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  1. David Hingtgen
    Hmmm. Armor color is almost impossible to tell there. Mostly purple/navy with some grey segments? Was Alto's armor all navy or did it have some grey on the chest and lots on the gun?
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    It can happen in real life, actually. Some planes have symmetrical parts.... (Never an entire wing though)
  3. David Hingtgen
    PAINTED gloss black?
  4. David Hingtgen
    All depends what the exchange rate was when you ordered---for me, the change was about 20 bucks.
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    Polidread's alive?!!?
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    Scamper at least:
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    Heck no, it's Supreetor 2.0. Big means simple with lots of electronics. Basically--as budgets increase, it all goes to size and gimmicks. Not complexity and paint apps. Hasbro has shown this time and again. Look at Leader Jetfire. One of the biggest alt-modes ever , and one of the biggest electronics boxes ever.
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    Ascetics? They're usually pretty strict.
  9. David Hingtgen
    I always like the real-world schemes: 1st page, bottom. VFA-81 Sunliners. (esque) 3rd page, top. VF-33 Starfighters. 4th page, bottom. Compass Ghost. (F-15)
  10. David Hingtgen
    Hey, they've got pre-orders for the reissue renewal Alto, too---for 10 yen less than N-Y.
  11. David Hingtgen
    I'd call them khaki green. Greener than a VF-1A, but tan-er than a VF-27B The 1/250 looks right to me.
  12. David Hingtgen
    Eh, my fanon says fold quartz is like kryptonite---comes in every color, some are just more common than others.
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    In short, the pale green -25's pilot is almost universally the least-liked pilot of the series, and probably epitomizes much of what you don't like in recent anime/Frontier. He's got a unique valk, but you'd actually probably like/want it less if you knew the pilot.
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    After the turtles themselves and Shredder, Splinter's the next guy. I'd honestly consider him more important than April.
  17. David Hingtgen
    Until today, I never knew the VF-171EX was "DYRL grey". Anyways--I do think Hikaru's ret-conned VF-1 looks a lot cooler in fighter mode. And I like it.
  18. David Hingtgen
    A lot of people don't even realize there IS printing on the wings etc, because it's white ink on white plastic. Bandai sure showed their brilliance there.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Proof of a well-designed figure is that it looks good from every angle. (Having big friggin' guns helps too!)
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    Most every version of the -25 and -27 was released in both model kit and toy form. The -25 toy got two very different molds---the old sucky one, and the newer awesome one---the newer -25 is the "renewal" version. And most references to a "reissue" -25, means a reissue of the renewal. The "olive" green one in the vid you posted is the "normal" version of the -27, the VF-27β, though the VF-27β has two variations itself, though both are the same color. Most famously flown by Grace, my avatar. The model kit could build both versions of the -27β, the toy was specifically/only her version. PS---if you want the pale green radomed -25, you've got to start trying to get one *now*. If you haven't secured a pre-order by the day it comes out, you will not get one for less than 2x MSRP. Bandai has cut production of valks to INSANELY low levels, to the point that they sell out almost instantly.
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    "The green one"----pale minty-green with a radome on top, or deep teal-green? The deep teal green one is the same as "the blue Diamond-force-looking one"---the VF-171 CF. But the pale minty green one is the RVF-25, in Luca's color scheme. To answer another question----while the VF-171 does look like a Diamond Force VF-17, it is a completely different mold toy-wise, and they are not the same jet in "real life"---just very similar, as the VF-171 is the direct descendant/successor to the VF-17. Almost more of a "heavy update/modification" than being an all-new valk----it was designed to be a cheaper modernization program, rather than having to re-equip entire fleets with pricey VF-22/25's etc. Most fleets would have had VF-11's, with a few -17/19's around. The -171 offered a good improvement, without sucking up massive amounts of resources needed to build top-of-the-line stuff. For any MF toy worth considering, boosters/armor are sold separately. Any bundle you find--run away, those are the vastly inferior old molds.
  22. David Hingtgen
    Personally, I'm real sick of getting a mod alert/notice/PM that this thread has something that's been causing a problem every other time I sign in to the forums---and there's been no constructive/real posts in days. I'm closing it. Good bye and good riddance to this topic.
  23. David Hingtgen
    Talon/Divebomb is still the most impressive in bot mode IMHO.
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    I think that's damn impressive for practically no parts-forming/accessories/kibble.
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    Similar to not buying the entire set of wrong-colored armor just for reaction missiles---I'm not buying the armor+wings just to use some (very very cool) Shapeway missiles. I think my VF-171 will just be "naked and unarmed". But Machida's punch is all it really needs. If the final production version does end up with grey armor, it should still be fairly readily available when it comes out--it took a while for the more-popular VF-25 armor packs to sell out initially.
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