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    I know G1 gets retread every few years, but I admit I'm still waiting for the trends to roll back around and give us a modern Starscream with anywhere near as good a balanced set of modes as pretty much any modern MP car. Not expecting it anytime soon, but it at least gives me something to hope for. 😛
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    HMR VF-19P

    Chronocidal replied to BlueMax's topic in Toys

    That's one of the big benefits to these for me, they're much easier to display in cramped spaces, and I don't feel so protective of them that I don't want to leave them on my desk at work. It's also a lot less work to customize them compared with the Yamato.
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    The list of "features," the cost, and all of this together is mostly adding up to give me a picture of two guys in the board room drinking and taking bets about how many user-hostile features they can add before people actually stop buying into the mess.
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    HMR VF-19P

    Chronocidal replied to BlueMax's topic in Toys

    I haven't either, just recalling what I read. Thing is, they didn't copy Yamato's sound booster, they just popped out another production of the original HM version, so the Yamato bracket design wouldn't work. They just skipped a step by never making Fire Valk-specific shoulder panels.
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    HMR VF-19P

    Chronocidal replied to BlueMax's topic in Toys

    I think they also dual-purposed them for the soundbooster mounting bracket, but yeah, this was absolutely a no-brainer. Considering the lack of releases in the past few months, I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.
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    HMR VF-19P

    Chronocidal replied to BlueMax's topic in Toys

    Bout time! Now all the customs can begin! A little surprised that there's no 19S/F first, but I'm not going to complain. I never got brave enough to rework my Yamatos, but the tolerances at this scale should be a little more forgiving to do some repaints, and make some custom wings to kitbash a couple of black and white VF-19Fs. Bring it on! I need a half dozen to experiment with.
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    See, that would be the perfect canopy, but that's not an upscale. That would just be a straight remodel, more like the previous Blacktron release. I wouldn't say no to a redo of that design, but it's never been my favorite, since the layout looks weirdly unbalanced with the cell sticking out and nothing like visible propulsion. I'd almost prefer an original design in that theme, or maybe an update of the next smaller design down the series. Again, kind of lacking in the propulsion department (which seems pretty common across that entire line, actually), but I love the overall profile, and would love to see an unscale of the overall layout. The fold-out wings were always my favorite feature about it. The thing about that original canopy though was that it was stackable. I don't know how many uses that feature got, but it's part of what made the Space Police II design so striking.
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    Ouch. Yeah, hard pass until some sense comes to this mess, that's just insane. If I need Metroid that badly, I'll probably just pick it up on a secondhand older model. Looks like PC is just where everything will stay for the foreseeable future.
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    Marking something up to turn a profit is one thing. This is far beyond that. Considering how long it takes to ever get anything from them, I'd estimate they're making 100%+ profit on each one of those they sell (if they're smart about exchange rates and shipping methods, anyhow).
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    On that note though.. "next entry".. something 1st generation Space Police themed? Please? Though being honest, I actually prefer the design of the second gen command ship, but I'd love to see a new take on the classic black and blue.
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    I feel like I've read about this somewhere...
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    I really just want them to reveal that the Air Force changed their minds, and decided they actually want the YF-23 this time.
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    The missiles themselves from the 171 kit aren't that bad, it's mostly just the nonsense stub pylons they molded to the wings that need to go. You could probably source some more realistic mounting hardware from any 1/72 weapons set that Hasegawa makes, and just glue the included missiles onto them.
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    Eh, don't underestimate the Air Force to put out something custom ordered in a hurry. Not having to manage multiple sets of armed forces and export partner requirements will let it move a whole lot faster than the F-35 could ever hope to achieve. Not discounting the Boeing issues, but I have to admit I'm happy seeing something not being handed out to Lockheed for a change.
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    Kind of funny, I was just considering that if you wanted some higher quality weapons and pylons, you could probably get them from a Hasegawa VF-0 kit, since the triple missile clusters are just copy-pasted from there... But then I went looking, and can't find any pictures of Hasegawa VF-0s with those missiles anywhere, or even proof that they ever released a kit with them. Kind of sad, but I'm actually mostly just surprised they don't exist.
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    Similarities to the actual aircraft aside, I'd just love to see them attempt to make a transforming jet that looks even remotely capable of actual flight. I think the ridiculously painful part about Air Raid is that we know they can make decent F-15s, because the Seekers exist.. they just can't seem to apply that knowledge to another bot with what should be a mostly identical alt mode.
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    Picked one of those up as well, just for the alternate colored canopy to use. Also wound up grabbing one of the armored kits from HLJ while I was at it, and the discount from paying in yen is pretty substantial. I'll probably apply the parts to one of the normal green versions though.
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    You know what.. why not. It might make Starscream's body actually fit within more aircraft designs for a cleaner alt mode.
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    Oh... whoa. Ok... can "uncanny valley" apply to completely animated characters? Those are.. somehow really disturbing looking characters. Like genuinely terrifying to look at. I would honestly suspect the whole thing was actually AI-generated, except for the fact that they all have normal-looking hands.. and AI usually draws much better faces than those. Edit: Actually.. maybe I need to rethink that... How do knuckles work again?
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    I'm not exactly sure I would call it complicated so much as insanely fragile. The model kit, in theory, replicated the original mechanism shown in the show. The pope hat isn't a problem, but there are two absolutely microscopic armatures that the cheek panels are attached to. In the model, these are some of the most fragile parts I've ever seen in any kit. The panels rely on a tiny ball joint to snap onto, and they fall off if you look at them sideways. "Transformation" is almost literally impossible, because there is no way to transform those panels without pulling them off, realigning the armatures manually, and then putting the panels back on. You pretty much have to assemble the entire thing with tweezers. I just really have no confidence that Bandai could produce this as a functional toy.
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    I've stopped trying to make sense of Delta as a whole a long time ago, but I don't remember any discussion that painted Messer as a fan favorite character. He was mostly just a jerk that didn't get much development or any redeeming qualities until he was already killed off. I've mentioned it before, but I'm pretty convinced we will never see a Ba release specifically because of how insanely fragile the head design is. The model kit version is made up of a dozen folding panels that all explode in different directions if you look at it funny. I just don't see any way they can manufacture that to work as a toy.
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    I actually received an interesting email recently.. Is it real, and have they adjusted things to be more affordable? I have no idea, but it looks like they're reorganizing in some format.
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    Comparing anything to the frustration of the 171 is a very low bar. But I kind of love the transformation itself. The issues are more with Bandai's messy hinge shenanigans around the arms and wings, and the lousy clearance they gave for the fists.
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    Not going to lie.. I think I willfully blocked the existence of that one from my memory after how it was used in Delta. Wouldn't be a bad scheme though.
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    Yeah, this is one of those releases I'd expect to see in the sub-$200 range on Amazon eventually. I don't know what happened with Max's YF-29, but it must have been massively over-produced, for how many times it's gone on clearance there.
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