Chronocidal
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I've poked them about my order of two 31As at least 3 times now, and keep getting reassurances that they haven't forgotten the order. To their credit, I haven't gotten any cookie-cutter responses, but I'm really getting tired of not hearing anything more than empty promises.
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Yeah, if there's one thing about Bandai, they will absolutely cling to their mistakes like they're some kind of trademark. Why ruin a perfect record and use correct colors and markings at this point?
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Yuuuup... though, to be entirely fair, I can see why someone (Tenjin?) thought it was called for. If I remember right, I think that's the panel Roy accessed to detach the nose section from the VF-1D. Doesn't mean I won't be rubbing those markings off. I don't think that was a separate release though. It was only ever a Tamashii exclusive, and I think the trick for the stand was that you had to order by a certain date. Making Roy's Valk an exclusive was one of the dumbest things they ever did with the HMR line I think, but at least it made it relatively easy to order. If they do that again with a 1/48 one, I'm fully expecting VF-31A: The Sequel.
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This just gets better with every picture! Looking really amazing, I can't wait for the final version so I can build one myself. How did you finally manage to get the arms to flip underneath the wings in gerwalk? It looks great that way.
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Wait. Allllllllllll that tampo... AND THEY STILL FORGOT THE EJECTION SEAT WARNING?? Granted... that doesn't look like a tampo'd copy yet. The kite on the nose is partially transparent. Still, to include so many other excessive little details, and forget one of the mainstays of military aircraft warning labels.. yeeesh. Fortunately... it's really easy to get Hasegawa markings in 1/48 for a VF-1. In other news though, I applaud Bandai for finally getting over their obsession with die-cast intakes. Maybe we can finally have a DX valk without paint chipping all over the thighs.
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You mean gray like the shadow in the inside of the white landing gear bay, and the underside of the white airplane? Maybe I'm overly picky about this, but there should be no question about this sort of thing, and it just comes off as flippant and lazy on Bandai's part. The VF-1 was designed in the style of 1980s US Naval aircraft. US Naval aircraft in that era never used anything other than pure white paint on landing gear and bays, as a means of detecting fluid leaks. I can get that they're trying to cling to nostalgia. It's the way the old Chunkies were colored. But just like the incorrectly angled chest stripes that they FINALLY got around to fixing on the HMR releases, just because it's nostalgic doesn't mean it's not wrong. If they're going to produce a toy that displays well alongside aircraft collectibles, then they need to stop half-assing the effort, accept that they're making an aircraft collectible, and do what their competition has gotten correctly all along. Honestly though... the bare metal landing gear just looks cheap.
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There seem to be two ways that those cups holding the flap tend to break free. Early on during the first releases from Yamato, some folks reported that those little cups broke off when moving the backpack back into fighter mode from the folded up gerwalk position. In those cases, it was due to the edges of those cups being caught against an edge of the backplate, and stressing them as the backpack was pushed down. There is a way to avoid this by making sure to rotate the backpack in a specific way. The second cause of these breaks just sounds like mold degradation of either the caps, or the backpack flap. When this issue popped up again in the past year or so, it was reported that the pegs on the backpack flap were mis-molded, and stressing the caps when the flap was folded over. I'm hoping the cause is one of these two issues, and that we don't have a third root cause to track down. :P
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"Better" is a relative thing. For whatever reason, they seem to just be completely opposed to ever painting the gear white, on any Valkyrie of any type. If they can be removed without destroying the valk, I might pop them out and spray them myself. They might think the chrome is nostalgic for the old 1/55 toys, but it's a glaring omission in what otherwise looks like a model aircraft replica.
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In all honesty, I'm disappointed they aren't farther along than this. At this stage, I think the only actual difference I see is that they changed the wing and knee joints a bit, and maybe helped close up the gap under the head in fighter. Maybe I'll treat it like the VF-0 and grab one for completion, but I can't justify replacing my existing set. It's not like the shape of the original was ever inaccurate, so these changes aren't going to make much difference when viewing one from a shelf.
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Well then... apparently the click was too stronk for AmiAmi to handle.. I wound up with two there as well. And then another at HLJ for good measure.. and already got the confirmation email. Didn't intend on three.. but I'm not going to knock getting a trio of stands.
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Not yet, they won't post the item until it opens for sale.
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CD Japan usually lists around the same time as HLJ, and I actually tend to use them as my secondary preorder source. They don't tend to offer large discounts, and you have to pay up front depending on the payment source, but those details both work in your favor if you don't mind paying a bit more, since the site doesn't get quite as hammered as places like NY and AmiAmi.
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Yeah, the fact that anyone is saying it might be 3 PM in Japan is enough to make me start up the F5ing early to be safe.
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I'm still not taking any chances, I'm going to be mashing that F5 starting in about 35 minutes
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I just sent in another check-up ticket to NY about my pair of 31As, and all they really said was "We haven't forgotten about your order!" So as not to poke the sleeping dog, I'm waiting until I receive my order to lay into them about finding out exactly what happened to cause this level of nonsense.
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Can someone please just walk into Bandai HQ, and slap the entire DX design team upside the head with some sort of documentation on actual aircraft? They're doing the "TAMPO EVERYTHING" deal again, and splattering useless aircraft warning markings where they don't belong. I'm still going to try and grab two of these, just on principle. Will I keep them? Who knows, but my enjoyment of any new mold is in figuring out how they function.
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Star Wars: Clone Wars animated series
Chronocidal replied to BoBe-Patt's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I'm going to have to watch the entirety of both CW and Rebels at some point, if only for the never-ending onslaught of audio-cue chills they give me. -
Figures they would go and release the single 1/48 Yammie I ever got Eh, I'm game, pre-order madness notwithstanding. Basically looks like a scaled-up HMR, really, which isn't all bad, but I hope they manage to get the gunpod level. Also, I'm seeing folding leg fins, and hardpoints included, and maybe a working airbrake. On the down side, looks like it's got shades of the old Yammie 1/48 bulbous canopy as well, but it's hard to judge just from the single angle they give. Will have to see how it pans out.
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Having disassembled that structure to flip around one that was assembled backwards on an old Yamato, the final segment with the actual hip bar should come free relatively easily (though they may have switched to those annoying spring-pins to hold it). Also, the metal isn't painted, so nothing to really lose there. I think what might be the most solid repair for this would be to actually cut off the opposite hip shaft as well, then drill out the hip bar and replace both hips with a solid metal rod. You'd have to replace the ball joints on both hips as well, but that might be an improvement over the original Arcadia hip joints. Sadly, that kind of operation might require some decent metal shop hardware, maybe a drill press, and you'll need a properly sized rod to fit in the nose correctly (though it might be easier to modify the inside of the nose to fit an available rod than to make a rod fit the nose). If Shapeways can print a metal part with the required strength, I think that'd be a much simpler option than trying to remake the part. Replacing the rod itself would be pretty easy I think, but getting it to attach to the existing ball joints might take a lot of fine machining. I'm thinking you would have to find or make a hip bar with threads on the ends, and then drill into and make matching threads in the existing ball joints to attach them.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Chronocidal replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
I was just about to ask which EVA unit this one was... that's some kind of crazy power armor. Also, @Shizuka the Cat, congrats on a great pickup, I'm amazed to see the VF-19F for anything less than the original retail price, let alone through Amazon. The S-model got multiple runs, and was really easy to find on clearance, but the both the F and P versions got comparatively shortchanged on production runs before Yamato went under, and were much harder to come by. That one and the P are probably my favorite Yamato molds, hands down. -
Has anyone gotten any multiple orders from NY yet? I feel like I saw at least one get through a while back, but no luck yet on mine, and it was ordered on the 7th.
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Yeah, like I was saying earlier, Disney buying Fox and Comcast buying them are two entirely different sorts of mergers. Fox and Disney are two companies that do (mostly) the same thing: make content for people to consume. Media companies and film studios pop up and die out all the time. It's a volatile market that will always have room for competition. (Whether it's good enough to be competitive is a separate issue. ) Comcast is a company that sells access to the content that companies like Fox and Disney make. They own infrastructure. That's an entirely different sort of organization that depends on stability to even function, and Comcast owns enough of the infrastructure across the country to ensure that certain areas have no other option when it comes to things like internet and cable access. Comcast owning Fox could potentially cause all sorts of other ugly effects across the country, in terms of cable and internet rates. For instance, say Comcast just decides that all Fox-owned content will now be exclusively available on Comcast service. Sucks to be all those other cable companies that won't get any. Or maybe they'll play nice and offer other cable companies a deal to purchase Fox content for their customers? You know that cost will get passed along to the consumers, and then cable rates for everyone but Comcast will go up, and suddenly Comcast looks like a better deal than every other cable provider. Not saying it would necessarily play out like that, and I'm no market expert, so that might just be tinfoil hat-level speculation. It just sounds like that kind of situation would open the door for all kinds of unpleasant shenanigans.
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On the other hand, this also doesn't excuse how lazy they've been with the tampo on the normal releases. I can kind of understand not putting the intake warnings on the YF-19, because they weren't in the animation, but leaving so many standard markings (that were included on the original Yamato releases, even) off of the VF-0 standard releases was pretty darn cheap.
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Why would they even put the VF-22 as an option? It's been done, and I don't think Wave is going to improve on the Hasegawa mold. 171 I'd be happy to see though.
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Could be improved and better designed by not using diecast metal in painted transformation joints. For the stresses exerted on those types of pieces, color-molded plastics are generally plenty strong. I know people like metal parts for the weight, but I don't understand the obsession with it, and it's probably the worst possible option to use in joints on transforming toys.
