Chronocidal
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Yeah. Adding something to your cart should just mark it as "sold." People basically got tackled at the checkout stand.
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I actually had it in my cart while it was still in stock... and the site crashed EVERY time I tried to check out. Now, it's still in my cart, but they say they don't have enough to fill the order. Utter bullshit. They need to make "in cart" items count as sold, and this wouldn't happen. Seriously.. the traffic on that site was nonsense. Basically amounted to a DoS attack.
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Think it was listed that way on the Bandai site, announcing the release. I just wound up buying one from NY the day after for the 171CF, so I'm just waiting for it to appear there.
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Wow, that's a new record! Sold out in -3 hours! Someone needs to get ahold of them and figure out how they're warping the space-time continuum. I need to go and re-think my life. This time shenanigans is messing with my notion of free will. Or I can just wait and order from NY, which is probably what will happen. I will never understand Bandai's marketing.
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You know, just a thought.. Has anyone ever bothered watching the Japanese site to see if they go up for sale earlier there?
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Probably not going to bother refreshing there, but yeah, just saw that. I'll probably go for the NY order sometime tomorrow.
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When you have different CG models rigged for different types of animation, it gets REALLY easy to have those kinds of errors. I mean, look at how many times the markings on the spine of the VF-25F appear and disappear? They also really weren't very careful with the posing of the VF-25s in the series. Any casual freeze-framing will show a ton of parts passing straight through each other. It doesn't show up if you don't look very carefully, but while pieces don't have to necessarily change size to transform anymore, parts existing in the same physical space is the new anime magic. It happens though. Animation software isn't really built to avoid collisions, because there's really no consequence to it. Manufacturing CAD is another story, but they're not going to invest that much to make a cartoon.
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Yeah, that's definitely not one of his better works either. Some serious funkyness going on with the perspective and proportions.
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So what will be the first Arcadia branded Macross offering?
Chronocidal replied to jvmacross's topic in Toys
I'd guess he means that the VF-4 is just one of those valks that, despite fans loving it, had been completely overlooked in terms of any kind of merchandise. Even the Macross II stuff got mass production kits in the past, but until very very recently, the only way to get any VF-4 was through garage kits or scratchbuilding. -
Hehe.. Tempted to ask if there's a control style that puts the throttle up and down on the shoulder buttons like Ace Combat, but that's not a horrible thing to change. I know the DYRL pack in used R2/L2 as rudder in one mode, so I assume that's similar?
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Basically the reason I like the 19P is that it's the only VF-19 we have any hope of customizing. I never even saw the anime it's from, so I've got no attachment to the design aside from it's the least gaudy VF-19 we can buy. I have never understood why the intake covers on all the others are ridiculous colors, while the covers of practically every valkyrie ever have always been gray. I might keep one in original markings, but any others I plan to get are likely to get stripped bare and have new markings put on.
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There was absolutely no reason they had to "justify" the price of the super parts. Look at the speaker pack that came out for the old VF-25G, and it had even less in the box than the VF-171EX packs if you didn't include the wings (note: I'm under the impression that it only had the fold booster and speakers. If that's wrong, then please correct me there. ) Bandai just doesn't like including more than one option for anything in the same box.
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Yeah, you have to rememeber.. space is usually dark. Without a local light source to reflect off those markings, they wouldn't show up anyway. The big glowy engines, on the other hand, would be a dead giveaway. Really, by the time the VF-17 went into service, stealth had nothing to do with the shape of the aircraft, or even the color. I mean think about it. Nora's SV-51 was hot pink with gold stripes, and when Shin first encountered her in an F-14, they claimed it was a stealth fighter, because they didn't pick up anything. The only reason he got anywhere near hitting her was because she got cocky, and decided to get within visual range, and he was able to draw a bead on her for a cannon shot. When you've got weapons that work beyond visual range, you don't have to fool the human eye anymore, just the sensors. I actually never understood why anyone would paint a spacecraft black. Sure, it's great for hiding. But if you fly with a group? That's just asking for collisions. And with twinkling stars everywhere, blinking anti-collision lights might not help much. I always figured the bright wing stripes were for friendly ID more than anything else.
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I haven't verified this myself yet, but someone did post a guide to setting up a Japanese PSN account for accessing the included download of the old PSX DYRL game that came with the bluray DYRL box. You might have to do some translation, but I don't believe the accounts themselves are locked to any region's IP. Now, whether that means you'll be able to use a non-Japanese credit card for purchasing any DLC remains to be seen. I know Sega is picky about who can buy credits for PSO2 (you need a Japanese credit card, a Japanese address, and have to answer a bunch of kanji captchas to spend any money on that game). Whether you can just go on the Japanese PSN and buy things with a credit card from another country, I can't say.
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You know? I don't even care about the ankles. I'll happily take more ball joints if they can make a version that fixes the shape of the entire fuselage, and gives us hips that have some actual movement in them. I've mentioned it before, but it's not even the gullet. It's the fact that the nose is sitting so high that it's not even facing into the airstream. Every piece of lineart has the nose level with the center of the feet and wings, which the VF-19 pulls off perfectly, but the YF-19 never even came close to achieving. Anyway, my YF-19 came to me totally trashed (shoulders entirely shattered, same plastic as the VF-0), so I've been waiting for a new one since I got it. Since it's already pretty much ruined, I've been hacking away at the nose to see if I can rework the Z-fold section to get the nose looking better. So far, I've filed out the lower edge of the forward nose enough to drop it down about 5 degrees, and filed the area just ahead of the front gear doors to let the chest flap sit at a lower angle to match. All I really need to do is rebuild the upper fuselage to fill the wedge shaped gap left along the spine. What I've really been considering though is just using Shapeways to make entirely new pieces for the nose. It'll depend on how hard the nose is to take apart though, since I'd rather not make any pieces I don't have to. Thing is, I keep delaying doing anything, since I'm hoping they'll just announce a new YF-19 and save me the trouble.
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.... I couldn't understand a thing they were saying, but I can't wait. Particularly due to a certain someone apparently getting ahold of one of the henshin devices.
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The decals look great... except the Zola patrol group wasn't associated with the UN, were they? Also, I will never understand people's love for slapping corporate logos all over military craft. Yes, you might see them on a prototype, which is what the YF-19 and YF-21 were.. but you're not going to get a stupid engine label plastered all over an in-service aircraft. Heck, that's half the reason I'm tempted to strip all the markings off my VF-171. It looks like a flying corporate billboard.
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Honestly, I like how semi-real they look... but I don't get why they mixed high and low-vis kite markings. If they'd used the low-vis ones on the chest, it would look much better, I think.
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Someone here scratchbuild a paper YF-19 in Gerwalk?
Chronocidal replied to peter's topic in Model kits
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No, that's honestly loads better than a 2 second window to buy one at standard price. Because, you know.. the kits are EASILY buyable. After all these years, HLJ still has them in stock, and they still get restocked. They might be a pain to build, but it'd do a ton ot take the edge off the frustration of trying to buy Bandai's stupidly tiny productions in 1/60.
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There's already the DLC bonuses that people get with the limited edition, so we knew those were coming. Considering the potential difficulty in offering entirely new aircraft through DLC, I'd expect anything beyond the limited edition stuff to just be repainted special versions of existing planes (like the Idolmaster versions of Ace Combat 6 aircraft which were just paint and stat tweaks of existing planes), but I suppose only time will tell.
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You seem to have this funny idea that Bandai likes making sense with their Macross product marketing.
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Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if that's reversed. Not that I don't want the YF-29 reissue first, but this is the first issue of the super parts. You'd think they'd get the parts out for people who already bought one during the first issue.
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Woot! Payment sent! Time to warm up the PS3
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They aren't gouging the plastic... the plastic is gouging them. Actually though, if you don't move things in the right order, it's really easy to smash the legs into some of the sharper corners on the torso, and ding them up.