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I trust Graham's words, and I'm trying to point out to the whiners why Yamato seems indifferent to the problems we are having. Buyers outside of Japan, U.S. buyers in particular, seem to think Yamato "owes" them and they don't. I certainly am NOT a defender of Yamato or their shoddy production techniques that should have seen improvement over the last six years, but I've always accepted that I'm taking a gamble by purchasing their products because I will not have their support. At this point we can continue to provide evidence of design flaws and hope for the best, stamp our feet and whine, fix brand new toys with recastors or ignore their products altogether. I'm starting to lean towards ignoring their products because these toys, their stratospheric price tags and conversely horrible quality control don't need to be in my life... <<<<<<<<<<<<<< "Everything you own in a box to the left..."

Not according to Graham, which is what I'm basing my statements on. I'm not saying that Japanese customers aren't experiencing problems, rather just not in the concentrated percentage that owners outside of Japan are. Think about it: there are fewer owners of YF-19's in the U.S. than there are in Japan. Obviously, if the 19's in the U.S. start to break then the percentage of problems would be greater than they would be in Japan, where there are more '19 owners. And, considering that Yamato is only interested in the Japanese market, it'll take longer for them to listen and react...

One sided? How's this: Japanese buyers of Yamato Macross products don't suffer the same problems that we do and that's the demographic that they care about. From Yamato and Graham's point of view, it's Westerner's ham-fisted, Big-Mac-grease ridden, dumb-ass, couldn't-transform-a-G1-Bumblebee stubby fingers that are breaking their products, not their engineering. Granted, they've issued fixes then and now for their products but once again, their focus isn't on anyone outside of Japan, and certainly not when Japanese customers aren't experiencing breakage on a noteable scale...

Lol. I was gonna' mention that but didn't wanna' go OT. There is not ONE example of irony in that entire song but I guess that's an irony in itself. Maybe that's the point?

You guys have to remember that THERE IS NO AMERICAN CUSTOMER BASE in Yamato's eyes. Due to legal constraints and issues, WE AREN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO HAVE THESE TOYS. Yamato has NO responsibility to American purchasers of their products; we are on the fringe, and because of that we're being treated as so. If the U.S. was an official customer of Yamato I'm sure they would provide the appropriate levels of customer service...

So, would the replacement parts be made of POM, or would they be of the original material?

I'm getting all tingly inside in a nostalgic kind of way, remembering how we had to disassemble the 1/60 VF-1's to transform them. It's good to see that Yamato's latest effort is encouraging part-swapping/removal again...

I've wondered about that myself. There's no official line-art, yet it appears in the anime, so how can you be more official than that?

Yeah, maybe I'll get mine on the sixth of February...

I had some idea about Lik-Sang's fate but I wasn't sure, and I definitely had no idea that other retailers as well as Ebay halted their sales and auctions to Europe as well-wow. In regards to cost, why are hardware and software made more expensive in Europe?

Use the force Luke! Trust your feelings!

Why is that?

And even then the wing would probably have to be pulled out and replaced, as there is no room for the wing to pivot backwards into the body of the fighter...

Then...you get a $200 fighter mode '19?

I was like, WTF?! I like the original design, and the nose matches the rest of the fighter...

The '51 has sometimes been refered to as a styleized F-18 crossed with an Su-37. The F-18 reference is obvious to me, I'm not sure about the Su-37 though...

I gotta' ask again about the Japanese fans though-are they suffering the same problems we are? I'm gathering that they aren't, and if that is the case then you can almost guarantee that Yamato won't change much about their manufacturing processes. Why would they? I'm not sure how Kensei's MW ownership survey turned out, but you can rest assured that our combined purchases don't make much of a difference to Yamato...

Goddamn, what is this? The crucification of Jesus Christ was less painful and agonizing than this!

Gambling's for James Bond. I'll perform surgery at some point but the landing gear isn't much of an issue for me...

I'm surprised that they allowed the spring loaded heads of the red and green lions to retain their launching abilities...

As far as I know all of the 19's have landing gear that does not completely deploy. Check out the customizing Macross toys thread for the ongoing fixes that people are coming up with for landing gear and gunpod issues...

I wonder how the Japanese buyers are faring with their units?

I still maintain that the only advantage that the Toynami Voltron had over the classic Voltron is poseability. Many owners of the Toynami set have said that they were not confident in the potential longetivity of the product, saying that multiple transformations would probably result in breakage somewhere. Also, you have to like the sculpt and look of the Toynami lions-personally, I don't. Summarily, unless you like the looks of the Toynami lions and have to have their poseability, you'd be better off with the "straight leg" classic Voltron toys...

Which way does your gunpod point? (Ok, how else would you have asked that question?)

Couldn't we.....enlarge one side of the hole on the handle itself, to compensate for the misaligned pegs? I suppose it'd be easier to just saw off one of the pegs...