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Wasn't the red stand for Hikaru VF-1J supposed to be packed with this release?

Or it will come with Max's VF-1A?

10 hours ago, MKT said:

Congrats and lucky someone cancelled on it before you! 

Didn't knew it was possible to cancel items on Mandrake besides lettin the system cancel it automatically by not paying before the deadline. 

Anyways. I'm starting to catch at what time I can start pecking at the site for new arrivals. 

On 10/17/2023 at 6:46 AM, MKT said:

This doesn't come up often; a v2 TV Brownie. Yen 16k in stock as of posting:
https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1200370495&lang=en

VF-31J with Speakerpod, BIB for only Yen 18,000. This actually renders the original 31J release obsolete, as it includes both the weapon & speaker pods.
https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1241169240&lang=en

I scored that Brownie. But I noticed that the night it went up it was out of stock already. Checked a few hours laters and was back in stock. Got the invoice mail for it a few minutes ago.

As far as I know those colors accents are from DYRL. Like the color on the arrows on the head. TV are black but DYRL are color for each pilot. Max, Roy or Hikaru.

^Here hi metal TV series Hikaru and DYRL Hikaru VF-1S.

My DX VF-1S Hikaru has a red circle and TV Roy unpainted.

Maybe in some stage of the prototype it was meant to be a DYRL Roy. 

Come on. Where is that Tread Sentinel?

My Legioss has been in storage unopened waiting for it's big brother.

My VF-0D just finally landed.

Had to wait to ship it along some more stuff from HLJ.

Don't mind Megatron, he was just around at the time of the photo

やっとこそをでましか、可愛子ちゃん

My Bandai DX YF-19 finally arrived. Mandrake listed with a broken head laser but I don't notice any damage at all. If it was damaged previous owner did very good job gluing it back.

Shin VF-0A with ghost booster

Index around 6:43 in the last chapter if you are curious.

To my liking, the most badass looking VF fighter mode before the Frontier super bulky VF-25 armor and super variants.

I really hope Bandai has a release planed for the booster. And a Shin 0A.

That gotta the VF1S head sculpt closets to TV series to date. Lol

30 minutes ago, Convectuoso said:

Hi

I justo found this part among my HMRs but can't identify where it belongs. Any ideas?

There are only 3 releases in that shade of white so far (that I know). The Hikky VF-1S and VF-1J and the VF-0. 

Just picked up this beauty from the post office

I'm still missing the VF-4 and the VT-1 that I'd really like to get. A brownie would be nice too but Im starting to realize how hard to find/get.

It is already up for preorder at HLJ

https://www.hlj.com/1-100-scale-hg-yf-21-macross-banh662804

1 hour ago, Chronocidal said:

The insane part? Despite being a partsformer, it still uses the same arms in all modes, and they don't suck.  Seriously, Bandai.. the arms on your DX SUCK.  They should be SO MUCH BIGGER.

It seems the legs won't go inside in fighter mode. It has plenty of room to accommodate the arms.

The biggest problem with the 21 is to cram the bulky legs inside a very thin fighter belly. 

Even at the stage of development it is the fighter mode is an absolute chonk.

On 7/28/2023 at 8:36 AM, Ignacio Ocamica said:

Better pic of the 1J reinterpretation (not my cup of tea but others might like it):

It reminds me this guy

Is it from the same studio?

Even when we get to see them late in the series, aren't fast packs more a DYRL movie remarkable feature?

Holy! I never checked how long ago  my account was created. 

My profile says august 2003.

That's 20 years ago! 😂

1 hour ago, Convectuoso said:

 

Why they don't use new pictures?

They are just showing in a more fancy way all that we have seen so far.

Wouldn't showing new pictures help a bit to sell the toy?

19 minutes ago, Ignacio Ocamica said:

I'm digging the 0D!! Can't decide which mode I'm leaving it.

Easy peasy! Get 2 more for, one for each mode 😆

7 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

Not mine, an artist essentially gave the ship in Starfox 64 the HD treatment.  They extracted the in-game model (all 200 polygons or so of it, given it's a 1995-ish design), then rebuilt it into a kit using box art and publicity renders as a reference.

Essentially took this:

Extrapolated the details from this:

And turned it into this.  

I'm going to eventually print the whole large model, which has linked swing wings, and several optional parts attached with magnets, but for the moment I'm more focused on a more manageable model that's about 60% of that size, and without some of the fancier features.  I still want to make the wings swing though.

The nerd in me seriously wants to build a stand that mounts into the engine, and will slowly roll the model while playing the menu music.  

Woah! That's so cool. It really takes me back to my N64 gamer days.

Just now, R0P3-F15H said:

i was real lucky to not have mine be broken, Missing one of those high speed missiles that look like a diamond though.... opened the bottom plastic carton and it just flew across the room and i never found it again.

Didn't knew those missiles had an integrated fold booster...

25 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

That's completely worth it, you could just cut a new laser out of sheet plastic, don't even need something as fancy as printing.

Cool. I bite the bullet. 43000 yen. I think it is the lowest I have seen it.

How difficult and durable is the fix of the broken head laser?

There is one sitting at mandrake with the broken laser that I would like to grab.

So far I don't see nothing wrong on mine, even after it has taken a pair of trips to the ground.

Right arm

And left arm

Only the inside of this part has some weird pattern on the plastic

All good. Except for the broken head fin from a previous trip

I might still would like to check my Yamato VF-19S.

The old yamato explodium.

I will check my arcadia thats been sitting on battroid mode like forever since out of the box 

That is an absolute miss handling

Why people don't like to read/follow instructions?