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  1. 22 hours ago, RDX17 said:

    Remaining Destroids (Tomahawk and Phalanx) are the priority. A few other DYRL items being worked on for this year, but no specifics yet.

    The destroids are good to hear confirmed, but honestly I hope they don't spend too much more time on DYRL.  The only thing I still want from that is a VE-1 (which I would be *very* excited for, granted).  That said, maybe they should release some HMR VF-1As in the Hikaru/Kakizki/Max beginning of movie liveries for those who didn't get the original hi metals for them way back when.  I already have them and their super packs, but I imagine that some people were drawn in with the HMR Roy or Hikaru VF-1S and haven't since had an opportunity that wasn't super overpriced.

    I'd like it if they started doing VFs from other shows.  Maybe take another crack at a VF-19 now that they're (hopefully) not dumb enough to make gun mounting in fighter mode an impossibility and landing gear being part of a display base that the plane just kinda flops onto.  I'd be interested to see them try a VF-25 or VF-171 too since, triangles on the latter notwithstanding, Bandai did a pretty good job of both in a larger scale I think.

  2. My Milia came in today and as some people said of the HMR Max, it's VERY gray, not even close to the white it should be.  Though I passed over the HMR Max since I had the original HM and after giving it a repainted chest gap filler from a 1A, I've been perfectly content with it.  So the way it is now I kinda like it, since Max's colors are correct and Milia's livery is similar but different.  I know some people would get annoyed if their M&Ms weren't perfectly matched (understandably so), but I kinda like the variation.  Plus, it makes me think of an inbetween/compromise of her original Valk and the black stripes it had in M7.

  3. If anyone has any spare gap fillers (that one solid piece that slots in behind the head and makes the whole torso look a bit more solid) that they have no want/need of from the Hi-Metal R Valkyries, I could use a couple. Ideally from the recent Hikaru 1J release, but any will do.

  4. That VF-1A is exciting news, and I think I'll be pretty happy with it for the most part, but do the parts that are supposed to be white look way too gray to anyone else?

  5. The VF-1A would be easy for them to do. It just a new head. You have to create a entire new nose section and fast packs for the 2 seat types. The VF-1A is just a new head.

    Worst part is they don't even need to do that. They made a VF-1A head sculpt for DYRL Kakizaki, Max, and Hikaru (even if they were web shop exclusives) that were pretty good and could easily be carried over.

  6. Yamato already did it.

    And? Doesn't help anyone that wants to collect in THIS scale. Yamato did a lot of things, and I don't really care.

    Good news, but a bit disheartening that they're only showing Max. I'm not really that excited since I have Max's from the original hi-metal line; I just want Miria's. At least for a 1J. I am *really* hoping they put out a cannon fodder VF-1A (the #1 thing I was looking forward to when HMR was announced, not more DYRL skull squadron rehashes) and a VE-1 sooner rather than later.

  7. I still don't understand the obsession with metal. Is it an american thing or an older toy collecter thing or what? I mean yeah, the name is kind of misleading but it's an english name from a japanese company so...that's the mystery solved right there as far as I'm concerned. And I don't think that many people will care about the name, especially the only market Bandai cares about (which certainly isn't us).

    I *super* want the M&M valks and a generic 1A. I can take or leave the Spartan and Monster, but I'm all over a Phalanx if they put one out. If they were at an event this recently then it's good that Bandai hasn't forgotten them but it's more than a little annoying we still have no details about them.

  8. It works for me. Aside from RGs, which I buy all of, I tend to only buy the suits that I like. For UC series, that can be almost all of them; for other series the hero Gundam is usually enough. For example, the RGs I have are plenty of SEED and 00 suits for me, for G-Reco I picked up the G-Self and that'll probably be all, etc.

    Long story short, right now most of the HG kits I want are sha, Dreissen, Jesta Cannon, ReZel, ReZel Type C, Geara Zulu, Kshatriya, Byarlant Custom, and Banshee Norn Destroy for sure. Possibly Full Armor Unicorn Destroy, Unicorn in Unicorn Mode, PheUnicorn. With the Sinanju I already have, the Unicorn I received today, and the Delta Plus I just ordered, that still leaves me wanting the Jesta, Zeta Plus, Silver Bullet, Anknex Destroy, Delta Kai, and GM III Desert Colors. Maybe also, if the stars align for it, a Neo Zeong.

    I think besides that, my HG wish list is maybe a few more AGE kits (say what you will about the series, I like titular Gundam) and a Zaku III right now. I mean, I'd like a ton more UC suits represented in my detolfs, but a lot of them have older kits that I don't think will look as good next to the RGs for the Gundam, Mk-II, and Zeta.

    Just be prepared for the Zaku III HGUC to have painfully little mobility and being a fix-up job all-around. The basic sculpt isn't awful, but much like the Guncannon it very strongly shows its age...and unlike the Guncannon, I doubt it'll get a 2.0, at least not anytime soon. The Zssa in its proper non-boring colors being a web exclusive doesn't make me optimistic, at least. Only other UC kit I want to touch on is Zeta Plus. It's a gorgeous kit, and i tonly really needs a bit of touch-up paint to look glorious. If you don't have an irrational loathing of partsforming gunpla, it'll be a fun time. I have one in Amuro colors and it's one of my favorite kits.

    I also actually have almost all the HG Federation MS kits from AGE, and they're respectable models. Show was atrocious but it had a lot of great designs. Worth noting is that the Clanche (both versions) and AGE-3 Orbital kits come with their own very simple proprietary stands. Orbital and the Adele would be my votes for best of the lot.

  9. We'll probably know more at next month's Shizuoka Hobby Show. If there's no news at Shizuoka, Hi-Metal R is likely going to be vaporware.

    I've been worrying about that. It seems strange to make a big announcement and then shelf it, but I've given up trying to make sense of Bandai's decisions. Here's hoping Shizuoka doesn't let me down.

  10. Yeah, it's been in discussion since Bandai first announced the RE/100 line.

    Quite frankly, I don't know why the Dijeh is considered to be too obscure for the HGUC or MG lines. After all, Amuro Ray himself piloted it.

    I find it pretty annoying, personally. I have an HGUC Z+ A1 in Amuro colors, a Nu, and...I've passed on the original Gundam since it's just not that interesting. But I *adore* the early/mid UC designs and I've always been a fan of Amuro. I've also always been a stickler for scale. I really don't understand the point of a RE100 DIjeh. It won't be in-scale with my Z/ZZ HGUC suits, and it won't be as detailed as my MGs. I guess I'll pass and just hope they make an HGUC someday. It leaves kind of a bitter taste since I've been wanting a good Dijeh kit for a while.

  11. That the resultant film will be terrible is a 100% guarantee; I'll absolutely see it, IF it ever actually gets made but I sure as hell am not paying theater (aka highway robbery) prices for it. But that's always the rub, the people that "adapt" these things never understand the base, or care to. Most likely scenario is that we'll get a gruff white american male soldier american pilot. Who is an american. Who will proceed to blow up a bunch of evil faceless aliens and win over his CO and/or Katy Perry analogue before stopping the evil aliens' attempts to glass Earth in some gross parody of mechanical design, which aside from design is guaranteed to be in the blandest shade of gray imaginable.

    Funny thing is I think you could get pretty far by just taking a decommissioned F-14 and painting it white with red stripes.

  12. When I first saw the news announcement on their page I got all excited because I thought it said they sold it to Sony.

    Not that Sony is especially known for making intelligent decisions, whether they involve movies or no.

    This'll still be stuck in development hell forever, where it deserves to be. But for the sake of discussion, let's say this has any chance at all of existing. They COULD ride in with Mospeada, theoretically, but Macross is the only part of Robotech anyone cares about at all if we're being honest so that's the part that they'd want to "adapt".

    Even ignoring the legal quagmire that is Macross outside of Japan, we should all know by now that it will be *painfully* Hollywood-ized, and I would be shocked if the mechanical designs were anything above "utterly disgusting".

    This is more amusing than anything to me. I can't fathom why in the world Sony would waste any money on this (barring the simple "poor decisions" explanation). A long-irrelevant butchering of a 1982 animated series' film rights which have been stuck in development hell for years: something worth picking up, apparently.

  13. I have 7 in total (DYRL Skull Squadron with super/strike packs is 4, Hikaru and Max TV-1J's, and a spare VF-1S to display without the packs) and they've all been transformed a fair bit, never had any issues. Can't say I've heard of any issues like this before now, but sorry you've had trouble with them, Frogze.

  14. Bandai did that many times, items like the armored vf-25s from the vf100 line and that sweet looking vajra figure come to mind

    True, but the VF100s line itself disintigrated in general (much like the VF-25's FROM that line). But yeah, Bandai does do this a fair bit. There are several MG Gundams that never materialized from trade shows too, like F90. So while hopefully everything pictured will get a release, there's no guarantee, strictly speaking.

    I also think it's an atrocious idea to ask for an integrated heat shield/landing gear. Yes, I LOVE horrifically flimsy and fiddly parts. Because at this size, that's what they'd be and it's hard for me to imagine otherwise. "perfect" transformation has always been one of the most overrated things possible in the world of toys, for me personally. Better to have something that's stable and pretty in every mode on offer...to a point, anyway. VF100s is the *other* awful extreme. Not that I'd call that stable.

    I'm fine with upgrading the toy in various ways, of course. I do hope they still look right next to the previous wave of VF-1 Hi Metals once they're finally on shelves/in our homes though. It'd be awful to put the new Valks next to my old ones and have them seem mismatched. That's a big plus of collecting within a single line. ....not that this would put me off anyway, probably since I *really* want that brown 1A. To think, "I'll just get Roy's Valk" has turned into ten valks and growing...

  15. I am impatient so I am thinking about grabbing the older VF-19. Is that a wise choice?

    The gun can't attach to it in fighter mode, and the "landing gear" is really a set of three cheap display pieces that don't even really connect to the fighter.

    That said, I think those are its only real flaws; how big those are depends, of course. The painting is crisp, transformation is fairly easy, and it comes with a stand, unlike every other VF Hi-Metal toy. If you like the VF-19F/S and want it in this size, then I'd say go for it.

  16. I'd like it if the VF-1S head design was tweaked a little more and the insignia on the heatshield was lowered a bit. Otherwise these look great. I'm just hoping they're not comparable to the Yamato 1/60s, pricewise.

    Thing is, they did adjust the heat shield insignia when they did the DYRL VF-1A Valks (which were web exclusives and made after the VF-1S which was a general release iirc)...I guess later runs of the VF-1S are just going to be reprints of the first one.

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  17. New Hi-Metals! I'm kind of stunned, I just assumed the line was dead forever, but rarely am I this happy to be proven wrong. In the previous batch, the absentees that made me really sad were no Miria VF-1J (you made Max! Max Valk without Miria Valk is sacrelige!) and no brown VF-1A. And now not only will we get both, but we'll get proper M&M super packs too! I'd PREFER if they sold them in one set like they had the Strike parts with the VF-1S, but I'm not going to hold my breath that it won't be a DYRL VF-1A situation...

    Still, even if that's the case, I am SUPER STOKED. Even compared to the few DX and 1/60 toys I have, these are my favorite Macross toys, and I definitely look forward to adding more to my collection.

  18. I actually wonder if the licencing rights were ever really exclusive in the first place. It's obvious Bandai has the right to produce and sell toys from first macross, as they do and have produced both new molds (ill-fated VF100s) and reissues of them chunky munkys. Having the right to make a thing (which yamato/arcadia clearly have) and having the exclusive rights to be the only ones who can make that thing are kinda different things, and bandai is a pretty big sponsor these days.

    I kind of wonder if the reason we haven't seen Bandai make a VF-1 has less to do with licence rights and more to do with simple market over-saturation and lack of interest to invest in the new tooling.

    Just as a note, VF100s was only Frontier; other lines may have been planned, but only a few VF-25 variants actually got released in that line iirc. VFHi-Metal did, however, see a few VF-1 variants and they were significantly...less terrible than VF100s, to say the least.

    I think Bandai could do a halfway decent 1/60, DX, or whatever VF-1 looking at those but I'm not sure it'd be a good move, even if I'd like one. Ignoring the licensing issue for a moment, there's the always-present and reasonable question of how to break into a niche that's been *flooded* by Yamato. They did a good job with the VF-1J and DYRL Valks for VFHM, but they didn't sell well enough to keep the line going, apparently. I dunno how much of that is due to VF-1 oversaturation, or if they were hurt by the flaws of the earlier VF-19 releases or what. It's hard to imagine they're eager to jump into that pool again with that combined with how well the Macross F stuff has been doing, though. I feel like they probably have their eyes firmly on Frontier and beyond.

    Thouuuugh they *are* putting out a VF-19ACTIVE that is a YF-19 competeitor to Arcadia in all but name, which is interesting.

  19. Every Macross fan should watch M7 at least once and make up their own mind. It really annoyed me the first time, but the second time I was more analytical and discovered particularly what bothered me about it.

    With that filter in mind, I was able to appreciate many of the merits of the show. It won't make it into my top ten favorite Macross productions, but it had some merits. I could have dismissed it with generalities like some do with respect to certain productions, but stuck it out and can honestly say I am not an M7 hater, just not a fan B)) .

    Most really divisive shows are like that, I think. Where the best advice you can give is "see for yourself", to fans in general. I stayed away from Gundam ZZ for a long time due to general fan discontent, but after rewatching Zeta and watching ZZ, I enjoyed the former a *lot* less and really had a blast with the latter. I still think M7 is garbage in every respect that isn't the music or some of its art/designs, but I wouldn't tell someone not to watch it based on that.

    On a tangent, I've seen the comparison between M7 and G Gundam that Aurora-7 makes a number of times elsewhere and from different people, but I don't think it's a good one mainly since G Gundam didn't follow Universal Century and was never meant to fit into that timeline; M7 feels weird partly because it *does* explicitly tie in to SDFM and Plus.

  20. I'm pretty happy with the Renewal MacF stuff Bandai has done (or just later ones in general that didn't hav v1's) so if there was a DX VF-1 I might be interested. Honestly not sure what I'd ask of them since the VF-1 Valkyrie has so many blueprints for a good toy by now that there's not much left to add. I'd just want some really crisp printed detail like on their VFHM and DX MacF toys and a decent stand for fighter mode and preferably a generic brown 1A released early on in this scenario. Notches for the wing settings like David suggested would be a great idea, too. I really liked that a lot on the 25A. Though I'd be more interested to see them take on a VF-11 since Arcadia apparently isn't going to reissue it, ever...

    I WOULD say "it should include super/strike parts", but...if we're talking DX as in the same company here, we all know that'd never happen in a single release. Web exclusive accessory train, all aboard and all that.

  21. Yeah, the only 19S we see animated being piloted by a toolbag like Docker...it's a crying shame. I try to just rationalize it away by saying that his wasn't the only VF-19S/F squad in UNS, as both random oc and random faceless mook are preferable options. This was the only way I was able to enjoy my VFHM 19S (which I partly got since it was cheap at the time).

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