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And tomorrow brings another! Someday you will learn to exit the roundabout.

I "ordered" this one, 28 cm is really a big size, it feels like the Matchbox era 😁

I guess simple tampo like what Arcadia currently doing with non-PF valks are fine. Not too bare, not too much, in keeping with the cartoon aesthetics. I certainly hope Bandai won't do a Mac 7 equivalent of the N.E.T.F.C. splashed across the wing like their YF-19.

Oooh nice.. but still no price revealed yet. I hope they don't pull a LD Voltron.

Oh, that sexy beast! Soon, you’ll be coming home!

The football is great as well, wouldn’t mind that on a shelf

you can clearly see that they were so sparkly that the light just shines around them. seriously though where did they get that name for the Gnerl?

Finally!!! Preorder starts on the 22nd. Just so everyone knows it's already 21st in Japan.

@mikeszekely is Gundam breaker 4 for switch a good game?

I'm okay with subtle tampo, but I also really don't want them splattering the logos all over any of them. The hard part is going to be balancing the details with the cartoony aesthetic Macross 7 ran with. The VF-19s never looked like real aircraft in the show, so I'm not sure realistic aircraft markings will look that great on them. I have seen good looking squadron markings and other sorts of insignias done well on the Emerald Force valks. I also have very little faith that Bandai would ever use something so sensible as just putting the modex numbers in logical places. Maybe they'll go with the Master File as a pattern? That wouldn't be too bad, but I still find the Emerald Force logo an eyesore just from how much it clashes with the colors of the actual planes. I'd really rather they just used a realistic tail code.

Robot Damashii <Side MS> RB-79 BALL (2-pack) ver.A.N.I.M.E. (Battle of Solomon Color Ver.) June 2025 Release November 22, 2024 4pm JST Preorder Starts Y6600 Tamashii Web Exclusive / P-Bandai

Robot Damashii <Side MS> MS-09R Rick Dom ver.A.N.I.M.E. (Battle of Solomon Color Ver.) June 2025 Release November 22, 2024 4pm JST Preorder Starts Y8250 Tamashii Web Exclusive / P-Bandai

PHANTACI (Jay Chou & RIC) x Mobile Suit Gundam Collaboration. G.F.F.M.C. PHANTACI RX-78-2 GUNDAM ver.J September 2025 Release Y30800

Nice internal mechanics gimmick... The scene where the missiles pop out like that and take out an entire VF squadron was one of the most memorable of the entire series!!!!!!!! Can't wait for the canon metallic green version to be released!!!!!!!!!

In the movie, yes. Athrun's Justice was inside Z'Gok. In the MRD figure above, we're not sure if they're going to implement it.

Disney announced during its 2024 Disney APAC Content Showcase in Singapore on Thursday that it is producing a new anime adaptation of Tsukasa Hōjō's Cat's Eye manga that will debut exclusively on Disney+ in 2025. The Disney+ YouTube channel is streaming a teaser video for the new anime. The teaser features singer Ado performing a cover of Anri's "Cat's Eye," the opening theme song for the 1983 television anime. Disney did not reveal the precise format of the anime, such as whether it will be a series or a movie. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-11-20/tsukasa-hojo-cat-eye-manga-gets-new-anime-on-disney-in-2025/.218113

My 27th HMR CF VF-1A.

Nice supercut.

Love the helmet, and I would totally buy a jersey with "FOKKER" on the back.

I gotta admit, this pic does make the figure look pretty good.

I hope this is not vapourware. I'd definitely buy 2 or 3. And I would hope for a VF-5000B variant, although that would require some retooling of the lower legs from Arcadia.

Agree......as long as it's just warning markings, numbers, Emerald Force squadron logo etc. I just don't want Bandai adding random extra, never before seen stripes all over the VF, like they did with the DX YF-21.

Generally speaking I prefer injection molded upgrades to 3D printed ones. However, there's just not as many injection-molded kits out there... Perfect Effect seems to have vanished, Nonnef was affected by the hurricanes, and DNA's output has been both slow and an infuriating crapshoot swinging wildly between kits that are absolute must-have upgrades and kits that create as many problems as they solve (and often don't even solve the main issue I had with a figure). So on a whim I decided to to pick up a few 3D printed kits after all. My single biggest complaint with the Orion Pax figure that came in the SDCC Fractured Friendship pack is that they took the gun that came with Gamer Edition Prime and stuck a block in the gap to give it a 5mm peg. It just looks awkward. In search of something better, I found this set from BDT Studio. It's a pair of comic-accurate rifles and a pair of adapters. The sculpt of the rifles themselves is pretty good, and BDT painted them a nice gunmetal color. You have look pretty closely under bright lights (like I'm doing for pictures) to notice the print lines. However, I absolutely loathe BDT's penchant for 3D-printing their weapons with holes that they affix a plastic tube into instead of printing the handle. Despite my misgivings, the handles certainly seem secure, and they fit snugly in Pax's hands. However, they don't really have any bot mode storage. As for alt mode, that's where the adapters come in. The idea is that you're supposed to remove his arm guns then plug the adapter into the port that the arm guns were in so that you have a new port facing outward and a peg pointing backward. The peg plugs into the back of the rifle, and the arm guns plug into the new ports. Now, I think this would look terrible even if it did work, so I don't know if I'm disappointed or relieved that it doesn't even actually work. The new ports are way too big for the arm guns to plug into; they just fall right back out. It seems like an over-engineered solution anyway, when something like a slot molded into the rifle itself that fit over the tabs on the back of the truck would have been a lot easier and better. At around $16 these guns aren't exactly cheap and I hate the alt mode storage. But they're the only comic-accurate rifles for Pax I can find, so I guess my recommendation comes down to how badly you want to replace his stock gun and how much it matters to you that the replacements are accurate. TFSafari, where I buy my kits from, offers discounts based on how many upgrade kits you buy in an order, so I decided to toss in these Shockwave Lab smokestacks for SS86 Optimus Prime. As you can see, they're pretty similar to the stock smokestacks; maybe the paint is a little shinier. They don't even look 3D printed. Some assembly is required. You'll need to remove these two screws from the back of Prime's shoulders. The front of the shoulder and the joint will stay attached to the torso, while the back of the shoulder, the smokestack, and the entire arm will come off. Once the arm is off, swapping the stacks is as easy as sliding the original one out of the groove and slipping the new one into place. Given how similar they are, you might be asking what's the need for a kit like this? Well, for one, the new stacks fix one of my few complaints about SS86 Prime, in that they're much more snug than the stock ones. You're far less likely to bump them out of place when you rotate them. But the other difference is that the tips are actually holes, which makes for a slightly more realistic look. I can't say that this kit is necessary, especially for $11, when you could just use floor polish or something to tighten up the stacks Prime already had. But the quality here is pretty good, should you decide that this is the way you want to go. As long as we're talking about Shockwave Lab smokestacks, there's also this kit, but for Legacy Deluxe-class Prime, that comes with smokestacks and a few fillers. Unlike the SS86 ones, this time there's a much more noticeable difference. The stock stacks only had the holes one one side of the exhaust shields, and they're very shallow. Plus, they're bare gray plastic. The Shockwave Lab stacks have deeper, more visible holes and are painted silver like the ones for SS86 Prime. And, once again, they have the hole in the top of the exhaust pipe. Installation is super easy (barely an inconvenience), since Legacy Prime's smokestacks are simply pegged into his shoulders. All you have to do is pull them out and plug the new ones in, and they're a nice fit. As for the fillers, the red ones go in his back and are meant to cover the gaps and pins in the butterfly transformation joint. They're kind of a pain to get in, because if they're not sitting right they'll actually block his arms from transforming. Once they're in, though, they'll stay in with no issues. The silver pieces fill in the gabs in his thighs. They're painted silver, which doesn't make them a perfect match for the bare gray plastic his thighs are molded out of, but installation was simple enough. I guess the thing is, neither his back nor his thigh gaps really bothered me. I'd have preferred they fill in the gaps around the 5mm ports on the bottoms of his feet, since they face up in truck mode. Alas, that's something you don't get a filler for. Despite being a bit underwhelmed by the filler parts, of the three kits this is the one I actually do recommend outright. At $11 it's the same price as the SS86 smokestacks, but the filler, underwhelming though it may be, at least adds to the value. Plus, unlike the SS86 stacks, the ones for Legacy Prime are more obviously an upgrade.