Bandai 1/72 fully transform able VF-1 plastic kit for Macross 30th Ann

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http://ameblo.jp/digitamin/entry-11530842888.html

my word this thing looks positively awful! Its proportions don't look right at all and some of its articulation just aren't right either!? Honestly why are they even bothering?? Definitely going to give this one a miss..

[joscasle]

If this is just a model kit, then why is Bandai BOLDLY advertised it as VERIABLE VALKYRIE and can be transform into all three modes. This is where you are wrong my friend.

he is not wrong. All the MW modelers told you in these same threat that these bandai release will be bad, but a lot of people brought it and now are complaining.

[valhary]

Im sorry if someone already posted this pic

[HWR MKII]

wow this kit grew udders really fast and bandai is really milking it. Why couldnt the markings for the Roy version have been included in the initial release?

[Hoptimus]

wow this kit grew udders really fast and bandai is really milking it. Why couldnt the markings for the Roy version have been included in the initial release?

Well yes and there are some pre colored Gunplay like parts in this kit.

Too bad this kit is passable at best...

[Graham]

Beautiful box art, shame about the kit.

Graham

[Reïvaj]

The box art doesn´t show the kit's leg joints. I wonder why...

[Zinjo]

Bandai's transformable VF-1 was always it's achilles heal of kits. Too many compromises to make it work and the kit is still not worth the Yen...

[Jefuemon]

Roy is available now, and it's the TV version.

but I'm sure as hell not buying one though.

[sketchley]

Dammit! I wanted to pick up the FAST Packs as soon as they were released (I was thinking it was the last weekend of the month), AND I was in the area but opted to not go to the model shop because I was just there last week to get paint. >.<;;;

Anyhow, release page with all the gory details of all the variants and their gimmicks:

http://bandai-hobby.net/site/character_macross.html

[Jefuemon]

Dammit! I wanted to pick up the FAST Packs as soon as they were released (I was thinking it was the last weekend of the month), AND I was in the area but opted to not go to the model shop because I was just there last week to get paint. >.<;;;

Anyhow, release page with all the gory details of all the variants and their gimmicks:

http://bandai-hobby.net/site/character_macross.html

I saw several of the super packs available yesterday when I went out shopping, but none of the actual kit.

[sketchley]

It'll be interesting how many (if any) my usual shop brought in - as it doesn't look like very many of the VF-1 and Strike Pack sets moved after I picked up mine.

(Before anyone jumps all over these new kits: the store also has handfuls of the VF-25S Armour Pack, Macross Armour Factory, 1/144 VF-25/VF-29 and so on in stock from way back when. In short, it's Macross itself, not these new kits per se, that are not selling like hotcakes.)

[nexxstrait]

Roy is available now, and it's the TV version.

but I'm sure as hell not buying one though.

let's hope they have somehow corrected some of the Hikaru's 1S flaws. Wishful thinking? Doesn't look half bad in these pics

[Scyla]

That is the problem with promotional images. They always look good.

[Valkyrie addict]

hmm...most be based on one of the TV episodes done by anime-friends.

[ce25254]

The photos look better than the illustration. Is it Valkyrie by Adobé? --> http://vimeo.com/34813864

[Black Valkyrie]

DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX DX ... Come on Bandai !

[close313]

Seems like they did make a few improvements. I wished i got this one instead. Or not gotten Hikaru ver at all.

http://dalong.net/review/etc/mv03/mv03_i.htm

[sketchley]

From modelling mags I was aware that they had changed the hand armour (rounded edges) and the Super packs have the TV version decals... but in the link are those things to lock the leg transfer plates to the back???

[Chronocidal]

Legs still look fugly as all hell from the combination of their misplaced locator pins and the junky knee joint.

[Skypoet]

This kit looks quite wonderful from the following review... however, the author of the video is quite clear on the fact that the hip joint s**ks in battroid mode. I still believe that I'll make my own hip joint with whatever raw materials I have (RC airplane wood - balsa, bass, etc... - styrene, and leftovers from other kits.)

Note: I still haven't received my kit from hlj, so I still do not have my "own personal opinion".

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[Chas]

Seeing as I don't play with my models the particularly finicky transformation is not a great concern for me.

It would simply be a matter of transforming it once in a while in order to display it in the different modes. These

videos actually make the kit look not half bad and have me thinking about picking 1or 2 up just to have a mod

in my collection that can show the transformation. Plus part of me still wants to fiddle with it to see what mods

can be done - particularly to the knees in gerwalk mode.

Not positive that I'm gonna get one just a lot closer after seeing those videos than I was before.

[Wasabi-san]

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Edited January 31, 2014 by Wasabi-san

[JET7]

couldnt resist.. got the ROY variant, its not as bad as i think..

im locking mine in Valk mode. looks good imho in valk mode. permanently glueing the joints in this mode.

[valky-001]

Finally HLJ just shipped my over sea, can't wait to have it in my hands, On the VF-1S Roy I like better the Movie Roy skull leader for it's little bit of more yellow on it, but like better Roy with the classic TV black, gray, blue? pilot suit.

[JET7]

locked in valk mode.. not as bad as i think before.. with a few tweakings..

i find the nose of these bandai much better than hasegawas.. hasegawas are too pointy.

love it for display. since it glued shut to valk mode.. its fun to swoosh it around.

[Hoptimus]

Yeah does not look too bad in fighter mode!

[GiantMechaJunkie]

I know I'm a little late to this thread but I picked one up on ebay for just under $40 about a month ago - couldn't resist for that price!
Kind of on the fence about it though... I love the new tooling/engineering/transformation/ - yeah, yeah, a model isn't supposed to have moving parts but dammit, that makes these kits fun! - /decal options/full color instruction manual, box art and overall detail of it. But, buuuuuuuuuuuuut, I agree that a lot of the proportions are off in more than just a few places. The head is HUGE, the hands are kind of skeletal, the chest plate seems a bit elongated, the nose seems a bit too narrow and the arms are a bit on the scrawny side. The old Imai kits seem to have better proportion for gerwalk and battroid modes overall - and who didn't like the metal landing gear on the fat fighter mode?
Just throwing in my two cents... I plan on doing a side by side build/comparison and throwing lots of pics up on here after the holidays so we'll see how it goes!

[Major Focker]

going by the box images on the Hikaru, it seems to come with a 1/72 Minmay. can someone please confirm?

also, what extra figure/freebie does the Roy come with?

thanks

[valhary]

I have the Hikaru and yes includes a minmay

[Major Focker]

thanks.

[cool8or]

Picture please!!

[JET7]

[Hoptimus]

Fighter mode is still pretty nice!

[cool8or]

I mean, picture of Minmay's figure.