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Engineer the hands around the pins used in the original. That way, the pin can be used directly, or the holes in the replacement parts can be used as drilling guides for the buyer to taylor the holes to fit anything larger, within reason, such as sewing pins.
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Canceling before they issue the payment request is a much more honorable way to handle it than just flaking out on them when payment is due, which is always a last minute option. I would not fault them from black-balling a customer for doing the latter, but as a business they should be more than willing to accommodate a 'in good faith' cancelation, specially if you've been a good customer in the past. If and when I do cancel my preorder I'll just send them I nicely worded, courteous request. ...?
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That is such a "why didn't I think of that?!" idea that I cannot help but hate you for coming up with it before I did... pure genius.
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That would depend on the sales of the 171 line, and if Bandai wishes to milk the mold. Judging by the their anouncement of the CF version, one can assume that the Alto's EX sold well enough to warrant this new release, and the 30th anniversary YF-29 tends to point to their willingness to make multiple variants of Frontier's VFs. Just think, now that they have tooling for the EX and regular VF-171s they can offer us not only Luca's EX, but also the CF Elint.
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Same here, with the exact same dilemma. I'm planning on wating until mid November to see where the exchange ends up before dropping one of them, but I'm currently leaning towards keeping the HLJ one due to their customer support track record where Yamato products are concerned, and their more attractive shipping rates... $59.00+ for EMS at NY is absurd.
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FURIOUS OVER NEW CONAN (Conan the Barbarian remake)
mechaninac replied to Agent ONE's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Crom has finally smiled upon Conan fans, but he's a fickle deity, so who knows how this development will turn out... -
I know I'd be all in for Yamato versions of the Legioss and Tread, every variant, in true 1/60 scale, or just go straight to something epic like 1/35 or 1/24 (Legioss only, of course). And if Yamato could continue where Beagle left off, and expand the 1/10 line with Houquet's and Yellow's Ride Armors, that would be a dream come true.
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I expect the price will be same as Alto's EX version. What I'm waiting for is the official release anouncement so I can try to pre-order one from Amiami, or HLJ, or AE.
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They're like bookends... of awesomness...
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Seriously! Who'd think that a predominantly aquamarine colored VF could look that agressive? Although, to me, the real selling point that makes Luca's unit a must buy, other than OCD (Obsessive Completist Disorder), are the radar dish and Electronic Warfare Sail... too unique (in a Super Sylph-esque way) to pass up.
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You should consider yourself fortunate that this 29 does not interest you. See, I'm glad I don't care for it at all... kept me from the headache of trying to preorder at a decent price and saved me money I can use for something else I really want; it's a win-win!
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I'm so getting this. I have Alto's EX, but this is a real must have (also thrilled about the announcement of the RVF-25, but not so enthused with the rehashed VF-27... gimme a renewal dammit). True that it's not a hero VF, but this is the one for which people were clamoring all along from the very announcement of the 171EX, at least in these forums... I have no idea what the demand will be in the home market, but if past renewals, YF-29s, and the EX are any indication, this and the RVF-25 are also going to be a "blink and you miss the initial discounted pre-order ordeal"; thankfully, NY should continue to be a reasonably priced source for them. The VF-11s are not a good comparison to Bandai's Frontier line, in my opinion: For one, it's a Yamato product with very different scales of production numbers and distribution, and two, the price points on Bandai's VFs are much less expensive (provided one secures a pre-order during the very limited window of availability) than Yamato's offerings, which tend to be far more expensive initially, be available for a lot longer, and have slightly better quality... although nowhere near enough of an advantage to warrant their ludicrous MSRPs.
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Differences from the original should be the non-tinted canopy and the inclusion of the option parts, as others have stated, but also "non-exploding" shoulders and revised crotch design as present in all contemporary releases -- unless the VE and VT already had the fixes that addressed the issues with the early V2 VF-1s.
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Oooh, cryptic...
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Even at a 40%-50% discount at the retail level, you can confidently bet that Yamato is making a profit on every unit sold to retailers (their prices are set with possible allowances for high volume orders), and as long as their inventory is moving they may as well keep production going as long as they don't make so many that they end up flooding the market; thereby destroying demand. It's the stores and on-line sellers that run the risk of taking a bath if they order too many and end up having to offer massive discounts to move the merchandise; but chances are that, even at the 1/2 off level, there is still some profit to be had (note that you hardly ever see a VF discounted more than 55%... that must be the limit of profitability for retailers); anything discounted by more than the minimum threashold for profit is just not moving at all and needs to be dumped to clear space for other, newer/more in demand, merchandise (Yamato's 1/200s and Dou figures are good exemples).
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Ha! Chirico dognapped Ein an dressed him up for Holloween...
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Nice. I would be most interested in a solution for the collapsing landing gears. Why Yamato never so fit to include a simple detents in the design (just look at the ones in Bandai's Renewals... perfect), when the things must have collapsed on them hundreds of times from prototype to test shot assemblies, I'll never understand. Did some bean counting geek look at the problem and just say: "Meh!... Good enough?
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...I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.
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... mass hysteria!
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Aircraft Super Thread Mk.VII
mechaninac replied to David Hingtgen's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Very, very cool. Here's hoping that the actual number of buried Spitfires is on the high side of the estimates, and in good enough condition, in pieces or large sub-assemblies, to be quickly turned around to flying trim to thrill aviation enthusiasts the world over for many years to come. -
Medicom/Hot Toys and all 1/6 scale figures
mechaninac replied to EXO's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Aslan? Qui-Gon Jin? The dude from Taken? Gawain from Excalibur?... Very nice Ra's al Ghul. I tip my proverbial hat to you Kicker, on all your collections, with the scope and quantity worthy of their own Museum exibit. -
Got mine this Saturday as well. The first thing I did was check everything to make sure nothing was missing, and I'm happy to report that all is accounted for; also, paint and tampo applications are flawless and, unlike my F, there is no slight "bite" taken out of the right LERX/swing bar. However, as others have mentioned, mine suffers from wing warping as well, specially the right wing bends up enough to be visually noticeable even from a distance... not happy about that, and something I'll eventually need to attempt to remedy. Other than that, the surfaces have a slightly oily film (mold release lubricant I assume). I found the blue to be much darker than I was expecting from all the pictures, and the joints nice and tight; however, at least straight out of the box, things were not alligned as perfectly as I'd like: left leg just didn't want to sit as high up as the right in fighter mode. One thing I found underwhealming is the sniper gun... it looks "cheap" to me. It's probably due to the plastic Bandai used; on mine there are obvious flow and knit lines that cause it to look "toyish". They could also have made it 5-10% smaller or a bit shorter and it would have looked better in fighter mode without being undersized for GERWALK and Battroid, but that is just a nit-pick. Overall, not bad, and a worthy addition to the collection... Now, when is the anouncement for the RVF-25?...
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The helmet is kind of okay, but the rest of the costume... just not feeling it; it looks like a Batman inspired power suit, or like the one in the GI-Joe movie, not a robot/android; and it's not the matte rubber look with glossy shoulder pauldrons and other bits, it's the whole aesthetics of the thing... on its own it fails miserably at visually conveying the very underlying theme of a dead cop grafted to a robot body.
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... So... How long before Robot Chicken does its version?...
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I suppose you could just get those self-adhesive felt pads available at Radio Shack or Home Improvement stores; they make them in many different sizes/diameters. It's not an ideal solution, but it would give you a non-skid, non-marring, surface separating the damaging clear tips of the stands from your precious VF. I don't have any of the new stands, only severeal of the old, pre Flightpose, black tipped ones, and while they do no damage to plastic, paint, sticker, decal, or tampo prints, they do tend to leave a bit of splotchy residue behind on whatever you're displaying if left on the stand for a long time; the good thing, however, is that the residue is easy to clean off with a bit of soapy water.