Spark-O-Matic

I've got this big guy being shipped to me by snail mail. hopefully he makes it intact

Will update with photos once he arrives.

I seen Luna Park jacked the price back up to ¥59,800 for the Chrome King. not a whole lot of other stores are jumping in this one. LP must smell blood in the water and is ready to tear your wallet apart.

On 4/25/2024 at 4:37 PM, jvmacross said:

I'd be happy just to receive the "canon" GBP-1J Hikaru set they have teased and accepted PO payments since 3 years ago...

https://www.kitzconcept.com/index.php?route=journal3/blog&journal_blog_category_id=7

I think you missed the fine print on one, it was not a preorder, but a donation. that was very kind of you.

On 4/24/2024 at 3:01 PM, treatment said:

 

fyi

new release date schedule for both is 8/24, per   https://arcadia.ac/user_data/news

 

 

I missed it, the Cell Unicron was released and had to buy it as my preorder came up. got an AmiAmi Email this morning to retry again in August and this time ill order both.

They should try to do a 1/35 scale series especially with Three Zero right around the corner or do something cool like this 15 year old kit.

They should have just gave white boosters with it, then red & white or white & blue. no worries it still looks ok but I'm not buying when I've got this guy. they need to do something better.

In the meantime I've got these guys to keep me company .

18 hours ago, jenius said:

Are they legit though?

No! the store is very infamous in Gundam & 40K circles. Store hopes to hold you off on preorders long enough to were PayPal, Banks & Chargebacks are past the point of no return.

Store will screw you if given the chance, big time! I've latterly heard hundreds of horror stories from guys who are stand up types and only brought it up to warn others.

1 hour ago, jvmacross said:

I guess the new Chogokin 50th Anniversary VF-1J is as close as we'll get to the Arcadia Chrome VF-1S teased by Mr. K almost 10 years ago....

(Arcadia) Sir the investors will be here in any minute!... what will we show them?.  I got an idea!...Someone, quickly get me a can of spray paint from the storage room!.

21 hours ago, shazam said:

Another shiny corporate colour variant VF-1 trophy we are trying to convince ourselves that we need. 

Some of those clear parts look ripe for stress lines/marks to form at the stress points after a few deformations.

KC is not looking too shabby in this light.(besides all of its own issues)

On 4/18/2024 at 1:08 PM, jenius said:

LOL, I wouldn't argue that! I'm standing by my opinion that that scheme is better than the KC. 

There's also an argument to be made that both Max & Miria should have a white chest (matching the stripe on their VF-1) with white cuffs but make the forearms and shoulder armor bay doors blue or red to match their VF-1. That would essentially be doing what was done for Hikaru with the assumption that the white parts were white because Hikaru's VF-1 was white. If I had time I'd mock that up. It'd probably be easier and cheaper for KC too because only a couple parts would be unique between the two. Heck, if they went that route, it'd be a piece of cake to make a cannon fodder version also! 

Maybe someone should invite the KC Dude to talk on here, you can be the tech ambassador to find out what's going on over there.

On 4/18/2024 at 12:53 PM, jvmacross said:

I guess Toynami got that  right....and most everything else wrong...

 

 

I had all those but sold them all recently having only kept the stealth one.. they are tiny, that being perfect if you live in a small space.

9 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

I have to say it looks cool but still not for me. 

I wish good luck to those who want it.

30 minutes ago, MKT said:

Another pic from a slightly different angle. Hopefully we see more shots especially the back, but perhaps not since the display looks to be blocked from behind and sides.
 

Looks cool wish it had super packs.

36 minutes ago, MKT said:

I wonder if for Max's GBP, would it have been better if they did something like what Bandai shown at TN2020?
 

Bingo for sure!

On 4/15/2024 at 10:03 PM, jenius said:

But the only M&M toys have super parts... 

Ok, so that means the special edition ones would not look right?

2 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

The color schemes look pretty awful...should have just went with the old Nichimo variants as illustrated by Takani....

 

Now that you mentioned it I guess I'm not. Replaced the light blue with white would make it look better.

I think I'm going to get these.

https://www.kitzconcept.com/index.php?route=product%2Fproduct&product_id=131

I'm going to be start working on this big guy tomorrow. Wish me good luck.

1 hour ago, Radioguy said:

Said it elsewhere, so probably should here: If anyone needs someone to try and pick up a copy for them at Tamashii NYC, I would try.

I just don't know if purchase limits will be imposed for this like they were at the Tamashii popup at Grand Central for the Max VF-0S.

Please count me in if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it. The markup Luna park has going on is kind of awful on the wallet. I think Shawn's made a good point, it might look better in other modes like Battroid. I didn't know this was tied to an old model kit that must have been breathtaking for its time.

2 hours ago, Convectuoso said:

No. Probably won't ever get released, like the Tomahawk or the Regult Scout

Never say never! She is a Piloted Fembot, those are all the rage right now Lol.  In all seriousness Bandai needs to allow crowd funding like Hasbro has done. as long as they know they are covered with funding then a Tomahawk or the Regult Scout should be no problem. I know your pain, I'm praying for a once in a lifetime anniversary G1 Jetfire this year or next . when pigs fly.

Has there been any new info about her since last year?

9 hours ago, Big s said:

To be fair, there’s a lot of crap that comes from foreign movie studios and we usually only hear about the really good ones. Netflix has a butt load of foreign garbage sci fi and such movies that I would never recommend to anyone unless they’re having a bad movie marathon. I think the major problem with American films is that they’re mostly mediocre, not necessarily really bad or really good lately just easily forgettable 

Good points, I have a few websites I can watch free movies on and I forgot how many are just boring even in those countries they are from.

10 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

Classics are classics for a reason; there are qualities to those films that have had an effect on people that have made them extremely popular for various reasons and that are difficult to recapture in an update or a reboot. The simple answer to reboot madness is to do original stuff and leave the classics alone. Sequels are another category where sometimes less is more.

I wasn't aware of a Jacob's Ladder reboot. That's a film that I never would have even pegged for reboot material. The original gave a pretty haunting look into the life of a post-Vietnam veteran's dealing with delusions from what we today would call PTSD and likely exposure to all the chemicals we dumped both for defoliation and psyche-ops. Tim Robbins gave a great performance. No need for a reboot.

Agree that's good points.

7 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

Copy or not, clear plastic has different structural properties than most others, and it tends to be much more brittle, or just fail in other unexpected ways.

The clear plastic adapter that came with my TV super packs can attest to that, as the plastic formed a stress fracture after a few hours holding the valk.  I boxed back up the stand before it could fail and dump the valk off a shelf.

Yeah I understand that, I think the clear parts are kind of at least in the wrong places. and what your saying makes sense. Maybe with clear plastic they could not add enough stiffing agents due to color and they did not compensate by added more structure to the part?

6 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

Out of curiosity, can I ask why do you think it needs to be part of Soul of Chogokin line when it's just a plated version of VF-1J from DX Chogokin line?

Well it could not be part as I mentioned as it would need to be reworked to meet the companies own internal standards for SOC. Why it needs to be? well not this version but I think it should as its history is just as long as most in the lineup. it might be one of the few if not only IP Bandai is keeping out. Its not just a macross piece but the toy itself is an evolution of a groundbreaking toy that decades ago changed toys forever by a designer who's toy designs helped launch a half dozen toy series that are still growing today . to me SOC is a hall of fame and masterpiece lineup. I guess I should have just said a version of Valkyrie also needs to be added to the SOC lineup too instead. it was a confusing statement on my end.