make it a bit more lineart accurate, but I'm not holding out much hope.
