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Wonder if that swiveling front gear is stable/reliable enough for a minor drop-test.
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Yah know? Why are the available pictures of this KO bootleg never include the pilot figure? edit: There is one in that shop that shows what looks like a tv-roy seated inside, but is that the actual bootleg or a genuine yamato/arcadia? Just weird that they don't show the figure outside like the other included accessories.
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The reputable stores will have this item on official release-day. Even if you do find a shop that still offers this item far from official release-date, the chances are pretty high that they won't be offering the pre-order discounted pricing with it. You might as well wait for the upcoming preorder for the one that does not include the "special display-stand" if you want the preorder-discount pricing. The PO for that item has not been announced as of yet.
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hmm. how about the features/stuff that we all saw with the VF-1D/VF-1J/VF-1S in the old TV anime... -- integrated rotating and elevating pilot-seat that can pop out the back of the head when in battroid instead of an add-on like in the 1/60v2. The 1/60 Zero, VF-19 and VF-22 valks have some limited rotating seats done already, tho not elevating. -- actual swiveling/turning front landing gear. -- spring-loaded firing missiles. -- integrated side covers. -- integrated collapsible fixing toolkit on the arm. -- better looking detailed and well-proportioned pilot figure. both with and without helmet.
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Imho, the DX YF-19 is good for Battroid-mode since it has better/more-reliable ankles than the Arcadia YF-19. That's pretty much the only reason to get the DX YF-19 over the Arcadia since the older Arcadia still almost aced everything else despite the fatal ankles. I'm not sure how much the DX-YF19 really is different in build stuff against the previous VF-19adv, but it does have the proper YF-19 dual-canopy and designation tampos at least. edit/add: Against the 31-Kai, not sure. The 31-Kai is rather an overpriced minor redeco with just a couple of reaction-missiles pairs. The YF-19 is technically a redeco of the VF19Adv, but at least it has loads of extra ordnances, extra Isamu-pilot, and the much-desired arm-cannon.
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I have a theory on why the stablizers on the YF-19 easil pops out way easily now than when it used to be with the seemingly solid on the VF-19Adv stabs: It's most likely some sort of payback for when they first revealed their YF-19 marketing "photos" and then quickly getting busted about it having VF-19Adv colors instead before they had a chance to photochop them. Subtle, Bandai. Very subtle...
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New Macross TV Series in 20xx (sometime this decade)
treatment replied to Tochiro's topic in Movies and TV Series
We gonna go Vigo on that...
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New Macross TV Series in 20xx (sometime this decade)
treatment replied to Tochiro's topic in Movies and TV Series
errr, Mylene's a typical dumbass character in M7. -
Just need some adaptor to secure installation...
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Random thoughts while you guys wait for your YF-19... -- The front tire on my YF-19 only rolls at half a turn, while the back tires rolls fully. Weird. -- Bandai should've added an adapter for the YF-19 to be able to use the VF-31 Boosters. Those look alot better than the VF-19Adv's boosters. -- Going by release-pattern of VF-19Adv to YF-19, I'm guessing Bandai will release an Immelman VF-22 to test out the water before doing a full YF-21. -- Still think a Fire-Valk and/or Excalibur F/S will be released before the proverbial YF-21.
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Thought the Bandai dude said that missiles are not gonna be included due to price-point or something?
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It's like the typical One Step Forward, Two Steps Backwards mentality. The naked YF-19 was rather simpler, easier and quicker for me to transform in all three modes, in contrast to my YF-29 and VF-31 experiences. Then FAST-packs installation on the same valk when in Fighter-mode made all that simplicity into assbackwards pants-on-head WTF, BANDAI?! "engineering". Fwiw, the FAST-packs are only easy to install when the valk is already in Battroid-mode, where you really don't move/pull/twist/align/etc any valk-part and just peg the FP parts to their respective placements. And just leave it alone in Battroid-mode with all that FP.
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I don't have the VF19-Adv to make a direct comparo, tho. Aside from the tampo, the heel and possibly shoulder-sizing are the only visual cues I can spot as different from the current pictures.
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Did you bend the gun? It's actually bendable at the stock, you know. Once "bent", it should be relatively parallel with the arms/underside.
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Iirc, the genuine 1/55s were only available in Asia and Europe, but not in the US. Not until the Yamato 1/60v1 came out that it actually proliferated and became somehow available and relatively affordable in the mall/comic shops here. That was late 90's/early-2000's. I still remember my astonishment of a Yammie 1/60v1 and a Bandai 1/55 1S-Roy/1J-Hikaru side-by-side in a display-window at the local mall. Each for about $90. Until the HG mall-gestapo shenanigans, that is...
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I tell yah. Putting the FAST-pack on while in valkyrie-mode on this DX YF-19 was an exercise of WTF, Bandai!?!! "Lining up" the legs properly, lining up the shoulder armor and underarm cover so the armor tabs properly on the lower leg, the back-knee addon popping out all the time, trying to make everything flushed and smooth... took alot of unnecessary time for me last night. Not to mention those damn insecure stabilizers popping off at the slightest feather touch that I just removed them to avoid breaking them accidentaly and install them as final part. And the wings don't even line up properly to tab in place with the leg-armor's existing tab-hole. All the while the leg/shield gap was messing up my view on proper alignment. Geezus! Guess this is just old stuff for VF-19Adv owners.
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Most of us prolly had Joons or some other korean/chinese bootlegs first before the 1/60v1. There were a few ones that usually have the severely-yellowed Hasbro Jetfire they were scalping at >$500+ or so.
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I say worry about dealing with N-Y only if/when your item from them arrived with broken antennae. Maybe their CS will be more accomodating since this issue is clearly a packaging/shipping/handling stuff. Dunno if people experienced the similar and relatively-recent SOC GX-75 issue with broken chests out of the box from them and how N-Y handled that snafu. As for the HLJ offer, 2500y is about US$22 at the current exchange-rate. It really ain't that much fair compensation for a US$300+ valk, tbh.
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I would return it to HLJ if I were you. Especially if they're paying for shipping it back to them. With your N-Y order, tho, I dunno. Good luck dealing with them if your N-Y order has broken antennae, tho.
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here: original image from http://anymoon.com/blog/?p=8151
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It is stupidly expensive. It's like US$380 at amazon-direct/bluefin right now. Bandai's just being too greedy again.
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You cannot hope. You will need to loosen up the hip-screws.
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No. As Jenius said earlier, it's a Bandai "feature" (or shenanigan, if you will). It's the same crap they pull on any of their current toys that uses flaps and stuff. Banda just doesn't want to add the usual metal pin to secure it better. Possibly simply due to cost.
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Bandai will most likely do a Fire Valk and/or an Excalibur before they do a 21. Possibly just to reuse their VF-19adv/YF-19 mould with just minor specific mods. Bandai luvs making the Fire Valk and Excalibur...
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The 25. 27. 29. 31 all have the obvious codpiece to mimic the pose, but they just don't look quite Obari to me. Not even in the anime. The Bandai YF-19 is just a natural. The shoulder, back and torso curves to the jutting crotch codpiece make it a pull an effortless Obari pose. Especially when seen at the side profile. Not sure Bandai really intended that, but it's there. I didn't see it in the Arcadia nor my old Yammie. It's kinda funny coz the valk that Obari actually worked on was the Macross-II valks, yet the HMR VF2SS is kinda quite a mess and doesn't really pull the Obari poses from the anime. At least, not as smoothly. The YF-19 in the anime was pretty much always in rather subtle Obari-poses.
