Big s
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It’s a pretty wild time for plastic kits in general. Lots of Macross, Orgus, Votoms, Megazone 23, Patlabor and many others recently. My backlog has a backlog. I can’t remember a time when there were so many offerings
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Moderoid went up for preorder last night. That hairdoo is so wild
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it went up for preorder last night, crazy hair and all.
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There’s pictures for the rest of the vermillion bros in fighter mode floating around as well. I’ve still only seen the one battroid though
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I was trying to find pictures with the markings, but no luck. Did they invent these markings just for this kit?
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Is this one a static pose kit or one of their articulated ones?
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I think the re line is done
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I thought they would have done it sooner to go with the battroid kit. It’s still odd they have movie fighters, but the battroid is a tv 1J
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The Bandai issue is more of a recent thing. Those 1/72 kits were out before Bandai stopped everyone but hlj in Japan from selling their kits
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Bandai tends to be far more popular as far as kits go. Wave, Hasegawa, Max Factory and others rarely sell out the way Bandai stuff does, even if the other companies do something super cool.
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Bbts is a good place to shop, just I had a coupon for usags
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I’m hoping that they’ll at least do a VF-11 to finish off the Valkyries from plus. I’d imagine there’s gonna be some milking of the molds for the YF-19 and YF-21. I’m also really hoping they do stuff other than the Valkyries, but I’m a bit doubtful they’ll do the zentraedi armor from plus, but I’d love to see it.
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USAGS has the decal set up for preorder as well now. Not sure why they didn’t list it until today. They should have listed it at the same time as the kit, but I wasn’t in a rush.
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Bandai has several decal sets for the zeon units and they’re easy to find. There are other pretty good third party ones at Newtype hobbies. So far the third party ones I’ve bought from them have been pretty good and a little thinner than Bandai ones, but I will say that if you know what you’re doing with water slide decals and how to thin the edges, then the Bandai ones are easy to use. I do think that the third party ones have a bit more variety though, especially for those that like line decals specific to a particular mobile suit. Most third party decals are coated these days, but you may want to pick up a second set or use a decal that you don’t care as much about to test if the ink is sealed or not just in case
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I do like the prototype for the HMR, but the hg kit definitely has the best looks of any YF-21 so far, especially for all three modes. Hasegawa probably did the best fighter mode, but that’s all they did unfortunately. Up until now I think the Reviltech did the best battroid, but now I’m leaning towards the hg kit battroid. And to be honest, I haven’t really liked any of the gerwalk modes from existing items but I do like this hg one. Overall this hg kit looks pretty good in fighter and looks great in the other modes, especially the battroid.
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Not sure if it’s an update to the old hg kit or totally new, but there’s a preorder for an hg Dunbine on the p Bandai US store. The joints definitely look new though and I don’t remember the feet in the old one having articulated toes. A bit pricey at $37 and change
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If Adi Shankar is working on it, I’ll check it out. I liked his Judge Dredd stuff and castlvania.
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Tetris?
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It was a rough prototype compared to some of the others, I’ll see if I can dig up the picture
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There was a prototype long long ago
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My problem with the reinterpretation is that it’s interesting in battroid, but the fighter looks messy. The legs look like they don’t fit the frame of the plane and look really awkward and pushed out. They appear to have redesigned the battroid without thinking at all about how it fits in fighter mode, so it kinda looks junky so far. Maybe further prototype pictures or a re redesign might help
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I’d imagine the battroid to be pretty close in height to the YF-19 battroid kit.
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That prototype definitely looks like a mess.
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I had always heard it was because it was the main mass produced mecha making them the dogs of war since they’re just thrown out there in walking coffins and the scope refers to the triple scopes on the face. But the downform does kinda resemble an awkward dog sitting up I guess.
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If I remember correctly they only assembled the mobile suit in the wear house and the weapons were in cache spots throughout the city. The chain mine was the last pickup on the way to the gundam. I may be mistaken, but I think that the suit only had the internal weapons like the Vulcans and beam sabers to start and picked up everything else along the way and the feddies didn’t counterattack until after it was pretty much fully loaded other than the chain mine that was in the truck. I’d imagine they either planned to use it to demolish the walls to where the Alex was stored in case they captured it or to destroy the Alex in case that mission failed. Mikhail unfortunately was probably so drunk that his reaction time was too slow after using the chain mine to see that it didn’t work.