Swoosh

Local store in Hong Kong has stock already, and people starts posting pics in facebook toys group.

I still see YF-19 and VF-19 Advance are two different variants of the 19 family, so they are not necessarily identical....

BTW, is there any official linear of the VF-19 Advance in battriod or gerwalk mode? I have only seen its 5sec appearance in the movie.

Bandai VS Arcadia

Box of fun received this week

Having watched the video, I'm more optimistic than before that it will be overall superior to the Arcadia---but still will wait for either Isamu's original YF, or a new color (SVF-569 anyone?), preferably with "Plus" style super parts, not the "totally utterly ridiculous in battroid mode" Frontier-style ones.

This, please:

This will be instant buy!!!

Absolutely gorgeous!!!

Finally ordered one along with some Metal Armor Dragonar stuff

Didn't order from HLJ for a long time, was a bit panic coz I didn't know that I won't see the order in my account until I receive the confirmation email...

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Anyone place an order with hobbyshop2go? Are they reputable?

On that site they said they have a local pick up point which is just 20 mins walk away from me... but I never heard of them before...

2000 summer IIRC

Great Saburo, Tornado Pack looks better on 25G than 25F.

Stunning pics Saburo!!

10 VF-171?! Wow..... just wooow.......

Nice. Swoosh, you have cemented yourself in the history of the YF-30 release. Competent , pleasant pictures of a new release. Very enjoyable. You have made the wait tolerable! Could you take some detail pics of how the nose cone transforms, and sits in battroid? Maybe a step by step focused on that area? Your braceless gerwalk photos establish the lack of need for said brace, but I am still curious about battroid.

If you want to keep it in gerwalk mode, it is better to use the brace, coz wings and missile pod still making it back heavy, it may be hold up well for a few photos shoot, yes, it is tighter than Bandai previous release but I can see those joints will still get loose overtime....

Battroid actually holds up a lot better than Gerwalk

Can you pose the gerwalk like the SV-51? Pretty please

This one?

I really like that missile pod

Very nice. I like your back drop. Intentional or not, it is very industrial. Works well with sci-fi.

Thx ChaoticYeti, I am looking forward to your Yeti Stand, too!!

Re-shoot with some camera art filters:

The YF-30 is like a Yammie to me. Matte, clean finishing, well thought transformation mechanism, nice proportion, good articulation, tight joints and all implemented right.

What else could you ask for a valk?

This!!!

Some side by side comparison

Thanks for all the pics Swoosh, so glad I sprung for a second one last night.

Someone mentioned this is a matte finish, is it the body also or just all of the paint apps?

Except the feet, the whole thing is in matte finish(including the canopy )

Very nice! The other modes are looking better than I thought (I thought this was a fighter only mode for me too!) Thanks for the pictures.

So are the shoulder chips from transformation/rubbing or did it just come like that from the factory?

Sucks that the canopy is foggy, wonder if a coat of future will cure it?

Comes like that from the factory...

Last pic for the day, got to sleep...

Love this angle: