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  1. kajnrig
    A fighter mode kit would require some modding. A battroid mode kit would also require some modding. You wouldn't have to fold the backpack, but you would have to contend with the transformed forward fuselage. No matter how you tackle it, you'll have to cut SOMETHING with a saw to make the mod work. May as well just cut up the kit you get in the box and save yourself $20. I imagine Hasegawa will issue a standalone Gerwalk kit in the future with the necessary new parts.
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    Oh, I'm aware of what the Full Saber is, I just thought for sure it must have been done in MB form by now, what with how popular Setsuna's suits are and how many variations there are of the Exia and 00. The Qant basically only has the Full Saber as a variant... and maybe the alien tech one, I forget what that one's called. But I guess I was wrong. In design art and all physical renditions of the Full Saber, the GN Sword IV Full Saber consists of - the base piece that connects to the mounting arm and houses the main handle - the katar piece that makes up the main blade of the FS and resembles the GN Katar of the 00 7S(/G) - 3x daggers, two flanking the katar katar on either side of the base piece, and one on the underside of the FS next to the Quanta's right arm This version has two daggers on the underside, in the same general area but offset on either side of center, whereas the original one was directly on the center line of the FS. It's a bit of a head-scratcher that they would bother with such a design revision. It doesn't look better. It doesn't look worse. As @mog_kupo demonstrates, it's hardly even noticeable. Perplexing.
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    Hope people don't mind me going back a page to ask about Has the Full Saber not been done before now in Metal Build? If it has, what's the deal with this one having that extra fourth dagger? Just another typical Metal Build flourish, or is it supposed to be an actual new variant?
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    Speaking of: Mighty kind of them to include a copy of their Macross display stand. I would have thought they would include just their usual three-part clear stand, but on second thought, that stand barely lifts the VF-1 Gerwalk off the ground; it wouldn't have been adequate for the VF-0.
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    Bit of column A, bit of column B. Column A: Sexual assault allegations should always be taken seriously. The two allegations are by ladies who don't seem to have anything much to gain from airing this dirty laundry. Column B: The allegations surfaced in an incredibly suspect source (and literally nowhere else) - a podcast helmed and produced by transphobic individuals who have personally targeted and been criticized by Gaiman for his trans support. Gaiman, for his part, says he has been fully cooperative with relevant investigators. The whole thing has the stink of ulterior motives to it, so I'm remaining highly skeptical of every single perspective on it. Would it surprise me if he were a weird sex creep? No. Would it surprise me if the accusers were lying? No. And everything in between. Regardless, I'm happy to see this still coming out. Hopefully it gets to a third season.
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    That's a common break point on that kit, and unfortunately there aren't any simple fixes. You can drill out the detail and insert plaplate shaped to match, or sand away the fin altogether. (IIRC it's molded a bit bigger than it "should be" so that it can double as a peg.) If you intend to display it in Battroid mode, you can replace that structural fin altogether with something like a brass rod to pin the two sections together.
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    Yeah, that's why I no longer feel any qualms whatsoever about buying bootleg if and when the fancy strikes me.
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    Neither do I, I'm just using it as a convenient reference point. Two Kotobukiya ZoE kits, then. 1.1-1.2 Metal Gear kits. Two or three Frame Arms. Heck, two or three Plum Assault Suits Valken kits. The point is that Square stuff is laughably bad value compared to... damn near everything else on the market, and by a long shot. They think their fart smells way nicer than it does.
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    Right, I'm not saying that's not the case. I'm just reiterating that ultimately the issue exists because Bandai wants the issue to exist.
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    Unfortunately you gotta do what you gotta do. Bandai knows this, and they're working to make sure it's the only thing you CAN do. For what it's worth, I finally got charged for a Alto YF-29 kit that had been sitting on backorder for ages. I think that's because the -29 isn't selling as well as the others in the line, though, but I have no evidence to back up the assertion, just a gut feeling.
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    I was referring to the Seibzehn kit, which is decently big but still fairly small scale-wise while costing the price of two, three MG kits.
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    Xenogears FORM-ISM ACT Weltall Square might - MIGHT - finally be done ripping you off! 36,000 JPY / $250 USD retail price seems to put it right in the range of similar toy lines (DX Chogokin, Metal Build, etc.). Still too rich for my blood, but it certainly seems more reasonable than 15000 JPY for a single undersized model kit. Watch them totally make me eat my words by being all plastic, terrible QA, etc. https://www.hlj.com/xenogears-form-ism-act-weltall-enx38346 https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=FIGURE-175422
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    Oh yeah, I should clarify the "news" here is confirmation of the 2026 release date, staff, and the new key art.
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    Patlabor EZY 2026 release https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-09-19/patlabor-ezy-anime-project-unveils-visual-staff-2026-start/.215775
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    Maybe the detail just flew over my head until now, but I wasn't aware this was episodic; I thought for sure it was just a one- or two-part movie, maybe a limited OVA at best. I'm thoroughly bored with, how to call it, "Gundam shot composition." It's always the same camera pans, always the same framing, pacing, etc. The monoeye turning on. The catapult/launch/drop sequence. The "conventional war machine takes a beating and COs panic beforehand" montage. Remember when the first episode of Macross Zero came out and we were treated to that phenomenal, intricately-detailed, slow-motion transformation sequence? I want something like that from Gundam. Not LIKE THAT like that, necessarily, but something that leaves a lasting impression on me the way that does. (The Gundam UC Destroy Mode transformation(s) does the former, but not the latter.) But despite Zakus and GMs being rendered in frakking UNREAL ENGINE now with millions of polygons and high-resolution textures, and this prime opportunity to use the new medium to do something interesting and unique, it's still just... more of the same. Bah. I'm too down on it too prematurely. It's only one more month; I should wait to complain until then.
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    Long time no see. Good luck on the kit; I've been itching to ship it out from HLJ for a month or so now, too. (As it happens, I bought a Char 2.0 on a whim and started snapping it together today to finally see what all the fuss was about, and while dealing with the overengineered piping I was reminded of your complaints about it. I get it now. ) Interesting note about the joints. I've not had the same issue on my VF-1s, at least not to the same degree, but it'll be something to keep an eye out for.
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    Does anyone know, was there ever confirmation whether the recent TV show re-release box set included English subs? Scouring the thread, the listings across Amazon/Amiami/etc. don't list English subs and many assumed that meant there aren't subs, however @no3Ljm pointed out that the Delta movie(s?) didn't note English subs but included them.
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    I'm sure everyone's already seen them, but just in case, store pages have additional pics of new runners/parts: VF-0 Gerwalk: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/11120966 YF-19 w/ FAST Pack: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/11120943
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    I figured some of the older heads here would like to be aware of this. Anandtech closing down: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell
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    Shame that the decal sheet only covers EITHER M OR M, not BOTH M AND M.
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    Yep, there was that whole series of GM and GM-esque kits from the mid-00s to the early-10s that either shared all the same I'm guessing CAD data or outright shared a dedicated hand runner. I'm pretty sure some of the Zaku-type kits shared their own runner, as well. Those weren't the most aggressively detailed like the Builders Parts hands were, but they were detailed enough, and they were nicely-posed to boot. I don't know why Bandai didn't just keep reusing them. It's so frakking bizarre, they had a great thing going, and then they REVERTED BACK to those painfully ugly square-hole type hands from their earlier HGUC and HG Seed/00 kits, the only positive of which was that they allowed for simpler, easier-to-equip weapon handles. And on the topic of hand variety, yes, it galls me to this day that Bandai just refuse to give you left weapon-holding hands, especially gun-holding ones, and ESPECIALLY canted-wrist gun-holding ones. Their Builders Parts hands are way too detailed to match, and the posing on them actually kind of sucks, defeating the purpose for them at all... Meanwhile, Kotobukiya gives you full sets of hands with every kit AND offers hands as standalone add-ons AND offers them with a variety of posing/connecting options. asd;kflja;sldfj;lasdf;laskdjf; I've bitched and bitched about this for so long now, sorry for being a broken record, everyone. I don't mean to imply that others should be ashamed of liking gunpla and easy snap-fit stuff. I do, however, think it's a fair and objective observation to make, that Bandai deliberately engineer most of the "challenge" out of their kits. And this is another matter entirely, but I also see a lot of gunpla builders - hobbyists who build exclusively gunpla - develop a sort of... lack of curiosity, so to speak, precisely because they build gunpla. They build easy, unchallenging stuff, and at best they lack interest in challenging material (even if said material is something they're interested in, like Gundam), and at worst they actively deride challenging material for not being unchallenging (even if said material is something they're interested in, like Gundam). Like, the attitude a majority of gunpla fans would take towards the aforementioned 90s 1/144 Gerbera Tetra is that it's inferior to the HGUC because it's old, has seam lines, has arguably worse articulation, maybe not as good color separation, etc. But I go and build it and find it such a more fulfilling build experience, and it looks better, too. I get the sense that a lot of the gunpla community would agree, and they would demand better of Bandai, if only they pushed past their own comfort zone.
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    Bandai kits don't really challenge the builder. That's their strongest and weakest point simultaneously; when you build them, you ooh and aah at the impeccable engineering, but that's marveling at the job Bandai did, not anything you did. I find I've had a lot more fun working on their older kits, like up through the mid-00s, which still allowed for effort on your part. Their 90s 1/144 Gerbera Tetra shocked me with how much better it looked and how much more fun I had building it than the 2013 HGUC counterpart. (Plus they've sucked at and continue to suck at and seemingly will forever suck at making hands. I don't know why they continually drop the ball on those, but they do.) Hasegawa I wish would tackle more subjects more often, but their design decisions - and especially their aesthetic choices - are solid and stand the test of time. Their recent kits demonstrate that they've been able to adopt modern design sensibilities - ie snapfit technology - without compromising on said design decisions and aesthetic choices. (From all indications, the YF-19 that is still sitting in my HLJ PW continues this trend.)
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    Second movie, yes, and yes. EDIT: Shame it's not the Ba. Guess it's fortunate we still have the Bandai/Hasegawa kits.
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    Is this the first time it's been remastered in 4k?
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    It's very blink and you'll miss it, but Rook refers to him as an ND-somethingsomething model. Probably also because android, yes. ...I think? Are they androids? Robots? Cyborgs? Androids are humanoid robots, or humans with robotic augmentations? I wouldn't put too much thought in it. The theater I went to was surprisingly full, and the screen right next to us, screening an earlier showtime, had like a handful of seats taken. Reception seems to be split, too, with some fans, critics, and general audiences alike all seemingly evenly-dispersed along the like it-hate it spectrum.
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