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2 hours ago, Kurisama said:

This one is hardly line accurate either. Almost all of the official line art is drawn at a low perspective to give an impression of large size - and between that and the animation; there are plenty of liberties taken in the line art, official art and box art to animation.

And also, it is drawn repeatedly in the same way because it is a very un-dynamic design and can hardly strike a pose without some serious anime magic.

Just my casual arm-chair-designer thoughts.

Yep, which gives some liberty to the design, and is why I think that one's much leaner design is a great (re-)interpretation. It looks like the head can turn a bit too, which it isn't supposed to, but again, it's their interpretation.

How many times has a 'perfect transformation' SDF VF-1 been refined over the last 40ish years? And it's still not line-art accurate on account of the puffy hands alone. Takara is set to release their third Masterpiece interpretation of Optimus Prime, whose robot and truck mode looks accurate, but the transformation is hectic as parts of the cab move into the legs to achieve it.

Beagle (arguably) produced the best Ride Armor 10 years ago, yet it was the least accurate in terms of proportions or transformation compared to CMs Corp or MegaHouse. They traded proportional accuracy for practicality and it worked well enough for Aramaki to adopt it for his later redesigns (assumed).

The Bioroids don't even transform, but as Captain America implied, something has to give to for them to achieve a decent range of motion. And where there is a will, there is a way.

These are still the best Bioroid kits I've seen in terms of proportion, even though they're not completely loyal to the line-art either.

But I don't make toys, so what do I know... Right? I just buy them.

17 minutes ago, jenius said:

The bar is set by the Matchbox toy. Beggars can't be choosers!

But us beggars could learn to sculpt. 

I'm not really sold on those proportions. I need to see a prototype first. 

Would be cool if the chest can open, but I doubt it does.

21 minutes ago, TheLoneWolf said:

I don't think the unfortunate residents of Hell will have to worry about finding a new home just yet, considering there's a long list of unreleased Robotech toys.

But in all seriousness, I hope this line does hit retail. It's hard to find a more passionate fanbase than Southern Cross fans.

It's difficult enough finding a Southern Cross fans at all.  

9 minutes ago, RED WOLF said:

Here's Rook prototype courtesy of Knerdout.

 

 

 

Thanks! First time I've seen it. 

Comparatively little change compared to the other Sentinel Ride Armors, which is fine with me. It even appears to be missing the perforated wheel guard . The cloth works against the slim figure imo though.

I've only seen concept artwork for Rook/Hoquet, which was shown alongside the Yellow prototype back in February.

Yeah, roughly 1/32 or 1/36 range.

According to the Southern Cross RPG book, the Hover Tank battloids are 6.2 meters tall.

Apparently they are about 20cm tall. 

2 minutes ago, jenius said:

It seems that batch 1 of the VF-1S Fokker, released 12/14, was distributed only to folks in Hong Kong. They have delayed the larger distribution a few weeks to make a change of some sort. What they can possibly change in a few week delay, I have no idea... unless it's an issue with the packaging or instructions. 

Ok, thanks. I was wondering if it was for their Minmay figure. 

They could possibly change plastic types if it's a tolerance issue, otherwise, no idea.

5 hours ago, sh9000 said:

What does this relate to?

For anyone that missed out on the Rick Hunter pre-order, they have reopened it.

Wild stuff! 

I doubt we'll see all 5 or 6 bioroid variants, but I'd be happy to be wrong about that.

10 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

'bout halfway.

Ouch!

I think the Bioroid Dropship is considered a finished project.  

How close to the 30 Auroran orders did we get? 

Yeah, Winter Wonderfest in about three months should have a better prototype of the Sentinel Legioss. I think there are angles where you can see the various resin pieces taped together. The transformation sequence is slightly different to the standard as well.

9 minutes ago, spacemanoeuvres said:

Wow the amazon price keeps getting lower and lower.

Amazon use pricing algorithms to search for other online retailers and beat their prices. Well, it's what I was told Amazon US and Au does. Seeing pre-ordered Transformer toys drop in price is common here.

22 hours ago, jenius said:

According to NY, the Dark Legioss is scheduled to be in stock until 12/30. Usually I pay those notices as soon as I get them but I just don't trust that ET is actually going to hit that target... 

Eta was delayed three months, Zeta and Iota were both delayed a month, so safe to assume that the Dark Legioss will also be delayed. I hope it is, otherwise the end of December will totally clean me out.

1 minute ago, Shizuka the Cat said:

Got the weirdest confirmation email from HLJ.

Somehow, this does not look right...

My address and the order ID are both missing from the email.

They do this thing where they send an order acknowledgement, then the confirmation after.

2 minutes ago, ScrambledValkyrie said:

I'm getting an error trying to add to cart at HLJ.

This happened to someone I know who had their account suspended for canceling too many orders. You could try logging out and back in again.

3 minutes ago, DewPoint said:

One of those two.  I did a search for Hi-Metal R.  It didn't pop up until just before I posted.

Yeah, thanks. 

I was gonna ask if anyone knew what was wrong with HLJ, but figured the answers would be too long. 

2 minutes ago, DewPoint said:

https://hlj.com/hi-metal-r-vf-1d-valkyrie-bans55553

6840 yen!

So did it take them 25 mins to list it, or 25 mins for their search engine to start working..?

1 minute ago, derex3592 said:

I'm 43 years old and up at 1:00AM to order a toy...I really need to seek professional help....

You mean, like, use a proxy service to buy it for you?

One hour 'till server crashes. 

7 minutes ago, atreyu2112 said:

Nothing up at CDJapan, HLJ, Nippon-Yassan, Anime-Export or MyKombini yet...

Which is pretty much standard. 

Hopefully HLJ have unf*cked their cart system. I ended up having to go with Amiami for the VF-4.

3 hours ago, tekering said:

So go ahead, ask me why I bought a second set...

 

'Cause they were ¥25000 for the pair, that's why!  

 

Also, this came.

Great price. Were they second-hand?

That Iota looks pretty good, but it's the Dark Legioss I'm actually looking forward to. 

Evolution Toys Iota Legioss just landed in my Private Warehouse. I guess it will stay there until the end of the year when the Bandai VF-1J joins it.