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  1. Scyla
    Heresy! Macross 7 is the best entry in the Macross series. It has Milia who is clearly the star of the whole series and she is single so there is still hope for me!
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    I think you need a minimum amount of posts on this message port before you're allowed to post in the sale section.
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    Actually the way I understand it Yamcadia Valkyries are a niche inside a niche of a niche.
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    That are sad news. As far as I know they where designed by a member of MW. They had already produced prototypes so I can only assume that preorders didn't went to well for them. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=39368&hl=toynami#entry1051747 Here is the original thread.
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    What are the additional intakes on the VF-25 Messiah and YF-29 Durandal that stay on the chest plate for (green arrow)? Is there any technical explanation for them? Also what are the black areas for on those planes (red arrow)? They are also present on the chest of the VF-1 Valkyrie. Image from the Macross Mecha Manual
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    Hope that helps, there is an image of the broken knee joints at the beginning of the video.
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    It seems it is only a problem for the black MP-09 and from the information I've gathered it happens for each and every one of them. Some people claim that they're fused together with the ratchet part of the joint IIRC.
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    Of course but why stop at the head. Like I said a VF-1 V3 for the Macross the First Valkyries.
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    So I had to fix the knee joint of my MP-09B today again! I hope this will help. I glued all parts of the crumbled, geared piece onto a washer. I will also remove the piece with the teeth of the ratchet so it will be a friction joint only. I would like to glue a washer on top for extra stability but then I have to shave down the plastic so I can fit the washer sandwich into the thigh. I hope this won't be necessary. Oh and the other knee joint broke also but I have to find fitting washers to repair this one. It still holds up so no need to hurry. I think the MP-09 would be the perfect transformer if it weren't for the parts that just wait to break.
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    Someone mentioned that he put some plastic wrap inside the joint to tighten it up but I haven't seen any images of that. Maybe some super glue would work too but I'm to scared of damaging the toy so I just leave it as it is.
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    Are they flying through space? They must be due to the Strike Pack. I image the TF Seekers are able to fly in space.
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    Basically the joints where the engine nacelles rotate around are not strong enough to hold the weight of the Super Parts. So on my YF-29 30th Anniversary the wing won't stay into position and rotate downwards by itself. This is even worse when the wings are fully extended.
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    They look like a purple gray in this image.
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    Maybe they want to show how sturdy the joints on the engine nacelles are now. So no Droopy Wing Syndrome (DWS) anymore.
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    I will cancel it for sure! *hitting the panic button* In all seriousness it was already present on the prototype so it would be a surprise if it would be changed further on. It is a nitpick for me but I can deal with it. But I would have preferred a different solution. Honestly even if there is not enough room for a piece like on the VF-17 I would be satisfied with something like the fold crystal on the YF-29. A small and slim piece of transparent plastic with a silver painted backside. It does not require that much space but would make a difference on the toy itself but maybe there isn't enough room even for that solution.
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    I can understand the desire to have any possible marking on the toy and it might look good as a car but I fear that it will look too busy in robot mode and that some of the details get lost because some of the markings on the original car look so tiny that maybe the won't look good shrunk down to the size of the toy. With all the splits on the mold (see the roof) markings has to be printed on in parts. Wouldn't this lead to scuffed up details on the edges of the parts?
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    It seems like the final release of the toy will have the painted lights on the wing gloves. I don't dig that....
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    I'd preferred it if we got the gray Armor Parts and unfortunately I don't have either MJs skills and/or equipment so they will stay forever dark blue. A member here on the boards reported that they have a different hue than the VF-171EX armor (I can't confirm that). If this is true I guess it was a deliberate decision by Bandai to cast it in that color.
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    I'd prefer if they don't go full out on the details. All the other MPs are rather subtle on the details level so I hope Takara only prints on the number and the green and red stripes (and maybe the Alitalia and Lancia logo).
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    The only wish for a VF-1 scheme is the VF-1J Miria Custom from Macross 7... ...but since Skullmilita said no hero schemes in the first post I have nothing to contribute to this thread. An Arcadia V3 VF-1 from Macross the First would be cool.
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    So I finally watched Pacific Rim yesterday. I would've preferred to see it in a cinema but at the opening week I wasn't anywhere near a cinema and after that the movie was already gone. The good think is that way I could watch it on my TV in 2D. I don't like 3D because of various reasons. Since I'm sure this thread discussed the movie a whole lot I keep my thoughts as short as possible. So first and foremost I really enjoyed the movie but I have a few nitpicks. 1. Why no Japanese Jaeger? 2. Mako should have saved the day 3. I could've done without the explanation of the alien threat they should have handled the reason why the Kaiju attack differently or explain it more. The whole brain drift with the monster brain doesn't do it for me 4. It should have a scene where we see more city destroying goodness shot during day-time with the sun shining. 5. A scene where Crimson Typoon and Cherno Alpha show of their skills against some type 4 Kaijus before they are being ripped to shreds by the type 5 goons (they describe both Jaeger teams as so deadly but the could not deal with already known Kaiju power levels.... disappointing). 6. Since I have some kind of a color code fetish it would be nice if the Kaiju glowed in different colors (one red, one yellow and so on) to differentiate them more. 7. I find it strange that they can escape from the chasm with escape pods. When they start to close it I thought they are all off for a suicide mission. 8. I can't wrap my head around the pregnant Kaiju. A genetic engineered and cloned weapon that can give birth is something I honestly don't get. 9. I wish they would have screamed ROCKETO PUSH at some point of the movie As I said it is a good movie but there where too many nitpicks to be a great movie. I really want to love it because it is something new and it is not a trilogy (yet) so it has a good ending for the story they want to tell. As a side note putting the cockpit for a giant robot in the head is really stupid.
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    Well at least it is not as oversized as the arm cannon on MP Megatron.
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    As a disclaimer I don't want to be the reason for breaking any Valkyrie so please be cautious when doing these steps. Also keep in mind that all what I will write now comes from the back of my mind since I haven't handled this Valk for several month now. The screws are not accessible from the outside but you don't need to. However you have to detach the legs and swing back the wings because they lock the shoulder into position. The first thing I would do then is to remove the small black filler triangles on the underside of the chest pieces (or at least loosen the screw a bit) because they can also break and on my copy the screw was so tight that I couldn't move the filler piece. My assumption is that that caused some of the breakage of the small triangles when people forced it to move. This screw is accessible from Fighter-Mode. For the shoulders IIRC the pauldron consists of two assemblies. A dark teal piece that make up the major part of the pauldron and the black triangle pieces that is attached to the shoulder joint. The black part is hold via friction on the metal shoulder joint and the dark teal piece is also friction hold on the black pieces. So you can detach the shoulder area form the metal shoulder joint by simply pulling them away from the joint. Be careful and only pull straight away from the fuselage. Don't try to apply any rotational force to the assembly because that might lead to a broken triangle. This again is only my assumption but I guess the triangles break when you use them to rotate the arms into position. Due to the way the shoulder is assembled (see above) either the teal or the black piece will come off. Now you can access the screws and loosen them before reassembling it again.
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    I think Kurisama is planning to look into this issue. If you search through this thread you will probably find it.
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    I will add to this conversation that I find it kinda difficult to judge colors on images that where made with a cell pone (of by people who don't know what they're doing) and that I view on a non-calibrated non-true color monitor. However for my tastes I agree with David on the color choices so I'm hoping for a MP Galvatron that gets it right. Even if most MP figures are a let-down quality wise they usually get stuff right (i.e. a good color composition). In addition they get the face sculpt right. On the other hand I can understand VF5SS' frustration about the topic because David has some exquisite tastes about the coloring of his toys that most companies are not able to satisfy (see also the gray color on the VF-25S Renewal). So the issue of colored plastic pops up more often then no. However there are other people on the Internet that post much more aggravating stuff. I know what I'm talking about after reading every single post about a minor damage of an elbow joint over 500+ pages.
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