{"id":4792,"date":"2011-06-02T03:58:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T03:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anymoon.com\/blog\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2014-07-12T05:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T05:00:03","slug":"toynami-super-poseable-vf-1-wave-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anymoon.com\/blog\/?p=4792","title":{"rendered":"Toynami Super Poseable VF-1 (Wave 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Review:\u00a0 Do You Remember Love and BattleCry variants<\/p>\n

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Packaging & Extras: (2\/5) +0.5 for Comic-Con Exclusive Hikaru VF-1S
\nWith the exception of the Comic-Con exclusive VF-1S DYRL Hikaru toy, all Wave 2 Super Poseables come on a blister card. All toys (including the Comic-Con exclusive Hikaru) come with the figure and the following:
\n1) Gun with permanently affixed strap
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Charm & Collectability: (2\/5)
\nI’d like to give Hikaru’s DYRL Strike VF-1S a bit of a higher score here since it was an event exclusive limited to 1000 in production but it seems fewer than 1000 people ever wanted it.\u00a0 When they came out these toys were a pleasant advancement over Arii’s horrific 15th anniversary toys.\u00a0 These days your hard earned cash has much better options in the arena of non-transforming battroid toys that are completely devoid of metal.\u00a0 The Yamato GnU series originally featured an MSRP above these toys and lack super\/strike parts but can currently be found at bargain basement prices.\u00a0 The GnUs are a much higher quality product with greater articulation, roughly 1\/100 scale (for the VF-1 line), and come with a basic stand.\u00a0 At nearly half the size of these Toynami figures Kaiyodo’s Revoltech non-transformable VF-1 toys come with super parts, a stand, and better articulation than these toys.\u00a0 If you need more reason to pass these toys over you can also look at the smaller scale transformable toys which offer more bang for your buck.\u00a0 At about the same price as these Super Poseable figures you could purchase Toynami’s 1\/100 VF-1 toys or Kaiyodo’s Yamaguchi VF-1 toys which both offer similar levels of articulation (less for the Toynami, more for the Yamaguchi) with the added benefit of transformation.\u00a0 Then again, if you’re really wise about your money, you’ll pass all of those toys and purchase a Hi-Metal VF-1 toy or go larger in scale and look for a V2 Yamato VF-1 toy on sale.\u00a0 I would rather have one Hi-Metal toy or V2 VF-1 than every Super Poseable toy.<\/p>\n

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Sculpt, Detail, & Build: (6.5\/10)
\nThe level of detail isn’t remarkable, it’s just fair.\u00a0 The general shape of the toy isn’t horrible.\u00a0 The crotch is too pointy, the knee caps are outlandish, the skull is puffy (where present), and the neck has a large and obvious base.\u00a0 This was clearly an artistic interpretation of the VF-1 meant to create the visual illusion of dynamic movement and to that end it works pretty well.<\/p>\n

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Design: (4.5\/10)
\nLike wave 1, I sometimes found it very difficult to swap the hands of this toy out for the optional fixed-pose hands.\u00a0 These toys have the same guns as wave 1 so they also retain the completely useless expanding stock and the permanently affixed gun strap which often gets in the way of good poses.\u00a0 When all is said and done this follow up to Wave 1 seems to be a half-hearted effort to give fans a toy that could achieve the poses Wave 1 couldn’t but the big shortcoming is that this toy can’t achieve the poses that Wave 1 could.\u00a0 So, instead of getting a truly super-poseable toy you were left to purchase two “kinda” poseable toys.<\/p>\n

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Durability & Build: (6\/10)
\nI’m probably being too generous here since the build quality is pretty poor.\u00a0 I noted several different poor applications of paint on my toys.\u00a0 These toys continue to be made of the same rubbery plastic of Wave 1.\u00a0 As with Wave 1, be cautious with the gun strap attached to the gun as it can be easily broken; a problem exacerbated by the strap’s ability to inhibit articulation.
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