Chronocidal
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Man, the itchy trigger fingers for HLJ tonight! XD
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Well that was wacky XD
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HLJ UP
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NY been hopping up and down like a bobblehead, it seems to go up and crash again every couple minutes.
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AmiAmi already starting to lag hard, NY still down.
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Heheh, thread moving too fast for me, I missed the entire discussion. Carry on!
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SO.. I didn't notice this until now... did anyone else read the features about their being a secondary twist joint added to the knee?
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CDJapan has been my #2 go-to site for the last year or two. Usually goes up around the same time as HLJ, and lasts a bit longer.
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Heheh, nope, was up a moment, long enough for me to login, and it died again.
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Hah.. so NY has a message apologizing for the site outage, and to check their twitter account for information about new releases.
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Relying on NY? No. Using them as an alternate source to get a second or third one? Absolutely.
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Actually also wouldn't surprise me if this tactic is to throw off the bot purchasers.
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Is the YF-19 the only item at 6pm, or did they shift all of them? This might be the gundam rush.
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Wonder if Bandai is trying to cripple the international market intentionally with the release time, actually.
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Wait, I'm catching up, did they bump the release of this to 6pm JST across the board?
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Toes don't look that simple, they don't have visible screws. They might be easy to pop the glue on, but I'm not going to try that unless I have to. I think with the right positioning of the feet, the heels might even work out okay, but we'll see. Bandai's design for the entire leg is a weird tapered shape that doesn't fit the original animation very well, and is a stark contrast to the Arcadia, so the foot designs are very different.
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Minor note about the foot shape.. the heel shape might be a non-issue, if you position the feet correctly. Messing with the feet on the VF-19 Advance, I was able to get them to drop down a decent amount, to where there was actually a gap above the heel flap. I think it just depends on how far you push the feet in. It does leave a gap around front edge of the toe, but I think it's more streamlined than having the heel stick up so far. Also, if it comes down to needing replacement heels, the ones on the VF-19 Advance are just a simple plastic cap mounted to a metal plate with one screw. If they keep the same base design, it'd be a very simple operation to replace them with different ones.
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"Improves the profile of fighter." Ok, Bandai.. Ok.. that's nice.. now put down the crackpipe, and go watch the anime again. Will admit, they look better in battroid, but the real problem is that they made the entire foot off center. Both the toe and heel are too thick now, and the whole foot needs to be dropped down until the heel is level with the top of the leg. Not going to stop me from buying (assuming I can even get any), but I'm going to be looking to replace those heels. They're freaking nasty, and Bandai's designers have no excuse for that. They just unilaterally decided "This looks better"... despite being both obviously contrary to everything in the source material, and ducking fugly. Doing that without screwing up all of the other paint and details is a chore honestly. It's really more that Bandai is being freaking lazy though, because they could absolutely do it right if they put out the effort.. but they're not. I've long since given up trying to make any sense of Bandai's marketing or design decisions. They put tons of effort into modifications that are detrimental to a product, and skip the easy changes.
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Not sure there's any change to add the fold booster, because I suspect the design was always meant to incorporate that option. It would go a long way toward explaining why the area between the legs and shield was so gappy on the Advance. Arm weapons I suspect will just clip on using existing features of the arms, but we'll have to wait and see.
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I almost can't say this counts, because it's still the VF-19 Advance mold. It's kind of a shortcut that tweaks the Advance to look more like the original, but there are still some big differences in the design that Bandai isn't even trying to address. I think the entire spinal structure is very different, and Bandai redesigned the entire section around the head and shield for some reason... which funny enough, is inaccurate even to the VF-19 Advance cameo in the movie. Frankly speaking... putting SMS markings and the after-market boosters on an Arcadia YF-19 would be a more accurate VF-19 Advance than Bandai's design.
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Highlighting the problem here: The feet are supposed to fit inside the legs. Not stick up into the airflow above them. They look way too thick. Now.. whether that's because they're mis-transformed or not is up for grabs, but they have a distinct hooked shape that has that U-shaped portion sticking above the leg. And either way, they're still way too short as well, and barely stick past the ankle flaps on the sides of the leg. They aren't that stubby in any art, at least not in fighter mode. It looks like Bandai is just ignoring how they look in fighter.
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They've entirely remolded the heel on the foot, and.... made it horrendously blocky. They basically changed it to the style seen on the battroid pics, at the cost of looking ugly in fighter mode, because now it's too short and too thick, even so far as sticking up above the top of the leg. WTF Bandai? It has literally NEVER looked like that in any drawing, animation, or model. But yeah. Maybe I'll do some parts swapping with the Advance version.. the colors being swapped doesn't even bother me in comparison to those fugly printed markings on the wings. They couldn't even get UN SPACY to fit inside the stripe, so you can't just paint over it, you have to strip it AND paint it.
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I've never seen those markings in any official image of the YF-19, full stop. I've maybe seen people put the UN SPACY stickers on the upper right wing, but the N.E.T.F.C thing is something I'm guessing Bandai dreamed up all on their own. Maybe it's from something they saw in the Master File? Either way, the letters on both wings and tails are just obnoxiously huge. If they absolutely had to put them there, the least they could have done is use a smaller font.. then maybe the UN SPACY would have actually fit completely within the black stripe. I'll have to see how hard it is to strip those without ruining the black stripes on the wings. At least black isn't a hard color to match. Despite the nitpicks though, I still plan on grabbing at least two.. if CD Japan allows more than one, I might double up my order there, and grab three. Would love to have one to display on my desk at work.
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Am I the only one irritated that Bandai decided to continue their overzealous tampo splattering across every surface of the plane, despite there being no actual precedent for the markings they've added? I know people like more tampo, but this just makes me think I'm going to spend a ton of time stripping the excess markings off, and touching up whatever paint I foul up I the process. The markings on the upper wings are just excessive, and ugly to me, since they break up the nice black stripes. They should have just stuck to Hasegawa as a reference. I dunno. I want at least a pair for the missiles, cannons, and boosters, but they clearly didn't bother actually addressing a bunch of the differences between the Advance and YF-19. Connection between the head and shield is still borked up, though at least it looks like they ditched the extra neck cover attached to the arm shield this time. Didn't bother to reverse the red and black markings on the lower fins, and maybe the chest. And yeah.. those heel blocks really don't look attractive at all, even if they're meant to more accurately resemble the YF-19.
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STAR WARS Merchandise Episode - 2
Chronocidal replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Looks beautiful, but that's a pricey hunk of plastic compared with all the other fighters. Would love to see a comparison pic between that and the other kits, to gauge the size. Also, I hope the stand mount is compatible with some of the other display bases, because that new stand design will be an eyesore alongside all the other kits. Edit: Assuming Bandai's not making a new laser effect mold just for this model, and extrapolating based on that, looks like this should be between 24 and 27 cm from the cockpit to the end of the main wing. Just a hair bigger than the Y-wing, which should match up with the "canon" lengths that Bandai seems to be following (16.24 for the Y-Wing, and 16.9 for the B-Wing). I'm actually considering scratch-building an actual 1/72 A-wing to match the rest of the fighters though, possibly by some mix of kit-bashing and 3D printing. Here's an interesting factoid... the "1/72" Bandai A-wing is scaled properly to be kitbashed from 1/72 F-14 and F-16 kits; it's nearly an identical size to the 1/72 F-14 on my desk. Since I'm fairly sure the source kits for the studio models were 1/32 F-14 and F-16 kits, that makes them 1/2.25th scale replicas of the original studio model.. making the studio model around 11.8 inches long... or, roughly the exact size of the old POTF A-Wing toys. On the flip side of that though... So, if the current "1/72" kit is actually 1/48, that means the A-Wing was about 21 feet long, making it about 3.5 inches long in true 1/72. In order to properly kitbash a true 1/72 A-Wing, you'd need parts from 1/108th scale F-14s and F-16s. That's actually close enough that a 1/100 kit would probably work just fine, though.