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Love the bass guitar..

^^ Cool. Always like sunset lighted pics.

I’m not near my copy now, but from memory, the part circled in red just needs to snap into the hole at the neck plate. The circled part is the neck adapter that can be removed from the stem by just sliding it out. Snap that adapter into the neck plate, & then slide the head back in to the adapter. The stem is what allows the head to have some telescopic articulation. It’s just that when you sometimes try to pull the head up, the adapter may detach from the neck plate instead.

More CM's appreciation...

VF-17S powering down for the night..

Detail wise for the armor, the transparent pieces for the legs are now clear, instead of the previous release’s blue & red. The UN Spacy kite on left knee is now red on white, instead of white on black. In other words, it will be an exact mini-me Chogokin 1/48 Armor.

Lol I was so fixated with the black, I thought only the yellow accents were changed from a 22. Great work on the whole 21 custom there @Mog. I used to have a 1/55 KO as a kid, in what would be equivalent to the v2 VF-1S Roy low-vis colors. It got lost during a move. I do want to get it now, as I’m slowly moving to picking up older items, precisely for historical significance as you mentioned. I always felt I could pick up one up easily and so was looking at others first like the 1/72 Yammie Mac Plus items. Need to fix this 1/55 hole asap.

Yeah the more I get reacquainted with the 17, the more I appreciate its bulkiness. Love the 22 too. Bandai can take their sweet time with the 21, it’ll be sometime they move to the 22 if at all. Yes sir! Lol I was kinda shy of admitting that, since the chunky is so widely agreed to be the best valk.

Agreed on this. Yamato 17 is a bit of love-hate. Basically it is quite the polar opposite of the Chogokin 171. Sculpt is neither here nor there on both fighter & battroid, it has next to none tampo details & the legs in Fighter have a strong tendency to detach. Yet the wings stay on properly, the plastics feels very robust, and the heft is likely to be just about the heaviest per sq inch for a valk (I don't have the 1/55 chunky so perhaps that trumps it). And while the Chogokin 171 have detached quite far from the F-117 due to the long nose cone, the Yamato 17 still looks the part.

Nice restoration, and great pics @no3Ljm! Original Beagle still looks really good, and I didn't know the springs are that detailed in the last pic.

Price: Yen 13,200 (domestic tax included) Release: May 2023 PO Date: 12 Jan 2023 Hmm it says T-Rex.. did the original HM / HMR VF-1 had input from T-Rex? Or only for this release? Just can't make out any differences for this Revival other than the color..

Haha wonky scaling aside, I'm just happy Bandai made the pilot figures of better quality. And now only realized that Roy's figure is a totally different mold than Hikaru's. He appears to be physically bigger as well. This another difference from others who tend to use generic mold repaints. Roy blasting after Hikaru to provide backup..

Err.. how about 2 different shades of yellowing in within the same pic?

I watched this in 3D Imax yesterday. Before this, I had only ever watched a small handfull of movies in 3D over the past decade. The first was Avengers 2012, and that movie gave me vertigo after 15 minutes. Others were more bearable, but it just gave the feeling of watching cardboard cutouts placed at various distances from the screen, somewhat not unlike parallax scrolling sprites in the days of 2D console gaming. And so, I came to righful conclusion that 3D is not worth the extra ticket price. It is just distracting, gimmicky and encapsulates why the whole 3D industry kind of died down. Nevertheless, I always had the nagging feeling that the original Avatar in 3D would be a totally different experience from the other fake, pseudo post-processed 3D movies, due to the actual camera equipment James Cameron developed himself & used. So I gave Avatar 2 another chance in 3D, and went in with little expectations. And let me just say, I was totally BLOWN away. The 3D here has infinite depth perception, and together with the sharp CGI, totally believable creature motion, intimate camerawork, easy to follow action sequences, you are never overwhelmed but always glued in wonder from start till the end. For the price of a premium movie ticket, it is worth much more than the 10 minute 3D screen rides at theme parks, when you get a whole 3 hours EYEGASM experience here. This movie stands up for 3D visuals and that alone. It is akin to a VR scuba diving experience, and nobody does underwater sequences like James Cameron if one is familiar with his background. He kind of reminds me of Enzo Ferrari, who makes road cars only to fund his racing; and similarly James Cameron makes movies to fund his deep-sea diving explorations. If watched in 2D, it will just be another generic CGI-fest with very middling story, you'd be shortchanging yourself and wondering what the whole fuss is about, similar to what I felt when I watched the original in 2D (it was a snooze). It has to be watched in 3D or else do not watch at all. After the show, I was told that the 3D implementation here is magnitudes better than the original Avatar 3D. Here is reviewer which encapsulates what I feel about this. I agree with him 200% here. https://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/avatar-the-way-of-water

Hikaru heading off to a secret mission... One of the things I like about the DX VF-1, is how much more improved the pilot figures are over their 1/60 efforts. The molding is not only much sharper, but the paint has noticeably less bleed too. I do think it trumps Arcadia's efforts which always have the nicest pilot figures, though one can argue the DX VF-1 pilots have the benefit of being larger..

Yamcadia valks may somewhat cost double of Bandai's, but from yellowing experience they are much more resistant to it and appear to take twice as long before they turn. I have always wanted to try the fishing line method to display valks; they are a such a clean way to show them in flight. Actually bought some but never got around to doing it yet.

It took me a while to find this, but glad I got it because it is pretty unique. A 3D figure within a photo frame.

It is slim chance these days going by their current release pattern, but I hope Bandai also move on to revive the non-heroic schemes. The YF-25 Prophecy is one of my earliest valks, it is now yellowed as heck. I dug up an old pic back when it was new and re-processed it, and to me this one of the best schemes of any valk.

I hope they show the redesigned Dana soon. What's odd to me is that figures with fabric are supposed to be their new 'premium' line, and they are upgrading it when costs are already going up quite a fair bit in these times. I suppose it will be a good bonus for those of us who PO'ed early, but I expect the MSRP to jump quite a bit when the re-tool is shown.

Lol natural weathering for the valk.. This stealth paint scheme will never get old.

The shoulders are as stiff as ever

VF-22 has a weird bubble canopy, but somehow that quirk works perfectly for its overall design..