GLaw

Can anyone tell me if this is the reissued VF-1S but with new packaging?

Just in case, any of you has missed watching the following pictures of my 1/60 scale VF-1S Hikaru custom (Weathering Special Edition) which I have bought at expensive price three weeks ago. I have also pre-ordered the weathered version of super and strike parts which will be released in November.

Hey, guys, allow me to share with you the following pictures of my 1/60 scale VF-1S Hikaru custom (Weathering Special Edition) which I just got this week.

Recently I got a tornado and I frigging love it. I mean it looks like a ship from a shooter game or something. Anyways, I am having a little bit of trouble with the stand. Basically, everytime I put the plane on the stand it falls to the rear. It turns out that the peg that inserts under the fuselage has no friction to hold it into place. I tried putting small piece of tape on the peg but they just come of after a while. Is there any secure way to fix this problem>?

That happened to mine as well. Therefore, I rather to have it displayed in Gerwalk mode instead.

Truly speaking, I am not a real die-hard collector of Macross fighters. The other day when I was cleaning up my room, I came to realise that I have 5 units of DX Chogokin VF-25F Messiah fighters. Am I crazy or something? They are displayed with different weapons and in different modes as follows:

1) Battroid mode with super parts(movie version)

2) Fighter mode with super parts (Tamashii's exclusive version)

3) Battroid mode with armor parts (Tamashii's exclusive version)

4) Battroid mode with Tonardo Pack

5) Gerwalk mode with Tonardo Pack

I can't imagine how much more I would spend if Bandai will release an improved version which is more anime-accurate with better design of head and landing gears in near future just like Yamato did for the original Macross series? What if another upgrade version of it will be released in conjuction with the second instalment of the movie that has never been appeared in TV series? What if the ending story of the movie were inspired from the original DYRL movie whereby Hikaru would take over the position of deceased Roy Focker to pilot VF-1S, so in this case, Alto's took over Ozma's position to fly VF-25S but with the same body paint as VF-25F ie, white, red and black? You know what I am saying right?

Still not getting excited about this at all. If we didn’t already have two excellent representations of the VF-1 from Yamato (1/48 & V2 1/60), maybe I could muster more enthusiasm. But as it is, there’s nothing I see here that makes we want to buy yet another VF-1 in yet another scale.

On the other hand I can’t wait to buy the Hi-Metal VF-19S, as it’s one of my favorite VFs that has never had a decent toy made of it before (sorry, the old 1/65 doesn’t count as decent in my book).

Hi-Metals of VFs that have never previously had a good toy representation, I will buy. Hi-Metals of VFs that already have excellent toy of them made, I will likely pass. I wonder how many people feel the same.

Graham

I feel the same too. Obviously this is not 100% fully transformable. I feel annoyed when transforming it in any mode with swapping parts. it looks too plain as it does not have labels as many as Yamato's 1/60 version.

Actually, I signed up for the Paypal Billing Agreement, so everything is basically automatic for me. In any case, since their order confirmation email just arrived today, and was titled Paypal Free Shipping, I think I'm safe.

BTW, I haven't noticed the two boxes you mentioned. What's that about?

If not mistaken, once you ticked the PayPal as your preferred payment mode, you still need to tick another one for Paypal billing agreement parked right under Paypal which may seem not noticeable easily.

WTF?! That is so friggin' messed up! I bought a VF-0A and a VF-1J Hikaru (my first ever 2-item purchase from HLJ) from them at about the same time--thankfully, the order confirmation came with "Paypal Free Shipping" on the email title. Can I breathe a little easier now?

Damn, shouldn't they keep with the announced closure date instead of pulling the carpet from under your feet like that?! "Allotted stock", indeed....

Just wondering if you were aware that there is another little box for you to tick under Paypal method. ie. you need to tick two little boxes under Paypal during check-out. If you overlooked it, you could write in and explain to HLJ. I am sure they would be happy to accept your reason and amend it for you as I experienced the same thing like this last year.