Bandai DX VF-31

[no3Ljm]

1 hour ago, seti88 said:

pardon me while i macross-gasm. 

3 armor packs in different colors. great. time to rob a bank.

Why rob a bank? You've run out of organs?

 

[Mommar]

8 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

Judging by the one shot, it looks like the pods on the outer sides of the booster packs are packed full of them.  Looks like four each, stored in bays.  The five smaller front doors may be more packs of micro missiles.

I'm just now getting to look at the pics on something larger than a phone and I didn't even realize that shot with all of the missiles appears to be a Reaction Missile Itano.  The thing I'm wondering is if the fin things aren't for Reaction Missiles why have them?  They prevent the wings from folding all the way out.  It's an odd thing to have without some sort of context.  Or you could just stick four more on the wing things and... now you've got four more.  Go kill a lot of somethings.

2 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

Why rob a bank? You've run out of organs?

 

He's still using them, man.

[Mommar]

17 hours ago, IXTL said:

 

So looking closer at this photo there are actually three 31A's with armor.  The two spotted on the right and one other on the left behind Chuck.  Presumably Messer is dead and Hayate and Mirage are missing/captured/considered dead/whatever so they had to pad the squadron out with three other pilots/31's.  But now I need six Kairos total...

Edited February 17, 2018 by Mommar

[Lolicon]

4 minutes ago, Mommar said:

I'm just now getting to look at the pics on something larger than a phone and I didn't even realize that shot with all of the missiles appears to be a Reaction Missile Itano.  The thing I'm wondering is if the fin things aren't for Reaction Missiles why have them?  They prevent the wings from folding all the way out.  It's an odd thing to have without some sort of context.  Or you could just stick four more on the wing things and... now you've got four more.  Go kill a lot of somethings.

He's still using them, man.

You can live with one lung and one kidney. You don't need your spleen or gallbladder. And you can remove a substantial part of your liver and it'll grow back.

Hoping the new armor packs will actually let you stow the pod underneath like in the screenshots so Arad's insignia is still fully visible in battroid.

[Mommar]

2 minutes ago, Lolicon said:

You can live with one lung and one kidney.

Nah, I'm a big fan of redundancy.

[treatment]

So apparently I'm getting a DX VF-31 Mirage.

The Super-Packs for her is p-bandai, no?

:groans:

[Chronocidal]

Still up on NY for preorder.

https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures/23378-macross-delta-super-parts-set-for-dx-chogokin-vf-31c-siegfried-mirage-farina-jenius-custom-limited-edition.html

 

[seti88]

10 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

Why rob a bank? You've run out of organs?

 

well i still have one but thats too precious to sell! 

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p.s. scientifically the skin is the largest organ of the body...bandai is rhetorically skinning us!

 

 

[mechaninac]

^ So, I guess Bandai has discovered that there's more than one way to skin a cat us while we beg for more...

[Scyla]

I wonder if Bandai held back on the release of the VF-31S/E because they saw the designs by Kawamori and realized that they need to retrofit the Siegfried mold so it is able to equip the Armor Parts. 

Maybe we see some running changes on the VF-31A release since it will be able to have the Armor Parts equipped. 

[WaferMouse]

10 hours ago, Mommar said:

The thing I'm wondering is if the fin things aren't for Reaction Missiles why have them?  They prevent the wings from folding all the way out.  It's an odd thing to have without some sort of context.

It makes a lot of sense to me given how Stampede-y the packs are, eg. SDP-1 doesn't have a G mode because it's intended largely for space combat. Also it seems as though most packs since Frontier follow a more R-type-ish look rather than jet-with-extras.

27 minutes ago, Scyla said:

I wonder if Bandai held back on the release of the VF-31S/E because they saw the designs by Kawamori and realized that they need to retrofit the Siegfried mold so it is able to equip the Armor Parts. 

Maybe we see some running changes on the VF-31A release since it will be able to have the Armor Parts equipped. 

I think I'd prefer if this were more a case of the tail wagging the dog: Bandai had all the molds figured out ahead of time and timed releases for the movie to generate hype.

[Mommar]

21 minutes ago, Scyla said:

I wonder if Bandai held back on the release of the VF-31S/E because they saw the designs by Kawamori and realized that they need to retrofit the Siegfried mold so it is able to equip the Armor Parts. 

Maybe we see some running changes on the VF-31A release since it will be able to have the Armor Parts equipped. 

If it is the case modifications were required I find it more likely the 31A won’t be able to handle the armor parts.  I hope Wafer is correct about timing.  As a matter of fact I’ve always felt the design of the 31 felt like it really wanted the knee to be bent two clicks for the super parts but it doesn’t fit that way.  It’s more of a click and change to make it work.  I guess we’ll see if there are changes on the A or beyond.

[Sandman]

On 2018-02-16 at 9:20 AM, Mommar said:

You know you want another blue Valk. 

Not if we have to go through a stupid lottery again.

[IXTL]

 

Edited February 18, 2018 by IXTL

[davidwhangchoi]

looks like a custom job

[IXTL]

10 minutes ago, davidwhangchoi said:

looks like a custom job

It is.

[davidwhangchoi]

1 minute ago, IXTL said:

It is.

 i'm waiting for the bandai reveal, curious what solution they will offer.

[Lolicon]

3 minutes ago, davidwhangchoi said:

 i'm waiting for the bandai reveal, curious what solution they will offer.

[mechaninac]

^ Ha!  You cheeky clever bastid, you...

[kajnrig]

Maybe they'll go so far as to provide entirely new wing tips with attachment points for the drones. Are the wing tips easy to remove?

[Mommar]

2 hours ago, kajnrig said:

Maybe they'll go so far as to provide entirely new wing tips with attachment points for the drones. Are the wing tips easy to remove?

Wing tips?  What are you referring to?  The Drones will attach to the thin bit of the wing after you've folded the outer portion of the wing down.  None of that is removable, there's nothing to swap out there.

[spacemanoeuvres]

Was anything announced at wonderfest? I looked at twitter etc but I didn't see anything. 

[seti88]

Bandai DX macross valk announcements are usually centered around tamashii nations exhibitions.

however non bandai Macross news notables;

 the plamax misa and hikaru figs, 1/20 vf-1 kit show off and, arcadia's 35th anni vf-1 announcement.

 

[seti88]

On 17 Februari 2018 at 11:11 PM, Scyla said:

I wonder if Bandai held back on the release of the VF-31S/E because they saw the designs by Kawamori and realized that they need to retrofit the Siegfried mold so it is able to equip the Armor Parts. 

Maybe we see some running changes on the VF-31A release since it will be able to have the Armor Parts equipped. 

Whoever it is at least they been putting effort into making sure all 31's got a good shot of being sold. 

Initially I was only looking at messer and an A as choices for the 31 DX. Rest were nice to haves..

However now m seriously considering arad and the chuck due to the armoured packs. 

[kajnrig]

10 hours ago, Mommar said:

Wing tips?  What are you referring to?  The Drones will attach to the thin bit of the wing after you've folded the outer portion of the wing down.  None of that is removable, there's nothing to swap out there.

Ah, I see. I don't have a DX 31, so I don't know how it's held together. I figured the drone would attach to the joint itself, but in the movie it's shown magically attached to the wing tip (or maybe more specifically, it's magically attached to the FSW near the rotating joint), thus my speculation.

[hachi]

So I went to the dark side and paid for the VF31C super parts. This will be my last DX Chogokin-related purchase for the foreseeable future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

...unless they announce some reissue from Macross F

[Scyla]

I did a thing and ordered a VF-31J Kai from Mandarake. It seems like I'm going complemionist on the DX Chogokin Delta Vaklyries.  

[Mommar]

2 hours ago, Scyla said:

I did a thing and ordered a VF-31J Kai from Mandarake. It seems like I'm going complemionist on the DX Chogokin Delta Vaklyries.  

Come to the darkside,  we have... bankruptcey.

[Scyla]

51 minutes ago, Mommar said:

Come to the darkside,  we have... bankruptcey.

That reminds me that I need a few more Frontier Valkries, like Altos VF-171 and the RVF-171. It never ends.

[edit:] Oh, and Isamus YF-29 which I greatly dislike because of the glossy beige plastic. 

Edited February 20, 2018 by Scyla

[Sanity is Optional]

8 minutes ago, Scyla said:

That reminds me that I need a few more Frontier Valkries, like Altos VF-171 and the RVF-171. It never ends.

[edit:] Oh, and Isamus YF-29 which I greatly dislike because of the glossy beige plastic. 

Finally got myself an RVF-171 a bit ago, and put it out yesterday.

[ridgebacks]

On 2/19/2018 at 6:58 PM, Scyla said:

That reminds me that I need a few more Frontier Valkries, like Altos VF-171 and the RVF-171. It never ends.

[edit:] Oh, and Isamus YF-29 which I greatly dislike because of the glossy beige plastic. 

I think you can fix that glossy issue with a can of matte top coat, like the one mostly used for gunpla should be good enough.

[Raptor One]

So is the Kairos still available anywhere?

[Mommar]

2 minutes ago, Raptor One said:

So is the Kairos still available anywhere?

I’ve inly seen it on ebay for next to $300 but I haven’t done an exhaustive search.

[Crimson9]

I'm sure there will be a bunch available once people actually get them in hand. 

[Raptor One]

Here's hoping. Wanted to pre-order but the way my bank account was set up...