Boobytrap
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Looks like it to me just based on the screw covers between the tail fins.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Boobytrap replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
I know you were asking Alex, but I also recently received the Megatron re-issue. I purchased it from NY specifically to ensure it would not come with the orange plug. -
Google translate says that there are even some movable joints. Not too bad for 3000 yen. Hopefully YJA has a bunch of these available.
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HLJ payment request for ELINT received and paid for. Hopefully they ship it out soon so I can get it next week.
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Gimme gimme gimme. Although it looks like the paint on one of the squares is a little sloppy. Hopefully that's not a regular issue.
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Super Macross Mecha Fun Time Discussion Thread!
Boobytrap replied to Valkyrie Driver's topic in Movies and TV Series
Ok that makes sense. If I understand correctly, we weren't like the Goa'uld in Stargate where we just took some alien tech and slapped it on things or just used it as is. We were able to reverse engineer the new technology and use that to fuel our own imaginations to make what was previously impossible possible. Even apply it in ways that it was not directly being used for in the ASS-1. In essence what was developed is what humans would have eventually arrived at anyway, the ASS-1 just gave us a cheat sheet to bypass all those pesky years of discovery and trial & error developing it on our own. When it came to the reverse engineering part, were there any technical manuals or data files or things of that nature found that humans could use (once translated of course) or did they have to do everything by breaking down the technology/materials directly? I know they were using the resources of the entire planet to understand it as quickly as possible but 10 years seems like such a short time to take such large leaps, not just in understanding but mass application as well. Give the people of 1899 an F-14 and I highly doubt that they could replicate it in 10 years let alone apply what they learned technologically to every mundane facet of life, like soda vending machines. -
Super Macross Mecha Fun Time Discussion Thread!
Boobytrap replied to Valkyrie Driver's topic in Movies and TV Series
So I've been reading though this whole thread (so much wonderful information) and I read something that got me thinking. It was mentioned that the UN forces designed the valkyrie to fight against the large aliens they knew had inhabited the ASS-1 but that they were unaware that those same aliens possessed personal war craft so weren't expecting to go up against the Regult's, Glaug's, etc... when the Zentradi arrived. I had always assumed that the valkyrie technology was inspired by the fact that the Zentradi craft had arms and legs but humans just decided to make it transformable (a feature the Zentradi had no need of since they were expendable grunts). So if humans didn't directly get the anthropomorphic technology from the ASS-1 how did they develop it? What technology did the ASS-1 provide to the humans? How much of what we see the humans using in 2009 is true alien tech? How much of it is human tech advanced by alien tech? How much of it was human tech that would have most likely been developed with or without the arrival of the ASS-1? -
I really hope they don't go this route. Arcadia prices for their standard releases are already at the high end of what I can afford to pay for a valk on a regular basis. If they get rid of those and only release premiums then it would have to be no more Arcadia toys for me.
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Nope not gonna bite on this one. Arcadia already charges a premium price for their products. Adding an additional $100 for tampo on the VF-0 will put it over $400. It's one thing to pay that amount (or more) for a special one time piece like the SDF-1. Paying that amount of money for a valk is way too far out of my budget. At least this release will give my wallet a chance to recover from all the spending I am doing the first half of this year.
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Thankfully, no.
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Took the pin out of the neck and confirmed that there was some extra flashing on both sides of the piece with the neck post. Sanded that off and now the head can be posed and hold its position properly. Thank goodness for quick easy fixes.
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Got my Max yesterday. So nice to finally have M & M side by side. Unfortunately it didn't arrive issue free. The left head laser is really loose. Should be an easy fix with some Future but until then I can't pose it in any mode without it falling down. Also have an issue with the neck part that flips around when going from fighter to battroid. It won't stay level when in battroid and keeps swiveling back so that the head is always looking up. I'm assuming it's just due to a little extra plastic around the joint that is pushing it out of position. I'm planning to remove the pin connecting the pieces to clean it out. Hopefully that resolves the issue. Both minor issues but no one likes to have to take apart and fix a $200 collectible as soon as it arrives. No regrets though. It wasn't that long ago that I thought there would be no way for me to afford this pair. Now I have them and couldn't be happier.
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This ones tough. I could easily put the VF-1 in all three categories as it is my number one favorite. My number two favorite is the VF-2SS but no toy has really captured it for me. So leaving those two out I'd pick the following: Fighter - VF-4G (this was the easiest pick of them all) followed by VF-27 Gerwalk - VF-31 followed by VF-0 Battroid - SV-262 followed by YF-19
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Got my VF-2SS last night. Honestly, I was hoping for Bandai to do a better job than what we got so was a little disappointed. There is very little holding it together other than joint friction. For now, at least, those joints are nice and tight so it feels pretty solid. But if any of them get loose in the future it could become a floppy mess. Since things, especially the arms and legs, don't have a true locking point it also takes lots of futzing to position things in just the right place. It was pretty easy to get it from battroid to fighter but once in fighter it took at least an extra 10 minutes to get everything positioned just right. Adjust the leg, the backpack flap disconnects, reposition the flap, the chest untabs, re-tab the chest, the legs are out of position again, and on and on. Overall I still like it and would get any other variants if they released them. Maybe I was just expecting too much from this scale for something that required a lot of anime magic. Hopefully after messing around with it for a few days my opinion of it will improve.
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Droooooool. Love the clear orange canopy, among many other things. Hope the production release has that too.
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I have a VF-19S that has been transformed several times without incident. With my 19K I have only transformed it twice and have the broken shoulder along with a broken elbow. I'm sure it's just bad luck but still makes me go :/ every time I look at it.
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Wholeheartedly. The end of the month can't get here fast enough.
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I don't see how it could be any worse. I like the ET VF-2SS for what it is but it would be a MASSIVE fail on Bandai's part if they weren't able to improve on it.
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Mine also broke in almost the exact same place. The only difference was that it was the part in the shoulder where you have the pin inserted in your pic. I know the pain of trying to take that shoulder apart and put it back together. I was never able to get it fixed as any fix I would do (Plasti-Weld, pla plate reinforcement, etc...) would keep breaking. It's in perma-fighter mode now.
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I also got the preparation in progress email from NY on 10/19 and it shipped out with EMS early this morning. NY really needs to hire more warehouse staff, or at the very least prioritize shipping EMS over SAL. When people pay extra for EMS shipping they shouldn't have to wait a week for it to go out the door.
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Opened up the packet with the instructions and stickers. Looks like the serial number is on a piece of paper in there. Or at least I'm assuming that's what it is since I cant read anything else on it. They also included a strip of extra screw cover stickers cuz you know they're awesome and stuff
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There aren't any plugs in the arms, they just covered the screws with stickers. The screws aren't deep enough in the arms to be covered with plugs.
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I'm sure they were trying to recreate the red to match the surrounding area they were being inserted to. The part of the legs where they are being inserted is also white plastic painted red. Unfortunately they don't match exactly, most likely because the paint on the plug is too thin so it makes it a lighter shade of red than the surrounding area. The plugs in the upper thighs are unpainted red plastic so match perfectly with the surrounding unpainted red plastic. I didn't even realize they were there on first inspection. The stickers though...
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Looked all over but did not see a serial number.
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Got my Milia this past weekend. It was nice to have the tampo triangles back on the sides of the cockpit as well as the numbers on the tail and leg fins. I was surprised with how dark the red is. Not sure if that is consistent with the V2 though. Can't say I'm a fan of the screw covers. In the legs they appear to be painted plastic plugs. It's a close color match but not perfect. The arms though seem to just be a sticker placed over the screw. The color doesn't match as well for those. If they were going to use a sticker I would have preferred that they give them to us on a sheet for us to decide to apply them or not. In the end I'm pretty jazzed to have this in my collection. Next up Max!