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Is it? I'm not a big fan of the Nu/Hi-Nu, so I've never paid its design revisions much mind, but I have a beef with Ver Ka's in general, so most anything with that label gets a reflexive eye-twitch from me (the exceptions being the Wing re-designs for Endless Waltz). And yes, those swinging hip parts are indeed a disaster. I haven't found it in me to touch the kit since The Catastrophe, but I can't imagine that any scratch-built mechanism I come up with could possibly be worse than what's there now.
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I'll let you know come Christmas. :/
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Someone's about to get shivved.
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Release date pushed back again to February, at least on HLJ. February through April are looking mighty expensive for me. This, the Hasegawa VF-31A re-release, all the Full Metal Panic kits coming out around March/April, plus the Metal Build Arbalest and DX VF-31A in March... Yikes.
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If you mean do they rely on customer inquiry to open up reorders, I'm sure they have their own way of getting notified of relevant re-releases. I think maybe we're just a bit quicker on the trigger, being stupid-obsessed fans and all, and we spam them with questions about things they were going to get to anyway.
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Gundam Figure Thread - Newtype GN-002
kajnrig replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Yeah, unfortunately the second order went through as well while I slept. I canceled that as soon as I caught it, so hopefully there won't be any blowback. -
Gundam Figure Thread - Newtype GN-002
kajnrig replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Placed another order for the MB Laevatein, thinking maybe something went awry the first order. The order cleared all the way through without issue, but I still haven't seen a confirmation email. If anyone has had a similar experience placing an order for the MB Quanta, let me know. I'm fairly certain there's just a glitch in the system showing these two as available. EDIT: Back to Order Stop, and never got a confirmation email. Oh well, better luck next time. :/ MB Quanta also listed as Discontinued again. EDIT again: Seems one of my orders DID get in, as I just received a confirmation email now. Dunno what happened, but I won't look a gift horse in the mouth. MB Quanta still discontinued, though. -
Gundam Figure Thread - Newtype GN-002
kajnrig replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I jumped on that right quick. Thanks much. It wasn't available just a couple hours ago when I checked, too. EDIT: That said, I still haven't gotten an email confirmation, so maybe it's more glitches... -
Touche. Another case of prescriptive versus descriptive linguistics, I suppose.
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Considering Japanese doesn't distinguish between L and R, I'd think it's fair for both battroid and battloid to be "proper" romanizations. Even though battroid is specifically and officially a portmanteau of "battle" and "android," the portmanteau can still work out to include both terms (in what must be the damnedest of coincidences). The fact that Macross only ever uses the R variant, though, is what makes it the de facto "proper" Macross terminology; in the same way, the fact that Robotech consistently (or at least regularly enough; could swear I've seen "battroid" slip into text sometimes) uses the alternate romanization makes that word its de facto proper term. I mean, really, the argument should be about what the bleep "Guardian" is supposed to be.
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Is it actually? As in explicitly stated in the show and/or other supplemental material? It could just as easily be a portmanteau of "battle" and "android" otherwise. Or even just because it sounds cool. Not like Macross hasn't ever done that. Besides, I mean...
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vf-31 siegfried WIP: Alternate Weapons Pods for VF-31
kajnrig replied to Sanity is Optional's topic in The Workshop!
For what it's worth, one of the missile launchers is specifically this Kotobukiya MSG part: https://hlj.com/product/KBYMW-36 And I'd imagine the missiles in the backpack pod are repurposed fin funnels, either from a HG/MG Sazabi or from Bandai's Builders Parts add-ons: https://hlj.com/product/BAN991400 Personally, I don't dig the look, either. Definitely prefer the one Sanity is working on. Keep up the good work. -
*A* proper romanization, not *the* proper romanization. Ls and Rs, and all that. For my part, I've only ever seen it written as "battloid" in reference to Robotech. Macross has consistently stuck with battroid. I thought HG were unable to use original SDFM designs anymore as per their Tatsunoko arbitration? Or was it that their rights to those designs will expire when their contract does?
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New Macross TV Series in 20xx (sometime this decade)
kajnrig replied to Tochiro's topic in Movies and TV Series
It might not even have that... Though another picture (of the same prototype? of a newer one? I forget) revealed that the cockpit has changed from a single-seater to a two-seater. Maybe they made other changes to the mold as well. I dunno. Either way, we're getting way off topic now. You know, that meaty meaty Delta discussion. -
Oh? I'd much rather have that than the matte gray controllers, if for no other reason than they would be easier to find. Got my brother a SNES Classic from Gamestop earlier today. Cashier was pretty cool, let me have the last one in stock that he'd been reserving for himself because they would be getting a shipment early next week anyway. I'm gonna let my wallet recuperate for a few paychecks, then finally - FINALLY - I'll be able to snag myself a Switch. ...or maybe I should get it for the kids first. Or then again, they're already getting a PS4 Pro. Then again then again, the Switch's library would probably be the better choice for living room play. Maybe let them take the PS4 into their room, put the Switch in the living room for the little ones to play Mario and Sonic on? Hm...
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From what I understand, they're identical in every way to the prebuilt versions (sans paint/tampo/decals, of course). They just come in constituent parts, on the runners, rather than being completed. But I haven't built one, so... yeah. Maybe someone else will be able to give you some more insightful answers.
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Looks decent. Wish 'em the best on sales.
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Ah, I see. I sent HLJ an email earlier. Hopefully they'll get back to me by start of next week.
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For all the hoops that Bandai made people jump through to get these, they sure seem pretty easy to obtain now. I'm glad people are able to get these. Quick tangent: What's the release date of the -31A Kairos again?
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New Macross TV Series in 20xx (sometime this decade)
kajnrig replied to Tochiro's topic in Movies and TV Series
To be clear, the display prototype is a reused VF-19 Advance mold. The first display prototype of the VF-31A Kairos was also a reused VF-31J mold, and recent pictures/prototypes have seen the relevant changes made (nose cone sensor array, two-part fold carbon chest kibble, etc.). Anyway, I'm all in for a YF-21/VF-22 as well. Max and Miria colors next, please. -
Thanks for the insight. Maybe this is the exception that proves their exceptional QC, then, because I have never had a Bandai kit sabotage itself so spectacularly before. Generally bad kits, sure, but never sockets bulging with stress marks bad. I haven't touched it since; it's sitting on my work table, backpack and fin funnels and weapons still unfinished, because I am wracking my brain trying to figure out how I should go about fixing their mistake. I have a MG Nu coming in the mail eventually, too, and I'm looking forward to building it. It was released just a couple months after the Sazabi (so also part of that early 00's golden era of MG kits), so I'm not expecting it to be nearly as problematic as this kit has been.
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Has anyone built the 2007 MG Hi-Nu? If you have, what's your experience with it been? To me, so far it represents almost everything I hate about modern MGs. Such obtuse, overcomplicated construction. I've been snapping one together and literally EVERYTHING on it is way too tight. I thought I had the backpack frame connected securely to the chest frame, but couldn't get the collar piece to fit right and ended up stressing that thin piece of plastic only to realize that I was supposed to push the backpack frame and chest frame together EVEN MORE. They went together with an audible SNAP!, this on top of the first audible snap when I initially put them together. And even after doing that, the collar and central chest piece/cockpit cover barely fit into place. The crotch is the absolute worst. It uses a straight circular peg that plugs into an ABS socket that fits inside the lower chest, and again the connection is too tight, such that when I went to remove the chest and crotch (to fix the below issue), the chest actually split open (along the natural parts separation lines, so thankfully nothing was damaged) and the socket was almost fused to the peg. There were actually stress marks on said socket from the peg being almost too big for it. The issue is even worse on the joints connecting the crotch to the legs. The engineering is absolutely terrible; the joint is made up of three separate sheets, two with pegs protruding out of them to connect to the (also ABS) sockets in the legs. These two are supposed to sandwich the third, which has a series of studs for the two parts to "ratchet" along in order to give the legs some of that forward-and-back swivel. Unfortunately, these three sheets are all too thin, too weak to survive the forces necessary to move them back and forth, and the pegs themselves are again too tight, this time resulting in the pegs actually shearing clean off when I tried to rotate the leg. And this was with the pegs only half-way inserted into the legs' sockets. I don't get how Bandai ever thought this was good engineering. It's not. It's terrible. It's the epitome of gimmickry at the cost of the model kit. None of the joints needed to be that tight. I spent all of last night drilling out those socket pieces to get a good balance of friction, tension, and mobility. I have to rebuild the entire crotch-to-leg mechanism. The intent was to resell this because I just wanted something quick to pass the time, but now I have to deal with this nonsense. I'm so frakking pissed off at this kit. It should not be this hard to build. I snapped together the MG Sazabi from all the way back in 2000 and it's such a better kit in almost every single respect. Why? Just... why? (And before you voice your opinion about the Ver Ka, don't, I don't give a damn about the Ver Kas, they're ugly busy redesigns of perfectly good mobile suits and yeah maybe the Hi-Nu Ver Ka would have made for a better building exercise, but I didn't know at the time how crap this one would be and at the end of the day this one looks better anyway. Sorry for cursing, it's not you, it's me being frustrated.)
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The black really helps to mask those super skinny arms in battroid mode. Nice pics, Noel.
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Debating whether I should opt in for a third kit... Ooooooh, Hasegawa, why you gotta do this to me? EDIT: I don't see it up at HLJ or Amiami, or on the Hasegawa site. Can anyone confirm if this is an actual second production run or just HS finding more stock?
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vf-31 siegfried WIP: Alternate Weapons Pods for VF-31
kajnrig replied to Sanity is Optional's topic in The Workshop!
^ Seconded.
