Bandai DX VF-31

[borgified]

If Sabino is Sabaru in Italian, can you imagine if its in Cantonese (one of the Chinese dialects in Southern Asia close to Macau and Hong Kong)?

It will be pronounced as  "Sow Ba Low", which means in loose translation "Old Man Broom". 

Go and figure that out..  

The joys of foreign languages. 

[Lolicon]

Sabaru? You mean Subaru? That's what the Japanese call the Pleiades. Which is why it's the logo for the Subaru automotive company. #randomtrivia 

[DYRL VF-1S]

10 hours ago, brouken said:

I finally got my Chuck VF-31E. Its been stuck in Saudi customs for about a week. Don't know why they held it. Had to go directly to the Saudi Central Post Office to get it. Spent over two hours in line in both customs and in package releasing before finally getting the package. Almost got caught by mid-day prayer time too. At least I didn't pay any extra customs duties. But they did open the package just to see what was inside. The customs officer asked me if it had any cameras or batteries. They probably thought it was a drone! Hehe!

Anyway, My Delta Platoon is complete! I just need to find a nice place to display all of them together. And of course, wait for the rest of the super/armor packs to be released.

I'll call your hand @brouken and match you.  Right there with you with the fever!

 

[borgified]

Yup... At least you knew what I was taking about @Lolicon. 

[Lolicon]

5 minutes ago, DYRL VF-1S said:

I'll call your hand @brouken and match you.  Right there with you with the fever!

 

Where's the 31J Kai? 

[no3Ljm]

28 minutes ago, Lolicon said:

Where's the 31J Kai? 

Bingo!

 

[DYRL VF-1S]

1 hour ago, Lolicon said:

Where's the 31J Kai? 

 

1 hour ago, no3Ljm said:

Bingo! 

Haha damn enablers! Well considering I got a late start to reliving my youth with Macross in general as of less than a year ago, I thought this was a good start to the Delta crew. I need to get 31A still and TV version Messer if I really want to be legit (that’s movie Messer in the pic).

Edited August 7, 2019 by DYRL VF-1S

[Lolicon]

2 hours ago, DYRL VF-1S said:

Haha damn enablers! Well considering I got a late start to reliving my youth with Macross in general as of less than a year ago, I thought this was a good start to the Delta crew. I need to get 31A still and TV version Messer if I really want to be legit (that’s movie Messer in the pic).

Don't forget that you'll need a second set of super parts for the Kai. 

[Saburo]

Edited August 8, 2019 by Saburo

[seti88]

aweesome shot! hubba hubba...

clearly you need 2 more supers sets!

also nice use of the yeti stands....

[Chronocidal]

So, I'm kinda vaguely disappointed that Chuck didn't come with reaction missiles, after they started including them.  I've got spares at least, but I wish Bandai would make up their minds and just be consistent on what they include with any particular release.

Far as display options go though, I think I've got all the options covered in one way or another.  I tend to pick up releases with a display in mind (even if I don't have anywhere to actually put said display).  I've currently got enough to do some nice paired displays with Hayate and Mirage in both clean fighter and super-packed battroids, a good Messer/Keith head-on pass, and some combination of Arad and Chuck in both super and armor packs (probably alternating sets of battroid/fighter).

If Bandai would just get on with it, and put out the Sv-262Ba, I'd have a Mirage and Bogue to pair with Movie Hayate/Messer and my second Keith.  

[borgified]

6 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

So, I'm kinda vaguely disappointed that Chuck didn't come with reaction missiles, after they started including them.  I've got spares at least, but I wish Bandai would make up their minds and just be consistent on what they include with any particular release.

Far as display options go though, I think I've got all the options covered in one way or another.  I tend to pick up releases with a display in mind (even if I don't have anywhere to actually put said display).  I've currently got enough to do some nice paired displays with Hayate and Mirage in both clean fighter and super-packed battroids, a good Messer/Keith head-on pass, and some combination of Arad and Chuck in both super and armor packs (probably alternating sets of battroid/fighter).

If Bandai would just get on with it, and put out the Sv-262Ba, I'd have a Mirage and Bogue to pair with Movie Hayate/Messer and my second Keith.  

The only semi-armoured valk was Luca's RVF-171EX or was that intentionally made as animation error?! 

Will Chuck's Supers come with the reaction missiles or not is the other question. The missiles was packed with Arad's valk upon release while Messer's, Hayate, and Mirage's missiles came in as a Super bundled set. 

 

 

[sjoebarry]

I tried searching the forum but i thought maybe just posting my question here will work.

Does anyone know how many DX VF-31A's were made & released by Bandai?

[Slave IV]

55 minutes ago, borgified said:

The only semi-armoured valk was Luca's RVF-171EX or was that intentionally made as animation error?! 

Will Chuck's Supers come with the reaction missiles or not is the other question. The missiles was packed with Arad's valk upon release while Messer's, Hayate, and Mirage's missiles came in as a Super bundled set. 

 

 

I don't remember for sure but I think only Mirage's Super Parts came with Reaction Missiles. Hayate's VF-31J Kai also did but not the Super Parts.

[Sildani]

10 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

So, I'm kinda vaguely disappointed that Chuck didn't come with reaction missiles, after they started including them.  I've got spares at least, but I wish Bandai would make up their minds and just be consistent on what they include with any particular release.

You ever want to sell a set with brackets, you know where to find me. 

[no3Ljm]

8 hours ago, sjoebarry said:

I tried searching the forum but i thought maybe just posting my question here will work.

Does anyone know how many DX VF-31A's were made & released by Bandai?

As been discussed before during the NY fiasco on the VF-31A, officially, no. Everyone is just guessing. And someone made a tally on how many of us have a copy of 31A. Outside of that, no. In fact, nobody really knows exactly how many quantities for each and every single toy Bandai produce.

 

[Chronocidal]

On ‎8‎/‎8‎/‎2019 at 7:17 PM, Sildani said:

You ever want to sell a set with brackets, you know where to find me. 

Ah, sadly not exactly spares in the usual sense, I just mean that since Arad came with them, I'll have an extra set to load Chuck with when I put the armor on Arad's.

[Lolicon]

We must look to third party KOs for ordnance. There's nothing more Bandai than providing hardpoints and no ordnance. 

[Saburo]

Chuck armed and ready.

[no3Ljm]

21 hours ago, Lolicon said:

We must look to third party KOs for ordnance. There's nothing more Bandai than providing hardpoints and no ordnance. 

Why look further when our 'ol buddy @Xigfrid here has a lot to offer.

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/xigfrid3dshop?section=Missiles+and+Pylons+DX+compatible&s=0

2 hours ago, Saburo said:

Chuck armed and ready.

Cool cool cool @Saburo!

 

[Saburo]

On 8/12/2019 at 2:17 PM, no3Ljm said:

Why look further when our 'ol buddy @Xigfrid here has a lot to offer.

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/xigfrid3dshop?section=Missiles+and+Pylons+DX+compatible&s=0

Cool cool cool @Saburo!

 

Thanks @no3Ljm!!

[Saburo]

[DYRL VF-1S]

Thanks a lot @Lolicon and @no3Ljm. Thanks a lot 

[Lolicon]

15 minutes ago, DYRL VF-1S said:

Thanks a lot @Lolicon and @no3Ljm. Thanks a lot 

I feel like I've done some good today. 

[borgified]

Now the question is... Which version of the 31j are you going to keep @DYRL VF-1S .

Supers next or are you going to to leave plain and simple?

[Sanity is Optional]

Got my 31 shelf set up, only things still in boxes are the other 2 31a figures.

Spoiler

 

[DYRL VF-1S]

23 minutes ago, borgified said:

Now the question is... Which version of the 31j are you going to keep @DYRL VF-1S .

Supers next or are you going to to leave plain and simple?

Not sure yet! But will likely hold off on supers for now. I do like em plain.

[Bolt]

@Sanity is Optional i like what you did with Arad's wings

[Sanity is Optional]

37 minutes ago, Bolt said:

@Sanity is Optional i like what you did with Arad's wings

Yeah, saw someone else do it before and liked the look that way, bit of a tie-fighter vibe. Looks best from the front, but not so bad from the side either.

Spoiler

 

 

[spacemanoeuvres]

I think the armor parts are released tomorrow. Anyone receive updates on their orders?

[HardlyNever]

40 minutes ago, spacemanoeuvres said:

I think the armor parts are released tomorrow. Anyone receive updates on their orders?

NY has their release date for the armor parts as Aug 23rd.  I don't think I've seen any place have Aug 16th as the release date.  Do you have a vendor saying that?

[spacemanoeuvres]

31 minutes ago, HardlyNever said:

NY has their release date for the armor parts as Aug 23rd.  I don't think I've seen any place have Aug 16th as the release date.  Do you have a vendor saying that?

P-Bandai says that.

I’m guessing vendors are padding the release date by a week to get their copies and send them out. 

Edited August 15, 2019 by spacemanoeuvres
wrods

[Mommar]

At the very least reviews will be incoming Friday/Saturday.

[Focslain]

Well good thing I get paid this week.

[beatsing]

On 8/5/2019 at 8:30 AM, Rein+ said:

So... some  tragedy happen to me today when i open my chuck valkyrie from anime-export.

Any chance i got replacement part from them?

I’m not sure what is wrong?

 I just got my first vf31, and it’s so cool.  Thanks to whoever posted the link at release.