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Worse yet, Yamato, the only company to have actually released both, additionally went with different shades of "brown"... At both 1/60 and 1/48!

I'm surprised no one has made a custom outfit like this or even the full zentran battle armor to fit onto a generic 1/6 or 1/12 figure.

You never know....40th Anniversary of DYRL? is coming up soon......maybe they can use the molds from their last "Origin of Valkyrie" series to recreate a VE-1 and VT-1 set.....the bonus is that we would finally get pointy nosecones! Or just cross your fingers and hope Bandai makes "DX" versions if you just want bigger versions of both.

I think we will get the following with a high probablility: VF-1A TV Soldier with TV and DYRL head VF-1A TV Kakizaki VF-1S Roy DYRL* VF-1A Max DYRL VF-1A Hikaru DYRL * if Bandai was feeling generous, they could possibly release this with an extra "TV" head, hands, and pilots and thus release a TV/DYRL all at once...however, the HMR release for Roy's VF-1S shows this as unlikely I think we will get the following with a fair probablility: VF-1J Max TV with Super Parts VF-1J Milia TV with Super Parts VF-1S Hikaru TV with Super Parts bonus "Roy TV" pilot TV Super Parts - Standard....possibly with set of "TV" hands TV/DYRL GBP Armor with "grey" visor VF-1J head, yellow/red missiles, TV/DYRL hands, TV/DYRL pilots I feel that releasing the Max and Milia -1J's would be pointless without the Super Parts, but then again we are dealing with "sell you missiles separately" Bandai! However, if they do go with the bundle for the M & M, I think there would be a good chance of selling a Super VF-1S TV Hikaru bundle and a GBP-1J bundle with yellow and red tipped missiles, plus the "hands set" they teased a while back....Bandai would most likey select some of these bundles as websclusives. The following are just "wish" territory.......... To "end" the line......... The first ever 1/48 PT "toy" of the.... VF-1D VF-1D VR VT-1 SuperOstrich VE-1 ElintSeeker I feel 2 or more of these releases would definitely be websclusive candidates.... And with that said, what else would be left that you could honestly say Bandai was being "lazy" in not releasing? Sure you could point out that Yamato did release the VF-1A AngelBirds, VF-X, and Cavaliers....but all but one of those was originally done in conjunction with a third party. Perhaps that could happen this time around, but so far that has not happened in the realm of Bandai Macross toys. Possibly as webclusives I suppose and if they do that, may as well throw in the "Alaska Base" VF-1A. As for the "non-cannon" Yamato 1/48's...I do not have high hopes for similar Bandai releases. After the SDFM/DYRL releases, I hope Bandai goes into a sort of "VF Works" series (similar in concept to the VF100's series) where they start releasing "DX" scaled non-VF-1's.....they have already started that with the YF-19 and upcoming YF-21, so keeping these releases in their Chogokin line would work too I suppose. I would think either a DX VF-11B or VF-19 Kai would be next in line. However, I wouldn't mind this type of series to be done using their "HMR" scale.

The VE-1 and VT-1 are the only significant hold-outs from the "old school" 1/55 releases that still command the "Iron Price".... Yes, high-end collectibles will most always sell for less on Mandarake due to the shop taking away the "competative pricing" aspect of an open market auction where several parties are involved in determining the final price vs. Mandarake and their individual seller per "controlled" transaction. Basically, Mandarake "sets" the buy-back price, which must be significantly lower than market price in order for them to turn a profit in the transaction........think of it in terms of how a pawn shop makes money. This "controlled" transaction usually leads to a lower Mandarake selling price, which I would think is purposeful so Mandarake can also retain their reputation of "fair" pricing for their consumers.

Various used Bandai DX VF's from Macross Frontier.... Bandai GE-56 VF-171EX....10,550 JPY https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/473116151 Bandai GE-67 RVF-171EX.......13,550 JPY https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k467266546 Bandai GE-54 VF-25F "renewal"........15,600 JPY https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/s740467518 Bandai GE-59 VF-171.................10,749 JPY https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/o395425616 Bandai GE-55 VF-25S "renewal"............16,650 JPY https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/v718998424 Bandai GE-60 RVF-25 "renewal"..............10,050 JPY https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/n424379136 Bandai Armored Parts for "renewal" GE-54 VF-25F.........17,750 JPY https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/c824679831

Bandai 1/55 Hi-Metal VE-1 ElintSeeker - 97,789 JPY https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/p766209895

Thanks, I'll look into those suggestions.

I think Mokman has done this digitally, but I wanted to try it using physical transfers of the separate douga onto tranparent sheets and then assembling them atop each other....not much of an urgent need to do it, but just an excercise on wether it can be done or not

These were released in 1997. Not sure if they can be considered "old school" releases. However, I suppose you can stretch the "old school" cred if you consider they are based off of "old school" ARII kits.

Not that I know of. But then again, I can only speak of Macross pencil case offerings. I have not seen anything released recently. Come to think of it, I really haven't seen too much in terms of Macross stationery items in general.

TV-Kun furoku, September 1983 - VF-1S "internals view" cardboard standee

Another pencil case.....

Third from the left? The image was used on Seika Note's menko card boxart.... Same one used on their Seika Note postcard set.... ...and notebook.... ....and sketchbook.....

I am 99.9999999% sure these are some kind of Macross stickers.....

Shogakukan DYRL? Promotional poster This appears to be a poster promoting the upcoming DYRL? film preview book. I assume it must be from Shogakukan as it also seems to promote various reissues of the SDFM TV books released in the previous year 1983...

To be honest, it probably would have been too big for what Takatoku wanted to accomplish for this line and my guess is they were already hurting financially, producing and selling a Monster at 1/144 may have put them out of business a lot quicker! But at least they sort of compromised on the final production size.....if this Takatoku promotional poster is correct, they were thinking smaller...1/500

Hello...Welcome to Macross World! We actually have a thread for asking about values.... http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/42369-the-new-and-improved-whats-it-worth-thread/ But since you are new here...I will answer your query... The Takatoku 1/144 VF-1S is one of the harder pieces to find from the set...not that difficult, but it comes up for sale and auction less often than the Destroids. They generally sell on auction for about 50-100 USD depending on condition of the toy, the box, contents, accessories, etc. BTW, there is also a thread that keeps a running tab on auction prices for various Macross collectibles..... http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/38871-macross-collectibles-market-watch-current-auctionstore-sold-prices/ Here is one that sold recently on YJA.... https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k446030708 5,000 JPY Oh and no need for a painful apology...instead please assume the double-secret MW welcoming initiation position!

To anyone who may not be aware...the Arcadia joins the fight during episode 27.....keep your eyes at the lower left-hand side of the screen immediately after the appearances of both Britai and Lap Lamiz

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/41092-item-of-interest-spotted-on-mandarake/ There is an existing thread to post "items of interest".....you are aware of them. In fact, you most often than not, also double-post the same listing in the various "item of interest" threads. It defeats the purpose of those threads to have you constantly posting listings on threads that should be focusing on the toys themselves. People follow this thread, and others, and each time you post a listing, folks get alerted and instead of finding out something new, like a release anouncement, PO date or newly discovered issue, they get yet another post about a link to a listing.... If people want to find out about a new listing, they can choose to follow the appropriate threads. You should allow folks to use the available tools on this website, especially newer members that may not be aware of the available threads that exist to help them find items. It has worked out fine this way for at least 6 years. An occasional listing from time to time, for example after the mad rush for a PO that has recently closed, is perfectly understandable, but what you are doing is disruptive and quite frankly a form of spamming. Maybe figure out some other constructive way to increase your post count?

Something about the cardboard "grain" just says "high quolity"!

Good luck

Yep, I just don't recall them at HMR scale....actually, I don't recall your 1/48 Milia-1J M7...have a link or pic?