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  1. Chronocidal
    Speaking of gunpod updates, how about that beam adapter? But yes.. dual wielding bullpup gunpods. This must be done. Only question I have is whether both legs have identical storage compartments.
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    Yep, if this prints out well, I'll definitely pick up at least one, along with that VF-0D kit. Any estimate on the price for this one so far? And the fun question... can they mold it in gray?
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    Kind of a dated joke now, but people in the business refer to that one as "Monica."
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    Maybe it's just preorders then, but they wanted $60 to ship me a pair of VF-4Gs when I went to pre-order them. To California. When I went and ordered with HLJ instead, I had them shipped FedEx together with three more valks and it still wasn't that much.
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    It did happen once or twice, though I forget where in the series. There's a picture that was linked here once before that showed all of Sound Force launching with them mounted already in fighter mode. The mountings are a little less awkward in the animation, since you can fudge the details, and they look a bit more integrated there. I do wonder if the sound boosters ever had a performance benefit in general though, in terms of extra fuel and engine thrust.
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    Yeah, I think a lot of people would prefer the actual Supernova schemes. Thing is, I get the feeling that Yamato couldn't get the rights to reproduce those schemes, otherwise we would have seen them. The orange and blue repaints are just too similar to be entirely coincidental. So close, but still so incredibly far. Either that, or they just didn't want to put that much work into developing new tampo patterns. Considering the wide variety of paintjobs we've seen applied to VF-1s, I wouldn't think that'd be an issue, but you have to admit... those Supernova schemes were really complex. They may have just taken one look at all the required colored panels, and given up.
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    Actually, considering the price difference, I think it still made sense to include the standard markings. Granted, the VF-1 wasn't exactly on the high-end of the price range with Yamato's offerings, but the kits were definitely cheaper than an assembled ones. While I would love them to release a VF-1 kit in gray, I'm not sure I care that much about more VF-1s now. If anything, I'd buy a couple gray kits and mashup the parts with my white ones so there'd be less painting to make a 1970s style F-14 scheme. I really just wish they had used the DYRL off-white for the kits so they wouldn't yellow so easily. I'm much MUCH more interested in getting kits of other valks at this point though, especially if they can make a generic catch-all kit for the VF-19 that includes both wing types with optional canards. I'd probably buy several, especially if they make them in gray.
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    Oh, I'm not even thinking first-person really (and I have no idea how that would work in battroid). There just wasn't any way to manually control the camera direction to look for targets, even in the external view. By movie events, I mean stuff like the M&M fight, where he chases her into her own ship and fights her in the docking bay, or seeing Minmay fly past during the zero-gravity city scene and having to catch her, that sort of thing. They definitely played little clips of those events during the missions, but it felt weird watching the character I was playing as do stuff that I obviously wasn't doing. I've been spoiled on stuff like Ace Combat and the old Rogue Squadron games though, so probably expecting way too much from a pack-in game on a movie disk. Really looking forward to the full game when it comes out.
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    Well, make sure you're not pushing on the canopy itself. The cockpit interior will take a lot more pressure than the clear canopy before it gets damaged.
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    They might have to increase the length of the sliding mechanism some to do it. With the VF-1, the cockpit remained mostly the same size, and they just scrunched the seats. I don't think you could do that with the VF-0D, because the canopy just seems much longer on it.
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    Pfft.. If they make a YF-19 v3 in the same quality of the current VF-19? I'll buy them all regardless of how they paint them. They could make one in pink polkadots and I'd still buy it, because it's a beautiful aircraft.
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    Well I didn't have any trouble with the stick for controls, it was the lack of view control that got to me. Putting the mode control on the right thumbstick was a serious waste of a stick, and just left you with duplicated controls. Attack controls were decent, though I need to look at a guide to check out the combos and such. Mostly I was just annoyed by the targeting system, and lack of a way to change my view manually. Also was a bit sad that they didn't work more actual movie events into the gameplay, but it was still fun to be able to FINALLY see a decent strike packed VF-1 on my screen.
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    Nope, NY charges stupid high prices for shipping. Expect to be paying $30-$60 just to ship your preorder. They set the price high from the start, not sure why.
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    Glad I just picked that one up then. Finally picked up a PS3 so I can play that Macross 30 game when it arrives. Took it for a spin with the DYRL bluray hybrid pack game last night. Not too impressed by the game, but it was a fun bit of nostalgia. Controls just aren't very useful a good portion of the time. Hope they work that out by the time the actual game is released.
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    Probably no real chance of that, Shapeways' options for colors are pretty limited. As far as the adjustable laser goes though, while it makes sense that it would move, I don't know if it's worth the extra complexity to do. I'm guessing it'd just be a friction joint that would let you plug it in at a variety of angles, but I wonder how well it would stay in over time.
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    Nothing official. Everyone just assumes that Yamato is going to take another stab at it, given how much better the VF-19s have been in pretty much every way (except the ankles )
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    I've loving the Strike Rei. I might also have to track down some of those mech lego sets... I could use a few dozen of those hip joints.
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    Oh, well drat then.. Maybe I'll just spray over it with white. You know. Like the VF-1S kinda was. Instead of painted like a nice new pair of Air Jordans.
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    Perfect. I'll wait for the paint to get scratched during a transformation, sand the sucker down until it's bare white, then make a REAL VF-1S scheme on it.
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    Yeah, I can kind of pry mine up now that I pulled up the chest plate and loosened the canopy a bit. Actually I had a bigger problem getting the cockpit to rotate back for battroid. The peg under the front wouldn't let go. I had to remove the pilot and press directly on the seat to finally get the cockpit to pop loose. Wound up shaving down that front peg, so no problem now. Other glitch on mine, one of the shoulder covers wasn't glued together quite enough, and it can pop off the shoulder. Doesn't really have any effect on transformation or posing, but it makes it a bit harder to line up all the pieces in fighter mode. I am impressed that the way all the pieces slide around lets you still transform it without removing the packs, even if one of mine is a bit sloppy in fighter mode. Wish they'd done that with the VF-11 as well, since I think the animation actually shows those packs moving for transformation, so there's room to get the arms out.
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    Both of mine, the S and new D, have been murder. Best way I found to open them was actually lift up the chest plate like you're going to transform it, then simply rotate the canopy back without lifting it. Actually, I'm not sure I've even gotten my D's cockpit open yet... I'll have to check later.
  22. Chronocidal
    Good to know the legs lock better on this one. I broke down and got a preorder for the re-release from NY, along with the super packs since they were still up for the original preorder. I'm curious though, is the upper half of the nose painted black, or molded in black plastic?
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    Yeah, same. Mine came without the crotch as well, but I just decided to deal with it, rather than send it back. Once I get his super parts set, it won't matter anyway. Heck, it half-way doesn't matter now, since I just stuck my Ozma super pack crotch plate on to fill the space and keep his head from sinking. Not like they're color coordinated or anything.
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    This is probably actually the only place where wheels that stumpy would be perfectly functional. Unless you get the crazy idea to try and deploy with this armor in the atmosphere, you really only even need those wheels to cart the plane around on the flight deck. But yeah, they seriously skimped on the chest armor. It's supposed to be full of missiles. Makes me think.. how hard would it be to shapeways up a full fledged chest launcher pack? Or at least a set of panels you could plug into the existing armor piece with doors... hmm.
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    I didn't get mine from NY this time, but it was specifically so I could get FedEx from HLJ. NY sets their FedEx prices WAYYY over what they should be. I ordered one of the YF-29 30th anniversary versions from them, and the shipping was literally $20 cheaper for EMS instead of FedEx. I only use NY as my last resort to get stuff I can't buy elsewhere, but their shipping prices are pretty overblown.
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