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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.
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    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..
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    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.
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    TV as the background is a bold idea!
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    Hahaha mystery solved.. TZ implement animation errors in spirit. At least TZ didn’t draw the missiles being mounted onto the vertical stabilizers.
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    Haha yes! Love the concepts for these, both the Dread & FSW Legioss 2007.
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    Nothing much new with this review, except he shows how the legs can be completely detached from the waist joint, ala Bandai DX. Video also doesn’t show anything with the 3rd elbow joint; it’s stuck in position as with all the other videos. Hilariously he also installs the missiles backwards, & has that huge ass gap between the arms & head in Fighter. I think there must be something wrong in the instruction manual for so many reviewers to do so.
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    Don't forget the HMR VF-0A.. that is a solid release.
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    Confirmed these are seam lines where the shoulder cap meets together. My Isamu doesn’t have cracks on this. In fact, none of my 29s have this problem, only the 25s - both the renewal 25G & 25S. I was thinking not too long ago that this issue seems more prevalent on the 25 rather than 29, but then again there are others who reported their 29s also have cracks at this area. Isamu’s colour is not to say more yellow resistant, just that any yellowing will be better masked by the beige colour. The Isamu 29 pics that I took not that long ago (posted in the other tread) actually have yellowed quite a bit in many sections, but I used warm white lights for those pics so it wasn’t very apparent.
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    @ZYZY sorry to hear this. Yeah the HK / Taiwan groups are reporting about 2 cases daily, & you are right, they all bend in that one direction. Unlike the YF-19 Full Pack, there’s actually quite a bit of clearance between the tip of head laser to the top of the plastic bubble. If there aren’t any scuffs on the plastic bubble itself where the head laser come into contact with, then it points to the issue already happening at factory during packing.
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    Every once a while we come across deals we can’t refuse. I stepped into my local department store recently, & they had some pieces of Bburago 1/24 cars in the bargain bin. These are older pieces, the boxes were extremely beat up & have just about the most shelf wear one can see, with yellowed viewing windows, some collapsed, but they ultimately look unopened. So I picked up a few pieces, each for only an equivalent of $5. The one I like most of the lot is a Fiat 500 Abarth. I looked the actual car up & thought it’s crazy it’s still in production today, like the current Nissan GTR. But it has a rather timeless design. The rest of the lot.
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    These old Yammies are still formidable, & the color’s still good all things considered for something around 20 yrs old now.
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    Banpresto Ichiban Kuji maiko Ranka.
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    I was just thinking the Buldog might look like a stealth bomber. From this angle it looks somewhat like a flying wing design..
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    When put that way, you are right on the small intakes accentuating the belly. For me, it’s looking like the DX is one of those designs that looks better in hand than in pics. Specific freeze frame angles can make it look unflattering - both Fighter & Battroid, but the shape & profile changes a bit on other angles that makes it look pretty nice to me. Well, that blows. So we have to also transform it to look for 2 left shoulders in addition to broken head laser.
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    Couple more comparison pics. The DX Fighter didn’t seem to be as fat now.
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