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So, does anyone have any insight as to why this was pushed to W3 2024 on the ShowZStore Website? 
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8 minutes ago, jenius said:

Bump so people can discuss the upcoming fugo God of Flame

Thank you for bumping this thread, don’t know why the search didn’t direct me to this thread…..

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On 3/10/2024 at 3:20 PM, jenius said:

Why is this in the Kitzconcept thread?

I tried looking for the FG Model FG-1S God of Flame KO thread and couldn’t find one, except mentioned in this one…..sorry, trying to keep the talk in the same place….

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Anyone else see that the FG MODEL FG-01 VF-1S God of Flame has been moved to a 3rd Quarter 2024 release on ShowZstore?

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Don’t know if this was discussed/discovered before, but it looks like it has an articulated waist at the nosecone. Did anyone see the release date? First quarter 2024 ends in a few weeks….. 

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5 hours ago, sumyumgoy said:

Sweet, nice pick ups!   I actually work nearby and had no idea it was there.  I'll have to stop by and check it out.  Hope you had a great time in NYC.

 

I pinged ya. 

 

 

Thanks! The other guy in the picture actually lives on Long Island and was a godsend playing tour guide/subway/commuter train guide!

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So, I am vacationing in New York right now, went into Times Square, to the Tamashii Nations store and scored me a Bandai DX Chogokin YF-19 AND a Tiny Sessions VF-25F Metallic Tamashii Nationd Store exclusive! I also got a Tamashii Nations Metal Build Strike Gundam Heliopolis Rollour Version Tamashii Store exclusive with the Launcher Striker add on set!

-PS- I’m the one holding the bags!

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5 hours ago, Convectuoso said:

No. Translation says it's a Battroid mode only resin cast kit. It may be the old wave kit

It does look like it is advertising Max’s VF-22S Sturmvogel II, is that right?

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I think that Arcadia could make some serious cash if they were to re-release some of those things that few people had the opportunity to acquire, such as the 1/60 Premium Finish VF-0S and VF-0D, heck, release all the Macross Zero 1/60, but make the “Premium Finish” the regular release to compete with Bandai’s DX Chogokin tampo printing.  Also, Arcadia could have released a WWM edition VF-1J for the 40th. They did it for 30&35.

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22 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

I figured the single knee joint would suffice, but a set of hinges capable of a 'z' formation to elevate the lower leg parallel to the ground may prove a more efficient design. Said second hinge could extend and retract out of the lower leg. I've got a LEGO YF-21 in early stages of design, and I may try applying these ideas. 

Thanks! Toy collecting and an incorrigible sweet tooth are my two main vices (as well as a cultivated predilection for frequent profanity), so I indulge in my hobbies. This represents 40+ years of collecting. Did anyone notice that the middle shelf above my desk is also made entirely of LEGO? There was a lot of wasted vertical space there, so I made a shelf to store more of my Classic Space sets. In retrospect, it probably would have been cheaper and less time consuming than just buying a shelf and brackets, but it was a different sort of project than I usually do, so what the heck.

I pretend it doesn't exist or else I would descend into madness. I've been meaning to get a makeup brush- very soft bristles; my buddy uses one to dust his LEGO collection and I've been meaning to get one, too, as it would likely be useful on my figures as well. Just a little more care with them due to protruding and loose bits.

If the nacelle was to be employed as a storage method for the legs, they'd likely have to be widened, and due to the arm positions in fighter, they'd naturally have to be widened towards the center, which is ideal for the legs while accounting for the arm divots. I hadn't thought of using David's 'z' type hinge arrangement, but I've long entertained the idea that those nacelles seemed the perfect way to stow the legs while keeping the overall fighter profile fairly shallow, more so than Kawamori's prescribed laterally rotated legs allow, as we've seen. Yamato's only choice in keeping with Kawamori's line art was to thin the legs out disproportionately to favor the fighter mode. It's a gorgeous fighter, but as a battroid fan, it never appealed to me, as I couldn't unsee how awkward and just wrong it looked.

If I were designing the toy, I'd only consider using metal with stout plastic ratchet joints securely ensconced within to affect such an important set of joints. They need to be able to withstand a lot of manipulation, torque, and easily bear the weight of the toy in both battroid and GERWALK configurations. It's a lot of demand on one small area of the toy, but essential to its functionality and durability. No skimping.  I mentioned earlier a schema where the lower joint would retract into the leg, but what if both joints were connected by a short linkage which, in battroid, sits parallel to the ground: O-O  where the right hinge attaches to the upper leg and the left to the lower leg. The right hinge would allow for forward knee bend in GERWALK, the left hinge for normal knee movement in battroid, and, after rotating the leg 180 degrees at the thigh swivel, the two hinges together could be manipulated 180 degrees into David's 'z' arrangement raising the lower leg into the nacelle cavities. It's a lot of manipulation, but I think it would offer an effective result.                                                                                                                                 

😄None on most days. I'm quite mindful of where the really precarious things are and do my best to skirt around them. Not so my wife, who has a singular talent for always finding the one thing that's sticking out just a tad too far and knocking it over. Additionally, she has a care factor of zero, so it's of no concern if she bumps something of mine over. Actually, she's like that with just about everything- knick-knacks, whatever. I've glued a number of knick-knacks back together over the last 21 years. 

LOL! The lack of spousal care of our toys leads me to place my things at least 2 feet taller than my wife, but have only had one episode of things being knocked off the shelf, many a Gundam and my Bandai DX Chogokin VF-19Advance were the casualties and the head laser broke off! Super glue and a tooth pick made that fixable. Good to see you around M’Kyuun!

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15 hours ago, Spark-O-Matic said:

Thanks! some big differences I just thought all the ones I seen were just different levels of detail. what's kind of funny I thought was how both Macross & Transformers started out with crashed alien ships on remote parts of earth, that both transformed earth vehicles into transforming robots, both ships themselves transformed into giant robots. who would win in a hand to hand fight? TV SDF-1 or The Ark?

I think that contest would be a matter of scale. A SDF Macross is 1200 meters long for SDF-1 and longer for subsequent models(battle 13, 25,.etc). How big is The Ark? The Ark, also is a living robot. SDF/Battle are essential giant piloted mecha that lack the articulation of smaller VF scale mecha. Now Macross Quarter? If the Ark was in the 400 meter scale, then it might be a more interesting battle.

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So, I was sent the same email that was posted above about the Animego Macross 2 Kickstarter and I broke down and upgraded to the basic->basic plus artbook for an additional $32 USD.  I can not be sure that this will not be the last thing that we get to see as fans of Macross 2, so I thought that this was worth the extra $32.  I am looking forward to receiving this, since it wont come out until December 2024, I will probably have forgotten all about it and this will be a welcome surprise!  I hope that Bandai or Arcadia sees the interest in this and makes a DX Chogokin VF-2SS

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This discussion seems to remind me of the discussion had with transforming the Bandai DX Chogokin SV-262Hs toy.  Still the only Macross jet to give me actual anxiety to transform.  I have one of these on pre-order and am remembering the glory days of Yamato’s 1/72 YF-21, then the revised version that came with fast packs and extendo hands/wrists that Yamato included due to feedback.

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4 hours ago, azrael said:

Just so people understand my absolute, utter revulsion at the person doing the SEED  lineart, I will post these gems, courtesy of 4chan.

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for infinite Justice Gundam 2.0, it looks like they took an Incom T-65B X-Wing Fighter and attached beam weapons to go in between the engines and the wingtip laser cannons and stuck it to the back of Infinite Justice......I kinda liked the old Green Goblin thing that Justice and Infinite Justice had.....

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I have a feeling that this will be in the 25,000-30,000 yen range from Arcadia. Hope it is as easy to get as Bandai’s WWM releases.

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53 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Yeah, Master File cites Mach 3 as the handoff point where the intakes for the ramjet switch from being used for engine cooling to being used as an actual ramjet engine.

Ideally, no more than two engines would be active at any one time.  Conceivably, no more than four at the absolute maximum.

 

Sort of?  AFAIK the official setting materials don't comment on how the VF-1's engines operate near its maximum airspeed.

Variable Fighter Master File: VF-1 Valkyrie Vol.1 presents an operating scenario where the VF-1's engine switches from a kinda-sorta low bypass turbofan jet engine to a ramjet or scramjet configuration by closing the primary intake and opening a secondary intake at the knee joint and bypass inlet to allow air to flow directly into the turbine body instead of passing through the precompressor or primary compressor stages.  It's said that it operates as a ramjet from Mach 2.5 to Mach 7.2, and as a scramjet above that.  It switches to thermonuclear rocket propulsion at/above the atmospheric service limit where the air is too thin to support turbine/ramjet/scramjet operation.

 

Probably, yeah.  

I’m sorry, I had always assumed that the max speed of the VF-1 was below Mach 4, even in space. Am I mistaken? I knew a little about the ramjet being operable in speeds of above Mach 3. I know the boosters on the super packs for the VF-1 have quite a bit of thrust, but limited in fuel capacity. 
I find it disappointing that so little information is available on the VF-4.

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So, I don’t think this has been answered before, but what is the total thrust that the VF-4A or VF-4G can produce? We know what the Thermo Nuclear Reaction Engines produce, but what about the rockets? What about the Ramjets? The VF is rather unique with all of its engines and sources of thrust. Only the VB-6 comes close with its engines. Does the Variable Fighter Master File even touch on this?

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So, I contributed to this at its most basic level. I guess I was unaware that this would not be arriving in our hands until December 2024. Probably my ignorance of these things, as I had never been on kickstarter before this, but didn’t realize the timeframe. I am super excited that I will get a 4K copy of Macross 2, to go along with my old copy of Animego’s Super Dimension Fortress Macross that they did……

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I know that Yamato is focusing on their VF-19Kai Fire Valk Sound Booster release, but it sure would be nice for a release on the VF-5000.

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2 hours ago, cheemingwan1234 said:

Speaking of which, I wonder how does a non-monkey model VF-19A compare to a 5th Gen VF?

And what could we see in 6th Gen VFs?

Engine thrust is about 1000kN more in the basic VF-25A then in the basic VF-19A, which is in the 600kN range per engine. 5th Gen has ISC, which the VF-19 and other 4th Gen VF’s don’t have.

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I was very surprised and happy when my wife got the preorder through BBTS yesterday. I am very excited for this and can’t wait for this to arrive!

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15 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

They only did the VF-2SS, the quality was ok but not great, and like Bandai before them they did the super-armed pack as a detachable setup so it is considerably chunkier than it is in the animation and looks kind of terrible.

They did do three separate color schemes for the VF-2SS, the red stripe Sylvie type, the blue stripe Nex Gilbert type, and the yellow stripe women's version used by the other three members of Fairy Platoon.

I was aware of the 1/60 scale Evolution Toys VF-2SS effort and also how it was almost universally reviled by almost all.  I should have been more specific about wanting a Bandai DX Chogokin VF-2SS, VF-2JA and Metal Siren. Thank You!

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Maybe all of this interest in Macross II Blu-ray/UHD disk release will convince a reputable toy maker that we finally need a 1/60 scale VF-2SS, VF-2JA, Metal Siren toy that we all have been craving since Macross II released on VHS.

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7 hours ago, 26662 said:

Response from Threezero regarding release of VF-1J:

 

”We are sorry that there is a delay with the release of ROBO-DOU VF-1J Veritech (Rick Hunter) and the estimated shipping date would be in the 1st quarter of 2024.

Best Regards,
Threezero CS”

Well, I guess it is official!

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I am getting this as a pre-order for a Christmas present from my wife, I have never owned a DX VF-171, but I love the design.  This picture of the matte finish, looks fantastic.

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