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I only have the one 25. The front landing gear bay doors have both busted at the hinge, there's cracks along one of the wing glove hinges and both sides of the hinge that folds the back down for battroid. It lives in fighter mode now.

Well the plastic on the yf-29 *feels* different to me and other than the joints self loosening (the legs won't hold their position when I pick it up, freely swings around from the hip) the plastic seems to be holding up fine. The two 27s I have are holding up as well so, just my experience, I wouldnt let fears of plastic quality scare you off from the v2

you should play with your v1's while you can. My armored ozma is steadily falling apart with the plastic going brittle and just breaking apart.

want. but not with the dynamite color scheme. I would love a low viz version.

I saw 13 assassins after all the gushing reviews critics gave it but I thought it was solidly "meh".

the yf-19 isn't supposed to have a neck cover like the vf-19.

The head position on the hi-metal and the v2 1/60 is about the same. The difference is that the hi-metal just has a long neck while the v2 has the "collar" but the objective position of the head is near identical. I'm not sure how well the hi-metal design would handle being upscaled though. Problematic areas like the wide hips and elongated torso would only be exacerbated by making a larger version of the toy, imo. I do agree that the backpack positioning is the most accurate out of the modern toys though.

Considering even Bandai couldn't make the 1/100 scale work (as in make it profitable and worth doing), I can't see Yamato making the 1/100 scale work for them. But I don't really see what Yamato has to worry about with Bandai. They're not competing directly, bandai has the newer license and yamato is picking up the older stuff. Just like they've been doing for the past 10 years. IMO, *if* Yamato doesn't make it, it will have a lot more to do with the economy and the shrinking anime fan base than because of Bandai.

looks good. Will wait for the F variant... mostly cuz my toy budget is already blown between the v2 vf-25 and the nightmare.

Comparing the alto release to the Ozma release is pretty much bunk logic. The alto was the first of the series, the Ozma is a head swap and a new paint scheme. Maybe if this were Yamato or Hasbro, companies that have shown a willingness to change molds in the middle of production runs then you'd have a point. But if we look at what Bandai has done in the past, that is *ignore* design issues then we have no reason to assume that Bandai would request a fully factory painted "pre-production sample" before the first release in the line was even out. And why is it so hard for me to believe that what is being shown is a "pre-production sample"? Because it takes time and money to shut down a line, clean it and re-calibrate it for new plastic. It takes time and money to shut down, clean and prep the paint lines for new paint. It takes time and money to shut down and prep the tampo applications. Not to mention all the downtime of doing this while they're, presumably, in the middle of manufacturing and packaging all those alto units that they waited until the last minute to do. If you think Bandai spent the time and money in the middle of producing the alto line to do a one off so the marketing department could have something to take pictures of, by all means do so. I'm not sure where you're getting 6 months from, but okay, whatever. You don't know that they're only producing enough for the initial release, maybe they're making more for an armor bundle run? Maybe they have already started on producing the next variant? If you look at any other toy line, transformers for example. Production "samples" start leaking out into the grey market MONTHS ahead of the retail release date. So yeah, maybe Bandai does have a factory full of these things, just sitting around. Why not? Hasbro does it, Yamato does it... pretty much everyone in the manufacturing industry does it.

Ha. Fine they'll do reissues of everything you don't want

Don't worry Yamato will always do reissues. Always.

Yeah, cuz making, painting, assembling, packaging and shipping doesn't take any time. No, you're right they'll probably just wait till the night before to make them.

Why is it hard to think that it's an actual production sample? It's obviously not hand painted and it has tampo printing. If the Alto is coming out in a month, it's doubtful the factory is still making that model and have moved on to the next release... the ozma. Remember, after these things come out of the molds they still need to be cleaned, painted, assembled, packaged, shipped to distribution centers and shipped to retail. It's common to have the product done and shipped weeks or even a month or more before the release date.

no. but I'll give you

how about some new pics from you? I'm sure you've learned some new tricks over the past year to wow us with!

All right,that's it for my old stuff. Let's see some new stuff already!

kawamori didn't design it. He gave some input at the end, like having two guns and moving the leg kibble to the hips.

as long as we're posting up old suff

you just have to take it apart and coat the joint in something to thicken it up but to also keep the metal from grinding against metal.

yup, the range you're showing is the same range as I found that I could get, safely, before the socket fails and the ankle joint becomes useless. IMO, the yamato ball joint design is a good one on paper. The bottom half of the ball is actually a plastic piece that is pegged and glued onto the metal shaft and upper hemisphere of the ball portion of the joint. This should give the joint a much longer life than the metal on metal ball joints that are found on the DX line. Hopefully the issue is what Yamato thinks it is and there is paint pooling in the socket causing that part to be malformed.

you definitely have to force it to get it to loosen up. The problem is that the lip of the socket makes it look like the feet should be able to angle forwards or backwards much deeper than the joint itself will allow. So you get to a point where finger pressure isn't enough to get the position you want and then if you keep pushing, the foot will move but by then you've pried the two halves of the socket apart and it will no longer hold the ankle steady in a neutral pose.

The big problem with the ball joint on the 19 is that when you force the ball too forward or backwards, the ball forces the socket apart, you're using the leg as a lever to pry apart the two halves of the socket. Adding more friction won't really fix this.