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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Yeah, I figured that, it just gets to me that they didn't use the same name for both. Same with the "VF-19ADVANCE"/"VF-19 Advanced"/"VF-19EF/A" thing.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Is there a "canon" name for the Kai variant? The Deculture kit refers to it as the VF-31J/C Siegfried, whereas this toy release refers to it as the VF-31J("Kai" kanji") Siegfried.
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    And working head hatch and moving cockpit in battroid mode. Eh? Eh?
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    It still floors me from time to time just how small the VF-1 actually is. I wonder what it would look like scaled up to the same size as other Valks. The cockpit at least probably wouldn't be so cramped.
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    I always thought the implication was that, if each show was connected, they were separated each by at least several millennia. It's a dubious enough idea to begin with - that all these stories with all their literally world-shaping events take place in the same timeline in the same general region of space - that is only really interesting in a metanarrative sense. You'd also expect that humanity wouldn't exist anymore, at least not relatively unchanged; we would almost assuredly have either sub-speciated or speciated entirely. Is G-Rec a canon sequel to Turn-A? I never watched it, though I liked some of the mecha designs. The only part of Seed that I deign to remember is this: I'll never not bring that up. Everything about it summarizes my feelings about Seed. I was also gonna mention the Ball Gundam, but then Seto beat me to it. Crossbone sounds like it would be a fun taking-the-piss manga to read. That's a really dumb assumption to make, if true. In the majority of Gundam shows, the Gundam is never widely known before it starts wrecking crap on a mass scale. What basis would these people have to understand what "Gundam" even refers to? Sure, they might know what a mobile suit is, but not what a Gundam is. And even if it weren't, the execution on the idea is still consistently bad frustrating. I'll be honest, the only things I recognize from Trek are the big... starships? The Enterprise, Voyager, etc. I can't tell the difference between them, just that they're Trek-y. I also constantly get Stargate stuff mixed up with... any other Western sci-fi show that has spaceships.
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    Oh, I didn't know that. I thought the Arcadia only came with the toy and its Super parts. I don't pay enough attention to toy releases.
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    I will watch this.
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    I wonder if at that scale they'll be able to better recreate the canon leg transfer mechanism that the 1/72 Bandai kit impressively managed to do.
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    No, just that this display model/prototype is a repaint of the previously-released VF-19 Advance, or at least looks like it. Nothing about the final product has been confirmed yet, not even that it's actually coming out. But it's coming out. What I'm skeptical of is if it'll actually have all of those warheads. I'm betting that the final tally will be half what's shown.
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    Last I heard this would be part one, where Thanos collects the stones, and part two would be the war. Anyone can confirm any of that?
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    This doesn't have to do with the toy per se, but just a PSA. I paid for my re-issued Hasegawa VF-19EF/A (aka the VF-19 Advance) model kit at HLJ. It (and the also limited-edition VT/VE-1 kits) are still available there and at Amiami, so if you want to get any of those, better hop to it.
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    Just paid for my VF-19EF/A at HLJ. It's still in stock there (as well as the VE/VT-1), and Amiami are still taking preorders. So if you want yours, now's the time to get it.
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    Pretty sure that's supposed to be a take on the Iron Spider costume, no?
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    This is a really petty and minor complaint, but the whole "X character sees a Gundam's face on a monitor and mutters, 'Gundam...'" shtick makes me want to pull my hair out, and it plays a significant role in why I can't stand this franchise. The definition of a Gundam changes from show to show, from universe to universe, and yet without fail, someone will see the V-fin or the face on a monitor and immediately know the name. Like how!? Why!? Gundam Wing's Gundams are defined by their mother duckin' armor material, how could you POSSIBLY know what is or isn't a Gundam without shooting it first? Gundam Seed's Gundams are just operating systems! It's a bit more understandable in the Universal Century because surely the Gundam's image has a lasting legacy, but even Gundams that bear not the slightest resemblance to the original - the GP02A, the Zeta, ZZ, the Nu and Hi-Nu - people will see that stupid V-fin and swoon, whispering, "Gundam..." under their breath. And they'll look at other things with V-fins and faces like the Zeta Pluses, the Deltas, and they know, they just know, to not be scared of those. Because reasons. Like, in Macross this isn't a problem. The Valkyrie refers strictly to the VF-1, but characters and fans alike have used the name as an umbrella term since, and it's fine because it consistently means the same thing - a Fighter/Gerwalk/Battroid transformer. The only such consistency with Gundam is a meta-aesthetic (and even then it's been shirked plenty of times, as in the case of the Ez8, Turn-A, et al.), and Gundam canons want simultaneously to contrive alternate reasons for the term existing in a particular universe and inject the Gundam meta-aesthetic into said universe.
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    Didn't DC/WB explicitly say the movie and TV universes would be separate? (To that: WHYYYYY THOOOOO THAT'S SO DUMMMMBBBB)
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    I wonder if it wouldn't have been more successful (storywise, not in terms of merchandising, god no, this show sold gangbusters) if it'd been an original show altogether. Nothing takes me out of a Gundam show more than the way characters react to the Gundam.
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    They know what they're doing.
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    Yeah, this seems to be the consensus. I stopped midway into season 1 - for trying to do some things different, the show didn't do enough different - but I've read up on the season 2 ending and I'm overall more positive than negative about the direction they went with it.
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    Hey, just plugging my FS thread again. I won a lot that had some stuff I wanted, and other stuff I didn't. tl;dr - MG Ground Gundam, HG Harute, HG Gadessa, HG Zedas http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/45148-spare-gundam-kits/ @dero Does the Astray come with the older style thumb/trigger finger/three finger hands? Or are those fully articulated? Or even better, fixed pose? I like what you did, and the stickers look really good, all things considered. I guess that soak in the water didn't harm them very much.
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    Destroids

    kajnrig replied to Xigfrid's topic in The Workshop!

    Hey, I was wondering: Do you happen to know or otherwise have any insight into how one method costs compared to the other? Like would it cost relatively the same to 3D print a set of parts (either yourself or through Shapeways) as to cast resin kits? Last time I had this discussion, the group I was in determined that the costs of materials/production/etc. still favored resin casting over printing, but I think that was well over five years ago that that conversation took place.
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    Not exactly anime, but I'm catching up on the past two seasons of BoJack Horseman, and... a few episodes ago, BoJack visits and ultimately takes care of his ailing, dementia-afflicted mother, and the messy relationship they have hits a bit too close to home. This show, man. I don't know. Sometimes I want to burn it to the ground, and yet here we are, four seasons later.
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    Articulation would be nice but, now that NZEOD mentions it, not necessary. One could simply print two copies and build one closed, the other open if they were really so inclined. The Bandai/Hasegawa kits' mounting mechanisms might be slightly but significantly enough different from the DX toy to make attaching a problem, but I doubt it would present any major problems. And assuming the proportion scales properly, fitment shouldn't be a problem, either. Even if it is, again, it wouldn't present that much of a problem.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    It's from a MG Gundam kit. Forget which one atm (guessing one of the Astrays or the Duel Gundam), but it'll probably be a tiny bit too small to hold in the hand.
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    "He got better." They shoot them really really fast.
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    "Childish" and "silly" are two different things... And all Gundam are targeted at children, even something ostensibly serious like Unicorn. I'd say G Gundam's reputation has ONLY improved with age. I certainly like it far more than I did fifteen years ago. EDIT: That said, I still haven't seen M7 yet, so the comparison might still be apt.
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