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  1. Chronocidal
    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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    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.
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    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.
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    I don't think it would even be hard to hide them for fighter mode. The entire cockpit section is one solid piece, so just embed the speakers in the fuselage, and have them flip over and rotate out of the canard roots.
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    Would make even more sense if they announced a VF-11 MAXL with it.
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    That actually confused me too about the gunpod, and the only way I could get the handle to fit between the halves of the stock was by forcibly spreading it to slip it between. Not a preferred way to do it, but I don't plan on folding the gunpod handle for anything anyway, so it's not a huge deal for me.
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    It's not that the extras are extra.. it's that Bandai draws the line of what can be considered "extra" a lot lower than many other companies. It's kind of like how Hasegawa aircraft kits really don't come with any weapons at all, and they expect you to buy their separate weapons packs. In that case though, you're usually buying something that can apply to half a million other aircraft kits that exist, and the weapons are universal. Not including a weapon that is used only by a particular aircraft? That's where it gets cheap.
  18. Chronocidal
    Not official missiles.. no. But you can cross-load several of the missiles from Yamato and Arcadia valks.
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    You know, if they could integrate the design well to still look good in fighter mode, I wouldn't mind some kind of giant beam cannon attachment that folded over the shoulder to fire.
  20. Chronocidal
    Honestly, I'm more annoyed by the fact that they decided they needed to paint the engine pods in a metal tone, instead of making them match with the rest of the plane. Still not bad, just looks out of place when the rest of the plane is so nicely matched.
  21. Chronocidal
    Don't forget there was also a Millia VF-17-style VF-171EX in there, and a Gamlin-looking VF-171. I'd love to have one in red.
  22. Chronocidal
    Ok, to be fair, yes, it probably looked like that in the game.. but what is it with Bandai and printing white markings on white plastic?
  23. Chronocidal
    Here's the thing.. I want them making some designs the old kitbash way, not some chromed-out hood ornaments like they did in Episode I. Making things out of pieces that actually exist lends them a moderate amount of realism that you don't get out of something designed entirely in a computer.
  24. Chronocidal
    They just need to make an Akibaranger tie-in movie. Apparently in the second season, they get transported to a parallel universe where MMPR was the original series, and Japan imported it.
  25. Chronocidal
    Actually, while most of the pop from Frontier was distinctly different, the first time I heard Diamond Crevasse, I felt something like nostalgia for "Real Folk Blues" from Bebop. Don't know how similar the lyrics are, but the use of that piece as the ending for the first half of the series was an excellent choice (especially in the episode 6-7 bit where it just blended into the concert).
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