rematron

Don’t hold your breath.

Yes please! I’ve referred to Scorched Earth/anymoon.com since I started collecting. Your reviews are fantastic.

I’ll buy my first AX when Bandai sends @jenius an improved reissue and he gives it the green light. I don’t even care if I have to pay after market for it. Better than spending money on preordered valks that turn out to be poor QC.

Was mechanical vs magnetic assisted transformation ever a factor in generation classification and if so, what generation did that fall into?

I refuse to buy an AX. Kairos is still the best by far. Don’t want to reward Bandai by purchasing this inferior product.

Yamato’s body. Otherwise we’re left with it looking like it ran into a wall. Even the VF-1 toys don’t have little bodies/torsos like they do in the 1980’s animation. The toys have elongated torsos so that the planes don’t look stupid This line art is silly IMO. I mean, that looks great as a stand-alone mecha but imagining that transforming into an aircraft without anything magically shrinking or becoming larger is just impossible and the actual engines of the plane aren’t even visible in that drawing. There’s no room for them.

Yeah. This one looks pregnant like another tiny YF-21 is gonna pop out of it any second. The fuselage and intakes just slope down and back all together at the same angle like a turkey chest with zero relief between the intakes underneath. There’s no hoping they’re gonna change anything about this design. Maybe they’ll release it and then redesign it like the VF-25. I mean, they’ll make more money from all of us that way by producing this version first. 😂 Here’s hoping that Arcadia produces their own version based on the Yamato design. For battroid I’d prefer skinny legs yet well proportioned arms rather than this thick legged and skinny armed thing that Bandai came up with all at the sacrifice of a well proportioned fighter. I think Bandai is paying too much attention to the big leg fans out there. Surely there can be a compromise as to make it not such an extreme difference between the Bandai and the Yammie. I agree with a lot of you that have observed that it looks like Bandai just kind of threw the line art out the window but you just can’t have your cake and eat it too with this mecha design. It would be an engineering nightmare even with alien technology to fit big legs underneath engines yet still hold to the line art. All that said, I’m still gonna get at least one if it’s actually produced just so I can hold it in my hands and look at all the angles myself.

I’m wondering if it’ll include ‘delimiter mode’ and if it does if it will be more detailed and believable than the Yamato version.

I ordered two sets. I’m wondering if they’ll have landing gear. I hope so. That was at least one cool gimmick with the Lil-Drakens. I always wished that Luca’s drones had landing gear so they could be displayed without stands.

Just now was just able to PO two ghost sets from Nin-Nin. I live in WA USA.

I ordered one from Kappa as well. $252.88 total paid and shipping to WA. Maybe tax is included in the price?

@deathzealotThank you!

I hope this is the proper thread in which to pose this question and I apologize if it is not. Does anyone know which episode features the animated VF-22S Gamlin?

Please please reissue the weathered green Defender. Or even not weathered for that matter. But green.

Is Arcadia gonna reissue everything 1/60 EXCEPT the YF-21/VF-22S and VF-11…? 😹😹😹

Really? LOL. Those sound like awful decals. Good to know. Might just save my money and do a complete custom job. I do plan on panel lining the whole thing. I’m new to painting and decaying so it’s definitely gonna be a major undertaking regardless. But I can just see the beautiful end result in my minds eye. Making it reality will be worth the learning and undertaking. Now to just put my money where my mouth is.

Meh. I’m gambling that the 1/72 decals won’t look that out of place on 1/60. I mean, it’s kind of subjective what size everything needs to be anyways, right? Not a big deal. I’m not looking for everything to look exactly the same as the Bandai tampo’d product. Just needs to look good. But I agree that the angles and sizes of things won’t necessarily line up. But I also think that sometimes (often) Bandai overdoes it a little with tampo. So maybe I’ll just leave some stuff off. I might even use some Yamato decals. In my case I’m not trying to reproduce a Delta squadron Valk. So maybe I’m talking out of line.

Yup. Good idea. I bought a Messer 31 specifically to repaint the whole thing an RL low visibility scheme. Gonna be using those decals. If I can’t buy it, I’m gonna make it, darn it! I just can’t get into the in ‘in your face’ color scheme of the delta valks. I like the planes but not the colors and stripes and images. It’s like one of those big RVs you seedriving down the road with huge squiggly lightning striping. Just…why...? Lol. To each their own, of course. Just not for me.

Yeah. I wish for 31A super parts but not likely to happen at this point. At least with the 31S you can just paint some other 31 super parts. But they don’t even fit the 31A correctly.

Yeah. This. And I’m sorry because this belongs in ‘what’s next for Arcadia’ but at this point I’d love for Arcadia to just take Yamato’s old mold and do some tweaks to it’s engineering like they’re so good at. There’s no way to make fighter mode look so sleek and awesome like Yamato did with big thick legs. But it’s not like the engines are in the legs anyways. The legs of the 21 & 22 are just there for more standing and walking support and not actual vectoring devices like all the other VFs. That’s what makes the YF-21 and VF-22 stand out. Let it be what it is and like it or don’t.

🤣🤣🤣

Thanks for the info no3Ljm and twich!

Sorry to ask this here but wasn’t really sure where was the best place. Does the Yamato separate fold booster set for the YF-19 and YF-21 work with the Yamato VF-22? I know anymoon.com says the booster works with the VF-22 but does the YF-21 fast pack work with the VF-22? Thanks!

6yr old’s translation: Booger Fart

The line art is sort of an optical illusion. The booster is up off of the plane by a fair amount. The white pieces circled in green are support struts for the booster. The red line I drew goes straight up from the center of the plane to the underneath center line of the booster.