edwin3060

Yeah but when you rotate your arm, the clavicle joint moves in addition to the shoulder, not instead of the shoulder, which is how they posed the arm. I'm sure the arm can be posed correctly (bandai is awesome for their posability) but it just look silly as hell.

Yep I totally get it... Bandai just seems to have a problem with posing their toys I guess-- just look at the DX VF-25G / DX RVF-25 in some of the model show pictures-- totally horrific and uninspiring!

What would be the point of that?

Taksraven

With the new CD and new songs out, some people may want to change their vote?

I agree about the revoltechs-- they are stuff to play with, not for display. My YF-19 came out of the package with a broken ventral fin, for example. At the same time, the high price of the GNUs probably turn many people off-- the specialty of Macross is in it's transforming fighters, after all, otherwise it'd just be Gundam. For eg, you can get a v2 VF-1 1/60 for the price of 3 GNUs, or any other 1/60 from Mac0 or MacPlus for the price of (slightly over) four.

Incidentally, I just got my YF-19 w/Fast pack set, and if you decide to go for it, I could recommend you a seller (not me! )

On a side note, a couple of recent posts in 2ch suggested that some of the high prices and lack of volume in regards to Macross products is due to the absurdly high licensing fees that Big West demands from licensees (like Yamato and Bandai).

That's pretty sad, IMO. Big West would be killing the goose for the eggs if such high license fees discourage other toy manufacturers from entering the market.

Back to the 1/60, I suspect from the pictures of the super packs that the DX would look pretty good in fighter mode with super packs equipped-- hopefully we can get pictures of that soon!

Oh man I am on this like white on rice! IMO, the 1/72 VF-11B was the nicest of the whole 1/72 Yamato line, and this is a major improvement on that! I just hope that there won't be any durability issues.

Umm.. from what I know there are two types of GM markers, one is acrylic based and one is enamel based. So, if you are using acrylic paints, you should use enamel for panel lining?

Maybe they are secretly pre-emplacing all these bowls for when Nyan Nyan chinese fast food restaurants open all over the world!

I suspect the choice of the hip placement has to do with durability and ease of production, which is why Bandai went with this simpler design over the model kit's swing bar. Its nice to see that the engines no longer hang underneath the shield in fighter mode, which is a big turn off for the 1/60 (which I'm hoping is just improper placement of the whole leg/engine assembly)

Hello

I just wanted to ask the experts here regarding forthcoming availability for Yamato's VF-0 and SV-51's.... I guess also the YF-19 and YF-21's

I want to complete my collection but I really can't buy them all at once. Having just ordered a couple of 1/60 VF-1's I need to wait a good while.

I do want to check as I was looking on Ebay and the VF-0 and SV-51's are really expensive.... Is this a sign of limited quantities?

Or rest assured there should be plenty of releases for the VF-0, SV-51, YF19 and 21 over the coming year or so?

What I am trying to get to is it a grab it while you can thing with these or is there room for some breathing space till I can really afford some more.

Cheers,

G

I'm not really an expert, but here's my take on things:

YF-19: Probably be re-issued, but extremely high demand, even crappy 1/72 versions (used) still go for about USD 75 on ebay, and good luck finding a version that includes the fold booster and fast pack-- don't get the 1st versions (i.e. w/o fold booster/fast pack) that are on ebay, they have some issues that are listed elsewhere on the board.

YF-21: Not as popular as YF-19, but better engineering and (fighter) proportions, so you might want to get these. Probably be re-issued as well eventually.

VF-0: -0S will be re-issued this december (?) supposedly with engineering improvments, so you might want to go for these fresh from the factory.

SV-51: Not going to run out anytime soon.

The high prices are indicative of the high prices that Yamato charges for them, IMO, so not really an indication of rarity (except YF-19 w/Foldbooster&fast packs)

Good luck with your decision! Read the toy threads on this board to find out about the engineering/design issues that each toy has (they ALL have some, unfortunately)

Well, they kinda work for me--- I guess they are meant to show that the chunky designs would look fine even in the anime? Any high quality individual versions of that?

Looking at the super VF-25G and RVF-25, it seems that the back of the legs/top of the engines in fighter mode are left low so that there is enough space for the super pack.

Eugimon-- I suspect that the arm can pivot at the shoulder as well? It is a ball joint after all-- they just can't get the same range of motion as they would a human body. Also, if you hold your arm in that position, your clavicle would move up as well-- it is just that it is covered with flesh and bone, while it isn't covered in the VF.

The Bandai VF100s line will probably push the prices of the GN-U down-- also about $50, but partsforming is pretty attractive! Oh well, I got my MacPlus trio (-11/-19/-21) probably won't get any more...

We should probably restart the poll-- wipe the slate clean so any prejudices can be removed.

Just a question-- during the Aimo OC version and some other Aimo, during the middle of the song, the melody and pace suddenly changes to that of another song which sounds very familiar to me, but I just can't place the other melody. Can anybody else identify it?

you can add that it's 50+ and it doesn't come with armor...the thing had armor on all 25 episodes!

Yea well, its Bandai-- they can release 4-5 Gundam kits from exactly the same mould, just in different colours! I'm not too surprised that they are drawing out the releases, with the clean config first, then super, then armour. If you are looking for the armoured or super versions, just be patient! They will come!

Word from the 1/72 thread (Graham) even says that the VF-25S Ozma looks good with a straight build and stickers, even without panel lining! Thats probably the way to go if you want an accurate, though fragile, toy-- I've transformed my VF-25F twice and I'm already leery of further transformations!*

*Not that there are any stress marks or any hint of failure, but the model as a whole just feels extremely flimsy and the intake/hip guns no longer fit into position

Sheryl's Aimo is just to die for!!! It was so good, it literally sent shivers down my spine!

+1 to what ntsan said... theres a 1 GB+ FLAC of Nyan Tama floating around.

I would say that this is actually quite competitive-- for the same price as a 1/72, you get something that is 3/4 the size, but doesn't require assembly, painting etc. Quite alot of people would go for this, I think-- and the fact that they will make ALOT of the VFs from other series as well all in this scale is a pretty big draw.

I guess a logical retcon then would have the YF-24 tested on Eden?

Yep definitely explains why I couldn't find it--- nobody classified the torrent under Macross!

Hmm anybody remembers what was written about that planet? I must have missed it.

Thanks for all the great work! I'm still waiting for my copy of #10.

On a slightly related note, there are small paragraphs in the Official File #2 linking the VF-25 and the VF-27 to the YF-24--- individual sections for each VF.

Macross F O.S.T 3 娘たま♀ is out, you can search it in SHARE.

^^

Oops.. colour me dumb, but I can't find it? Also, THORA subs for 8, 9, 10 are out! woohoo!

That's kinda weird, if Earth did use mass cloning for several years, I'm expecting to see several people with the same faces, but the anime never depicts that one .

After re-thinking, I think that would be a bad idea, imagine a valk squad named "Flying Steak" and its member consist of Kakizaki clones........

O_O I think you just discovered the pilots of all the CF planes!

As much as i'd love that to be an upcoming 72nd fighter only VF-25 its just the regular bandai 25S with lots of mods and filler to make it look like that. It shows you that in one of the pictures posted.

Yea I just saw... the amount of work involved looks to be just O_O. Oh well one can dream . If only Bandai would license the rights to Hasegawa (I know I know fat chance!)