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    Arcadia YF-19 coming in 2014

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    The release date shows around the end of March according to AmiAmi, Nippon-Yasan and folks that have translated updates from Arcadia.

    On Sale in a few months? Wouldn't count on it.

    -b.

    I don't think even the ever so available VF-1 went on sale before they sold out, other than that controversial VF-1J circus theme. The last YF-19 release was 4 years ago and this is the first update. If it goes on sale i will be really concerned about the future of that VF-0D !

    DX Chogokin VF-171 Cannon Fodder

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    I'm glad I never jumped on one of these, I've seen the CF 171 going for dirt cheap all over the internet too. I almost wanted one for fighter alone, but I just can't own a valk and live with the inability to transform it at least a couple of times, that's a damn shame too, I love the 17 and 171 designs. With all the paint schemes Bandai shits out, is there any chance we may get another variant sometime in the future, or at least a renewal or re-release of the 171s?

    To be honest for the price i don't mind having it as a fighter only figure! Although i did buy it full price on release. If it cost 30,000YEN - such as a VT-1 now - it'd be a different story. Hopefully an RVF-171 will be made with new materials!

    Alter Super Sylph FFR-31 mr/d

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    Not that i will have much joy, but does anyone own this but would rather have $250 exclus. shipping and paypal fees?

    Otherwise can someone in Japan go find Alter's re-issues manager and tell him that i'm looking for it? :wub:

    1/60 VF-1J 30th Anniversary

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    Because it's the truth? Those re-dos of Thrust and company look terrible in airplane mode. The wings are too small, the fuselage is very boxy and unaerodynamic, and I'm willing to bet their undersides have a good amount of robot pieces/parts peeking out.

    Look at a Yamato/Arcadia Valkyrie, or a Bandai Renewal Messiah, and you'll see the difference. Wings are proportional, the fuselage has had a tremendous effort made to be streamlined, and the robot parts are, as much as possible, folded away or hidden.

    That's because the goals of the designs are different. Valkyrie toys are generally designed to look best in fighter mode and to match lineart as closely as possible, to the possible detriment of durability, ease of transformation, and cost.

    TF's are designed to look best in robot mode, are designed to be a bit more durable, and are cheaper, probably in no small part due to fewer parts that need to be made and screwed together on the assembly line, and wider distribution.

    The markets for TF's and Valks overlap, I'd say, but they are by no means congruent.

    I was being a bit ironic. :p Obviously i agreed too and those deluxe coneheads probably have the least sophisticated transformation ever! You just push everything in!

    1/60 VF-1J 30th Anniversary

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    Yeah..I can't argue that there are some nice car transformers... but, where aircraft are concerned, valks are aircraft that turn into robots, while transformers tend to be something like a kid robot on halloween who pastes cardboard airplane parts all over his body, and tries to pass himself off as something that could potentially fly.

    Why would you say this?

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    1/60 VF-1J 30th Anniversary

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    Thanks, you're a real sweetheart. Not.

    I'm sorry, but Hasbro or 3rd party developers spoiled me giving me 10inch figures with much more complex transformations for 2-4 times less money than what is asked for Valkyries. For the prices Valks are going, I can buy a buttload of official toys or a 3rd party TF combiner. Coming from TF community foremost, justifying buying a Valk for prices they're going now is not posible.

    To be fair it's only a handful of people who do not moan about how easy it is to break TF masterpieces. If we do not take the weak shoulder Yamatos into account, you can mess with the rest quite a bit without worrying. I have transformed MP-9 and MP-11 and with both the ratchet joints were a nightmare, as were those swing joints that had to be pressed upwards or downwards when they were supposed to rotate only, as were all those steps that asked you to hold parts in place by tension - the YF-21 does have a few of the above but somehow felt safer. Personally i'd rather pay more money for something more durable, even if it means getting a loose joint here and there.

    1/60 Yamato VF-4G Web-Exclusive Toy

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    I am kinda in the same boat, but my question is will they?

    Wouldn't it be a bit irrational of them to re-issue the very same variant when they can bring in a whole load more orders if they make a Hikaru version this time? But that cannot possibly be before 2016 if 2015 belongs to the VF-0D. Until then Arcadia may be called something else. :-P

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