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I'm surprised they didnt make the underwear removable

At least the swimsuit Ranka on the VB-6 had green hair

man I wonder what Ranka said about that when she saw it from Alto's cockpit... >_>

Also, this one is totally for the lolicons. Pass.

i think we are the devil on your shoulder...

I think we're much much worse >_>

MY SHOULDER (screw) BROKE

Is this easy to replace? The screw is rather small, and I have 0 knowledge on hardware stuff :/

Just my luck...

OMGWAT? A DEFECT!? BANDAIS REP IS RUINED FOREVER. YOU GOT BANDAIED.

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haha i remember this thing everyone hated it so much.

oh wow.

I like the panel lining at least? XD Paintwork looks pretty sharp for a 1/100.

Unfortunately... Vertical stabs are supposed to be more splayed; legs in gerwalk look stiff and stuck forward; whats with the pegs on his shins; omggiant hinges on his upperthighs; huge hips and leg separation from fuselage; what is that mess around his front landing gear; where is the jolly rogers; why does he have skinny legs and tiny feet and teeny hands.

Damn, I'm really liking the VF-25G... the only problem is that i'm still not seeing any shots of the gun mounted in fightermode. makes me more and more worried.

The arm shoulder appearance seems the same as a VF-0S v.1. Except I guess for the extra screw that the VF-0As have.

I read it, and I'm grateful for the review, and the pictures were very informative. Mostly though, it reconfirmed the things I was already thinking about the DX... But Im surprised that you didn't deduct more points for the flood of big flaws mentioned in the design category. Issues like that were heavy penalties to the scores of Yamatos, but I guess this is being reviewed in the context that its intended as more chunky-monkey toy.

Uh.. I just skimmed it but shouldnt it be 38.5/50? Its out of 45 for some reason?

With the head mod though, wont the head stick up in fighter?

Ask and ye shall receive... a neo-chunky VF-171 from Bandai instead I'm pretty sure a DX -171 will eventually be made, if only because Alto flew it, and you can be sure that the 171 is coming out under the VF100s 1/100 scale Bandai toys (which currently doesn't look as bad as the DX, from the pictures of the 1/100 VF-25.)

I'd like it as accurate as possible thanks. T_T I like collecting unique fighter designs, and the compromises Bandai makes doesn't help accentuate that. I miss Yamato's fighter-preference, in exchange for barely-transformable fragility XD

Also, the VF-17 is more unique, I'd say. The fuselage is shorter, and the cockpit further forward on the cone. The overall shape of the plane too is easier to distinguish. Besides, the VF-17 was canonically built to the best of its ability, whereas the VF-171 was a slapstick improvision CF fighter.

VF-17 needs to be made, it is possible from the VF-X license. Two heads (D and S) to make a couple of releases, its easy transformation would make a very durable toy. That this valkyrie has not been made is astounding.

Yea I'd like a VF-17 Nightmare by Yamato. I'd settle for second best, a VF-171 with the weapon pack:

More interesting than the VF-25 >_>

I'm not a lolicon. But I'm not into giants either. So unfortunately, neither form is really 'hot'.

At best I'd buy the micloned Klan for the hilarity factor.

Looking forward to a Ram Hoa figure.

I hope we get a VF-171EX and VF-27 this year.

I hope that they don't make it into a children's toy again. Im looking forward to that VF-171.

If that was considered gloss then I'm surprised Bandai hasn't tripled enamel coated their Gundam lineups yet.

And about licenses, although license locking is bad news for the consumer, I'm much happier with Yamato holding MacPlus and Bandai Frontier than vice versa. MacPlus was superior; only the VF-171 stood out in Frontier, and they didn't get much of a spotlight. The pilots were sub par, and the dogfighting was largely lacking. I think I'd be worse off holding Bandai iterations of the YF-21 and 19.

Brera is obviously a big follower of the Ranka-chan trend.

The better question is why is the Kabuki Alto present, but not the seductive Grace?

Yea, but the YF-21 didn't survive that either. Lol

the only thing Bandai would ever do is resell it to Yamato... But this is really just wishful thinking.

Fix for ozma antenna.

If anyone has ever worked with wire from a spool the way to get it straight is to cut a long piece with a pair of pliers between both hands. Then you stretch the wire as tight as you can. When you let go the wire is straight as an arrow.

I just tried a much milder version of this on ozma's antenna. I basically just held his head in one hand and pulled gently on the laser with the other. They were pretty mangled and now they are much straighter (not perfect). I of course don't want to push it because I'm afraid of pulling the thing right off.

They are not perfect but they don't look like crossed fingers anymore either. I suppose when I wake up tomorrow they will be bent again.

edit: I don't know why but the photo keeps coming in upside down. It's a bad photo anyway.

Yea... But its PVC isnt it? That tends to return to its normal form quite quickly. Unless you were to somehow implant a needle that could hold it straight. it does look much better though.

I don't think I've ever liked gloss on anything. PVC figs, Revoltechs or action figures. Except maybe some of the Evangelion Angels. But they were weird to begin with, and I think the glossy look fit the canon.

Dang. Who is the artist on that pic and where is it from?

Dunno the artist... But thats Yoko from Gurren Lagen. Maybe an imageboard source request will get you further =P. Or sift through Danbooru or something.

Ack. You can notice some of the paint go over the edge here on the left side of his chestplate. =/. That kind of bothers me for display collectibles. Feels like Revoltech paint quality. It looks sharp on the other side though. What happened >_<

You may be able to overlook it due to its lower price tag... But I think I'd gladly pay an extra hundred to have these flaws gone (not just the paint issues).

Thats nice Graham, but you should remember this:

[isamu] "Man this fighter [YF-21] is really something. Looks great even going down in flames!" [/isamu]

Having the option to swap interchangeable hands isn't the issue. It's that you have to swap them out to transform. There's no option to leave in the hand that can hold the gun pod, and the hands you have to use for fighter mode aren't useful at all for battroid mode.

Is that deal breaker? Probably not for most. Still, the DX toys have a lot of little issues for people to weigh.

I'm going to have to agree with Radd. The need to swap hands to fulfill the basic transformation is not perfect transformation. If you could still transform it with the same hands, it just looks slightly out of scale, I can still see that as being PT, but this isn't the case.

On top of that, the gunpod attachment is just unsightly. Now I'm not even sure if I should get the model kit anymore Although its not just Bandai with gunpod issues, I agree... When can they just start putting magnets in the arms to hold the gunpods? >_>

Also.. Wow, that's really fast paint wear. But at least it looks like its got some battle-wear XD

What... The.. Hell?

You need an extra piece to mount the gunpod in fighter?

And I assume its not part of the transformation.... Is that canon? Can that even be called perfect transformation!?

Does anyone know if the model kit needs anything like this to hold the gunpod?