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VF-31D boxart

On 7/4/2019 at 11:14 AM, VF25-F said:

Pix from the Booklet sold at the Crossover Concert (not all the pages)

Man, I'd love to have nice high-res scans of all that artwork. Seems a pretty massive amount of Macross official art is restricted to fan event promo material and never compiled into artbooks for broader consumption.

Honestly I just want them to release those decals separately so that I can use them on the Aoshima VFGs....

In other news

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10626406

Twitter replies are going about as well as you'd expect
 

Soooooooo is Tatsunoko just doing this out of spite?

If it was about money surely it would have been more profitable to cut out the HG middleman

Wait, so they put the plot explanation for the VF Girls into the Kawamori Expo limited edition kit manual? Am I getting that right?

43 minutes ago, kajnrig said:

Okay, so it's confirmed then that these really are just the nose cones, right?

No. Why would they suddenly switch to that?

These are rough 3D prints with zero information aside from IN DEVELOPMENT plaques, but that's pretty much exactly how the VF-1 development cycle went. The only difference so far is VF-1 started with a cardboard cutout silhouette before proceeding to a very rough 3D print of the nosecone some months later and more and more 3D prints for a ~2 year period.

So don't bother preparing your wallets until 2021.

D is 200 more yen than the original A and comes with extra foot pedal parts for tandem riding in Gerwalk mode, since the whole thing is inspired by the VF-1D two-seater.

Dengeki has pics of the massive display of noses and Mirage prototype: https://hobby.dengeki.com/event/755747/

From Dengeki's report on Aoshima: https://hobby.dengeki.com/event/753380/

It seems they'v only printed the noses so far and stuck them onto clear plastic sheets

3D printed, painted prototypes at Shizuoka:

6 minutes ago, AN/ALQ128 said:

No VF-0A or Sv.51? Seems like Zero aint all that popular over in Japan.

VF-0A and Sv-51 indeed did not place even in top 50. VF-0S is 26th and the only one in Mecha from Zero.

Zero did however come in 11th overall in the Anime voting.

Looking through the complete listings now on the website linked by Tochiro a few posts up.

Flower Girl from Macross 7 came in at #30, higher than Reina, Sharon Apple, Ozma, Hayate and Milia

Gigil came in at #49. Listen to his song!

Overall anime top 10 ranking:

1. Macross Frontier TV

2. DYRL

3. Macross 7

4. Macross F Sayonara no Tsubasa

5. SDF Macross TV

6. Macross Delta

7. Macross Plus

8. Macross Plus Movie Edition

9. Macross Delta Gekijoun no Walkure

10. Macross Dynamite 7

Gender and age statistics:

29 minutes ago, geck said:

The real question: 

Will they include decals in the fighter kit???

No. The website listing only specifies stickers (ステッカー付属).

It's worth noting the PLAMAX decals come out at the end of August, so it'll be a bit of a wait. There's also quite a few people on Japanese twitter asking why the decals need all the striping when they could have made a minimalist set for those that mask the large areas. They've still left the door wide open for non-Skull Squadron decals. If you're like me an Atrial who're doing TV versions of the kit, the PLAMAX DYRL sets aren't that useful. Not enough numbers for 202 and 303, wrong color warning labels for Milia, etc. I'm sure there'll be the inevitable madman who want VF-1D decals :P

It's also been mentioned that the Super/Strike Valkyrie will be packaged exactly the same as the Gerwalk, so overall same price and shipping rates.

Also announced release date and price for Super/Strike Valk. September of the year and 36,852 yen

Weapon pack is also September and 7,000 yen

LOL

Max Factory has just announced water slide decals. One 3,000 yen set, and a DX 6,000 yen set. Only DYRL version though.

That looks great for the minimalist Focker set. Are extra pilot names and number going to be a separate set based on demand?
 

1 hour ago, Duymon said:

quick question. anyone have both a vf-31 and vf-1ex?

wanna know if you can fit a vf-31 pilot fig. into the resin vf-1ex pit. 

if so I may have to pick up a vf-31 for some resin-casting hehe

For me half the reason for getting the VF-31A was getting the pilot runner to use for my VF-1EX. A little bit of work is necessary but overall the pilot should fit. The resin seat has these inner side pillows and they come down to a minimum of 3.6mm. The pilot's thighs are max 4.6mm wide. So my plan is just removing 0.25mm from each surface and everything should hopefully fit.

The super shiny boxart really makes me want to get the kits, but I'm just not sure I'll get through all the Hasegawa kits I already have, let alone these ones.