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  1. Graham
    As I've postulated all along.
  2. Graham
    Just saw the first John Wick and loved the gun fight choreography. Can't wait to see the 2nd movie, especially after seeing the recent YouTube video of Keanu doing 3-gun training/practice with Taran Tactical.
  3. Graham
    Looks awesome. lots of FN SCARs in the movie.......yay!
  4. Graham
    Likely won't see this, as my son who is nearly 12 has grown out of Disney cartoons. I know nothing about this movie, only that on Facebook today, I've been seeing comments that Furries are really into this movie......hahah.
  5. Graham
    Given that the stand-alone SAP is pretty cheap, I'll probably buy that.
  6. Graham
    Are these Rio Bots robots from Brazil?
  7. Graham

    Bandai DX VF-31

    Graham replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    This thread needs moar pics!!!!!!!!
  8. Graham
    For me it's not the plastic quality or finish that is the deal breaker, its the poor locking of the tabs in fighter mode. I'll try clear nail polish on this at the weekend and see if it helps.
  9. Graham
    Exactly, I've damaged ABS on some toys before using super glue
  10. Graham
    Yeah, we don't have Future here either, so I'll probably try nail polish on the connectors too. Some people have suggested using superglue, but that makes me very nervous.
  11. Graham
    Anybody know when the TomyTec Delta kits are coming out?
  12. Graham
    I'm hoping against hope that it's like Bandai's old Star Trek kits, that had all the detail asks colour printed on. But for ¥500, my expectations are not high.....hahaha
  13. Graham
    I know that's not the final "approved by Kawamori scheme" yet, but I'm really wondering if it is kinda generally representative of what the kit is gonna look like out of the box, or whether it is supposed to represent the kit after it's been painted up?
  14. Graham
    Good video review.
  15. Graham
    I'll wait for the reviews before maybe picking up one of these. As the saying goes......."once bitten, twice shy". Graham
  16. Graham
    That is so cool.
  17. Graham
    Aren't they supposed to be airing a preview of episode 2, sometime in March?
  18. Graham
    I'm still enjoying Rebels. My son and I typically watch it together each weekend. He grew up watching the Clone Wars cartoon, so it's great that Rebels is bring back some of the Clone Wars characters such as Ahsoka and Rex. We're kinda dreading an end of season finale confrontation between Ahsoka and Vader, in case Ahsoka dies.
  19. Graham
    Heh, I can't even remember anything at all about the Spectre theme song. Nothing tops Skyfall for Bond theme songs IMO, so haunting
  20. Graham
    Glad it at least won something, it was a fantastic movie.
  21. Graham
    Interesting, so Ernest Johnson is not NUNS? I'd assumed from his uniform that he was part of the NUNS force (warships, VF-171s and Destroids) we saw in the prequel episode
  22. Graham
    Whether it's canon or an alternate timeline is irrelevant to me. I love Macross II, always have, always will and love the VF-2SS design. However, I DO NOT love this toy. I so wanted it to be good, but to me it's just a big disappointment. Even battroid mode which as others have said locks together much better than fighter mode has issues. IMO, I basically consider it a fixed pose statue, as as soon as you start to pose the hips, the hip bar connection starts to unlock, as sometimes do the to small tabs connecting the back and chest plate. And as soon as you start to pose the shoulders or upper arms, the shoulder tabs want to come unpegged as well . And lets not get started on trying to get the battroid to actually securely hold the gunpod.........Grrrr. It's sad, because with just a few small changes, this toy could have been awesome.
  23. Graham
    ET 1/60 VF-2SS. One word "disappointing" . But not unexpectedly so Graham
  24. Graham
    OK, I've decided as much as I love the VF-2SS with SAP design, I am NOT going to pre-order the Evolution Toys version. If once it's out I hear there have been significant improvements in the fighter mode locking mechanisms, then I may reconsider my decision to purchase one. As it is though, the toy is just not fun enough and too frustrating. The added weight of the SAP would likely only exacerbate this. Graham
  25. Graham
    OK, so I took my VF-2SS home last night, unboxed it and did one transformation from fighter to battroid, skipping Gerwalk, as I'm not a Gerwalk guy. My initial thoughts................... As others have said the plastic feels cheap (but isn't), but it is thin in many areas and does feel a but flimsy in places. The glossy fold out instruction sheet with color photos is nice, however, I did have trouble trying to figure out what some of the pictures were trying to show espeially for some steps for the torso, neck and backpack transformation. So I just ended up winging it for some steps..........haha. I'm sure If I could read the Japanese text it would be perfectly clear. So I'm primarily a fighter mode guy and I wanted this toy to at least hold together well in fighter mode. I'd already accepted long ago from the various photos online that it would only look good in fighter mode from certain angles. But the frustration factor with fighter mode was just too high. getting the arms and legs to stay tabbed in in fighter mode for any length of time when holding and swooshing the toy is an exercise in frustation. The right side leg on mine especially didn't want to stay tabbed in for more than a few seconds, so I gave up on fighter mode and went straight to the battroid transformation, as that's the mode that others on this thread have said locks together the best. Now for me, although I like as my toys to be as accurate to the line-art as possible, I'm not overly hung up about it, as long as the toy has a high fun-factor. That is the fun of handling, swooshing, posing and trasforming the toy should far outway any frustration factor caused by a difficult transformation, or a toy that doesn't lock together well, or is a floppy mess, or one that breaks easily. With the fighter mode, the frustration factor way outweighed any fun factor. Anyway, it took about 20 minutes to get it transformed from Fighter to Battroid mode as I went slowy and some areas like getting the neck panel swung out took a while as I thought I was gonna break it at one point........haha. So yeah, as others have said it locks together better in battoid mode, but leg pose-ability is a bit resctricted if you keep everything locked together. I'm also not sure how well some of the small tabs in this will survive multiple transfomations. Also, some parts do still unlock with handling (the rubber piece that pegs the two diecast swing bars together, which IMO is a strange choice for a locking mechanism), unpegs fairly easily when you re-pose the legs. So overall, this is a fair, but ultimately frustrating effort for a small company's first attempt at a perfect transformation VF toy, especially a Valk with a tricky transformation system like the VF-2SS. I'd give it a 1.5 out of 5 score for Fighter mode and a 3.2 out of 5 score for Battroid mode. With just a few small changes, such as better locking tabs, a gunpod that actually fit in the hand properly etc, I would have given it a highter score. As it is this is going straight in the display cabinet and likely won't get handled much due to the frustration factor. It's a shame, because I do love the VF-2SS and have wanted a transforming toy since 1992. Graham
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