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    For all of the light/fluffy idol bits, Frontier got dark in the closing arcs, and the movies even ramped that up. I'd throw myself firmly in the bracket that loves Plus and Zero, but Frontier was not lacking in what made me like them, and I do think it's up there with the original series in terms of story and characters. They managed to make a compelling and mostly mature storyline with high schoolers. Delta... just wasn't that. Somehow they managed to make actual paramilitary mercs feel more like kids than Frontier did. It had a lot of potential (mostly wasted), and an interesting setup, but the characters were painfully underdeveloped, and the plot went most of the same places Frontier did, with none of the charm or grace (or battroid/gerwalk combat). Now.. Frontier had an unfair musical advantage, because Yoko Kanno is just Yoko Kanno. But it wasn't Delta's music that dragged it down. I'd be perfectly happy if this new series is produced on the same level as Frontier, but I hope they spend a bit more time developing the characters and story this go-around.
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    The AC kits weren't that expensive in the first place, they've just been out of print for so long that the prices have climbed with what seems to be no upper limit. Before the re-release announcement, the White Glint kit had been going for upwards of $250 on Amazon, but the re-release is under $50 USD.
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    I want to see them make this as a prop to display behind Skeletor, with an optional arm mount.
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    That thing looks.. quite a bit like something out of Yukikaze artwork, now that I look at it. Not the anime, but the novel covers.
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    Chronocidal replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    Some people here did want the extras cut out, but I think Bandai thought they needed to include them all to stay competitive with Arcadia. I would have been happy to have them separately.. BUT.. that would have induced a mass panic bulk buy of the missile packs just to get some pylons and missiles to put on every other Bandai DX release. That will still probably happen if they release a separate pack. Also, the biting irony is, no, it's not actually cheaper than the 2018 version. Whether that's due to some pre-order bonus or not, I can't say, because those don't show up, but the listing on HLJ still shows the full set at 25,000 yen, which came to about $225 at the time. The new one has a list price of 26,400. Cheaper for us.. not so much in Japan, and definitely not from BBTS, which is even more expensive than the original full set. This.. pretty much says it all.
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    Chronocidal replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    Now with half the content, and added international licensing fees!
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    Chronocidal replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    Link for this one is up on BBTS if anyone missed all the imports, but man the price hurts on this one. https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/246315?o=10&utm_source=Marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=marketing&utm_content=
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    YF-19 is up on BBTS if anyone's still looking, but youch, $255. https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/246315?o=10&utm_source=Marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=marketing&utm_content= I don't have my original record from the YF-19 Full Set purchase, but that was 25000 yen in September of 2018, when the exchange rate was roughly 110 yen to a dollar.. meaning yeah, I probably paid less for the full set than this one. That hurts.
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    They're both too big, and the heels are entirely the wrong shape. They molded them at some bizarre angle, and they don't close.
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    I'm really curious who was asking for a Raiden/Gradius schmup mashup for Macross after the past few games have been nothing remotely like that. Or maybe that's just all they could get funding for? Is it supposed to be for the mobile market?
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    Yeah, I am happy to see them ditching the styrofoam, at least mostly. I do appreciate the rigidity it gives the packages, but otherwise I would just rather get rid of the chance of it causing yellowing somehow.
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    I think I'm far more interested in seeing Macross mods for Ace Combat than anything like that. That looks like a cheap mobile game. Maybe someone will get a good Macross 30 port to the PC via emulation, and do a fan translation.
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    Chronocidal replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    I actually wonder about that. I really hope they've made significant changes since we last saw it, but next year would pretty much be the ideal time to do it, since it's the 30th anniversary of Macross Plus premiering. They may stretch it out though, since it didn't end until a year later, with the movie version coming out in August of 1995.
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    I could see how a lot of these issues could get thrown in the QC category from being sub-par parts that got pushed through, but the overwhelming amount of flaws makes me think the majority of the production run was below spec, and they decided to shove through anything that was minimally viable. Some of the stuff I've seen makes me think the manufacturing of the parts themselves has got some nasty slop in it. I don't know how the whole assembly and molding process works, but how on earth do you get parts with cockeyed pinholes drilled into them? I can't imagine that kind of thing is done by hand, and if it's automated, the tooling to drill the hole must have gotten sloppy somehow.
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    BANDAI DX YF-19!!

    Chronocidal replied to seti88's topic in Toys

    Honestly, I always thought integrating the neck cover into the arm shield felt kinda dumb, since it only works for fighter and battroid, and you still need the spare neck cover for gerwalk anyhow, so you're not really changing anything. However.. It does work if you just ignore gerwalk, and only go between fighter and battroid. Given how gerwalk is generally looked over on the YF-19 anyhow, it does make some sense. In my case, I decided to do the opposite, and removed the sliding neck cover from the shield, so I only ever use the separate neck cover in gerwalk and fighter mode, for one specific reason: by disconnecting them, the shield isn't pulled against the head so tightly, and I can angle the arms further downward in fighter mode, and actually get the gunpod to point straight forward.
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    I'm curious about the leg hardpoint missiles, since I don't think those were ever packaged separately in the first place. I'm pretty sure they were displayed alongside all of the other missiles to mimic the weapons display artwork, but it would really surprise me if they actually removed them from this release.
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    So this isn't quite related directly to the topic, but I just saw that HLJ has shows there FINALLY being a reissue of the 1/72 White Glint kit, sometime early next year. Given the current insane prices, I'm tempted to pick up a couple just as an investment. https://www.hlj.com/1-72-scale-lineark-white-glint-reissue-kbyvi-029r
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    I don't think it's so much that the WWM releases are making people rest easy in this case, I think it's more that the majority of people here who wanted this YF-19 already got either the VF-19 Advance, or the original release of the full set. I'm glad it exists for people who missed out, but this is a far less desirable release. The only thing really helping it is the exchange rate, which in spite of the lack of included accessories, actually does drop this one's price quite a bit lower compared to what the other two went for at the time. As for HLJ.. yeah, their search system is garbage, and their front page is less than useless. However their new release listings get leaked has destroyed their utility on pre-order night.
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    Thanks for the note, just grabbed a pair at HLJ for this fall.
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    This is the part that doesn't make any sense though, and I would love to understand. How do they manage to screw them all up in exactly the same way, when Yamato pretty much nailed it as far back as the 1/48 release? The leg/arm/backpack interaction is something that they seem to flub every single time, in the exact same ways.
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    Oh, I know very well it's not that easy. What I mean is that Bandai is also very aware of that, and they demonstrate it frequently on most of the figures and products they manufacture. The thing is, it feels bizarre that they can't manage to make any VF-1 line up consistently as well as Yamato did over a decade ago, and the mistakes they keep making are consistent across all versions that I'm aware of, including the 1/72 model kit. They cannot seem to get the legs and arms to line up with the backpack in a position that's not stressing some connection, and they cannot seem to comprehend that press-fit pegs are completely insufficient to hold legs and arms in place correctly. It's like they have fixated on an incompetent solution, and refuse to improve on it. The VF-25 is just another case where they made really questionable design choices that seem to completely wreck the stability and presentation of the toy.
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    Try as they might (and it might be assuming too much to say they actually are trying ) Bandai really cannot seem to work out how those packs are supposed to attach, and keep everything in line. It's actually sort of bizarre to think about.. if the things are made in CAD, isn't that all supposed to be worked out ahead of time? And yet, they can't figure out how to make the VF-25 line up, they can't nail the tolerances on the VF-31s, and they seem somehow incapable of making a VF-1 that lines up and locks together as well as a Yamato design from 15 years ago (and this applies to both the HMR and DX). It feels like they're just missing some material tolerancing fundamental here, and designing things to be the wrong size. They just don't fit. I realize I'm being pretty darn picky here, but it bugs me to death how sloppy their "locking" mechanisms tend to be.
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    You know what throws me a little about this show? I feel like the guy they got to play Kirk actually looks more like the original Pike, Jeffrey Hunter.
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    The VF-31s will look better than the VF-25 series I think just because the overall proportions feel better to me, but the VF-25s aren't bad at all, especially with the super packs. The Klan version is probably the most solid super VF-25 kit that exists.
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    I'm not necessarily criticizing making up markings to splatter everywhere to make it look like they know what they're doing, but I absolutely am going to call out printing numbers backwards, then claiming it was on purpose, and then doubling down on the idea that people might want backwards numbers (note: not mirrored, but with the digits in reverse order) and including a set of alternate decals to fix their screwup.. instead of just admitting it was wrong. Heaven forbid they admit that something obviously wrong was actually wrong.
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