badboy00z

How do these patches work?

Does SK do all of the line arts and other detail drawings?

My main gripe is the hip placement. I don't care about the landing gears. Would you guys prefer removable landing gears like on the model or have them the way they are now?

That's exactly what I was saying about them killing 2 birds with 1 stone. They have a model for people who only want accurate models and they can still have an accurate toy for people who want durability. I would really like to ask the DX team at Bandai what they were thinking.

By model I mean a copy of an object. Not model as in a kit. And by scaling up the 1/72, they have more room to use thicker/ stronger plastic and joints.

Does the Macross F 2059:Memories have full specs and new line art for the valks?

I wonder if licensing allows prototyping things and making actual toys and showing the public? I think it would be ok if they don't ever sell it right?

Well then I guess it's fine for people who don't like the original design.

But with QC issues unknown, wouldn't you want the toy to look like what is shown on the show in the first place?

If having one over the other is no excuse then why did Bandai give us this thing that resembles a VF-25? Surely a bigger company can do both but they took the easy way put and just went with it being durable (which is still unknown). Yamato's selling point is their accuracy. If they made their toys more durable and less accurate, that would go against their selling point. Sure it would be more balanced but it would make it just a mediocre product with no selling point. If all of Yamato's valks had the ugly proportions of the DX VF-25 and was more durable, would people be happy?? Their accuracy is what makes fans want to buy them. If their products were less accurate and their QC problems were unknown, would the same amount of people buy them? When I get a model whether it's a toy or kit, I want it to LOOK like what I see on the show. And since QC problems are often times unknown until you get it, the product has to look damn awesome for me to be interested and buy it in the first place. If it doesn't look like what I want I simply won't buy it regardless if it was indestructible.

Can't wait to see the VF-25 girl. The first one is Mylene right?

Some are green and some are purple.

I think a sliding mechanism (like the ones in newer MG kits) in the crotch would solve the hip placement problem. The design of the VF-25 requires the hips to slide forwards and backwards when transforming. The model got that part right with the swing bar but the DX team were just lazy. Now I wonder why they didn't use the sliding thing on the model. The swing bar is pretty ugly.

That is one cheesy movie. Lol.

Can't wait to see the final design. The nose isn't as torpedo shaped as the SV-51. I've always hated that.

I think most of their clear color molding is pretty dark. It would be way too purple. It would be fine for sensors but not the canopy.

They lose the business of the people who want a closer representation of the VF-25. I canceled my pre order when the more recent pictures were released. Maybe I'll get one when I see reviews and such. Or I might wait to see if a version 2 ever gets released or when/ if Yamato makes one. I would be happy if they just scaled up the model, used thicker plastic, better joints and did the painting and assembling for us. Which is pretty much what a toy is... I couldn't care less for retractable landing gears either.

How would that work though? The hands are tucked into the shield. In battroid mode, the shield moves up to the forearm.

The problem with that is the ones that want perfection or close to it will never get what they want unless another company tries. And not even then is it guarantied.

A lot of us want to have a toy of what we see in the show. Sure the DX is recognizable as a VF-25 but it doesn't capture the true image of it. It's a sleek and slim fighter and battroid. Make one mode or part chunkier and the rest gets chunkier. I also don't understand how the DX is more balanced when the original design is a sleek fighter. It's like saying a Lambo Gallardo would be more balanced if it was fatter and thicker.

A Ferrari pickup truck is a little over exaggeration. Now if I were to make a model/ toy of the F360 and it turned out to look more like the F430 then that would be more of an example.

Yeah. If I was someone who saw this at a store and have never seen Macross Frontier and studied the line arts I would think it looks pretty damn cool.

In Bandai's case, they know how to make good looking toys and make it durable. Yamato can make a good looking toy but they're only now learning how to reduce QC issues.

I don't see why bandai can't/ didn't combine the detail and anime accurate design of the models and the durability of the toys. They could've killed two birds with one stone but instead they only cater to either one or the other and leave the others unsatisfied.

Are there other scans from the book?