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So this is a question for the materials engineers... Even with the "energy converting armor" and super scifi metal, in battroid mode, wouldn't the pointy spiky bits like the control surfaces on the valkyries come under ridiculous torsion stresses in anything resembling hand to hand combat or being pushed up against a wall or something?
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Fighter camos itself to the pilot's flight suit? "Look, no one's flying this plane!"
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I agree, it looks like a bit of a mess, but more importantly it seems like a nightmare for the toy joints. Or maybe it needs a bunch of those separate braces we all know and love.
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Freaky.
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What are the runes attached to? Hair? Or are they a part of some sort of head tentacle hidden by hair?
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Seriously, I’m on my fourth abortive attempt. One of these days though, I’ll finish it!
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I would kill for a Nothung DX!
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I think the point is that, at least the fighter development aspect is not as implausible as you think it is.
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Yeah I mean it's fine, but not at the expense of floppy wings, which neither Arcadia nor Bandai seemed to able to deal with
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Well you know. That's our real hobby: complaining. Macross is incidental.
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My main thing is I hope they did something about those crap wings in high speed mode. If it were up to me I'd have ditched high speed mode altogether for more sturdy wings, but that ship has probably sailed.
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It's weird, the 31 shows two different battroid pod storage poses in Delta - one where it's completely retracted, and another where it kinda just sits half way on the back. They both seem to serve the same function.
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Oh god is that the v1 VF-25. Forgot how ugly that thing is, especially standing next to all the pretties.
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Re: charger pods on VF-31A's- I like to think they may have some other function or other hardware contained in that housing than just drone charger. It's not infeasible, despite no on-screen evidence. Even the charging thing was only shown once ever.
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Markup is % increase from base price, in this case 21,000JPY, so it's a little above 50%. Source: I'm a supply chain analyst in my day job, as if that's something to be proud of
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The only valk I threw was the Version 1 VF-25S with armor parts. Right against the side of a dumpster. Got so mad at thing.
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I'm sorry who is this character? She looks cool.
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Interesting, but then for what purpose would you want to detach it from the mount?
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What Is the advantage of having the VF-31 gunpod be attachable as a turret, instead of just being held like other valk models? Seems like a lot of wasted space in the weapon container.
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Hmm... Tell us more!
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Actually I'd rather opinions about distributors get their own threads instead of in product threads, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.
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Well I'm schooled
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So... an answer for this probably doesn't exist, other than it looks cool, but: Why do Battle class and Quarter class Macross ships use gunpods ("gun ships") instead of integrated main guns like SDF-1? I would assume having an integrated gun allows a lot more of the main reactor energy to channel to the gun. Also - why do those ships transform?
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This really bugged me too. But I sort of justified it in my head-canon that holding the gunpod allows faster aim but lower power, whereas sticking it on the container makes it sort of an artillery mode with lots of power drawing directly from the fighter's thermonuclear reactors but with poor aim, so the container kinda has a use. Of course this has no basis in any actual source material as far as I know.
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I hope some day they do a more sedate deco of the Hs, I'd be all about it.
