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Surprisingly, I am way more interested in this toy than the Fire Valkyrie. I can haz VF-171 plz?

Looks pretty sweet. Ironically, the color scheme was never a problem for me until the threads about this toy, lol.

Finally took the plunge on the YF-21. Huzzah!

Any idea when these will be ready to be shipped?

It is awesome-looking, imho.

Want, 2x plz.

Isn't there an inverse relationship between screen time and price for valkyrie toys? IIRC, the VE-1 has like 10s of screen time in DYRL.

I've had a good experience with the VF-1D so far. That said, the pegs on the back of the air intakes seem to be just a tiny bit large and took some patience and carefully calibrated pressure to unseat for the first couple transformations. No problems at all with the shoulders. For context, it's been transformed 4 or 5 times so far.

It's still in the box? Good luck, man.

Dude, how can you stand that? I can't leave these things in their boxes.

What about the hikaru VF-1J w/ super parts?

I don't think I would ever take any valk more expensive than a revoltech to the office. Too many people make the assumption that stuff on someone's desk is in the public domain and okay to touch. I myself have made this assumption in the past, only to find out that I was pissing someone off. So, my outlook on this is: 1. If you take something to the office, prepare for it to be touched. Hopefully not to the degree of the nosecone in dark places joke. 2. (This is mostly a corrolary to 1) If you don't want something to be touched, don't take it to the office. 3. If you bring stuff in, I will touch it. Another thing informing this is a story my mom always used to tell about an office toy my dad had. It was an ultra-realistic foam rock that he used to throw at people to freak them out. Then he came in one day and it was gone. No more freaking people out. In closing, you are more courageous than I in this regard.

Transformed my vf-1d back to battroid. Was significantly easier to get the pegs out this time. Everything intact so far.

It's probably more fun this way

I transformed my VF-1D back into gerwalk and re-attached the peg (obviously) in doing so. We'll see how the next transformation goes.