MacrossJunkie

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.

Unlike the YamArcadia version, the intake covers can come off.

Not to mention that if you're diabetic and need to check your blood sugar levels, you could handle one to draw some blood.

That's going to be very unfortunate. I have been waiting/hoping that they release the 25F armored parts, but as a separate package or at least offer both individually and as a set. I really don't need another 25F. If they force a set only purchase, then it's a skip for me.

Got mine around the same time as well.

I really wish they made more of the 30's. I really wanted this: I personally think the YF-30 with its wings and stabilizers looked better than the 31's implementation, especially the forward swept wing variants. The A and AX were alright, but still not as appealing to me compared to the 30.

I love the Bandai DX VF-1, but yeah, I have to agree that they're kinda fiddley. There's completely unnecessary stuff that makes handling it more aggravating than it needed to be or could have been avoided, like the individually articulated head lasers on the 1S head. The lack of a locking mechanism for the arms in fighter mode is another.

I hope they're going to restock the Archi Pro stands. Ever since I got a functional new display case, I've been wanting to get more stands like those, but they're all sold out. I prefer those over these UN Spacy stands.

Aside from Roid, Keith, and Bogue, the names of the rest of the aerial knights also escape my memory after all this time, Whereas I still can remember the names of the delta squadron and Walkure members. I feel they added so very little to both the series and the movies.

I'm still waiting on Chuck's Kairos and the armored parts for that and Mirage's...