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  2. MKT
    Various Banpresto Ichiban Kuji Macross Frontier Premium Prize SD mechs.
  3. sh9000

    sh9000's collection

    Images added to a gallery album owned by sh9000 in Macross Collections

  4. sh9000
    HMR VF-0A + QF2200D-B Ghost.
  5. sh9000
  6. sh9000
    JoeFest Exclusive.
  7. sh9000
    Classified Retro Cobra Trooper. Classified Night Attack Stinger and Driver.
  8. MKT
    Banpresto DXF Ghost In The Shell Arise, Motoko Kusanagi.
  9. sh9000
    Boris Ping Toys.
  10. sh9000
    Update with Juhn.
  11. sh9000
    Star Wars TVC Ahsoka Professor Huyang.
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  13. TG Remix
    Kinda lol. I need to actually play and follow the series. Now I'm imagining an extremely salty Shinsei engineer supporting Anti-UN groups because the NUNS turned down the VF-19 for widescale adoption, who may or may not care about the export laws enforced because of the VF-19's conception. Honestly, I kinda like how we see some like the VF-5000 and VA-3 being used past their prime by the time we see them; it shows the passage of time in the Macross timeline without having to completely boil them down to just being old and useless. I still want to see a bit more about what happened between SDF and Plus, just to get more of a grasp on how big the world got since the advent of emigration fleets and planets. EDIT: IIRC there was a tidbit in either The Ride or the Frontier novelization that even by 2058 the Macross Frontier fleet was still in the process of decommissioning their VF-11s, way long after the move to the VF-171. And that's not even mentioning the (un?)official SW-XAI Schneeblume that used the VF-1 as a reference for a stealth VF to pair up with the VF-17! Honestly, the moment I saw the VF-1EX in Delta with its own EX-Gear system I'm convinced those things will be a universal constant in the franchise. If it means anything, the VF-14 is mentioned to have an airframe that's easy to maintain, so it seems like a sturdy machine that can last a bit more than some of its contemporaries, which probably explains why that and the VA-14 was popular with Zentradi pilots. Having a stealth system before it became the norm with the 4th generation VFs I think is a nice bonus too all things considered.
  14. sjoebarry
    Same….
  15. Scyla
    I think Takara missed a big opportunity to give their collector line a unified style and scale. The Masterpiece line was a mess in terms of scale, style, approach and quality all the way from MP-01 to MP-60 and should have been rebooted several times (MP-10 Optimus Prime, MP-29 Laserwave, MP-32 Optimus Primal). And it housed some of the worst toys in my collection. Yet with MPG, the first release, Raiden, was a special design to incorporate as accurate as possible trains, with realistic details that are in scale to one another. MPG Super Ginrai is a super toon accurate version, that doesn’t fit together with Raiden and now they are releasing the Ironhide mold that doesn’t know if if wants to be full toon or follow the old MP-10 style and an obscure repaint of Trailbreaker. *sigh* Most of the other collector oriented lines I collect (like Metal Build Gundams or Kuro Kara Kuri Transformers) have a coherent vision and style even if they are long running lines too. With Metal Build being released since 2011 (the year MP-09 and 10 where released) and they all look good together on a shelf. But the MP line (and all the 3rd party companies following their lead) never had something like that and it is a shame that Takara let that opportunity pass. Maybe I‘m an anomaly as a collector but I always imagined that consistency in a collection was key for most other collectors (otherwise why would you collect a line of toys). For example this is the reason why I don’t want the Lego Minifig to change so all my Lego sets are consistent.
  16. Big s
    What does it mean by pre assembly kit?
  17. shazam
    Great looking Eve figure from Megazone 23 part III.
  18. MKT
    CM’s Gutto Kuru Megazone 23 Part 3, Eve Tokimatsuri. I wish CM’s didn’t skip Eve from Parts 1 & 2, especially Part 1 where the characters are designed by Mikimoto.
  19. pengbuzz
    It's a Reeses Valkyrie!!! *Isamu*: "You got YF-21 in my YF-19!!!" *Guld*: "You got YF-19 in my YF-21!!!" Commercial for those who have absolutely NO idea what I'm talking about:
  20. pengbuzz
    Quick question for clarification: when you say "predecessors", do you mean they became Shinsei, or simply that they predated Shinsei?
  21. sh9000
    Wolverine Revenge.
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  23. sh9000
    McFarlane Toys Store sale.
  24. sh9000
    Agreed. Very nice sculpt and great articulation.
  25. sh9000
    Marvel Legends Angel.
  26. sh9000
    Resident Evil.
  27. Seto Kaiba
    I'm sure they have at least some... after all, Shinsei Industry is one of the oldest, most successful, and most influential corporations in Humanity's defense industry. That's not a position you earn, or keep, without having at least a few skeletons in your closet. We do know their predecessors Stonewell and Bellcom employed former Anti-Unification Alliance engineers from the SV-51 program after the Unification Wars. That's how Alexei Kurakin, General Galaxy's cofounder, survived the war. He was on Luna doing space testing on the VF-4 when everything went to pot. Maybe... though the designs of that era are kind of a Lost Generation in terms of depiction in Macross works. We only ever got to see the 3rd Generation on the way in in Macross M3 and on the way out in Macross 7. That said, I'm inclined to doubt that the VF-14 would've received the same kind of excessive service life extension the VF-1 got. The VF-1's unending utility is practically a running joke, and the main reason it's stuck around as long as it has after being aged out of main military service is because civilian market VF/VT-1s are so ubiquitous that the military's Special Forces supposed use VF-1X derivatives because they're as close to inconspicuous as a 12+ meter tall transforming robot can be. Macross Chronicle's descriptions of the Fz-109 series suggest that the Elgersoln's performance improvements owe a lot ot other areas beyond simply raw power... it's said that they made refinements to basically every system, though the transformation is specially noted to be much smoother than the original aircraft's due to their improvements. The overall performance is said to greatly exceed the original VF-14's, which yeah... I guess makes the Macross 5 and Macross 7 fleet's VF-11s supremely unlucky to run into enemy forces who are fielding a Gen 3.5-equivalent as standard.
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