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Pretty sure the gift sets are the same toy but with parts that were sold separately now bundled. I wouldn't expect any change in quality.
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Bandai 1/72 fully transform able VF-1 plastic kit for Macross 30th Ann
jenius replied to Vi-RS's topic in Model kits
It's MW, you can rest assured you'll never be alone in dissenting. -
They might have been sold a while ago but you might want to PM Kevin at Valkyrie Exchange, he was selling some busted VF-0A toys a while ago IIRC.
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Bandai 1/72 fully transform able VF-1 plastic kit for Macross 30th Ann
jenius replied to Vi-RS's topic in Model kits
I'll be friggin' amazed if that head shield is integral. I just did a quick line art comparison of the CAD super parts and... those CAD super parts look about as good as the first renderings we saw of this model (terrible). The pylons on top are way undersized while the leg armors are tough to judge from the angle but might be too big... just wonky. -
Sadly no, I sold my 22S Miria and Max a long time ago... just like I'll eventually sell all but one of my 19, 17, and 11 toys. I do have all the others still though so I can do a group shot with the magic of Photoshop
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And now for a review of a toy no one cares about
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Bandai 1/72 fully transform able VF-1 plastic kit for Macross 30th Ann
jenius replied to Vi-RS's topic in Model kits
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I need to update this pic with a VF-19F, VF-19P, VF-17S, VF-17D, and a VF-11C.... that might be a pretty cramped photo!
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Bandai 1/72 fully transform able VF-1 plastic kit for Macross 30th Ann
jenius replied to Vi-RS's topic in Model kits
I'm not sure I get the comparison as there are lots of VF-1 models and toys to compare this to. I guess because it's been a long time since we had a transforming model of the VF-1? I don't know how the final product will look but I gotta give this things props for doing some innovative things. It would have been real easy for Bandai to just put out something based on the Hi-Metal or something more status quo. It may prove overly ambitious at 1/72 though... time will tell. -
Bandai 1/72 fully transform able VF-1 plastic kit for Macross 30th Ann
jenius replied to Vi-RS's topic in Model kits
I hope we see lots of build ups. Some day I dream of building models... probably when I'm retired -
If they wanted to retain it they certainly could... I don't know that anyone would care if they did. In order to retain it you just have to have the cockpit separate at a different point.
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You missed the page of sharp puns eh? Yes, Yamato outsourced the wings to Cutco.
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Agreed, it's a minor gripe, but I think it's even more noticeable in battroid mode where the tops of the folded fins are supposed to be visible but are always just a little too low on Yamato's offerings. Minor though indeed. I'm not CAD guy but I was trying to sketch this out once. My thought was that you do have the heat shield stored very similar to where it is now but you have it connected to the back of the nosecone rather than the bottom of the chest. Then, during transformation, you would do something more akin to the VF-11 by recessing the canopy ever so slightly and sliding down the heat shield. I think this also would be more anime accurate but I haven't watched the show in a while so I may be mistaken.
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I don't know if it counts but I was going to wait for the 17D and 19P to go on sale... but then I snatched them up as soon as someone mentioned the 19P was 'low stock' at HLJ.
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Not far enough back in fighter mode or far enough up in battroid mode. It seemed to be a personal preference thing for Yamato as they got in wrong on all three of their efforts.
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There are some seriously unimaginative people on these boards! Here's my wish list (ignoring my thought that the whole universe needs to get remade in 1/72): 1) Proper transformation. I would make it so the nosecone houses a rod that folds out (rather than that rod being attached to the intake). The legs would then swing down on arms open up around intake, pinch the pole, then the arms the legs swung on could fold back around and be used for side covers in battroid. 2) Reduce or eliminate the priest collar 3) I haven't worked this out but it'd be nice if the heatshield wasn't affixed to the chest so a point of articulation could be added to allow the nosecone to jut forward in battroid mode as seen in some of the more stylized art 4) Put the backpack in the right place in fighter and battroid modes 5) Better range of motion in some of the joints. If you do the proper transformation you could also add a waist joint 6) Gun strap (probably too small of a scale to have it retract back into the gun though) 7) Intake covers you don't have to remove (again, probably would need a 1/48 V2, not a new 1/60 for that)
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That's totally plausible, it might just be that Votoms has more merchandise in my wheel house so it seems to me to be a better supported franchise while Patlabor has a bunch of other merchandise (not toys) so overall it is the more licensed franchise. I did a quick eBay search and it looked like there was about 800 Votoms items for sale and about 1000 Patlabor (that's about as unscientific as it gets, I know). Similarly though, I asked a friend in the Japanese toy industry "Hey, are there any plans for Votoms' 30th anniversary or Patlabor's 25th." He responded with something that sounds very similar to the last thought in your post, something like "It's doubtful, neither franchise has much of a fan base in Japan any more, although the few Votoms fans are more vocal."
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My comment comes from the merchandise = popularity school of thought. Seems to me like Votoms > Patlabor. That's not a national commentary... both franchises were supported entirely by Japanese companies. Maybe I'm wrong... but it seems to me like Patlabor merchandise is a fraction of Votoms merchandise. EDIT - I don't mean to derail this into a Votoms conversation though, it's cool news on its own. EDIT II - Seriously though, didn't Votoms have more episodes, more series, a spin off, 4 OVAs, and a mini series (maybe two mini series)? I mean, I'm not saying people don't like their Patlabor but acting like it was WAY more popular than Votoms makes it seem like Sunrise must do a REALLY good job marketing Votoms.
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I get to open my 19P tonight
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I'm told Patlabor has a smaller following than Votoms so where's the VOTOMS movie?
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I'm no expert in any country's bankruptcy laws but here's my understanding: Arcadia was announced before Yamato went into bankruptcy. Theoretically this means there was a window where Yamato could have been selling assets to Arcadia to raise funds to pay off the creditors. Yamato would need to prove in bankruptcy court that these transactions were completed at the same values as an arms-length transaction. This should be relatively easy for Yamato to do since there's no readily available market for toy molds so they would get to use their own assumptions to calculate price and then just have some sort of evidence for why they made those assumptions ((Original cost of the mold+design) minus ((mold+design)/expected units that could be produced times the units produced)). I would say the evidence for this having been the case was that short transition phase where Yamato became only a distributor of foreign toys ("Um, we sold all of our assets, but we can still put product in a store if someone will pay us to do that!"). I do think it's a safe bet though that not ALL the molds would make the transition. Any license that might have serious competition (SDF Macross) probably would have been left behind. I imagine any mold they felt needed a renewal version (IE the MacPlus molds) also would have been left behind as well. Time will tell. The holy grail? The 1/3000 SDF-1.
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Ultraman, where's your Yamato sdf1? One of those toys is not like the others.
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Gawk at these piles of Macross toys..Back in the day...
jenius replied to VALKYRIE-EXCHANGE.COM's topic in Toys
That's a lotta lowvis! Are you still cleaning out that garage? -
Thanks Sketchley, I added a comment to my video review.
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My armored parts review is finally up (being a dad makes for a lot less time for posts!)