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    I wonder how hard it would be to make a hybrid shield with a sliding peg... Actually, no.. now that I think about it, the shield is really what holds the arms together in fighter mode. Making the pegs for one arm slide might mean you couldn't have sturdy pegs on the other arm, because they might interfere with the arm. I'd have to think about that for a while. Saying any particular thing Yamato made is the "best" is tricky because they all have their ups and downs. I will say that the engineering in the VF-19s is probably the most impressive of any of their products (borked up ankles not withstanding). I'd put the VF-4 right behind it, only because that valk never was actually animated as transforming, so it never had to contend with matching up to any expectations based on anime magic. Doesn't make the VF-4 any less impressive, but getting the VF-19 to look so accurate in both battroid and fighter modes really is a feat. But meh. It's all about preference, and I love the VF-19s to death. I just hope somewhere down the road Arcadia makes a new YF-19 based on the same engineering. Either way, I might be forced to shapeways the heck out of my old 1/60 YF-19.
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    If it's a red quest, you're probably supposed to go into one of the bases and hunt them down. Make sure to check the quest text against all the ruin/base/cave names on your map, and if any of them match, that's where the targets should be.
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    Actually, no, I had good communication with NY. We talked back and forth about the missing piece, and I was able to look up the kanji for the part name for them to send Bandai. Sent them a picture with the missing piece highlighted too. I think somewhere along the line, Bandai said "Screw you, we don't send out spare parts" and the communication just died. Bottom line, I'm not going to pay enough shipping to buy the item again, just to get the maybe $1 worth of plastic their factory forgot. I'll just buy another one when they reissue it, and hope that one is complete. I can shapeways it if I have to, it's just annoying. Given how many people have had the same happen, I think it's worthwhile.
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    Just a random thought I've had before about things like scanlations. I think I'd be plenty happy with a script to follow along with while reading an original print of MtF. That can get tricky when following text bubbles, but here's my screwy idea. If the real issue is that the original work is being duplicated for the sake of translating it, then remove anything from the original work. What if you did a traditional scanlation, but then blanked out the illustrations? You'd be left with a book full of speech bubbles that someone desperate could probably piece together a story out of, but wouldn't contain any of the original work except the translated text. Probably not something a lot of people would enjoy, but it might encourage people to buy the originals, since you'd need original copies to get the whole story that way. Definitely not convenient either, but you're not really doing anything legally different than asking a Japanese-speaking friend to tell you what each bubble says as you point to it. It's just slightly more intuitive than having a script saying "Upper-right bubble: 'Blah dee blah.' Lower Right Sound Effect: 'WHOOSH!!'" Doing that probably wouldn't stop anyone from taking your words, and sticking them into a full scan of the books, but people will do that either way.
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    Actually, I'm kind of surprised NY seems to hesitant to split orders anymore. I accidentally ordered my VF-171EX and the super packs at the same time, but they were plenty willing to ship them separately. Also, they do still have the super and armor packs in stock it appears, or did last time I looked. They're pretty heavily marked up I think, but they're still there.
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    Didn't get a P, but I picked up a VF-19S from there, and it just arrived in fine shape. You have some kind of issue with it?
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    Pshh.. should be made of cardboard, it'd be more accurate.
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    I'll be buying a set of these once they go live, my old YF-19 has had limp arms since I got it, and the shoulders were both shattered out of the box. I still want to make a new cockpit section and hips that work like the VF-19s as well, but that's a bit larger undertaking.
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    I wouldn't expect these to be the same quality as those, but it would be nice. Mostly, I'd guess the flak is coming from people who normally build aircraft models, and who had bad experiences with the 1/72 VF-25 kits. They weren't terrible, but they have a multitude of stupidly fragile parts, and despite being made to transform, doing so is an exercise in "how many parts will I need to repaint after I'm done?" Bandai's great at making robot kits. Aircraft? Not so much. And even not knowing much about aircraft, they still had absolutely no excuse for how horrible the decals on those kits were.
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    Probably, but I'd happily shell out to NY for that one. It's by far the best scheme I've ever seen on one. I'm definitely painting one of my 1/100 kits that way, and if I ever get a second YF-29, I might even repaint it. Probably not fully, but I'd at least get it white and add the red and black stripes.
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    Easy fix.. just chop that antenna off, remove the normal lasers, and make Isamu's custom version from Macross 30. I want them to actually make that one. He even added a bayonet to the gun.
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    Only real reason I paid any attention to LA was the slim hope that a new X-Wing/Tie Fighter game would ever get made. Maybe now the source code will get leaked, and we can finally tweak all the limitations in Alliance. It's far behind the Freespace 2 engine by this point, but it had one thing I don't think FS2 has ever had: true 3D cockpits.
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    That's like saying shaving with a bowling pin is better than shaving with a bowling ball. Neither tends to work well at all. Personal-experience-wise, I've lost far more paint from their die-cast than anything plastic. Granted, that's partly because all the parts that would have a risk of chipping are made of metal, but that's my problem in the first place. I don't understand the concept that die-cast is better than plastic, or means a higher quality toy. I seriously doubt any piece of the VF-25 renewals needs die-cast. It can't be molded as precicely (or in color), doesn't mesh nicely with plastic parts, and adds a lot of extra weight that honestly isn't helpful when you have joints that tend to turn into limp noodles. People just assume it means something is stronger. But the few severe breaks I've seen on the renewals were all broken die-cast.
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    Yeah... think the first thing I do if I ever get around to making shapeways stuff is actually making replacement parts for all the crap Bandai seems to either break, or completely leave out of it's boxes.
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    Given that leg mechanism, I'd say that's being generous.
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    Yeah, we're pretty much completely on our own with replacement parts, even moreso than with Yamato. Apparently, Bandai's policy with replacing parts is "Send us the whole thing and we'll give you a new one. At your expense." Been over 6 months since I requested a replacement crotch plate for my VF-25G, and still no response. I get the feeling Bandai just told NY to go suck a tailpipe when I requested just the part instead of shipping the whole thing back to Japan.
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    Wish they'd just save everyone a ton of trouble and ditch the die-cast altogether. All it does is wind up causing loose joints, and chipped paint.
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    Yeah, it's just that front panel that you swap out for the new one that comes with the super/armor parts. Was missing from the box in my VF-25G. I've considered just keeping Alto in fighter mode (or armored) forever, and repainting his to use on the G.
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    Actually, that piece was shaped quite differently, and had a different tip on it, but yeah, that would probably be a pretty simple thing to make. Just a big cylinder that attaches over the top of the existing barrels, and gives you a new tip for the gun.
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    Ugh, congrats to those who managed to grab one, and good luck to those still hunting. NY hopefully will put them back up at around $170-180 in the next day or so. It's funny though, there was seriously plenty of time to order these from HLJ the first time around. There were even multiple windows, spaced out over a month or two. Then people started receiving their Altos right around the time Ozma was up for preorder, and as word got out, the Ozma preorders started drying up fast. As far as missing parts are concerned though... is there anyone here who has connections and could request replacement parts directly from Bandai? Ozma missing a crotch piece wouldn't be such a huge deal, since I doubt most people will remove his armor anyway, but my Michael is still using the crotch plate from my Ozma super parts, and of course, he's the only one I actually want to display in battroid.
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    Sorry for the double reply, went back and checked the dates. So, the release for the RVF was on March 1st at 4pm. Reading back, NY reopened sales some time on March 3rd, and someone posted a message about it at about 7pm. So, a little shorter than two days. I got mine the following afternoon at 2pm at the first price bump level. Day after that, it hit 190 or so. So, I'd keep an eye out from tomorrow evening through the next two days. And yeah, sorry if turning the images off actually fouled you up... I was fumbling for the right button myself, kind of blindly clicking where I thought they should be. It works wonders with reloading the item page itself, but yeah, the images can speed up the purchase once its in your cart.
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    Wow... ok, that ebay link made me laugh pretty hard. That's insane. Oh, by shortly I mean probably tomorrow some time. I wish I had tracked their times for posting more stock for the RVF. I do know that my Paypal notice for the preorder went in at about 2pm Pacific time on March 4th, and that was at $183, so not terribly marked up by that point.
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    It might not seem like any consolation, but given the patterns of previous sales, NY will probably have more preorders up shortly, and then probably will have several to sell at release time. It'll be marked up, but sadly that's kind of the way this goes lately, even for the Yamato stuff.
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    Bandai isn't making these for international customers, just Japan. So, really, blame HG.
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    Yeah.. AmiAmi's cart page actually glitched on me, but I kept hitting refresh, and it eventually went through. Just got the order confirmation. I'm frankly astounded.
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