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By itself, that would be fine. But every few things I don't get on a whim, is savings for another thing I am dying to get lol

On top of that, the books in general are another whole can of worms I'm trying really hard not to open. The master files in particular have been on the back of my mind forerver. If this one book fulfills all my needs of having a collection of art references for all the mainstream canon and the non animation semi canon variants and equipments, then I might consider this a good one off item to consider grabbing.

Now that I look at it some more, if they had its trailer mode bend the other way, they could have used the windshields as windshields, and hid the nose and feet inside the container. It could have been an actual truck. Kind of a missed opportunity there.

Well, so far, the revival is sturdy enough that I can revert those legs by prodding and feeling around without triggering an explodium chain reaction. Also, I think the explodium was limited to the cannon fodder's glitter packed black plastic not on the EX. If the granite speckle on these new joints are more homogeneous than they look, it should be fine.

😂The classic everything you ever needed, after you need it. Didn't know such a delicious book existed.

Now I gotta sit on the idea of getting a copy, but never actually doing it, because I need to spend what I can muster chasing after those toy releases lol

Don't think he's literally trying to recreate a certain look of any specific version of the 25 there. He just borrowed his own transformation mechanism to make up a new thing for a quick april fools tie in to the collab.

It literally says VF-18M Sound Hornet. Where the transformation isn't affected, he even came up with new things. The wings fold more like the Sv-51 and Draken. The sound pod looks like a fuel tank until it splits into a double speaker. The horizontal stabilizers aren't folded under an outer calf panel. The head is a period accurate to be similar to VF-19 variants.

We can pretend it's new canon until something official refutes it lol.

Anyway, if there's overwhelming demand for an F-14 collab, Bandai may as well finally take the excuse to make the DX VF-0. I'm fairly certain it was primarily invented exactly for the sake of having a VF-1 lookalike that can circumvent harmony gold bs.

Gotta wonder if people bought it on Amazon just to review bomb it. There's no way people couldn't tell what the proportions were, from just the promo pics.

Looks like almost half the comments were excessively translated to be passive aggressive for no reason. Can't shake the feeling that some of those people think it's an april fools joke and went along with perceived trolling too. There are quite a few alluding to or outright pointing out the harmony gold bs, although some others also clearly had no clue. So of course there were also quite a few complaining about it not being VF-1 / Tomcat from the original etc. There is clearly at least one guy coming out bitter over current events as well, which might be what is setting the sarcastic mood for some others.

I'm getting the vibe that I was mistaken and Nakamura might have dubbed Hangman? Haven't even seen the new one, let along care about a dub... but Idk about those twitter translations, since the overall vibes were kind of odd in a uniform way. It almost felt like an AI just translated the whole page to have the tone of the same salty person. The comments don't all feel kinda spicy like that, based on what little I can barely read 

The comments I saw was a toy channel on yt doing a shorts on the news, and those comments there seemed like mostly hype.

Not sure why everyone is complaining about it being not a VF-1 based on the F-14...

This is literally the scheme of the F/A-18 from the recent sequel. And the VF-25 is heavily based on the F/A-18. Nakamura Yuichi also voiced Alto and dubbed over Tom Cruise. The jp fans are actually hyped about the voice actor reference of this.

They obviously can't sell VF-1 under the Macross name where the Top Gun branding is targeted for. And It's also a common pop culture convention to get collaboration rights for the most recent title from the guest IP. They are also clearly targeting young western fans of the new movie, and not hoping boomer followers of the original to suddenly change their habbits and go out of their way to find marketing of this release and start collecting japanese toys.

Got jumpscared by the pv on the official Bandai yt channel. Nice scheme I guess, but I don't got a particularly big attachement to the theme or the 25F head, so I can just appreciate the rare occasion of wallet being safe.

Here's to hoping I don't monkey paw it and get a regular Macross release simultaneously announced...

Saw a JP video showcase of this. Seems like they love it. Anyone that dares mention the side and bottom view in fighter mode is getting lynched lol

The 25, 27, and 29 are identical structures and transformation with cosmetic changes on the surface. But as I said, there is 0% commonality between Chronos and Seigfried.

And unfortunately that's not how Bandai works either. There are recolors with 100% parts commonality with high demand that they still won't ever make, because they like having salty fans. Then there are kits that have large identical sections, yet they somehow waste time and energy to redesign whole new runners to rearrange the same parts differently. Other times, they will make a recolor, but since the paint jobs are different, so they will give you a runner in multiple colors to have single pieces match different sections of the new paint job, and inflate a kit to triple it's price and size, just because they are lazy.

You can't guess how Bandai works with any logic. It's more likely that Bandai would bust out the 30 to avoid completing the Delta or SMS teams, or they finally run out of every other design to make and lose the coin flip for cancelling the product line so they need one last kit to make. Whichever farms them most spite with the fans is the way they will go.

Don't think anyone asked for the Miku, and it barely even looks like her, not to mention it doesn't even look good as its own doll/figure tbh. We are a decade past the age of vocaloid hype too... Idk if there is even a target audience for that thing. I'm sure diehard worshippers that buy every single piece of merch ever made would buy it, but I don't think many are like that...

Wouldn't be surprised if it sold worse than the VF-17S

5 hours ago, treatment said:

You're not suggesting that Bandai will recolor their existing DX-21 with glued skirt-armors to make Gamlin's DX-22 and then do a PR of it as  "a 3D model created by working backward from the evolved YF-21" , are you?

That will be such a classic Bandai tactic...

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I didn't think that far, but that sounds like the way they'd to go. Glued on gunpod skis, while the landing gears are there to dangle for giggles.

Originally, I was thinking they'd design the skirts fresh, by following the same ground clearance specs.

Or they could just tell us they actually designed the 22's skirts first. So when they worked backwards to make the 21. they kept those external dimensions out of equality considerations for how they knew the 22 would eventually end up...

7 minutes ago, jocax188723 said:

As expected, the VF-25 kit is about 50% YF-29 - enough part commonality to make it worth the trouble.  
This does give me hope for a YF-30, and maybe - just maybe - a VF-27.

The 25, 27, and 29 all have identical transformation. There's no way that means anything for the 30.

Assuming you mean that in relation to the 31's similar transformation, that thing's torso still contorts totally differently no matter how vaguely similar it is in looks and lore. Even the arms stow in totally different places. The 30 also has a unique gerwalk waist articulation mechanism too. The rest are all externally visible in all forms with no common geometry. It just doesn't make sense that there is any structure to share. All they can recycle is the gunpod from the 29.

Ain't no way they are done doing M7 and Gamlin dirty. They still need to sell you a partsforming 22 with integral gunpods that drag on the floor, to really seal their bean counters' narrative on popularity of the franchise.

But I'm still willing to believe they are open to waiting a year or so and then coming back with a couple new molds to release a 17D with "minor updates", and then giving the 17S a revival based on that though.

Kind of off topic. This reminds me of the recent SMP announcement. That's Bandai's collector model kit line for classic mecha like brave series and sentai megazords, disguised as candy toys and packaged like retro DXs for nostalgia. While everyone has been begging for reprints, Bandai announced a spinoff line of smaller scale, monochrome, non combining, low parts seperation and articulation kits of some of the most requested zords. Everyone is as pissed as they are confused. JP comments even roasted it as industrial waste plastic lmao.

Back on topic. Bandai could have used production capacity of that unwanted line to make the dozen new parts on a single runner to make the VF-17 look right, and they would lose less money from both product lines. SMP is also made with ABS in their China factories after all. Instead, they are hellbent on incurring ire from every fanbase possible lol.

On a different note, I still don't quite understand what yamato did differently that let their elbow guns line up with the end of shoulder block in fighter, that allows it clearance to be tall enough to have space for two missile ports, that Bandai's 171 based proportions simply can't do nicely, even if they had made new molds for it.

If these are the release week prices, it should be reasonable to expect the price to approach 10k within a quarter... especially when even the jp fans are sharing the same sentiments as we do

The comments under Mark's video speaks for everyone lol

Are those joints made of granite speckle pattern plastic?

After getting it right with the revivals, they have to be intentionally trolling now by introducing heterogeneous materials that invoke thoughts of their mythical explodium plastic...😱

Nice family photo lol

Wow. The model is looking sharp 👍

Looks like it's coming along nicely. 👍

All hail procrastination! lol

Despite that, it's getting close. On the bright side, you only need to make one arm and mirror it.

Coming along nicely. I honestly don't even remember those scenes with the workroid lol.

13 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

I'm not sure the ISC can do that.  Its description is vague at best, but it seems to mostly be warping certain dimensions of space around the Valkyrie to displace inertial forces for a short time,

You aren't realizing you are addressing yourself for me, with the exact same information I am basing my idea on. lol

I did not mention bending time. I said tampering with the time component of a force, with what ISC already does. Exactly by displacing inertial forces for a short time.

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Eh... I dunno.  The idea of bringing a sword to a long-ranged particle beam cannon and guided missile fight just feels like it's destined to end one very specific way:

Once again, I was giving the example of an unarmed cargo ship, cheaping out on security, fending off space pirates and hungry monsters. Nobody is out to shred, melt, and delete the ship itself. It's already a universe with humanoid/bipedal robots, that take their little hands and fingers into space, despite being up against the same beam cannons and missiles. If even forklifts can dance, I think we are already past the point of worrying about the finest details of realism here. lol

My idea with the ISC was not for itself to block anything. It was to allow for the hull and frame to disperse impacts over time. Ballistic penetration is generally determined by sheer projectile speed, so if you can cheat the time component of the vector, it can turn a lethal AP round into a paint chip. Same with blunt force damage. If you can disperse a force over time, any impacts and torquing can also be dulled. From the opposing persepective, shooting and punching an ISC equpped robot would be like hitting something that is harder and has more mass than it should, because it's less willing to move in a given moment in time. it becomes something close to a stoppable force, meeting a nearly immovable object. The inverted use case is to absorb self inflicted destructive amounts of forces. A punch so strong, it should have flattened the fist, would no longer even pose noticable structural harm, giving time to dissapate.

This idea was meant to be used in conjunction with the wheeled dancing and buster sword. My ideas were envisioned as a full package. While on wheels, the machine would be already constantly skating in combat, with built inertia and ready to steer sharply or build rotation for a massive melee strike, while ISC can explain away any sudden and normally self destructive amounts of torquing and directional changes. This gives the whole thing enough scifi magic excuse for explosive speed with a giant metal slab of a weapon.

I know is said boarding crews, but what I really had in mind were vajra style giant space monsters trying to bore into a ship's hull and eat the fleshy little people inside. A classic scifi trope, and a perfect excuse for terrestrial/pedal robots to have big sword in space. Just rollerblading and fly swatting on a big boat, because its more ammo and energy efficient and less danger of friendly fire and ship damage than missiles and gun lol.

Just picture, in the silence of space, a hulking metal figure skater magnetically trailing around the hull of a ship, lifting it's partner, a giant metal slab with a hilt. It leans into a wide curve, then abruptly breaks into a spin, and tucks to build rotation. Like a top, it spins its way up beside a giant space mosquito. The pinpoint barrier along the edge of the blade lights up just before the moment of the home run splat. Cue music and title drop: Macross Freighter.

A story about an intergalactic courier, delivering hot food and fresh groceries between fleets, while fending off space pirates and giant buggos. Through PMC back channels, the company is stocked with surplus advanced military robo tanks, but retrofitted them into glorified high vis forklifts. Our MC is one such certified forklift driver, but he is often forced into double duty as deck security when emergencies arise.