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Nicely done. It looks like that bracket folds out of someplace. Hopefully it's not a separate part.

Who am I kidding? Hopefully, it's included at all.

Doubtful, since it appears to attach to missile box.

Do you guys think that Bandai will come up with an "Ozma" color scheme for this YF-30?

How about a VF-30 from the new TV show? We still don't have any real news on that so anything is still possible.

So much for this being less popular and therefore easier to get;-(

It can still be. VF-27 with super parts was also hard to secure a pre-order on the first day and I personally payed for it at inflated price from NY, but now it is still available at 5% to 10% off from HLJ, NY, HobbySearch etc.

So how come this site crashed instead of the shops...

Amiami, HobbySearch and NY came and gone quickly. CD Japan actually had a 15+ minutes ordering window, but no discount other than 5% value of point award, and is now not even listed on their site. HLJ and Anime-export haven't list it I believe.

For higher-res photos, use this:

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10273689

I like all 3/4 modes in general, and usually like gerwalk mode the most - it not just another fighter or another robot, the most uniquely "Macross" mode. For a toy display without stand, G modes are usually safer from falling than B mode, and a bit easier to squeeze for shelf space than fighter mode.

A few units are kind of bad at gerwalk modes: YF-21 is just ugly in that mode. Yamato VF-19 have wings restricting the arms, and limited ball joint range of the foots. Bandai VF-25 are even more restrictive with arms if the super or armor packs are on.

The leg fast pack - I found only the top plug has any attachment strength, the bottom plug has almost no grab. So push the top side first and it will stay on the leg and looks ok, with attachment strength of about one Lego stud and not really secure.

Gamu part2:

http://gamu-toys.info/goukin/yamato/arcadia/yf19/yf1902.html

So the pilot figure's head can turn? Or is that a mod?

highly maneuverable Destroids that stick near the ground.

So they transform into cars?

If only they made the Destroids, Glaug and Reguld. 3000 yen was too much for what they offers, while the packaging are really oversized adding shipping cost for us.

According to the text when pulling the trigger the barrel can rotate, the gun will vibrate and has light effect. They will also sell a "EX" version through their online store with UN Spacy marking.

So how's the stand? Can it hold the bigger Yamato valks in more extreme angles?

Damn it!! That's around the same time the YF-19 is supposed to drop.

Well that's potentially good news for me if I can order both from the same shop and save a bit in shipping.

Hmm... Why does the CAD images have what looks like a finished color scheme and is quite different from the official and in-game scheme?

Only 1:55 and VE-1 are "old". Bought the 1:144 Phalanx for $5 at a local hobby show yesterday.

I hope there are some leftover after all the preorders are filled. I don't want to order from a store I've never heard of.

AE have it in stock at no discount since a few days ago.

http://www.anime-export.com/product/16512

Guys, have you notice the the new big missiles have less grip strength than the old missiles? One problem with this is the new missiles cannot be mounted on Yamato VF-1 - they are too loose to hold. I hope the Arcadia YF-19's missiles will be compatible.

They all have monotone packaging so you can't just rely on that. The Tornado part had only been released for original release, not renewal. Although the tornado part can fit a renewal with some modification.

For renewal part, you should see " リニュVer. " in the description.

For box pic, see these reviews:

Original parts:

http://gamu-toys.info/goukin/gouki/dxf06vf25fspp/01.html

http://gamu-toys.info/goukin/gouki/dxf04vf25sspp/01.html

http://gamu-toys.info/goukin/gouki/dxf10vf25fap/01.html

http://gamu-toys.info/goukin/gouki/dx16/dx1601.html

http://gamu-toys.info/goukin/gouki/dx14vf25tp/dx14vf25tp01.html

Renewal parts:

http://gamu-toys.info/goukin/gouki/dx21/dx21.html

http://gamu-toys.info/goukin/gouki/dx22/dx2201.html

http://gamu-toys.info/goukin/gouki/dx27/dx2701.html

Promo and order pages are up:

http://p-bandai.jp/hobby/special-1000003297/

http://p-bandai.jp/hobby/item-1000083728/

http://p-bandai.jp/hobby/item-1000083729/

One thing I noticed from the compare pics - the screw holes on the bottom of the wings and wing engines are gone in the new version.

I have the strangest luck with NY. First I ordered 1 and they mailed me 2 VF-171 CF. Then today I got my VF-27 - box looks OK but inside it the two transparent tray were heavily compressed. Something heavy much have been sitting on top of my box in the ship. Fortunately nothing was broken, other than one super pack piece has some sort of thin transparent residue on it probably from the compression.

Question - is the front of the crotch piece suppose to come off easily? Kind of make the gerwalk mode less stable.

Any one know how will the missile mounts attach to the wings? Clip on the edge? Magnet?

Hi guys. As Graham mentioned, it´s the stand of a SV-51 / YF-21, but I tell you, it´s big and ugly, but IT´S STURDY AND STABLE.

The SV-51 is a big bird, and you can pose it in every possible way, in any mode, with that stand.

And in clear plastic it´s a little less horrible. And it´s WAY better than the Bandai stands....

Yeah YF-21 stand let you put a YF-21 fighter in vertical climb pose safely, and this new one has a smaller base. I would love to buy a bunch of this new stand if they are compatible with our old Yamatos.

So I just did what I am not suppose to do - ordered a VF-25S armour pack at inflated price (14000 yen, mandarake) before getting the VF-25S. Thanks for posting the photos guys... There must be way more armour pack than the base unit floating out there.

They better announce that reissue soon before those extremely inflated VF-25S become tempting.

Auto scanner? Whats the name of that program?..

Sorry for the offtopic.

Well I have a desktop browser open all day so I just run some browser add-on that auto check web pages and alert you if anything changed.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/page-monitor/pemhgklkefakciniebenbfclihhmmfcd

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/update-scanner/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/alertbox/?src=search

The chrome one is the best but the others work too.