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There's no real information available yet. They hinted that there would be changes between the 'R' toys and the original Hi-Metal toys and obviously that we'd get some destroids and bad guys but that's been it. They have a lot in the pipeline right now with I think a new DX release every month from April through August so... it might be a bit.
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YES INTERCHANGEABLE HEAD!
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Probably this weekend. I'm working over 60 hours a week right now so I don't have much time to play with my toys... and when I did the leg fell off so that pushed things back.
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I would love a VF-1D paint scheme. I'm a little sad that that wasn't the scheme in Macross Zero.
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Not terribly surprising but HLJ says that they can't do anything for me. If they were an American store allowed to sell the product I'd haggle a bit with them or try to get an exchange but as it is, I guess I should just be happy I was able to get it all back together.
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Okay, so it's exactly like Froy said, apparently the plastic part isn't even supposed to be adhered to the metal hemisphere. Instead, the metal hemisphere has a square on it that protrudes into the plastic hemisphere. The pair is united by the pressure of a black metal block they are in and the sleeve that is housed within. The black metal block is a square not much larger than the ball joint with teeth on either side so that it can slide back and forth but not slide all the way out and not spin. The black square is kept under pressure by both the housing it's in (exactly the same size as the metal block) and by a screw. In my case it seems like that screw must not have been tightened enough and that there was just too much friction on the block preventing it from sliding. When the block did begin to slide it needed a lot of pressure which meant it hit hard against the stopper and maybe a combination of the angle the leg was at and a loose screw in the block allowed the metal half to disengage and the leg to pop free. Fortunately, everything was able to be accessed enough to perform the surgery and I think the only glue that was freed was behind the turbine detail (but maybe I'm just mistaking flawed paint behind the turbine as dried glue). So, the leg is back on, though the seam on the front of the leg is definitely not as tight as it was before the surgery it's still a lot better than having a legless valk. Maybe HLJ will still be able to come up with something to help but I fear a replacement leg would require the same surgery and leave me no better off. You'll be able to see lots of "after" pics when I finish up this review.
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I got it from HLJ so I've emailed them and will cross my fingers. I tried to get into the leg to that point last night and will hopefully try again tonight though I've got a rather full evening ahead of me. I was pleasantly surprised last night not to find much glue in my endeavor. There's a screw cap that sits very flush but can be removed. If the intake turbine detail is glued in it's not glued very well and doesn't need to be, it pegs in quite securely. So I can almost get the whole thing open but there must be some trick to the front of the leg because while I can get the back shimmying apart the front wasn't following suit. I think it's like Froy said where the ball has split in two with the rubber side having seized in the recessed position and just didn't slide forward with the rest of the hip though I won't know for sure until (or if) I get it all the way apart. EDIT - Victory, I had a few minutes before my guests came over and decided to look at the leg one more time. I did get it partially assembled enough to free the sliding mechanism and it is exactly as suspected. The plastic part of the ball, which I presume is glued to the metal part, was frozen within the housing. So now the question is, can it be fused back together... any suggestions? I'll post a pic once the guests leave.
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It was the second time I ever slid the legs out from the inner position, I was about to start posing the toy for pics in battroid for the first time. I can only imagine that since that mechanism was stiff that the force needed to get mechanism moving was more than the force the ball joint could withstand. Edit - I will say it's very odd though, looking at what I'm left with I have no idea how it worked. It looks like the metal rod was glued into the plastic socket as I can't see anything that's actually broken. I think I'm going to take the leg apart to try to figure it out a bit better.
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Sadly this isn't one of those cases where the leg just pegs back in. It looks like maybe this is a half metal half plastic ball joint and the plastic half sheered off or something. The leg is completely free with seemingly no hope for reattachment.
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So I'm going to guess I'm the only one who had their leg fly off the first time they pulled the intakes away from the nosecone.
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There is always some stuff at SDCC... but everything is there.
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Arcadia went matte on the YF.
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No, it's not, and you wouldn't have to go far to realize that, but you don't want to, and that's fine.
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Such a strange argument to make... I appreciate your exceedingly narrow interpretation of the word. Thank you for that...
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It kinda makes me sad that you went through the effort of digging up vaporware when the only question was "has this been announced." Yes, it has. Does that mean it won't become vaporware? No, it doesn't.
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Yes You know that thread has pictures right? Sure, it might be vaporware but if it's not the toys would cost less than the secondary market of Toynami vinyl products and almost certainly be better. I think a giant diorama counts as an announcement.
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Bandai just announced an articulated Regult (aka Battlepod) which might come out this year and is 1/100 scale also. You might be better served waiting and getting those.
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I think it's my favorite 19.
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01 isn't a battlepod, it's Voltron.
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I'll second the vote for the Bandai VF100 series... yikes, terrible.
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No it wasn't and the CF languished until it was basically given away.
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Finding M7 hate isn't hard, there have been lots of threads that you can pour through. Minmay hate may be a little harder to come by. She literally has to have the sense smacked into her in Do You Remember Love? (which you need to watch if you haven't seen it already). I've always found that the Robotech fandom had a more vocal dislike of Minmay but that's because she never really gets redeemed... she's a flighty teenage girl and then kind of a wreck in Sentinels.
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It's too bad that wasn't Grace's VF-27 in the series with the greenies just being CFs.
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any way we can get bigger pictures? I can't really tell what happened.
