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*gently turn the thigh halves...* been stuck on it for half an hour.....time to rest....

The sight of the VF-1 on the runaway taking off always made a bad day good. and the song at the end of macross really had a melancholy affect on me... macross always has had that emotional hold on me up to this day .... Around that time too bulletin boards and yahoo ruled the web. The first things i tried to search for were 'macross' 'valkyrie' etc etc. Any sighting would drive me crazy! i so elated and would make sure i saved that image on my floppy thinking i got a hard to find treasure..heh... However that first anime pic always goes to my crush at the time nausicca...

I heard of appying future polish coats to increase the tightness or reduce the gaps between ball and socket. Would that work? in the vf-0a case, could it be the adhesive used to bond the plastic ball and metal also didnt have sufficient time to cure? I heard that plastics to metal need a long cure time. But i can see that if we didnt have the half/half solution, shearing of the rod from the plastic wouldnt even be a factor..

I suppose what am getting at is to prioritise 'quality/correct engineering' vs 'over-engineering'.

Yea thats seems more along the lines of a sturdy hip... I understand yamato folded, but since they didnt change the factory, it doesn't explain why they couldnt manufacture the same. like chronocidal mentioned...hard to fanthom how or why it can be forgetten...

In addition to the *test swoosh* i added *test guns/missiles firing* as well... yeah my laser seems to be straight also...

Minor error/issues that dont affect the overall playability (it is a toy after all!!) or i would say durability should be tolerable. Any toy manufacturer should look to really lock down potential areas of breakage. It boils down to overengineering. No point overengineering it if it breaks so easily. Thats what i loved abt my old VF toy. It cant pose like the modern ones with the legs etc, but hey it still transforms effortlessly after 20 odd years! sorry minor rant..back to surgery...

A full diecast metal ball hip joint would probably have been a better way to go. Not sure if it was a limitation of the factory unable to cast a ball joint or not, but i do hope it wasnt because of cost. Or was it because a metal ball joint would be loose after a while? I thk that could be rectified with plastic insert or something. Again barring the hip joint, everything else feels solid. * thrusters extended after trying it with drier hands but still considered tight..

Thanks yeti for the detailed guide, gonna try and give it a go! Ignacio all I can say is to be in a calm state when handling the hips. I was flustered getting it into gerwalk mode. Those shoulders just didn't seem like want to swing out and I pushed the darn legs too hard to get clearance.

sigh 0a left leg came off like yeti's... am PM'ing as to how to take the leg apart. That aside, does anyone have issues pulling the leg thrusters out again after pushing them back in? I cant pull them out no matter how hard i try..is there a technigue am missing?

quick someone photoshop it into a screengrab!!

dang it am revisiting this thread too often just to see pics....nice job

@saburo awesome old yammie 0s new arcadia 0a together in the pic. cant wait till you have it with the new 0a. speaking of which looks awesome in promo pics http://masterfileblog.jp/news/2015/08/28/6385.html however i am bugged abt the promo pics having UN Spacy on legs and fuel pods but probably not in actual....as per the 0A promo pics as well...

0a battroid never gets old...i like the way the legs are posed ...hip, thigh, knee flow highlighting the seperate forms of the legs... plus from this angle the thin hip bar connectors arent so obvious...

Wow been a long time since i heard that title... animation still amazes me till this day... The amt of hand drawn details... Very often the vhs would forward to the giant robot fighting across town bit...

hmmm point taken. It would be good to know the extent of stress marks but i guess only time would tell. Plus also it would depend on how you squeezed it in in the first place. However if it looks solid and for display only, i thk it would likely work. Although they havent announced any yet, i would thk rereleased ghosts would be more expensive. Knowing if it old yammies work may save up some cash...There was one selling at my local flea market but i passed up on it as i wasnt sure how well it would fit...

after what wmkjr did with the VF-0D and VF-0A in the 0A/0S thread...my bet would be on the VF-0B/C!!!although i wont bet big

what! a double seater vf-0a? did you just make it a......vf-0b!!? I would like to hear if it could pass as the 0b version.. ​ edit* Just to add, you may have accidentally revealed the next arcadia release after the vf-0a CF!! @no3ljm just trying to imagine the squeezing of the ghosts canards to fit you mentioned.. From vf5ss video review it doesnt seem possible and would end up scratching the top 0a paint or worse breaking the ghost canards?

@spanner nice tight shots esp liking the details on the black vents! arrrgggh am too busy to even open mine....will have to examine it later.... yea liking the ghost boosters...though i guess its not the perfect fit...will await more pics of it in different angles hopefully the booster wont drop off... if it stays well, might try to hunt one down too... ahh nice tip on the backpack! cant wait to try it!

purchase from NY has arrived! woohoo!

Going out on a limb here... The suspicion i have on the high prices of arcadia, has nothing to do with cost of manufacturing. Looking at the resale values of the old yammie's, would you as higher mngt price your new valks at resale value territory or rather cheaper? Yamato's MSRP and today's resale values are significantly higher. I think aracadia have figured that the perception of scarcity is powerful indeed. (as reflected in yamato's demise) Hence they are taking a business risk to maintain a 'luxury' toy at 'luxury' prices. If they get their QC more consistant...they would have a viable biz model. The risk here is the world economy, and an aging macross fan base......(hopefully delta would maintain the fan base) Look at #ForceFriday SW toys are still going strong (and pricey too) due to maintained fan bases...

I wouldnt think that he would be the best person to explain the final cost but its clear they had to explain somehow why they are breaking the barrier on prices. Its a nice read of the processes though and its not unlike many medium sized companies out there ..

was kinda bummed when i saw ur disaster pics...though magically it looks so gorgeous after you fixed it, must be the pose holding its own.... either that or get it from yeti!! although i wouldnt want to need to fix the joint for the amout of $$ its costs, but somehow with the fixes available, it seems kinda like dissambling and making your toy more bionic! i wonder if there would be 'BIONIC' parts...haha.. replace steve austin with VF-0a to get ...SIX MILLION DOLLAR VALK!

Nice review VF5SS! glad to see its quite solid though i had chills whenever u had to use a lil force esp the hips appreciate the effort reviewing it....only negative would be its making want to get the CF now also...

@saburo waiting for your non quick shot! early production sample vf 0s http://www.metal-box.jp/blog/ the vf-0s looks quite nice but i hope nothing would change until the actual christmas release dates....no color shifting pls arcadia! suddenly tho that figurearts iron man really captured my attention with the reflection of the lights....dang.....perhaps vf-0s needs a wing'IRONMAN'!!!