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I put the "Keep Crean" stickers on my VF-4G's because I thought it was hilarious.

None of those things were confirmed. It was all wishful thinking by board members.

That was a pretty cool clip. Kinda odd that Bishop charged his gun though.

Not really. It appears to be the same ball-joints they have on all of their releases.

The arms shouldn't change positions at all. They stay exactly where they always are in Fighter. The leg is clicked forward one notch at the thigh and back one notch at the knee.

I believe there was someone in this very thread who posted pics of their 19 with the Fast Packs crammed on it.

There's no way to "correctly" insert the packs. They really don't fit and were never designed to. However, you have to extend the metal swing bar. Essentially the 25 packs will fit over that bar. Everything else on the 19 is too thick.

There's three parts to the Fast Packs. There's the leg pack that sticks to the side of the leg. There's the second leg pack that fits onto the back of the leg, and that's what the arm attaches to when in fighter mode. Then there's the shoulder pack. Neither of them really fits. You have to extend the wing all the way out and even still the pack doesn't really attach and is just wedged on.

There's nothing usual about Arcadia's releases. They haven't been producing stuff long enough to know if/when they would do something like that.

It doesn't come out for another year dude, they'll likely start in late October/early November just like the YF-19 did.

I'm saying in toy for, especially Bandai toy form, it means ALL of the stability is reliant on how tight those hip joints are. And Bandai hip joints are known to suck and fail, if not come right out of the box already loose.

Given what the cost of the original Zero was, nearly $200, I'd wager it will cost somewhere between what the VF-19 and VF-17 were. $230-$280 range.

I don;t mind dark canopies, I just feel the tint of the blue color isn't fantastic.

That compounded with nothing attached to the intakes in Gerwalk probably means this thing will be floppy in no time. Provided Bandai hasn't come up with some new mechanism to counter it... since they can no longer rely on anything else but the joints. Or just put it on a shitty stand.

Given every single mode isn't transformed correct here it's hard to tell what is and isn't supposed to be a certain way. The issue with Gerwalk and the intakes is that the intakes actually attach right where the shoulders are. Once those arms are folded out I'm not sure where the intakes could reattach to. Interesting to note there is a small swing bar in that flipped down crotch area so the legs might not have to rotate 180 like it appears. Like it or not, I still don't believe the intakes attach to the main body on this one as the top half is supposed to swivel in both Gerwalk and Battroid. Yup, I just checked out the original Lego video and the intakes are not attached there. Could be explained away by it being made of Lego. However, I also checked out some video from the game on youtube. http://youtu.be/yUiwsQrb-Vk?t=3m58s There's clearly a gap between the fuselage and intakes there as well. That means, God help us, the weight of this thing will be held up entirely by those hip joints of which Bandai can NEVER get correct/tight. It will end up floppy, unless they've come up with some sort of mechanism to compensate. I personally have no faith in Bandai to do that. Another interesting note. Although they're never used in game both that render Swoosh posted and on the original Lego video Kawamori clearly designed the YF-30 to have hardpoints as they're present in all footage.

On either the original broken one or the replacement both of those parts snap down solid for me if they're on the correct side. Then again I find this release to be highly inconsistent between each toy.

It's nice to have the opinion of someone who has a lot of experience with miniatures. I backed the Kickstarter and was fine with everything going on and couldn't understand what all of the crying from these people was about. They looked like miniatures you had to assemble to me. And they did say the seams were from prying apart and reassembling them again. By your second comment there it isn't more of an investment. If there's no control like an investor, then it isn't an investment. It's more like a charity with the hope of a finished product, but you certainly don't make business decisions. It's like you meet someone on the side of the road who tells you some plan of theirs, you give them $20, and they promise if they make it they'll call you. Only it's formalized into a website now.

Even though if you look at the shape of the calves it's painfully obvious which one goes where...

I think, after seeing these pics, I'm going to pre-order at least two.

I'm not sure anybody has said that before... but it's kinda true.

I haven't attempted the Super Nova stickers. Trimming those things would have been a bitch. Are you shipping the last one back to Amiami?

If I weren't so scared of the floppiness this is the exact reason why I would get an SV-51. Total Bird-of-Prey look.

Let's see the stickered one!

There has to be something to that Skull Squadron scheme. Even the 30th Anniversary 29 did well with that Fokker scheme. You'd think pretty much any Valk painted like that will do well.

I'm not really sure, the 17 is far more dangerous.