MacrossJunkie

So far, it looks like the base plastic is blue and areas like the gray on the lower leg are painted, but with Bandai, I suppose you never know (*cough* Ozma VF-25 *cough*).

That does look pretty hideous to me. I would strip it all off on the bottom except for the yellow stripe that goes around the engine nozzles. I'm not a fan of the yellow stripes and the 21 on the intake covers either. It's just too much.

I think it's just the way it's posed and the angle of the shot. The upper arms still look super skinny to me, but the forearms look thicker here because you're getting a 3/4 view seeing the top and side at the same time. I think if I get this, fighter mode will be displayed without FAST packs and the battroid with FP since it hides the too-short bay doors.

Yes, I believe so, with the feet issue corrected too.

I hope they consider re-releasing the 171 NM+ but with fixes to the plastic so that the black triangles and joints don't explode. I have two, one that's intact (knock on wood) in battroid and the other in fighter which had a crumbly shoulder. I'm afraid to transform the one that was intact when I last left it because it's like Schrödinger's Valkyrie. It simultaneously exists in states of unbroken and broken until a transformation is attempted and it resolves itself to one of the two states.

I don't get why they've done reissues on both SV-51s but something like the 0S has not had one (that I know of anyway) since the release of the premium finish version. I would love to get another one (premium or not) to put in the reactive armor.

As far as my 11B and C go, in fighter mode, that pod never sat solidly locked in place. It was very fiddly and would wobble out of place if you accidentally touched it. In my opinion, it was a gimmick that was a slight detriment to the toy, just as the delimiter mode was for the Yamato YF-21. I'd be fine with the pod, if it could lock solidly into place in fighter though. But there's no point even debating it since it's not even a thing yet until Bandai says otherwise 😛 Speaking of detriments for the sake of gimmicks, I hope the attachment for the legs for Bandai's 21 isn't as flimsy as the T-bar attachment is for the 1/48 VF-1 or that the arms don't simply fall off while trying to pose it...

Don't give them any cockamamie ideas! I could totally see them doing something like that. Would love to have a new VF-11B though. One with properly sized tail fins and better articulation. I could also do without the janky ejection pod.

I never liked the YF-21's FAST packs anyway, so I would keep them off. However, I wish they would have made this area (in green) more flush. I dislike that it sticks down like that and that there's even a gap above it.

I didn't know that was a thing. Do they leave white lint on what you handle or are they lintless?

Yeah, by the time I asked if there were any left, there weren't any. I was too late to the party =(

Three years later, after inflation, it will probably cost the same as the full set did 😛

Not to mention even finding decals for the non-PF to begin with. Those stickers it came with just don't cut it. I didn't care about the panel lining, but the decals alone made it worth getting for me.

I'm on the fence on this one. Unlike other releases where I actually like them, the implementation of this DX YF-21 is rather disappointing to me, so if I get it, it would just be to collect it. It's at VF-25 v1 levels of disappointment to me. I wish they would have made more effort to have the battroid look good so that it could look good in at least one mode since fighter mode was a lost cause anyway. Those tiny anemic arms just kills it for me. It boggles my mind that they made all that effort to have thick legs, but then completely disregarded another key aspect of the battroid's shape. This DX never skipped leg day, but has never even heard of arm day. Here's to hoping Mr K at Arcadia gets around to revisiting the YF-21.

Gah, I think you're right. That is exactly the line art's silhouette. Consider my hopes dashed.

I hope that's the silhouette for the actual sample. The bay doors look longer than on the one we've seen so far and the forearms aren't scrawny.

Yeah, my biggest gripes too are the extremely short fuselage like the Yamato 1/72 YF-21 and the tiny twiggy arms. At the very least, it should have big beefy Popeye forearms to resemble the Q-Rau. Not the emaciated noodle arms the DX has going on there. I feel like whoever is designing this toy has no love for the YF-21 and what we're getting is the result of that.

I've been on the fence on getting some of these joytoy 40k figures as I didn't really want to start another collection, but after happening upon the custodes and Bobby G figures earlier this week, that pushed me over the edge and I had to order them. The sculpting and paint application, especially on the custodes looked great. Well, G man could be better, but I can fix that myself. Hoping The Lion comes out soon.

Hopefully if the G does well, then they might consider putting out a B variant.

Personally, I'm not too bothered with how it gets to a particular mode as long as the end result is the mode looking right. So far, it's not achieving that and falling way short. I'm still holding out hope that a new prototype wasn't ready to be shown yet so they showed the same old prototype we've already seen for years. I love the YF-21/VF-22 and would like to see Bandai do it justice.

Yeah that. Sorry, I actually don't really know what's the difference between Hi-Metal and Hi-Metal R. I don't really follow those lines so I'm rather ignorant about them. To be fair, I don't know how much of that 21 proto was supposed to be a parts-former, so it's possible they could only achieve that look through swapping legs and other parts. The old D'stance garage kit/model also achieved very good proportions aside from the neck in fighter mode being too long. I'm disappointed that the Bandai version just looks bad in all modes, like they couldn't decide which mode to focus on and it was designed by committee.

Seriously. The only thing good about this is the leg thickness and its placement in battroid mode. Everything else about it seems like a step or two backwards from the Yamato. They had a really nice looking HMR prototype years back. I wish this looked more like that.

Saw a post about this on Reddit. Was happy to see it wasn't vaporware and came here excited to see more photos of it and see what revisions they made to it after all this time. Disappointed now that it looks to be the same old thing they trotted out years ago.

Just opened mine up despite it arriving yesterday. Overall, looks pretty good. I wish the wings locked in position or something. I was surprised and a little disappointed that, despite the size of the ghosts and the price, these ghosts don't feature any landing gear whereas the Lil Drakens did. The super parts for the ghosts snap on and seem to stay in place pretty well. No worries about pieces falling off during handling.