CoreyD

Whats that?

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/?showtopic=32369

Are they resurrecting the britai softbrai figure?

Didn't some of the regults in the macross 30 game have that shark mouth too?

I'LL TAKE IT

I actually want the SAP version more than anything, but I had a non-cancellable order with Anime Export for the Sylvie version. Would have lost my regult order if I bailed, so now I'm stuck waiting for the stand-alone pack...assuming that actually happens at some point.

The scout pod is what I'm really waiting for.

Thanks folks. I was hoping for a lead on the Epoch figure, since it's hard to beat the 300 yen price vs the figma cost. I'll check it out though.

I saw these Epoch figures over on TagHobby and they looked pretty cool. I figured maybe I could use it as a base to build into a meltran or zentran figure for my Hi Metal R valks?

Unfortunately, my rudimentary searches didn't find anything. Does anyone out with with a better working knowledge of Japanese see a place to order/preorder these figures?

http://tinyurl.com/zs9l27w

Thanks!

Likely

Need that

Yeah except in most cases technology demonstrators like the YF-19 would never get that dirty to begin with.

I really hope they'll offer the sap on its own, but it probably won't happen

CDJ for the win. Thanks everyone.

I'm hoping to only get one if I can!

Oh man, I used to love Rifts.

I'm a bit of a retrogrouch, but I finally watched this. I really liked seeing the Zentradi again, but overall, not into it.

It definitely isn't his weakest, i think that'd be Jackie Brown, but it plays more like a whodunnit type film rather than a western.

Saw it in 70mm, which was absolutely gorgeous, but yeah, the dialogue does drag on and on for three hours until the climactic finale.

... and there's also the possibility that any refit will be even more of an eyesore than the current JJ-Prise.

Holy cow, look at this leaked refit concept art!

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--a8XQhw7q--/18lsjl7zu3nqljpg.jpg

jk

Fair enough. Admittedly, I know very little about mass manufacturing, but it stood to reason that the poor QC issues Mr. K. talked about could easily spill over to manufacturing tolerances as well. Point taken.

I wonder how much of that is due to manufacturing tolerances at the plant?

I watched this. Pretty much the only interesting part was the footage of Cage in the test costumes, most of which has already been circulating the Internet. The rest was ok, but not worth a full length documentary.

Oh its definitely tracked, which is why I know it's at the isc center. It's just that it hasn't moved since the 20th.

I'm usually pretty patient if I use slow shipping, but I elected for ems shipping this time, so it's like urrghh...

So ah, what's the longest anyone in the US has waited for an international item to clear the USPS ISC center? Currently, I've been waiting on one of my Hi-Metal R's to clear ISC New York since the 20th of Nov. At what point do I start wondering if it got lost?

I guess you're right, that isn't really QC at that point. Quality Control is just the final verification of manufacture at the plant. I got that wrong.

Regardless, I'd like to add that Arcadia has reissued three VF-1's and the VF-19 plus they've released the YF-19 based heavily around the VF series. Save for the continued problem with the ankles on the 19 series and the dumb move to not have a locking swing bar on the YF-19, none of their other releases (especially those that are specifically re-releases) have had any sort of massive failure or quality issue. There's zero reason to assume because of problems with the 0's that the VF-4 will be some disintegrating POS given the original didn't have any issues and it's just a lot of bucket-on-head panic.

I can't help but think that the bizarre half plastic/half metal hybrid design of the VF0 hips was a reaction to the call for tighter joints.

Could someone who has one, measure the tailfins? I'd like to know exactly how big they are, for planning decals etc to use. 1/72 F-14 vs 1/48 F-18 markings, etc. Would like to know height, front-to back at both top and bottom, and front-to-leading-edge-of rudder at top and bottom.

I used 1/72 decals on mine.