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  1. lechuck
    You could also maybe try Gentei Kits, but I can't really give any feedback as I have yet to try them.
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    I don't care or follow third party that much, so I had to check with YouTube and honestly, I am not impressed. Sure they get all the car bits extremely compressed, but at the cost of being very fiddly and messy to deal with as well as not making the actual bot any more attractive or articulate either. I will take the larger backpack footprint if it means I get more - how to put it - industrialized engineering to handle the toy irritation free. Far to much is made and exaggerated about the backpacks and sorry, but it is simply not true what you are saying.
  3. lechuck
    That is some memory you have. I had to check, but yes that was me. In case anyone is wondering and to put what Lolicon is referring to into slightly better context, this took place in the toy forum VF-31 thread (page 98/99) and I did voice my discontent that spoiler tags were not used to hide a pivotal incident taking place in Macross Delta. This was early December 2016 with Macross Delta I believe only finishing late September. I suppose everyone has a different definition of what is "long-finished", personally for me that is not a couple of months. It was only one post/complaint and no additional "whining" on the matter from my side. The forum member apologized, corrected their previous posting and that was it basically. In response to your angry reply Lolicon (and perhaps others) - I was going to tinker with my posting to soften it. But the damage has been done and it would be the wrong approach here, as in trying to backtrack on a mistake, so I am going to leave it as is (original has been quoted anyway). Call it a bad choice of words, aggressive and thoughtless posting or an outright attack or insult on the whole Macross fanbase on my behalf - I will accept the accusations and will take the justified backlash and anti-postings that come with it. But I still stand by my opinion that Arcadia is just price gouging fans. The additional tampo printing should be there from start and should not really factor in to Arcadia's already high pricing all that much.
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    I am more disappointed that we did not get a Decepticon and preferably someone/something that does not carry the Micro Change heritage or is just an evil Autobot variant again. We need more like Galvatron, Blitzwing, Insecticons, Overlord, G2 Tank Megatron etc.
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    Surprised they are doing well? With all those poor gullible Macross fans buying into Arcadia's Premium Finish nonsense...
  6. lechuck
    It took DS9 a full two seasons for stuff to actually start happening. But I do agree that the pacing is way too slow. All previous shows were able to pull off introducing characters, some world exposition and providing us our first adventure within the space of 90 minutes. Anyway I have watched the first three episodes now and so far, so... ok I guess. I do not like the cursing, not a fan of how Starfleet is being portrayed or that again we have more uber secret societies to deal with, now the Rolulans have their own section 31... hur...rah... . For that last one I really blame DS9 for making secret orders, intelligence and the whole espionage thing a central part of Star Trek. We have never recovered ever since.
  7. lechuck
    Hasbro, this is how you do Magneto...!
  8. lechuck
    So... the major complaints seem to be the face, backpack, curvy waist/abdomen and - the big one - the chest cover positioning. The Face should not be an issue, if Takara continues the trend of supplying alternative faces. Backpack - it is what it is, I put it down to Movie/Season 3 shenanigans, not sure how one thinks all that car stuff can be hidden in a very feminine styled robot body. Regarding the curvy parts, I can live with it but I too would have appreciated a more angular approach. Personally, only the chest cover issue bugs me the most, sort of holding me back from really accepting this latest entry.
  9. lechuck
    Zeta looks nice, but the red colour could be more vibrant, a touch dull for me.
  10. lechuck
    Picture of a picture at an angle... If you look closer she does have edges and flattened sides around her waist and abdomen area. And if 3P offerings are going to be the measure, then Takara has nothing to worry about.
  11. lechuck
    In latest Masterpiece news, seems like we are getting: MP-50 - Tigertron MP-51 - Arcee
  12. lechuck
    Airbrake, backpack height and flight stand... really is that the most important thing everyone is getting from these images? How about we talk about the new forward swivel for the shoulder/arm or the additional bending range in the upper leg? IMO this new articulation gives Kitz's VF-1s a USP, confirm to me that it also has waist swivel and it would suddenly make Arcadia's and Bandai's implementation look a bit behind.
  13. lechuck
    OMG, your are a quantum singularity of normality within this parallel universe of negativity. There is hope for this thread.
  14. lechuck
    This was the pre-order with the mark-up at 25k Yen. I got a mail on 8 December telling me that it is going to the logistics partner (keep in mind I use their Trans-Logistic scheme) and I would receive a tracking number within 48 hours. A week and a half later still no tracking number, so I opened a case with NY basically telling me that their partner is overloaded due to Christmas and that it may take a bit. Since then nothing has happened. Normally I am pretty patient and relaxed about these things. NY has come through for me on many occasions, so I don't want to dismiss them, but it is a bit unnerving that my order is sort of stuck in limbo.
  15. lechuck
    Just curious, is anyone still waiting for their VF-1S from NY to be shipped like me?
  16. lechuck
    Arrrgghhh... Kal-El what happend to you!? Never played the games or read the books, so Witcher thing was all new to me. Definitely the whole chrono-puzzle storytelling is its novelty, but I am hooked and will continue to watch.
  17. lechuck
    Enjoyed season 2, overall good pacing, solid character development and awesome special effects. At times it felt like a big movie budget was granted for 50 minutes of television.
  18. lechuck
    Yeah me too, I will never get use to or except beefy Batman. The story is great, but the art direction is just terrible to my eyes.
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    Yamato 1/48 aesthetically pleasing... lol. To work with the car analogy, a Fiat Multipla has inner engine details to show too, but when you close that bonnet it is still an ugly car. So I will gladly have less inner details and take the "inferior" Bandai DX with the better proportions and articulation.
  20. lechuck
    There is a December release, which according to NY will be 23rd.
  21. lechuck
    So it seems BBTS put up a listing for MP-49 as Black Convoy. The easy conclusion is that it is a MP-44 repaint, but there is also some wishful speculation that it could be Scourge from RiD.
  22. lechuck
    Those patterns on the helmet always irritate me, I am always reminded of Overman King Gainer - and I did not like that anime.
  23. lechuck
    Looks fantastic, pre-ordered two of these. Are we witnessing something historic here, a Mospeada Legioss usurping the legendary Macross VF-1 as best transforming jet fighter!? TOTY 2020!
  24. lechuck
    That YF-21 is shaping up fine, confident that Bandai will put out nice DX toy. I wonder if we will get VF-22 variants from this, would actually prefer those. Glad I had some foresight this time and got rid of my VF-22 not long ago. I would say sell the Yamato ones while you can, because they are going to become pretty much obsolete once this is out on the market.
  25. lechuck
    The central swing bar needs to go (regardless if detachable or not) in any next gen. toy after the DX. It is the no. 1 reason why VF-1 Battroid modes end up as a compromise. Because the stupid bar needs to be accommodated/compensated for, there are vertical positioning issues to always consider, but the far greater problem that does not seem to get recognition is that it also pushes the fuselage part to far out, consequentially leading to the head plate sitting on thin air, heatshield-belly syndrome and big gaps between chest and back plate. The VF-1 is supposed to be very compact in Battroid mode, take a side profile look at any of the modern VF-1 toys and it becomes very apparent why it is not that way.
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