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    Honestly, that style doesn't strike me as "anime" so much as old late 80s-early 90s saturday morning cartoon. Mostly reminds me of Wing Commander Academy. I'd love to see an entire series like that, but it's kind of getting to the point where no one wants to pay animators to spend the time necessary to make that kind of animation by hand, and CGI is probably a huge cost savings in labor once you have the models rigged.
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    Ok, yeah, I might have to order one of these just because. Don't even ride, but it's worth having as a conversation/costume piece.
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    Or, assuming the missile pod is symmetrical, just put the handle in either mounting point, and hope it holds.
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    The issue I've noticed on several VF-19 molds, as well as this new YF-19, is that the head has a bit of room to slide on its mounting from side to side. It can make the small panels not lay flat, because the head is trying to fit into the space off-center. I actually unscrewed the head on mine and pulled it off to see where this issue was coming from, but it wasn't really necessary, and it was a pain to screw back on because of the hinge pin in the way. It's just that the head can slip a little ways back and forth on the pegs it sits on.
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    Meh, still up at NY, grabbed one after all. Will just get it later, since I didn't want to spend a bundle on shipping.
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    Not a serious loss for a lot of it, no. But I'll never stop hoping that someone somewhere will someday base a next-gen X-Wing game off of the novel series. Corran Sue aside, those books are some of my favorite novels period, and I've wanted to play simulator missions based off the storylines since I read them. Would be a nice tidy complete circle, what with the books being based off the original X-Wing/Tie Fighter games in the first place. Who knows really.. with these movies set 30 years after, I bet there's going to be all kinds of attempts to wedge (hah) the stuff directly after the OT into the new canon as well.
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    That's kind of why I did save up and grab two of them. One's a little sturdier than the other, so it's the one I'm just leaving in fighter mode forever, while the other is the one I'll transform and play around with. Already filed down the backplate so it doesn't scratch the nose, and I'm looking at how to keep the backplate hinge from scratching the black behind the cockpit. As far as pricing though, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a bare-bones release later down the line like they did with the YF-21. Basically, just remove the second tray, and you've got the YF-19 itself without the fast packs and extra weapons. That might knock a good 5000 yen off the base price. I'd also expect any repaints like the Supernova schemes to do the same thing, since the only actual source for all those external weapons was that single drawing. Actually, for all the extras they put into this version, I'm surprised they left out a rear canopy replacement cover, for the bit where Yang got ejected. It'd be incredibly simple to scratch build one though, since there's no moving parts on it, and the canopies are both easy to remove by just pulling out the sliding hinges.
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    Where does Shadows of the Empire stand in all of this? I can't remember if that was actually declared to be within the canon or not (I want to say yes it was), but would they potentially be able to use material from that story in the new movies?
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    Heh. Honestly, I don't blame them for dropping a lot of it, the crazy levels of mary-sue-ness Luke reached in some of those books was horrible. While it might be a case of the pot and the kettle hanging out together, I actually loved how Stackpole wrote I, Jedi as a direct counter to some of the more ridiculous parts of the Jedi Academy books. Really.. if there is one thing I hope they carry over from the EU? It's the way Zahn began to treat the Force in his later books, especially the Hand of Thrawn. The way he worked out a sort of passive/active methodology to it made so much sense.
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    Yeah, the costs don't seem to be going down any sadly, and I dont know if I can justify this one after a pair of YF-19s. If I see it actually available to purchase (without playing the F5 mashing minigame), maybe. But I'm not going to stress about it, because there's honestly too many features I don't like to make it a "must have" valk. I never really even used it in the game unless the plot required it, since the YF-29s always seemed to top it in terms of uitility and looks.
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    Really hoping the microtransactions will be multiplayer focused so I can ignore them entirely. The demo did look fairly promising, but the aircraft development tree looked like it would be a serious pain compared with the classic "save money and buy what you want" system.
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    Suppose they could be trying to get licensing to release a set of VF-25 packs for it, but a ghost or phalanx kit would be nice.
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    I'm planning to try making one eventually, but I need to get my own printer working again before I go through the testing/fitting process. Once I get the piece designed and working, I'll upload it to shapeways.
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    I did read somewhere that the original release of this toy had what looked like they should have been hinges to allow transformation, but it's like they gave up half way, and just glued it all together.
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    There's really no comparison between those two. Most of the things people are faulting about the Arcadia YF-19 are things that were better (or similar) on the Yamato VF-19 releases, which were much better than any of the old YF-19 mold from Yamato.
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    Looks kind of like they based this off the picture of the cover of the second novel, with a few differences. Nice design overall.
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    It's really more than that though, the entire lower leg from the S/A design needs to be replaced before the wings will line up and attach properly, not to mention the fins on the intakes. On the other hand, the backpack still seems to have the stubs where the S/A tails would slot in, but the slots look plugged up.
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    The awesome thing about this.. I only ever got a single 1/48th (Hikaru 1J super)... now I can complete the group without hunting down the old Yammies.
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    I've noticed that too.. really, I don't think this mold does the game model justice. the nose looks off somehow, maybe it's just the awkward angles of the anti-glare panel that's painted on? It just looks overly bulbous. Also, as far as the way the legs transform, and having to rotate them 180 degrees.. that's one thing I wish Kawamori would drop entirely, as it's a pain in the ass, and I think all of the Frontier valks do it. I'd have to transform a VF-25 to check, but I think that one might be even worse... since you have to flip the crotch plate 180, and then rotate the metal bracket the hips are on another 180, the hips wind up pulling a full 360 around their ball joint. You can technically avoid all of this, but you have to rotate the lower legs out 90 degrees, and give the valk a crazy yoga-like pose to get the legs to swing around under the armpits without rotating at the hip.
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    Yep, that's been my biggest gripe with the landing gear all along, the nose looks way too short. I kinda ignored it, and figured it worked like the F-4, with the front gear jacking up in the air once the plane started and hydraulic pressure built up. Looks awesome that way, and grats for having the courage to try it! Edit: Also, something stupid I realized.. the collapsing grip does absolutely nothing to raise the gunpod tip.. the part that collides with the crotch plate isn't even the part that can collapse.
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    I don't really care for the way the tails work at all, just design-wise. The pivot is located too high for the tails to actually lean in for high-speed mode with the fast packs attached, because the bottom edge pushes the packs out, and the tails themselves don't actually fold flat in battroid, because the hinge doesn't allow it. The folding rudder is a novel idea I guess, but I would have prefered if they had used the actual rudder, and let it move to allow room for the feet, instead of just making an arbitrary section of the surface fold over entirely. Nothing even reaching a serious problem with the design, just a "Huh, I wonder why they did that" moment.
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    This one actually has a fairly good chance of this, since it's dark gray to begin with. The Alto and 30th were serious messes, with either the entire underside being painted gray, or the entire body being molded in gray, and the entire upper surface painted whatever else. It's kind of a combination of terrible parts breakdown, and ridiculous paint schemes.
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    You have to fiddle with the knee and thigh joint angles and twist a little before they'll line up, but I actually got mine to finally seat really well, and it holds together nicely once it's all lined up. Just takes a little bit of patience to figure out.
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    The shoulders locking isn't really the problem, though they do tend to be a llittle difficult to line up correctly with the slots in the lower legs. I think most of the fast pack problems I've heard of come from the leg packs, which really don't have anything solid to hold them into the legs. One of mine is completely rock solid, and the tabs are the perfect fit for the leg slots, but the other acts like the tabs are tapered, and while I can press them in, they squeeze themselves back out of the slots immediately. What I did notice is that the little ridges inside the holes on the legs are not very consistently sized. Some are nearly invisible, others are larger, and look like they're going to push the tabs back out. Not to mention.. they're painted black, and pushing the packs in tends to scrape that paint off. It really might just be that how well the packs stay in will depend on how much paint got in those slots.
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    Don't forget the Phalanx lineart and CAD on the far right.
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