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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I'm assuming he means those are the hardpoint-less wings? Not having those hardpoints to tell them "DON'T PAINT THIS SIDE" probably contributed to that.. Still, that's some lousy quality control.
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    If you're thinking about the VF-25 series, I don't think Bandai was all that concerned with keeping to a specific scale. They're "about" 1/60, but short of the Master File, I'm not sure if many sources have directly stated how big the VF-25 even is. And, to clarify, I don't mean how big they say it is, but how big the aircraft would be if you had the CGI model, and could take direct comparisons to an object of known size. If you're going by pilot or cockpit size though, all bets are off. The best physical comparison would probably be between Hasegawa's 1/72 kits of both aircraft.
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    That's really why I'm surprised they're even bothering to advertise a Millia VF-1J this time around. I get putting Max up as an exclusive, but it really says a lot that after that they didn't even want to try selling Millia's valk.
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    I actually wonder if they'd try to be sneaky and go back to a 1/55th scale? It doesn't really match anything on the market at all, but it might let them skirt some of the licensing limitations of going 1/60th.
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    Eh? Well that's interesting, I don't even remember which market they target though. I really wouldn't mind buying Revell stuff if they would bother to offer something aimed at serious modeling instead of the insta-build, pre-painted, snap-tite crowd. I mean, I'd be decently satisfied if they'd put forth the same effort they put into their 1/48 aircraft kits, but tiny little ships selling for more than something like a 1/48th F-14 is a serious stretch. Also, I think the Bandai kits have a similar issue to the Arcadia VF-0D in terms of colors on both their parts and decals, they just seem way too saturated.
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    It was a lot better if you played it and paid no attention whatsoever to the story, but going from 50+ aircraft in AC5 and Zero to something like 15 in AC6 was just incredibly jarring and lame. Though, I will admit, I had a lot of fun with the Itano Circus launcher on the superplane. But yeah, "better than assault horizon" doesn't take much. What they did with that game was basically fanbase-i-cide.
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    I have a possibly dumb question, but one that has bugged me for pretty much forever on this design... What is with the stupid black gill markings ahead of the wings? And why do they insist on putting those things on EVERY release (minus Isamu's)??
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    Honestly, looking at the Revell stuff, I'd take the original 1978 MPC kits over their nonsense. I don't understand how it's so incredibly hard to properly proportion a ship that's literally one of the most iconic designs in history.. just do a google image search already.
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    Amazon still has ties with a few sellers who are willing to ship to the US, so it's worth looking there. I've gotten several kits from them with no trouble, they just cannot guarantee shipping times due to having to import them.
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    Don't think the old ones had that, I'm pretty sure it was double layered to print the text over the top. Sad the way their priorities have shifted, but I figure I'm only getting one of these for the armor set, so the only piece that'll really even be visible is the head anyway.
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    I'm not even sure I would trust them to release those really. They did a hi-metal Max with the first line, but stopped there, and didn't continue. They've advertised them with the new lineup, but I'm curious if they'll ever get around to them. Though, given how M&M valks seem to be fairly low sellers in general, maybe they'll be web shop exclusives that we don't have to play web shop roulette with.
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    One thing they did hit upon in the original series was the struggle to operate ship hardware built for giants. Even if they never got into a melee situation, having something to stand in for a Zentraedi-sized operator could be a fairly important thing. Or would you rather have to put down "Sorry sir, the mission failed because we couldn't reach the doorknob" on a mission report? The actual control systems in a valk have always seemed clumsy at best to me, for any type of physical interaction though. Probably the best you could hope for is that the systems operate like the controls in a typical video game, using pilot-cued targeting and heavily context dependent controls to determine appropriate physical responses to the environment. Or maybe if you get into a combat situation, a standard console gamepad controller pops out of the console, and the computers go into "melee mode," where you just press button combos like a fighting game? I don't know if I want to imagine what a fighting game would be like from a first-person viewpoint though.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Either way, I don't think Bandai has ever re-released any of the web shop exclusive stuff, which honestly makes their re-releasing any of the Frontier valks a painful thing. Really... all I can think of is John Cleese's character from Rat Race going: "Let's re-release Alto and Ozma again! Place your bets now on how high you think the market prices for the super and armor parts will go this time!" Seriously... who are they benefitting by repeatedly driving up demand for an item they never intend on releasing again? And why do they feel the need to rub it in the faces of every crowd attending their toy events by prominently displaying armored Ozma and Alto with big fat "SORRY YOU CAN'T BUY THIS ANYMORE!!" signs? It's like a giant middle finger to their fanbase.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I can definitely say I'm firmly in the "well, I'll give it a shot" camp. Personally, I'm just not really a fan of Bandai's engineering choices, and have to agree, the multiple sets of wings with and without hardpoints is just excessive. They're already including solid battroid only wings, are people really that picky that they can't stand wings with visible empty hardpoints? Part of me wants to just say, "If people are that picky, either tell them to suck it up, bite the cost of developing a less ugly hardpoint." Neither seem like that difficult a concept. The hardest part for me though? Most of my Yamato VF-1s cost less than this new HMR line. The features are different, the scale is much smaller, and the quality may be fine, but my brain just has trouble accepting that this little thing costs more than one almost twice the size, regardless of what features and extras it has.
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    Honestly, that's the least worrisome thing to break on the 171 possible, because that piece does literally nothing except make the wing harder to snap on or off. The plastic nub that broke off is just the cap to the wider locator stub that the wing rotates around, and the removable peg is what really holds the wing on. If you're really worried about the wing falling off, you could always drill out the remains of that peg, and insert a small screw, but you'd have to remove those if you plan on swapping the wings out for the hardpointed versions at some point. Long as you're careful with the rest of the transformation, the Alto version should be fairly safe. Just make sure to keep the knees straight while rotating the lower legs.
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    I'm curious if they'll realize that VF-1s only have two segment fingers before they slap a set of gundam parts on it.
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    Guessing that was a typo and should have said "now" instead of "not"?
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    Quick question, I know most of the v2 VF-1s had assorted pictures of the plane itself on the box cover, like the brownie does.. but what's the backdrop used on the box for that Max? From the photo, it looks like some sort of 3D render of the SDF-1's bridge area, and from DYRL no less.
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    Is it just me, or do those resistance pilot uniforms look like they were constructed by a 5 year old raiding a thrift store for Halloween costume items? I mean.. I'm pretty sure my mom has a Tupperware bowl that could be the basis for that helmet. I'm relatively ok with updating things, but they went from something that actually resembles real military hardware to... well.. that.
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    Agreed, the plastic used in the early original releases was like a time bomb. People reported various portions of those valks just exploding as if the plastic had shattered like glass. In the long run though, the fix for these is the same: shapeways parts (though I do not know if replacements for the knee joints have been made, since those are a similar problem to the shoulders). The Arcadias have a much more refined mold, and much stronger joints, so really the only reason to pick up an older Yamato one at this point would be if you found a bargain on a later release version, or absolutely had to have one with a ghost booster, but were paranoid about bending the canards. I'll be honest here though, I actually prefer the original knee joint on the Yamato one, and how it had a double extension. I think it was just a more interesting mechanism than the sliding knees everything uses now.
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    That's not a new problem, they've always done that, going back to the Yamato version.. Those "pegs" are too shallow to offer any kind of support, and have never been more than locator pins. The only things ever really holding the legs on are the clips around the hip bar. It's actually one thing I was really surprised that Arcadia didn't change about the design, and wished they would have. The intakes really need something more substantial to attach to.
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    The one Revell kit I am giving thought to is the large scale one they have coming. It's probably terrible detail, but just having a base model in that scale to work on fixing up is still a step up from any of the other kits I've got. I can always print myself replacement parts if I have to.
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    I was more amazed that they somehow forgot to implement some sort of chat filter/censor... one reviewer described the chat spam as something like a racial flamewar between a horde of drunken sailors, and 4chan.
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    As long as you keep the marking far enough back, I don't think it'd be an issue, but the notches cut into the nose to latch under the chest will probably be prone to at least rubbing.
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    Really, it's not sticking anything to Disney, because they're still getting the money from Bandai. What it -is- doing is sticking it to Revell for making suck sucktastic kits for NA sales, which they deserve entirely.
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