David Hingtgen

If you like F-14's, especially VF-1/VF-2, PM me.

"We'll have to take him along because he's the only one who knows how to stop it"

..or not. Seems it's tommorow night, not tonight.

See the big huge pinned topic at the top of the forum.

It's already entirely unsorted. When I go to sell stuff, it lists "gunA,gunA,gunA, armorA,armorA,gunA,gunB,gunA,upgradeA,armorB,upgradeB,upgradeA,gunB".

The Plan is on tonight on Sci-Fi. It's being shown twice in a row.

So long as it "obviously looks repaired" I still think it'd be useful to post a pic.

Because gimmicks like that are the big trend in transforming toy jets right now. I don't recall seeing the airbrake open in the show either. (though there is at least one scene showing some CF nosecones open in the hangar)

Any word on if "maxing" stuff has any effect? Because I too am playing one last time right before ME 2 comes out, and this will be the one where I hit level 60(hopefully)----but my last game was my "total renegade" run. If you get a paragon/renegade boost, it'd be best to load from my previous game. But if there's a bonus for maxing out at level 60, then I should go with this game, and try to steer it as close to renegade as possible for that bonus (I was going to go for a fairly neutral play-through).

We're getting some good pics today---keep 'em coming!

I notice the knurling on these pins is quite different from how Hasbro/Takara do it. These have long, prominent ridges. Hasbro/Takara pins are a "diamond tread plate" pattern much like a bastard file.

I've found (very interestingly) that for mine, the broken-off pieces don't fit back on properly--there's a very obvious gap. To me that says that the knurling actually stretches the plastic until it breaks.

If the knurling is in the middle part, not on the ends, that shouldn't be a problem. (that's how it should have been in the first place). IMHO it's been a design error since the beginning---a knurled pin shouldn't rotate, the plastic piece should rotate around it. That's how it is in just about every pinned joint in every Gundam, Transformer, and Valk toy ever. Except the V2 VF-1, where the parts are too stiff or something, and the knurled pin rotates inside the joint, chewing the ends apart from the outside.

Thing is---both sides of the shoulder pass over that nub for every transformation in each direction, but only the side with the knurled pin ever breaks. Also, the shoulder hinges are identical--there is no left/right part---both shoulders use the exact same hinge. Yet they break in almost perfectly equal numbers. So location/use/position has little effect.

I've already said--I like the flightsuit. A lot. I most certainly would NOT buy a naked model/statue etc.

Be sure to transform them once or twice. They arent' broken out of the box THAT often. But most break with less than a dozen transformations, often in the first couple.

I would so play "sold out Shepard" in Dr Pepper armor. With bonus in-game dialogue. "The Geth must be stopped---right after I chug down a cool, refreshing Diet Dr Pepper"

I think the majority of broken hinges are on "very light grey" valks, due simply to the fact that Roy's was the very first, and probably the most popular.

To anyone waiting for VF-1 shoulders: It may help to post pics of your broken shoulders here: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=32126 We're going to send the pics to Yamato to try to convince them that we need a big batch of just shoulders.

New pins won't help the many valks that have actually lost chunks of plastic, we need the whole hinge itself.

I haven't transformed my VF-1S since I first saw a crack (months ago)---and just in merely moving them to photograph them, the left one lost a big chunk, and the right one split all the way open. See my first post.

I started a new thread just for broken shoulder pics here: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=32126 If you could, post them in that new thread. I'll move all the ones already posted here over there later.

We're trying to get as many different pics of V.2 VF-1 toys with broken shoulder hinges as possible, mainly as evidence to Yamato that this problem: 1. Is more common than they think 2. Has many people that still are waiting for replacement parts, months after they broke So----if you've got a VF-1 with a broken shoulder hinge, post a pic of it here. Have 3 valks with 5 broken hinges? Post 5 different pics if you can. Don't worry too much about quality---while clear, obviously-broken pics are nice, we're mainly looking for sheer numbers here. Use your cell phone or web cam if you have to, just post photos of your cracks/chips/breaks. We want as many broken VF-1 photos as possible. LEFT shoulder: RIGHT shoulder: Piece of left hinge:

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It should at least have a snippet of new info. (hopefully) (I wasn't really expecting new lineart or anything)