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18 minutes ago, jvmacross said:
Also got my Battlepod Pre-order figs.....opted for one "Adam" just to have one and 2 "Seth" variants...
The figs are nice and fullfill "the promise"....more or less....of a Regult with pilot
Wait, you actually got a figure to fulfill the regult preorder, or did you have to purchase these? The site doesn't show either Seth or Adam available for sale or even preorder. What do you mean by "more or less?" Are they finally fulfilling the promise to include a figure with every regult preorder? Or are you saying they're only fulfilling the promise to make a figure that fits in a regult?
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5 minutes ago, nightmareB4macross said:
You can always check sold auctions to gauge a price.
Thank you, that does give me some idea, but I don't exactly equate ebay prices to prices people here might pay. Altho, since ebay prices are usually much higher, if subtracting 13% for ebay fees, 3% PP fees, etc, I think I'd rather just keep them if I can only expect to get $60 for them.
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What are HMR SDFM valks going for these days without OE packaging? Lightly played with and transformed with all pieces and accessories meticulously accounted for. These are almost always priced with original boxes claiming to be like new. I bought a loose one without the box and no accessories for $75 shipped once, but that was a few years ago.
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If I may chime in as an owner of both; After seeing jenius's glowing review, I picked up 2 of the Yamatos (one of each type) when Bandai first announced the release causing Yammie prices to plummet temporarily. I thought they were excellent toys, but yeah, they kinda do need some support in battroid/gerwalk. Personally, I love the incredible detail that Bandai puts into their valks, but with the dark blue color, I really don't feel it's necessary and like the simpler look of the Yamato. I'm a huge fan of the DX line in general, and usually MUCH prefer them to Arcadia/Yamato offerings, but this is the one sole exception for me (altho, I will pass on the DX 17 and am looking for a Yamato version). The only saving grace of the DX is the bigger legs. Otherwise, I hate how the backpack was designed, and the fighter mode just doesn't look right either. If I could swap the DX legs onto the Yamato, I would. But there's no models except battroid only, non-transforming ones that really get the anime magic right in battroid where the backpack isn't ginormous. Kinduv impossible otherwise.
Btw, I would NOT recommend settling for the 1/72 Yamato version! It is complete garbage imho.
And because everyone likes pics, here's my Yamato YF-21 posed with my DX YF-19:
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Hey all, just wondering if anyone has seen or bought this? Just saw it in my suggested items on Amazon this morning, and it... actually looks pretty good with some good reviews too! The brand name is totally sus tho, "Stadrewvy". 😄 This is clearly a knockoff brand, so does anyone know if this is from some name brand like Mega Blocks, etc.?Edit; This got moved from my new thread to here, so my questions are moot. Thanks mods! Sorry I didn't see this thread, but I didn't remember ever seeing it come up before in the new activity (and I look at it nearly every day).
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He seems to have a lot of extra figs for custom painting. Must be all the ones that were supposed to come with the regults. Glad he has the luxury of making all these customs that nobody wants instead of shipping what his customers actually paid for.
Unsubscribed, and not buying anything else from KC even if they come out with a Kakizaki fig or a 1/2000 TV SDFM. Get stuffed KC!
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14 hours ago, Protoman said:
Three Zero are not messing around pumping these out! Ben Dixon VF-1A incoming.
Still no XL Steak accessory, but...
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Pardon me if this offends the Ace Combat fandom here as I am not a gamer by any means, but does this game require using a flight stick accessory to play effectively? I tried playing AC7 on my PS5 and found it completely unplayable with a standard controller and settings. It was so awful that I didn't even bother trying to adjust anything. I couldn't get anything I was trying to fly towards - even static things - to stay on screen let alone within my reticle. But I'm not very precise with tiny sensitivities of analogue sticks, so I assume it's just not for me. But I was a "Genius" at Robotech; Battlecry. I really miss that game. Blast into a war zone in fighter mode with missile salvos, drop into battroid with guns akimbo hitting incoming missiles, grab or do something or other and blast out of there in gerwalk while strafing regults around buildings. Man that was a great game! AC7 did not scratch that itch tho.
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Thinking of placing a pre-order for M&Ms at BBTS; What are the current tariff charges looking like? I tried googling and couldn't make sense of it.
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7 hours ago, m0n5t3r said:
they're gonna stay 99% of the time in battroid cuz that's mode they shine the most in, imo.
I respectfully disagree. With great balance in the mode, a backpack that folds up nicely with an antenna, a gunpod strap, crystal clear canopy with good interior/pilot detail, the flaps on the legs that allow the feet to articulate, perfect scale SDMF fixed pose hands, not to mention the head that drops down perfectly underneath, I would submit that this is by far the best in gerwalk in which mine stays on my shelf at work here. THAT HEAD DROP THO! It's beautiful! All that batroid has but with the wings out and canopy cleared. I hate gerwalk in almost every later valk, but I will always have a soft spot for VF-1 Gerwalk. And this one nails it!😍
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11 hours ago, twich said:
Update:
Much as I had anticipated, BBTS said that they can only offer a refund for the item returned. While this is very generous of BBTS, I am not going to take them up on it. I will just keep the canopy glued closed and move on. Like I have said before, unless ThreeZero comes out with something like a 1/60 transforming YF-4 or a transforming Legioss, I am done with ThreeZero. I like the design of their VF-1's, but the QC is just not adequate. my $0.02 cents.
Twich
They have VF-1S in stock currently. They offered a full refund but not a replacement? Or are you talking about a different model they don't have in stock?
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6 minutes ago, Big s said:
maybe try using the long top cannon from a Glaug , might actually fit in without a whole lotta modifications
That's actually exactly what I was thinking, but perhaps with some extension and extra optics. Of course @Bolt is right, the glaug itself seems like a much more natural choice, and I do have a 1/72 model kit. I guess I just thought of it as a more laid back, high rank officer vehicle that was all about big firepower and not as maneuverable. Regults seem more suited for articulation and crouching that a sniper would need.
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Glad I'm not alone in this thinking. I specifically avoided the HMR Regults and Glaug because I didn't feel that they matched scale with the valks very well. I bought 1/72 model kits but was excited to see the KC toy. Although, now that I'm collecting everything in 1/60 scale, I guess I'll never have properly scaled regults... unless I or someone else ever 3D prints them.
Speaking of Regult model kits, I was planning on building mine as a non-canon custom sniper model. It seems like something that should probably exist considering there's a scout model (and now that I say that, I think I need a spec ops scout to go with it as a pair!). Has anyone already built something like this? I was thinking of doing some sort of stealth/starfield camo and/or sticking with the regult color scheme except with a shift to black and purple.
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1 hour ago, Big s said:
But I haven’t heard that the joint rotates to allow the elbow armor to cover the arm.
They've been using the same style elbows on all of their figures and this doesn't look any different. Every elbow in these toy pics looks like it lines up in a different place on the arm too. I know we're all hating on KC right now which is fair, but this just seems like it's not only a moot point in regards to toy function not to mention a clear design element based on the actual art. I mean, in the mecha manual pic I posted, it clearly shows every. single. armor. with elbows like that (and even some of your pics trying to prove otherwise). I just don't understand where this is coming from, but I'll digress now.
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Not to be rude, but... why does it matter? This is just the stock pose and how it's packaged. They got the shape right and it's clearly on a swivel peg (like a revoltech joint) so you can rotate it however you like just like valkyrie arms that came built and packaged the exact same way, but nobody complained about this on their HMR valks:
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9 hours ago, Big s said:
just wondering why they keep putting elbow guards at the sides?
Everyone keeps mentioning the side elbow guards and saying how silly it looks (and I don't disagree), but that's exactly how they're depicted in the animation. All the line art depicts it. It's in every zentran/meltran armor in both the show and movie. It's like a major, common design element of not only personnel armor, but also the valkyries.
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BBTS preorder is up now too if you don't want to deal with international shipping costs and want US based service/returns. Looks like the privilege will cost an extra hundo tho, so not great.
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16 hours ago, mikeszekely said:
I've heard stories about Nissan's CVT issues, but I had a 2017 Maxima I drove (hard) until this year. Had absolutely no issues with it, it remains one of the best cars I've owned.
CVT is a great idea, and like anything, it has to be built right. My only problem with them is that they're often programmed counter to it's design philosophy; It's supposed to allow your engine to run smoothly at it's peak efficiency without major changes in RPM for the given conditions, but it's often programmed to meet human expectations by making it sound like it's shifting which is not ideal for a CVT to be jumping the belt back and forth across the cones.
As a manual loving car guy, I actually loved my Ford CMax which had a smoothly programmed CVT in it. I leased it tho and would NEVER own one, although I know plenty of people at my workplace who've had theirs for years now. Chevy did what is imho the best hybrid implementation on the Volt; You need to make the engine a generator and drive the car on electric alone, not as a assist stuck between the engine and wheels. I always hated how the CMax would turn the COLD engine on when it needed power and rev it to the max to get it. But, if you kept the battery charged up, it hardly ever used it in city driving. I had the person at the service desk AT THE DEALER chastise me for not changing my oil at 4k mi. I'm like the engine never runs. Once a year is fine and even at that I was changing it MORE often than recommended.
Funny story with that car... My wife, I, and our 1yr old toddler just starting to walk were going up north to spend time at Lake Wazee and decided to take the "back roads." The car handled the roads like a champ, and I was always impressed with it's handling. Within a few miles of the lake, my options were to get on the highway and take the normal route in, but I saw all these smaller roads leading into the area and decided to cross the highway keeping on the road I was already going down. THEN IT STARTED TO POUR RAIN! Seemed like a nicely paved road at first, but then the lines went away. Ok, but still a nice paved road. Then the road started to narrow until the point where I didn't feel safe attempting to turn back because I was obviously going to get stuck if one tire went off the pavement in this low slung car with like 3" of clearance. It was still paved tho, so we kept going. Then the pavement slowly faded into hard packed tarred gravel. Then hard gravel... then sandy, muddy gravel... and before I know it, I'm doing my absolute damnedest to keep my speed up and my car out of and on top of the muddy, sandy ruts with the traction control constantly cutting power until I found a panicked moment to jam my finger at the traction button. I made it through a mile of this, down a muddy valley and finally up a sandy hill to crest back onto the safety of a paved road again. PHEW! Then around the next corner... mother nature said NO! Road was flooded out about 3' deep. F*&^!!! Now I have to drive BACK THROUGH all that mud again! And it ain't getting dryer cuz it's still pouring down rain! And I have no idea where to tell a tow truck to get me even if they WOULD. But by some miracle we made it. Then my kid went to get out of the car at the lake and promptly landed flat on her face on the pavement.
Poor kid had a scratched up face, but she was ok. Then the sun came out, we enjoyed the rest of the day, and TOOK THE HIGHWAY HOME!!! Afterwards the car's suspension started making a clunk sound of a broken front sway bar link, so I took it to the dealer fully expecting them to say that it wasn't covered under warranty because I obviously took it off roading, but to my surprise, they covered it!
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Good to see some love for the ol' 262. I've got one of mine set up at work along with a 3Zero VF-1J. In battroid mode, I hate having the wings all up in the air like it's about to go gliding, but it looks a heck of a lot better down low like sortuva mechanical cape... and the big gun sticking up there seems very Macross imho.
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I hope that the statement, "the items will be shipped with the Alus Edition UHD Blu-rays" means that the discs are coming soon. This has been dragging on for a while now. I know there was some extra stuff going on, but these were originally promised by last December.
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I thought I read somewhere that the styrofoam these were packed in was the cause of yellowing. If that's the case, then keeping them in the boxes may have been the problem.
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@Sildani, I'll bite on that one. For such a low budget, you might be better off going with one of the windows based gaming handhelds. I recently went with a Steamdeck because it's purpose built with a dedicated linux gaming OS that's easier on power than Windows, but there's no support for Tarkov, so that wouldn't work for you. But there's plenty of great options out there like the MSI Claw, Asus Rogue, Lenovo Legion (which actually has both SteamOS dedicated support and Windows, so you could dual boot), etc. These are all within your budget iirc.
Old school/serious PC gamers may write these off, but the tech is seriously capable now (other than battery life, get an external one), and they all have docking options, bluetooth controllers, and double as a standard PC. Will they do 4k with ray tracing at 120hz? Not even close, but I think most of the latest models can meet your stated expectations not to mention being portable. Some can even connect to external GPUs, although that's not really all that practical... yet. Asus makes a good go of that but it's expensive. USB C vsn5 works but isn't quite up to the task, and the only one that has a PCI connection is the older Asus model.
Just my 2¢.
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22 hours ago, Shawn said:
The Spartan was always an oddball choice in the Macross Universe.
You get all these jet-jockeys and Phalanx and Defenders shooting and lobbing missiles from afar, but then this conversation surely happened in some back office of OTM Destroid research....
'You know what I want to do Joe? I want to PUNCH a Regult, Right in the freaking mouth. Maybe even bash it's head in with a club"
"Geez Jerry, maybe you should take some time off, go on vacation, clear your head a little. I hear Ataria Island is taking tourists again"
Jerry walks away, shaking his head, "right in the freaking mouth" heard just under his breath....
But seriously (well, half), these things have shoulder mounted missiles, cannons front and back... and freakin' valks have hands for no apparent tactical reason other than holding a ridiculous, handheld gun that makes zero sense (if design was considered BEFORE they knew they'd be tackling space giants). At least Spartans have big, heavy duty hands for both load handling and non explosive, close range tactical use on a SPACE ship where you don't exactly wanna be firing inside your own ship. In that regard these things make perfect sense.
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DX Chogokin VF-17S
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I've considered this several times too, but every time I do, I look at it and... it's just SO. DANG. CHONKY. And unrefined, looks too much like a child's toy. I don't mind the new DX and will probably pick one up when it sells for under $200, so thank you to all you picky collectors that are going to make it super cheap for me!