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    Have you listened to the various songs on their own? I warmed up a fair bit more to them after doing so.
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    One minor thing that I enjoyed: The guns fire in extremely short bursts. The 31s' arm cannons especially are always animated smartly, with good trigger discipline(?) being enforced, which lends some small measure of realism to this show. I've heard that modern fighters that have any sort of gun at all (be it internal or external) can plow through their ammo reserves within a mere 20 seconds of sustained fire. Imagine how much more limited the arm cannons must be, and... well anyway, it's just nice to see that small detail is all.
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    Bandai Sv-262 DX valk

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    Noel, that's the cleanest pic I've seen of the Tomy Tec version yet. Nice grab. Seems the chest is a single piece, which is a smart move in my book. I'd been wondering how Bandai and others would deal with that aspect of the design (along with the shield). Tomy's version is hitting all my good buttons EXCEPT for size. The DX and Bandai kit look fine, but the compromises they have to make are all sorts of blegh...
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    Will get to everyone's spoilers in one sec, but two things: 1) Tangentially related to the episode: I'm glad they finally found a way to get around the final bit of "anime magic" regarding the Valks: the gunpods, and how they move from beneath the fighters to being hand-held. I didn't realize how much of a problem I had with that until I started building the RVF-25. Mounting brackets are all well and good, but it bothers me to no end when they can't replicate that aspect of the designs.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Based on the Mecha Colle kits, the wings ARE slanted downward by default, though only the slightest bit. The anime has them doing all sorts of gymnastics, though, so you can probably achieve an X-Wing/TIE Interceptor look on the toy pretty easily.
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    Another thing to note (just saw this myself): You need two mounting brackets in order to mount the gunpod beneath the fighter mode. Additionally, if you happen to get the RVF anytime in the future, you can't mount the gunpod at all, as it'll bump into the RVF's unique lower tail fin. (The Hasegawa kit rectifies this by simply moving the gunpod farther forward on the fuselage.) Does anyone know if the RVF was ever seen with its gunpod? I only ever seem to remember it in fighter mode with Ghosts doing most of its "fighting."
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    Bandai Sv-262 DX valk

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    I dunno. To my eyes, they point too much forward regardless of how you angle them to look remotely Anubis-like, and they don't form a smooth silhouette with the rest of the head, and... bah. Anyway, nice-looking toy. I'm not sure whether to choose between this or the various kit offerings. Well, definitely a Hasegawa fighter at least, but for the other modes, I'm not so sure.
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    This is a limited edition kit, isn't it? Makes sense it would be discontinued... no?
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    Bandai Sv-262 DX valk

    kajnrig replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    Others are seeing Anubis in the 262's head, too. I'm not. Where are you seeing it? The closest thing I think of is a bat, but even then it's a loose resemblance...
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    You know what the obvious solution is to this anime magic problem, right? Release a three-pack of fixed-mode toys for roughly 100k yen. It's not like any of you WOULDN'T shell out that much dough... (I know I would, in a heartbeat.)
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    I like this opinion. I don't share it, but I like what you consider to be the beating heart and soul of "Macross" and why.
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    Not sure where else to say this, but just... man, I'd have loved to see a Satoshi Kon-directed Macross series. With two of its three pillars explicitly involving women, Kon would have been able to do amazing things with that show... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqq0nVu29g8
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    I think it IS the main VF of the NUNS, just that rollout is kind of slow because, y'know, galactic distances and all. By Delta's time, I'm sure most of the "main" galaxy is using 25As, and Delta happens to take place in the boondocks, so to speak, hence the 171s.
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    Nice. That is such a damn good movie. RIP Satoshi Kon.
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    Knock on wood.
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    Boy, something's looking unusually phallic...
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    Not sure where else to say this, but here's to the songs sounding better when listened to in isolation. Love Halation the War! (or however it's spelled) still isn't anywhere near my favorite J-pop, but listening to the entire thing without extra sound effects and mixing muddying things up helps it come across better. Same with the other vocals. The myriad singers seem to balance each other out much better than in-show. On topic: What a surprisingly fun episode. I'm glad they relegated the VFs to pure background ornamentation for a change, and hopefully it stays that way for an episode or two longer. The cat puns, both in-audio and in the subs, were a treat. I wasn't paying too close attention to the contents (same can be said of the past few episodes as well... :/ ) so I'm still a bit lost on fine details of characterizations and motivations and such, but I'm sure those will all clarify themselves with a second watch. Also, leave it to Kawamori to turn something as banal as computer hacking into a high-pitched Itano circus.
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    Meh. Seems like flaky reasoning, but nothing the series hasn't gleefully dabbled in before. That would be a terrible design choice, hampering its effectiveness in what is arguably its most ubiquitous form. I'd have much preferred if it went un-justified and when asked the creators just said "I dunno, I thought it would be cool."
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    That's interesting. I have the absolute opposite opinion. The Battroid looks okay in my eyes, but it's fighter mode with all the ugly gaps and empty space (exacerbated by aforementioned material issues) that looks terrible. With the Battroid mode everything is more spread out anyway, so you have less of an issue with segments not-quite-touching each other. And what unsightly issues do persist can mostly be hand-waved away as being part of the transformation process. I do remember the SW kits looking mighty good, and had planned on getting an X-Wing or TIE to check them out, but at that point I was still bitter about Fine Molds no longer having the license and burnt out from Bandai-style modeling. I'll definitely check them out again soon, though, now that you've reminded me.
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    If there's one thing I really dislike about Bandai's modus operandi, it's that they treat everything as a child-friendly High Grade Gundam kit. Pieces rarely fall below a certain thickness, and are even less likely to be anything approaching sharp, which is fine when you're doing low-detail Gundam models but an absolute killer when half a millimeter here or there throws the scale of a complex transforming airplane completely off. The thighs/air intakes on my RVF-25 are especially noticeably too thick, and try as I might I can never get rid of the ugly gap between them and the upper air intakes (this on top of the already too-thick plastics of the thighs/upper air intakes making that section look too big in fighter mode).
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    Having just built the RVF-25, I have a question about the 25-series gunpod, namely: Why does it have a hinged under-barrel? Does it serve a practical purpose? The gunpod seems to function just as well in fighter mode, when that under-barrel sits flush against the gun barrel, as it does hand-held.
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    I just realized I didn't answer your specific questions. 1) Yes, they are snap fit and (generally) color accurate, come with gunpod and knife, and you don't require glue at all. Paint maybe for the small details, but that itself isn't necessary. 2) Bandai generally has very good pictorial instructions. I had trouble at some parts, but overall the instructions are clear. 3) Mine took about a day's worth of commitment to snap together. Expect to take a few more days for decaling/painting. 4) No, the model can freely switch between all three modes after completion.
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    Having literally just finished snapping together an RVF-25 kit (with Super parts to be built later this week), I can tell you right now that you must, first and foremost, think of them as model kits, not toys like the DXes. And as models, they're... well, they leave a lot to be desired. They're magnificent feats of engineering - fairly easy to build, snap-together model kits that can fully and freely transform from Fighter to Gerwalk to Battroid mode - but it doesn't hold together particularly well in either fighter or Gerwalk modes. The fighter mode in particular has a lot of prominent gaps and such that mar the look of it. (The fighter-only Hasegawa kit obviously lacks these flaws.) The Battroid looks nice and articulates perfectly well, though. It takes too many parts and too much time to achieve it, but it's the only option out there for VF-25 battroid model kits, so there you are. I plan to build mine in its battroid mode (and maybe lower the parts count while I'm at it), and maybe buy a Hasegawa RVF for fighter mode display, expensive as that kit may be. Other members have said that the Armored Pack sets mitigate the gap issues and include locking mechanisms to make everything look more cohesive, but those kits are rare, and anyway I'm not sure if the effort is worth it. You'd still have to slog through building an entire VF-25 kit on its own, so... yeah. As for how they compare to the DXes, I asked that question too and it seems to me that the general feeling is that it falls somewhere between the 1.0 and Renewal releases in terms of posability/gimmicks/etc. You will have to treat it with a bit more care, of course, owing to the more fragile construction. It doesn't come with integrated landing gear; they put it in the "parts former" category. It also doesn't have an articulated canopy. And obviously, it's unpainted/undecaled/untampoed. Anything else of note so far? I don't know. It'll definitely need more TLC than a DX, but building it is hardly out of the realm of possibility. Bandai has done a lot over the years to make their kits as novice-friendly as possible. Some kits, like this one, come with more and smaller parts than others, but otherwise it's just as easy to build the former as the latter.
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    All of the yes in the world.
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    VF-1 Riders

    kajnrig replied to Jefuemon's topic in Model kits

    What's the significance of "VF-1 Riders"? Otherwise, what an amazing collection. They're really nicely downplayed and "real mecha"-looking, especially with the mass of overdesigned Gundams right next to them.
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