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I can't find my old collection pictures any more and now everything is in storage I wanted to show some chunky love too!

If memory serves: VF-1D with Minmay then straight into his VF-1J with red accents. He only has a VF-1A in the movie DYRL.

The big difference in the fast packs are the arm armors, the color difference is minor: Here's a blurry pic of what you'll see when you open the lid: and since Hikaru didn't ever pilot a super 1J you may find yourself doing what I did... that is giving his fast packs to one of your Roys to make a quasi TV Super Hikaru (in VF-1S)

I bought a loose Max 1J and sold the valk itself and just kept the fast packs. One of the members in Hong Kong used to do a store for us and he'd part them out when they were new also. He stopped doing that so long ago i can't remember his name anymore.

The Yamato stands work great with 1/48s... I think Ivanov is the only thing they don't work with. I actually took a bunch of pics to do a full review... might take me quite some time to get it up and by then you'll already be playing with yours. As a matter of fact, I think I said I'd have the Launch Arm stand review up about this time last year! Blame Yamato for all the new releases!

I voted that I can't decide... it depends entirely upon the pose. If the pose is aggressive then usually the laser gets forward, if it's an escape type pose or casual then usually pointing backward, if they're standing at attention then usually the laser is pretty erect.

I liked the angel in blue so much I bought an extra set of blue Max fast packs to have with it at all times... Sorry I never got so crazy with Hikaru's 1j... maybe next time I update my fast pack review... but that's not gonna be for a long time.

Man, I hadn't even thought about that angle. I could just see it now.. Well, i guess the good news is that we could always call things buy their Japanese production names.

I suppose I am giving HG the benefit of the doubt in thinking they packaged the rights legally when delivering them to WB. If they didn't then heck, anything could happen.

Keith, no offense but I think you're kinda way off on this. First of all, HG is set to make money. 1) They make a little money and nothing ever becomes of this, WB just locks the rights up and doesn't use them. 2) They make a ton of money and WB actually uses the product and does it well. A third option lies in the middle, product gets made, it's a turd, HG makes money but not a ton of it... probably uses that money to continue their animated efforts and disowns the live-action as alternate universe BS. HG isn't set to be pissed off in anyway, they're probably thrilled to have gotten this far along. Lots of problems with that. First, we're talking about WB and how they're going to use whatever rights they have. Second, we're talking about WB being in a legal battle with a company they may very well be able to buy (hell if I know on that one). You don't get stuck in a long protracted battle with a company you can either bankrupt or purchase... you either bankrupt or purchase them. Imagining that HG would catch collateral damage from whatever that would be seems to be... overly optimistic. If BW can't be purchased, bankrupted, or dealt with, I think we can all agree that WB would just avoid the legal matter entirely. C'mon now, you're gonna flame everyone on the RT boards and not even give me some credit for dropping that knowledge on the folks in error? Besides, you could easily level that same angst against Trainsformers before it came out and look where we'd be? God helped with some company walking away with millions of dollars and a sequel almost immediately put into development. Don't go telling me there aren't a million poorly informed Transformers fans out there... I don't mean to come off as an RT sympathizer here... I view this project with more than a bit of trepidation, but it seems like we've reached that twiddle-our-thumbs-and-wait-to-see-what-happens-next phase and some people are killing that time by descending into needless negativity based on pure speculation, rumor, and misconception.

Those are taken from my review of the super releases HERE. As to getting them... they run a pretty price now. Not quite 1/48 prices yet... but they're getting increasingly harder to get. The 1/60 is definitely an inferior product to the 1/48 so the days of thinking you got what you paid for are also long gone.

That's a pic of the exploded detail from a 1/60 kit. Here's a closer pic:

Sweet guys, thanks for the input!

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Not more detailed... it's an optical illusion because you can see more of the detail due to the lighter color. It looks like they may have added some "splotchiness" to the paint job though to simulate different panels... I guess that could be considered more detail. Looks good, can't wait to see it in person.

I find the color change to be pretty subtle myself. I think I'm going to give my current SDF-1 away as a gift and replace it with the new one.

Nah, that couldn't have been the plan. Whose legs would they have included? They used different shades of white for all the DYRL releases. Also, the backpacks wouldn't work either. All my 2nd editions can swap the fast pack parts... they seem to all be compatible. The 2nd editions are all the valks that came with fast packs and the VF-1D. The VT and VE are kinda their own beasts.

Well I think therein lied the confusion. It seemed the Shin 0A would have the fixes.

i find now that we know the shoulders are weak, and we know to loosen them a bit, and Yamato has claimed to have done something (don't know what) to improve them, we can buy these *if we're planning on using them for display more than play*.

I'm pretty sure the only release date Toynami has given is TBD. Since they didn't say anything about 2007, and since they're apparenty busy with Aoshima, smart money is on 2008

They didn't make them as a set because the only valks that'd work with fast packs are the ones that come with them (and the VF-1D). EDIT - That is to say, Yamato would have had to completely re-engineer fast packs that would work on the initial valks... and they'd have to work like takatoku Fast Packs or something.

It's impossible to correct yellowing, it's the deterioation of the plastic itself. The best you can do is paint over it, sand off the layer that has yellowed (in instances where you're sure the cause of the yellowing was environmental), or figure out some other way to remove/cover the affected area. Obviously, in the case of toys, all of these methods would pretty much ruin the toy... unless you're going for a full custom repaint.

Deadghost, are you saying you didn't perceive there to be an episode missing there too? Lots of people complain about the end but lots also complain about how jumpy the story is (ie. missing an episode).

The trick with the flexis is to buy one of each size and then switch the rods as needed. You end up with a display that has a 6" and two 4" arms or something like that but you can do amazing poses.

TV releases have the fists, CF has the fists, DYRL releases do not. They have been recasted in all varieties and colors, someone should be able to help you out.