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Enjoying all the pics posted here, thanks everyone for posting them. The paint app doesn't look shoddy at all and pretty decent. Had to smile a bit on the tech spec reader bit, nice callback to when these were actually promoted as cool gimmicks. I remember in an early review of the Valkyrie Factory VF-1, the reviewer pointed out this feature, so looks like it carried over here.
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+1... + many 1s! Love the modded designs from Macross R.
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No tampo printing at all? 0? Is it really made by Bandai?
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Other toy lines like Macross or Mospeada?
MKT replied to sjoebarry's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Love the Moto-slaves too How's the built quality with regards to transformation actually? I haven't got to transforming any yet, so can't attest to that part lol. But they don't appear to break easily and the listings of them that pop up over the long period when I was hunting for my set never indicated broken examples - at most missing pieces. I've never seen the Galvion Circus-1 before, so that is cool. -
Reminds me of an old shoot-em-ups receiving big booster & weapon upgrades!
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Hmm how to do a re-issue but make the tiniest of changes to not call it a re-issue? On first impression, the base white looks very similar to Threezero’s weathering edition, except this doesn’t have any weathering. I do wonder why Bandai chose this shade of white..
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Other toy lines like Macross or Mospeada?
MKT replied to sjoebarry's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Erm.. there’s the Garlands of Megazone 23 from Arcadia. -
Looks to be retail in US, & web exclusive in Japan & Asia.
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I rather it be a Macross valk repainted to TF colors instead of a TF jet repainted to Macross colors...
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Just came across this awesome pic. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dpednr7m7o
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Just echoing @twich.. but no sword being shown this time though.
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As opposed to the VF-25S Armored, this 262 repaint is now being offered on official P-Bandai sites outside Japan across Asia. Bandai appears to be testing out different avenues for web exclusives now. I’m also surprised Bandai didn’t package in the missile packs for this, as what they have been fond of doing for other WWM DX releases. With this scheduled to be released in Feb next year, safe to say we won’t be getting any more new valk toys this year that hasn’t already been announced. The VF-25S Armored in Nov will cap off a rather busy year of reissues, revivals & new molds. Hopefully we’ll get a DX 262Ba next year, and they’ll also do a SV-303 Vivaswat soon!
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Ok finally an acknowledgement of the Gluu-ger delays.
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It is similar to Keith's, but they adopted that for the show too.
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PO links for SV-262Hs Bogue: Yoya: https://www.yoyakunow.com/en/robots/22082-dx-chogokin-movie-edition-sv-262hs-draken-iii-bogue-con-vaart-use.html Nin-nin: https://www.nin-nin-game.com/en/macross/140445-dx-chogokin-macross-delta-bogue-con-vaart-s-sv-262hs-draken-iii-red-knight-ver-limited-edition-bandai-spirits-.html
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Yeah just gotta try and have zero expectations now with anything Bandai. We already can’t reliably predict what they gonna release next, & now we can’t take for granted if the quality is gonna be ok for repaints. Keith’s Hs color scheme still look much better than this Red Knight’s, the gold/copper really pop against the dark blue base & is just the most gorgeous paint scheme in Macross toy history IMHO. Such a shame no Ba yet, but when the movie debuted this Hs Red Knight, the intention to milk Hs is pretty much telegraphed, even if I was just saying we shouldn’t predict anything Bandai does lol. Frustrating..
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Updated first post with official info. Sales area is only in 3 regions, unlike the immediate previous P-Bandai item the VF-25S Armored Revival. I wonder if they Bandai will do hybrid style sales like the latter...
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Yup it was at the start of the 2nd movie.
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Not the Ba though. Gotta milk that mold..
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DX Chogokin SV-262Hs Draken III Bogue Con-Vaart P-Bandai item. PO Date: 23 Aug 2024, 4pm JST. https://tamashiiweb.com/item/15103/?wovn=en Alternative pics, this one shows Bogue’s pilot sculpt. from Macross Showroom:
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Before watching @jenius's review, I didn't realise there were all these sculpt & design issues with the FP in Fighter mode. I'm wondering if the FP pieces are supposed to have any markings on them? There's so much tampo on the main valk (not a complaint) but the FP have none, and with the plain grey plastic against the valk, they look little better than plain 3D printed pieces.
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Nice pics Where is the guitar from?
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The Alien/Predator/Aliens vs. Predator Thread
MKT replied to VT 1010's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Went to watch it on a whim yesterday on the back of generally good early sentiments of it. Before this, I've only ever watched the first teaser trailer that came out months ago, and at that time it felt a bit wearying like its beating another tired old horse, with the visuals looking like it was made more for streaming rather than with a big-screen experience in mind. Came out pleasantly surprised that the flick is so much better than what the teaser suggested. I think the visuals looked exactly right, with good effects and mood setting throughout its runtime. A problem I notice more often with cinemas post pandemic is that the equipment may be behind on their maintenance schedules, and movies with dark and limited light settings like this demand good projection calibration in their brightness settings, so I was thankful there were no issues on this aspect in the hall I was in. I'm only catching up with detailed reviews now, and there have been some criticisms on its story in that it recycles a lot of old ideas. I think it depends on how much of a fan one is of the originals, and when was the last time we watched it. It has been many, many years since I watched the originals, so although there were homages that I recognize, I didn't think it was too much on the nose. Sometimes, franchises do need this after years of straying into the wilderness - to remind what makes the originals great but in a different take, with enough scenes that makes it stand on its own. This is why I thought SW Episode 7 was pretty enjoyable when it came out, which in turn reminds me exactly of how Macross Frontier homaging its older brethren at that time. There have been other titles more recently that lean into nostalgia like Ghostbusters Afterlife & Prey, but I think Romulus is a better movie from this standpoint. I'm hearing terms like 'back to horror' being thrown about, but at this point most of us are pretty familiar with the xenomorphs that it is not scary anymore. The movie does have thick suspense & some inventive scenes though.