Arcadia 1/60 VF-0S & VF-0A

[Mommar]

2 hours ago, kkx said:

I managed to get one from HLJ.

But in the process, I notice that if I use the USD price listed by the website, I will pay over 65 USD more than the Yen price (including EMS shipping).

My credit card exchange rate is nothing special, so HLJ's exchange rate is really bad.

Always pay in Yen.

[Lolicon]

Paypal, HLJ, Bandai, etc. use a crappier exchange rate and pocket the difference if you pay in another currency. Like the above post said: always pay in yen.

If you buy a lot of stuff from Japan, it's best to use a CC that has zero foreign transaction fees.

[seti88]

7 hours ago, kkx said:

I managed to get one from HLJ.

But in the process, I notice that if I use the USD price listed by the website, I will pay over 65 USD more than the Yen price (including EMS shipping).

My credit card exchange rate is nothing special, so HLJ's exchange rate is really bad.

will triple remind on that...

always pay in yen!

[treatment]

On 5/21/2025 at 10:52 PM, jenius said:

Box looks exactly the same BUT it doesn't have the flip top lid any more. 

 

Mine got delivered today, and bummer indeed that it's not a flip-top box anymore.

I skipped the original Arcadia release due to the fatal leg issue and the reactive-armor since I wasn't a fan of it, so I'll be waiting on your or some others' review(s) regarding the "new hips-joint" or something that makes this reissue incompatible with the reactive-armor that Mr.K had stated before...

 

edit:

dogfighter, desu...

 

Edited May 29 by treatment

[davidwhangchoi]

On 5/27/2025 at 6:31 PM, treatment said:

 

Mine got delivered today, and bummer indeed that it's not a flip-top box anymore.

I skipped the original Arcadia release due to the fatal leg issue and the reactive-armor since I wasn't a fan of it, so I'll be waiting on your or some others' review(s) regarding the "new hips-joint" or something that makes this reissue incompatible with the reactive-armor that Mr.K had stated before...

 

edit:

dogfighter, desu...

 

nice, i'm looking for new design/revision change on reviews as well

[brooklynmacross]

Hey guys, anyone interested in a recently released (duh) VF-0A? I only opened it to inspect it (everything is great). Never transformed. I only bought as a double since I did not want to cancel my orders at HLJ.

 

$315 and free shipping. I only ship to the states (I can provide photos, just pm me.) 🤩

[treatment]

phone pix of the reissue for now...

 

bonus swooshing...

 

[Lolicon]

Received my copy. Just on a cursory glance it looks like instead of a single slot on the leg (near the foot) for the attachments, there are now two slots above and below the center line. Probably why the armor parts will no longer fit.

[Chronocidal]

That's a weird change, did they have to re-engineer the leg packs to stay on better?

[rsvictor1976]

@treatment Are you able to tell what they changed to make the leg secure from popping off? 

[treatment]

2 hours ago, rsvictor1976 said:

@treatment Are you able to tell what they changed to make the leg secure from popping off? 

I don't have the orignal, so I don't exactly know what they had changed.

That said, after putting my VF-0A reissue thru several deformation forms and back last weekend, I'm glad to say that it did not give me that fatal hip/leg separation issue that @jenius and lots of others had unfortunately experienced and reported with their originals.

So, knock on wood, that is!   

The only issue I did found was that, just like the original Arcadia release, the Yamato QF-2200D Ghost ordnances do not really fit it at all, as widely reported by reviewers. 

Dammit, Arcadia! You could've totally fixed that issue in this re-issue since you don't seem to have any plans for your own QF-2200D Ghost-releases.

That said, however, I'm really very very satisfied with this reissue. 



 

Edited June 3 by treatment

[brooklynmacross]

My thread has been approved! If anyone is interested in the extra VF-0As I have here is the link (lots of photos)

 

 

[sh9000]

https://www.hlj.com/1-60-scale-completely-transformed-vf-0a-phoenix-shin-kudo-boarding-machine-aca82167#

Still available but I think I'll still pass.

[MKT]

On 6/3/2025 at 6:25 AM, Lolicon said:

Received my copy. Just on a cursory glance it looks like instead of a single slot on the leg (near the foot) for the attachments, there are now two slots above and below the center line. Probably why the armor parts will no longer fit.

We can see what @Lolicon's referring to in the following video:
 

 

Taking a still from the video, if we look at the lower leg there are 2 new slots flanking the original single, bigger slot in the center. The conformal tanks now attach to these 2 new slots instead of the center one.

 

The original release only has that center slot for the conformal tank (pic from jenius's site):

 

Correspondingly, the pegs on the conformal tank have been adjusted to suit. The updated one:

 

As compared to the old one:

 

I'm not sure why Arcadia changed this part in first place, the original design is cleaner and the tank doesn't fall off easily, at least on my copy. Is this the reason why the Reactive Armor won't fit this new 0A as per Mr. K's post? Well, based on another video I watched, the Reactive Armor doesn't appear to use this slot at all, so there must be another change somewhere at the legs that makes the Armor incompatible, and I can't figure out yet based on watching LP's video.  

 

 

[Chronocidal]

Ok, yeah, that change makes no sense.  Why would they do that?  It just adds more junky-looking slots on the leg, while the original was a detail already there.  

The holes all over the leg are one of the most irritating features on the Arcadia re-design.

Edited Monday at 09:55 PM by Chronocidal

[Froy]

Wait, were not the changes supposed to fix the failing of the hip connection?

[sh9000]

One step forward, two steps back.  Plus the store sites are using pics of the first release.

[Lolicon]

18 hours ago, MKT said:

We can see what @Lolicon's referring to in the following video:
 

 

Taking a still from the video, if we look at the lower leg there are 2 new slots flanking the original single, bigger slot in the center. The conformal tanks now attach to these 2 new slots instead of the center one.

 

The original release only has that center slot for the conformal tank (pic from jenius's site):

 

Correspondingly, the pegs on the conformal tank have been adjusted to suit. The updated one:

 

As compared to the old one:

 

I'm not sure why Arcadia changed this part in first place, the original design is cleaner and the tank doesn't fall off easily, at least on my copy. Is this the reason why the Reactive Armor won't fit this new 0A as per Mr. K's post? Well, based on another video I watched, the Reactive Armor doesn't appear to use this slot at all, so there must be another change somewhere at the legs that makes the Armor incompatible, and I can't figure out yet based on watching LP's video.  

 

 

Interesting. I guess I'll have to break out the armor parts to check. 

[treatment]

1 hour ago, Lolicon said:

Interesting. I guess I'll have to break out the armor parts to check. 

 

fwiw, here again was what Mr,K's reasoning was for the change  (as I originally posted back in dec/2024) :

 

https://x.com/Mrk_arcadia/status/1872055674877948344

web-translated:

 

[ALEXD]

3 hours ago, Froy said:

Wait, were not the changes supposed to fix the failing of the hip connection?

I would assume this is just built like the 0s which had none of those issues, but time will tell! 

[Chronocidal]

What it sounds like?  They weren't happy with the tab being inserted into a crevice that was painted black, because it could remove the black paint...

So they just added two more gaping holes, with nothing to hide them.  

Makes me really glad I didn't care about this release.

Edited yesterday at 12:21 AM by Chronocidal

[sh9000]

Agreed.

[Lolicon]

4 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

What it sounds like?  They weren't happy with the tab being inserted into a crevice that was painted black, because it could remove the black paint...

So they just added two more gaping holes, with nothing to hide them.  

Makes me really glad I didn't care about this release.

Taking cues from Bandai's DX 

[Sanity is Optional]

More sounds like because it was a single slot the armor could shift and rock, damaging the leg paint.

[davidwhangchoi]

2 hours ago, Lolicon said:

Taking cues from Bandai's DX 

Did you get a chance to test the armor on the legs to see if it's compatible with the new 0A?

[wm cheng]

I don't get why they don't just do magnets for all these fast pack attachments.  Is there some rule against using magnets in toys?

[derex3592]

@wm cheng - Agreed! It was perfect on Yamato's VF-11's.....😉

[pengbuzz]

1 hour ago, wm cheng said:

I don't get why they don't just do magnets for all these fast pack attachments.  Is there some rule against using magnets in toys?

Yeah...a rather attractive idea.

 

I'll see myself out now...

[jenius]

Magnets are a much more expensive solution than pegs and slots and if they're not done well, the result can easily be less satisfactory than pegs and slots. Often times the manufacturer still adds a peg and slot to make sure the alignment is perfect, then they're left to wonder why they did the magnet at all when they could have just made the peg and slot a little more robust. 

[Lolicon]

11 hours ago, davidwhangchoi said:

Did you get a chance to test the armor on the legs to see if it's compatible with the new 0A?

No, not yet. I'm currently in the process of assembling my newly arrived set of moducases to house the rest of my collection.

 

1 hour ago, jenius said:

Magnets are a much more expensive solution than pegs and slots and if they're not done well, the result can easily be less satisfactory than pegs and slots. Often times the manufacturer still adds a peg and slot to make sure the alignment is perfect, then they're left to wonder why they did the magnet at all when they could have just made the peg and slot a little more robust. 

Magnets worked great on Yamato's releases... when they didn't screw up the assembly. Didn't a few people get copies where the magnets were installed incorrectly and it repelled their fast packs instead?

[Slave IV]

11 minutes ago, Lolicon said:

No, not yet. I'm currently in the process of assembling my newly arrived set of moducases to house the rest of my collection.

 

Magnets worked great on Yamato's releases... when they didn't screw up the assembly. Didn't a few people get copies where the magnets were installed incorrectly and it repelled their fast packs instead?

That was for the armor ejection gimmick😉

[derex3592]

😂

[Lolicon]

2 hours ago, Slave IV said:

That was for the armor ejection gimmick😉

LOL! 

[davidwhangchoi]

4 hours ago, Lolicon said:

No, not yet. I'm currently in the process of assembling my newly arrived set of moducases to house the rest of my collection.

ah! thanks for the update! 

I don't have any access to my Arcadia's or I would've tested it myself. hopefully someone here can try the armor to see if it actually doesn't fit on the new 0A.