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    Yeah, I don't expect any problems with them redesigning things really, I just have zero faith in their QC processes right now. I just get antsy about people "improving" things that never had any problems to begin with. Missiles are really easy to fix though, I just folded a tiny piece of tape over the tabs. Took like 5 minutes, and they're rock solid in the slots now, and still removeable.
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    This kind of stupid shenanigans makes me want to take the engineers out back of a bulding and slap them around with pool noodles for being complete idiots. What part of "TRANSFORMING TOY," or "MOVING PARTS" is so hard for people to understand? But it keeps happening... parts molded in the wrong color and painted over to cover it up. Bandai loves doing it, now Arcadia is deciding to follow the bad example. Worst part is? If I read the earlier comments from Mr. K about the high product rejection rate correctly, this nonsense may even be directly responsible for the prices climbing so high. When you design a product that can't even survive assembly without massive damage to the paint applications, what do they expect to happen??
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    To be fair, so was the original VF-0. Didn't stop them from "improving" the parts that never had problems in the first place. Guess only time will tell if they changed anything, but I hope they were smart enough to leave well enough alone. This mold really shouldn't need anything changed.
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    Looks like it, but that doesn't look much like the other fighters seen in the movie trailers so far. Guessing there are multiple versions. This one just looks like a patch job to the existing kit. I haven't had much trouble ordering the Bandai kits from Amazon though, seems like there are plenty of Japanese retailers who are willing to ship outside of Japan. I don't know how long that might last though. I should probably grab another few Ties, X-wings and Y-wings while I can.
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    I've only unboxed one of my 0Ds so far, and didn't have any issues the one time I went to battroid with it, but I also didn't really move the legs around much. I may double check that one, and the unopened one later tonight.
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    When people are talking about the intakes not staying attached, is it the connection between the intake and the metal plate above them? For all the improvements over the first version, that entire assembly hasn't changed a bit, and it was always a problem. That attachment point just has absolutely no strength to hold the intakes stable.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    Chronocidal replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Think it's just a general change to the old YF-30 design. Instead of hiding the hands under pop-out covers on the sides of the legs, it looks like they're completely integrated into the underside of the wing. While I hated how un-streamlined those hand covers were in fighter mode on the YF-30, it also may be why the arms are so skinny on the 31.
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    So I really don't know anything about these types of products with regards to either quality or pricing, but I thought this was an amusing crossing of the streams with a couple recent subjects. https://otakumode.com/shop/5614eb9cc20124a763180f72/The-Seven-Deadly-Sins-Leviathan-1-3-Scale-Hybrid-Active-Figure?utm_source=ad&utm_medium=criteo&utm_campaign=ad_crt_5614eb9cc20124a763180f72
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    They kinda did try to make an X-Wing in that scale... but they also completely failed in designing anything anyone would actually want, and made it a giant block of plastic with no moving parts, meaning it was probably the first X-Wing in history that couldn't actually make an X with its wings.
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    Long time ago, I dirtied up a couple of the old MPC kits with... I think I just rubbed things down with some dirty thinner, honestly. You really can't ink the lines either, it's more about various shades of panels. It was a long time ago that I made them though, and I didn't use what anyone would probably call "good" techniques. I think for the greeblie panels I wound up using a mix of gunmetal and exhaust colors, but most of the other panels were just dry-brushed to look worn.
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    So, it's not quite a fan-liner, but I have to wonder about the inspiration for this design... http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a18169/cobalt-co50-valkyrie/
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    I'm pretty sure this is exactly why they did it. Those big knee gaps are how the legs collapse into the stocky shape for battroid. Bandai had no qualms about making a skinny battroid, so they focused on a Hasegawa-like fighter mode instead. While I think Arcadia could have revised that a bit without significantly lengthening the legs, I think the joint design is a leftover from trying to base the new YF-19 off the VF-19 mold and proportions as much as possible. The VF-19 just has a very differently shaped leg in the knee area, and the gap isn't nearly as conspicuous. The thing I can never figure out... why can't anyone figure out how to paint the black patch behind the cockpit correctly? It's supposed to stay above the canards.. not dip halfway down the side of the fuselage.
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    Went and finally bit the bullet and ordered a 0S from HLJ. Will be nice not worrying about the shoulders and knees shattering, but we'll have to see how the painting went on this one. It looks like they molded more of it in color, so hopefully it won't be so prone to scratches.
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    While the differences are a bit more extreme (colors, and shape and all that), I'd kind of chalk that sort of thing up to the idea that it would be easier to make a film using footage of a modern vessel than it would to make a recreation of the original. How many films and TV shows involving aircraft carriers wind up substituting modern footage for a ship of the same basic design that was in service 50 years ago? There's going to be significant differences for the people who know what to look for, but it'll still be a better result than a complete CGI substitute, and the average viewer won't really know the difference. The original TV SDF-1 was a rebuilt space wreck. After all the work done on it, and with the assistance of the Zentraedi afterward, I don't see why the DYRL version couldn't just be the updated result of a more ideal reconstruction of the same vessel from scratch. It could even be a refit like they did to the Enterprise in the first Star Trek movie. After seeing Frontier, it's clear they made more of those vessels using the DYRL specifications. Funny to think about, but in-universe, it may even have been the Global that was used to film DYRL. Edit: After typing this, I realized, it doesn't really explain the original's appearance in Macross Plus.. but then again, it was nearly destroyed at the end of the TV series, right? Makes sense that it would have been rebuilt to newer specifications, even if it was never intended to launch again.
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    A Black Aces scheme would probably go nicely with the existing red, but then you're stuck with a painted nose agan. At least with black, it's simple to match and touch up, and you can skip masking the thruster exhausts, and just paint the nozzle bits afterward. I'm personally leaning toward either the classic VF-84 style, or possibly VF-142, since I've got so many sets of those markings from the old Monogram kits.
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    (Edit: Corrected, thought it looked painted, but really is just gray plastic.) The blue should strip off the canards and tails easily enough, and the fins are easily removable, but the paint on the nose looks fairly sturdy. It might take some sanding to get off if you really want to strip it down. I'd love to see some unique markings though, there's any number of F-14 squadron sets that would look beautiful on this plane.
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    Amazon themselves stopped carrying them, but the ones I ordered came through smaller Japanese shops advertising on Amazon's main site. I don't know if those have dried up too now, though. This one seems to still have them, but I don't know if they'll actually fill orders. The item title seems a little dubious, so they might be doing that to skirt the Disney embargo. http://www.amazon.com/X-Wing-fighter-resistance-specifications-model/dp/B014VTPPS2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1447037699&sr=8-2&keywords=x-wing+bandai
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    I feel like using existing components adds a very intrinsic realism to things. If you think about it, imagine all the research and development that went into those parts. Professional engineers spent years developing those parts, making them structurally sound, and functional. Using those parts is kind of like adding a base realism value to what you're making, adding on to something that is already a proven design.It's why purely CGI stuff feels completely inferior to me, in terms of design. Those items never had to actually exist and function... why should anyone spend the extra time and money to do the R&D work to make something that would function in reality? I know, science fiction, not our universe and all that... but our perceptions of "realistic" are rooted in this universe, and copying things from reality seems to me like it adds a lot to suspension of disbelief. There are tons of reasons manufactured items are shaped the way they are, and piggy backing on that science just makes things feel like a lot more work went into them.
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    The way I look at it, maybe the partsforming will let us mix and match pieces so we can get that goofy gerwalk SDF-1?
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    I'd actually love to see a standalone movie with the entire Fett family.. Let's see.. Boba, Jango, Burpo, Zeppo, Groucho.. Harpo... I know I'm forgetting one though..
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I think the sloppy backpack was one of the main reasons I never felt too interested in this line. That's a lot of weight to hold up, even at this smaller scale, and I'm surprised they ever expected the backpack hinge to be enough by itself.
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    The ships do look like they got squished a good deal, but that's not a huge thing to me. What does occur to me is that at this scale, it should be pretty darn affordable to shapeways some replacements, or even make a pair of ARMDs to swap in for variety.
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    I want to breathe a huge sigh of relief that people are saying it's true to the original. Might have to see this one around Christmas.. it might go well as a follow up to the annual viewing of the original specials.
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    The VF-17 got a similar over-the-shoulder thing with its FAST packs too, but nothing big or very impressive. Maybe the Zentraedi design influence is heavier in that culture? Or maybe that entire faction is actually Zentraedi in origin? We did see a few classic SDFM mechs in the trailer, and they're clearly still around from Frontier. Funny thought, maybe the 262 is actually a development of the variable Glaug? It might be a lot bigger than it looks!
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