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On 2/16/2018 at 7:20 AM, IXTL said:

On the right. Armored Kairos's.

1 hour ago, Shukenzero said:

Any pics of the Armoured 31As?

39 minutes ago, no3Ljm said:

Do you guys think that if they release the Armored Packs, does that mean it's just designed for Arad's, Chuck's, and the 31A's if ever and it's not going to be available to the others? I know it's movie based. But that doesn't stop Bandai to 'recolor' for the others, right?

 

Standard rule is that if it's not shown in either the movie or TV show, it won't get released. So the J, C, F won't get the AP. F might get the lil dragon pack thou.

1 hour ago, UN Spacy said:

Preorders soon.

Is it me or the insignia is just bit smaller than in the show? And it's way too far back? Can't Bandai get one single insignia right with the 31 line?

2 hours ago, seti88 said:

Anyone thk since the first DX of the 31A comes tampoed with a 03, that there would possibily be a 02 and 01 tampoed DX release in the future?

You know Bandai, of course they will make a 01 one with Arad's insignia when they are running low on money, and watch everyone drain their bank account.

On 2/19/2018 at 6:58 PM, Scyla said:

That reminds me that I need a few more Frontier Valkries, like Altos VF-171 and the RVF-171. It never ends.

[edit:] Oh, and Isamus YF-29 which I greatly dislike because of the glossy beige plastic. 

I think you can fix that glossy issue with a can of matte top coat, like the one mostly used for gunpla should be good enough.

@borgified

They already made that, in the form of 1/72 decultured transformable line.

Amazon has it here: https://www.amazon.com/Bandai-Macross-Sv-262-Machine-Deculture/dp/B07211LWZH

2 hours ago, Mommar said:

Actually it isn’t backwards.  When stowed the grey bits push out the back of the packs.  It’s facing forward there.

It is backward in F mode.

Circled part is the gun barrel. Also, the middle connector doesn't have that yellow circle facing forward in F mode. So we can assume that the whole turret rotates 180 when it's in "deployed mode" like the G mode picture.

Hmm, seems like the only thing I will get out of this movie is Arad's 31 with AP and that's it.

4 hours ago, Arkham said:

Man, I'm not really a fan of the forums these days, and there seem to contain lots of spoilers for the movie... Does anyone know when... err... the Bluray will be available, or other means of distribution?

 

Thanks

Educated guess, Bluray will be a half year wait. So we are looking at an August release.

6 minutes ago, RealJayDee said:

Sometimes i wonder with modern macross if priority is telling a solid story or sell sell sell valks. 

It's sell sell sell. Not only limit to valks, but CDs, BRs, and everything in-between.

Also, found this:

Mirage's 262 it seems.

Sold...

Wondering when the Arad's VF and that AP pack will be out for pre-order. Just hope it won't be another "event lottery exclusive" like the Kai.

1 hour ago, no3Ljm said:

Wait, what kind of stand is that? And how's that thing holding up the DX with that small of a connector?

So... is this pre-painted like the tomytec kit? Or you need to do everything yourself? I'm kinda tempting to get 1 for the only reason of having a smaller scaled 31J to put near my PC.

39 minutes ago, chyll2 said:

Bandai sending us to frenzy

Here goes my money...

Looks like they actually increase the canards size (as pointed out by that picture). The physical reason from the 31's masterfile is that because the delta squad's 31 all uses forward swipe wing, the VF's center of lift got moved forward. So their 31s all have smaller canards. The 31A's canards are the "correct" size.

And also that skull icon on Messer's had the correct angle instead of what we got.

2 hours ago, JetJockey said:

I was never a big fan of the extra armor parts. I'm not sure why. The design just seemed better without all that bulky stuff.

Well, in-universe, those armor also provides retro thrusters (and fuel in some) to use in space. So it's a necessity.

1 hour ago, no3Ljm said:

^ Instruction manual is now back to being black & white. PO cancelled. 

I wonder what he was saying about the boosters. Is it a different dark grey tint compared to the previous VF-31J SP release? It should be just color swap on the blue parts, right? The rest tint are the same.

 

 

He's saying the booster is exactly the same, except one piece is black instead of J's blue.

Rest of the armor pieces are all the same as J's but with colour swapped.

The F with SP packs looks more "military"/real than the J's blue, which makes J looks like a show plane.

And he already ordered the Kairos which he will put out a review ASAP next year.

3 hours ago, Zx31 said:

While it is clearly popular here, as a 100% subset of people who like Macross, I don't think anyone except marketing and finance at Bandai can say exactly what the demand is for a certain product. Businesses are designed to make money, so if releasing it any other way was more profitable then that's most likely what they would have done.

Exactly. Any one even not in the business can tell you that selling 5k of your product is more profitable than only selling 1k which based on randomly selected buyer from your entire customer pool.

Now if the Kai isn't a lottery draw, the likelihood of me buying one goes up to 80%, despite my wallet's protest.

Welp, checking this forum before my 13hr flight back to Canada is right. Otherwise I'd miss placing an order for dat 31A.  ^.^

Well, finally got a display case from ikea.

21 hours ago, barurutor said:

just wait until you get hooked on out of production stuff...

+1

Spent a bit way too much on Battlefairy Yukikaze stuff in the past 4 month...

Got this for about 26k Yen, brand new, SP pack included. Compare to the 29B, the right wing engine rotate joint is just a bit too loose. Gonna use nail polish tighten it after work.

ps. man, my One M8's cam didn't age well.

@Saburo

Nice eye. For some reason, my 31J's right side wing fits perfectly. But the left side, especially this part:

Is just like that since I got it. I haven't even transformed my VF once thou. Guess I will do a full F to B then back again someday when I have the time. I did some adjustment and now it's a bit better than my previous picture thou.