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Thing about Forbes online articles is that they're often barely above the quality standards of blog posts. There doesn't seem to be much editorial oversight or fact checking, and the author seems to have little other than speculation to go on.

I really hope they do actually. I could use one more set but if Arcadia re-releases it I'll probably buy two, as I've currently got both my Arcadia 1S (Hikaru and Roy) done up with Yamato strike armour, but the white doesn't match now.

Mine seems fine as well.

That's a fantastic composite! The filtering is excellent and I love how you've done some work to ensure the scene composition retains overall consistency in colour. my only minor nitpick would be that I think the lighting is a little off. In the background photo the lighting seems to be coming from what would be the right side of the valk, slightly angled to the front, while it looks as if the toy is lit from the rear. It's not a glaring problem though, as there aren't any real hard shadows.

Does anyone know if the hands can be replaced by other Valk hands we might already have? I'm thinking of grabbing one of these and painting it up for a DYRL version, but the clown hands will have to go if I'm going to do it.

Great to see it in English, though when I watched it the first time half the fun was trying to guess which ones I was familiar with and name them haha. I was a bit surprised to see the difference in size between Grendizer and Mazinger Z, as they occur in the same continuity, I always figured they were around the same size.

That's something we've all been asking for forever. I've almost been tempted a few times to try my hand at a 3D printing version of one for my own collection if I could figure out what I'm doing haha.

Not sure whether Bandai would handle it differently than previous versions, but I just noticed that the plate which usually extends backwards from the backpack in gerwalk and battroid seems to actually extend from the fuselage itself in that picture, though not sure how accurate that is, it does seem to make the backpack look awfully tall... The Yamato version has both on the same hinge, but this version seems to place the hinge a little higher up. Also, cool page.

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Except for the VF-4, VF-14, VF-22 and VB-6

There's a lot of speculation that the designation F-19 was meant for the "Have Blue" technology prototype which later became the F-117 Nighthawk, though it's all still classified.

Yeah I've gone through it thoroughly and I can't see anything caught or otherwise pushing upwards against the backplate. I really am starting to think that the backplate is just slightly warped or something, as when I hold the side down that I'm having troubles with, the other shoulder often pops out instead.

Having gone through it more thoroughly I feel like the entire back is just slightly warped. It feels like when both tabs are snapped into place the plastic is bending along the backplate slightly, it seems maybe just a little too straight. Along the central fuselage everything is tight but around the intakes I can feel a gap when I push down. Anyone have any ideas on a fix? I suppose I could just try to gently bend everything downwards

Well about the first thing I did when I got it was transform it to Battroid so I'm not sure whether it was like that in the box, but every time I've transformed it to fighter the problem appears.

Yup that clip is snapped in, so it's something outside of that.

Well, I believe the bar is supposed to be bent into a bow shape, but here's a picture of the bar itself (Please ignore the door being pushed down near the intake, that was just in this picture, so that's not the problem)

Okay here's some pictures that may help. First off, we have the left side. As you can see in the first picture, the top is flush, as the shoulder joint is pegged into the wing. However on the other side, we have this: As you can see, the shoulder swing joint doesn't peg into the wing. I can manually press it down and it'll snap into place, but then pop right out again.

Thanks for the video, but I've watched that one before. At 4:20 he skips past the problem I have, where he simply says that everything is locked down. Perhaps I just have a lemon? I'll try and post some pics in the next couple of days to better explain my problem.

Hey I have a problem with my Yamato 1/60 YF-21, can't seem to find any posts relating to this issue. When transforming into fighter mode, I can't seem to get the backpack to properly snap down near the shoulder joints. I try to snap one side down, then the other pops up, though one side seems to be looser than the other. I've checked and it doesn't seem that anything specifically blocking the top part from snapping down properly, I have the small doors out of the way, and I've tried it without the arms and legs attached to the figure, so nothing's blocking it there. I think maybe the swing bar mechanism might just be too tight? Has anyone else had this problem?

It's been a while, but I thought it was actually just a sound clip of him from Plus, the line (IIRC) was exactly what he said when he was first testing the YF-19, right before he began his skydiving routine. Admittedly, my Japanese is a little rusty, but it sounded like the exact same line said in the exact same tone of voice with the same intonation.

That's kind of how I imagined it as well.

Bandai's 19 looks kind of awkward in that pose in the first place...

I'm pretty happy with my VF-0S with the exception of the floppy arms, but I generally prefer to keep it in fighter mode anyways. I pre-ordered one of these, hopefully they reissue the VF-0A with Ghost bundle or make a renewal version based on this mold and I can complete my VF-0 collection. Heck I might even get a cannon fodder version if this is any good and they do a renewal of that as well.

Aside from the super parts, are there any differences between the YF-19 and the VF-19 Advance? Is this just going to be Bandai's version of the same toy Arcadia and Yamato have done before?

Hey Yeti, I'm looking at grabbing a couple of these, but I'm curious about what kind of arms you used to do that awesome Plus dual scene with the YF-19 upside down and the YF-21 upright? Also if I wanted to have 3 VF-1s flying in formation what arms would I need for that? Thanks!