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  1. MKT
    Great to hear the fix worked out 100%, thanks for sharing.
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    I remember Yamato's a bit nerve-wracking to transform the backpack the first time. Basically when the pieces at those areas disengage, it sounds like plastic cracking, but on other hand it is always these tighter tolerances on late Yamato / Arcadia valks that makes for a tight Fighter mode. I think the difficulty is transforming back into Fighter - the knees have to be in exact position for it to work. I see @Jenius already working on the Bandai DX review; as the Yamato YF-21 page has been updated with some DX content.
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    Don't really know where to put this, as we don't have a diecast aircraft thread. But I'm pretty excited that a 1/72 diecast YF-23 is finally getting made. Always wanted one as a companion piece ever since picking up a Yammie YF-21 years ago. https://x.com/specialdiecast1/status/1808441574063259861
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    Denzel Washington's usually great in any role he's in. But here he somehow looks out of place..
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    I actually rather have a weathered version instead of the normal, just so to have more differentiation between the scores of other Rick / Hikaru 1Js that I have in other scales. On other hand, the weathered edition as TZ is showing now looks a bit different from what we normally see as such on other toys. Here it just looks dirty.
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    Not sure if this has ever been posted on these boards before, but here’s Kawamori showing the YF-19’s 4th mode. And no, it’s not a pengroid, but very suitably the pterosaur. https://x.com/kawamoriexpo/status/1692706042453598645 Actually, the toy looks like Yamato’s instead of Arcadia. I guess my Yammie YF-19 can be brought out of obsolescence now for display.
  7. MKT
    Nice summary review.. and from your various vids, I like the poses you put the valks in.
  8. MKT
    Threezero event exclusive: Link: https://www.threezerohk.com/product/robo-dou-voltron-black-x-gold-edition/ Full set of pics:
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    Threezero’s doing a Rick VF-1J Weathered Edition as an event exclusive.
  10. MKT
    As opposed to the YF-19, external impact on the box seems unlikely to account for the head laser damage. I'm wondering now, what if the damage comes from the box being upside down somewhere along the way? Perhaps the blisters do not clamp the toy down sufficiently, and because of the toy's weight, the front of the toy somehow loosens from the blister and the head laser touches the blister. Weight of the toy then exacerbates the head laser rubbing & then bend from sideway forces during transport. But this really depends on how tight the blisters really are in holding the toy down, and I can't speculate more until I receive my own copy.
  11. MKT
    Nice video. Liked the way you did the comparison with lots of close ups & both regular + PF mimicking the same pose & camera angle. I’m still ruminating to pick up the PF, but afraid I’ll get a lemon with broken shoulders. Definitely no support for replacement parts at this time!
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    It’s saddening to hear a reply like that from HLJ. No doubt the worldwide units on the slow boat now are gonna be hit with plenty of bent head lasers, & Bandai already washing their hands off the whole matter leave a very bad taste in mouth even if the solution is just about the simplest ever when coming to replacing these parts. Will they still be as resolute having their head in the sand when more complaints start flooding from worldwide sellers? It’s nowhere near as complicated or costly to rectify as the YF-29 Alto shoulder misprint, or Arcadia’s double left ankles for the SV-51.
  13. MKT
    Chills me to the bone.
  14. MKT
    By one Franz Peter Siegfried:
  15. MKT
    These are great diorama pics!
  16. MKT
    Nice! Somehow the YF-21's huge shelf between the shoulders doesn't really look bad here. Man you have really prettied up this HMR VF-4. Great work! Seeing this, it reminds me how much better I like Arcadia's YF-19 for battroid. The legs just gives off a more solid stance, whilst Bandai's give me impression of an old man's bow legs.
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    Interesting.. my recently received item (not YF-21) from Nin-nin was packed in an entirely different way. It’s likely by now the stores already know about this issue & adjusting their packaging to be cautious. My copy is on the way from HLJ, not sure if they are doing anything for extra protection. Perhaps should have waited another week before having it shipped.
  18. MKT
    Finally received the HMR VF-0A from Nin-nin, after being in their private warehouse limbo for more than a month.
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    I agree 110%. I guess after being in the hobby for a certain time, we notice patterns emerge from toy makers over time and Bandai today is not like Bandai a decade ago. Bandai a decade ago appear to be more willing to complete lines, but Bandai today just likes to blue-balls folks. Even if they suddenly decide to continue a line after a long hiatus, the core concepts of the line can be quite different, likely due to a different person overseeing it being the large corporation that they are. I’m only noticing this seeing how the recent SHF Guile (Street Fighter) being quite different in execution than the older SHF Street Fighter figures, & Guile was released a good few years after the last release before it. And now, we may be seeing the same thing with the DX YF-21, when it looks to have different core concepts of what a DX Chogokin Macross should be. This only makes me appreciate Arcadia even more because we know Mr. K is the driving force behind their Macross products, & so far he has done well bringing his ideas of what a Macross toy should be to fruition. If the HMR Regult Scout & rest of Destroids are released I hope there won’t be any radical changes from when they were last previewed.
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    Pretty surprised the DX YF-21 has so much heft. 620g and that is almost double the DX YF-19's 335g! Even the DX VF-1 'only' weighs in at 490g.
  21. MKT
    Please do get if you can. The price dipped slightly below MSRP upon release, but now it has gone back up to be on par. I hope Bandai continues with this line, would like the Olson colours next..
  22. MKT
    I just received my first order from Nin-nin. Even their packing is reminiscent of NY - blue bubble wrap and customized shipping box that's cut to the item box size. I almost expected to see the shipper's name being 'Fiona Gomez'
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    One of the bizarre stuff that's going on with Threezero's VF-1, are the unsightly elbow joint design. Actually, I'm seeing this YF-21 having ugly elbow joints as well, but perhaps that is the least of its issues lol. Still, I've I wonder why they did the elbows this way, they are so different than one would expect.
  24. MKT
    Easiest solution I think would be just make the belly plates canon, then when coming to Gerwalk just slam on a plate cover to close the bottom cavity & emulate the ventral vents - almost like what they are already doing for delimiter mode. It'll be partsforming Gerwalk, but they are already doing so for delimiter mode anyway, and the cover will not be any different in principle to the VF-1 chest side covers. Seeing this make me realise now that Yamato's belly plates are also not canon after all. Yamato's hip skirts are much longer than they should be, whilst Bandai's went the other way and are much shorter. Ok we wait for Arcadia to tackle the YF-21 again and see how they will solve this - another 10 years perhaps..
  25. MKT
    Release date for this is supposedly July 18th - another 2 weeks. By then we'll forget all about the YF-21
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