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  1. Sanity is Optional
    Looks like no articulated wings on these either. Doyusha VF-1/YF-19/YF-21 all had articulated wings.
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    Ouch, that's unfortunate.
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    Alternatively, aside from refresh rate and number of colors, e-ink is just plain better. Massive increase in battery life, which also allows for smaller batteries and smaller/lighter devices. Much easier on the eyes than a backlit LCD/LED screen Can be more easily viewed in bright light/outdoors Personally, apart from watching youtube, I find I much prefer the new e-ink tablet to my phone or ipad. I bought it to use as a mobile textbook during my masters, but I've ended up using it for a lot more than that. Also works well for keeping tabletop gaming reference books on. For what it's worth, it has a much better refresh rate than older e-ink devices. Under a second, or 2-3 per sec in fast or B+W modes. Haven't had any refresh rate annoyances when taking notes or reading, or when using the browser.
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    I was really surprised that there's so few e-ink readers aside from Kindles. I imagine there will be more coming now that e-ink is cheaper, and the Kindles are getting loaded with advertisements, plus how they only work with kindle books from Amazon. It's wild to me that the tablet and cellphone market is so diverse, but options for e-ink are so limited.
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    Bit of a different topic, but still electronics: Was in the market for an e-reader/tablet the other day for something to take notes and read books on, ended up getting a Boox Tab Ultra C Pro. Quite happy with it, runs android, has a SD card slot, camera, good built-in reader software with the ability to take notes on the files. Built-in note app as well, and a scanner with the camera. I've had it for a month and only charged it up once so far. I wouldn't use it to watch videos, since the color e-ink display only has 150 dpi (300dpi B+W), and the refresh rate isn't great for videos, but for reading/internet/note taking it's great.
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    Yes, tales of wedding rings. Fairly well done (and well animated) check-box isekai harem. It's nice that there isn't a whole lot of relationship drama or misunderstandings in it, and the characters themselves aren't obnoxious (which is unusual for a harem show...)
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    It's a shame that it didn't have a better budget. The characters and plot (and plot) are all decent to good, the manga is fun and has great art. Then it's getting upstaged in terms of looking good as an anime by that harem isekai this season.
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    Some of y'all seriously overestimate the collectibles market for Macross, and underestimate how much money it costs to start up a new production run, even for an existing mold.
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    To be fair, voltron has a much simpler transformation, and given the era was probably designed with implementation as a toy in mind (like Transformers). The YF-21 was designed to look cool, with transformation accuracy a secondary concern, and toy viability not even considered. I'll be happy if the YF-21 looks good in Battroid and has good articulation. Since I already have the Yamato for fighter mode.
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    They also made the VF-1 and SV-262.
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    Looking at the pictures from behind, it certainly does seem like the side-armor for the legs isn't fully in-place for whatever reason.
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    So like the Tomytec macross kits then?
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    Still waiting on Sheryl, to follow up Ranka and Klan. Prob going to skip all the Walkure, though I probably wouldn't if I didn't already have several 31 VFGs.
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    Now do the rest of sound force.
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    I eagerly await the various MOC fixes for it so it doesn't look so wrong. Mind you, I'm usually the last one to complain about proportions and such, but it's just so far off.
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    That Tantiv IV looks like someone shrunk its head.
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    ¥38,370 is a decent price. Only ¥3,170 markup (including domestic shipping).
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    Metallic Rouge seems to me to just be a Bladerunner/generic scifi themed transforming superhero show (Gridman, Garo, Ultraman, etc...) I will say, however, that I am eagerly awaiting the OST, since so far the soundtrack has been quite nice.
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    It’s worth mentioning that the places you see pins in thin segments are light load. The backpack connection would be a high load area, and see much more force than for example the various collapsing fins on other toys.
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    Honestly, given how horrible the anime magic is on the source material, I'll forego lineart accuracy for either "looks good" or "poses well". Yamato seems to have gone for fighter mode and looking good, whereas Bandai tried to optimize posing well and Battroid. I'll reserve judgement until I get mine in hand, but the Yamato one certainly is not what I'd call the ultimate imagining of the -21, outside of fighter mode.
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    I still need to put together my 1/24 Hachette strike VF-1… Sure, the final thing will be huge, but it’ll still be smaller than the 150 boxes of subscription kit.
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    Well, missed all those postings, here's hoping my proxy is able to get me one. If not, guess it's time to stalk Mandarake listings.
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    Maybe it's so when the mechanics swap out the hardpoint wings they don't get mixed up on which set to grab? 🤣
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    Also worth mentioning there is an insurance upper limit for surface shipments.
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    I got mine charged, I think yours is probably back-ordered.
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