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An Arcadia "white" VF-11B would be perfect!

A Macross the First SDF-1 as a side-benefit from owning both the Megahouse and Wham would have been nice...

Part of the Jedi training curricula...it sucks when your trainer is a Hutt though....

Wow! Kinda called it!

Agreed!

Anyone check to see if there is a way to remove the Daedelus and Prometheus from the SDF-1 without breaking anything? I was hoping they would be detachable to try and fit them onto the Wham DYRL SDF-1 for an instant Macross the First SDF-1....

http://www.toyboxdx.com/datafiles/data/takatoku2/macross1.php#LISTSTART

Build Quality: For being a 3P product the MasterMade DYRL SDF-1 is an extremely high quality product. It is good enough to compete with products from Yamato, Bandai or Arcadia. If it had been released by either of these companies, it would have been at least $50 more. The Megahouse TV SDF-1 is basically a low-cost option for collectors so it is kind of unfair to compare it to the Makuros, even if the Makuros was similarly priced. I would have to say the Makuros wins over the Megahouse simply because it was built as a high-end toy. Additionally, it almost has perfect transformation. The Megahouse is a 100% partsformer. Hopefully, if sales are good, Bandai will greenlight a full DX version of either the TV or DYRL version….personally I would hope it is the TV version. The TV SDF-1 deserves a 1/3000 makeover! Details: The Megahouse SDF-1 has a nice sculpt, but it suffers from stubby legs in Attacker mode. IMO, it was already designed as a partsformer, so why not just supply extra legs for Attacker mode so it would look good in all modes? I’m guessing Megahouse did not want to exceed a certain price-point for this toy. The toy has good paint applications, but that is about it. It has about as much articulation as you’d expect from an SDF-1. All the joints are held via friction. No ratchety clicks like on the Makuros. The winner in this category definitely goes to MasterMade, but again, the Makuros was designed to be a higher quality toy….the Megahouse from the get-go was designed to be a low-cost alternative. Value for money: Hands down, the MasterMade Makuros , at the original cost of around $100 is a better value. However, it is a DYRL version and it is an SD representation. Some folks don’t care much for SD designs. I personally do not, but am more forgiving when it comes to Macross SD toys. Additionally, there is no other game in town for a TV SDF-1 at the moment and its price will not bust most wallets. I would recommend purchasing this toy. It is almost the same length as the Makuros and it displays well together. I hope this helps in your decision. Good luck! Some pics:

heheh....it is a DYRL doujin....who knows...maybe the female is the flight instructor...

Well, cease and desist letters shutdown all major importers of Macross goods in the US....I still remember the big BBTS Macross sell-off.....maybe similar letters were sent to these 3P companies and it was enough to spook them....such letters would not cost HG that much, but the benefits would be great if they got HG what they wanted (cheap sale of remaining stock or straight-up confiscation) .... But really, who cares....the stuff's garbage and it'll just further tarnish the "Robotech" brand....assuming there is any shine left! The real concern is the effect on future 3P Macross products....hopefully, outfits like the one that released the Makurosu, don't see Fanmaketoys' failure as a sign that there is no market for 3P Macross items...

I'm hoping that the SAP will help lock the fighter mode nice and tight....a fool's hope, I know....

LOL....the "canon" is falling apart already?....I knew nothing good would come out of Disney taking over the franchise....all they did was pour out the old pitcher of EU Kool-Aid and replaced it with a "new and improved" pitcher of EU Kool-Aid....now with less Lucas...so it HAS TO BE GOOD!!! I wonder if it will be revealed that Mon Mothma is a priestess in the Church of the Force?

Maybe HG threatened to sue and then confiscated all of the i-robots/fanmaketoys stock on the grounds of IP infringement and will now get to sell these in the US without spending a dime in development and manufacturing costs...wonder if HG sued fanmaketoys, then they offloaded their stock to i-robots....and now i-robots gets screwed by either handing over their stock to HG or selling it all at a loss due to some legal action..... The worst thing that could come about from this is we never see another HK 3P Macross product again.....what ever happened to the SD stuff that was teased by the 3P company that made the Makurosu??? Maybe they were able to sell all of their Makurosi before HG was able to get to them.

Finally had a chance to take it out....it's OK for now....a Bandai DX 1/3000 still needs to happen.... Pictured here with some of its other "low-cost option" SDF-1 cousins produced throughout the past 30+ years.... If the maker of the Makurosu comes back and produces a non-SD in the same scale...it would blow the Megahouse away....plus it would most likely be PT...and possibly cheaper!

Engineering failures.... Several problems could have easily been avoided with tabs that would actually lock in place...tabs that would swivel or slide out of sight....etc These "failures" are most apparent in fighter mode....the battroid and gerwalk modes are actually very solid...

Thanks! Updated my original post with the magazine info.

-1S Roy is the same art as the -1S Hikaru...it just has a "greenish" tint to it....assuming they are keeping it unchanged from the pic show during the Tamashi event a few months back...

It was probably "the last one" off of the buyer's Yamato Macross valk bucket list....still you won't be able to get a VF-X for anything close to MSRP these days....the only thing that could crash the market for the rarer Yamato's is an Arcadia re-release (see VF-4, but kinda doubtful for a VF-X) or an all-new Bandai DX VF-1 series (but even if that were to happen, I doubt they'd release a VF-X...but anything is possible I suppose)...

Yamato 1/60 VF-X - New, MIB - 50,000 JPY http://page14.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/s485161490

Looks good....can it achieve this pose with the Daedelus and Prometheus?

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Just like the DYRL-style helmet worn by the HMR GBP-1J's pilot! Looks good!