Graham

DYRL is my all time favorite anime movie and all time favorite Macross anime, so I'm really looking forward to getting this release.

Damaged head lasers aside, the other things that really annoy me about the Bandai DX YF-21 and spoil my enjoyment of the toy are:

1. The too short nose in fighter mode.
2.  Excessive and IMO ugly tampo printing, especially all those additional stripes that were never in the anime or line art. They just really bug me for some reason.
3. Incorrect front of canopy sculpt, it's missing that V cut out from the line art.
4. The huge shelf behind the head in battroid mode.
5. The silly removable clip.
6. the shit quality of the FAST packs.

Just pre-ordered.

Definitely ordering this.

I'm still hoping we eventually get an HMR VF-17D/S & VF-11C/D / VF-11C Armored.  I would be really excited to see Bandai's take on the VF-17 and VF-11.

To be honest, I'd much rather have those than the proposed VF-17T and VF-11MAXL.

VF-17D/S and VF-11C are among my all time favorite VF designs.

And waiting for news of release of VF-19S/F/P HMR which should be a no brainer to milk the mold.

Ohhh......a new Fire Bomber single!!!!!!

Cant wait.

Bomba!!!!

It's not perfect, but I have to say I really enjoyed Alien Romulus. It's definitely my 3rd favorite Alien movie, after of course Alien and Aliens.

I've watched it twice at the theatre, the first time in IMAX. In fact, I'm considering to watch it a third time, again in IMAX.

Picked up my 2 HMR VF-19 Kai yesterday.

Only taken one out of the box so far and not transformed it ye, but have played with it a bit in battroid mode and really happy with it so far.

The toy shop I pre-ordered it from said it's arriving today. ☺️

Can't wait.

I really hope Bandai milks the mold and gives us HMR VF-19S/F/P.

Just spent money on tools for repair...... Sigh.

17 hours ago, Duymon said:

I also broke mine when I was turning the head. Luckily some drilling with a 1mm bit on a pin vise and a paperclip and krazy glue later it's stronger than factory XD

I'll be trying this soon. Just need to pick up a 1mm drill bit.

On 8/2/2024 at 3:02 PM, no3Ljm said:

From Facebook. Better check also the head's sensor. Said it was purchased from Luna Park.

I just broke my head sensor in that exact same place, trying to get it into the correct position for fighter mode. 😭 

My fault for not being careful or patient enough and not studying it enough first.

I swear I hardly used any force though and it just snapped while I was trying to turn it.

On 7/28/2024 at 7:08 AM, MisaForever said:

Some of us who are as old as dirt, and grew up with anime before subtitles for them even existed, learned to figure out what was going on in the shows without knowing Japanese. It was just something that you came to understand after watching enough RAW anime VHS tapes back in the day. Therefore, while some dubs may be good (Cowboy Bebop, etc.) I prefer subs since I'm so used to hearing the Japanese language.

Exactly, that's how I watched anime back in my teens and 20s, either on bootleg raw Japanese VHS tapes with no subs or on Japanese Laserdiscs with no subs, from the rental stores here at the time back in the 80s.

Honestly, I don't think I've every watched any anime dubbed. I mean I've tried, but never made it more than a few minutes into any dub.

19 hours ago, seti88 said:

Seeing the superO again in a big box brings back sweet memories of the good old superO boxart...

...from @jenius site

memories hit hard. 

One of the best Macross box art ever!

So far here in Hong Kong, Disney+ has added the 3 Frontier movies & the 2 Delta movies on 12th July.

The Frontier TV series and Delta TV series were just added a day or two ago.

Still no sign of Macross 7 TV series though😭

On 7/15/2024 at 6:10 PM, ArchieNov said:

Sorry, couldn't edit my previous post anymore. But wanted to add this reference pic taken from anymoon.com to show what I was talking about with the VF-17

Th Bandai 1/65 VF-17D/S are still one of my all-time favorite Macross toys.  I've always loved Macross 7 TV series and the VF-17 design. Gamlin was my favorite character.

The Bandai VF-17 toy is super rugged, even more so in my experience than the 1/55 VF-1 Chunky Monkey . I own about 10 Bandai VF-17  since they were first released in what 1995 and I have yet to have one ever break, despite the fact that they are all plastic with no diecast parts. Even with my son throwing them across the room when he was a child, they didn't break.

They are super quick and fun to transform and actually look surprisingly good in all modes, apart from the fighter mode side profile which is too thick. (look great from top down view in fighter mode though). Only other downside is he terrible landing gear.

I was actually really disappointed with the Yamato VF-17 toy. I really felt it didn't capture the spirit of the VF-17 very well.

Sorry for the sidetrack away from the Bandai YF-21 DX.

It's great that they give us a spare for the Super Pack antenna.

Available on Disney+ here in Hong Kong from today.☺️

What happened to the VF-5000?

Is it vaporware?

On 3/23/2024 at 7:32 PM, lechuck said:

I'll certainly watch this, but to be honest the whole Zeon view point certainly dampens my excitement.

I just can't bring up enough sympathy for that side to care, it's also why 0080 doesn't rank so high with me.

0080 is probably my all-time favourite UC era  OVA.

As a huge fan of DYRL and the VT-1 I'm super excited for this DX 1/48 release.

Makes me think back to my days in the early-to-mid 90s of trying to track down the Bandai 1/55 VT-1 and really regretting not snagging it when I saw it in a shop in Hong Kong in 86 or 87.

7 hours ago, treatment said:

https://x.com/febrral/status/1808526405585825972

web-translated:

 

The antenna is easily removable.

Will take and post pics later.....mine only have a slight bend, so not as extreme as some of the other cases posted.

As mentioned I can live with it.

So, all 3 of my Bandai DX YF-21 have a very slightly bent (but not broken) head laser. About 5 to 10 degrees of bend at the tip and a slight white stress mark. I'll live with it I guess......I mean it's not like I have choice.

It would have been so simple for Bandai to completely avoid this problem by shipping the toys with the head laser unattached, as they did with the thrust vectoring panels, but whatever.

And I'm sure it would have not seriously hurt Bandai's profit margin to have included a spare head laser..........but again, whatever!

And yeah, the nose on fighter still looks too short to me. 

Also, there's an opening air brake on the dorsal spine, that I didn't know about previously. Nice gimmick.