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I don’t like how thick the wing bases got. I don’t think the slight differences in battroid were worth it. The original 31’s were thickish but it was a lot easier to suspend my disbelief that they could obtain lift.  The basic design of the new 31Ax just doesn’t appeal to me. In light of the quality issues, it’s been an easy pass for me. 

Mine arrived today.  Ordered from KAPPA HOBBY. 

Damn. I was counting on them having landing gear. That was stupid of me. 

Don’t hold your breath. 

On 1/18/2023 at 9:49 PM, jenius said:

Hmm, sounds like I'll need to start doing reviews again. Hopefully just a month or so away at this point.

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. 

23 hours ago, Chokinzoku81 said:

Yah I don’t know how to transform these Arcadia valks. I looked at the instructions and put it away lol 

Checkout this site hosted by a highly respected member here @jenius.  His detailed video transformation instructions and reviews are the go-to for a many a reader here, including myself.  

http://www.anymoon.com/blog/

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.   

26 minutes ago, nightmareB4macross said:

But whose body?

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  

45 minutes ago, nightmareB4macross said:

Looks good in Battroid full frontal. 

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? 

3 minutes ago, deathzealot said:

It should be one of the Macross Seven OVA add-ons. There we go it is Macross Dynamite 7, Episode 2. Check out the Macross Mecha Manuel page for that particular fighter.

@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? 

@Skull005 Thank you for the awesome VF-22S Gamlin! Great communication and easy transaction overall. The package was wrapped for maximum protection and shipping was fast. 

@borgified yeah I’m still learning to navigate macross world and didn’t even know about this thread. I originally posted in ‘what things are worth’. @jvmacross has shown me the light. I’m trying to do better.

1 hour ago, Sanity is Optional said:

FWIW, it's ¥50,000 rather than $500. Closer to $400 with current exchange rates.

Yeah my bad. I got into the habit of just taking the last two digits off of yen to estimate cost. But that kind of calculating should just stay in my head instead of out loud. Lol. 

45 minutes ago, Bolt said:

That's too much $$ for an 11C !

Lol. I know. I agree.  But actually the cheapest I’ve seen in a long time. 

There’s a Yamato 1/60 VF-11C on Mandarake for $500 if anyone is interested. It’s a new listing. I check every day for a VF-22S Gamlin to come up for sale. 

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…? 
 

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