Bandai 1/60 DX Chogokin Macross 7 Fire Valkyrie

[aurance]

Hmm, it looks… fine? With a couple trade-offs, if anything it’s a testament to how well Yamato did 14 years ago.

[Chronocidal]

Yeah, the comparison of the neck alignment is interesting actually.  I don't think either looks bad at all there, they're both far superior to the old original YF-19 from Yamato.  I also don't think that photo of he Arcadia VF-19 is doing it many favors, the nose actually looks droopier than it should be.

Animation-wise though, I actually think the Bandai gets closer to the art.  The Yamato looks closer to the YF-19 in general, but I think a lot of the art in Macross7 is closer to the DX profile.

They keep getting so close it's really hard to pick any major benefits between one or the other.  

[ArchieNov]

I just received my 2nd copy of this valk. It has better hip joints, but it has some weird alignment issue in the flap for the neck cover that prevents it from sitting flat while in battroid mode. If only there was a way for me to swap the lower half of my older copy with the newer one, I'd have a perfect valk lol.

[sh9000]

Quite a few available on Mandarake for anyone looking but for me I think I'm still skipping it.

[MKT]

It's kinda weird how DX's front nose in Fighter looks better than Arcadia's for the Kai, but over to the YF-19, I prefer Arcadia's droop over the DX.

[aurance]

I’m curious to see how they’ll do the VF-19F/S. There are two pretty different wing line art shapes. Yamato leaned into one version; will Bandai do the same shape, or the more delta shape? (I’m fine with either, just curious)

[treatment]

review/comparo video (chinese reviewer):

 

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Edited yesterday at 12:37 AM by treatment

[Axelay]

Does this mean there's a Blazer coming?! OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG.

[ArchieNov]

2 hours ago, treatment said:

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They missed sliding up the knee gap covers in fighter mode. I just find it silly how the HMR Fire Valk is a lot more like the Yamato/Arcadia than the DX.

[Chronocidal]

1 minute ago, ArchieNov said:

I just find it silly how the HMR Fire Valk is a lot more like the Yamato/Arcadia than the DX.

Yeah, there's a good reason for that, Bandai just bought up a bunch of the CAD designs for Yamato/Arcadia valks, and reproduced them in smaller scale.

[aurance]

40 minutes ago, Axelay said:

Does this mean there's a Blazer coming?! OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG.

Ohhhh it definitely seems like it!

[PointBlankSniper]

It's not uncommon for Bandai to stick in developmental lore in their instruction booklets. It doesn't really mean they will or will not produce those related units. Y'all are probably reading too much into this one.