Trifalger
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I imagine that’s going to be my response as well but what can you do? There’s nothing like it. I imagine in the future it will be smoothed out but like the Arcadia version there’s no knowing when/if that’ll happen.
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A very cool Japanese review up on 2chan. Shows new heel can actually be positioned in-line with fuselage. My main concern alleviated a little though now all the reports of QC issues. His seems to be unaffected. https://nov.2chan.net/y/res/3794910.htm
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Proof that the gun can mount vertically with the arm cannon in fighter mode. From here https://toy-hound.com/dx-yf-19-fullsetpack-review/
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You guys might've gotten lucky with the Amazon.co.jp listing. That's the only time I've seen it available prime and still very low.
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First back-side of the box I've seen
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A view of some of the inside packaging. https://www.metal-box.jp/blog/index.php/archives/29525
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Oops. Mistaken post and didn't know how to delete it :/
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Ha, you’re apparently right. In Nihon-Shiki romanization it is “si” and in Hepburn, which is more modern, it is shi. That’s a shame it was so widely used for so long as it doesn’t properly correlate to English use outside of Japan. It doesn’t surprise me though. It used to be a huge sore spot for me teaching English to Japanese that I didn’t understand the nature of their previous English education. I just always assumed they learned romaji the way my Japanese studies taught translated into Japanese.
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That seems pretty bold of Bandai I think in light of all of the inaccuracies like the fin colors, fin stencil placement, fin gap with fast packs, or the obvious “Sinsei Industry” misprint. That last one is weird. Shinsei means rebirth and is in any Japanese-English dictionary. しんせい, shi n sei. Makes you question how thorough they are with these releases. Despite that, I’m honestly terribly thankful there is still a strong enough fanbase to merit new iterations of the YF-19 and hope it continues.
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Wow. I didn’t know the thrusters weren't centered. I skipped the VF-19 hoping in Bandai’s 2nd run they’d squash any issues. That seems to be the case somewhat but I really don’t know why their design department is taking liberties.
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I think I found out what happened with the heels. For some reason Bandai didn't take Arcadia's design cue on the YF-19 with the VF-19 Advance and made the heel piece without an arch so it sits flat instead, making that awkward space that obviously Bandai felt they needed to rectify with the new design. With the Bandai YF-19 full set pack, again, rather than draw from Arcadia they kept the heel flat and simply filled in the upper heel space making them chunkier and hazarding airflow obstruction by forcing them above the fuselage in fighter mode. I'd only hope that hopefully the heels can recess a little to bring them flush with the body of the craft in fighter mode.
