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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
ArchieNov replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Anyone know where I can buy one of these? -
You might be right. Looking at the pic again, there seems to be an obvious difference between the 302 and the Antares markings.
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Yes, the 0D doesn't have much on an ankle tilt. I mentioned that in the 0D thread as one of my issues with it. Basically, I was questioning why they bothered adding the feature to extend the hip joints for a wider stance when the ankles can't even tilt much to stay level on the ground.
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Okay that's better!
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Umm, Arcadia can do it too. They actually did something similar with the 19, and even though it wasn't executed perfectly, they have made an ankle joint extend and pivot more than what they did with the 0D/A/S.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
ArchieNov replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Ah I see. I stand corrected then. But since this is Basara's 19P, it needs them in my eyes. I guess it'll be fine if it was displayed with a different pilot. Again, this is just my personal pet peeve. -
Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
ArchieNov replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
It's the 2nd It bugs me because of the holes on top the shoulders. And those speaker pods are one of the defining features of the 19P. I wouldn't really consider it "optional" since there are no variations of the 19P that don't have them (to my knowledge, I may be wrong). So displaying them without it takes away from its identity. The only reason one may consider them as optional is because they're removable in the toy. I guess the feeling would be similar to someone displaying an Isamu pilot figure riding the VF-4G, or having Ozma's VF-25 wearing Michael's Tornado parts. Yes, the toys allow you to do that but it doesn't look right to me. Well, that's my OC says anyway. It's a personal thing. I just wish someone would be proud displaying the 19P the way it's meant to look. -
That pose really highlights the lack of a decent ankle tilt. Wish they used a different pose instead. Or maybe allow the ankle to extend further down to give it more tilt room when doing extreme poses like this.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
ArchieNov replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
I have yet to see anyone place the speaker pods on their 19P -
Oh, so they decided to throw in the clear canopy after all (even if non-canon).
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I wonder if it's her boobs that he likes about her...
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I think he's just ranting about the acronym itself. We know N.U.N.S. stands for New U.N. Spacy, but to the uninformed the first thing they read is "nuns" and it then becomes a subject of ridicule.
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Now I kinda regret not buying the Ghost Booster when I had the chance
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I wish I had all those YetiStands...
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Hikaru of course! He's done it before in Flashback 2012 haha!
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Nice display! That VF-1S looks dwarfed by the valks around him. Makes him seem like he's a smaller scale hehe. Now you only need to worry about dust
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Yeah I guess. But I just wish they'd let us know soon if it was gonna be delayed rather than let the release date pass us by for us to conclude it was.
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I think you're missing the point... No one was saying Kawamori's approval made something bad or good...
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Is this still releasing at the end of the month? I'm starting to worry it'll be delayed...
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Yup, jenius got it. I don't know about Arcadia not getting Kawamori's stamp of approval. I'd like to assume they did, but I haven't seen any public documentation saying so. If what Graham says about Yamato consulting with Kawamori holds true for Arcadia, then perhaps they did but just didn't mention it in their product notes (unless I missed it).
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
ArchieNov replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
The only 171 that has issues with parts breaking is the CF version. This one, along with the Alto and Maruyama versions, are generally fine. The only area that you may need to take note of is how to twist the knees back when transforming from battroid to fighter. Chronocidal has mentioned this in several posts in the 171CF thread so it's not hard to miss. -
Yup, that's what I meant. That's why I said that he oversaw the proportions. When I said "designer", I wasn't referring to the toy's design but meant the valk's design. So basically, he's the one who has the final say whether something looks right or not compared to his valk's design. We don't know how many times he was consulted, how close he was working with the toy's designers, or how many compromises (if any) were made between the toy's proportions and his valk design (hence why I mentioned his involvement with the toy's design), but the end proportions of the toy should've gotten his final approval. I'm not saying that the toy's proportions are perfect, but it should've been good enough for Kawamori to let them put his name on the toy's product details.
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Yup, that's precisely what I was trying to get across. That's why I categorize the sculpt as subjective because it's really about which one pleases you more aesthetically, rather than saying one is more accurate to the line art than the other. Granted though, Arcadia's sculpt will naturally be under more scrutiny since there's a lot of source material for the YF-19 from Plus. But at the same time, the anime magic at the time also gives it some leeway if it's not 100% similar to what was seen. As for Kawamori, I don't know how one can simply disregard his input since he is the designer. I would liken it to George Lucas. I absolutely hated what he did with the Star Wars prequels and how he destroyed a lot of the lore on the Extended Universe, but since he's the creator his take has to be considered canon. We don't know for certain how much he was involved with the toy design for the VF-19 Advance, but everything since the YF-29 has pretty much been spot on accurate.
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I own both and if one was to rate them objectively (comparison of all pros and cons), Bandai is the clearly the better toy overall. Sculpt alone seems to be the main thing that is influencing most people to prefer the Arcadia (which is fine if you're judging it subjectively and put most weight/emphasis on aesthetic preference). But sculpt is only one category when doing a complete objective assessment. And one thing that should be remembered is that the VF-19Advance is not the YF-19 in Macross Plus. Yes they look similar, but the only official images of the VF-19Advance (movie, magazines?) are too scarce so one cannot truly say if the VF-19Advance is line/screen accurate or not. All we know is that Kawamori himself has overseen the proportions, so it should have had his approval.
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I'd normally agree with this statement. But after seeing how people here reacted to the VF-27 Renewal, wouldn't they hate calling it a v3 because it was mostly the same mold as before with just a few fixes/enhancements here and there? It would probably be called a v2.5 or something. Honestly, I never did quite understand the hate on the VF-27 Renewal. It basically gave us all the things we were asking for after the first YF-29 or VF-25 Renewal came out (updated shoulders, hips, ankles, articulated hands, included stand, super pack) plus more (extra tampo, clear canopy, no need for partial transformation to attach gunpod). But in spite of that, people were calling it a v1.5 (which I think is understating what it is). IMO, the first VF-27 was already a v1.5 because it was a vast improvement over the v1 VF-25. The additional revisions they made brought it much closer to the v2 VF-25.