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tekering

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  1. Small girls are especially cute! Image taken from my camera!
  2. So thirty years have passed, and they're now in a world of drones and smartphones... but nobody's aged a day?
  3. What are you guys talking about? How would a Kitz Concept Veritech toy possibly be preferable to an Arcadia or Bandai Valkyrie? As far as I can tell, the unique 1:72 scale is the only appeal this toy has to offer.
  4. I have to assume Walmart has spent millions of dollars in licensing fees, production costs, CGI and airtime to distract us from realizing that ordering groceries online, only to physically drive to the store to pick them up, is an incredibly dumb idea. Still, nice to see 'Bee getting a prominent cameo!
  5. Magic Square, all day long. Look at the face, dude... and the clean, unbroken lines of the pelvis with the transparent amber lights... the rotating grey thighs... even the size and shape of the feet. The battle-damage options are just icing on the cake!
  6. And in the meantime, you can use a pin vice to drill out the interior holes to the proper radius... It's very difficult to make a large hole smaller, but very easy to make a small hole larger!
  7. Excellent start! Here are a few more you need.
  8. Totally unnecessary. I've transformed mine twice now, and I've yet to even try detaching the legs. All the transformations, poses and shots I've achieved so far have been with the swing bar attached. There's already more articulation at the hips than any previous transforming VF-1. Why does a Valkyrie even need a waist joint?
  9. No, just movie-style fists.
  10. Hmm. Tricky... but not impossible.
  11. While I agree the fixed-pose movie-style hands hardly seem necessary, I greatly appreciate the cartoon-style TV hands.
  12. Yeah, those birds are part of my permanent display. I expect Bandai will eventually make most of my Yamato 1:48 collection obsolete, but I doubt they'll ever release a stealth, low-vis, or woodland camo scheme (heck, even an "Angel Birds" scheme is unlikely), so these Valkyries will remain prominently displayed in my Macross showcase. I still have to get a low-vis GPB and the stealth FAST packs, as I'm sure they'll complement a DX 1:48 display as well as they do the existing TV Yammie's. As much as I understand Shizuka's decision to avoid the 1:48 scale -- and respect her restraint -- there are some beautiful and unique color schemes she's depriving herself of...
  13. Same as the ol' Yamato... They stay in place as long as you don't touch 'em. Technically, it's neither: Not if it gets played with a lot. Like the DX YF-19, the hip joints are very stiff, but not ratcheted... and like the YF-19, there are exposed screws that allow you to adjust the tightness, should it be required: Perfect. Smooth, easy, and secure. Better than a Transformer, better than the ol' Yamato 1:48, maybe even better than the 1:60. Certainly on par with the last DX release, the YF-19. Oh, and speaking of which, the DX YF-19's missile mounts are compatible. Yamato's missile mounts use the same system, but are incompatible sizes: ...so Yamato missiles won't work. And don't even bother trying to get Yamato's GPB to work. That's a fool's errand. Ditto for the FAST packs.
  14. My intake covers aren't very secure, which is frustrating in gerwalk mode... Otherwise, it's a dream.
  15. Vermillion Leader in the house!
  16. About the same as your Metal Build Aile Strike, actually.
  17. My attic is ready.
  18. That's a 1:72 Bandai model kit; the image is just a place-holder. It's not even a VF-1J.
  19. You didn't get Yamato's 1:48 Kakizaki or Max? They released both movie and TV versions.
  20. Good, but poorly-researched. Who is Chris Landa? Oh, they mean Chris Latta, who voiced the original Starscream. They get Peter Cullen's name right, but say he's voiced Optimus Prime since the beginning... which ignores Robots in Disguise, Armada, Energon, Cybertron, Animated, Universe, Combiner Wars... over a decade's worth of animated content (and at least six other voice actors). And what gave them the idea that the "Coneheads" had altered Hasbro instructions? Probably Floro Dery's line art for the Sunbow cartoon, rather than anything to do with the toys, their packaging, or their instructions. It's like they don't even know how to use Google.
  21. Exactly. Tunisia would look like Tatooine, if it weren't for the tourists.
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