jenius
-
Posts
17464 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Gallery
Everything posted by jenius
-
I'm in!
-
I kept refreshing until I could buy one. Seems like we had lots of success for only 30 being available.
-
Huh, I can't access the page from my phone or computer, says ip blocked. All other pages work.
-
Yep, I have just the page up on a PDF if you want to download it and then print it. I started updating the page for the VT-1... then I got distracted by the 50th anniversary... then I got distracted by another toy. Sigh.
-
You mean when Max is dressed like a Zentran guard? Maybe the Zentran have a 'guard' class of huge Zentran to man the brig? More likely, that stuff was all made up by the TV show producers because them escaping by being tiny and fitting through cracks in a poorly maintained ship wasn't exciting enough.
-
For dramatic purposes, especially in light of how Hikaru would feel as things unfolded, it makes sense in this TV dramatization of 'real life' events, the pilot would be portrayed as being huge.
-
Well, no matter where we stand on the Beta, they definitely made the Alpha, even if the engineering was taken from Imai.
-
Yeah, Beagle and MegaHouse don't count. But wait, why would Moshow count then?
-
Just the delay turned me off.
-
I'm still waiting on a store I'm comfortable with to offer it. You can get Moshow stuff on amazon so I'm expecting wider availability soon.
-
That sized pilot would work for me.
-
Jealous. My 12 year old is working his way through Votoms now and I'm looking forward to doing Macross with him next. -
I'm a little shocked it's not available at more places yet, it seems like it could start shipping soon from all the different sample pics.
-
Correct, Bandai appears to have used the Yammy V2 as its inspiration on the DX VT-1 backpack which is too bad. The statement earlier about the brace making the toy friendlier to handle is a fair point. It would put a lot of pressure on whatever backpack locking mechanism Bandai had chosen if the go-to move is to lift the toy by the boosters in battroid mode. Still, if Bandai ever does release that 1/32 VF-1, I would hope they would go with a locking mechanism rather than a non-canon bracket. It really wouldn't take much engineering. Imagine if there were pegs that went down into the arms in fighter mode that then rotated backward to prevent the backpack from having room to swing back down in battroid.
-
I finally got an updated invoice and paid for mine. They wanted an additional $90 for expedited shipping so boat it is.
-
Hmm, I'm not following the problem. The hinge is metal on the DX toy. I would imagine the lock being down at the hinge rather than the up above hook Yamato did. The beauty of the Yamato hook was that it works for a double-hinge. If I were engineering the toy, I would probably put locks on each one of the hinges separately rather than do the hook. Since the backpacks don't weight a ton, the locks don't have to be overly robust. What's kind of crazy is that the original Hi-Metal VF-1 does have a backpack lock, you just press downward on it in battroid mode and it locks into position. Bandai removed it for the Hi-Metal R and didn't even try on the DX.
-
Well yes, if you had a lock you wouldn't also have the bracket... isn't the bracket just something toy companies invented because they didn't do a lock? I don't think brackets appear in any of the line art.
-
The DX had removable vertical stabilizer so they should have given us regulation and small stabilizers. The real problem is that the DX doesn't have a backpack lock so Bandai used those new clips (repeating Yamato's mistake). The 1/48 Yamato had the top hook that would have solved this problem but there are so many more elegant solutions to a backpack lock that should have been employed all along. Blah!
-
It looks great. I've never been sold on the cockpit or the idea of the pilot and KC is just confirming all my suspicions.
-
Maybe it's the nosecone that needs to go up more?
-
Sentinel is reissuing the Legioss with it so it will be easy to find.
-
You have reposted the foribdden pictures! I will now sulk all evening.
-
If I had to guess, BBTS will add an order for a Battlepod Pilot figure and mark it as paid into your inventory. The part that will screw you is that you will need to pay for shipping whenever its available.
-
The box art is good... but why do the VFs have a yellow outline around them?
-
I think Sentinel will make the blue Tread a fairly basic offering with minimal accessories with the hope it sells really well. If it does sell well, I think they'll include numerous accessories with a green follow-up to incentivize people to get that one. I doubt we'll ever get a red one since it never appeared in Mospeada. Though, if they were smart, they would run off like 50 red ones for convention exclusives while they were making the green ones. I know i'd go full pokemon on them! It's also possible Sentinel will finally make an accessory kit for the Legioss and maybe that would include some Tread option parts.
