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  1. Chronocidal
    Youch, hope they improve the stand when they get around to the Tread. If that tiny guy was enough to snap it off, the combined version is probably going to need metal.
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    For a piece like that, I'd probably recommend Shapeways (or some other similar service) just to get a good rugged part, but a resin printer would probably be decent for a piece not getting any major stresses, and you'd have more color options. I can't offer any printing ability, but I can at probably get the measurements and work up the CAD model for it this week, if someone else doesn't beat me to it.
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    Interesting. It's certainly more detailed than that old kit, at least. Maybe falls somewhere in the ~1/60 range. Would love to get a new version of that kit at about 1/32 without the chrome though. Looks really shiny when you snap it together, but means you're not doing any finishing work on it.
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    I'd actually be curious to measure that compared to the original Episode I kit I have, because that looks much closer to 1/48. The pilots obviously are those little figures, which are probably a weird scale, but it's a really tiny ship. The original kit was an incredibly disappointing size, and the price was astronomical for the time.
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    I would say that's almost certainly what happened with that entire production run. That metallic gray plastic has the material properties of obsidian. When I say how my leg shattered, I mean it, it broke up into glass-like shards that were rather sharp. That's really only half the issue though.. the other half is that Bandai used an absolutely incomprehensible design. The way the thigh rotation hinge was designed looks like it was made to explode intentionally with how terrible the idea was. Just to be clear, the part that broke off, and allowed the leg to fall off is a hollow-cored mushroom peg, with a toothed metal spring pin down the middle. THAT was what they decided was the best way to give the thigh rotation hinge friction, instead of something like a rubber friction pad on a solid peg. The thing was rigged to explode catastrophically from the drawing board, and that's before you even consider the unnecessary interlock they added to keep the leg from rotating, which is just the carrot leading you to step on the land mine when you try to rotate the legs. --------------- I know I do go off about the 171's design quite often, so apologies if it becomes a broken record, but I really want people to understand just how terrible the entire design is, in the hopes that they'll somehow avoid destroying theirs. It seriously hurts my brain that such a thing ever got approved for production, and I wish I could walk up and slap the person responsible for what an affront to good industrial and engineering design it is on every level. Bandai owes everyone who ever bought one a set of redesigned legs.
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    Yeah, no, that's just Bandai's "engineering" on display. Those legs are an unmitigated disaster. I would say on the positive side though, at least yours came off in one piece. Mine that broke like that shattered beyond repair. Just imagine if they had been smart enough to just put a single solid shaft between those parts. Honestly.. if you can get the screw cover off of the lower knee without utterly destroying it, you might be able to fix the whole problem with a good old-fashioned BIC pen mod. I'm not sure if the lower section has the room for it though, the knee ratchet takes up a lot of that space.
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    That really is a beautiful display. Far as the VF-19P goes though, I think the plastic is actually a very specific shade of off-white. It doesn't show up in photos under lights, but it always felt like it had a slight bluish-gray tint to it for me, which might help the plastic not to yellow. I don't know if it works the same way with plastic as it does with paint, but painting things a very slight shade of off-white tends to help the paint not to yellow.
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    Reminds me, I should actually see about finishing the design I made to replace the bottom triangles with something like the Yamato VF-17 had, just a two piece panel that mounts to the original screw, and folds down. Don't think my FDM printer will work for it, but might be worth a shot with Shapeways.
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    Interesting this pops up now, though thank you for the reminder that I ordered one, and didn't remember where. Had to go searching the forum here to find out I got one at AE, since my email search was being useless.
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    Bandai always does this though. "Thou shalt not include any accessory not explicitly seen on-screen (unless it's something non-canon that someone on our design team thinks looks better)." No TV Missiles with Movie VF-1s, no movie missiles with TV versions, and none at all if you didn't see it animated. Whole reason I had to make weapon hardpoints for my HMR VF-1D, they didn't even give it the hardpointed wings. At least they had the decency to put them on the DX version.
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    Honestly, it never really felt out of place to me? If they were trying to do a hand-signal based IFF confirmation, that's not something that would be universal, and would probably be kept guarded. I don't know if they were using universal hand signals or not, but if they suspected the plane was stolen, they probably would have been signaling for a confirmation signal before any other communication.
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    Glad I grabbed doubles of the VF-0S, since this one's clearly not getting any of the normal missiles.
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    Actually weird, HLJ just popped up for me. What the heck, don't have to pay for that one yet. Grabbed a third there. I should be all good.
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    Yeah, that's probably the way to go.
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    And.. Gone. Yeah, uh.. HLJ is not even useful for any of these orders now. Gone in an instant. Got two at Anime Export and Hobbi Genki though, so hopefully those both come through. https://anime-export.com/index.php?product=74884
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    They demo the VB-6 transformation at about 36 minutes in, looks like a really good solid shuttle, though looks pretty fiddly to transform, and I'm not expecting it to survive a lot of cycles. Some nice extra articulation in the feet though, and looks like a pretty good size for display, maybe a little smaller than the Bandai Robot Spirits version. I'll probably just keep one as a shuttle, and the other in destroid mode for display.
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    That's what I wondered about mostly. I kind of hope that one just shows up as a web exclusive.
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    Do we know how many different items are actually going up for sale tonight? I'd assume that confirms the VF-0A, but do we have any idea if the YF-21 and VT-1 could be dropping as well, or will those be later?
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    Not sure what you mean, since he definitely has both there? Unless you had to make a repair, and you mean you had to glue the leg together, it just looks like the kneecap got stuck closed.
  20. Chronocidal
    It's actually made a decent amount worse, just by being mounted on the stand, since the giant mounting bracket blends into the packs. All things considered, it might look pretty slim with the packs taken off.
  21. Chronocidal
    I can say I use them as a backup, since their prices are higher to begin with, but there are other reasons to keep them as a reserve. First off, many folks have had experiences of bad packing jobs done by them, resulting in boxes getting crushed. I don't know if it resulted in any major damage, but people like their boxes intact. Personally? They have come through on my orders, but I would not call them exactly "proficient" at fulfilling them. They may or may not actually send you your order when it arrives, and you may or may not have to contact them directly to remind them that the product you paid for at pre-order is several months overdue. In all fairness, the months-long delay was because I was not in a rush to get the product, and I was genuinely curious if they would actually remember I bought it. In the end? No, they never figured it out without me sending them an email requesting what I paid for.
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    Wish I knew how to get the ones near me to do the same, but DHL doesn't even deliver to my location. They offload the shipment to some third-party courier in the general area, which has absolutely abysmal communication, and does not interact with the main DHL service to manage notifications and delivery schedules, and absolutely will not drop anything off without a signature, no matter how many times I tell DHL to tell them to do it.
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    Yeeeeeah.. uh.. that 180 gear is definitely a peak-Bandai feature. The reason gear rotate in the first place is to turn flat and fit into the wing.. but apparently they made the bay so narrow they didn't have room that direction either? I will be really interested in seeing just how much space is saved by using the fake gunpods though. They look exactly the same size. Maybe the snaps on the normal ones are too strong, and they wanted to avoid people breaking the mechanisms to open them when pulling them out?
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    It's really not that bad a price, when you consider the exchange rate, and the combined price of finding a VF-1S and strike packs right now. Not something I'm going to spend on though, too many other more important things coming. Tempting.. but a properly printed tail isn't worth that much to me.
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    Doubtful. There is a picture with the packs and gunpods, along with the punch effects, but that's about it. Maybe they'll include mounts for the ones that came with the YF-19 full set, but I'm not betting they're going the "everything and two kitchen sinks" route again.
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