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  1. Mechapilot77
    gosh i can't wait for this set! shoulda went EMS! mine's finally made it to customs a few days ago....hopefully it'll be here within a week (sometimes my shipments get hung up for a week + just in customs). now i just need to clear some display space. frontier valks are so much bigger than VF-1s....
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    here's to hoping you are correct!
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    Although we treasure these things so...there really is nothing that advanced or special in making anything that goes into one of these valks. The design software people use is marginally better. Plastic injection molding etc. hasn't changed that much. Cost is really the only thing that really changed a lot in 20 years due to outsourcing of mold making/molding to lower cost countries etc. Even that hasn't really changed for the better in the time since the last yf-19 came out. everythign is really about direction, time, money, market pressure.
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    wow you really can't take any time off this board or hobby....was busy black friday doing other stuff and missed out on the change to save like $30 basically (hlj cancel and reorder on black friday). **must check MW daily minimally, adds to daily ritual** That new test shot looks great. i'm sure people will complain as usual but for better or worse this is the state of the ART...and that is what this is...an artistic decision to strive for a compromise between the two modes. As far as engineering....no new developments have been made in toy engineering recently really. Its all about what the team decides is the best direction and how much they want to spend making it etc. The engineering will fall in line with those decisions and be figured out. The end product will be a result of what arcadia decides on and what it is willing to do/spend to get their ROI in line with their expectations. Mini rant....every time I hear about "Advancements in toy engineering" on a toy forum i cringe a little bit....people actually think that this very same thing we will be getting in 2014 couldn't have been engineered in what was it.....2008 or so is kind of naive (or even the late 90's truth be told). Everything just depends on what the design team is willing to pursue and take on vs. when is it "good enough". As fans have gotten more demanding...companies have had to take on more - its as simple as that.
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    personally i just feel like they wanted to do something kind of off the wall so people noticed someone else had taken over, sort of like "hey guys...we're here and we gonna do things differently". granted it may have backfired in the short run on sales of the 1J anniversary edition but it could have easily gone the other way if they had decided to make it a super limited run. However, we macross fans now know...arcadia is here and they will do things just a bit different. personally i bought the thing so i could stare at the box art. lol. It was probably a mistake because i'll eventulaly tire of looking at it and won't be able to move it for much, but the other thing I wanted to do was to support arcadia. Hopefully they can keep developing the line with new molds etc. The YF-19 appears like it'll be a good start. Personally, I hope we see a redone SV-51 and VF-0 next or perhaps some destroids....which we are sorely lacking or some Zentran mecha (granted I know these would be pretty big and expensive but still i think 1/60 glaugs and regults would be pretty epic) which we are also sorely lacking.
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    why not just get the asia exclusive one that just came out? its not priced as rapey as other asia exclusive releases (just $50 more than when mp-10 first came out) and from initial reports quality is on par with the original release (well the oriignal 2 releases as it was released twice about a year apart) and you get get a dorky stand. now the the year of the horse release is different altogether....that is the bling bling one. no thnx on that.
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    all of the "year of the X" decos are so gaudy and blingy. i think they are catering to (and not to be racist here) chinese tastes....specifically the new borugeous class of china...they love showy things. this is the same generation that got G1 figures about t a decade after we did and are man childing it up right now.
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    actually i quite love the mecha from that series but HATED the characters and anime. it was the one part of robotech i didn't love watching as a kid. the matchbox toy my freind had of the hovertank was huge and awesome....but it DEFINITELY DESERVES an update. I don't know if model kit from out master modeler of MW is the right medium but perhaps it is. oh btw, i missed out on the legioss cap'n did (how did i miss this?!?!) and would be delighted if he decided to revisit that too. :-P hovertanks would be awesome though. i wonder if southern cross was unloved the world over. haha. never seen a southern cross toy or model kit aside from the 80s
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    Anyone see the generations whirl coming out? somehow that had slipped past me. i dont' really buy mainline figures anymore because they mostly feel kinda...cheap (yes i'm spoiled) but there are certain designs that appeal to me. i always like the more realistic alt mode and mechanical look (more mecha than sentient robot) of g1 whirl and this looks like a faithful update. i noticed this just wen up for preorder at bbts. oh and it has an official gerwalk mode.
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    TFC's limbs look bad in combined mode...a major issue. i went with feral rex....though i mus say...TFC's nemean looks great in bot mode and beast mode.
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    lucas valk is on sale at NY btw. $127 go go go! for those that missed out. unfotunately if you ddin't order super parts/drones before...they are out of those.
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    wow this set looks awesome. sooooo glad i didn't pass on luca's valk this time around. luca's gonna require his own shelf with all the ghosts etc. haha.
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    WTF i've had my RVF parts paid for at NY since i paid for the G super parts (i ordered them together like an idiot)...no in stock or shipping notice for me.
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    must resist urge to troop build....( i just did that for the vf-171 and lucked out with no broken triangles ...although i've not TF'd them at all except to add armor parts to one)...if stock hangs arounda while i don't know if i can resist much longer. lol. damn i need more display space.
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    i like it better than yamato's but not much. i give it a B.
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    i'm a bad influence lol
  17. Mechapilot77
    Is there a thread for this line of toys yet? They seem to offer about 70% of enjoyment of what you'd get in a 1/6 scale hot toys/enterbay release in at about 33% the price..and they take up less space. Any fans of this line here? I don't really (or haven't yet) collect figurines/figma (whatever poseable high quality figures are called) but I recently picked up my first one...the Dark Knight Trilogy Batman...for all of around $60. Totally worth it. I'm tempted to pick up the Joker and Cat Woman from the same line....Shame they don't include an unmasked face for Catwoman and they totally animesized her umm boobies but those two look like winners too. They've also got the robocop license it seems and will release both classic robocop (1987) and the new one from the upcoming movie. I hope they get lots more licenses because I really like this scale (taller than a 1/60 vf-1, shorter than a 1/48 vf-1) and poseability. The only bad thing about I can say about the one i have is like eveything in this format...you can still see the joints if you are looking closely...they aren't covered by clothes like in the hot toys 1/6 scale figures. other licenses seem to be mostly from video games (which is cool), like their own games as well as stuff like street fighter ( i may pick up a ryu and some more) i do wish they'd make accessories, vechicles and playsets for this line though (square enix....can you say batpod!!?)
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    oh boy....did i get you into MP TF with that TRU soundwave thing a while back? I have both real and ko sideswipe...my ko is from an early batch (not sure if they were ever improved upon). the paint is superior to my offical TT version but due to some clearnce/dimensional issues the front wheels sometimes have tough time rolling well and something about the torso doesn't snap 100% right. still for a completely knocked off thing....its pretty close and looks far better than my official one in alt mode for sure. not sure if later versions of the ko fixed the issues. i know the ko red alert doesn't have the aforementioned torso issue and the wheels do roll fine.
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    so we're talking about fans pick mp star saber? i never watched the 3 japanese only "g1" series so there is no nostalgia factor for me. I also don't like the character design that much...we'll see when the toy pictures come if im at al interested in this. frankly i'm more excited for 3P offerings at the moment.
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    wait how is matte less anime accurate? if we wanted super anime accurate all the valks should be cell shaded. :-P personally i love he finish matte finish of yamato stuff (well everything since the v2 vf-1). the glossy frontier valks from bandai try to evoke a very toyetic (yes i made that up) feel but its a fail because you can't exactly handle it like a chunky monkey...instead if becomes a tranformable poseable display piece that looks like it wants to be a toy. i agree it has its own appeal being more toyetic....but i dunno i prefer most valks in a matte or at most semi-gloss finish. plus, with a matte finish you can always add a gloss clear coat if you want. with a glossy frontier valk it'd be harder to remove the sheen i'd argue.
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    having never taken apart the leg/hip area and having seen your video now...that does seem like it should work. you are effectively increasing the clamping force and adding a permanent preload providing the rubber remains springy over life. if you could measure the thickness of the rubber strip, that'd be helpful for many.
  22. Mechapilot77
    i actually think the MP VV is pretty damn good. only real complaint i have is, like many modern toys...there is too much play in the ratchet joints. It does look and feel the part of VV better than toynami's does for its source material. the sad thing about toynamis's is that the sculpt is really pretty good. the wings are a ltitle bit skinny but overall its probably the best sulpt of LV....but SOOOOO much more could have been done with it to make it truly modern. I'd call it more a a vintage redux than a modern collectible. the miracle productions VV is firmly a modern toy even if a bit flawed, it still looks modern and poses that way too. i don't do reviews but i give it a 7.5 out of 10. :-)
  23. Mechapilot77
    wow that is bad. voltron deserved better for his 30th. i hope they at least re-engineered the joints because i've heard the toynami voltron to get is the plastic version of the masterpiece voltron, not the ACTUAL "masterpiece" one that comes in that nice toynami MPC box....i especially like the plastic one with the metallic paint...but even with plastic...some of those joints get loose (perhpas it not 100% a weight issue). That one could be had for $75 or less back in the day....(i should know...i got one lol).
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    so in my ocd mind i came up with a "solution". the yamato ones will become my "weathered" set(albeit incomplete without the vf-1s max). i'll do a light weathering wash on them....and the off white is a part of the "weathering" these battle tested valks have where as the new arcadia ones are "new shiny? ones. that will explain why some are white and some are off white (and weatherd in the future) to me. sounds like i'm gonna rebuy at least significant portion of the line this way. ;-\
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    wait, i didn't realize there was a difference between the construction of the aoshima and the toynami. i thought they wre basically the same except for the deco and some under chest missiles? is it the toynami one i really want though. i prefer its deco and also the packaging is second to none IMO. only one on ebay right now and its $299 ( i wan the scott/stick variant).
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