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    It really is bad, isn't it? I remember a lot of the press it got at the time was for its being shot with relatively cheap commercial cameras, which is great and all, and speaks to what can be accomplished with relatively little nowadays, but... there's still no substitute for competent writing.
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    Eh, Gundam in general has a stupid habit of appending distinct model numbers to the most minor of modifications. The very first thing that comes to my mind is the Exia Repair, which managed to get an official spot in the lineage of the Exia despite literally just being a beat-to-crap Exia jury-rigged into barely working order. Imagine your Honda Civic gets totaled, you straighten out its frame, duct tape some flashlights and hand mirrors, and replace the wheels and the front hood from an old Fiat 500 that happened to be lying around, and you call it the Honda Civic Kai. No, wait. You dangle a worn cloth from the missing passenger-side door that billows coolly in the wind, and THEN call it the Honda Civic Kai. In that sense, I don't see anything particularly offensive about these new revisions upon revisions upon revisions of the Strike Gundam. I still can't tell any of them apart from one another, but then I was also never going to be a fan of this show that wasn't aimed at me anyway, so oh well. I'm sure the people who are meant to like it will like it well enough. Some of the Zeon-inspired designs look alright, though. The Z'Gok is kind of mid, like a worse attempt at the Amazing Z'Gok from... Build Fighters...?, but it's not bad. Also, not shown in the magazine scans, but there's apparently a Gyan Storm, which doesn't look bad. IIRC that backpack is taken from like a Zaku or Gouf variant, right? The shape of it looks familiar, anyway.
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    Speaking of third-party MG kits, I just learned about this the other day. "MG" 1/100 Stargazer: https://www.usagundamstore.com/products/mg-glory-1-100-scale-model-kit
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    Got a payment request from Amiami. Cheapest shipping was 3160 yen for boat mail, or ~$230 total. I went with air mail for 4860, which cuts down on shipping time by hopefully 2+ months and is only $10 or so more thanks to the exchange rate. That's $20-50 cheaper than stores stateside (+ tax), which isn't anything to sneeze at.
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    I concur with @Sanity is Optional. I got charged for the decals as well. I suppose I should be glad that Bandai are at least no longer being stingy with making plenty of those.
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    I am going to guess, wildly and recklessly based solely on the division of the B1 runner, that they have VF-22s in the works.
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    The rest of the sprue is just the remainder of the base. Yeah, I have a bunch of those around the place and they're a good size larger than this one. My guess now is that they may have planned to bundle this with some P-Bandai-/event-/etc.-exclusive variants of the 1/100 fighter kits that were scrapped due to a lack of popularity. Perhaps they even had a VF-27, and this would have been bundled with that and a YF-29 to celebrate the Sayonara no Tsubasa movie premiere... Wishful thinking... Oh well.
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    So I received the P-Bandai YF-29 Alto Expansion Set today and noticed that the runner for the SMS base actually dates all the way back to 2009. I've been trying to figure out what earlier kit might have included this but am coming up empty. Anyone have any ideas? In case it's unclear, the text reads: ©'07 BW/MFP•M ©'09,'11 BW/MFP BA3-E ベース3 (Base 3) BANDAI 2009 MADE IN JAPAN marks indicate Nov 2023 production
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    Que? Beam cannon-equipped Super pack?
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    Currently sitting at 352k. Must have cleared it overnight. 🥳
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    Kappa Hobby, $303.88 + free US shipping: https://www.kappahobby.com/products/dx-chogokin-yf-21-guld-goa-bowman-use
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    HLJ: https://www.hlj.com/1-72-scale-yf-19-w-fast-pack-fold-booster-hsg65885 Amiami: https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=TOY-RBT-7654
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    Thanks as always, @treatment @borgified @no3Ljm!
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    I completely forgot about this thanks to all day fighting a blizzard. Anyone willing to help a brother out and sum up all the PO links? I'll probably have to hope for a US store to start their WWM preorders anyhow, but it'd be nice to have all the same. Thanks!
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    Didn't Evolution Toys do both all three a few years ago? Maybe I'm misremembering. Maybe they did just one or two, maybe not at 1/60 scale.
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    I for one am all for new and improved destroid designs, for the most obvious reason that it gives us cool new mecha designs to fawn over.
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    That's surprising. Clearly I misread something, but I thought this kit was going to be a Japan-exclusive release...?
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    From what little I've been paying attention to, that's functionally what this is supposed to be. On the other hand, from what else little I've been paying attention to, One Piece is a rare breed of long-running shounen that actually has very little filler. So I dunno. Regardless, it seems One Piece fans have been eating very well lately.
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    Yeah, M2 is hardly among my favorites of the franchise, but I'm suddenly feeling some strong nostalgia for it...
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    That could be right, I'm sure it made a cameo somewhere in there amidst all the other cameos. A "GM Semi-Striker" also showed up IIRC during the Torrington fight, using the beam sabers at the end of a long stick variant. So I guess they're both represented in canon. Then again, when the compilation movie trilogy came out, I remember they tried to get rid of some of the goofier, toyetic stuff like the G-Armor, etc. I forget if the beam javelin was excised or not. Managed to find the relevant Unicorn clips: On another note, I want to take this moment to reiterate my disdain for all things Gundam handheld shield. I feel like the big full-size shield template needs to just go at this point. As a design element it rarely adds to a design, and more often detracts from it, looking lopsided and unwieldy as hell. It never provides any actual defense for a mobile suit, and yet it continues to get aesthetic overhauls that frankly stink. I still think, to this day, that the Ground Gundam shield is the one good iteration of the Gundam shield, and that's partly because it's barely a shield at all. It manages to look practical and aesthetically cohesive at the same time, and it's actually shown being used to good effect in the 08MST OVA.
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    Far as I'm aware that was only ever a gimmick of the RX-78. Spear depictions of suits from that time and into the future tended to default to a beam saber holder a LA the GM Striker:
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    Great overall. Effects were great, save for a handful of spotty moments. I especially loved the water simulations, which I honestly probably wouldn't have paid any attention were it not for seeing this interview with the director, Takashi Yamazaki, beforehand, where he mentioned the water alone taking some 500 TB (of... textures? simulated animations? I'm not sure, but 500TB is 500TB). Some random observations:
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    Oh that baby Kong looks baaaad... Yikes.
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    The one hope I have for this movie is that it seems like there's a chance they're going to really lean into the CGI part of the bad CGI alligator and play up the weird shenanigans that that can get up to in ostensibly the real world. Clipping, t-posing, etc. The majority of the trailer doesn't give me that impression, but there's a hint or two of it in there.
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    Surprise, surprise, got my Q-Raus waiting to ship at HLJ! I wasn't expecting these to release until late December.
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