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    For what it's worth, I think they all use that same material, and I don't think I've heard of any cases of it shattering on any of the previous releases. And, on the off chance they do wind up exploding.. I'm going to be perfectly honest, it won't matter to me, since I don't think I've ever transformed any VT-1 past half gerwalk anyhow.
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    I know it's weird and bafflingly Giger-esque, but I wouldn't mind the Batman Forever Batwing as well. For some reason, my memory of this one got blended with the TAS version, and I've always had a mental image of this one's fuselage with the TAS wings, which I think makes a really nice combo, honestly.
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    That... is an interesting choice. I guess so long as he leaves the mask on, it won't really matter? But I can't help think they're trying to pull more multiverse shenanigans and play with the nature vs nurture angle. I'm also not deep enough into Marvel history to know whether those two characters may have ever met or interacted in some way, but after their first foray into using characters from that franchise, I'm not sure I trust them to try again.
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    The VT-1 tails have never been able to fold all the way that I know of, even on the Yamato. They just didn't have as much of a drastic redesign, or what looks like as fragile a connection as the Bandai one does. The plastic really does look thin there. I wonder if someone in Japan could get the replacement part for you with your photos. I do think someone took apart the entire DX VF-1 early in the release cycle to repaint it in another set of markings, so you should find some helpful posts in the forum history somewhere. If you're able to get the backpack apart to access that hinge, it might be thick enough to drill into and repair with a metal pin to hold it together. As far as the tail clips on the backplate go though, I've never found a reason to use them. They definitely put stress on the tail hinges, and they've always looked funky to me, so I'm not going to risk it. Though, I have to give credit to Yamato for coming up with a less disruptive design for them, and in a smaller scale no less, Bandai's hinged ones take huge chunks out of the upper surface of the plane.
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    The stylization I'm kind of ambivalent about. It's a different look, more of a Gundam/Armored Core aesthetic, instead of being a pure transforming aircraft design. Interesting in battroid/gerwalk, but it's definitely not doing fighter mode any favors. Just looks sloppily slapped together, very much like the VF-2SS in both good and bad ways. Interesting detail on the legs to make them beefier though, it looks like the entire inside panel collapses to give the arms more room.
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    Really is a beautiful one, going to be fun setting up displays for it. I'm really glad they included the extra figures for it as well, since that helps solve a completely different problem I have.. I'll probably repaint one flightsuited Hikaru as Roy, and do some components swapping to make myself a DYRL version of his VF-1S, since Bandai seems completely uninterested in releasing that version. Unless that'll be the next one we get, of course. Maybe they'll throw out a Strike Roy VF-1S as the next 40th anniversary release before getting to the VE-1. Would be great if they bundled in the missiles too, but I'm not getting any hopes up.
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    You might be better off in the end if you actually need a replacement. I would not be surprised if replacements start getting sold on various sites though, and it's not too hard to make a replacement out of plain sheet plastic, minus the tiny little warning marking tampo. I'm wishing they had just make it non-moving like the Yamato for two reasons though.. one, it wouldn't slop around in a stiff breeze, and two, they would have had to remove it for packaging.
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    Interesting, it's back in stock at Anime Export, though the markup makes me think they're going through a third party seller.
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    Ahh, oof, yeah, that does hurt to get stiffed on the order. I didn't realize those were DYRL packs to start with. The color match for the kite looks really close though, glad the old stickers fit! Fortunately the strike sets come with so many spares we can afford to repaint a few.
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    So.. I got bored a little earlier, and curious about how difficult it might be to do this. Turns out Bandai's general yellow plastic in many of their kits is a pretty good match. This is just two of those big tabs they label sprues with, sandwiched together with cement, then cut and filed to shape. The notch was made by pressing a 1/8th inch drill bit into the plastic and cutting a dent, then filing a channel for the snap to travel. Not a perfect match, but not bad for about an hour's work. Honestly? I think I like it better than the stock one, just for filling out the mount, and not constantly getting knocked out of place. The pivot is horribly sloppy on the normal one.
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    I think with DHL that might not be wrong. I usually avoid them when possible specifically because they wind up being more expensive for large orders. Think it just comes down to whether a particular shipper is charging by weight, or by volume. Not sure which DHL uses, but when I look at options through HLJ, DHL seems to increase faster than other shippers when I add more items.
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    Interesting note, but I'm curious what it's useful for. Maybe if they printed them off center? I'm still debating what to do with the piles of extra Skull roundels my fast pack sets came from. Since each set comes with every member, I've got a good dozen spares I could decorate in custom markings. On that note, where's my DYRL CF, Bandai?
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    Anyone able to get a hold of the MGS Tie Bombers? I've had a pre-order for a pair of those with Amazon for months, and they just up and cancelled them on me. Kind of irritated, I've been waiting on Bandai to make a kit of those, and it seems like they've just completely shelved the franchise at the moment.
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    Yep, exactly this. Both the Yamato and HMR versions have them painted, and pretty much every source I've seen (at keyframe animation quality, anyhow) generally shows them. Bandai engraved their outlines to look the same size as on the HMR, and then just forgot to color them in. Again, not really a huge deal, they'll be very easy to paint in. Just weird that they missed them, in this singular case where they are twice as prominent.
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    I'm pretty sure the majority of the orange is painted, including the chest. Judging by plastic translucency, I'm guessing the parts that are molded in orange are the tails, the underside of the backpack, the outer panels of the legs, and the leg strakes. I don't think you have much to worry about for the backpack scratching the chest though? Only because there's really no reason you have to press the tail flap flush against the spine of the aircraft. That flap on mine is actually pretty stiff to move, and it would take a conscious effort to try and rub that panel against the spine. Otherwise, there's no plastic on paint grinding between the backpack and chest, or packs, that I can see.
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    Happy to report my second copy from AE came with an unbent laser. I immediately removed it, and stuck it in the cubby for the hands and engine petals.
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    I am... minorly annoyed... I just noticed that they forgot to paint the wingtip lights. Is it too late to cancel my pre-orders now? Really surprising though, considering all the other details. They didn't miss them on the HMR. Maybe the tweak to the mold upset their standard operating procedure enough that it slipped away from them. Not hard to fix really, they're clearly marked, so I might just mask them off and take a metallic gundam marker to them, since it'll bug me now that I noticed it.
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    First copy from AE just delivered, and she's a real beauty. Glad to finally have this design in this scale. I did notice one interesting thing though, and I'm wondering if this is an actual change, or I'm just imagining things. I know someone pointed out that the arm tabs for fighter mode still were not working to hold the arms up in a review, but unless I'm mistaken, I think they did redesign those tabs. I was concerned a moment that they looked shorter, but I also noticed that they look like they've been given some ribbing for higher friction, and they feel tighter. The arms didn't want to press on them all the way at first, and I needed more force to get them secured, and more force to pull them loose. I have to wonder if this is a specific change for this mold, given how much junk the VE-1 hangs from the arms, but I'm pleasantly surprised how much tighter they feel. Also, one thing I'm really happy to see.. the color matching on this is about the best I think I've ever seen Bandai pull off, and on top of that, the color breakdowns make sense. I took a close look at the tails, and noticed a fleck of tan paint on the trailing edge of one tail (easily scraped off). They actually did the logical thing, and molded the tails in orange, with tan paint for the tips and root edges. I wasn't planning on using those tail clips on the chest plate anyway, but that means that connection will be plastic-on-plastic, with no paint involved. And.. I know this is a minor detail, but I think this one has the most solid canopy lock of any of the DX VF-1s. The canopy clicks closed with a really solid snap. It's just a really satisfying tactile thing. In hand, this one is feeling like the best release of this line so far.
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    Is it just me, or does every single YF-21 thread eventually circle back to the Omega Pants?
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    Glad to see someone with this in-hand (though I was practically screaming at the screen at how many times he tried to mount the wing backwards before looking at the box ). Actually a little smaller than I was expecting, but I can't even say that's a bad thing, and I was glad to see it's actually got landing gear. It's funny to me exactly how tiny this original Batwing was. It always seems slightly weird to me when a vehicle like this is actually designed to be made into a toy, and the proportions work out perfectly for an action figure. It's a really nice alternative to getting horribly gonked-up vehicles that have their proportions mangled so they can fit a standard figure.
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    This situation is so prevalent they should just be mass producing spare lasers and sending them out to anyone who received stock of the 21. Really just stupid on every level. There should have been spares in the box, or they should have been detached in the packaging. Did they just forget how many other releases have had this exact problem?
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    They should have included an exclusive Jeans Guy figure with that one.
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    Anything's possible if you don't care about it being permanent or not. Seriously though, the Yamato's legs already just pop off, and I'm sure with the right amount of plastic surgery the Bandai's could easily be mounted on the Yamato's posts. I have to wonder if the images are color-matched though, that looks closer than I would expect the two to look pasted together.
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    Oof. Given the options, I'm starting to think the best idea is just slapping the Bandai legs on a Yamato and leaving it that way in battroid permanently.
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    Only problem with that approach is that removing the legs does nothing to slim down the back end. You'd have to pull off everything including the arms, legs, the entire belly plate and the entire rear engine sliding section before you're back working with something that could theoretically be streamlined. All I'm thinking of doing is chopping the rear side panels smaller and replacing the lower arm with something that fits the cavity and doesn't need an external cover.
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