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Another aspect that isn't mentioned too often is the cockpit. While the cockpit is more spacious and the pilot no longer is squished up against the instrument panel, Bandai didn't think to add an actual seat, so the pilot sits on the floor and can't see over the instrument panel. This isn't a QC issue. It's a poor design issue. It looks really dumb and makes the pilot look like a little kid at an air show.

Was considering getting that Threezero 1J but then I saw that they Bandai'd the landing gear, so nuts to that. That's right up there with putting the on/off switch for the arc reactor light on their Iron Man figures underneath a panel that you need to unscrew to open... after pulling the torso off completely from the lower half.

Wow you make almost wish I had bought the anniversary edition!

That price would be acceptable if it was the full set pack and not this corner-cutting reissue.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but Bandai could just, you know, make it easier to buy their crap, instead of making their customers scramble over each other like a bunch of circus seals fighting over a bucket of fish.

^ This. Regardless of the reasons behind it, Bandai is currently crapping out inferior quality products at a higher price than they were just a couple of years ago. Even long-proven toys from way before the pandemic have taken a step down in quality. Sure, the Revival 25 has that nice matte finish now, but it still has the same problems as before (the "improved" joints are a joke) and introduces a few new problems, like the incorrectly painted stripes. Good thing it comes with super parts to cover that up with. I mentioned I wasn't a huge fan of the HMR VF-0S in another thread. Aside from being overpriced for what Bandai is giving you, another major reason is, well, I'll let Rocket handle it:

Another Bandai PO I can skip.

I'm not a fan of the HMR VF-0S but it actually looks good here.

I wish I had stocked up on more Yeti adapters. They're so much better than the default adapters from Yamato/Arcadia. Especially the VF-1 adapters.

US domestic price will be probably be about $259.99. For a reissue of a toy from c.2014 (because it's little more than a repainted VF-19 Advance). And without all the accessories it originally came with. Awesome! Add in the cost of a potential accessory set sold separately plus US tax and it's pretty much what I paid for my Arcadia PF YF-19. So much for Bandai toys being less expensive than Arcadia.

Thanks! I just got it to what I wish we had gotten out of the box to begin with, given how expensive these toys are. Bandai seems to be giving us less and less for more money i.e. YF-19 reissue. Everything kinda attaches and lines up worse once the supers are added into the mix. 🦃

One star rating at Amazon. Oh my!

VF-25F Super Messiah Super parts look great but really make the 25 a lot more fiddly. It's a far cry from the rock solid super parts on Yamato's VF-1.

Might be an easy fix. But it is a $200 toy, so maybe we shouldn't have to? Oh, if anyone was wondering, the reissue does not come with the special Walkure stand that came with the initial release.

Great shot!

Quite well! Review of one that's nearly identical to the one I got. Skip to 12 minutes to see it whooshing around.

The lighting can definitely affect how blue or green it appears.

Thanks! I've wanted an accurate version of Luke's green lightsaber for a long time and finally got one. It's much better than the officially licensed one from Disney, which involves swapping out the skinny "neck" with a fatter one to support the blade. Parts swapping is lame! 😄

Yeah I think the 21 was the first Yamato valk to implement a rotate for battroid mode. It's a 15 year old toy now but still compares favorably even to the latest Bandai offerings. But I would love to see an all new 21 from Arcadia.

Looks good with the supers.

Great shots of some great past releases! I'd say better than what's being churned out now.

There's no clearcoat on the PF as far as I can tell. That was only done for the PF SDF-1.

Was the overtightened shoulders something that affected the regular edition reissue as well, or is this problem exclusive to the PF? Continuing the long trend of some single catastrophic problem affecting what would otherwise be an excellent release.

That's another improvement I wish they had taken from the Delta line: clear stand brackets. It would have been an easy thing to do, but again, why would Bandai bother? It's "good enough" as far as Bandai is concerned. Don't think they ever mounted weapons on the wings in the show even though all the toys and models clearly show hardpoints under the wings. Functional hardpoints would have been another improvement I would have loved to see. I think the only hardpoint use was when they had speakers mounted on the 25G. Thanks! And I'm sure you could easily do the same; I only possess beginner modeling skills. Amazing what you can do with a bottle of Flory's, a mechanical pencil, and some topcoat.

You guys have heard me say it before: the fit & finish on Bandai valks has always been inferior to Yamato/Arcadia, and that was before the decline in QC with the 31AX releases. Bandai absolutely has the resources to give us valks that are of superior quality to Arcadia and probably at a lower price point, but why bother? When it comes to Macross, Bandai makes toys like George Lucas makes movies: it just needs to be "good enough."