jackdaniels

Just took a quick look at mine, no cracks or anything. However, the right arm does have a thicker metal part as opposed to the left where I saw the breakages in the photo.

The fins look like they are folded out in that picture. And I agree, it's more likely to be cost cutting animation than actually intended. The original series was plagued by that. I prefer folding down the fins when in battroid. I always have to be careful not to bend them and they get in the way when I'm trying to hold the thing by its legs.

HLJ shows the shipping costs for every item on every item page. Why ask such a question?

Actually, if you look at the Yamato website, they list 2 prices there and the higher one has the Japanese domestic tax of 5% and the lower one is the MSRP without tax. HLJ always sells it at the MSRP.

Rubbing off on your fingers or scratching off?

I wanted to make a pose that looked like he was changing directions quickly to shoot at something in the air. Unfortunately we'll never know who he's shooting at since I don't own any enemy figures.

I believe Roy told Hikaru maybe in the first episode that they had thermonuclear reactors for powerplants. So they technically don't run on any fluid for fuel which was the big limitation of the VF-0 since it ate up gas so quickly and they always had to retreat. And as for could they fly in space, if you give anything enough thrust to overcome its own mass since there no drag, it will move. You could stick a rocket on a cube shaped ship and it will still fly. The only reason our space shuttles are shaped like aeroplanes is that they have to fly in and out of the atmosphere. This is one of the big reasons they are building the space station so that they can build atmosphere-free ships.

The Vf-1 is smaller than all other valks. So even though the scale is bigger, the vf-1 is just that much smaller than a vf-19.

I'd say no. I assume the G-Nu compete with the revoltechs and fighter mode seems pointless since there's not a lot of articulation and you'd also be competing against model kits that can probably do the same. A fighter that small might as well be gashapon. However, since the line is non-transformable, Yamato might as well bring out the destroids and other stuff that that aren't transformable and deck them out with articulation so people who don't want to shell out for a 1/60 destroid can still get one.

That part that you broke could have easily happened on my vf-1s. It didn't come out easily when I first transformed and when I tried to go from battroid back to gerwalk, that top tab wouldn't fit back into the hole. After trying to jam it back in, it seems I've worn down a lot of that tab and now I think its smaller than the hole. Now they come out really easily but I think if the side tab and hip bar wasn't there the leg would just fall off.

While you're looking in it, you should check out the tailfin scratching.

Are people breaking their hinge by not lifting it over the tab? Or is it breaking while they are lifting it over? I've transformed it about a dozen times so far and I don't see a problem. I lift it enough so that the hinge gets onto the tab and then I let go and let it rest on the tab while I push it across and then lift it up again to get the end off. I just wanna figure out exactly when it is breaking.

Here's the same pic but I drew a circle around it.

I think some people damaged their hinges during transformation while trying to get the shoulder over the tab. For me, I'm always scared that I'm going to lift it too high and the whole thing is gonna snap off.

I just saw this video review on the other thread by collectiondx. This is a pretty good transformation video too so thanks to him. The only thing I noticed about the vid was that he skipped locking down the chestplate and went right to inserting the hipbar into nosecone.