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  1. MKT
    Nice! Somehow the YF-21's huge shelf between the shoulders doesn't really look bad here. Man you have really prettied up this HMR VF-4. Great work! Seeing this, it reminds me how much better I like Arcadia's YF-19 for battroid. The legs just gives off a more solid stance, whilst Bandai's give me impression of an old man's bow legs.
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    Interesting.. my recently received item (not YF-21) from Nin-nin was packed in an entirely different way. It’s likely by now the stores already know about this issue & adjusting their packaging to be cautious. My copy is on the way from HLJ, not sure if they are doing anything for extra protection. Perhaps should have waited another week before having it shipped.
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    Finally received the HMR VF-0A from Nin-nin, after being in their private warehouse limbo for more than a month.
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    I agree 110%. I guess after being in the hobby for a certain time, we notice patterns emerge from toy makers over time and Bandai today is not like Bandai a decade ago. Bandai a decade ago appear to be more willing to complete lines, but Bandai today just likes to blue-balls folks. Even if they suddenly decide to continue a line after a long hiatus, the core concepts of the line can be quite different, likely due to a different person overseeing it being the large corporation that they are. I’m only noticing this seeing how the recent SHF Guile (Street Fighter) being quite different in execution than the older SHF Street Fighter figures, & Guile was released a good few years after the last release before it. And now, we may be seeing the same thing with the DX YF-21, when it looks to have different core concepts of what a DX Chogokin Macross should be. This only makes me appreciate Arcadia even more because we know Mr. K is the driving force behind their Macross products, & so far he has done well bringing his ideas of what a Macross toy should be to fruition. If the HMR Regult Scout & rest of Destroids are released I hope there won’t be any radical changes from when they were last previewed.
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    Pretty surprised the DX YF-21 has so much heft. 620g and that is almost double the DX YF-19's 335g! Even the DX VF-1 'only' weighs in at 490g.
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    Please do get if you can. The price dipped slightly below MSRP upon release, but now it has gone back up to be on par. I hope Bandai continues with this line, would like the Olson colours next..
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    I just received my first order from Nin-nin. Even their packing is reminiscent of NY - blue bubble wrap and customized shipping box that's cut to the item box size. I almost expected to see the shipper's name being 'Fiona Gomez'
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    One of the bizarre stuff that's going on with Threezero's VF-1, are the unsightly elbow joint design. Actually, I'm seeing this YF-21 having ugly elbow joints as well, but perhaps that is the least of its issues lol. Still, I've I wonder why they did the elbows this way, they are so different than one would expect.
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    Easiest solution I think would be just make the belly plates canon, then when coming to Gerwalk just slam on a plate cover to close the bottom cavity & emulate the ventral vents - almost like what they are already doing for delimiter mode. It'll be partsforming Gerwalk, but they are already doing so for delimiter mode anyway, and the cover will not be any different in principle to the VF-1 chest side covers. Seeing this make me realise now that Yamato's belly plates are also not canon after all. Yamato's hip skirts are much longer than they should be, whilst Bandai's went the other way and are much shorter. Ok we wait for Arcadia to tackle the YF-21 again and see how they will solve this - another 10 years perhaps..
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    Release date for this is supposedly July 18th - another 2 weeks. By then we'll forget all about the YF-21
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    Wow a name I totally forgot. I love that these nostalgia machines are being re-released.
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    Well I guess there are many ways to skin a cat. I imagine how your solution would work, but there might be a bit too much panel-forming involved, in a sense of parts unfolding & unfurling every which way to resemble something. I’m not sure how the Macross community at large would accept the kind of panel-forming solution that we are now seeing in the 3rd party TF scene. True, the DX YF-19 has unfolding leg panels, but it’s still pretty straightforward affair & I’m still ruminating what is the fine line between acceptable & not for transforming valks. The YF-21 is already something different from other valks anyway; in a sense it’s a part shell-former (considered to be a lazy transformation trick) so perhaps going the panel-forming route is acceptable since the base design already has some deception in form of anime-magic built into it.
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    Well that blows. I only ever ordered 1 item from ShowZ some years ago, & if I remember correctly, it came packed inside a styrofoam box then, which is probably the best type of shipping box. Well, if talking about sculpt, they are very similar to each other. Jenius’s review of the DX has plenty of comparison pics between both, & there’s even a video detailing the engineering differences. Lol let’s see if TZ will revise the manual for the VF-1S release.
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    HMR Orguss.
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    Ignoring the legs, this shot to me encapsulates the design decisions Bandai made that gave us the YF-21 as it is. I can sort of understand the designer's thinking process now: 1. First make use of the engine space to fill the legs with, and so proceed with the excellent & innovative leg engineering complete with hiding the lower leg in the shins. 2. When getting to Gerwalk, the underside will then look strange because the engines will look really hollow. So let's truncate the hip skirts, and leave some of the belly plate there to cover up the cavity. Hence we end up with the situation where you have short hip skirts and but with the length added back from the fast pack. 3. When coming to the side panels behind the wings, there is also a cavity at the space where the arm occupied in Fighter. In canon Gerwalk transformation, and where Yamato faithfully followed, the cavity is tampered somewhat by the hip skirts which goes up to a fixed position to give an impression of mass along the sides. But oops, since the hip skirts are now truncated, let's give the job of hiding the cavity to the panel that covers the hands in Fighter (the one with the UN Spacy & NETFC tampo), and so we end up with that panel being lengthened but consequentially the forearms shortened, giving the look of the vertical stabilizers being a bit more forward than it should be. In a way, Bandai greatly prioritised Gerwalk just to give the whole back & underside a solid looking form, hence we end up with that short hip skirts in Battroid, and the different proportions in Fighter. Personally however, Fighter still looks great to me in the pics even if Yamato's is superior. I guess there's room for more than one interpretation on what looks good, sort of like the various VF-1 we get in toy & model kit form - Yamcadia v2 & Bandai DX look great in Battroid, but the new Plamax 1/72 Battroid with its exaggerated proportions also looks nice. At this point, since so much stuff is already changed from canon, the little details like panel lines or shape of cockpit canopy doesn't matter so much. I'll treat the toy like a third party TF toy, and judge based on its aesthetics as it is rather than compliance to canon. But nothing excuses the poor packaging or whatever factory SOP that led to these bent head lasers. The incidences feel to be much higher than the YF-19 Full Pack release, so it looks to be beyond numbers of packages getting crushed at the bottom layers of the pallet during shipping that was speculated for the YF-19.
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    This is one of the most engineered displays I’ve come across. Hope it turns out well once everything is set up.
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    I was wondering about that too, since many videos also show those cavity fillers being very gappy once puttting the valk in poses. Not that big issue for me I guess, since I’m currently displaying my Yammies without them anyway.
  18. MKT
    Ha at least we know the legs are stabile both ways. @graphic revolt hope the other 2 copies head lasers are fine, & thanks for your pics. Love your displays as well.
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    https://www.facebook.com/share/v/WzKLP1UCwGeaaCNv/?mibextid=w8EBqM New video showing lighted up cockpit of the Battle Pod. Also, the Officer Pod & Destroids will be going the Kickstarter route for orders.
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    She rarely appears in Macross concerts..
  21. MKT
    This is also the other unsolved mystery - the purpose of this flap. It even has a tab as if for your fingernail to pull it out.
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    ZD Toys 1/10 Mark 33 Silver Centurion.
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    its just after the 10 mins 10 sec mark:
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    I hope Bandai addresses the bent laser, and issue replacements. It's just a straightforward swap of a small piece so that's the easiest fix ever that can be done by a manufacturer. Question is if they do, will they address it now, or only wait until the overseas batches arrive stateside in couple of months? It's not unprecedented for Bandai to make fixes, and this is all the more urgent since it's a worldwide item instead of JP-only. I just hope they don't come out with some strange excuse that insults our intelligence like that 100-001 modex number fiasco.
  25. MKT
    TV as the background is a bold idea!
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