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    why do they have to make the anniversary schemes so.....ugly. i bought the rainbow tuxedo 30th one to "support arcadia" because they were brand new and i didn't want them to fold lik eyaamto...I then sold it a few years later. at least the 25th anny yamator 1/48th wasn't ugly (minus the lettering). i wish arcadia would have just done a 1/48 low visibility vf-1a scheme (heck make it a J or an S or a D if you want to make it different) in 1/60. a stealth or woodland camo would have been gobbled up...those 1/48 schemes were great. i own the stealth just because of the scheme! or do something new like a digital camo low viz. also although i'm not clamoring for it, an alaska base or minmay guard would have sold like hotcakes and i'd have bought it too. any of those would have been a nicer 35th anniversary tribute. should we as fans just give up on arcadia giving us interesting non hero valk vf-1 releases (there hasnt' been a non exploding shoulders reelease of VT-1) and just move on? i suppose i could build one of those yamato kits i have and give it someone to paint but it'd always be non factory paint so one would have to be more careful or just do one thats a mostly white scheme anyway (less paint). i'd much rather arcadia do a new scheme release though!
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    after not wanting this iniitally i made a last second purchase last week at full retail price...when i saw one vendor had stock...now its almost on its way to me and i'm reading about breakages and other issues. lol. getting bandai'd (is that a thing? lol)a nd i hvaven't even gotten it yet. wondering if i should just part with it MISB at a slight loss...or hold on to it and hope it appreciates, or take my chances and open and play with it when it gets here. too old for this panic button BS haha.
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    looks like some of the action is still like too "cut", like th escene in the russian trailer. i can't exactly tell how optimus puts ravage down like the dog he is. the cut is too quick and the CGI has blurring i htink.
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    yeah i'm hoping this "prequel" actually becomes a separate continuity somehow like theres some action here that causes the universe to splinter and the old movies are erased and never happened and we get even more G1-like movies from now on. and yeah bumblee gets his facea nd traditional dorky look. haha may be too much to wish for. lol.
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    i'm no line art expert but having the gakken as a kid and memories of the show as my primary reference....i never thought of them as flush to the chest section. to me they reminded me of FAST packs as arms and obviously those aren't flush. lol. checking the lineart...it is supposed to be flush and i get how that'd bother people. the thing that bothers me most about legioss arms is when the relevant swivel is ratcheted and you need to stop between ratches for the boosters (aka arms) to be straight in fighter mode. i forget which version did that (or was it all of them? lol) but it was annoying!
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    looks pretty great except the arms don't seem to compress/tuck in correctly. didn't seem as noticeable on other releases (does that issue exist there..i've yet to open my copy of the zeta)? keep teling myself i don't need it but not sure i believe myself. the 3 main colors are enough! the 3 main ones are enough!
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    they've been around forever. i haven't ordered from them since their new name but they are legit shop. i believe some guy named tony runs it IIRC.
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    original creators involved....nice. loved the original show. hopefully this recaptures some of that magic.
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    the car and the motorcycle mechs look cool but...its like they forced 3 modes. not everything needs a gerwalk mode haha. also the car's battroid mode is very humanoid wearing armor. actually reminds me of last knight optimus with those shoulder pauldrons
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    i think zentran soldiers or mecha in scale with their 1/72 line would work well...if thats what they meant. and no we don't 60 cm tall zentraedi soldiers to scale with their 1/12 human figures line!
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    i'm probably in the minority but i don't want to repeat my yamato/arcadia collection. its jsut too much to replace all of htem. also, i'm a bigger sdfm fan than dyrl. if i could just have a few it'd be this vf-1J (gbp 1s upgrade pack in teh future maybe?), Roy's VF-1S, and a VF-1D. Also would need super parts (and just throw in the strike cannon even if its not accurate lol) accessory set and teh aforementioned heavy armored accessories.. if bandai did their "hit list" below (as copy pasted from above in previous posts), that'd be fine too but...i really love the 1D design so i'd miss that. Hikaru VF-1J (Takatoku, Bandai 2001, Bandai 2008) Hikaru VF-1S (Takatoku, Bandai 2001, Max VF-1J (Takatoku, Bandai 2001) Miria VF-1J (Takatoku, Bandai 2001) Misa VF-1A “Cannon Fodder” (Takatoku, Bandai 2001) Hikaru DYRL VF-1A (Bandai 1984, Bandai 2001)
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    Hi-Metal R

    Mechapilot77 replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    i hope the next is a Tomahawk or N-Ger. i'd get two tomahawks. N-Ger i might do a "mini troop build"...of 3
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    nano set is just the weapons dang. cost about 3X what it should. i see it at NY for 9900yen. its begging for a "3P" version with added floating blasters because that was the coolest nano weapon for sure. if it inlcuded anotehr mark50 with the weapons set it'd be wroth the 9900....almost. SHF TWE is pricing me out....first thor...now this. i mean i can get a whoel hi metal r super osrich for less than a thor. engineering involved and production costs isn't even close IMO. SHF is such a high profit line.
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    the thor looks great but...cmon..one head? also i'm betting an avengers 4 thor will be made in a year (and look even better)...bad bet or no? haha
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    actually now that i look at it again it reminds me of the "code:hardcore" mech...a kickstarter backed 2D game. actually bottom of this page shows a proto...originally gonna be released in 2017. this thunderbolt design shown at showz website is either that, a ko, or inspired by that. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1609568567/code-hardcore-the-coolest-2d-mecha-battle-game
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    thunderbolt looks like an amazing design. thats not from gundam is it? also that meatl soldeier is a nice looking zaku too.
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    No, but yamato did quite a while ago. yamato was arcadia's prior incarnation of sorts. i mean arcadia has been around at least 5 or so years (time flies!) so those yamato valks are pretty old releases but very good if you can track them down for ~$300 or so (thats what i feel like they are worth each personally though everyone's probably got a different opinion on that).
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    i don't see no clearance sale! haha. and the miss macross costume is uh...not about macross anymore haha. i try not to dip my toe into that end of the collecting spectrum although when iw as really into frontier i did buy a sheryl figure or two...crap still need to sell that off. haha
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    i almost bought the windup toy. almost...might still. haha
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    yeah they can't do the dyrl concert outfit but they could have done the red dress we see her in when we first meet her in macross city which i think is iconic because of the vf-1D scene or the chinese dress of course.
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    yes IMO but there are pros and cons to this. pros: cheaper and more tampo cons: i never think bandai's sculpting or molding is as well done aesthetically and the material is usually overly glossy, more toyish. i didn't jump on the bandai yf-19dx and elected to keep the arcadia yf-19 because IMO it still looks better in all modes. that being said if they do a good job i might pick up an vf-11b dx chogokin and a yf-21 dx chogokin to complete the trio if they someday do them...maybe. yamato's efforts for those two valks were truly ahead of their time and still stand up though....and i suspect they'd still look better than something bandai would put out in this era.
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    somehow i missed it came with a mini minmei doll accessory...that might make it a buy. lol. i wish they had picked a different outfit for the main figure though.
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    that lewin resources op is friggen ginormously awesome looking. not quite in scale with 6 inch or 1/12 figures but close enough. so much want. so little space.
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    looks like they KO the old fashioned way...reverse engineer from ground up and make whatever changes they feel like (like lionbot! haha). the sculpting is clearly different. wonder if they are using the same nose/jaws on the red and green to save money. the red and green are different on the SOC. note the straight edges jaw on the FJ green vs the round on the SOC. The SOC does have that stule jaw on the red lion though. teeth placment is also different (as are eyes, headshape etc.). still if i missed out on the SOC i'd probably be buying the FJ. bbts had the cajones to list the SOC again last night for $450 (wasn't retail $300ish? yeah i know $450 better htan $800 lol)...as a preorder for september. held back or newly found stock at bluefin?
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    yeah, honstly those would sell like hotcakes. i'd get a few if they were released and priced well.
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