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    Oh well I should have played Armored Core ab bit but all I did was pop part two in my PS2 and was terribly bored by it. Maybe I should give it one more try.
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    Well the VF-27 can split his beam gun-pod to allow the front landing gear to swing out which is line-art accurate if my mind serves me correctly. If you look at this picture There are two slots in the missile bay. I assume that you can attach the gun-pod handle into these slots. Maybe on the image in your post it is attached to the forward slot.
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    I assume that the standard weapon bay resembles the missile rack of the Reguld Light Missile Carrier: Maybe a second weapon bay resembles the Heavy Missile Carrier: So maybe the Chronos is a hybrid of a Valkyrie and a Reguld much like the YF-21/VF-22 is a hybrid of a Valkyrie and a Queadluun-Rau. So there is already one idea for Bandai to design an additional weapon upgrade set. Images courtesy of the Macross Mecha Manual (http://www.macross2.net/m3/m3.html)
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    If this is true than we only have to wait for eight more years. Not bad.
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    The stuff with the triangles really puzzles me. It is a non issue on Altos VF-171EX so it seems. So what went wrong with the cannon fodder? Oh and I transform mine never with the shoulder pauldrons on.
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    Yeah your right but compared to the triangles they are pretty minor.... ....and I forgot about them.
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    Now that we have clearer pics I start wondering what is wrong with the head. In my mind UM looks like this I usually give Takara a lot of credit when it comes to their face sculpts but if it stays that way they didn't got right on MP-22. Some guys over at TFW2005 did some digibashes and colored him up. The storso is still wrong in my opinion but I think the shoulder stacks look good now.
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    What happened with the end of month release schedule? I assume NY will send out their invoices soon.
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    The only part of the VF-171CF that was prone of breaking where the small black triangles in the shoulder assembly. They where the same as on the VF-171EX so Bandai maybe gotten a bad batch of plastic for those. Other than that I don't remember that it had other issues like loose joints. I think someone commented on the VF-171 that the joints where frighteningly stiff and I can second that because the hips on mine are very stiff. Maybe the paint rubbing but that is present on all Bandai Frontier Valkyries. However it is nearly as bad as on the V1 Messiahs and mostly due to bad design desiccations like painting the top of the nosecone of the Valkyrie instead of casting it in the right color. But I haven't heard reports that someone damaged the paint on the nosecone of their Super VF-27 which is a good sign. Oh and there where micro scratches on the wings but they where so small most people don't recognized them. The most obvious issue with the line where loose joints but my VF-25A has nothing of that which is weird because of mold degradation it should become looser with further usage of the mold. It might help that the VF-25A doesn't have tons of armor for dress-up and huge accessories. On the other hand the hips on my VF-25G where loose when I transformed it the first time so maybe Bandai really tightened up the tolerances. The VF-25 has problems with upwards bend wings in some cases which might come from the way they are packaged. To sum the major QC issues it up: All Bandai Frontier Valkyries have issues with paint rubbing The VF-171CF (and only the CF) has black triangles in the shoulders that explode The YF-24 family has problems with loose joints Let's see what problems the YF-30 has. It seems like the free floating hips in Gerwalk-Mode are a feature not an overlook but that could lead to many YF-30s that can't stand up on their own. Good that Bandai always includes a stand with their releases.
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    He was also Maniac in the Wing Commander games.
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    Of all the variants I saw I think I like this the most. The other ones where red and black right IIRC. I hope Kawamore designed more weapon bays for this one so that we could get and add-on set that has one or two more of them plus an custom loadout for the Chronos.
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    What does the article say about the tail fins?
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    I think that the Super Parts for Ozmas YF-29 are the same tamashii webshop exclusives as all the other add-on parts for Bandais Frontier Valkyries. So they will be released after the Valkyrie comes out in May. NY states a release date later this year if my mind serves me correctly. Not in late May though.
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    I think I have to preorder it from HLJ still.... the gabs behind the shins worry me. I hope the deal with them. Also I wonder how his back will look. The arms and chest are too wide/blocky and the stacks on his shoulders are too tall.
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    Yay sleepless night incoming. HLJ will not have their preorders up on the 28th I guess....
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    Don't give them ideas!
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    Hm something is wrong with the face. shouldn't there be a mouth or something on the head turret?
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    I bet not. Time to write something in the "why I hate Bandai" thread.
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    Fighter-Mode with the missile pod up looks awesome. The spine of the plane looks still unaligned to me.
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    Now that the confusion is out of the way whether it is a white Convoy with armor or a all in one transformation.... am I the only one that sees that big gap between the shins and the inner legs? Hope this will be removed in the final toy.
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    It has the same color as the hip armor.
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    Yeah I hope he has decent articulation. The one thing MP-10 was lacking where double jointed knees and elbows.
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    So it will be much closer to Citizen Stack and no small robot inside an armor. I really like this however it will depend how the look and feel of Magnus will be. The KFC Stacks feels too thin, hollow and cheap from what I've gathered watching the reviews. Especially the trailer cap feels like a cheap toy with all this hollow bits. If Takara manages to give Ultra Magnus a hefty quality feel in all its parts I'm in. That and a slimmer chest.
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    Interesting. I will wait for better images. It looks a bit too blocky for me. Especially around the chest area.
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