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hahaha! Awesome! Great job!

meanwhile, back at the New Edwards desert base on my desk... Have to use the Arcadia Launch-Arm stand since the DX YF21 is significantly heavy for the Yammie VF-11b to support on its own. The DX YF21's skirt is also quite short... reference snap:

needs proper diorama background, but somebody tried and nicely recreated poses from the OVA's brawl scenes on ep2: https://x.com/biguro0079/status/1808849633042706580 web-translated: downscaled sample (the DX YF-19's gunpod looks defintely pathetic): ova-scene:

Good news! Hopefully it gets resolve without you sending back the whole item for replacement. Return shipping-fees sucks. Sheesh! Such crazy fees over there at EU...

hmm... reminds me this MWF classic.... https://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/27410-bandai-160-dx-vf-25-transformable-toy-thread/?do=findComment&comment=666926

moar DX YF21 Backpack shots... braced: unaugmented freefloating: no-brace,non-augmented, saggy:

re: no-brace skirt-augmented backpack DX YF-21 vs yammie-21 unaugmented

Also, as @Actar mentioned earlier, watch out for these wing-parts coming off when you're transforming your DX YF-21. They're kinda loose. The two smaller ones dropped off mine when I was TF'ing mine. You don't have to glue them back, tho... https://x.com/XXXG00YSW/status/1807436674676429116 web-translated:

I transformed mine to Battroid-mode. No FAST Packs, tho. As such, this DX is quite a looker in static battroid, no doubt. However... OCD trigger warnings. For some bizarro Bandai reasoning, the hip-swivel area does not have any position-lock/stopper tab like the YF-19 when in Battroid-mode. So you'll have to pretty much guess the best postioning of it. Especially in relation to its torso, waist, and chest areas. Then try to deal with it moving out of position when moving/ranging the hips/legs for whatever posing you desire that is other than neutral stand. The battroid-brace is really essential. Without it, the backpack will sag insecurely and will swing freely, and get the two tiny internal tabbing un-tabbed easily. You can use the skirts to at least both temporarily hedge a static position and keep it from further sagging or swinging freely. As with ever other high-end Bandai products, this DX YF21 seems to follow the Bandai toy-standard of being meant to be pose-once-and-do-not-touch-ever-again philosophy.

Bandai should start changing their DX boxes to Flip-Top Windowed boxes...

https://x.com/febrral/status/1808526405585825972 web-translated:

HLJ

Haven't really messed with mine as much, but there was something that was bugging me with the various pics and videos. This: I took a BD-snapshot to check: Seems the barrel should not be extended nor stay extended like in the DX when in fighter-mode. Nothing in the manual about retracting it at all.

Maybe @graphic revolt is just robotech-ing it for us... 😝

here's an interesting comparo: full-scale pics at https://x.com/muko037/status/1808064935403938095 web-translated: highlighted re-scaled sample:

seems another QC defect issue on the DX YF-21... https://x.com/ousama_T/status/1808283459116569046 web-translated:

fwiw re: bent lasers... Beginning to seem like it's really at the Factory assembly packing stage for both when and where the head-laser bending/breakage happens. The clamshell's got suffiicient clearance and firmness, and the valk is quite snugly fit. At least on mine. Still, Bandai could've at least included and packed an extra head-laser to mitigate this issue...

DHL delivered mine today, after miserably failing yesterday. The head laser on mine is fine: whew! Damn Schroedinger Bandai...

Clearly Bandai's unsurpassed design and engineering at their very best...

OMG! That's the most Robotech thing to do ever! ROFLMAO!!! I really do pity the hapless reviewers for following that...

latest from heppoko samurai... https://x.com/simsim5479/status/1807715271794454900 web-translated: Clck on his twitter link for full-scale pics and to help him earn twitter-bucks...

this one seems newly posted and japan-based: https://x.com/himajinFigNeo/status/1807583253374878061 web-translated: Incidentally, are the the "bends" specifically that way? I haven't seen a posted bent-laser that isn't like that, yet.

Aww, that sux! Were you able to communicate with HLJ regarding their response to this issue? Mine seems to have just landed at LA earlier, per DHLtracking. Expecting delivery tomorrow and really pryaing I don't get upsettingly Bandai'ed with a rather expensive toy...