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  1. mr.chogokin
    If Yamato is to be considered a model quality toy by any stretch, they should just pack the parts on trees just like all the model kits companies out there. I reckon I can do a much better job at assembling it than their China factory workers. And they like to glue-shut parts! Now if they had done a swell job, they can glue the part shut all they like, but since their assembly work is piss-poor, I rather they not spoil the amazing work that had been put to molding them. Yamato is a fine example where as a company and practice, they are way ahead of time in terms of pricing (voracious appetite), but are badly lacking in proper expertise to match their ambition, whose products are further cheapened by outdated materials, technology and halfheartedly managed & serviced by lazy employees. I find it laughable that Yamato is compared to Ferrari. Ferrari exists on a different stratosphere... Yamato can barely survive each product release without one form of design or production problem or something. You just can't do that.
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    Yeah, they should provide an additional extra longer cockpit just for the fighter mode.
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    Oops, nearly forgot to highlight the post.
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    Highlighted for truth. I know some of you here have deeper pockets... My salary is modest so here's hoping you people will be more quality stringent with your future purchases for everybody's sake - whoever you are. Can't have room for a cottage industry like Macross to be filled with crap makers who are encouraged to make more variety of the toys, just because they think they can charge and profit outrageously.
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    Yeah very misleading indeed. If they decide to make one like that for the MKIII, I'd be "raising" myself... right now, it's only twitching.
  6. mr.chogokin
    The face plate is stationary and only available for MKII. Nothing changed.
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    Maybe if you try a not-so-distant one, we'll see it sooner!
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    Which one damnit! Stop playing with me!!!
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    Myung was pretty messed up in the head. That is "broken goods" in my book. I'd ship her back to Kawamori for a refund if I could.
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    Yeah, would've been so much cooler if those grey parts are painted or moulded with gunmetal color.
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    To be fair, I think the Factory Garland is the most problem free of the 1st trio of Garlands. I like how you made the army version look a little more realistic now, cuz I can't take the brilliant whites on it seriously. They are too fake and plasticky. The orb gun holder you made is kickass!
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    You forgot to mention the higher mortality and lower survivability rate. Add CF pilots and voila! the 1km radius of a Gundam becomes a giant fly trap.
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    I'll try to bring one of his books... get him to sign on the cover and take a photo with the man. I would imagine a quasi-stampede situation that day with some of us and their toys sandwiched between smelly, sweaty & sticky fanboys. Softcover books are easier to roll-up and unfurl for autograph. Or hardcovers can also be used to smack some people.
  14. mr.chogokin
    Dragonar fans can meet its maker come 22 November 2008 in S'pore Suntec City. Come shake hands with Kunio Okawara, slap the old man on the back and tell him he did a swell job.
  15. mr.chogokin
    These are wrinkly, moisture drenched and missing Ranka's love and attention to detail. Big West and Bandai ought to sue their asses! I wonder if the have a Nanase super-size version.
  16. mr.chogokin
    Even more disturbing would be that these subtleties are actually yearning to be connected that way. What'cha gonna do, huh?
  17. mr.chogokin
    They left out:- Alto Saotome transvestite (trans: Mr Lady) MISUTA_REDI_ / REDI_BOY hermaphrodite futanari (n) Luca big penis (uk) futomara (col) GU-11 JAIANTO GU-N PO-DO Michael squirt gun mizudeppou Little Pea Shooter RITORU PI SHU_TA_ (n)
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    Maybe Bandai's VF25 is a little different now but they have the wisdom to use sturdy materials, so if they ever fine-tune this design later things will look nowhere but up! If they don't well... I don't think they'll be any other VF25 version to best this one... unless Yamato secretly makes one to console themselves.
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    Will there be a band backing her, or is she singing minus-1? Here's hoping I don't see SMS backup dancers.
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    I wanna dunk Ranka's bread into Nanase's milk. Slurp!
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    Yamato... I don't have a lot of their toys, but those few that I have all require some attention immediately out of the box. Those attentions range from broken handle bars, broken hinge hidden inside some glue-shut housing, stress mark on the BP8 and broken VF11B hip bars. I like most of the stuff that Yamato makes... but not enough that I won't pass them over for a nice chogokin toy. Bought a SOC Daimos after reading the breakage problem with the V2 1/60 VF1 shoulders. Less headache for me that way.
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    Yeah the ProtoGarland rocks. I say that even though mine came with a broken right handlebar, which was easily fixed with supaglu. The optional belly lock piece is also a welcome idea on the PG as my other Garland droop their bellies on M-Craft mode. The pointing finger on the normal Garlands also made them less macho looking next to the PG. Drifand, I think you should've experience the PG last. I got my Factory and Army Garlands first and the PG last... so I was pleasantly surprised at the improvements.
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    Maan, if they named him Alpo! Alpo Saotome > Alto Saotome. I'll take a young girl with alcohol & pot over a young girl with man's voice anyday.
  24. mr.chogokin
    Maybe if I weren't so critical of Macross Frontier, I'd still see some entertainment value out of it - so I did and I still get bothered by how the characters were designed. Look at Alto for instance... he's practically a woman with a penis - why mess up the main character? His Bukaki (sp?) family background is not realistic at all. It's been studied that unpopular cultures today will die out in the future. Why can't they make him a pilot first of all who come from a family with performing arts background that goes way back?
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    Actually, he's not the only one, I too experience loose magnets on my Army and Factory Garlands... They both have issues where the feet assembly come off totally if I "pull" too hard. All the fists are loose except for the Protogarland's. But I didn't mention them cuz they are easily fixed. What bothered me more are instances like my Army Garland's very loose right arm... it turned out that a plastic part inside his right bicep connecting to the shoulder that broke, and that part is hidden by the shoulder casing that is glued tight. I wouldn't know if it was broken if I didn't pry the shoulder apart to tighten the arm. To cut the story short, I ended up fixing the plastic part by glueing them together and tighten the right arm, but as a trade off, I also have to contend with a right shoulder that has ugly plastic stress mark on it. This beg the question... 1) Why do they glue parts that should be held together good enough with fasteners or screws? 2) Why not let us fix or tighten those parts that they miss during assembly or QC checks? I would trade places with Drifand if I could.
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