unclechopchop

I personally am getting a little tired of everybody (well alot) complaining about these toys! Personally I think they look great so far. I know I have to wait to get one in my hands, but I do believe that Bandai does make some nice durable toys. I currently own just about every carnation of Macross toy, and have been kind of dissapointed in the Yamato lines. The first 1/60 line was kinda cool, but sucked for the fact that you had to pull the legs off to transform. Then came the 1/48 scale. I blew a ton of cash on those, only to be scared to mess with them because of the lack of quality. You pay close to $200.00 and the thing snaps in your hands when you move something. Recently I went to go mess with my VF-0A and the arm snapped off. I only transformed the thing once! And now they have the new revamped 1/60 line. I hear it's great, but c'mon. People always complain about how they are more anime accurate? What's that really suppose to mean? Last time I watched the show, just about every other drawing of a valkrie looked different in some ways. It seems like the fans will never be happy. I was happy back in the day with the original Takatoku and Bandai releases. That was a quality toy. You could play with that thing all day and never had to worry about breaking anything. There was alot of inaccurracies, but all the same very cool. Dated but very cool. Even when Bandai made a newer attempt with the Macross 7 toys, I felt that they did a great job. There was alot of plastic instead of Die cast, but it was good plastic. The posing was somewhat stiff, but they still were convincing. Overall I do love the posability of the Yamato lines, but it's too bad that they construct these toys in such a poor matter. I think Bandai has took advice from everybody over time, by producing this new toy. They made it very durable (from what I hear) and more posable than the Macross 7 line. I almost think it's worth the money. Yeah, I know $180.00 or more is alot, but you don't have to worry about breaking the thing! Everything can't be perfect, but hey, that's what the model line is for. More accuracies without the playtime. Everybody that thinks that I am wrong, dig deep inside of yourself and ask "Are the Yamato Macross toys really toys, or something that I have to display because I am too scared to play with?" Please don't take any of this wrong, I do love all of my Yamato Macross toys, but I am also very protective of them because they might break in the wrong hands. Yamato stuff looks absolutely awesome, but man if they used better plastic as well as more die cast, then everybody would have EXACTLY what they want (and payed for). Bandai has always produced very good quality toys. BOTTOM LINE.