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Missing Link C01 and C02 pics are out in the wild now.

My current fave shot (web-translated):

https://twitter.com/wa_bu_ki_dia/status/1760618103833305441

TFW has links to other user shots starting from this forum-posting:

https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/missing-link-c-01-and-c-02-g1-convoy-optimus-prime-revealed.1251563/page-220#post-22104863

also, some initial video from bilibili (hk?):

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1m2421F7bY/

14 hours ago, 505thAirborne said:

Just got that email too, sounds to me like Shin's 0A might look a bit different from the Pre-order pics... but I could be wrong. 

13 hours ago, Big s said:

Probably just a new shade of blue

12 hours ago, 505thAirborne said:

That was one of my thoughts, it would be cool if they replicated the colors from Arcadia's VF-0A, but I doubt that'll happen. 

4 hours ago, MKT said:

Perhaps Bandai is updating the landing gears to be white instead of silver 

Possible reasoning (web-translated tweets)...

11/30/2023:

https://twitter.com/muko037/status/1730436416138789253

2/16/2024:

https://twitter.com/muko037/status/1758487859592569293

I'm rather more terrified of the shipping-fees this time around...

Yeah.

Same design team (T-Rex).

However, two completely different Engineering-Teams  to execute such design:

Yamato-Toys vs Bandai

14 hours ago, Lolicon said:

49280 yen is more than I paid for my PF edition. 

32 minutes ago, Mommar said:

How?  It was 61005 at HLJ.

iirc, @Lolicon had a bunch of HLJ discounts to use at the time of ordering his PF. 

Lucky timing, I guess...

5 hours ago, grogall said:

More pictures of the Ostrich at Tamashi Nations...

 

 

 

3 hours ago, jenius said:

I wonder if they're going to fix the side of leg armors to cover the back of leg armor more completely. 

1 hour ago, Chronocidal said:

Think that's just the parts being sloppily installed, the promo images have them in the right place.

Course.. they've been known to photoshop things before.   Still, even if the release version has that, it wouldn't be too difficult to fix, relatively speaking.

16 minutes ago, Lolicon said:

I didn't expect Bandai to fix the arm attachments.

That leg armor gap is pretty unsightly. Was it always there or is that display just badly put together?

3 minutes ago, davidwhangchoi said:

Bandai waiting for mechanic edition to fix these

Nah.

Bandai seems just stancing their DX Ostrich...

err...

Arcadia display at WonderFestival 2024, courtesy of DengekiHobbyWeb:

https://hobby.dengeki.com/event/2235796/

samples:

per Mr.K:

https://twitter.com/Mrk_arcadia/status/1756110458975887677

fyi as of this posting...

Macross Plus Blu-Ray OVA and Movie box-set at manda for 28k-yen (excluding shipping-fees)

https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1251822662&keyword=マクロス&lang=en

Just now, Jeff J said:

Just to be clear, I'm asking why they didn't reuse the birthday gift animation. They used brand new, worse-looking, animation in episode 29 when it (seems like it) would've been so much easier just to reuse animation from episode 8. 

Animation work on the show were subcontracted.

It is more than possible that the subcontractors who work on the episode did not have access to the previous animation. Or any, actually...

18 hours ago, MKT said:

Old pics reprocessed, so forgive me if they look overdone. But Yammie's VF-22 Fighter proportions just looks perfect in every way. 

 

 

nice!

Don't have M7 bd, but...

Just add in some extra "ghost" thingies with that and you almost get to mimic the YF-21 movie-snapshot below:

https://twitter.com/Mrk_arcadia/status/1754285309930660055

web-translated:

follow-up from MrK:

https://twitter.com/Mrk_arcadia/status/1754444804933701735

web-translated:

just in from Mr.K:

https://twitter.com/Mrk_arcadia/status/1754284700431192265#

web-translated:

MarkH retro-reviews his kinda-mostly-intact VF-171 cannon-fodder with comparo to the recent VF-171EX Revival:

moderoid vs hm-r:

https://twitter.com/simsim5479/status/1753675930206343646

web-transtaled:

Maybe Bandai thinks they're making Gundam stuff instead of Macross...

On 1/27/2024 at 12:28 AM, shazam said:

 

here's the part-2:

8 hours ago, nightmareB4macross said:

Did anyone ever notice this notch. Looks like Bandai improved the arm to leg connection to reduce sagging.

8 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

Wonder if that's a feature on just this specific valk, to address the fact that it doesn't have any arm packs.  I don't have one handy to look at, but I think the arms usually rely on the legs holding up the arm packs to support them.

Edit- Looked at all the close-ups I could find, and I'm really not seeing any reason for those slots.. and it looks like the opposite arm has a plug in that hole, so who knows if it's supposed to be there.  It looks like the arms are just going to depend on the tabs that usually hold the backpack down.. which, yeah, I'll probably be looking for some way to reinforce those dumb arm pegs, or add a notch to them to lock the arms up, because they've never been worth anything.

Yeah.

There is nothing in the promo pics to indicate any peg  nor usage from the FAST Pack for that notch:

20 hours ago, grogall said:

 

 

 

On 11/15/2023 at 10:42 PM, grogall said:

I for one hope they do something about the number, 102 was already used for the VF-1D, so hopefully this is just a prototype mistake...

 

On 11/16/2023 at 1:48 PM, Lolicon said:

Probably don't need to dwell too much on single screenshots from a show filled with animation inconsistencies and errors.

Aside from that split second frame, neither 102 nor 607 was ever firmly established as the proper modex for the VT-1 Hikaru borrowed, so it really doesn't matter what modex number Bandai used. The tampo is just as obnoxious. 

1 hour ago, jenius said:

My son and I are building a 1/20 Bandai kit now as a "when we have time" activity and I'm pretty impressed (as many of you said I would be). Anybody have a suggestion on what kind of glue I could use on this kit? My son snapped a couple thin rods on the missiles and now he can't connect the red missile tips to them. 

You can try the regular Tamiya Extra-Thin Cement (green-cap):

https://www.tamiyausa.com/shop/finishing/extra-thin-cement-2/

I don't have any experience with the Quick-Setting version, tho.

Moar Heppoko...

https://twitter.com/simsim5479/status/1750494497065377915

web-translated:

Interesting, but I just hope this Revival's body does not yellow quickly like his original seems to have been...

1 hour ago, Lolicon said:

The stabilizers both have 001 printed on them. Does that mean Bandai screwed up this release? Since according to Bandai 100 is the correct modex printing?

https://imgflip.com/i/8d817y

Another assembly/review of the HG YF-21, but a bit rather better detailed.

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