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Pulled out my 1J to do comparison pics with the DX last night. Knocking on wood, my 1J is still minty.

It'd be really easy to address if it ever did develop into a more serious problem. If you wear that tab down just put a thin layer of clear tape over it. You'll increase the diameter of the tab by the thickness of the tape and give it the additional friction to stick in there.

Thanks for the input, here's a real quick rough pic that might help you see any mistakes. I appreciate the help. (The shoulders I'm meh on as they kinda move every time I pose the arm). No photo or lighting effects this time: EDIT - when I said more neck than I expected, I was probably a bit far behind the times and still remembering those prototype shots which seemed to have practically no neck.

Hey guys, with the exception of the ankles which I know I depressed a bit, does my Ozma look transformed properly? I don't want to have a review full of mistransformed toys (nor do I want to review something I don't fully understand) and I haven't been following this thread as well as I should. What really worried me is that the toy had more neck than I anticipated which makes me wonder if maybe I haven't put something in the right spot.

I also have a non FP VF-11B with perfect hips... but I've seen enough destroyed and mangled ones to know I'm very lucky.

Buy an old beat up Gakken 1/35 then start customizing!! Add the torso swivel one member did here and a proper paint job.

I could probably handle that for ya. Next time I have stuff out for a shoot I'll take care of that.

Again, let's not make an epidemic out of one cold. The 1S had lots of breaks, since then we've seen one 1A break a shoulder and now one 1J. There's clearly a weakness here but there's no reason to think that all 1/60 2.0 shoulders are doomed.

The old 1/35 Gakken is fun to transform. We just need a company to make an updated 1/35 and we'll all have that Legioss toy we're clamoring for. If they want to make a huge 1/35 Tread too so much the better! Yes, I'm aware this isn't going to happen.

Yep, that's the picture I was talking about. The Aoshima is almost just as much diecast as the MPC, the only difference is the hips. The hips on the Aoshima are plastic, the hips on the MPC are metal.

I had a 1/48 LowVis 1A drop to the ground in battroid... it broke its head laser I guess it was fine otherwise though.

SDK, never underestimate the lure of more cheap and easy money. Think of it... website exclusive weathered TV VF-1s! I'd buy it.

That's not the ONLY way to do it. Watch the CollectionDX review, it lookes like they just slide their Alpha on without a problem. I had to split the legs on my Alpha a bit to do it but it didn't cause and pitch/yaw issues. What's causing the tilt issue? Are the heels hitting the cockpit?

I didn't get my DXs today. Bummed, I was hoping to spend this weekend reviewing them. Oh well, my review will go up some time next week. For some reason I'm still kinda excited about them even though I'm also already a little let down.

It'd be funny to see how they thought that would work... Does the Tread launch it's "laser bombs" upward when in bomber mode? I'd guess they were just the doors for loading the bombs and they dropped downward but I think that array is nestled between two legs and a booster so the only place for anything to exit would be up.

My website is pretty much just a laundry list of things I bought in 2008.

Sam, that connecting bar is far superior to the junky diecast cradle CMs gave us. You just needed to come up with a plug in landing gear for the front and a second piece that could serve as rear landing gears. I love that you got the Alpha sitting where it ought to be instead of down below the Tread.

Those are the items Roger linked to previously. It's the Green CMs Legioss/Tread set, previously a CMs website exclusive but now readily available, and a Johnathan Wolff figure that goes with the 1/18 Ride Armors (no Ride Armor included!). The Johnathan Wolff figure also comes with the 8 mini Ride Armors that CMs includes with the Iota Legioss/Tread set... apparently because they made more of those than the did Legioss/Treads so now they need to figure out another way to get rid of them!

Not mislabeled, Toynami is the official Mega House distributor in the US. It's like how Matchbox used to bring Bandai Macross toys over and label them Matchbox Robotech toys.

Did he happen to mention how many were made?

Uh, Ruskii, that's part of how baby Dreads are made...

I think Joel should be able to sell Macross Plus and MacZero toys from Yamato, I think he should have pushed back on that. Toynami and HG have no right to bully anyone when it comes to those franchises (MacF not being an issue since Toynami and Bandai apparently play nice). As to Yamato Macross toys, Yamato themselves fully admit that their toys are not intended to be sold in the US and Yamato refuses to service them here. Why does Yamato do that? Because Yamato understands their licensing agreements. HG is well within their rights to ask any large retailer to stop selling Macross toys not licensed by HG in the states.

Just an interesting side note, I was searching around the Interwebs just now and came across some old Toynami Beta pics I'd long since forgotten about. One of them shows a prototype Shadow Chronicles version complete with top mounted synchro cannon (looks like it replaces the standard version's top mounted missiles). So, for those of you looking forward to a Shadow Beta to go with your Shadow Fighter, you might have your choice between a standard Shadow Beta and a Shadow Chronicles Beta.

The rumor I heard was "expect lots more weathering in the future" regarding Yamato. That's what spurred my guess that we'd be seeing lots of new "weathering" variants.

My guess, everything made that was a 1/48, and then everything done again, this time with weathering!