MacrossJunkie

I made my submission back in early August last year. Got a response from them, on Oct 16 saying "We anticipate that this replacement part will arrive and ship out within the next month. Once again, thank you very much for your patience and understanding." Forward time to December and still having received nothing, I emailed them again to see what was going on. They said they haven't received all the parts yet and told me that they will ship once they get them. Forward to February and there's still no word.

Yeah, happened around a year and a half ago I think, and they just simply stopped making a bunch of stuff/got rid of older units.

Yup. Probably focused on the Deathwatch given the terminator with the Deathwatch symbol on it. The quality of the animation of the teaser is still top notch though. Just wish it wasn't a year or so away.

I still haven't gotten my replacement parts. People got theirs months ago already. I emailed them to see what the status was on mine back in Dec and got this as a reponse It's now February and I still haven't heard anything. Bandai's customer service is absolutely awful.

Thought I'd throw up some stuff I had fun with recently. An Adepta Sororitas Anchorite, modified using one of the Joytoy penitent engines: Sanguinius with improved paintwork: Titus and co from SM2 vs nids: The Khorne berserkers look too bright and clean out of the box so I started doing something about that. Started with the zerker with the icon. Others are there for comparison. It's my first time attempting blood effects. Had a lot of fun with this.

Cool, thanks for the comparisons! Yeah, I recall that sizes were depicted rather inconsistently within the show. Not to mention the old Yamato 1/60 Regult was absolutely huge and was on the extreme tall end of depictions.

Wow, I only just learned about the existence of these battlepods by KC. Looks like I missed out on the crowdfunding. How big are these actually? Do they look like they would scale okay with the Arcadia VF-1's if you don't look at it too hard?

Anyone else still waiting on their replacemet parts? I still haven't gotten mine even though I was probably one of the first to submit a request to Bandai Namco for replacement parts.

Holy crap... now I'm dreading what will arrive in my mailbox. After taking months to get the replacement parts, this is what they send?!

It really is an awesome looking figure. Unfortunately, JoyToy will never make an official Emperor since they can only base it off of existing stuff like miniatures or more recently from games like Titus and co from Space Marine 2, which they had to get a separate license for. Their licenses don't give them leeway to do much else. So the way I see it, this is going to be the closest I'm going to get to having Big E unless GW makes a mini of him for their Horus Heresy line. This is supposed to be 1/18 scale, but trying to argue the size of a person that can change his size at will with biomancy is kind of a fruitless endeavor. An older pic where I did some work on the figure but before I refined it more like the previous pics, but good for size comparison: The listing I used on Taobao to purchase it through a purchasing agent is no longer there, but if you're interested in getting one, I did find some listings on goofish from other people, using the same sculpt but having some differences in how it's painted and how the cape is implemented. After the cost of the figure itself and shipping and purchasing agent fees, it came out to around $330 USD.

Got the Big E recently and he's currently the centerpiece of my Warhammer collection. It's a custom figure with 3d printed parts and using a McFarlane body as the base. Did some extra work to make it look a lot better to me.

The Mk VI blueberry looks pretty good. I may have to consider getting one or two. I'm lacking Mk VI armor in my collection aside from the IF and SoH praetors. I'm running out of display space so I have to kinda choosy with what I get.

Ah okay. I think it is the lighting that made it look glossy to me.

Yeah, I don't see how it would work on the 19 Kai or even the S/F/P to begin with. If nothing else, the vertical stabilizers would be in the way unless they were folded back up over the legs and it just wouldn't sit or look right. It wasn't a problem on the YF-19 or VF-19 Advance since the stabilizers were on the legs themselves. Logically, it likely wouldn't have made it into the design of the S and F variants since they were optimized for space use rather than atmospheric flight and thus had little need for a high speed mode where there is essentially no drag to worry about. With the P and Kai being more or less based on the same thing but with longer wings, it probably wouldn't have carried over to those either. If I recall correctly, along with the BDI, the morphing wing materials didn't make it into the VF-22 due to complexity and cost. The YF-19 was a more conventional design and never had that feature.

So basically this is the exact same toy as what we got years ago? Still missing the burgundy stripe on the hip gun plates, no additional panel lines, overdone tampo, having a glossy finish, etc. On the other hand, I can't say that was unexpected, but at least the other worldwide re-releases had a minor tweak here or there.