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Paint on mine has been flawless so far, other than a few minor scrape points due to transforming.

i don't know if i got a wonky one or not but the paint is good everywhere except forward of the cockpit. after that it's like they applied the purple paint apps without a primer so it's not adhering well.

Yep the 27 is what he 25 should have been. (well except for the paint......... )

Yeah I wish they included an "all three" sizes pack like they did on their original site. Having all three sizes gives you some great flex-ability when doing some "extreme" posing.

Either way I think they are great stands and defiantly worth it for the price.

Got the Following email from Lost and Found Toys last night:

03.09.10 - FlightPose

We have launched a new site for our display stands! The FlexiDisplay Stand v2 has been rebranded as FlightPose. We feel it is a more concise description of our product. Check out the new store at www.flightpose.com.

Recent News...

We are officially closing our webstore in the month of March. As most have you have noticed we quit listing new pre-orders by late spring of 2009. In our short stint as an online retailer of imported Japanese toys we have been very fortunate. However economic forces have made it evident that we need to divert our attention from retailing to manufacturing. We have had a fun ride the last four years and greatly appreciate all the business from loyal and new customers.

Current inventory is being moved in groups to our eBay store (lostandfoundtoys). If anyone has questions regarding combined shipping or pricing, feel free to contact us at sales@laftoys.com.

Carlos

www.LAFtoys.com

So for those of you who need flexi stands we still have a source to buy them! Thanyou Jeebus!

Link for new site

http://www.flightpose.com/

Feeling a little bored today so I figured I would post some picks of my VF-27. Paint aside this is the first DX that I truly like.

Hard to pass up at that price......so I didn't. Shipping was a MF though. $5400 yen. So I still ended up paying around $150US.......ARGH! That's almost as much as the toy! Oh well I will finally have it now though.

This is getting to be an expensive month. First the HLJ sale where I finally ordered a Nora at around $80 (and the MG Unicorn Gundam.....mmmmm sacrilegious! )and now this. Thank god I'm getting a nice income tax check next week!

Glaug FTW! Like the Regault I don't have one in any decent scale so I would love to have one. Revoltechs don't count.

I hope eyesonme78 meant the plunge or >EXO< is so right!

My bank account also goes from "puckered" to "scar the bowl" every time I purchase a valk as well. Ok this is starting to get disturbing...... ......

I finally took a dump and ordered the VF-22S max custom from AmiAmi, hopefully i can get it by next week with no missing kneecaps and such..

man... but i like the valkyrie though..

....dump!?!?!?...... bowel movement equals toy purchase ......that's awesome! If stlightly disturbing.

You plan on fixing it or it'll stay in battroid

Once the novelty of it wears off yeah. Right now I like to transform and pose it once in a while and once I get bored of it I will probably touch it up, put it in fighter mode and then put it on semi-permanent display.

Thanks for the touch up tips by the way. Will put it to use when I am ready.

Yeah I really think that what it is on mine.

they're doing something wrong, nothing touches that part of the valk during transformation.

No like a said before I, somewhat lightly, brushed the end of my fingernail down it while I was turning the toy over. I was shocked when I actually heard a tearing sound when my nail rubbed against it. That was the first scratch. The second was because I was so shocked it had to test it out (I had the first scratch already so I didn't really care if I made a second). It doesn't take allot of pressure for it to happen. I can do the exact same thing on my VF-25 and nothing happens. In fact I can try to dig my nail in a bit on the VF-25's black detail on the front of the nose and nothing happens.

EDIT:

Note: The toy can rub on the nose section if you are not careful during the transformation when you are sliding the upper body over the nose cone. You have to actually swing the upper chest section further ahead than it is supposed to be and then rotate it downwards though. It shouldn't get in this position though so I wouldn't be concerned about it. The only other way that I could see that it would scratch is if you where being a bit forceful when trying to slip the upper chest over the nose cone.

Frankly I think the paint on the nose is fragile enough that eventually most people are going to end up with a chip or scratch just buy handling the toy. Some of the toys might be better but on mine it's barely on there.

UGH! Still not as bad as the jaggy I have running down the front nose cone......

Nice review. Although considering how much a VF-11 is going to cost over a VF-1 v.2 I certainly hope that it's that much better. I have to say the I kind of like the "eye blinding" white color. Just begs to have a little home brew weathering tinkering.

Also did you notice if there where any improvements over the B to the C? Looks like they are pretty much the same other than color and different booster packs and gun pod like you had mentioned.

Smaller sizes...... sorry if I caused problems for anyone.

Major improvement in Gerwalk mode.

yeah, the front toe articulation is probably the most underwhelming part of the toy, if you fiddle with the ball joint in the ankle you can get a bit more forward movement in the whole foot. the best way is to just angle the leg using the thigh swivel so that you're getting both forward and sideways lean on the ankle, as there's plenty of side to side movement.

Anyways, I really love this toy but it makes all the problems with the VF-25 that much worse. I actually want a VF-25 to go with my -27 now but not one that's such a downgrade.

As for the green VF-27, I'm holding out hope that after the strait repaint web exclusive they'll also do a beta version with the fin-less head from the model kit and new pilot sculpts

Yeah I started transforming them and posing them side by side and all I could say to myself why couldn't the 25's have been like this? It's a much better toy/collectible...... it's just to bad they dropped the ball on the paint again! Is it me or is the paint job on these actually worse than on the 25s or does it just stand out worse because of the colors used?

I'd buy the green if it came out (as a non-web exclusive) but it would have to have a more resilient paint job. I love posing my toys and it frustrates me how much I am scratching the VF-27 up. If I gave this to a kid I imagine it would be an ungodly mess of scratches and chips in a couple of weeks.

That is because you lack try!

No the posing I was trying to do required that the leg come back and the ankle forward for a "walking"/moving pose. You physically can't get that as there is a stop in the "toe" and while the ankle has some backwards play there is little to no forwards play . Nice poses though and I never thought about turning the "thighs" sideways like you did in the top pic.

And some pics in Gerwalk mode. It's a hell of allot better than the VF-25 but I still think the VF-1 1/60 is still the king of the Gerwalk mode.

Ugh. Thanks for reminding me. UN Spacy it's worth your while to do it once as you just have to appreciate this baby in batroid mode. Needless to say just be EXTREMELY careful and you'll be fine. Defiantly review the instruction booklet before you do it though to make sure you know how to rotate the head back and unless you rub your fingernail across it like I did (and I didn't do it very HARD!).

Also after posing the VF-27 in batroid mode a bit she is defiantly a tippy toe princes. To get any decent posing with the legs I have to "claw" the feet. See here.

Sorry if the size pisses anyone off but I just had to take some quick pics during my lunch break today.

REDUCE THE SIZE OF THESE PICS!

Posted some pics in the strike a pose thread.

took less than a day for it to get to that point. this is pretty much how piece of metal on my yamato's looks. paint on plastic is fine with Yamato but Paint to metal adhesion has not improved much at all since the days of the v.1 1/60's.

as for the VF-27 all the paint apps are perfect on mine, even the Nose cone is nice and solid.

also I think the VF-27 has one of the smoothest transformations of any toy out there. It blows away the YF-19/21 and even beats the VF-1. I ended up needing the instructions only once (to get the chest over the torso in battroid, and mostly because I was still worried about chipping paint). after one go from fighter to battroid I felt totally comfortable with it. In fact the VF-27 is the only macross toy I've ever owned that went back to fighter mode from battroid mode looking better than it did coming out of the box, it locks together so solidly and intuitively.

The landing gear? Seriously? Man those things are so hard to get out you can't help but chip the paint. The rest of the toys are great and you shouldn't get hung up on that.

Yamato should actually just plate the parts like Bandai does and this wouldn't be a problem anyway. Frankly I could care less anyway as while the landing gear are a nice touch, I rarely use them. I just want them to be sturdy and have some nice detail. If the paint chips at least I can fold them up and hide them in the body. On some Yamato toys I have removed the paint completely and just coated them with a sealer and left it at that.

The VF-27 has the smoothest transformation!?!?!?! Really? Frankly I find the VF-25 smoother to transform but I just got my VF-27 so.... Anyway IMO the VF-11 has the smoothest transformation around. The heat shield is a bit tricky the first couple of times but it is the only valk I ever had where I did not have to refer to the user's manual for the transformation. For instance if I hadn't refered to the manual on the VF-27 I wouldn't have known the whole head assembly rotates up and back to allow you to slip the nose in the chest easier or how to rotate the shoulder pads properly to stow the arms back in fighter mode. I am in no way saying it is extremely difficult or anything though. It is fairly easy to transform but I think if you get over confident with what your doing your going to be scrapping paint, breaking off canards and/or getting frustrated.

Oh and I did not mention in my review that the VF-27 shoulder mechanism is completely metal unlike the VF-25 where the shoulder balls socketed into plastic on the main body. Defiantly nice!

Ouch. that's horrible. The worst I ever had was when the nose cone hip hatch on my VF-1D came broken. It still works but I can pull it right out when I want to.

Nice review. You're doing the arms wrong cause I get back into fighter VERY easy. Unfold them fully (one of these was tighter than the other), move the shoulder pad out of the way and align the arm. Voila.

I've been careful enough to avoid scratching the nose so far... but my shoulders already have a couple scratches each. Anyone get a color match on this lilac yet? Bandai should sell tubes of it for touch up. :\

Yeah I figured I was doing it wrong. I just didn't find it intuitive at all. I see that if you don't have the shoulders and arms in the right position when you rotate them in you get problems but I have yet to figure out that "just right" alignment yet....... Guess I got spoiled buy the VF-11. It's not a major grip but like my VF-22 I will have to do it a few times to get used to it....ah now bed time.