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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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    I think using historical accuracy as a barometer for film quality is barking up the wrong tree. Just take Scott's previous historical epic, Gladiator. It's nowhere near historically accurate, yet it was a massive hit. From all I've heard and seen of Napoleon, it seems he was hoping to strike success using the same formula, but apparently the character drama just isn't as compelling as before, and thus can't sustain the movie when the holes in reality start to show themselves. The Woman King being lashed for deviating from historical truth was all well and good, but the movie itself is otherwise a fine if predictable movie. It felt like a lot of the criticism applied a double standard to the movie. It was okay for other historical movies before it to deviate from dry historical truth, but for whatever reason it wasn't okay for that movie (and this one) to do the same. So... yeah. I don't think historical accuracy is necessarily the issue; I think, like is usually the case, the storytelling just isn't up to snuff.
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    "If you want this MG kit, then SLEEP WITH THIS PILE OF PLASTIC MODEL PIECES FOR MY ILLICIT SEXUAL THRILL." Hm... no yeah, that checks out, carry on.
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    Partly for me it's a bit odd to see the forward-swivel Gerwalk joint being utilized in Battroid form; typically whenever you see Battroid animated/drawn, it always has that joint closed and swivels forward using the hip joint instead. Artists might curve the thigh forward, blend the top and bottom halves together to get a more dynamic forward bend while keeping the vents relatively parallel to the body. This rendition is mechanically correct - or at least mechanically correct as far as this kit is concerned - but it's just not what has usually been done when depicting this subject this or similar ways.
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    I'm half-sure it's been uploaded before. IIRC they rotate shows pretty regularly, and have probably gone through the entire franchise at least once by now.
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    VFG Makina preorders are up, at least the JP ones. HLJ - https://www.hlj.com/macross-delta-vf-31a-kairos-makina-nakajima-aos06524 Hobby Search - https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/11040184 Amiami - https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=FIGURE-162689
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