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Keiichi

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  1. OT - than GFFN Rezel looks nice... still pissed I wasn't able to find one during my last trip to HK. would look great w/ my shcmpro Unicorn. i'm still waiting for hlj to put theirs on sale...

    I've got the Unicorn as well and they do indeed display quite well together, though the Unicorn perhaps has a bit of... crotch armor envy :lol: . I really love how the Rezel is marked 'R008', Romeo 8, just like Riddhe's suit in the OVA.

  2. They never ever got back to me on my cracked shoulder joint for my VT-1. They were quick to respond when I had a question while placing an order but after it arrived and I had an issue with it, no replies after. Go figure. So I'm basically stuck with a bad shoulder.

    One reason I love AmiAmi is for their great customer service. I had a bit of a problem with the last order I received and they got back to me the same day with a solution. Simply brilliant. In regards to the topic, I've got a VF-1S Strike Hi-Metal on the way from AmiAmi and a Toynami Tactical Battlepod from Amazon. Yes, battles will be fought when they both arrive :D .

  3. What's the little blue guy on the left there?

    Haha, like charger69 hinted, he's a RGZ-95 ReZEL, most recently appearing in the Gundam Unicorn OAV. He's from the Gundam Fix Figuration Next Gen toy line and has a transformation as well, I like it quite a bit.

    Had a choice between the VF-22S and VF-19 (hi-metal) that's on sale in amiami and chose the VF-19 because my Gamlin had issues locking completely at the bottom in fighter mode. One side would lock but the other side would have get loose. Is that normal or am I doing something wrong?

    I have examples (1/60,1/48,VF-1,VF-0,...) of all the yamato valkyrie toys and this is the only one that had locking issues.

    Do you mean that one of the large panels on the bottom had trouble locking? There's a couple reasons I can think of why that may be. The most likely culprit is that your legs are not laying down perfectly flat. I had a LOT of trouble doing this reliably at first until I discovered all the tiny things that can cause that to happen. First, make sure that the extra gerwalk joint at the knees have been completely retracted. That joint is very tight and can take some force to make sure it is pushed in all the way, I had one occasion where I thought I had retracted it properly but there was actually one more 'click' to go. Also, both shoulder armors on the arms needs to be angled up towards the nose of the plane, if they are angled down towards the engines it will block the legs from laying in their perfect spot as well. Lastly try to check that the fingers of the hands are not blocking the feet from laying down flat as well.

    It looks like you havent pulled the legs out properly on your VF-22's. The inner leg bit near the feet should slide out more.

    They do indeed slide out more, but I read somewhere that they are only supposed to be completely pulled out for gerwalk mode, while for battroid you retract them one click for better stability. This kind of reduces the angle on the ankles and it really does make it easier to balance the battroid when you do this, as the battroid is pretty top heavy but the feet are so tiny.

  4. Max and Miria have arrived to accompany Gamlin! For some reason, I just love the white highlights on M&M, especially that stripe on the tail. Poor Gamlin, however, feels a bit like an odd man out now, going to need to get a YF-21 or something to keep him company. Or perhaps Yamato has a Mylene VF-11MAXL in mind for after the VF-19 Kai? I'm sure Gamlin would prefer that! :lol:

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  5. I think that's how they are supposed to be though, 1 side upside down, the other, upright. ff95gj, how is the quality of the figure overall? Easy to attach the FAST packs?

    Yeah, but from the pictures it looks like it's upside down (or upright depending on how you look at it :lol:) on both sides. No big deal though, I just ordered one anyways. Only VF-1s I own are the 1/48 Low-Vis and an old 1/55, so I figured it's about time to expand on that a bit.

  6. Also, anybody know why kawamori-san designed the thing without hardpoints or missiles?

    Perhaps he figured the missiles in the super packs were good enough for grunts. Now that I think about it, pretty much all the Mac7 valks seem to be lacking hardpoints, which doesn't seem too bad since they all had super packs or internal missile storage, but it'd hamper their use of reaction weaponry. They did sling that nuke onto Max's VF-22S though.

  7. I'd also love to know the differences from the Metal Build, Metal Composite and other "premium type" figures as well...as a super casual Gundam (hell anime in general) fan I seem to gravitate more towards the toys then anything else.

    The Metal Build 00 Gundam on HLJ retails for less than the GFF Metal Composite Unicorn did but they seem similar in terms of the type of toy.

    Anybody know how the two are supposed to compare to one another?

    Thanks,

    -b.

    I can't speak to specific differences, as I haven't seen much info on the Metal Build 00 (still a ways til release), but a large part of the cost of the Unicorn was likely due to the fact that it could transform between Unicorn and NT-D mode. Usually pretty expensive to engineer something like that. Metal Composites are the top of the GFF line, are 1/100 scale and generally have a fair amount of diecast (usually for the frame). GFF Next is the latest iteration of the 'regular' GFF line and is in 1/144 scale, it features much improved plastic and build quality over the original GFF line. The original plain jane GFF line had a tendency to suffer quality-wise, resulting in many figures being best used as static display pieces rather than something you could comfortably play with.

    I've got a GFFN RGZ-95 Rezel on the way and I can't wait! Didn't really think too much of the design at first but then I saw the Unicorn OVA and well, you know how it goes :lol: .

  8. Fantastic price on that VF-22S, that's not including shipping is it? Because if it is, that's a ridiculously fantastic price :lol: . Would have jumped on that deal myself if I hadn't JUST bought both Max and Miria last night from AmiAmi.

    Also, don't sell Alphonse! You know you'll regret it when he's gone! :(

  9. Managed to score Unit 2 at BBTS for just $230! Placed my order last night and got the shipping notice just now. I wanted to spread the news yesterday but right after I placed my order the listing changed to 'Sold Out', so I may have got the last one. The blue CLAT Ingram is available for $272, but that seems pretty steep.

    Also, if you're looking for something to display with the 1/24 Ingrams (until the Pit-Road command car comes out), I found that the Transformer Alternator Prowl is a great partner to the Ingrams. He is in 1/24 scale as well and has the general paint scheme of a Japanese patrol car. The Binaltechs Prowl or Autorooper would be ideal, as they have proper Japanese police markings on them, but they go for over $100 compared to the $30 a loose Alt. Prowl will cost you on ebay (which is how I got mine).

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  10. Greetings all, I've finally gotten one of these valks myself and of course I've been spending all night doing transformations. I'm on my way back from battroid to fighter and I've gotten stuck at the very end, where I need to put the legs in place. I've been using VF5SS'

    as a guide, and I've gotten to the point in the guide (about 6 minutes in) where he is disengaging the diecast bar that the legs are attached to (just before he starts to put them into their proper place). My problem is that I'm not sure which way I should be pushing the bar in order to disengage it, common sense tells me I just need to push down on it, but it feels very firm and I don't want to use too much force. Being the idiot that I am, I can't remember what the original position of that bar was. :wacko:

    Also, getting the backpack to lock back in with the nose of the aircraft was very scary, I thought for sure that the little tab on the middle of the back was going to get snapped off!

    EDIT: Haha, success! I watched peolesdru's YF-21 transformation video, and saw that I just needed to go backwards in the transformation a bit so I could get a better hold of the bar to disengage it.

  11. Got my Unit 1 in. What can I say that hasn't already been said? It deserves all the praise it gets, I'm just blown away by the quality of the figure. Also happy to report that my waist joint is nice and tight. I notice that Unit 1 was reissued just a few months after release, perhaps they tightened up the joint for the reissues.

    Oh, if someone could perhaps clarify something for me; there is a page of extra instructions, telling you how to load the gun and not to eat the silica etc., but what exactly are they telling you not to do in the second and third instructions? I'm guessing the second one is to not rotate the arm by holding onto the shoulder armor, and the third is to not pull out the cloth covering the leg.

  12. Just ordered an Alphonse myself! Been out of the toy scene for a while, and I figure a 1/24 Ingram is a good way to get back into it :D . BBTS has it for 15% off and that actually comes out to be a couple cents cheaper than HLJ's price, and shipping is much cheaper as well of course.

  13. So I've been a bit out of the Macross loop, so Macross Frontier came as a total surpries to me, and a great extra holiday gift! Just finished watching the first ep and I just had a grin on my face the whole time, I really think they nailed the whole "Macross feel." I mean once the talking vending machine rolled out, and the little litter robot scurried by I knew they had it! Sure was sad seeing all those beautiful VF17s getting trashed...

    I gotta say, I got chills once I realized what the ending song was, a great rendition of DYRL. Liking the characters (just one thing though, if Alto really hates being called a girl... maybe he should cut his hair? Then again maybe he has a reason not to), loving the animation and the combat direction; have very high hopes for this series!

  14. I've been collecting cels for quite a while, glad to see other folks here share the same vice! Here are a few of my favorites. I apologize for the awful pictures, I don't want to take the cels out of their sleeves, the sun isn't out, and lastly, I barely know how to use this camera ^^;

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  15. Again... and far worse. That bastard.

    Why must Wookies lack the respect they deserve? In ANH, Han gets a medal... Luke gets a medal... Chewie gets jack sh*t. Then Chewie gets iced in the EU books. Now Lucas has to keep messing w/ my furry brethren by showing them no respect... it ain't right.

    Chewie gets a medal, he was just too tall for Leia to put the medal on. :D

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