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yikes! that's way worse than VT-1 patient zero. and here i thought i was the only one that got a VT-1 w/ them bad pins.

not just extra pins... make it a couple of extra

checked my valks... apparently i wasn't able to remove enough of the knurling on one of the shoulder hinges on one of my 1S Fockers that has been on display in battroid for the last year... disassembled it already and i just took a pic before i try to fix it... i didn't notice it at first coz it cracked at the back part instead of the usual place. ...and does this count?... there are still some micro-cracks/stress marks that can be seen even after i had removed the knurling way back last year... ...all the others seem to be fine.

don't forget to ask about the reg. release standalone GBP :D

LOL! i sure wouldn't want any of them 3rd kind of gnurl on my pin! but seriously, even if a knurled pin doesn't necessarily mean it will crack/break, i would definitely prefer to have the smooth pins on every v.2 VF-1 that i would be buying from now on.

"gnurl"... i just had to look it up, LOL

hey man, can you double check by swinging the hinge/s inward/outward... there are some, like on my 1D where you can't see the knurling/teeth from just looking at it... if the pin stays put and doesn't rotate when you swing the hinge, then it definitely has the new smooth pins. TIA.

if Yamato plans to sell off their old stocks some more, the least they could do is pack a couple of non-knurled replacement shoulder hinges in a little ziplock bag just like what LAFtoys did w/ the replacement screws for the v.2 flexidisplay stands.

well... using the non-knurled pin/s is the actual fix... somebody just f@cked it up all over again...

IMHO, Yamato will never use metal for the shoulder hinge part coz it's still basically the same (at least similar) design as w/ the ones used for the 1/48 VF-1s and 1/60 VF-0s... and those haven't had any problems... the v.2 1/60 hinges are just smaller and less sturdy esp. when you factor in the fat-ass knurled end of the pin. They're not gonna spend knowing it works as long as they use non-knurled pins. on topic... i really hope Yamato will finally announce that they will be coming out w/ the regular release standalone GBP armor... both canon and non-canon...

hey, since we're talking stress marks and all... one (or maybe two) of the shoulder hinges that i modded on my VF-1S Roy has some micro-cracks on the top sloped part...

and there's the "311" modex on the real Shin type... here are a couple of VF-0A pics from jenius' site for comparison: Shin CF

it's been on one side only from when they first released the v.2 VF-1S Roy. Max 1S and VE-1 both have smooth non-knurled pins. my VT-1 has 'em knurled pins...

man, that's worse than the old pics of cracked shoulder hinges that i've seen... it could also be that some (if not all) of the VF-1Js that were packaged w/ GBP-1S were leftover 1st releases... or it could be some random factory worker mistake like w/ what happened to my VT-1 having knurled shoulder hinge pins, since there are other parts of the v.2 VF-1 that uses them knurled pins. Thank god it's still okay along w/ my VF-1D.

poke the tabs out from under the wing/s...

wow... sold out already on Hobby Search... man, Yamato's gotta be saying "why didn't we think of doing this before!?!?! less work and more profit for us... muahhaha..."

gotta hand it to Yamato though... it probably cost them less to put on some gray paint and pack the VF-1Js w/ the GBP-1S than make a new box and add that penlight thingy, like what they did for the Focker and Hik VF-1Ss w/ SSP... and they're probably gonna be able to dispose more of these (1J) than the 1Ss.

the new one makes it easier for that part of the transformation... just slot in the metal swingbar part and close the cover and vise versa. whereas w/ the old one, you need to kinda force it in or out and in the process scrape the paint off of the swingbar some. doesn't really affect the toy/transformation, just a minor annoyance to some. EDIT - oh, there you go... more pics up top!

it's around 1.5k SAL and 2.3k EMS for Asia (JPY)... proly a bit more if shipped to the US... you can email them for shipping quote...

dang! i had a hunch that Yamato would try to move some of their old stocks... so is the head new or did they just paint it to distract buyers???

nice! i love the M&M 1Js on display! although that's a scary way to display Gamlin's 22S... nose might get clipped and then...

based on the pics from hobby search, tampo printing looks the same as the first release VF-1J... and it looks like they still missed putting that triangle danger thingy on the sides right below the cockpit... unfortunately, they don't have any pics of the underside, as i am also eager to know if it does have the new crotch... btw, it definitely is disappointing that it has the same styled fixed posed hands for use w/ the armor parts... they should have changed it up.

http://www.amiami.com/shop/?set=english&am.../e_display.html

nice!... what's it made of?