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    It's pretty sad that it did so poorly. I know I would have actually preferred the red one to the normal 17S, but I wound up just buying the standard one as it became clear Yamato was having trouble selling them.
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    Wow, that's an awesome deal.. I'm almost tempted to get a second one.
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    Know what I want to see in a triangle? Two girl pilots, and a male singer. Or even three pilots if you could manage to come up with something not at all Basara-like.
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    Those tails an an infinite improvement over the ones on the YF-30, but I wish we could get away from the giant weapons pod, it's just incredibly awkward in 2 out of 3 modes. Loving the Drakenvalk though. This should be interesting to see the transformation.
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    Sort of a combination of 1 and 4 here, if that makes sense.. I bought two VF-0Ds, because I never expected that version to even exist. But despite the improvements over the Yamato version, I'm not all that impressed by it. For all the structural improvements over the original design, it's still almost entirely the same structural design, so I can't honestly say it looks any better than the old ones. The original never looked bad to begin with. The better durability is nice, I admit, and I wouldn't mind having the armor set eventually. But Arcadia's lack of attention to the obvious details like paint color and tampo are really not making me feel like I need one. And I'm quite irritated that they screwed up the compatibility with the existing ghost boosters. To top it off, the problems people are having this time around aren't even materials or quality control issues.. they're design issues. Worse, they're things that never had problems before, but somehow the engineers have forgotten how to make things work well. All the scratched paint, all the borked up hip joints.. for all the issues the Yamato ones had, those were never a problem before. I feel like I shouldn't buy one just because it feels like rewarding shoddy design work.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Given the tendency of Bandai plastic to yellow, I've got no issue with making this one in gray. I prefer all the DYRL releases of the Yamato VF-1 for the same reason.
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    The cynic in me keeps thinking this will become horribly messed up somehow, but every time I hear Snoopy's voicework, I can't help but get a little choked up, and think this will be amazing.
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    Oh, it's already fixed, the tabs on the booster just looked like they got slightly smooshed down. What that did was round off the sharp corners on what should have been a more blocky shape, and it let the booster slip off. I just trimmed the tabs until there was a hard corner for the booster to stay hooked on, and it works fine now.
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    I don't know if this is the same on everyone's, but mine had mis-molded tabs on the booster, as if they were melted a bit. I had to reshape them with a razor blade to restore sharp edges to the tabs so they would latch on.
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    Do note, there are some replacements for the triangles available now on Shapeways, and people may sell the broken ones for even less than $100. If you don't care about the markings on the shoulders, the replacement parts might be a way to fix up a busted one.
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    I don't think I've ever referred to an AT-ST as anything but a "chicken walker." I've tried to avoid the smaller star wars sets because the design compromises they like don't tend to sit well with my OCD.. I'm just too picky. I still prefer my own X-wing design to any of the official ones, because they can't ever seem to make the engines in correct proportion to the ship. The UCS X-Wing's are far too tiny, and the smaller sets can't seem to figure out how to place the rear sections properly to look nice.
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    Going to skip the triple and go straight to "word-tacular." I did buy the first bluray set when it was on sale, but promptly put my dvd original trilogy releases in the fancy box. I do hope they use the remastered versions this time though, some of the tracking errors in ANH are a little distracting.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I have my personal suspicion that it's literally because they refuse to admit to the mistake the original 1/55ths made in the same way. They basically trademarked an inaccuracy. Actually though, those stripes really don't look good at all.. neither the straight portion nor the angle really flows with the lines of the aircraft. Why'd they screw it up even worse than before?
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    For what it's worth, I don't think $50 is that bad a price for them, considering what it might cost to get a new release of a v.2 now. Certain ones are still pretty cheap, but the popular ones demand quite a bit more in new condition. At the height of production, some of the v.2s could be found for around $50-60 before shipping, but those were usually only on clearance sales, or the unassembled versions that you had to paint yourself. To be fair though, they are quite a step down from the v.2 releases, in both quality and features. The cheapest I know of still readily available is probably the 30th anniversary Arcadia release, which I have seen sold here for pretty cheap. Beyond that, the next most available is probably the VF-1A brownie, which I think some sites still have a small stock of (I think HK Collectibles has them, or did recently). Also, if that picture is from a pile of things you could potentially purchase, pick up that VF-1D pronto, that's quite a hard one to find these days.
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    There are ways to remove them, because I've seen some people pull them out of the VF-19 feet to work on them, and I know I had to remove a few of them so I could reassemble one of my VF-27s in a non-backwards orientation.. it got shipped with the arms mounted backwards, and was completely incapable of transforming.
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    Yamato used to. Even with the screw covers, things weren't too hard to take apart until the VF-19s came out. Up until that point, I don't think they'd ever used those hollow spring pins. The VF-1 was pretty much as good as it got though, and even that had several large glued-together sections. They just didn't used to glue them so securely that you couldn't pop the parts apart without damaging them. On the opposite end, the VF-171 is absolutely the worst for this. Bandai glued things, screwed them together, and then covered the seams with another layer of glued-on surface detail. Of course this would be done on their valk most likely to suffer catastrophic damage.
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    I can't recall if I have more VF-19s than VF-25s now... but I have more VF-1s than either of them.
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    The funny thing about Lego pricing... that 12 cent per piece standard is probably about 30 years old. I remember the average coming out to around 10 cents a piece when I was little. (Though all bets are off if any electronic bits are included.) They really haven't changed anything about their pricing. The sets have just gotten bigger and bigger over time. The UCS Falcon was the largest set they ever released at the time, if I recall. I do remember it being roughly $500 originally.
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    Why the blue blazes are they painting the metal for an internal joint?? Like... ok, seriously. We've been down this road before. The paint on the metal parts of the Fire Valk's ankles caused problems, so every later release, and every later VF-19 variant had bare metal ankles. Did they just flat out forget how to design things that work?
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    I think you convinced me.. I have Amazon giftcards saved, I might get that Slave I. The Falcon is monstrous.. I'm glad I grabbed it on clearance sale from the LEGO main site a couple years back. Still no room to build it though.
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    Aha.. backplate on that VF-0S looked molded in white.. though it's still clearly a prototype, so who knows. Still undecided, but that's at least one thing I'd like to see.
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    Oh, absolutely, I mean, the X-Wings in-universe were all pretty much chop-jobs, patched up and repaired on the fly with whatever was handy. No two were painted alike. I think the Red 3 version of the nose cone got popularized because I seem to recall seeing mostly photos of that model as references, and it was the model shown on the old MPC 1/41-ish kit with the ROTJ label. The details of X-wing models are really a topic unto themselves though. I've done a lot of research into where the individual parts came from so I could go straight to the source. That rear toilet seat thing was just a plug used to cover the mounting point for the filming armature. The entire back panel is also the top from a WWII Sherman tank, I believe. I love tracking down where those parts came from. It's basically what Fine Molds did for their 1/72 Falcon kit. That isn't a kit of the Falcon, exactly.. it's a Falcon shell, with several hundred reduced scale replicas of parts from other model kits. The Y-Wing is really the same thing, but I don't know if they went to those same lengths with that kit.
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    That's what I get for not watching the videos. I want to scream at them for all the pre-painted snap-tite crap, but to be fair, that larger scale X-wing might actually be worth a purchase. I've been begging for 1/32 kits for a long time, and I think that one is fairly close from what I read. The video looked a lot better than the kit photos, in any case. Proportions look a little off in a few spots, and the detail isn't very crisp. Might need a few scratch-built parts to actually look accurate. My biggest issue is that the lower half of the nose looks too deep. I might be being generous really, but for comparison, I'd already planned to re-work and rebuild the old AMT Pro-Shop kit into something that didn't make me gag. The detail on this new one is already a quantum leap above that kit, and would probably make a much better starting point.
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    This really makes all kinds of sense. If the ball socket is molded to fit one size sphere, and then you build the ball joint out of two half-spheres of different sizes.... well, what do you think will happen? Only a few options really.. and in this case, if the plastic half is bigger than the metal half, it might pretty much explain everything. 1. The plastic half is too big, spreading the joint out and letting the metal half slip out of the socket. 2. Oh no, the metal part isn't staying in! We'll have to glue it into the ball to keep it from slipping out so easily. 3. Oh no, the glue leaked out and now the joints are sticking, and the whole thing is a mess. Oh, and the glue isn't enough to keep the peg in the ball. Bottom line? All the quality control in the world isn't going to save you if you can't even mold the parts in the correct size.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I'm pretty sure Bandai realized at some point that they should stop even trying to label things with scales, because the fans of these things will call them out on it if they're wrong.
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