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  1. Graham
    It's not perfect, but I have to say I really enjoyed Alien Romulus. It's definitely my 3rd favorite Alien movie, after of course Alien and Aliens. I've watched it twice at the theatre, the first time in IMAX. In fact, I'm considering to watch it a third time, again in IMAX.
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    Picked up my 2 HMR VF-19 Kai yesterday. Only taken one out of the box so far and not transformed it ye, but have played with it a bit in battroid mode and really happy with it so far.
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    The toy shop I pre-ordered it from said it's arriving today. ☺️ Can't wait. I really hope Bandai milks the mold and gives us HMR VF-19S/F/P.
  4. Graham
    Just spent money on tools for repair...... Sigh.
  5. Graham
    I'll be trying this soon. Just need to pick up a 1mm drill bit.
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    I just broke my head sensor in that exact same place, trying to get it into the correct position for fighter mode. 😭 My fault for not being careful or patient enough and not studying it enough first. I swear I hardly used any force though and it just snapped while I was trying to turn it.
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    Exactly, that's how I watched anime back in my teens and 20s, either on bootleg raw Japanese VHS tapes with no subs or on Japanese Laserdiscs with no subs, from the rental stores here at the time back in the 80s. Honestly, I don't think I've every watched any anime dubbed. I mean I've tried, but never made it more than a few minutes into any dub.
  8. Graham
    One of the best Macross box art ever!
  9. Graham
    So far here in Hong Kong, Disney+ has added the 3 Frontier movies & the 2 Delta movies on 12th July. The Frontier TV series and Delta TV series were just added a day or two ago. Still no sign of Macross 7 TV series though😭
  10. Graham
    Th Bandai 1/65 VF-17D/S are still one of my all-time favorite Macross toys. I've always loved Macross 7 TV series and the VF-17 design. Gamlin was my favorite character. The Bandai VF-17 toy is super rugged, even more so in my experience than the 1/55 VF-1 Chunky Monkey . I own about 10 Bandai VF-17 since they were first released in what 1995 and I have yet to have one ever break, despite the fact that they are all plastic with no diecast parts. Even with my son throwing them across the room when he was a child, they didn't break. They are super quick and fun to transform and actually look surprisingly good in all modes, apart from the fighter mode side profile which is too thick. (look great from top down view in fighter mode though). Only other downside is he terrible landing gear. I was actually really disappointed with the Yamato VF-17 toy. I really felt it didn't capture the spirit of the VF-17 very well. Sorry for the sidetrack away from the Bandai YF-21 DX.
  11. Graham
    It's great that they give us a spare for the Super Pack antenna.
  12. Graham
    Available on Disney+ here in Hong Kong from today.☺️
  13. Graham
    What happened to the VF-5000? Is it vaporware?
  14. Graham
    0080 is probably my all-time favourite UC era OVA.
  15. Graham
    As a huge fan of DYRL and the VT-1 I'm super excited for this DX 1/48 release. Makes me think back to my days in the early-to-mid 90s of trying to track down the Bandai 1/55 VT-1 and really regretting not snagging it when I saw it in a shop in Hong Kong in 86 or 87.
  16. Graham
    The antenna is easily removable.
  17. Graham
    Will take and post pics later.....mine only have a slight bend, so not as extreme as some of the other cases posted. As mentioned I can live with it.
  18. Graham
    So, all 3 of my Bandai DX YF-21 have a very slightly bent (but not broken) head laser. About 5 to 10 degrees of bend at the tip and a slight white stress mark. I'll live with it I guess......I mean it's not like I have choice. It would have been so simple for Bandai to completely avoid this problem by shipping the toys with the head laser unattached, as they did with the thrust vectoring panels, but whatever. And I'm sure it would have not seriously hurt Bandai's profit margin to have included a spare head laser..........but again, whatever!
  19. Graham
    And yeah, the nose on fighter still looks too short to me. Also, there's an opening air brake on the dorsal spine, that I didn't know about previously. Nice gimmick.
  20. Graham
    Got it home, took it out of the box. Haven't transformed it yet. Just zoomed it around a bit and deployed the landing gear I also put Guld in the cockpit, attached the thrust vector paddles (they are not attached to the YF-21 as it comes in the box, you have to attach them yourself). I also tried to fit the FAST packs. The belly FAST packs attach fairly easily and securely. The non-transforming gunpods can attach to the fighter mode both with and without the belly FAST packs installed. However, I could not get the arm FAST packs to attach to the vertical stabilisers. At least on my toy the peg on the arm FAST packs that plugs into the hole in the stabilisers seems to be a bit oversize and I couldn't get it to plug into the hole. I didn't want to use excessive force. A word of caution, the tip of the head later was slightly bent on mine in the box and as there is a panel line there, it looks like it would be easy to break off the tip. And there is no spare head laser in the box. The instruction manual even warns you to be careful with the head laser.
  21. Graham
    And I'm not home yet, won't have chance to actually handle it for several hours or maybe even until tomorrow or the weekend, depending on what chores the wife gives me. 😅 I just quickly opened it now to snap a few pics. So, don't necessarily expect quick first impressions. 😂
  22. Graham
    A few quick unboxing pics.....
  23. Graham
    Just picked up my first one. Excited to open it when I get home tonight after work.
  24. Graham
    Even though I have the first release HMR FB2012 VF-4, I'm still looking forward to this.
  25. Graham
    I'll give this a try tonight when I get home, but don't have high expectations. I've also always though that the Jedi are the least interesting thing about Star Wars. For me, the animated shows, Clone Wars, Rebels, Bad Batch & Tales of the Empire are my favorites outside of the original trilogy and prequel trilogy. I also really liked The Mandalorian season 1. However, I disliked Obi Wan and Ahsoka & Book of Boba Fett. Thought Mando seasons 2 and 3 were just so so. Unpopular opinion, but I found Andor extremely boring and struggled to get thought it. I actually fell asleep several times during episode 5 or 6 and eventually gave up. altogether and never finished it.
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