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  1. David Hingtgen
    Mech Invasion's Hook and Long Haul are SO good, but making Mixmaster an arm, and a conventional truck instead of a cabover, is a deal-killer. It's like they're trying so hard to be both G1 and Bayverse at the same time. Long Haul being clearly a Bayverse dump truck instead of G1 isn't that big a deal IMHO--still forms the lower torso, and it's still a generally similar-looking type of dump truck. But Mixmaster is so clearly neither the G1 position nor type of truck. And it doesn't even look good as an arm, it looks terrible. Maybe if they'd made an awesome-looking arm mode out of that cement mixer, I might possibly be convinced. And Scrapper just has a terrible bot mode with shovel-feet. (and is also now an arm...) If they redid it with the same torso bots, but made the legs legs and the arms arms, as they should be---I'd be all-in.
  2. David Hingtgen
    Buyee is a proxy service that makes it much easier for people not living in Japan, to source from Japanese auction sites and sellers. I use "From Japan" myself. They act as middle-men, that purchase and receive the goods within Japan on your behalf, who then ship to you. You are 20x more likely to find the parts you need on a dedicated Japanese auction site/shop, than you are on Ebay etc. But many of such shops will not ship internationally, thus the need for a proxy agent within Japan that they will ship to.
  3. David Hingtgen
    If they do Grace's in a proper olive-brownish-green, I'll likely have to buy it...
  4. David Hingtgen
    Kinda sucks for everyone who already bought the recent revival with Super packs, or still have the previous renewal but no Tornado pack? I'd probably buy a separate Tornado pack--but no way I'm buying a whole 'nother -25F just to get the Tornado parts... 2 "combo packs" in a row seems ridiculous for the same exact base valk.
  5. David Hingtgen
    And make it just a BIT darker, it's awfully pale. (but I feel Bandai's is TOO dark/tan)
  6. David Hingtgen
    I too am curious about matte-coating the armor pack, since I now have a revival -25, and the sheen difference is pretty extreme. My main concern about various coatings is durability.
  7. David Hingtgen
    I'll probably pick up Sulu if it turns out well, I'm a huge Excelsior fan.
  8. David Hingtgen
    You know, if they do Dr Brahms, they could easily re-tool for Captain Benteen. Might be enough to make producing her worthwhile.
  9. David Hingtgen
    The new Deluxe Prime is the first I'll buy in years. ROUND FUEL TANKS. Makes truck mode 10x better. I really, really hate the 'flat' tanks so prevalent nowadays---so unrealistic and clearly "not how a transforming Freightliner would look". Look at how simply and elegantly the Netflix one dealt with "round tanks as a truck, but not as a robot".
  10. David Hingtgen
    Reminds me of the days of multi-disc CD games, where you needed to have a pile of spare cases, because the discs were nearly impossible to get back in safely/scratch-free from whatever they had rigged up to hold them inside at the factory "that wasn't anything like the normal way"---because it was panic-inducing just getting them out the first time. (that, and when it was trendy to make the part actually holding the disc clear--which meant half the teeth would shatter within the first 1 or 2 uses due to brittleness)
  11. David Hingtgen
    If you're gonna repaint it, fix the inverted chest stripes while you're at it... (the #1 reason I don't own the DX -19, might be the chest stripes--bug the HECK out of me)
  12. David Hingtgen
    Flightsuit Makina? Moderately interested, if not SD. (though something like that would be totally out of their normal range I think). Sv-262 with drones? Much more their thing, if not SD/eggplane.
  13. David Hingtgen
    Is it possible that they simply don't currently offer the particular metal that was originally used? I see quite a few metal options overall still, so surely some parts they allow in metal? (thinking maybe it's time I try the mod on mine, too---I remember the thread/mod from back when, but was too chicken to try opening the wings up). But after years of "being mildly irritated by them", maybe it's time to go for it. And if it breaks---same as Graham, an excuse to get the PF version...
  14. David Hingtgen
    I would need to mix so many elements from different -19's over the years to create the "perfect" YF-19 toy... Every once in a while, I consider a newer -19, and keep waffling over "is Bandai's really better OVERALL?" "What aspects are truly most important to me?" And then I end up just sticking with my first-batch Arcadia, with its loose wing hinges...
  15. David Hingtgen
    That implies it wasn't always?
  16. David Hingtgen
    So, trying to find every moment we see a fold booster in Frontier thanks to the above posts, I'm trying to nail down the color----when we see the one being mounted on Michael's -25G, it looks quite red---not PURE red like Hikaru/Alto red stripes, but pretty red. But pretty much every other appearance of that model (mainly on Brera's), it looks more "coral" in coloring. I don't think it's an intentional change, just "inconsistency". "By numbers" it appears coral way more often than it appears red---but "by quality"---we see it clear, well-lit, and well-animated up close when it's red---we never get a *really* good look while it's on Brera's. Always in the background, or obscured by the -27's afterburners, at night, etc. Thoughts on the 'real' color of that model of fold booster? (all I know for sure is that it's not mauve, like the Bandai DX rendition of it)
  17. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, don't buy PC parts from Amazon, they don't check at all---I've gotten "new" parts with brown dirt and crud on them...
  18. David Hingtgen
    Ok, specifically the "standard Frontier booster" we see the -25 use:
  19. David Hingtgen
    Oh wow, I was wondering who was necro'ing the thread this many years later! Having watched pretty much every "main" fansub of Frontier at the time, I'm certain I've seen your work, and greatly appreciate it---I still hold Frontier as the the best series in the franchise, and the availability+quality+speed of the subs back in the day certainly helped----it was the first anime I ever watched where it was "only slightly after the original broadcast" and the sense of community of "we all watched the show together" was like nothing this forum had had before.
  20. David Hingtgen
    Trying to avoid freeze-framing the entire series to check and not trusting my memory: Did we ever actually see a VF-27 using the fold booster?
  21. David Hingtgen
    It'll be the Batman Forever one just to mess with people.
  22. David Hingtgen
    I was very interested in retro Gears until I saw it was $25, and also remembered that mold's alt-mode. $25 is a lot for a minibot that I don't like what it turns into. (despite being a moderately big Gears fan). Still, cheaper than 3P...
  23. David Hingtgen
    Still been waiting a QUARTER-CENTURY for a VFX-2 Ravens colors one: (only ever got to play the demo in the US, but it was fun while it lasted----and the -11 was the main valk on the demo disc)
  24. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, I would like super parts, but not going to buy Brera's just for them (and they don't match anyways). Waited years hoping just maybe they'd make them a Tamashii exclusive or something... I at least have the fold booster from the original, so I can attach "something" extra.
  25. David Hingtgen
    "the glitter on the electromagnetic shield of the canopy is thinner" ---tempted to get one just to swap out the canopy on Mirage's, hers is the most opaque of all. Maybe if it gets super cheap some day...
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