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<\/a><\/p>\nReview: Now here’s a toy with balls! (for shoulders)<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Packaging & Extras<\/strong> (4.5\/5) <\/p>\n Charm & Collectability<\/strong> (2.5\/5) <\/p>\n Sculpt, Detail, and Paint<\/strong> (6\/10) <\/p>\n Design <\/strong>(6\/10) <\/p>\n Durability & Build<\/strong> (6.5\/10) <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe toy comes packaged in a box with a large window letting you see the goods inside and an advertisement wrapped around it. A quick laundry list of what you get:
\n1) Full strike OR super parts
\n2) 4x missile boxes
\n3) 5x fixed posed hands (L\/R gun grip, L\/R open grasp, R knife-hand\/salute)
\n4) gun
\n5) a disc that replaces the center section of the gun to make it appear collapsed for attachment to an arm
\n6) a display stand (Base, long arm, short arm, black revoltech joint as adapter).
\nIf this toy were a premium toy with a premium box it’d get a perfect score. There’s some paper sleeve that goes around it which seems silly and gratuitous and a few informational items\/advertisements included within. I hear some other Revoltech offerings come with even better goodies but I couldn’t find any reason to complain. Well… a gun strap would have been nice.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n
\nRevoltechs aren’t rare, they don’t contain diecast, and they don’t transform. So, this isn’t exactly a collectors item. These are considered fairly decent toys though so there is a market out there for them and some people are known to be Revoltech completists. \u00a0You should be aware that these are small, almost Gashapon small.\u00a0 Check out the size comparison below. Here’s a list of all the Revoltech Macross toys excluding the transformable Yamaguchi line that came later:
\nVF-1J Hikaru Custom Super Valk, 1,900YEN, September 2007
\nVF-1S Focker STrike Valk, 1,900YEN, \u00a0October 2007
\nVF-1A Hikaru Custom Super Valk, 1,900YEN, November 2007
\nVF-1J Max Custom Super Valk (Limited), 1,900YEN, May 2008
\nRegult, 1,900YEN, May 2008
\nYF-19, 1,900YEN, June 2008
\nYF-21, 1,900YEN, June 2008
\nVF-1J Miria Custom Super Valk (Hobby Japan Exclusive), 1.900YEN, October 2008<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n
\nOverall the Revoltech does a fine job of emulating the mecha despite the somewhat garrish joints in a few locations. The shoulder joints are particularly cumbersome to the eye and once you’ve noticed the neck joint you might find it to be a problem too.\u00a0 The attachments for the super\/strike parts are all done via peg and hole and aren’t intrusive to the overall look of the toy as demonstrated below. Obviously this toy doesn’t try to be the best representation of the line art, it tries to look super dynamic even when you’re not doing much with it. You won’t find clear plastic inserts or anything like that here but the paint apps are decent (though the QC is poor).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n
\nFor a non-transforming toy on this scale I’d have to say this is a great score. Sure, there are no nifty tricks, no suave transformation, no landing gears, or any of the other stuff you’d look for on a more complete VF-1 toy. The toy stands fine on its own with or without the additional parts and can do pretty much anything once on the stand. It strives to be the most dynamic battroid toy out there and I think it accomplishes that goal.\u00a0 The strike gun also contains a revolver joint. Kaiyodo keeps it simple and it works. There are a few round holes that the super parts plug which might not be the most pleasing to the eye but their unobtrusive and they work well.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n
\nThis toy isn’t going to be easy for you to break but the initial build quality is questionable. There was a paint over-spray on the eye of my VF-1J and the VF-1S came packaged with two left gun hands and no right one… meaning in my Revoltech universe Roy is left-handed. The hand issue seems to be prevalent amongst all Revoltech releases and I hear paint issues are also fairly common. The plastic used isn’t the most rigid stuff in the world either which might leave you feeling your toy is a bit rubbery but not nearly so bad as Kaiyodo’s gashapon set which featured plastic so rubbery it literally tore in two sometimes instead of a joint moving. Like the Toynami 1\/100 VF-1 series and other Revoltechs this is a completely snap together toy so if you try to get too extreme with your posing you’re more likely to simply disconnect a part than break something. Some people like this as it means they can strive harder for that elusive perfect pose where other people will cringe thinking that just sounds horribly cheap.\u00a0 I also hear a good number of these come with UN Spacy painted in the wrong direction on the leg armors.<\/p>\n
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