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1 hour ago, RedComet said:

Here's a question I have had kicking around my head for a while, and this is as good a place as any to ask it I figure. I collected MP transformers for a while but that world is just lousy with knockoffs of varying quality. It made it difficult to get an MP TF from anyone except maybe a forum member with a sterling reputation. My question is this, with what Bandai DX figures (overall, not even just Macross) sell for, why haven't there been knockoffs?!? Don't get me wrong, I am GLAD there don't seem to be any as that's a huge headache for most collectors. But what is it that makes the difference? Are transformers just an order of magnitude more popular? Does Bandai just have really aggressive lawyers that Takara lacks? Any info, or even wild conspiracies would be great 

TFs are hot in China. Molten hot. Macross isn't that hot. So the market for KO Macross' isn't to profitable for KOers. 

As for legit MP Tfs, go the JP way from you know where mentioned here a bouts (Jungle Planet, etc etc).

Avoid ebay like a plague!

3 minutes ago, RedComet said:

April 2020 from Nin-Nin Games, I think they are Japan Based, but it's my first time using them.

Been reading general JP updates related to the beerbug and if accurate, Manda too has openned all their branches. Unless there is something the JP media aren't telling (same with Manda) or their shipments from China may have met delays.

I'm going for the latter. (I know how much sucktitude it cost me for my own country's customs delays which might also have something to do with the beerbug )

5 hours ago, RedComet said:

I'm jealous! I pre-ordered missiles from Nin-Nin back in April and haven't seen any change to the order status at all 

And I paid for FedEx/DHL FWIW

April 2019 or April 2020? And was the company you ordered from JP based or otherwise? JUst getting the general situation. All of my orders are JP based and sent via DHL. The delays came from my local Customs clearance.

Another lucky break! Just waiting for the shipping cost.

Got held up in customs for a week. The box is slightly crunched hence the Y9K cost 

3 hours ago, Lolicon said:

I got a DX 1J that was missing an articulated hand, and when I inquired through HLJ about just getting a replacement hand, they said Bandai doesn't provide any replacement parts.

That's Bandai for you. They'll screw up the QC and then refuse to provide any customer support for their screw-ups.

Waaaaaaait! I got Hobbysearch to replace my Gridman Actibuilder set's missing helmet. Actibuilder is another branch of Bandai through Megahouse. Also got amiami to replace a chipped lip alternate face of my Takara MP BeastConvoy. HLJ was just lazy for all you know.

So since it is officially on the way

Shipped!

11 hours ago, borgified said:

From Manda correct or somewhere else? At least you have a copy of the DX Missile set.  

Manda.

Updated (gonna ship tonight I guess)

Snagged the missiles set for Y9K. Waiting for the DHL cost computation. At least my DYRL is no longer nekid!

2 hours ago, sqidd said:

I wasn't able to locate that part or what video. Can you link me/time stamp? I want to see how this thing works. I've alreday thought that I may make that plastic "hip joiner" out of aluminum or stainless (probably aluminum) and "lockable". I'd be more inclined to make it if I had lets say a ton of people that wanted them too. Larger runs are always a lot more cost effective.

It's in his youtube video Hikaru VF1J. I only use his instructions when transforming anything Macross.

10 hours ago, kkx said:

I believe it is to allow the waist to rotate.

Yup. Anymoon mentioned that option in his videos (I used his video as a guide to transform)

22 hours ago, RedComet said:

Yes, pilot helmets (the only difference for DYRL) are getting painted yellow this weekend, but I didn't want to hold up the photo shoot for that haha  If you want a TV roy colored pilot, you might have to do it yourself haha

 

I mean this in a very deferential way but...........................you are one batsheez crazy mad skillz modeller to even attempt this on such a rare/hard to find and very expensive figure evah!

Mine, Yamato preowned, flops at the thighs whn I shake him a bit suspended  above a flat surface. And those two boobs of his, it's removable? Again, in my sample. And the pegs that locks to his ""autogun"/weapon's handle is like a pain to  mount on. It also has a seam line in the middle of it's mouth guard.

Mech design appearance wise, yup! Pretty badazz!

2 hours ago, jenius said:

Hell no.

Yamato sucked huh?

I hope this is the right thread but for those who own both Arcadia and Yamato VF-0S, is the Arcadia just as floppy as the Yamato?

3 hours ago, Focslain said:

I wonder if they adapted this to the games? I tend to flip modes quickly in Delta Scramble so haven't noticed a difference. It would be an interesting mechanic if added.

4 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Not a pinpoint barrier... energy conversion armor is a technology that's used on all VFs to compensate for their armor being comparatively thin in order to keep their weight down for flight.  It's a system that uses a special layered, laminated armor material that becomes more resistant to damage when it's charged with electromagnetic pulses.  That system draws a LOT of power, though, so VFs are forced to trade off engine output for armor strength depending on mode.  Normally, the energy conversion armor is turned off in Fighter mode so a VF can exert all of its reactor output producing thrust to fly, it's turned on at partial power in GERWALK mode where demands for raw engine thrust are diminished, and full power for Battroid mode where thrust requirements are lowest.

On the VF-0, the energy conversion armor made Fighter mode a fair bit tougher than the average fighter plane, GERWALK mode was as durable as a well-armored attack helicopter, and Battroid mode was as tough as a main battle tank.

This way, a VF that has armor only a fraction of the thickness of a Destroid's can acquire similar defensive ability.

The VB-6 Konig Monster in Macross Frontier was an improved type that uses a next-generation energy conversion armor technology that boasts defensive capabilities rivaling the armor of a heavy cruiser-class space warship when operating at maximum potential.  It's even more Tonka-tough than the already incredibly durable VFs in common use (which are themselves several times as durable as the VF-1, which was by all accounts at least three times the toughness of a main battle tank).

It's broadly similar to technologies like Star Trek: Enterprise's polarized hull plating, Gundam SEED's phase shift armor, and Gundam 00's structural GN fields.

8 hours ago, sketchley said:

Erm... Pinpoint Barrier equipped Monster Destroids show up in the game "Macross M3".  The Energy Conversion Armour that Seito's referring to is different.  Instead of only protecting a couple of small areas, it makes ALL of the armour stronger.

8 hours ago, sketchley said:

Let's not forget the very first appearance of the Konig Monster: the VF-X2 game, where it is a playable VF (rotates slow as hell...)

 

As for the VB-6 and Invid... I recommend you take a look at the opening animation for the VF-X2 game.  It shows how it deals with pesky tanks... it steps on them!  LOL

(the VB-6 stuff starts at around 1:10.  But you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't watch from the start! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GZIWmxMoJk )

 

You guys are such a big help! Thanks! Way better than those wikias! All the more adding to the mythos of the mech's pure awesomeness!  I also saw what it did to the tank.........OUCH! 

5 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Well, welcome!

 

Dunno where you read that, because that's actually not true... they did actually render all three modes for Macross Frontier, though the Destroid mode puts in only one brief appearance in the final episode of the TV series.  It's at 19:16 in the episode, where SMS's VB-6 is shown defending Island-1 during its landing on the Vajra planet.  We see it transform at around 18:36, after it shot Battle Galaxy full in the face with four thermonuclear reaction warheads.  It was also animated in the trailer for the second Macross Frontier movie, though that was an ultimately unused variant that has some big damn rotary cannons (reused CG models off the Cheyenne II destroid) on its arms.

Konig Monster fans did at least get some recompense when Macross 30: Voices Across the Galaxy made the Konig Monster one of its playable VFs.

 

Setting any weaponry from Macross up against the Inbit from Genesis Climber MOSPEADA - AKA the Invid from Robotech - would be a level of overkill that crosses the line twice and ends up feeling like bullying.  The Inbit/Invid are so lightly armored that, even in the native MOSPEADA setting, their mecha can be easily destroyed by weapons little more powerful than modern man-portable rocket-propelled grenades and anti-materiel rifles.  A 30mm rotary cannon like the A-10A Thunderbolt II's (or the trio of 'em carried by the AB-01 TLEAD AKA "Beta Fighter") is itself comical overkill against an enemy like that, and the VF-1's GU-11A gunpod is something on the order of 7 times as powerful.  The Konig Monster has the firepower to flatten cities.

(Never mind that the SMS/NUNS upgraded Konig Monster from the late 2050s and 2060s has advanced energy conversion armor that would make it difficult for the Inbit/Invid to do much more than scuff up the paint and annoy the pilot.)

 

Yeah, all 5th Generation VFs have linear actuator technology.  The VF-31 and Sv-262 are 5th Gen.

Over kill huh? 

So the destroid mode did show up! Epic!  Also a wtf on the V6, it comes with its own pin point barrier system?! Talk about 

Latecomer and the search engine sent me here. 

I recently acquired, after almost a decade a Dx Chogokin Koenig Monster. (3rd version olive green). I first heard of it back in my PSOne VFX2 and I mistakenly thought based on  the game article of it that it was the Space War One Monster (stupid author back then).  I thought, WOW! Why didn't they render it back then to transform. Later I would learn they were two different  mechs and the rest is history.

HMR released the Monster which I immediately got but it was the Space War One version. Non transforming. Kind of disappointed then I opened the box and it was like Sheer awesomeness. It really was a Monster!

I then got lucky a few weeks ago and scored a loose but near mint Bandai Koenig V6 ver3 color DX Chogokin. Again, it was like   . So awesome! (I was targeting the 1/100  Yamato but reviews of Scorched Earth Toys was less than stellar).

Then I read the Destroid form was never used in the anime. Too bad! If it was rendered as such, the battles would have been awesome! Even in the 0-G environment, I doubt it would be that maneuverable but it would have been  epic to see it stomp heads!

Just imagine having it go against the Invid ( I know different franchise)...........

10 minutes ago, Navtek said:

Yep. I have been using DHL since the cutoff on the 24th of April. Was EMS still accepting in some locations into May? 

Those were April due deliveries. Arrived May 5 via EMS and still no movement. Post May, like my Fastpack and Destroid Monster, I used DHL.

12 minutes ago, jenius said:

Daym! VF1-S already awesome but looks so naked without the fastpacks!

10 minutes ago, RedComet said:

Not in Battroid mode but here’s the other two

This too! 

5 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

THAT IS AWESOME! Now the hunt continues! Thanks! 

10 minutes ago, Navtek said:

For anyone with items trapped in EMS jail right now, I just my last package start moving today that has been sitting since April 18th. 

Mine since May 5. Couple of TF stuff. Should have used DHL.

Anyone have an image of the DYRL Hikaru with both fastpack and missiles attached ala DYRL?