Graham

No, that's two competing Eurocanards (Typhoon and Gripen). The subject of the conversation was the Rafale and it cannot compete with itself! Graham

I use a mix of flexi stands, Yamato's stands (v.1 & v.2) and also now the Bandai DX stands. Graham

We need a 1/60 red Vajra for Armored Ozma to fight. It can be PVC to keep cost down. Graham

Looks fantastic. The VF-25S with armored pack was always my favorite mecha from Frontier. Can't wait to get it. Graham

Quite happy with my VF-25G so far. The only complaints I have are: - • The loose hip armor. • Some chipping of the black paint on the top of the left 5-hole shoulder block, despite being very careful with transformation (easily touched up with a Gundam marker). • Two of the tines on the sniper rifle get knocked off very easily. On the plus side, the joints are nice and tight and I have no problem with the groin connector on mine. Also, until somebody mentioned it, I never noticed the different shades of blue plastic. Doesn’t bother me a bit though, as it’s hardly noticeable IMO. Will be picking up my RVF-25 tonight and will open the box to check before I pay, as the color difference issue does seem more worrying with the green plastic. Graham

Looks like the scratchbuild model kit shown in Hobby Japan Magazine about 3-4 months ago. A nice build, but sorry, not a toy and nothing to do with the DX, so shouldn't really be posted in this thread. Graham

I would love to see some snow. I haven't seen any in 22 years.

Confirmed, the leg parts for the Armored pack do have their own rear landing gear. The latest pics in the new issue of 'Figure Oh' magazine, show the Armored pack rear landing gear in the open position. Will scan and post when I have time. Graham

The Galaxy defender is not a VF-17 knock off and I wish people wouldnot call it that. It bears no relation to the VF-17 and does not share a single common component. It is more correct to call it a transforming F-117 toy. Graham

Hmm.....looking better than the previous pic from a few weeks ago and looks like there may be less parts swapping on the VF-19 than I suspected. Not much meat on the back of the upper legs though, although that is unavoidable on the 19, unless you have that part swapable. Graham

Heh, if the original short neck could be 'over extended', then it wouldn't be a short neck.......LOL! Graham

Those who didn't like or love MF, we have your names now and our operatives will be coming for you soon to escort you do the mandatory re-education camps. Do not try to flee. Resistance is futile.

The neck in that new pic is definitely much longer than the standard neck. If you look closely, it looks segmented. Big improvement on the standard neck IMO. Also, looking at the new pic of the fighter mode w/Armored pack, it looks like the tail fins do not have enough room to fold down. However, I then looked at the rear view pic of the battroid wearing the Armored pack and the tail fins do appear to be folded in that pic. Graham

Both Dragon Ball Evolution and Legend of Chun Li have been getting terrible reviews here in HK. No plans to see either of them. Graham

The hip armor has two teeny, tiny little tabs, that fit into extremely shallow little slots, one of those slots being the bottom of the hip gun joint. Basicallly, the tabs are useless, being only slightly better than friction fit. Graham

I tried transforming from Super Battroid to Super Fighter last night to see if the groin armor could remain attached in fighter mode. The bottom tab on the groin armour can definitely not remain attached as the hinge it goes over in battroid mode is folded closed in fighter mode, so there is no space for it. I still can't give a definitive answer, as I didn't want to try to force the groin armour into the very limited space available and risk cracking the plastic or scratching paint. It seems like it may just go, but it would be an extrenmely tioght fit and I'd be worried about possibly breaking one of the armoor's tabs. Drifand, can you confirm you did transform to fighter mode with the groin armor still attached? Graham

Like what Drifand said, fighter mode locks together nice and tight, with the Super Packs fitted, except for the blasted hip armor.

A few other observations on the VF-25G: - The backs of the hands now seem to be glued on, unlike the Alto and Ozma, where you had to glue them on yourself, otherwise they fell off real easily. Big improvement. The metal ribbed ankle section does seem to be a bit tighter when extended. For those of you asking how the sniper rifle attaches in fighter and gerwalk modes, it attaches via two removeable clips, one at the front and one at the rear. The rear clip is similar to but slightly longer than the standard gunpod clip and connects into the same hole. The front clip is much shorter and attaches to the part of the rifle that looks like the pump handle on a pump action shotgun. It then plugs into the sliding hatch on the back of the groin area (the female half of the battroid groin locking mechanism). Graham

Normal hinges. Has to be manually opened. Not spring loaded.

Normal hinges. Has to be manually opened. Not spring loaded.

Heh, in that case the dihedral is from end-user modification (gluing them in place), not as per factory spec. Graham

For those who are wondering, yes the VF-25G can stand unsupported just fine in battroid mode with the Super parts. And here's a few quick pics I just took in my bedroom at night, with flash, so they are not so good. Graham

OK, so just spent about half an hour with the toy. Started off in fighter mode and added the Super parts, then transformed it to battoid mode. The toy looks great with the Super parts in both fighter and battroid mode (haven't tried gerwalk yet), but there's a couple of negative points about the Super parts, I've found so far: - The hip/intake armor is really unsecure and falls off at the slightest touch. The crotch armor can only be attached in battroid mode and has to be removed for fighter or gerwalk modes. Oh and a minor complaint but one I knew about, was I would have liked the 'SMS' letters on the display stand to be prepainted in yellow, instead of being unpainted. Graham

Just back to HK today after a 4 day business trip to Singapore (absoulutely beautiful city, BTW, really would like to go back there again). Anyway picked up two VF-25G from my regular supplier in Tai Po at lunch today. Paid HK$1,300 each (about US$167.74 each). Won't have time to play with them until after my son goes to bed tonight though. Graham

They don't on the 1/100, they are parallel to the ground. Graham