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Preview of WF display, looks like we have a VF-1D battroid coming

No new kit announcements for April, but we are getting a few rereleases: 1/48 DYRL VF-1S/A http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/65792/ 1/72 VT-1 http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/7/ 1/72 YF-19 http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/9-2/

That's the kind of thinking that got us the utterly atrocious Bandai YF-19 feet and knee gaps 😛 Articulation and other gimmicks are the enemy of good looking models. The Wave VF-1 Battroid is great because it has the chunky limbs that the Battroid is supposed to have, which was the greatest weak point of Bandai's venture into 1/72 fully transforming VF-1. By focusing on Valk proportions they made the Battroid one of the ugliest things ever extruded. Honestly any designs from the pre-3DCG days shouldn't even attempt multi-mode stuff because as hard as they try there's still plenty of rubber magic and physical inconsistency there to force you to compromise to the point where none of the modes look good if you don't exclusively focus on them.

It's the ancient kit. There's really no reason for Bandai to try and make a 1/100 partsformer VF-1 when Wave has already made a perfect one a decade ago and still regularly re-release it.

Wave did already announce that one at least. Honestly I'd just take any completely new tooling for 2024 besides the Fold Booster. More Battroids would be REALLY great.

Also worth noting they're re-releasing Minmay 2009 with Mikimoto art http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/65787/ Ok but hear me out for 2024 wishlist: 1:48 YF-21 1:48 Macross Plus Weapon set with 2x Fold Boosters and all the Super Parts and missiles for YF-19 and YF-22 Someone on twitter has been posting a cardboard mockup of YF-21 wings to be scratchbuilt on top of a YF-19, so a spite announcement seems about right.

Given how tiny the VF-1 is compared to modern valks, Misa would look like she's riding a moped compared to every else's superbikes :V

Milia's size is roughly in the neighborhood of the various 1/12 waifu model kits out there, so that's nice for potential figure mods

May'n can not handle new Ebata Risa art

Can't wait to smash that pre-order button when it finally goes up. Now the question is...do I get impatient waiting for the PLAMAX Sound Booster and use the old Wave vinyl one? Or wait just enough so that when I do get to the vinyl one PLAMAX will announce theirs to spite me personally?

This is a very late realization but the outfits are based on this M-tama illustration and I'm honestly no longer regretting that I never got around to converting the original VFG release to Walkure like I planned years ago. This is much better.

Those are the minimum factory Walkure. https://twitter.com/MXF_official/status/1707562115312275587

You know, it would be quite hilarious if this Sunrise show is a VFG racing anime instead of a mainline plot show.

seems like it's due next August and teasing there might be a lot more coming for 7's 30th anniversary

Honestly, thank god for non-transforming kits. No need for gimmicks to compromise proportions.

Looks like the 1/72 VF-1 is getting a TV cockpit and pilot and I'm still not done building my 1/20 one. Maybe they'll announce it the minute I start making progress on it again. https://twitter.com/MXF_official/status/1707560795817861421 And a few more Battroid pics

Welp, so much for hunting down those old Wave vinyl kits last year. Now it's gonna come in much more pleasant to work with polystyrene https://twitter.com/MXF_official/status/1707561072566374903

HLJ's "Discontinued" label is notoriously unreliable and is basically never a reflection of what the actual manufacturer states. Hasegawa has shown that their "limited" kits will eventually come back. Speaking of which, something that got buried in all the Queadluun-Rau excitement is that Minmay Guard Battroid is getting a re-release in December http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/65768/