Chronocidal
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I might do the same actually, would love to remove the dish and fin, but hate risking ruining the only one I have. Would also give me another testbed for making my own triangles. I have a plan for the lower ones, but need to experiment with replacements for the uppers. Maybe I need to just transform my CF until it breaks for extra motivation.
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I think I've actually gotten about half of my bandai valks in some level of complete mistransformation. The people packing them just don't know how to do it, and don't even know what the product is supposed to look like.
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Arcadia 1/60 VF-19 Custom Nekki Basara Special with Sound Booster
Chronocidal replied to SaitouSad's topic in Toys
You know, I'm actually torn. The yellow was always the weakest part of the fire valk to me, but it wasn't a big deal. The gold looks slightly better in the photos, but I also know how much wear and tear those shoulder pieces go through during transformation, and I imagine the gold will eventually peel and flake (unless they actually use metallic plastic, which it doesn't look like from the pics so far). I guess the big question I have is what color is underneath? And anyway, unless this thing drops in price massively, I don't think a set of figures and shiney paint is enough to justify buying a third one of these. -
Well, I always did think the 2009 Star Trek was the best Star Wars movie since ESB. So.
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There's also the fact that at the time the Alto YF-29 came out, Bandai was just coming off the disaster that was the v.1 DX VF-25, and I don't think anyone actually trusted them to make a decent product yet. I don't remember the original release of the YF-29 being in any kind of demand. That really didn't change until the Alto VF-25 came out, because even the original Ozma release had multiple preorder windows. Once it came out, and people realized Bandai could make a decent valk, the preorder madness began, and the market went into a tizzy over anything Bandai released.
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I think it means, "We're aware that you made an order.. we're fumbling blindly in the dark for a pen to sign it so we can send it off to the post, so give us a few days." It's not that bad, they just seem to have a history (in my experience) of the "processing" stage taking anywhere from a day to a week.
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Least they responded. Hopefully they don't have suppliers pulling the rug out from under them like with the Ozma. Though, being webshop items, wouldn't they just get exactly the number they ordered?
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THERE we go. Thank you Bandai, web exclusives for everything, please. I kinda hope the elint gear is removeable though, just because I'd like a standard EX with the green stripes. Just hope NY pulls their heads out of whatever hole they've buried them in for now, and get with the websclusive order delivery.
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I don't see any difference on my end. Wish I could see for myself in person, but NY is dragging its feet horribly on this one.
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If you're fine not using the fast packs, I'd just keep the one you have, since that's the only problem with it. And yep, you could probably get a replacement part made if you ever really wanted to use them, or resell the valk. The question is though.. are they offering you a 20% discount of the valk you bought, or is that toward a future purchase? If it's for a future item, it won't necessarily be $50... could be more or less depending on what you apply the discount to. I think that's how they do that type of discount anyway, more like a discount coupon than a refund. Should still work fine either way if you decide to get another 19.
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Yeah, I'm in no particular rush either, I usually just pick the cheapest insured/tracked option from NY (that isn't by boat)
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Arcadia seems to be sticking to one mold per year, but that doesn't mean we might not see repaints of existing molds. They clearly still have the 1J molds, so the question is really just about whether they could turn a profit releasing a repaint of it. Biggest issue I can see is that it's not a simple repaint by any means, so you're probably looking at a similar price point to the 30th edition VF-1J, which seems to be keeping shelves everywhere from developing frostbite. The Hikaru and Fokker releases seem to be doing fine so far though. Big question is whether MtF has enough fanbase to sell another design, even if it's a familiar character. Personally, I still think the scheme is too busy, with nonsense lines and pinstripes all over it, which kills the old fashioned military look the SDFM schemes had. It doesn't look bad exactly, but it doesn't look right to me.
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Hopefully since these were made to order, NY won't get screwed by Bandai again with shipments like they did for the Ozma 29.
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Arcadia 1/60 VF-19 Custom Nekki Basara Special with Sound Booster
Chronocidal replied to SaitouSad's topic in Toys
Eh, can't exactly say it's tempting, but the gold trim does look a little better than plain yellow plastic. Maybe if someone wants to trade for an old Yamato one, or they hit the discount shelf, but I've got all the VF-19s I can handle for now. -
Awesome. Still don't care for the little ships on the wingtips, but great thing is, it's really easy to change them. I'll probably grab two of them, just so i have an even number of those engine pieces.
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Just got mine, and yeah, I'm fairly convinced that the lighter gray patch is not so much a texture error, but a lighting error in the game that makes it look brighter. Being on a separate piece of the plane means the same smoothing/lightning angles aren't applied, and it shows up as a different shade if you get light reflecting the wrong way.
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I guess while they aren't really difficult, I don't find any bandai valks fun to transform because every time feels like a game of "how much paint will you scratch off this time?" The valks themselves are designed to transform fine... but it feels like there was a disconnect between the people designing the valks for the anime, and the people trying to make them work in real life. Mostly, it just feels like they didn't think a lot of features through on the "playability" side of things when designing the valk, even before the toy was even conceived. But at the Bandai level, the excess diecast, and places where painted surfaces rub directly against each other stick out as just not getting a lot of thought. To be fair though, a lot of the paint problems fall back to the anime. Nothing from any of the previous series (short of an angelbirds scheme) even came close to the wacky amount of paint colors and panels these valks have. The 171 in particular looks like it was painted by a five-year-old with a pack or magic markers, so of course the paint is going to be an obstacle to transformation.
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Clearly, since the Japanese market seems to run on this silly idea of making a profit.
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Oh, I'm not saying Bandai isn't behind the general shortages we always see. They're just too completely untrusting of their target customer base to risk even the slightest overproduction of anything. I don't understand why they don't just make everything a web exclusive, and be done with it. Would save everyone a ton of headache. But as far as preorder shops go, if someone is really only interested in reselling something, they're not going to care if their account gets deleted for not paying for their preorders. They'll just up and make a new account for the next item they want to scalp. But when Bandai gets a pre-order tally of something-hundred units, they're going to look at their history of dealing with a particular vendor. If they've got a history of cancelling a lot of preorders because their customers skipped out, Bandai's not going to trust that they can really sell that many, and distribute their products somewhere else.
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Makes about as much sense as her clothing made entirely of ice.
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Actually, no, this situation with NY kinda makes sense. Because NY has become the "go-to" supplier for these, they get hammered by preorders by people who only intend to resell them. All this is is an indication that the design really isn't in that high of a demand. When the resellers can't sell their preorders on ebay, they just let the preorders lie, and NY winds up without being able to pay for their orders from Bandai that they thought people wanted. So Bandai stops giving them a supply until they give a reasonable sales projection, or cough up actual money to buy stock with. Everyone's getting screwed in sequence here, with the scalper/resellers initiating the whole mess. As much as many people hate it, full or partial payment up front is probably the only thing that will fix it. Not only that, it would fix the false sense of demand and scarcity the resellers have been causing. Anyway, as far as the paint goes.. I'm just.. I can't even begin to understand anything about how Bandai thinks. The gray-over-black-over-CORRECT-gray thing is just so much... that is pure, grade-A, pants-on-head, couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel STUPID. How do people who make those kinds of mistakes even hold onto a job?
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My guess is because Bandai are being jerkwads, and not reissuing it so people have a use for them. I imagine there are a lot of people who preordered the super packs knowing Bandai would never reissue them, and either never were able to even buy an Ozma, or only have one, and prefer to display him in the armor packs. He only used those packs in one episode anyway, so there's really no contest if you have the armor to use. As far as repainting them though, I believe Ozma's super packs are a different color than all the rest of them. No reason you couldn't paint over the yellow and use them on a cannon fodder, but they wouldn't match correctly to the other main characters.
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Probably because they have no concept of how to match shades of gray (like all the vf-25 knee joint nonsense). Anyway, as long as I'm not reading that backwards, and you mean it's light gray paint over black plastic, I might just remove it. That stupid light patch sticks out like a sore thumb, and matches absolutely nothing else on the upper half of the plane. Would probably look just fine as pure black. Heck, it doesnt even match in battroid, it's just a random triangle patch of lighter gray on an otherwise black background. Honestly, the way they screw some things up in such blatantly stupid ways, it makes me think they do it on purpose so things don't look too good.
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So, any word on whether those mismatched gray panels are painted or molded in color?
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Problem with the existing pack design is they're meant to wrap around wings that are swept back, and much thinner. You can wedge the existing one on by pulling the wings out, but they really need a redesign from the VF-25 version before they'll actually fit correctly.