Mommar

Sounds like we're all in the same boat. I ordered Thursday night and got my confirmation Friday morning. I'm biting my nails over a few items I've ordered.

It's such a cool toy and well engineered but... it's not my beloved SDF Macross version. I just can't spend the money on the one I don't like as much.

Holy crap, I could not pass some of those prices up!

I'll be watching this thread closely. I can't wait to see what you do with it!

My vote is for Max, I always thought of him as so genuine and humble. A nice guy who could have let ego get the best of him for pretty much being able to beat anyone else.

That doesn't change the fact some of us find the paint scheme to be an eyesore. I'd rather have the thing in Greyscale like the prototype to Red and Yellow regardless of what that shopped pic looks like.

Thanks for the link. Sounds interesting. I like those new designs too.

My hero, the first to post! Looks great next to those 1/60 Valks too. There's no way in hell I'd have room for one of these things. How dynamic can you make the poses?

I can't read Japanese. What's the story behind this thing? It looks pretty cool.

Comparing that CAD art to the VF-25 it looks like except for the wings swept forward and that it looks like the wings recess into the body in one of the modes (probably Battroid) it's pretty much a straight up 25 conversion with canards and the wings swept forward. I'd wager Gerwalk and Battroid look nearly identical to the 25. What this may do is give Bandai an excuse to fix their sub-par original 25 mold so newer iterations can use a better body while keeping the fundamentals the same. Either that or they'll reuse the old molds for this, which I skipped because you couldn't even get a decent A-stance in Gerwalk which is my personal favorite configuration.

I would bet it would be more expensive if they made a TV version if for nothing else that the arm attachments are slightly more complex on the TV version. The DYRL has those spiked tendrils that attach to the ARMD's but they always stay in pretty much the same place. On the TV version the arms actually retract into the shoulders. They don't necessarily have to do that on the toy but it will hurt line-art accuracy in Cruiser mode as the Daedalus sits closer to the legs than the Prometheus and the collapsible arms make that happen. That's a lot more complicated a mechanism.

That's a pretty inspiring pic actually.

I understand how some people could like the Frontier but I honestly believe it didn't sell well because of the colors (very pastel/toy-like) and the fact it looks like a Robot laying down on it's face... something I feel the DYRL style SDF-1 comes dangerously close to resembling as well. I think if they made a TV style SDF-1 that would actually open them up to making an SDF-2 as well, since a lot of the bridge stylings are closer to the DYRL style PLUS they could slap the ARMD's on it as well, since it used them instead of the carriers and the molds already exist.

I'm hoping this news means Yamato will realize there's a huge market for the TV version as well and do a new mold from the ground up for us TV fans who have been waiting to sell a first born to get one.

Graham may have grown up somewhere Robotech didn't exist, however that doesn't change the fact there is another one with ratcheting knees out there and now we know.

Does it change the fact it's an SDF-1 toy?

One nit-picky thing I noticed about Grahams review, this is not the first SDF-1 toy with knee articulation. There was an old Matchbox die-cast toy, it doesn't transform to carrier mode, but it does have a single click articulated knee-joint. So the 1:3000 is not the only toy, however it might be the only worthwhile toy with one.

Give us one of everything and we can all be happy, right? ;0)

You must have read my response wrong. I was only referring to the differences in that movie posted about the Pachinko Machine and nothing else.

Except the Macross in that movie is different in a lot of ways. It's got the bigger at the end booms of the DYRL version, and it's got the arm attachments as well. However, the rest of it is pretty similar to SDF Macross. The biggest difference is that the bridge/head is in proportion to the rest of the body instead of that pea for a head on the DYRL version which I personally dislike. Mostly, all that CG animation has told me is SDF Macross needs to be redone because it looked pretty cool just for an advertisement.

The more I look at those pictures the less accurate the Cruiser mode looks. The legs aren't splayed out quite as far as they are in the line-art, they're always mildly in an "A stance" even while in cruiser. That's one of the things I didn't care for in the DYRL version actually, it looked too much like a giant robot laying down. It's actually closer to the SDF Macross version in this regard.

And speaking of which, where are all of the photos of completed kits for those of us who couldn't afford one?

That's a great review and the pictures of the toy look awesome. Unfortunately I still can't buy it, too much money and I've always disliked the way the ARMD carries look on in in Cruiser mode.

I was going to say, the extra engines built into the wings that everybody around here hates so much almost looks like the engines from the Tornado Pack were built into the plane this time. At certain angles I like the way this thing looks, at others I hate it. Would be nice to see the other two modes as well, maybe it really shines in Battroid and Gerwalk or something.

Interesting. I can't wait to see how this works, especially in some of the other modes.