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I think pretty good. The smaller chest and more compact body should help a lot on that end. I'm hoping for better posability as well... It was pretty tricky to get the 1/48 in GBP to do anything other than the sumo squat.

I think they're doing the same thing they did on the VF-0 guns, where the UNSPACY is always right side up on one side.

exactly. There's stuff to nit pick but I still had a lot of fun and there were some great Indiana Jones moments.

given that now you're debating whether or not you can debate anything.. I think you just proved Mr. March's point.

We don't have a full list of gimmicks/features but here's a rundown. - Chest transformation similar to the VF-0, so the fuselage slides up to reduce the length of the nose in battroid - VF-0 style lock for the swing bar, no more hunting for those little pegs with toothpicks - VF-1s has the seam towards the back near the head laser mounts... no more seam down the middle of the face (finally) - Double jointed elbow (finally) - relatively larger posable hands - Foot thruster detail no longer splits in half when foot is deployed - Knees are of the yf-19 design - Collapsable fins on the legs, presumably for the GBP armor - The shins are thinner, more accurate to the line art - Back pack has a new lock... I'm meh on this one since the lock is pretty visible in gerwalk - FAST pack nacelles either have a revised mounting system or support struts - Designed to accomodate 2 seater versions - nose cone and flaps are fixed, no longer removable/movable - tons of tampo printing - overall proportions tweaked... nose not as long, chest not as wide - arms don't hang below legs in fighter mode And as ignacio pointed out: full of win!!!

the chest isn't locked down all the way, no worries.

nice. I really love the new knee design

I think a lot of people forget that Indiana Jones was never meant to be serious, it was an homage and riff of old B action movies. Having said that, i do agree that there was a big change in tone from the first movie to the sequels. But this is the first of the sequels where I understood the change. Indy is older and the world is a different place and the movie reflects that. I may not like some of the tonal changes, but I understand where they came from. The wierd animal theme though... blegh, that just smacks of ewoks.

after listening to various people praise bandai and how they would show yamato a thing or two, and how "perfect grade technology" would make yamato crap in their pants and how if bandai made the 1/48 you could shoot it with a gun and the bullet would break... yeah, I expected more as well. and yeah, it looks better than the bandai vf-19, but to me, it looks about as good as their decent vf-17. but again, that was 13 years ago and that effort was eventually matched by yamato, 8 years ago.

well, stuff like the finish of the plastic, the fit of the parts were better on the finished GNU toys but stuff like the design and proportions came through. Again, I'm not disapointed about the DX because I don't see panel lines or the parts don't fit well. Obviously stuff like that gets resolved, I'm talking about the overall proportions and mechanics. For instance, if this were just a mockup, why bother putting a hinge on the canopy? Why not just have it taped in place? Why bother re-designing the fuselage/canopy for a one off? Doesn't make sense.

I doubt the DX prototype is the result of a rapid prototyping machine. If you compare the earlier mock ups that were put out, you can see the layering/removal process that most RPMs use. Curved surfaces look blocky, if we were talking about computer graphics, like the AA wasn't turned on. The current DX looks a resign model who's pieces came out of molds, which means they're probably pretty far along in the process.

Huh? I started off as pretty much the only person pointing out the flaws in the DX design. I pointed out the canopy pins, fyi. I made one comment about why people were giving this design a free pass when historically speaking, MW as a whole has been very very very critical of any departure from the line art. I'll refer to David and my own bitter debate over the angle of the 1/60 yf-19 wings. So when people, who have been very critical of the various yamato design for offenses much less than having giant hinges exposed are saying how this turd looks "good" and happy with the design, I just have to wonder and point it out. Again, if this were a yamato design, we would have comparisons with the line art, super imposed on each other. All minor deviations from the line art would be highlighted in bright colors, people would be photoshoping the images to make their own suggested fixes. People would be changing their signatures with demands like: BANDAI REMOVE THOSE HINGE PINS! And at least one person here would (and is) be calling yamato a bunch of yamaturds and saying that people who buy these are idiots and yamatoized and whatever else. People who defended the design would be personally attacked saying how they're sheep and how they're too stupid to remember, blah blah blah. So I, mostly in response to BoB in another thread, start using the term Bandaides, and suddenly I'm the guy who started the name calling? BTW, consider the source: badboy00z... lmao, you're the last person who gets to criticize other people around here on negativity. Since you came on this site all you do is go into threads and troll.

given that the nacelles have a completely different mounting system compared to the 1/48 FAST packs I'd say they've taken steps to address some of the QQing.

it's no more and far less then the vitriol, the nit picking and childish claims of entitlement whenever yamato releases a toy. I refer you to classic: why can't yamato give us swapable heads instead of making me buy a vf-1a and a vf-1s. QQ

meh, you're too kind. Looks more like something bandai would have made... 13 years ago. Chubby, chunky and resigned to merely resemble the valkyrie it tries to be.

It's so cute how you're not able to apply the same level of butthurt you have over yamato and to people who choose to buy their toys over to other companies.

well, it just reinforces my opinion that Lucas needs to stop.

Well, star wars did take place a long long time ago.. so maybe in episode 9, the galactic core of SW galaxy is about to explode and luke and leia place han into a crystal spaceship and shoot him off to a distant planet capable of support corellian life, where a kindly archaeologist finds his crashed space ship... only, poor han suffered a bit of a brain freeze this time around this time during his carbonite freezing and forgot all about mystical religions and beeping trashcans on wheels.

Really? MAJOR changes? Like? Oh, you mean pasting the conformal fuel tanks on and giving it two guns instead of 1? Please, other than moving the leg kibble to the hip, the basic shape and proportions were the same. It was cosmetic changes. And the cod piece isn't supposed to unfold, it should fold up. Again, the problem isn't that it's not sticking out at angle it's how wide and how long it is. As for the delayed yf-21, when it comes out, if it looks significantly different from all the prototype pictures we've seen... like, if has fat legs and big bell bottom calves like people seem to want, I'll agree with you. But until then, wondering is all you're doing.

Please, this isn't a CAD drawing or a rough mock up, . By the time Yamato, takara or even bandai shows off a toy at this stage, there's very little retooling that's going to happen. Certainly no major changes to the mold. The only recent example where a toy got a signifcant change up was the MP03, but even there, they just moved the kibble around, they didn't significantly change the design of the toy and they didn't touch the proportions. Show me a toy, or even a bandai model, that by the time actual toy was released, there were MAJOR, signficant changes to the toys dimensions and proportions. If they were showing a card board cutout or even CAD, I would agree and say people (me) were jumping the gun and that it's too early to start worrying/bitching. But at this point, to fixe some of the issues like the length of the legs/arms, the shape and size of the chest, there would need to be major design changes and pretty significant retooling. And it's not just the angle of the cod piece, it's the width and the length. It's simply... actually, the whole toy is too wide, and it's too long. The cod piece should not be hanging down by the knees. For pete's sake, it looks like a 1/48 with EXO's thunder hammer armor on. You're kidding right? Every yamato release we go through the same chorus of bandaides who go on and on about how much better it would have been if only bandai had the license and how they would give us "perfect grade technology" how we only had to look at the gundam models for how great bandai engineering is and how we only had to look at the 1/55 chunkies for how durable a bandai valkyrie could be. Nope, as much as some people here are yamatoized or however BoB puts it, there's a chorus of bandaides.

I agree in general... such as when people start to nit pick stuff like paint apps, stickers/tampo based on prototypes but from everything we've seen, by the time a company starts showing prototypes to conventions, magazines, etc... the basic stuff like proportions, mechanics and shape are pretty much what we'll get in the final version. MP 03 is probably the only recent toy that I know of where there major changes to the sculpt done after an initial prototype was released. And even there, the basic proportions and transformation weren't changed, only the location of kibble.

My friend, who is a director for a film festival, said that apparantly lucas apparantly wanted indy to have some serious screen time with the aliens.

oh please... bandaides get all in a hissy fit over 2/3rds of a blurry yamato CAD drawing. If these shots were so rough and so far off from the final sculpt, why would bandai use them as their promotional material?

people... no one is saying you don't have a right to voice your opinions, please stop trying to reframe the question.