sqidd
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Mine shipped too!
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I will never ever buy from NY again.
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@tekering If I remember correctly yours don't see UV light at all correct?
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Absolutely fantastic my good man! That was exactly what I was looking for.
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What are you basing that assessment on? Pictures of two broken Valks? If they only made 100 of them that would be within the failure rate for most manufactured products. And that is assuming that the person who was transforming it wasn't hammer handed. There is zero evidence that the DX is fragile. If anything their is copious evidence that they're not.
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Also the "hammer hands" factor.
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Everything produced has a failure rate. In a lot of industries 1-2%. I don't know how many of these are produced, but I have to imagine if we were seeing a 1-2% failure rate, we would be seeing a lot more than this.
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I would love to hear what an archaeologist from 2000yrs in the futures has for a theory on what the Valks represent.
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Carrier turtle?
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I'll help him out.
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Last update was that it was delayed until Feb.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
sqidd replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
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Roy release is unknown. It' probably more expensive to do magnets.
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Nice work. That is a really hard way to do the "transfer".
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YES! I agree with this. Another thing I think would be cool is a way to put the missiles on first then stack the shields on top. To me it makes a lot of sense to shield the missiles while they're on their pylons. And I think it would look really cool!
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Unit 00 for me
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Remote LED's for the Kampfer https://showzstore.com/poison-toy-remote-leds-for-amx-01s-breaker-maninc-cyclops_p1918.html
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Cool. How are you getting that into CAD? Are you measuring an existing unit with calipers and drawing from there?
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
sqidd replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
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I've never put batteries in anything I have. I'd turn the lights on one and go, "Oh neat". Then take the batteries out. Now if I could get all of my toys with lights to turn on with the same remote control.......
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It's not just NY.
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Yeah, the Bandai boosters are bricks. I like it.
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A hobbyist engineer is even worse about the "I would have done it like this" thing. Some of these guys are actually really good designers/engineers/fabricators. I'd argue a lot of them are better than "real" engineers. They can actually fix and make things. They do lack cost and production consideration perspective though. It's not a knock. Why would they have that perspective? They're usually making one of something in the most ideal way. Not trying to mass produce it at a targeted cost. A friend of mine that I work with on projects from time to time is a self taught engineer/fabricator/machinist and I would go as far as to say artist. He can pull of some genius/elegant solutions. But, his practical application skills aren't very strong. Most of the stuff he does he does one of. You have to design much differently when you are doing multiples or it has to be "serviced" frequently. A perfect example is about 10yrs ago we both had S197 Mustang (2005-2014) road course cars. His car was BEAUTIFUL. Hand made carbon fiber aerodynamic pieces, grills, coolers, etc, etc, etc, etc. It took about an hour and five hundred different tools to get the bumper cover/splitter off to access everything in there that you need to mess with from time to time. My car was set up so the entire front end of the car came off with 1/4 turn fasteners (no tools). It came off in one piece. One person could do it in about a minute. That's the execution difference between the "artist" designer and the "practical" designer. His stuff was pretty. My stuff was functional. I agree 100% that these should not be breaking, let alone broken out of the box. That is a complete fail. I don't know what their margins look like. But I'd wager that they could have solved that problem for very little money per unit. They would buy themselves a lot of good will with that expenditure. I agree, it's very disappointing to pay for a high end toy and it have such basic flaws. Most of the time I think to myself, "Charge me $10 more and get it RIGHT. I'll pay it". A $200 toy with problems is "junk". A $210 toy that is flawless is a masterpiece.