MacrossJunkie
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You can set it to ignore numbers.
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Nice! Thanks again.
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Awesome, thanks! It only allowed me to run it at 2 minute intervals as s shortest available though. Well, I've got both running now. Now, hopefully I'm at the computer when it comes up for sale
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I'm not quite sure what you're saying. The first photo is of the leg that was not broken to illustrate what it ought to look like. If the black plastic spacer is removed, it's basically just a blue hollow peg that the screw goes into. On the broken leg, the screw is still attached and the majority of the peg and spacer are still attached to the screw. It's the plastic around the base of the hollow peg that had crumbled. I'm not sure if that clarifies or confuses more.
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I left it in an "A" stance with regards to the legs. I don't think the washer being metal would have produced any different results though. The base of the peg is where it seemed to have degraded. Unfortunately, I got this one from AmiAmi, so I'm completely SOL =( Sigh... really wish I could get a replacement part. I'm pretty mad that it costs so much and it just falls apart in less than a year. Makes me not want to get the F or P if this could happen to me again. I'm getting everything from HLJ from now on just in case...
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Ok, I figured out how to get the unbroken leg off to examine and take pics of it. I guess you can get to the screw without taking off other parts. Here is what it should look like: I took the black plastic washer/spacer off to examine the plastic and it looked seemingly fine. Not even any stress marks. Here is the broken piece: Notice how some bits of plastic are still stuck with the black plastic washer, other parts that I could find had crumbled off. It's generally not an even break at all. It's more consistent with the breaks I had with my VF-0A shoulders where the plastic degraded. Maybe the plastic in the right leg had a bad batch or something. I can't explain how it happened with one leg but the other is perfectly fine. Not sure how it could have happened.
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No, not those screws. The screw I'm talking about wouldn't be visible normally. I'll illustrate when I can get home to take pics.
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Small tip if you want to save your sanity (and your F5 key): Use the Update Scanner add-on (if you're using Firefox) to have it check the page every 5 minutes, the smallest interval it will go, for any changes and have it alert you when it finds something. There might be something similar for Chrome if you happen to be using that, but not sure what it is called.
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I'll get some pics up when I get home from work today. I don't really transform my valks often. Other than the first few times while putting stickers, panel lining and taking pics, They usually go in or on top of my display cases after that. My VF-19S was probably transformed a max of 4-5 times since owning it. I had left it displayed in battroid mode. I saw it lying down and wondered how it fell down since it was in a stable position so I went to stand it back up and saw that one of the legs came off. I examined the joint and saw that the area at the back of the leg was missing chunks of plastic. I was able to find bits of it, but not enough to piece it back together or even how the bits I could find would go in since they were so irregularly shaped. The other leg's side to side motion is a bit floppy so the plastic in that joint might have started to weaken as well. I'll have to figure out how to take it apart so I can examine it.
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Has anyone's VF-19S had their leg crumble yet? I noticed mine was lying on its side on top of my display case and picked it up to find that the leg had come off at the point where the leg swivels outwards, right behind the area where the intakes are. The plastic that the screw was screwed into to attach the leg had disintegrated. The other leg feels pretty loose too, so my guess is that one is about to come off soon as well. Too late for me to take pics right now. I'll find some time later to do it. I'm not sure what I can do. The part is not salvageable in any way with superglue as the plastic is in many tiny little bits like it had exploded and these things are pretty frickin expensive. Makes me very wary to buy the F when a $300+ toy just falls apart like that. I thought Yamato had gotten past that by now =(
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I would think it would eventually work its way through the clearcoat and you would have a gunky mess on the tips that you wouldn't want in contact with your valks. At least it doesn't react with the plastic wrap and the plastic wrap itself will grab onto surfaces so you don't have to worry about things sliding off.
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Not to derail this thread any further, but I've had my share of issues with the flexi display stands as well. However, I've solved the problem with the tips reacting to paint and clearcoat finishes by putting plastic wrap around the silicone tips.
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I hope the battroid is just mistransformed in those pics and that the shoulders can be angled up like that without actually completely exposing the joints and hinges that the shoulder armor should be covering. It just looks really off like how it is in the pics. Looks pretty accurate otherwise.
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In some cases it is better to have wished you watched, but never have, than to have watched and wished you hadn't.
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Wow, those VF-1s went pretty fast at those prices. Ended up getting the unpainted SDF-1 kit since I've been unable to obtain the photo-etched stuff and glow in the dark stickers in any other way. Should make it easier for me to paint it as well since it comes unassembled.
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I think in addition to making vf-25 v2 style changes to the hips/crotch positioning and angling lock, I'd like to see the shoulder block mechanisms use the v2's style as it is simpler and more stable/less fidgety.
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That's how they are colored in the show. Alto's, Luca's and Michael's valks have orange SMS logos while Ozma's is yellow. Incidentally, 1/60 Version 1 of Luca's RVF-25 has incorrectly colored SMS logos with them being yellow instead of orange.
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Awesome. Thanks for the heads up!
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ARGH. Dammit! Missed the HLJ preorder...
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It's on the oval bump on the stabilizer part of the left arm coming from the area that looks like a hinge or something.
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I wish Bandai could just have shops and dealers go forth and take as many pre-orders as they can for x amount of days/weeks. Then start manufacturing and do whatever they need to schedule the factories to produce enough to fill the pre-orders plus a little extra to go stores and such for those who miss pre-order while it was being done. They could then set the release date based on how long it will take for them to manufacture and assemble the toys and get them out. That way they wouldn't be leaving money on the table by not producing enough to meet demand or way over producing beyond what the demand is. I mean isn't that what they're essentially doing with their web exclusives already?
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I literally just refreshed the page on HLJ and it went from not being there at all to it showing Order Stop. Does each store only get 1 copy or something? This is beyond ridiculous.
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Awesome. They're finally making the VF-171. I'm both ecstatic and a little disappointed with this first release. I'm super happy that they're making it at all, but I'm a bit let down that they aren't including the particle cannon and missile pack which should be standard armament for the EX variant and not part of the super packs. It would be like leaving out the sniper rifle for the VF-25G and giving it the standard gunpod only.
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It's great that they got the vents in which were missing on the previous version as well as the missing markings. Seems like the chest missiles are painted, but the leg and shoulder missiles still look like single molded pieces of red plastic to me. Doesn't matter as much to me though since I rarely have those open. Looking forward to this.
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I want Bandai to come out with a VF-171EX before another VF-27 as well. The VF-27 looks perfectly fine in fighter and GERWALK mode. It just needs a tweak to the battroid to use the same crotch angling lock and swingbar lock mechanism as the renewals, but I don't think the v1 looks particularly bad even in battroid mode.
