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  1. mechaninac
    It's like a pillbox filled with angry little pills...
  2. mechaninac
    Leafy...
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    I've never seen official line art for the VF-27, so I'm just going off personal preference, and conjecture based on its VF-25 contemporary. Given that both the VF-25 and VF-27 designs, within the Frontier Universe, are derived from the YF-24 test-bed, should they not have similar space-frame construction? As far as the toys, I never owned a VF-25 V1, but how does it compare, surface detail wise, to that found on the VF-27 DX, and the later Renewal?
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    That's just the thing, isn't it? The VF-27 with Super Parts was not a renewal, just an improved version of the original release -- a version 1.5, if you will; while a definite step above its VF-25 V1 counterpart/predecessor, it falls short of the engineering and execution of the YF-29 and VF-25 Renewals that followed it. The Super Parts equipped version released recently does benefit from some inherited retrofitted engineering from the Renewal 25s (forward thrusting crotch/hip reengineering and improved standing height/stance in Battroid come to mind), but is severely limited in its excellence by its outdated design; it's still saddled with inferior shoulder and landing gear, specially front, designs (there may be other engineering related things too), as well as lacking in surface details such as panel lines that are festooned, model-like, on the YF-29s, Renewal VF-25s, and VF-171s.
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    Bandai has only done one reissue of the renewal molds, Alto's VF-25F. You're getting the original Frontier VF-25 DXs confused with the Renewal VF-25s. The original VF-25F DX Chogokin was GE-42 (GE-50 when bundled with Tornado Packs); the first run Renewal VF-25F (newly engineered and tooled -- no interchangable parts with the old DX line) is GE-54, and its reissue is also GE-54.
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    That's the quandary I find myself in as well; I have a BPX-01 and find it hard to fork over 1.5X+ more for a new toy that is nothing but a fancier "retread" of something I already own.
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    I think I may create my own kit in SLA to make my personal 1/60 Phalanx utilizing everything from the waist down of Yamato's Destroids. It actually looks very easy geometry to model (using a Bandai 1/100 kit, coupled with available line art, as reference).
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    A kazoo?...
  9. mechaninac
    <pokes his head out from the shadows> Come on Bandai, where's the VF-25S reissue announcement, already? </goes back into the shadows to sulk>
  10. mechaninac
    Got one at HLJ; almost thought I didn't because the checkout procedure moved through like molasses, but I got the order confirmation email eventually... so glad I stuck to my guns and ignored N-Y's inflated price. Thank you, joppewo, for posting about the availability.
  11. mechaninac
    Check here... pictures by Macross World's own MacrossJunkie.
  12. mechaninac
    So much for scoring a Gutto Kuru Gunbuster Norico Takaya 1/8 Action figure from Amiami at ~68% off... got a cancellation notice from them due to CM's demise.
  13. mechaninac
    Not fisticuffs, brawl, or matial arts combat, but... The sword duel between Wesley and Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride
  14. mechaninac
    @megaprime The Frontier line mostly comprises releases by Bandai; they hold most of the licenses. Bandai's Frontier mecha toys come/have come in their Robot Damashi line (non-scale), 1/100 VF series, and DX Chogokin (1/60-ish); there's next to ZERO chance that you'll see cheaper versions from any other manufacturer within the next decade. Models (assembly kits) are available from both Bandai (transformable) and Hasegawa (fighter only) in 1/72 scale. When discussing renewals, it should be noted that the term only applies to the YF-VF-25s (all variants) since there was an earlier release of VF-25s (Ver. 1) in the same "scale" that were almost universally panned as less than adequate renditions of the Messiah... hence, Bandai went back to the drawing board and we now have renewals. Be careful when shopping for VF-25s, specially on eBay, as a too-good-to-be-true price often means it's a Ver. 1 toy. The DX Frontier line also includes other models (VF types) and accessories from Frontier, the 2 movies, and Macross 30 video game. These include the VF-27 (kind of a version 1.5 release as it's engineering/execution falls between the Ver. 1 VF-25s and the later renewals), the YF-29 (this toy was released just before the debut of the renewal 25 and was the test bed showcasing most of the line-art fidelity and engineering/execution that graces the Ver. 2 VF-25s), the VF-171 (released after the renewals and sharing the same attention to accuracy as the Ver. 2s, but with problematic shatter prone shoulder triangle pieces on the Canon Fodder version), and the previously announced and shown YF-30 from Macross 30 (one can expect it to be just as well engineered as everything in the DX line to come out after the YF-29). Hope this helps in addressing some of your questions.
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    I'd say that one of the best references around, in 3D even, is Toynami's New Generation bookends set featuring the Gamo and an "Alpha" in "Battloid" form.
  16. mechaninac
    Well, all the Armor, Super, and Fast Packs are cast-offs...
  17. mechaninac
    I still refuse to play the inflated price game...
  18. mechaninac
    1-60 YF-19 v2.0 (Arcadia's 1.0)
  19. mechaninac
    Payment made... now the waiting begins.
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    Got one @ Amiami as well. I never thought to see the day that I'd be able to make it through their order process on a Frontier DX. Edit: order confirmation, with order number, received... so it's legit.
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    What should give you, or anybody, a clear sense of what parts have to move/shift, where they go, and in what order to seamlessly transform the VF-25 series is to assemble one of Bandai's 1/72 fully transformable Messiah kits; their engineering is very similar to the DX renewal toys. Putting one of those models together will help anyone to become familiar with how all the parts relate to each other. When I got my first renewal, the original 25F release, I breezed through the transformation, finding it almost as easy to accomplish as Yamato's VF-1 and VF-11, and I credit having experience with assembling and transforming the model kit prior to ever getting the toy.
  22. mechaninac
    So that's where the fridge ended up... Ganymede Rock Lobster for the win, baby.
  23. mechaninac
    That would be EPIC in size, weight, gimmicks, price, cost of shipping, tentency for stressing/looseness of joints, shelf -- heck, room corner -- hogging presence!... Bring it!
  24. mechaninac
    Bandai really needs to re-release the Frontier DX VB-6... that dynamic pose truly shows how it puts Yamato's Koenig to shame.
  25. mechaninac
    If we're talking models than I'd agree with you, but if we're discussing toys...
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