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Isn't the bottom of the front fuselage (the front landing gear fuselage, as you call it) supposed to be white?

They wanted to tie in Macross and Gundam in preparation for a Bandai takeover but it failed

I actually like the Pelikan tail of the X-32--- if you are going for the weird look, might as well go all the way! Look how well the YF-23 pulled that off---even though it lost the competition, it won the hearts of many aviation enthusiasts, including SK, who was inspired to create the YF-21!

You can't take out the most popular male character and the third most popular female character at the same time!

The thread is up again: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=29566

I'll second that! Having built 3 kits so far, VF-25S, RVF-25 and VF-25F Clear, I'll say that I never get tired of the build because the instructions are clear and easy to follow!

No idea... Probably the bundle, and I'm not sure if they will release a standalone. Afterall, neither Michael nor Luca ever mounted the Armoured pack. And Luca wont be compatible with the Armoured pack anyway.

Yea, but the SR-71 and B-2 and F-111 were not designed as air superiority fighters, and the F-14 wasn't exotic by the time it came out and it was for the Navy anyway. The P-38 can be the exception that proves the rule Actually the X-32 impresses the engineer in me for it's pure engineering elegance, but it obviously doesn't win points in the looks department-- not to mention that the proposed production fighter would have lost the Pelikan tail and the pure delta wing. Maybe the rule should be-- Pelikan tail = FAIL for manned fighters

From Ngeekhiong: 1/72 Transformable Armored VF-25S May (?) Release http://ngeekhiong.blogspot.com/2009/04/172...f-25s-mg-g.html

physioguy You just missed out on an awesome April Fools opportunity man...

Get it only if: a) You can't afford the DX toy b) You already have the 1/72 kit c) You really want a 1/100 to go with that Konig Monster that's been lonely in the back of your cabinet with all the 1/60s around it

Aww man my order hasn't gone into processing yet. I wonder if it's because of the VF-25 super parts...

You basically have to disassemble the intake parts, the lower leg, and the chest area; looking at the photos that honkhet provided should help. If you have already stickered up your model kit, you have to carefully cut some of the stickers around the intake area so that you can dissemble it. Once that is done, you can build it up again with the Super parts. Hope this helps

It looks more like a guppy or a goldfish to me! Anyway, I thought that Boeing/MDD should have learnt the lesson from the ATF Competition and realised that new and exotic design=FAIL.

Alto already has an alter-ego--- Princess Sakura!

Not only do the wings have a dihedral starting at the wing glove root, but the wings themselves are curved upwards instead of being straight like they are supposed to be. Not a deal killer for me, but someone posted here that this was the biggest issue the Japanese fans had. If I had to get only 1 DX, I would go for the Ozma Armoured Bundle, no doubt. Of course, that's because the VF-27 is not available

Given the banana gun on the VF-25F, I shudder to think how the open sniper rifle of Michael's VF-25G will turn out.

The wings would be the logical next fix, since Bandai has already indicated that they are aware about the issue and it seems to be the biggest bugbear of the Japanese DX toy buyers.

In that case the answer to DarrinG's question about the 1/72 ground crew would be, yes, they can be used with the Yamato destroid ground crew, right?

The colour is not moulded in, but my gunpod is still fine so far after the fix.

NSJ23: Thanks-- just saw some pics of the VF-25S Super on SGCollection forums. It looks great! Vostok7: MF Movie has been postphoned to at least September, so there may be one more cycle of toy releases before the movie! Hopefully they will do both the VF-27 and VF-171.

You don't actually have to boil it, just immerse it entirely in boiling water for 10 seconds, then take out and straighten it out, then hold under cold running water in the straightened form to fix it again. PVC won't react badly as long as you don't boil it for prolonged times.

What height do they scale up to if they were 1/60?

Actually, I just realised something--- I thought both the Alto and Ozma Super parts would be released together? What happened to the Ozma Super parts then?

That's why they should just have included stickers for the Ghosts, to appeal equally to both crowds.