Chronocidal
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Judging by some of the advertising Bandai did, it's actually not quite the same. They tweaked the mold slightly to more closely resemble the TV show. How successful they were remains to be seen, though.
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See, I would hope so, but I don't think there's any way you can compare the popularity of the VF-1D to Kakizaki, and I'm mentally preparing myself for another strike pack fiasco.
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Same here, and got another from AE, so that's my goal covered. I hope I can manage to get a pair of the VF-1Ds when that one happens, but I have no idea what the ordering is going to be like this time around.
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Ugh.. I still want to know why Bandai thought rudders were an important feature on this one. Maybe that's the only way they could fit the PPB punch effects on the fists?
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That looks amazing, seriously. You might want to put a blue filter over the bulbs to give it a more TV-ish look, but the interior details look perfect.
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All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!
Chronocidal replied to Keith's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I feel like this console generation is just too meme-able for its own good. -
I bought a Yamato VF-1D kit partly so I could do that exact headswap. If the colors match well, the 1D head really does look good on the VT-1. I really do hope Bandai gets around to making the VT-1, though I'm not keeping my hopes up, because despite how much screentime it got in DYRL, it never seems to sell all that well.
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AE isn't using DHL, they're using another courier system that hands off to USPS in the US. I forget the name offhand, but it's discussed in one of the other topics here.
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Glad to see AE taking the sensible route and limiting purchases of the super packs.
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I'd take a PF YF-21 in a heartbeat, if only to put the pressure on Bandai to do their version justice. They (mostly) nailed the YF-19, and I would love to see them improve on how well that one turned out (hopefully with about 50% less obnoxious tampo splatter ).
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It kind of baffles me, but I'm still waiting for Bandai to achieve a level gunpod. I think the bare fighter mode gets it just barely, but the HMR, packed and un-packed, has the same massive upward tilt as the DX with packs on. For whatever reason, they just can't seem to get anything to lock together in a proper alignment on the VF-1, no matter what scale they use.
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I've never been too into the Potter sets myself, but can I just say that the concept of having properly tapered cone elements is something I have wanted, entirely literally, for over thirty years. Bout freakin' time, LEGO.
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All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!
Chronocidal replied to Keith's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
And don't forget, the OS takes 198 gigs right off the bat, so you're not even starting with 1TB out of the box. Could be worse though... the Series S starts with 364 gigs out of its 500. Can always install an external drive, if you don't mind shuffling your games back and forth off the internal and external, since it won't play games off an external drive, or pony up another half a console for the expanded drive. I think the message here is loud and clear: "Sit down, shut up, and forget local gaming, because we want you subscribed to our cloud service." -
It's not that it's not for both adults and kids, it's that the adult collectors have latched onto the kid-focused products, and are slowly driving the younger generation out of the market. I know a kid who has younger siblings, and they love playing with the Clone Wars stuff.. or, rather, they would, if they could afford any of it, but scalpers are running the prices of the figure battle packs up into the heavens. It's like the collectors market has stopped bothering with the concept of waiting for something to go out of production, and are purposefully running the production lines dry to artificially inflate the value.
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All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!
Chronocidal replied to Keith's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Now if only the manufacturers would pick up on how important bigger storage has become, and start giving you enough space to install more than three or four big titles at once. Or, alternatively, game developers re-discovering the lost art of optimization. -
I don't know how well they sell, but giant sets like this are basically LEGO printing stock options for collectors. When they make giant record-setting sets like this, I want to guess that a large portion of them never get opened, and will sit on some collector's shelf until the value hits some target, before being sold off to another collector for a profit. They're very impressive sets, but they're also impractical for anyone who doesn't have dedicated display space, and they're obviously not targeted at anyone who would actually want something to play with. Odds are, the price per element is so low because of how many incredibly tiny parts it will have, and they mostly look like very common elements, so it's easy to mass produce them in this color. It's odd, but I'm starting to see two very conflicting sides to the entire LEGO product situation. On the one hand, you have an interview I heard of (but have not seen myself) where an adult collector talked with someone from the company, and all the LEGO rep did was hammer home the point that "LEGO is for kids" when he went off on collectible and value discussion. But then, you have them putting out sets like this that are clearly not targeted at kids, and really only serve collectors (whether they have display rooms of completed sets, or boxed), or people who want to turn a profit on this type of set by parting it out and selling them piecemeal online. Meanwhile, it's incredibly disappointing to see the LEGO market begin to approach Bandai DX levels of insanity, as adults hammer online shops buying up stacks and stacks of sets they know will be in high demand, just to dole them out piece by piece in online markets, selling off individual minifigures for utterly ridiculous prices, because, for some reason, minifigures have become some type of precious commodity? I've got a younger friend who has taken up the hobby of painting and decaling his own minifigures, because the official ones are reaching such astounding prices. This all, of course, baffles me to no end, because much like other action figure lines, I never cared about the figures that much, because I was more interested in the vehicles, and with LEGO in particular, most of my creations don't use figures to begin with, because they're out of scale. But somehow, people have driven the cost of individual minifigures far beyond the cost of the entire set they originally came with.
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Having taken an engineering manufacturing class taught by an old Toyota manager, and hearing his explanation of why Toyota doesn't stock tremendous amounts of spare parts, I can kind of understand the mentality. Basically, Bandai is min-maxing their profits by running the bare edge of supply and demand. Definitely makes things hell for the customers when they don't even bother considering demand outside their "target audience" though.
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What's actually kind of frustrating to me is that while I don't really like the fighter mode, it's not about it being too thick... it's about Bandai hiking the intakes up to the nosecone like Steve Urkel. The thickness was fine, and the smaller belly plates look good, but the entire plane just looked unbalanced. It's possible that it's due to bad camera angles, but it just looks so awkwardly proportioned. I'm sad no one got any good angles of it to say one way or another. Sticking with the Urkel comparison though, the battroid arms look pathetically tiny in every shot I've seen. They've got no meat on them, and it ruins any sort of design lineage from the Q-Rau the YF-21 theoretically has. The only thing I thought was actually improved on that design was the thickness of the legs. The rest.. just didn't look good. Maybe a fitting word would be "adequate?" I don't know. It just gave me the impression that the entire thing was designed to give it thicker legs, at the cost of every other proportion being skewed until the trade-off was just too costly.
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Probably not, but I would expect them to at the very least follow the pattern they established, and not make something notably worse than the only other 1/60 perfect transformation version we have. The design they came up with looks worse in every way compared with every other transforming YF-21 in existence, with the exception of the thicker legs. That's a helluva sacrifice.
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x1,000,000. I don't understand how they borked up the DX's shape so badly after making that one.
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I figure, worst case, if you want a different insignia, you can break the logo off. They're just flat plastic disks with some pegs, so if they are glued, you could probably make your own easily out of sheet styrene, and add whatever logo you want. Or, even just mask them off, repaint, and decal them.
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Not any stranger than the fact that they glued shut the internal detail on the leg packs. I would be absolutely unsurprised if they just glue the kite roundels in place on the TV packs. "How dare you presume to display your toy in a way not shown on the screen?"
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Oh, wow, ok, so that's impressive. The whole eye looks like a lens that projects the pupil in every direction, kind of like those inverted face molds that appear to follow you around.
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Quick thought about those bussard lights, I've been following the videos of a few Trek modelers, and one of them works wonders with something he refers to as "fiber fill", which looks like some kind of fibrous stuffing from cushions of some sort. He uses it to great effect as a light diffuser. I don't know how warm the lights you have might get, and I would still do a bit of research about how any sort of filler would react to heat, but I think it would make a great enhancer to the lights there. What color bulbs are you using?
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You know, I would actually love for Arcadia to put out a PF Hikaru 1J with fast packs. I picked up the M&Ms, but would love to have the trio of PF 1Js to display together.
