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  1. Scyla
    Maybe Bandai lets the DX Chogokin license for the Frontier Valkyries go after the milked it try and the new show comes out. Good to know that CAD-data exists for these so whoever picks the license up will be able to produce a product quite fast. *cough Arcadia cough* Wishful thinking.
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    ...and gets painted black with teal high-lights and renamed into Scourge. In AoE he has already a sword instead of an axe. Anyhow does the movie explain how Optimus got his sword and shield or does he just have them. A simple yes or no would be enough since I haven't seen the movie yet.
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    Well it is not really unpleasant when you know exactly what to do and how everything works imho. Expecially when the joints are not terribly stiff after a few transformations. It is actually a pretty cool transformation. The only thing I don't like is the trapdoor that hides the canopy from under the head turret.
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    Just watched the Moviebob review and he thinks it is the best of the four so I might call some friends and watch it this week to see for my self. However I recognize that my money will encourage Holywood and Bay to make more movies...
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    When does the preorder period for the RVF-171 ends?
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    Sorry I can't link images at the moment but if you do a google image search for "Koenig Monster landing gear" it should be the first image that pops up from robotjapan.com. It was also posted in the old VF-6 Koenig Monster thread here on MW.
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    I think the women from the SMS squadron should all come from a pure Meltrandi fleet that have never seen a man before flying VF-11MAXL inspired Valkyries.
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    I don't know. The underside is straight up terrible. Why can't any 3rd party company make a cool transforming jet that looks like a plain. I don't want them to rip off Macross but something new and original that isn't a robot hanging on the underside of a plane shell.
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    I always take the shoulder paultrons off before transforming my VF-171 because I have the feeling that rotating the shoulders around 270 degrees and try to align everything in Fighter-Mode causes too much stress at the black triangles.
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    Well HasTak could buy the rub signs from Reprolables and put them on their products.
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    For me it was never a question to buy MP-22 or Citizen Stack. If there is an official Takara product in the Transformers toy line I collect I will go for it and ignoring any unofficial product. I would love to see Masterpieces of the Feralcons, Dinobots and Stunticons but it is unlikely (i.e.is not cost covering). I think no company will go into direct competition with HasTak yet. FT canceled their Masterpiece scale Soundwave clone and I also agree with Silverstreak that KFC would've never release their car carrier had they knew that Takara is developing a MP Ultra Magnus with an all-in-one transformation. However I think companies get more daring as time goes by and HasTak does nothing so maybe someday they need to draw a line and shut this down. I however will still have my MMC Warper (best 3rd party toy in my collection) to swoosh around.
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    Too bad they didn't have the small stand that supported the nose of the first Koenig Monster prototype so we can have the: will it stand without support discussion all over again.
  13. Scyla
    [edit: ] What jenius said! Ok you should check out http://www.anymoon.com which has a list of most of the Bandai releases. Keep in mind that there are two lines of Bandai Macross Frontier Valkyries that are from the DX Chogokin line. The version 1 (V1) Valkyries are from when Macross Frontier aired and are pretty terrible compared with the new releases that are called Renewals. The easiest way to determine them is by packaging. The renewals have a white background where the V1s have a blackish one. On the website I linked earlier you can also see some comparisons of the box and the toys itself. There are also videos linked to transformations, reviews and comparisons. The V1 Valkyries from Frontier are cheap to get and are maybe only worthwhile when displaying them in Fighter-Mode. Their Battroid- and especially the Gerwalk-Mode are lacking. The Renewals on the other hand are pretty good and exceed the V1 in every way. The renewals are pretty hard to get (read they are expensive) if you want a specific release (like say Ozmas VF-25S) others are less expensive like the cannon fodder VF-25A. Most of the add-on (Super and Armored Parts) sets where web shop exclusives (i.e. even a more limited release) and are also expensive depending on the Valkyrie or are packaged with the Valkyrie as a bundle (only the Super VF-27) Bandai has now started to release every color variant of the main Frontier Valkyrie and reissued the main hero variant the VF-25F. This scheme will probably continue until the new series comes out to cash in all the money. Almost all the Renewal Valkyries sell for over MSRP (which is 14400 Yen) so if you find a toy for less than that it is either a V1, a broken Renewal toy or a 1/72 scale transformable model-kit (or you are really really lucky). So if you buy one from the second market make sure you exactly know what you are looking at. Good hunting.
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    In addition you need space for the hip joint which is more problematic than the Gerwalk-joint. [edit:] I think the way the VF-19 hip joints where designed was the major reason not to include removable intake cover.
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    You obviously have played too much Zone of the Enders.
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    It can't be as bad as Revenge of the Fallen right?
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    Ok so I might be terribly wrong but the first images show the Koenig Monster in a greenish color (more like the Yamato release) now this image he look more brownish like the previous version. The picture in the first post show two Koenig Monsters with different colors. At first glance I thought that this was to compare the new release with the old one. But now it seems like that there are two color variants with the same nose art. Maybe I'm colorblind and don't know it yet.
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    Can you share any specifics?
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    So they are releasing two color variants one from the movie and one from the show? I missed that completely. Are both versions gonna be a web shop exclusive?
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    So it was in development even before the listings of Ultra Magnus appeared?
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    If you look at this picture posted earlier posted in this thread you can see that the RVF-171 has not a full set of Armor parts. Since it has the same base color than Altos and the Armor Parts don't have a highlight color I would say that the add-on set for the VF-171EX would fist best. On the other hand you can see in the picture that the Valkyrie is equipped with missiles you would need to paint the red highlights on the wings green to get fitting wings. Since every release so far got/will get their add-on set I'm sure Bandai won't miss out on this one. I don't know if it would come with drones because I can't remember Luca having them in the show.
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    I'm sure KFC would've never released Citizen Stack if they had known that MP-22 will be a all in one transformation. Unit they revealed the Ultra Magnus prototype it was set in stone that MP Magnus will be a white Convoy with add on armor that forms the trailer. Of course people now try to justify the purchase of stack because they invested a good junk of money on it but I think most Transformers collectors will go for a HasTak toy rather than a 3rd party one if they have the chance. I would simply because 3rd party manufacturers mostly don't get the head right.
  23. Scyla
    True, but some countries have a huge amount of inapt lawyers that track down people who download media from the Internet through torrents and sue them with copyright infringements. So the preferred way to watch movies/shows is streaming because this is not violating the copyright.
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    Depending on where you are this is definitely the preferred way of doing stuff.
  25. Scyla
    Well it had no landing gear, no cockpit and iirc some of the joints in the arms where prone of developing stress marks. Has someone a confirmation that this release will be different in any way engineering wise?
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