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  1. Chronocidal
    I want to say the figures are roughly the same scale as a Figma? The Roy VF-25 figure is a little over 6 inches tall. The fighters are a little bigger than 1/100 though, based on the 1/100 fighter mode kits. Without comparing to the fictional length, the 1/100 is about 7.5 inches, while the VFG version is 8.5, making it about 1/88, which if I remember correctly, is almost dead on for the actual scale of the HMR VF-1s. The fighters are a little off-scale and off-model though, since their proportions have been tweaked. The VF-25's legs are quite a bit chunkier, while the wings look a bit stubby. Overall, they make pretty good fighter mode kits in general, if you just want something in HMR scale. The super VF-25G there is incredibly solid compared to the Bandai 1/72 kit. I've also got a couple of the Kairos variants to build, including that fancy VF-1D-inspired training scheme, which I love.
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    Please, just build new heels for it, those are painful to look at. Seriously though, if he can pull that off, I don't see any reason Bandai can't make a near perfect transformation HMR version.
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    My guess is they fixated on the idea of an opening chest for the pilot to get in and out, rather than from under the head, and turned the windscreen into a hatch to make it work. I'm not completely against the idea, but I need to see a finished product without all of the rough guesswork. I don't want to judge the overall aesthetic until then, but I do get the same impression, the design has a western-styled look to the detailing. Can't say it really bothers me though, I think the overall look is close enough to the Sentinel design to satisfy my need for a "big" Legioss.. which, until the Sentinel release, I really didn't care about much in the first place, since it always felt like a clunky design.
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    Holy crap, they actually made a 3x3 to 4x4 transitional cone segment! Only been waiting for that for.. oh, I don't know.. close to thirty years at this point. Love that they made the gear retract, I am definitely in for.. at least one. Also.. that stand is freaking classy. I love it.
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    So.. couple of odd things I'm seeing. First, no lower phaser strip at all. Second, the windows on the lower surface of the saucer look photoshopped in. In fact, they look copy/pasted all over. Same for the screw holes. I don't trust anything about that image, in fact, because that's a staggering amount of blatant photoshopping. What I am seeing though, is that a few key details look close enough to the original toy that I'm thinking it'll be closer once we see an actual product. The bussard collectors are still that thin shape sticking out, rather than a dome, the screw holes are generally in the same place as the original, and the shape of the deflector under that gold photoshop dish looks like it has the same angled ribs as the original. It also looks like they replaced the original sliding battery door with a new design that screws shut, and added a stand mount under the deflector. I'm not expecting this to replace my old ones in the slightest, but I will wait and see what sort of shape the final product is in. They will need to redesign the saucer so it can detach, so that's going to rearrange a lot of the construction. At the very least, I expect to get some fun toys for potential kitbashes.
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    Yeah, that's insanely depressing to see.. but I guess it's too much to expect a store with such lenient return policies to bother to check whether the thing returned is the same as what was purchased.
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    Oh wow. Ok.. I might bite on that one, depending on the detailing and construction. And I would be over the moon at an "All Good Things" edition. I'm going to make the assumption that this will not replicate the original multi-button sound board that made it such a great toy, though.. but if the molds are the same, I will absolutely swap the boards out and build myself an updated version with LED lighting.
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    What even is going on there? Massive production snafu? Or maybe worth picking up as a collector oddity?
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    Of the same mind really. I think once they get a proper posable prototype it'll drastically improve the presentation in battroid, at least. If it turns into a lemon like the Sv-262, I might pick up a handful for modding and experimentation. I really think giving it longer arms would help a lot of my problems with it in both fighter and battroid.
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    Judging by the shape of the lower arms and the angle they stow in fighter mode, no, I think that's exactly how the gunpod is going to look. Those arms are really deep. They're quite a bit lower than the underside of the legs here, almost halfway down the ventral fins.
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    Yep, they've posted a couple of pics with it open, I think. Edit: Found it on the previous page.
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    Yeah, this is even on the larger size of what I'd really like. I do love the Riobot for being compact and easy to display, but it's definitely smaller than I'd like. I feel like whatever scale would get it the size of a 1/60 VF-1 would be pretty ideal, but I'm not going to turn down a bigger one.. provided I can afford it.
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    Yeah, I'm going to wait for them to display a new prototype. That thing is so old at this point, it's literally falling apart. Not that I expect them to actually change anything. This is Bandai we're talking about here.
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    It definitely looks like the backs of the calves open up to let the feet and ankles flip up inside them.
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    I'll probably try and get at least one of these just to have it, but I wish Bandai hadn't just gone so far down their "we know better" path and flat out ignored so much of what makes the design attractive in the first place. There's just so much where they must have decided "nah, we don't need the line-art." I honestly have no idea what they were going for here, because every mode comes out worse than the old Yamato version. Yes, the legs are better. That's it. That's a whole lot of ugly to swallow for one improvement in one mode. That being said, I am definitely curious how they got those legs into the belly, and it's probably why the back end is so chonky. I also wouldn't be surprised if they pulled some plastic origami like the YF-19's legs, and made the legs collapse somehow. Kind of feels fascinating, like watching a train wreck in slow motion.. and I really want to know.. well.. did they hire Liefeld for the design work? Because that's the only thing I can think of for that torso. ALTHOUGH... to be entirely fair.. making the top of the shoulders that broad does give the head an unimpeded area to spin around, rather than getting stuck between the portions of the backplate.
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    I'm thinking HLJ is on Bandai's naughty list for not buying enough of their big ticket items to sell. Given the pre-order server DDOSs Bandai's stuff usually causes for them, I kind of don't blame them wanting to avoid the mess.
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    Apparently HLJ FINALLY got stock of these, my order from release just got charged. Yeeesh.
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    The angle might be ruining the perspective, but it's telling that all of that collapsing still leaves the backplate looking so much taller than the Yamato version.
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    Off the topic for this thread, but I think I'm more blown away by the fact that Microsoft is adding a Dune expansion to Flight simulator. That's gonna be wild.
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    Yeah, I'm going to make the wild guess that they're probably going to focus on the next-gen Navy platform, and play to their strengths, rather than compete with the USAF's golden child Lockheed Martin.
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    Yeah, but the difference there is that Bandai's has five trunks' worth of junk back there, and has to collapse twice. There look to be two separate sliding actions involved, with both the forward streamlined fairings and the rear boxy portions all moving up. That's what I feel is the biggest detractor from the fighter mode, the giant chonky butt this thing has. If they had extended the arms to be longer (which is also very much needed) and stretched the wings further back, putting the tails more toward the exhausts, it would have helped the wonky proportions a lot, but the tails look so close to the center of lift that it would actually render them useless as control surfaces.
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    Wow.. I don't think we'd had any pics from those angles before. That torso is deep.
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    I seriously don't think they could have made that look any less impressive to present if they had tried. It looks like a skeleton hanging on a rack. Maybe it's because it's a "villain" valk, they just have no expectations that it will sell?
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    Yeah, the fact that they're still showing the display we originally saw means they haven't done squat to it. I'm glad it's getting released, but I have absolutely zero expectations for it, and would much rather just see a PF Arcadia release. This thing is ducking fugly in fighter mode.
  25. Chronocidal
    Freakin hell. Fix it first you dingbats, it's got issues.
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