Chronocidal
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Honestly, anything's better than Bandai's standard "Let's make a generic mechanical-looking hexagon and include it with every release going forward." The mounting systems are bad enough, but they used to care enough to make matching bases, back when they did the SMS logos for the VF-25 series. Once they made the generic base for the 171s, they stopped doing anything else. I'll be curious to see if they bring back the SMS bases for the VF-25 re-releases.
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So I'm looking at these, and wondering if he printed his own decals for the shields. I did a quick size comparison, and the shields use a smaller set of numbers than even the smallest font included in the Hasegawa VF-31A decals. The bigger numbers on the right are pasted from below to give a better visual comparison for their size on the shield panel. Did Bandai include smaller decals in their 1/72 kits? I know I got one of the super-packed VF-31 kits, so maybe those decals would work better.
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I haven't looked for that one on shelves, but I might pick if up if I run by it. I do think the giant screw holes all over it need something to cover them though, they're kind of obnoxious. Probably would have been a lot less visible if they put the holes on the insides of the nacelles. Definitely glad to see some main-line Trek toys on shelves again though. It's been far too long.
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I'm in the same boat, no update on the one I'm waiting to go into my warehouse. Went to check earlier, since I'm holding off shipping my Wave 171 and Arcadia Tomohawk until it arrives, and they keep pestering me to ship. Not in any rush to receive any of those things though, so as long as they don't threaten to cancel my orders, I'm happy to wait and ship them together.
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All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!
Chronocidal replied to Keith's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Not sure if these were on anyone's radar, and I missed it, but just found these browsing at HLJ. https://www.hlj.com/1-144-scale-vic-viper-ver-gradius-v-poa38390 Same company that made the Raiden fighters, which were pretty small but very detailed. These should be about 6 inches long. -
Looks pretty decent, I think the only two real disappointments I have are the fugly feet (given for a Bandai YF-19, really), and the fact that they didn't even try to hide the waist section in fighter mode. That giant gray block between the intakes really sticks out.
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I wouldn't call that a sales tax, so much as a sanity tax. The differences do add up over time, but I've been happy to get a few releases from BBTS after missing the preorders. It's nice to have a backup, even if they get there a few months late.
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Honestly, if they're going to do FFVII, I kind of just want to see brick-built PS1-era polygon characters.
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If they start doing BTAS sets, I would really love to see the Batwing from that series.. or maybe a slightly stylized take on it. After seeing the official large scale production, I do appreciate the shape being more reminiscent of the original 1989 version, but I would love to see something like a cross between the BTAS version, and the Batman Forever proportions. Very rough 5-minute 3D doodle, but this was my mental image of what the BTAS Batwing looked like for years, until I rewatched the series more recently. I'm thinking my memory just mashed up the multiple styles, since it's not far off from the animated version, but the front fork, tail, and cockpit are much closer to the Forever toy my younger brother had.
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Hah, no argument there. I don't want to get overly ranty about it, it really is a nice little midget VF-0. I do have to laugh at the idea that I almost wish all of Bandai's valks just had removable gear. It would make them so much easier to repaint.
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Boy.. you know, It's baffling. Just got my VF-0S, and it's kind of incomprehensible how Bandai can't ever seem to manage a solid arm/leg/backpack alignment of a VF-1 style transformation, even after they borrow the entire mold from someone else. And yes, this is absolutely a scaled down Arcadia, which brings its own share of dumb issues with it. Overall.. it's decent, it looks good, and I like the fact that they added in all of the tampo that Arcadia couldn't be arsed to print on their bigger version. But overall it feels kind of like the worst of both worlds. Since they couldn't be bothered to re-engineer the legs to use the replacement gear doors Bandai usually includes, now you get microscopic versions of the functional Arcadia ones, which can't be opened without a needle, and all of that fun, plus Bandai's stupid obsession with silver gear, which is even less valid when it's abundantly clear that everything in Zero had white gear. Plus you get Arcadia's standard patented "death grip" stand mount which wraps around the entire underside of the thing. And no, they didn't buy the CAD with the fixed gunpod mount, so it still blocks the tailhook. I don't regret getting one, just because it's a nice desktop-sized VF-0, but good grief, how do they keep coming up with ways to make things worse than they should be?
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If the stupid Fanracer was actually 1/48, I would just say go looking for some kind of flying circus or crop duster pilot... but a real 1/48 pilot won't fit in that thing. I'm pretty sure there are some 3D printed options available though. If you go looking through the project sections, I think someone may have the model ready to print.
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Those hip joints really make it look like it's not even meant to be human anymore, more like some kind of mechanical body.
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All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!
Chronocidal replied to Keith's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I hadn't touched STO in a very long time, but I did enjoy the story. I might have to pick it up again, and see what they've done with it for old time's sake, it was a fun and quirky plot they had going on. Would have been a lot more enjoyable without the incredibly janky ground missions, but it was pretty passable otherwise. -
This was always my biggest dislike of them. I think they would have looked much better if they mounted sideways, and slipped above and below the wings like the VF-25's.
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I'll be happy to, but it won't be real.
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Yeah, I gave up and grabbed spare sets of packs on the secondary market to mod into theirs. Bandai just does not seem to care at this point.
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No notification from AE, but my account listed it as in stock, so I just shipped it, along with my 31AX armor, and HMR VF-0S. Probably going to be expensive, but hopefully I saved a little by waiting to ship them all at once.
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Hah, I thought they came out roughly the same. Guess I'll have to model and print myself a proper one someday.
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I'm still baffled why Bandai never made a transforming kit of this one. Maybe just too fragile? (that didn't stop them from making the 262s though.. )
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I want them to release an actual 1/48 fan racer first. The one they packed in with the VF-1D is the same size as the Yamato 1/60 version.
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Really, considering how many thrusters are mounted all over the plane, it would probably be an almost trivial matter to replace one with a smoke generator.
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This is actually kind of a reversal for them. Generally it seems like Bandai do not like giving you the option of using something that's not shown specifically on-screen. For all of the VF-31s they've released, there are still no weapons packs released for them to actually use all those hardpoints they were produced with. I've always wondered if it was up to licensing agreements, or some other legal nonsense, but there have been a few specific times where it felt like they just did not want to include things that made perfect sense, just because they weren't shown on screen together. The primary one I'm thinking of is the VF-31 series, and all of the mental calisthenics they went through on which planes came with which accessories and which super packs had what parts. They released Hayate's of course, and then Messer, and Mirage.. then they released the super parts.. Hayate's and Messer's did not get reaction missiles. You only got a set for Hayate if you bought the custom version from the last few episodes, which was the only variant of Hayate's plane that was seen mounting the missiles (and sucks to be you if you missed getting the super packs that were released BEFORE the valk itself). Mirage's missiles came in her super pack. Messer, on the other hand, never got them, because he died before they used them. Then Arad's were included in the plane, and Chuck never got any at all.. and neither of them even got super packs at all. I feel like Bandai just generally does this a lot though, only offering options that are "intended" to go together. No DYRL box missiles for the TV VF-1s, no TV missiles for the DYRL versions, no printed Kite emblems for the DYRL super parts, etc, etc. That generally goes for the HMR releases too, which made the M&M pair an oddball that had no TV missiles, since they specced them with DYRL packs, and packaging. And I'm frankly still irritated that the HMR VF-1D got shafted, and didn't include any hardpointed wings. "It wasn't shown on screen" is a lousy excuse for not including things you put in the other releases, and make perfect sense to include. In the case of this gunpod though.. What I expect happened is that it's just part of the mold for making the VF-1. Can't say for certain obviously, but I'm going to guess the effort and expense of leaving it out (and the associated cost of redesigned packaging) was actually more than the cost of just keeping it in the production run.
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[Revival] Biker Mice From Mars
Chronocidal replied to Old_Nash_II's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
... Ok, to be fair, I have no trouble seeing why that failed. Like.. seriously, what even... -
I was really tempted to order a couple of spares, and use the extra tails to make some alternate squadron markings for other VF-1s.. But I'd also need the spare backpacks with the different tail mounts, so that idea went up in smoke fast.
