jenius

The reduced discounts are probably an effort to reduce 0A cancellations.

Arcadia won't be doing bundles, the price would be prohibitive.

I wonder if Mr. K. is also the head accountant? I would love to hear what they say though that sounds like the kind of thing that wouldn't Google translate well.

Peanut butter or cannon fodder?

First ube now avocado... we have some hungry board members.

Zero, sorry.

Think 'catholic women in habits' and I think you'll understand his frustration better

I think those Toynamis are off scale, I think I measured then at 1/80 or something. Anyone have a tape measure that can confirm?

Can someone educate me on who red BumbleBee is?

I hope the TV SDF-1 sells like hot cakes!

I usually make it pretty clear I'm talking about rumor, you refuted someone so it sounds like you have facts...

Well if you're going to say they do have the mold the least you can do is point to the tweet or wherever you got your info from.

Judging by that pinky nail it would seem our money goes to fund a cocaine addiction.

Ha, an Arcadia valk with markings painted on... oh you kill me.

I don't think that's a 'better' question at all... it requires a speculative albeit obvious answer that's irrelevant to products already on shelves... it's not like these are cars we can bring in for service in five years... unless you're trying to ascertain which will be the better collector's item and the answer to that is "neither, someone will make a V3 eventually that will destroy the value of both."

I'm pretty sure he's saying that the VF-19Advance looks like a VF-19Advance should because Kawamori gave his input and that differences between the YF-19 and the VF-19Advance are intentional as the VF-19Advance is a different plane. The original comment was that the VF-19Advance shouldn't be held directly against YF-19 line art for that reason; the VF-19Advance will have it's own line art more rooted in CGI so some of the sweeping curves of the YF-19 will not exist and this will be appropriate, not something that should be held against it. Certainly if people like the curvy nature of the hand drawn YF-19 that's great but complaints about the VF-19Advance not looking exactly like a YF-19 should be tempered with the understanding that the VF-19Advance will have intentional differences from the YF-19 as part of the VF-19Advance's heritage of being a 3D modeled interpretation.

You might want to hold out as long as possible... maybe it will stick around until Black Friday.

Well it definitely wasn't cheap. I hope some day we find out. I would definitely bet on a 20% mark up but would love to be wrong and hope we find out (well, I more hope for a FB2012 version).

Given the mark-ups we've seen on the VF-1 products it seems a roughly 20% mark-up should be the expectation. I think the big hurdle for a straight reissue would be the VF-X license and whether or not they still have it.

Yeah, it's a paycheck for him and a marketing ploy for whatever company has him come in. That's not to say he can't be paid more for additional input or brought in earlier in the process but just because there's a pic with Kawamori it shouldn't be taken to mean a whole lot. I will say though that I agree with the sentiment, the VF-19Advance is almost certainly a YF-19 put through the CGI process so that the impossibilities of the line art are shed and thus the 'official' line art will appear to be less bulbous than the YF-19 and that will be perfectly correct. So the discussion shouldn't be 'which is more line art accurate' but more 'if your preference is the YF-19 than the Arcadia is that, if your preference is the VF-19Advance then the Bandai is that." If you like a more curvy interpretation of the YF-19 than stick with the Arcadia, if you think the Arcadia looks overly curvy than you like the VF-19Advance interpretation of the vehicle so that's better suited to you.

Well that there VF-27 talk is a whole different discussion entirely but you already understand it. The V2 VF-25 was 100% a new mold. Some people wanted Bandai to do that to the VF-27 because honestly, though the VF-27 is better than the V1 VF-25 ever was, it could benefit from it, particularly around the shoulder mechanisms. I think you're right, if Arcadia made an 'enhanced' YF-19 using their current mold but with fixes for high speed mode and a few other things, it wouldn't be greeted as a new 'version' but rather a variation of the current version. I would totally be down for that. I really like what Arcadia tried to accomplish... but there's no question they came up short in a few areas.

I think he's referring to the 1/3000 SDF DYRL.

Well now.

If you ain't seen a chipped MP1 you haven't looked.

Mp1 chips if you handle it, particularly the legs. I've never heard anyone call MP10 fragile before.