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  1. PointBlankSniper
    It does look nice on display. Just noticed the gunpod has the movie logo stamped on it. I wonder if this will convince bandai and bigwest to do more CF schemes. Not fond the thought of hollywood tax selling well and contributing to the attempts at making this price range the new norm for barebones valk msrp though.
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    Random sacrilegious thought: Anyone think Alto's Tornado pack might match this scheme?
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    By itself, that would be fine. But every few things I don't get on a whim, is savings for another thing I am dying to get lol On top of that, the books in general are another whole can of worms I'm trying really hard not to open. The master files in particular have been on the back of my mind forerver. If this one book fulfills all my needs of having a collection of art references for all the mainstream canon and the non animation semi canon variants and equipments, then I might consider this a good one off item to consider grabbing.
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    Now that I look at it some more, if they had its trailer mode bend the other way, they could have used the windshields as windshields, and hid the nose and feet inside the container. It could have been an actual truck. Kind of a missed opportunity there.
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    Well, so far, the revival is sturdy enough that I can revert those legs by prodding and feeling around without triggering an explodium chain reaction. Also, I think the explodium was limited to the cannon fodder's glitter packed black plastic not on the EX. If the granite speckle on these new joints are more homogeneous than they look, it should be fine.
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    😂The classic everything you ever needed, after you need it. Didn't know such a delicious book existed. Now I gotta sit on the idea of getting a copy, but never actually doing it, because I need to spend what I can muster chasing after those toy releases lol
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    Don't think he's literally trying to recreate a certain look of any specific version of the 25 there. He just borrowed his own transformation mechanism to make up a new thing for a quick april fools tie in to the collab. It literally says VF-18M Sound Hornet. Where the transformation isn't affected, he even came up with new things. The wings fold more like the Sv-51 and Draken. The sound pod looks like a fuel tank until it splits into a double speaker. The horizontal stabilizers aren't folded under an outer calf panel. The head is a period accurate to be similar to VF-19 variants. We can pretend it's new canon until something official refutes it lol. Anyway, if there's overwhelming demand for an F-14 collab, Bandai may as well finally take the excuse to make the DX VF-0. I'm fairly certain it was primarily invented exactly for the sake of having a VF-1 lookalike that can circumvent harmony gold bs.
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    Gotta wonder if people bought it on Amazon just to review bomb it. There's no way people couldn't tell what the proportions were, from just the promo pics.
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    Looks like almost half the comments were excessively translated to be passive aggressive for no reason. Can't shake the feeling that some of those people think it's an april fools joke and went along with perceived trolling too. There are quite a few alluding to or outright pointing out the harmony gold bs, although some others also clearly had no clue. So of course there were also quite a few complaining about it not being VF-1 / Tomcat from the original etc. There is clearly at least one guy coming out bitter over current events as well, which might be what is setting the sarcastic mood for some others. I'm getting the vibe that I was mistaken and Nakamura might have dubbed Hangman? Haven't even seen the new one, let along care about a dub... but Idk about those twitter translations, since the overall vibes were kind of odd in a uniform way. It almost felt like an AI just translated the whole page to have the tone of the same salty person. The comments don't all feel kinda spicy like that, based on what little I can barely read The comments I saw was a toy channel on yt doing a shorts on the news, and those comments there seemed like mostly hype.
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    Not sure why everyone is complaining about it being not a VF-1 based on the F-14... This is literally the scheme of the F/A-18 from the recent sequel. And the VF-25 is heavily based on the F/A-18. Nakamura Yuichi also voiced Alto and dubbed over Tom Cruise. The jp fans are actually hyped about the voice actor reference of this. They obviously can't sell VF-1 under the Macross name where the Top Gun branding is targeted for. And It's also a common pop culture convention to get collaboration rights for the most recent title from the guest IP. They are also clearly targeting young western fans of the new movie, and not hoping boomer followers of the original to suddenly change their habbits and go out of their way to find marketing of this release and start collecting japanese toys.
  11. PointBlankSniper started following Bandai 1/60 VF-25 DX MESSIAH VALKYRIE Top Gun: Maverick Ver.
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    Got jumpscared by the pv on the official Bandai yt channel. Nice scheme I guess, but I don't got a particularly big attachement to the theme or the 25F head, so I can just appreciate the rare occasion of wallet being safe. Here's to hoping I don't monkey paw it and get a regular Macross release simultaneously announced...
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    Saw a JP video showcase of this. Seems like they love it. Anyone that dares mention the side and bottom view in fighter mode is getting lynched lol
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    The 25, 27, and 29 are identical structures and transformation with cosmetic changes on the surface. But as I said, there is 0% commonality between Chronos and Seigfried. And unfortunately that's not how Bandai works either. There are recolors with 100% parts commonality with high demand that they still won't ever make, because they like having salty fans. Then there are kits that have large identical sections, yet they somehow waste time and energy to redesign whole new runners to rearrange the same parts differently. Other times, they will make a recolor, but since the paint jobs are different, so they will give you a runner in multiple colors to have single pieces match different sections of the new paint job, and inflate a kit to triple it's price and size, just because they are lazy. You can't guess how Bandai works with any logic. It's more likely that Bandai would bust out the 30 to avoid completing the Delta or SMS teams, or they finally run out of every other design to make and lose the coin flip for cancelling the product line so they need one last kit to make. Whichever farms them most spite with the fans is the way they will go.
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    Don't think anyone asked for the Miku, and it barely even looks like her, not to mention it doesn't even look good as its own doll/figure tbh. We are a decade past the age of vocaloid hype too... Idk if there is even a target audience for that thing. I'm sure diehard worshippers that buy every single piece of merch ever made would buy it, but I don't think many are like that... Wouldn't be surprised if it sold worse than the VF-17S
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    I didn't think that far, but that sounds like the way they'd to go. Glued on gunpod skis, while the landing gears are there to dangle for giggles. Originally, I was thinking they'd design the skirts fresh, by following the same ground clearance specs. Or they could just tell us they actually designed the 22's skirts first. So when they worked backwards to make the 21. they kept those external dimensions out of equality considerations for how they knew the 22 would eventually end up...
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