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Rick is listed for May 2019.
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To be fair to them, no one knows the Southern Cross market because the last company that even attempted anything for it was Matchbox... and they made pretty bad toys during the heyday of the franchise so not really apples to apples. No one really will know until people actually put money toward Southern Cross products because chatter on the Internet is meaningless. That's not to absolve them if you think they're doing a poor job drumming up interest or you think they're doing a poor job with their design-work. It will be tough to parse whether there simply isn't enough interest in general or 'there is no interest' due to their doing a poor job in either their marketing or design work. -
I can go from fighter to battroid as perfect transformation. I don't think I've managed to go back to fighter without the bar disconnecting. It's funny because I have the same problem as treatment but the disconnect always happens as I go to seat the hips back into the Gerwalk/fighter position. I can probably avoid this by getting the hips twisted to the PERFECT spot before getting them close to the seated position but instead I get them "close enough" and try to fine tune as I'm about to apply pressure. The moment I twist the hips for some fine tuning the bar disconnects. It's not a big deal but it means that, if I try to transform it back the other way, the legs will fall off the moment I disconnect the hips. Usually, once I know the hips are in the perfect spot, I unseat them, reattach the bar, then seat everything again. I really wish they had just put a screw/lock in that housing and made us unscrew it.
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As before, I have no email from KitzConcept. I'll just have to cross my fingers and hope it arrives just as Minmay did.
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I think up until very recently you could still find VF-17 toys for less than MSRP on the secondary market. While I would love to see a Miria (or other) repaint, I can understand Arcadia waiting to see astronomical secondary market prices before doing committing.
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Ajax in 1/100 scale... Would that be as tiny as I'm thinking?
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Are those Macross girl kits pre painted and just require some assembly?
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A PF 0D seems like an easy money grab at this point, even in the original blue, it'd probably sell fine.
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It's a lot less complicated than the 31. The 31 has a little gap behind the cockpit but that's really my only complaint and I have little issues with the VF-1 so I'd say it's on par.
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The VF-1 transformation does involve the legs being moved into position and remounting. It's not exactly as Bandai has done it but it's pretty true to the spirit of what's supposed to happen. When I envisioned it, I thought a bar should be kept in the nose with balls on either side that would then rotate out. The legs would swing down, each on its own bar, and latch to the ball. The swing arms, now separated from the legs, would then pivot and become the side cavity filler. Another benefit would be that the bar in the nose could allow one hip to go higher than the other when handling the toy in battroid.
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Well all we have our shots in the dark here. My theory goes like this: 1) Factory receives order to make, let's say 1000 VF-31A Kairos toys. They make 4 batches of 250. 2) Bandai employee inspects 5 toys from each 250 allotment (they would use statistics and a confidence interval to determine their sample size, I'm not going to do the real math).. If all pass, then Bandai takes the shipment. If one fails, Bandai rejects the shipment. 3) In this case, Bandai rejected one of the shipments and issued a notice to those ordering multiples they would only receive one. At this point NY has customer cash but has not actually paid anything. 4) Factory sells QC reject to some other organization for some small amount so they don't take a complete bath on that rejected order. They specify not to flood the market with the toys since they're supposed to get destroyed and also what the QC reject was so this anonymous party can review them. 5) The 750 toys that passed are shipped via boat to Japan where they get thrown in a Tamashii brown box and shipped to customers. 6) Somehow NY gets in touch with this group that purchased the reject batch and arranges to buy the remaining 250 that pass an inspection for whatever Bandai originally was going to pay. 7) Third party group sends Bandai a few a week or maybe a monthly boat shipment that NY just takes its time doling out. Alternatively, NY bought the whole lot, has them already in a warehouse, and is just slowly doling them out because they don't want to tip off the factory... Hold on, my tin foil hat keeps falling off...
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I'm not familiar enough with the design but is hover tank mode really supposed to not be flat along the bottom? It looks like you'll need a stand to display it in that mode but since it's supposed to hover, I guess that's no big deal. In many ways this looks like a reformed Matchbox toy.
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Buying a different light bulb would be cheaper!
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I subscribe to the QA refurb theory too but no idea how it would work. NY would get them cheap and still be making a lot by supplying them so hence no need to jack them up further. This goes back to us not knowing what exactly happened with the botched release. I like the theory that Bandai rejected a lot for some reason or another so they cut quantities and now those rejects are flowing out in some capacity. Someone is checking them out for whatever the common flaw was and if it doesn't have it, it makes it to NY.
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I refuse to believe they'd be that stupid. They would just blame Bandai and offer store credit. They figured out something else...
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The old Takatoku were made in a few places, but I think Japan was the primary. I believe a final run was made in Taiwan as XSToys had one with that written on it.
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I don't really get the booster extension, seems to just put them in line with the shoulder which seems bad for articulation.
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I think "which toys aren't represented" would be fun trivia... I excluded a few because they didn't jive and there are a couple I don't own.
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Did you try to ship with SAL?
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They did make a Ben the first time through, and there are allegedly 15, so a good bet the proper Been will be there.
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Be warned, that video is middle School humor at its finest.
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While we're on the subject of SD valks, for those of you who do have interest, the KitzConcept SD Valks are huge in comparison to jokemachines and some flavors can be had pretty cheap directly from KC. You're not going to be bowled over by their build quality but they're certainly cute and readily available. Like so many other toys, I've been meaning to revisit my review of these and include all the variants. You may be in luck, if Toynami is reissuing them (why?) hopefully you'll be able to grab them at the discount bin like I did. It worked out awesome though. Most people thought it was a cheapy Transformer but people definitely played with them and I could see folks at the table figuring out the little transformation like a puzzle and we got compliments on it as being one of the better wedding favors that people had seen. Obviously the younger audience got a kick out of them too.. My wife is kind of a dead ringer for Sheryl so she likes Sheryl. Beyond that though, she's just humoring me. She would never suggest we watch anime or I buy a particular toy.
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LOL, I stopped at the little toys... Though the engagement cake was done to look like me as Alto and my fiance as Sheryl. Man I'm a nerd.
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I gave these out as gifts at my wedding, one was at each plate setting... I think I paid $1 each... $2 at most.
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Lol, Toynami? That's like Arcadia insisting Bandai do something... Maybe HG? I think KC just likes light up gimmicks like the SD toy.