Shawn

So is this an official mis-packaged valk or someone putting up loose parts? https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k1077364458

I wonder how much trouble that photographer got when they blew up the negatives. "Hey Joe...is that a Takatoku logo back there? You know we did this photoshoot for BANDAI right?!" "Oh hell just print it, its too damn late now, the Toy Fair starts in 2 days, maybe they won't notice." "They did pay upfront right?"

The hunt for the old stuff is the the best part, you'll have fun tracking them all down!

Nice autographed find! Do you know when she signed it? Now you just need to find the other 6 volumes to have the entire set if you ever wanted to complete it. https://macrossworld.com/macross/books/series_comics.htm

Is this a poor man's Legioss and Tread? haha https://www.ebay.com/itm/255879611058

Wow, that gunpod pic shows there IS a big difference, thanks for the compare! Here is the mention of the variant cockpit color from the Italian TT book In their VF-1A pic, they have a gunpod in the box. Depending how you read this, it is the 4th in the group they are showing, or the 4th in the release schedule from Taka Maybe they started making some gunpods in the later releases and it was hit and miss whether you got one or not? (nothing like another rumor)

The artist Toynami used for the retro-box art is Jaime Sullivan. Super nice guy and he appears at many of the SoCal cons and will gladly sign your toys

You'll now need to locate the Dark Canopy variation JVMacross 😛 http://dxrobo.com/vf-1j-st-battroid-valkyrie-1100-scale-takatoku-1983/ Gotta get them all!

Very interesting-there is a 1/100 Cockpit color variant on the Taka releases...there is always a freaking variant.

Yeah...figured as much, but just wanted to ask. I'm the Modeling guy...so wasn't 100% sure So that means the only 'official' 1/100 Gunpod (non-KO) is the 1/100 Bandai DYRL VF-1A right?

And in an article in Toy Fair from 84, no gunpod on the 1/100 Guess they didn't have one scaled at the time? Stupid question...does the 1/55 gunpod fit in the hand slot on the 1/100?

From a catalog in 1985 or 86, it is mentioned to NOT expect a gunpod in these It is so weird.

I wonder who did the signatures. Do you think the voice actors did each of their own characters? The styles are all very different.

You can definitely email Anthony directly for a larger order and save him the ebay fees

I want painting of that kit that looks like a painting of the painting

Do any of the members here know where we could spread the word for the other series kits? Like Gundam or Ideon or Yamato? I'm sure those fans would be as excited as we are seeing the Macross kits.

The Holiday Special is up, please check it out here https://www.macrossworld.com/the-gtc-legacy-project-part-3-the-holiday-special/ Its a quick tour of the warehouse, and we can start seeing the shelves getting properly filled up Time Machine back to 1985 please.

Anthony said he is going to shoot off some more pics and perhaps a video in the next couple days so we'll have another update soon, His team has unboxed and inventoried approx 7000 kits so far...they have a long long way to go! (original estimate was about 100k in the GTC inventory) Can't even imagine it.

Thanks! Fixed, had a permissions error when I added a new drive to the server...doh!

The general unwritten rule is to tease an available magazine or book or whatever, something what a reviewer would do under a fair-use type thing Enough to tease some good stuff to encourage sales or gain interest for the item. Definitely not full scans of the item, and yes there will always be 'what about' exceptions....e.g. the old Imai booklets or something odd like that. Even in the old days when I did the magazine scans for the legacy site, I tried to balance what to show from articles from 1983. It seems silly I know, but it seemed like a good policy at the time. At least it let me sleep at night. So just use common sense and imagine it was your intellectual property being shown as your internal limiter on the previews. Easy enough!

Nope-no green tint at all Maybe they took the pictures under a tree I don't feel too bad at the $30 each, but was disappointed pulling them out of the bubble wrap I just went 'oh...these are just sunburt beaters' Guess I got cocky after finding that pre-production display DX VF-1 😛

Who called just a regular sunburnt VF-19?????? You are the winner!! That seller really needs a new phone camera...how in the heck could the colors be that far off. I mean that is WAY off. Auction on left, what I got on the right Sometimes you win, sometimes not.

I've never seen the Gummy GBP before, especially in radioactive strawberry flavor Nice find!

The poor Tomahawk reminds me of Mr Burns s

If anyone has any of the older or newer catalogs I'd love to see them. I think I have a 93 and 94? I've got to do some more digging over the holidays. One goal is to try to reach out to Ron as see if he has any stories to tell about his business over the decades, I'm sure he has quite a few.