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    I knew it was only a matter of time before they reissued this. Kotobukiya 1/60 ARX-8 Laevatein Model Kit Reissue https://hlj.com/product/KBYKP-453/Sci If you haven't gotten this, I strongly - STRONGLY - recommend it. Aside from being a fan of the design, I think the kit itself is absolutely fantastic to build. It does a better job executing on Bandai's gunpla trends than Bandai does, while also being perfectly at home with other Kotobukiya kits. Everything came together perfectly with this kit, figuratively and literally. It's largely the reason that I've warmed up to the Laevatein's design as much as I have.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Before physical merchandise and close-up shots of the 31s came out, I had hoped that the F would look something like the Aaliyah from Armored Core 4. I was disappointed when the F turned out to have a more... bug-like face, with two distinct eyes instead of a visor. And yeah, that horn. It's a blight on the YF-29, too; get rid of it, and they both have at least passable head designs.
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    No, the show art. The only lineart I've seen of any SDFM are for the mecha. Can HG et al even USE design sketches?
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    To be fair, these are way more accurate to the source material than perhaps we'd like to think. Still, I wouldn't mind seeing a Minmay figure based on her Macross the First design. Because... reasons.
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    Uuuuuuuugh that thing looks too good. I'm really angry with myself now for never having gotten it.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    March 1st, not May 1st. Pro-order would be the day after it releases. Because y'know.
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    You're talking about... the Robotech comic?
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    Speaking of updates, there's been no word of a release date for this game, has there?
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    Yo, that updated Minmay (or who I assume is her, anyway) is... wow. Be still, my beating heart.
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    Yeah, I figured I was just mixing bits and pieces of the lore together. I almost wrote that Minmay was the half-American one, too, and suspected she was really half Chinese/Japanese.
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    To be fair, the original Robotech was a whitewashing attempt against Macross. To be fair to that, the original Macross had its fair share of explicitly white primary/supporting characters. Fokker, Max(?), Global, even Hikaru/Misa I believe were supposed to be half-white American?
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    IIRC, Bandai's Star Wars kits have a choice between a clear canopy or just the frame without any windows, which is significantly different from what this Wave kit does, ie separate frame and window parts.
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    They're not going with the comic book design?
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    The first Macross toys were 1/55 scale IIRC, and Yamato's first VFs were 1/72 scale. The only reason companies have settled on ~1/60 is because that makes for a similar size product to other toys. Model kits, similarly, have settled on 1/72 because that works best for everyone. 1/144 is too small for most collectors, and 1/48 is too big. Hasegawa et al COULD make 1/60 kits, but those kits would be wildly out of scale with their other kits, and would only satisfy the smallest of niches. The number of toy collectors who would be willing to put in the effort to build a model kit is very low. Some might say that defeats the whole purpose of collecting toys in the first place.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    When did the 25G wear Tornado parts in the movie? I thought that was just a quirky "we did it because we wanted to" thing on Bandai's part, like the Ozma/Isamu/Roy YF-29s. There's the flimsy excuse that they were featured in Macross 30, sure, but still... So pilot-specific armored parts aren't TOO outside the realm of possibility.
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    Ah, I see. Okay, I've gone ahead and contacted Shapeways, hopefully they'll add it back to the order in FUD. Thanks much!
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    @Sanity is Optional I placed an order for the missile rack earlier today. Shapeways informed me that the shell parts can't be printed as is. Is it a material thing? Maybe I'll try in FUD instead of WSF?
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    ~38,000 yen, at least from this indication. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1634344926780505/permalink/2069315059950154/
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    HLJ and HS say the kit's been pushed back YET AGAIN to March. Anyone else saying this?
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    I figured it was just to avoid collateral... at least from what little I remember of the movie. The gas was burned up by the fire (again at least from what I recall), meaning nothing harmful to dissipate at all. (And even if it's "dissipated," there's no guarantee where it will dissipate to or in what concentration. It's rather really foolish and potentially dangerous reasoning. Spread it over a wider area and if it's denser than air and still lethal, you've just killed even more people. Even if it's not, its corrosive nature can't possibly be any measure of good even if exposed to it in small quantities.) If he'd blown it up on base, WW and co. would have died as well, so flying it up there was his way of protecting her/them... I think? I dunno, I'm probably wrong.
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    Happy to see that. I petitioned HLJ to look at the VF-4 in one of their Gunpla TV episodes, and they made the (understandable) point that it would depend on whether the kit is snap-build or not, since they wouldn't have enough time in a week to do a traditional Hasegawa kit. This reveal ups the chance that it'll be getting a gander.
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    Here's an idea for a new series: First episode starts with a flashback to Zero/pre-SDFM-era. An astrologist points out a specific star in the sky, spouts some sort of speculative nonsense about said star that will eventually reveal itself to be true (or does it???), then cut to present future day where an emigration fleet is starting on its way to explore that system. Rest of the series spends its time exploring planets along the way, all while gathering small clues as to the true nature of said final planet. Idols if you have to, alien antagonists if you have to, but mostly it's just Macross-style Star Trek. I dunno, I'd dig the change of pace.
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    Found in FB. Apologies, link is for mobile. https://m.facebook.com/MacrossFanCentral/photos/a.334777553272293.78093.334036913346357/1668400766576625/?type=3&source=48 1/20 VF-1 weapons set
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    I went from "Ew, no..." at the beginning to "Hm, actually..." in the middle to "Yeah... Yeah...! Yeah, I like this idea!" at the end. Shinkai does a lot of beautiful imagery, which no doubt influenced the work of Satelight, and he would certainly give the new generation of Macross characters some meticulous, beautiful feet. Beyond that... I think VF combat would have to take on a totally different tone. Not bad different, just... different. Slower, more contemplative, maybe.
  25. kajnrig
    Ah, yeah, I get what you mean. I felt that, too.
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