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All aircraft are required to have red port and green starboard navigational lights. And Kawamori knows aircraft. Bandai, however, does not.

That metallic paint job makes it look cheap.

The placard says 33k yen with tax, so that's my limit. 🫠 Sure I can grab you one if they still have them.

It's unlikely there will be any left, but I'll pick one up if they're still available at the Tamashii store in Tokyo when I'm there in September. Absolutely no way I would pay any aftermarket markup for it though.

I got one of my YF-21s and the Metal Build Kampfer from Yoyakunow. So they're legit so far. Even the shipping rates were reasonable, unlike NY's habit of gouging on shipping. About 5000 yen for Fedex for the YF-21 and it got here in 2 days.

Ah well, Misa and Hikaru can sit in my empty cockpit 1D then.

Hey @tekering do the 1/48 pilots fit in the 1/60 Yamato?

I stick with my original postulate that Bandai decides which VF to release next using a dart board.

$50 in 1985 is equivalent to $146 today.

So they fixed the tail fins so they don't fall off when you breathe on them? I might consider getting a reissue if so.

Why didn't Bandai just glue the wing parts on? God knows Bandai loves glopping glue over everything else, including parts that are already held together by screws.

Come on guys let's cut Bandai some slack already. Don't you remember the SV-51 ankle debacle? Where Arcadia said having the wrong ankles installed was just a "quality variance" and told everyone outside Japan to piss off? Bandai is a pretty small company and couldn't possibly handle the cost of replacing all those broken head lasers.

I see a lot of returns and exchanges in Bandai's future.

Received my second YF-21. Slightly bent laser out of the box. I was able to straighten it with just my fingers, but there's a visible stress mark where the bend occurred. This unit will be my permanent battroid display. Oh, and F U Bandai.

Revivals have the chest stripes painted incorrectly.