StealthLurker

lol, mmsadda

My sincere apologies. Admins please delete. Guess I got too excited after getting "propositioned" if I wanted one by my source. haha!

I haven't posted or frequented this board in years (?), however I was once a hardcore Macross nut... Besides having previously collected anything Macross like a madman in the past, I also did some japanese arcade machine, pachinko and pachislot collecting. Well my main hookup that sells me pachinko/pachislot machines just contacted me about a new Macross pachinko machine coming soon... and I must say it's simply amazing! Even Shoji Kawamori showed up for the debut. Here's the site: Macross Pachinko Machine The animations and all the bells n whistles look simply awesome. It looks like the control goes beyond the usual dial/knob and using a flight stick! She's gonna get back to me on the price new... but most likely I'll wait til the price drops to the usual second hand market prices... which is usually around 300-700ish USD depending on rarity and condition. .

I TOTALLY HEAR YA. Many of us here have interests in multiple "hobbies". With the prices these days, it's a real tight wire act trying to juggle them. .

Been out of the macross loop for the most part, besides the usual 1/48 releases.. So sorry to bump an old thread... did a quick search about this figure and this is where the last info seemed to point. Did Yamato completely cancel this destroid monster project? .

Try living in the SF Bay Area. It takes about a million dollars here to get a house that is in a nice location and can easily support a family of four. Bare minimum is about $600k. In a recent study to determine the worst places in the country to live by wage vs cost of living California had SEVEN of the top ten worst places to live. It's pretty pricey out here. Arizona has really boomed though, I remember considering buying a house out there seven years ago... i so should have done it. EDIT - deleted duplicate "cost of living" and replaced with "wage" so it actuall makes some sense 360755[/snapback] AMEN. Just bought my first home in San Diego last year. Kinda weird that a first home runs over half a mil AT LEAST! Therefore most of the funds go to: 1) Bills (mostly mortgage) 2) Little performance parts for the beemer 3) Arcade cabs/boards 4) Yahoo Japan for vintage home console videogame stuff 5) Going out, misc electronics, dvds/cds, paintball .

Those reproduction cocktail cabs are quite nice. Some of our local movie theaters have them. If I ever get a big enough place I'd like to have 2 home arcade setups: 1 w/ 80s vintage US cabs and 1 japanese cab area. LOL When I first started collecting cabs, all I had were US cabs. Had a row of 7 dynamo made cabs llined up on one side of the garage and some pre-jamma sega/data east/taito cabs on the other side. However, once the jap cab bug bit I sold off a few and had friends store the others. Right now only got 2 us cabs at my pad and the rest at some of my friend's homes. One day, one day.... .

You got that right. The saturn version seems to be going for about 130-160 right now (even in japan), whereas the arcade cart (no motherboard) is only about 80-120. 99% of my japanese cabs came from Arcade Infinity over in the Diamond Bar area in LA. So if you're interested in some jap cabs, be sure to check them out. .

Someone's gotta do it. 206450[/snapback] Well then here's my setup: Got the SDF macross pcb in a box somewhere... after about 20 minutes it gets old, so I popped in Raiden Fighters instead. More arcade pics in the sig around page 2/3. .

live action? .... uh-oh. .

Ha! Yeah with Ebay and stuff like that people can really go nuts with their "weird" collectibles. Here are the "weird" stuff I go nuts for (toys/games). As for craziest stuff I don't know. You be the judge: http://videogamecollectors.com/gallery/album26 .

I have 2 boxed Takatokus 1/3000 SDF-1s and 1 loose matchbox one.

Yes I would say that's overpriced. It's not too rare (even if it's boxed) and can be had for a LOT less. Saw a 3 boxed and 2 loose last week.

I have the Macross DYRL Arcade game PCB, after about 15 minutes of gameplay the novelty wears off. Stuck Raiden Fighters Jet 2 in the cab instead... The Saturn DYRL game is only good for the cut screens. The actual game itself is very weak. As far as a total package of a game my picks are: 1. SFC Scrambled Valkyrie (good for a game in it's own right, macross or not) 2. PS2 Macross 3. PCE-CD Macross 2036 4. (maybe) PC Macross VO

I like my "play" stuff to be built like tank... so for a toy that you can actually "play" with w/o being the slightest bit gentle I'd have to say... 1) Any bandai chunky monkey 2) Love sentai so... hurricanger toys/combiners 3) tokyo marui remote control godzilla Don't get me wrong I love yammies and all that stuff... but to me those are just for posing and display more than anything else.