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That's how mine looked out of the box... not sure this helps. The toy comes with a set of alternate head spikes. I can't tell from my pics (too small) but maybe the previous owner swapped out the head lasers. Check to make sure you have extra head lasers.

Vf4 is a long ways off... I'm guessing q4.

A 171 is going to be made some day and I'm gonna buy it. That's my bold prediction. If Yamato is doing the VF-4 anything is possible... even probable at this point.

But he said it was a release not by yamato.

Ooh so the other release comes before the VF-4G huh? Good news.

It really doesn't cost very much to make a repaint of the toy. Yamato's done the hard work releasing the first two toys. A simple repaint made in a very limited quantity could pretty easily break even... make a lot of money? Not so much. Actually, the MSRP on these was ridiculously high so they might be right to think there's not much audience for a limited release repaint.

Because the factories are going to be too busy spitting out VF-1 reissues???

Oh wow, someone talks about a straw man, then says they don't go to manufactcurers websites to complain about defective merchandise so people shouldn't go to a macross forum to complain about toys they think could be better for the price. That was a neat read.

anybody else having issues where pictures will get chopped up in frames? I've noticed this on my phone (Android) and on my home computer on fairly pic intensive threads. One of the pics will inevitably get cut off by the next post and in order to see the pic I'll have to click on it. Not a big problem, just something I've noticed (most recently in the 1/48 Regult thread).

I don't have mine yet but don't the legs already feature a mechanism in th knee for extending in fighter and retracting for battroid? If there's already one way the legs shrink going from one mode to the next, there's almost certianly a way to design them shrinking more... the question is, as always, what would need to be compromised to accomplish this. Maybe they could have tried some crazy contraption like CM's' approach to the Legioss leg... but in reverse.

I'd give it to the V2 VF-25 for the combination of broader appeal and much lower MSRP. While the Yamato 19Kai is sort of in a league of its own, it's still a 19Kai toy at the end of the day and it's at a price point where you realize you could have bought an Xbox360 and games. Sure, if the 19Kai was flawless it still might win out but it too gets loose joints and the Gerwalk joint proved fragile. I call it a darn fine runner-up... but a runner-up none-the-less. Of course, if you're comparing the 19Kai to a $500 Durandal all sorts of stuff gets skewed and the 19Kai starts looking like a much better buy... but I think I paid $180 for my Durandal and VF-25F V2 each and nearly $300 for my Kai.

Someone should convince toynami to make it as an appendix.

I dunno... i love it but i paid msrp... that's a lot of scratch

it ahould probably be considered last year's macross toy of the year... and that should be the perception of it... although i prefer the 29.

Well that's the thing, you could build it as a Fuke or a Shinobu, it would be up to you. I suppose that's not how things work in the real world though since Yamato doesn't include the other heads in their unassembled kits.

Or one kit with an extra head and camera right (assuming it was resin)? Rumor was that Shinobu (LOL, Shinobi gear... ninja outfit and throwing stars?) was going to be an exclusive (head for your fire and pitchforks!).

It does depend on the lighting though, I have some lights where the color match on both valks is very pronounced. Generally though, it looks good to me and even when you can see the mismatch the parts that are painted are such where it almost seems like the second tone parts ought to be a different color as part of the scheme.

I'm optimistic that whoever picked up the prototype when the crash and burn occurred will produce a resin kit.

Yes, capitalizing on a animation error where a 1A was drawn with additional 1J lasers.

Hard to say right now... I'm having a hard time justifying owning all three of those 22S toys. Maybe I'll sell off the M&M and replace them in a similar pic with a 19F and a 17S.

For those of you that didn't check out my Sound Booster review:

Maybe this means that Yamato has the VF-X license again? Maybe we could get a 1/60 Konig this time around . Certainly a YF-19 and then a VF-19A Ravens is in order? Polish off that VF-11B mold for Skull one paint scheme too!

I said when bandai did the yf29 that we'd see a 171, i still believe this to be true.

Crap, if i knew this was how yamato was going to announce it i probably would have blabbed about it earlier. I hadn't heard they weregoing web exclusive... But i bet that holds true for their next exciting tidbit as well. I was under the impression this was going to be an assembled toy but i didn't think to ask for clarification.

Lol, u just looking for a summary so u don't have to read the post?