Shawn
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I am amazed at the wing origami at 10:40...I thought it was somehow more of a solid piece for all those panel openings but it folds upon itself multiple times, impressive!
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Awesome! What are we looking at with the 2 colored sprues for the nosecone? Do we get 2 sprues? Cause the model shown has the white nose and orange outer legs.
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Hearing the transformers sounds on this is so weird. Still would never have guessed an Optimus prime Fire valkyrie Mashup was on the agenda post licensing agreement. Strange times. -
I believe those are the little hood props to keep the wings open
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Personally I wouldn't worry too much about the release, even these special web-only releases. Wait for them to show up on the 2nd hand market, get a proxy buyer, and get it from Yahoo Japan. Yes you will pay the 6000-10000 mark up fee, but the stress level or waiting up at 2am refreshing a bunch of web pages is forever gone. Plus they put up the std disclaimer about it being available afterwards. Not saying its the cheapest option for everyone, but it has worked out for me. Plus the shipping always tends to be cheaper, as I bundle this with other items through the proxy.
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Yes I saw multiple AI bots crawling the site starting this last week, hammering the hell out of it. I've got htaccess and robots blocking as many as I can, but they are just ignoring. We have a LOT of data here these last 25 years, 1.6 million posts and hundreds of thousands of pictures. If any AI really cares about Macross its a lot of stuff to digest!
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We are getting hammered with bot traffic all of a sudden, trying to wring it in but apparently we've been 'discovered' ughhh
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Good news is that they continue the 001 release on both tailfins , like they did with original Focker release. Still hard to believe they doubled down with the Mechanic Edition Hikaru VF-1S with the 100 tailfin extra option, such a weird commitment to that mistake.
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Tamashi sort of addressed that with the concern on the product page
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The DX GBP was a 'loosely' based on the Takatoku GBP release=the sharp angled upper corner and the tab at bottom center. I agree they could have leaned more retro in the first DX GBP release Toynami went all in with their 1/100 retro version, so maybe Bandai saw that and did the pivot to the Nichimo box style. I'm personally very happy with their choice, I love the Nichimo kits and it really gives it a retro look in my eyes.
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Holy Nichimo/Takani packaging tribute! Awesome!! Can't wait, love that packaging (I'm the model guy at heart!)
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You are the first person I've seen who bought the Tread FIRST, then getting the Legioss. Nice LOL I want a poster of that box art, it is just too awesome.
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Server is acting up, lots of timeouts, will review and fix tomorrow, sorry! Shawn
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OK THAT is a new one!!! If you watch the video in the thread above, it is in ENGLISH If you click it and watching on Youtube directly, it is in Japanese. Apparently there is now an auto-dub option? What a crazy world we are living in
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I might beg to differ a bit on the comment in that page regarding the weird detailing "Looking closely, the details are a bit crude and sloppy , but in a way, it's typical of 1980s robots. " Look at the Mospeada cutaways recently posted, or the strike valk poster in the gold book or the other Macross cutaways...the details are far from crude and sloppy in my opinion. Maybe wing flaps/spoilers/slats would be too fragile for handling something so large and bulky, since the wing edges are naturally something you'd granb onto, so they needed to add something interesting for the large wing areas, and came up with the split in half. Its definitely unique. And yes I will still buy one of these even if I find their choice of detailing odd.
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Found the Demo disc in a box! Broke out my Sega Saturn and my ST Key cartridge and the thing booted right up. Search Flash SegaSaturn Vol 16 https://archive.org/download/sega_saturn It falls from the sky, lands, then does some jumping around and crouching while trying to blast you. I guess they thought the legs were not spacy enough so they ditched it for the jets Cool! Here is the side by side comparison. Look at the bottom pic, then bottom center. That variant looks to be pulled direct for this.
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So Soft Cup Jam is Ice Cream? Never heard of it so good to know
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If you send in 2 lids of Sonton Jam , you could enter a contest that ran for 4 months, where they gave away 1000 Valkryies a month It doesn't explicitly say which valkyrie product is the prize, aside from saying it has 3 modes, but I would assume its a Takatoku 1/55 VF-1S, since it uses that artwork. I wonder if any custom outer mailing packaging was ever done for these 4000 units, but I've never seen anything.
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Just like the Macross DYRL Discount smaller handouts that you could bring to a theater to get a discount (pic below), there were larger Flyers available as well I've collected a few variants with unique theater names on the back of each, because it was fun tracking them down and they sell for cheap on the auction sites. (couple bucks each so its quite affordable)
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Finally available-Reserve your Vol 1 & Vol 2 of Macross TV episodes on VHS or Beta! LOOK at the price...12800 yen for 50 minute video cassette. That would be equivalent to 18000 yen in today's time. Wow! Pre-Release bonus is a Macross Fashion Bag. Another bonus item to track down.
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Preorder your Macross Vol II Album or Cassette, with 20 new songs! PLUS get a free NEW and Original design Kawamori poster for the pre-order! What poster would this be? It would be a Kawamori penned poster from Victor. I know there are lots of Mikimoto ones. Any ideas?
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Arii mini Factory flyer They pack a lot of extra detail in those factory images!
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Guess I should not have said 'new flyers' thread but 'flyers thread' in general ok...so no long posters, but B5 ish size items, I can work with that. Some don't have anything on the other side, but they are still a flyer like this
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I was hesitant to create a new flyers thread, and could fold things back in, but where would some of the misc promo flyers go There are misc event flyers, game flyers, model flyer etc Any thoughts?
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This one is an advertisement in Variety Magazine from 1984....super curious about what MIFED is and what they were doing with this title.
