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@Lolicon very very nice work!! And don't see how the pics can get any better quality? They look sharp! I like the MDE bombs, those oversized ordinances somehow elevate the whole valk and makes it look very mean. Agreed that instrument panels should be printed, especially Bandai who likes to find reasons just to tampo stuff lol.
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@no3Ljm @Lolicon @treatment Thanks guys Yammie 21/22 are just so enduring.. I think even if Mr. K takes another shot at them, he won't be changing the proportions much, seeing how little visual differences the newer Arcadia molds have over the Yammies for the other VFs. Perhaps one day I'll pull out the YF-21 instead to do this shot haha..
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Old pics reprocessed, so forgive me if they look overdone. But Yammie's VF-22 Fighter proportions just looks perfect in every way.
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Outside?? Wow!!!!
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Couple of Macross ships in there..
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^^ Not familiar at all the Getter Robo, so I'm kinda confused between the very different Getter Robo aesthetics... some look pretty cute, essentially like a barrel with limbs sticking out; others look more like the normal proportioned super robots.. I probably should spend some time looking it up..
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Yikes it looks to be a total write off. Sorry to hear this.
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Actual packaging for Bison & Dhalsim..
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Lol.. I guess I'll just try to sell the extra or something, but there should be quite a few of us trying to do the same too. I wonder if the long development time of this was mainly due to KC trying to figure out the add-on armor pieces in various ways, and then finally throwing in the towel and decided to make it into 2 figures instead. Certainly never heard of this happening anywhere else before..
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Got an email from KC today, they are informing about release of this figure next week & are asking to reconfirm address & order number again. I guess it’s a soft notification to folks who might have otherwise forgotten about their orders after so long lol.
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Another video to confirm it. https://www.facebook.com/reel/218128158053607 So, 2 separate figures in one box is totally unexpected and a surprise reveal, and I would not have believed it if not for the new videos. Mixed feelings about this though, because I PO'ed 2 units specifically to display one in each mode, but looks like I only need 1 unit now. Additionally, I always thought there would be more play value by adding & removing armor similar to the old Sentinel Armorize Iron Man... I hope both figures are sturdy though, and not cheapened out in construction to save costs as they really sold it for the price of a single figure during PO.
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They have been popping up on Mandarake more often over the past few months.. Jenius has covered these before, there were 2 series released: https://anymoon.com/blog/?p=995#more-995 https://anymoon.com/blog/?p=1324#more-1324
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Releasing next week.
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I so happen to be messing with the Yammie VF-22 lately, and am now wondering if Bandai does make one, how will they handle the Fighter belly proportions? Their YF-21 is already looking pretty generous in that area, so for the VF-22....... 🙈
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The 'Hey look at this really cool model build I saw' post
MKT replied to Shawn's topic in Model kits
From his concept art, the mash-up was supposed to be using VF-25 as a base, but it looks like he switched to using the SV-51 instead.. -
The colors of the VT-1 is supposed to be the same as the VF-1D? So am expecting more muted hues like DX VF-1D instead of Yamato's bright orange..
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They are overcomplicated these days and are not very fun to transform anymore, but then again there doesn't seem to be much way around that to get the screen accuracy of both robot & alt modes. Blame it on the original character designers who didn't work out realistic transformations, so hats off to the current toy designers being able to pull it off. The good thing is that there are so many companies tackling the same characters with each company's own unique way of transformation so we get to pick & choose the one that's to our taste based on screen accuracy, sculpt, ease of transformation & handling, build & robustness. But in the end we choose the better solution - just get more Macross instead. I like this head-canon.. although Transformers alt modes are supposed to look like real-life objects, the transformation process doesn't have to be. Rewatching it now, I realize that every single part of the toy transforms, except for the cockpit canopy. As in title of the video, the designer is Black Apple, somewhat of a well known (and infamous, depending on one's view) name in the 3rd party movie-TF toy scene. There's some discussion of this toy in the TF thread.
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Completely in agreement here. As long as we understand why the deviations are necessary then it would be acceptable. The DX YF-19's folding leg panels are probably the most TF thing Bandai has done for a valk (although I understand it mimics the SHE kit), but it works nicely for its form. Yamato's nose shortening mechanisms for the 21/22 and the v2 VF-1 may not be canon too but they make the final form look good, with the added elegance that they could very well be something that SK himself designed.
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AUD70? That's really some crazy import pricing haha.. If I'm not wrong, that would cost about 3 times a normal CD album during that time in Australia. But I guess sometimes it's also the journey & sweat experienced to acquiring it that's more than the value of the item itself. Thanks for posting these images mate. Interesting.. I can compare how an original Victor vs SM look like now. Even the CD itself is printed to look almost the same. My CD tray could have been white instead of green though - I vaguely remember it may have cracked a long time ago and so I replaced it (Those prongs in the middle holding the CD down are always the first to break).
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Exactly right! That album actually formed part of my core CD collection to listen in rotation for many years. I procured it during college years, it then followed me into uni, and ended up living in my car's glove box for a great many years of working life until I made the full transition into digital library for my music. Thereafter the CD was tossed into storage & somewhat forgotten. The album continues to surprise though. Something I read very recently (only a few months ago!) suddenly made me remember of it and I was compelled to dig it out. To my surprise, my copy is a bootleg! It was made by SM Records, an infamous Taiwanese company that makes extraordinary high-quality bootlegs that are pretty much indistinguishable from the originals to the average user. The booklet, the inserts, the colors & printing can look even more legit than some other licensed CDs, down to the robustness of the casing. What is different though, is that the BigWest Victor logo isn't there, and the SM Records logo is plastered somewhere instead. I actually heard of SM Records & their exploits years before, just that I totally didn't expect my Macross album to be actually one. This is because it was the only album I ever purchased at my local Tower Records then and paid what would be full retail price of an original album. In my mind it couldn't get any more legit than that, but yet.... Still, after this revelation I didn't remain perturbed for long. I now regard this CD to be a cherished Macross collectible for what it gave me, perhaps in the same way as how KO 1/55 chunkies are fondly regarded by some.
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I can imagine it too as you described haha.. There are also other valks that don't look too flattering in Battroid, but become acceptable once imagined as something else in selective poses.. Actually, the Max & Milia 22s seem rather rare for some reason. I'm thankful Yamato made them because I don't think they appear in any other toy forms or scale.
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Not sure if this can be of value to discussion, but I'm now thinking of some of the 3rd party Transformers today of similar size to this YF-21 and they have at least double or triple the parts and complexity. There are endless panels & parts that fold, swivel, collapse, unfurl & rotate, and most of them are engineered well enough to be quite stable & sturdy. Heck, a recent one I saw even had the landing gear transform to become an integral connecting joint piece for robot mode. Not to say I want the YF-21 to be this complex or breaking canon too much, but I think engineering-wise anything is quite possible these days. It could be a matter of how far Bandai wants to take it seeing that they are already tweaking quite a bit on the YF-21's aesthetics.
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Something I also don't get is Bandai shortened the belly plates to get a shorter hip skirt. And then they add back the length of the skirts when the fast packs are installed. On another note, this could be the first valk toy where there are articulated rudders just for its sake. The rudders on the YF-19 / VF-19 Advance don't count as they are full folding flaps for transformation purposes.
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I imagine it feels like a v1 VF-25 vs the 1/72 kit back in the days lol.
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