Draykov

This is a long shot, and I can't quite figure out why I remembered these things out of the blue, but I'm trying to identify a set of toys I had as a kid and thought maybe some of you Gen X 2.0 kids can help me out here:

There were these 3 mechanoid bugs released some time before 1983. They were each about 10" long. There was a spider a scorpion and a dragonfly. They each had cockpits with pilot figures molded inside. They weren't Zoids, at least I don't think they were. They were non-transformable and they weren't building toys.

The scorpion was mostly orange with red trim and it had a blue morning star type thing where his stinger would be at the end of a segmented tail, and if you pulled the ball off of the tail, it was attached by a little chain and you could swing it around. The pincers opened and closed through the use of a spring mechanism and there were little wheels on the belly so that when you scooted the critter across the floor his legs would move.

The dragonfly was purple. It had a little dial you could spin with your thumb to make kind of a chirping noise, it had suction cup landing gear/feet so it could stick to walls, and it had a bright green bomb that it held under its belly in a set of arms. When you flipped a switch, the arms separated and released the bomb. There was a small, plastic stinger at the end of the tail that was molded in the same color plastic as the bright green bomb.

The spider was black and had the same underbelly wheel mechanism that the scorpion did to make the legs move. It had mandibles that you could lock open and then push a yellow button to snap close. It had a sort of clamshell transparent plastic piece that covered most of the butt end of the thing, but sticking out of the back end, there was a light purple or maybe gray spring loaded projectile cannon that launched a red grappling hook that had string attached to it.

Help me geeks of the 80s...you're my only hope.

I wonder what the production run will be like. I'd like to get 5 or 6 of these things eventually, but I'll have to be content to start out with 2.

Why are the 1/48 CF's sooo expensive compared to the other previous released 1/48's?     

It's gotta be the market value of the USD more than anything.

New pictures from HLJ: here and here

That is one chunky monkey.

I guess it's always good to see some kind of progress on a Yamato project. Before Yamato gives up on Macross, I sure hope they do a VF-1A CF in 1/48. There is no redesigning or retooling needed for it so I so no reason to at least do a limited run.

Amen. There's still a market! We won't bitch about "another VF-1" anymore! We promise! We can change, baby! We can change!

I'm a sucker for the Yamato 1/48 VF-1. They could make some fugly Macross 7 version with the gay pride parade costumes, I'd still probably shell out $100 for the damn thing.

I would love to see the two-seaters come into existance, but I'd settle for a Kakizaki 1A, a Max 1S or a Brown Bullseye.

Thanks for the heads-up, Kev.

If you guys want TV pilots PM Rohby, he has the mold for them.

Coolio. Thanks, Exo.

Nobody has mentioned it, so I guess I know the answer: Is the pilot the standard DRYL Roy? There were rumors that he'd be in the gray TV flight suit.

Guilty.

I think those screw covers are from the inside of the chest plate somewhere. I noticed them on my 1/60 Max and Miria.

I'd buy two or three without hesitation.

We've had what is it, a nice 5 year run with lots of new Macross toys from Yamato, Bandai, Banpresto, CM's & K&M, but I have a feeling that we are in for a long dry spell for at least the next several years (or possibly longer).

I think basically that the Macross bubble has burst and with Macross Zero drawing to a close this month and no new Macross anime or new Macross console game on the horizon, the toys are going to dry up soon.

Kind of a bittersweet assessment for me. I've amassed an impressive collection of Yamato items over the past few years and I'm very happy with them. While I'd like to see more large scale Valkyries, I don't know that I can afford it. Macross has tapped my play money something fierce in recent years.

No other anime/mecha can hold my wallet hostage quite like Macross, so from that perspective, I feel I've thrown off the yoke for a few years.

It's a conspiracy against completists!!!!

my little brother had one of those Matchbox POS valks. It was his only robotech toy and he loved it. After a while, I persuaded him to let me try and make it transformable. I completely butchered it (I was about 12 years old) and he was sooo P-d off! Oh well, he got over it and the toy probably deserved to be mutilated anyway (big piece of sh**) Besides he destroyed enough fo my toys when we were kids.

Speaking on behalf of little brothers everywhere, you owe him a 1/48 Yamato.

no 1/48 gbp news at all, im still crossing my fingers

Check this thread: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=10523

I am planning on snatching up several 1-A's while they are still available for customs. It seems it is now or never until Yamato commits to whether or not they will do a re-release.

No kidding. Even the Hikaru J model without FAST packs is getting harder to come by. Speaking of FAST packs, I managed to score a couple of sets from Tam during a brief window of in-stockitude. Lucky me! He must've pulled them out of his secret stash hole.

Super squishable!

This is about the coolest "pose" you can get from a 1/48. They're not THAT poseable really.

Psh!

It matches up like this:

1/60 1/61 1/62 1/63...1/72...1/80 1/81 1/82

...if that answers your question. The closer the scale is to 1/72, obviously the closer it will match.

The bigger the number to the right, the smaller the pilots would be. In 1/72 scale, 1 actual foot is equal to 72 scale feet. In 1/48 scale, 1 actual foot is equal to 48 scale feet, and so on.

Indeed, prices that high are nearly unanimously criticized as being outrageous whenever they are mentioned on MW.

Maybe that's what he's using to determine price. If gouging is confirmed: mission accomplished!

The 1/48 Roy is only worth $10...shipped.

Bootlegs of mass destruction!

that's nice!! so you scanned in those pix of minmay?

Nah! Remember, there is more to MW than the forums.

Glad you guys like it. It's vaguely embarassing to have in my living room. But I'm gonna leave it this way for a while.

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Don't sweat it. It looks cool, in a geeky fan-boy sort of way. Besides, it looks like a typical living room table set-up if you don't pay too much attention to it. People not interested in Macross might take a while to even notice it.

I'm still hoping Yamato will eventually release a Max VF-1S.  It's just a simple repaint.  That and the VF-1A Max TV I am waiting forever for someone to release.

I would so be on board...and the CF too... and an out of the box Kakizaki (DYRL? or otherwise). Now I'm going all fan-boy.

As others have mentioned, Yamato might just be taking a breather from the 1/48 line, not only to concentrate on other projects, but to unsaturate the market a little bit. Send out the newsletter to tell us all what we pretty much already knew and then watch the supply/demand ratio shift. Then, when and if the next release hits, people will be ready to pimp themselves out for a quick 1/48 fix.