jvmacross

The love and respect for Macross that used to reside at Yamato has now appeared to have taken up permanent residence at Bandai's Macross Products Division.... Finally.....the 30+ year dream started by Takatoku of a full line of in-scale Macross Toys (which includes enemy mecha) is almost over! Thank You Bandai! Keep up the excellent work!

As I said previously, this toy has no competition.......when it comes to the VF-2SS.....there can be only one! Because it is the only game in town...there really was no reason to try harder.....it just needed to be "good enough"....competition is the best motivator for achieving the best product....or just wait until someone does "do it better" and then do as the Chinese and upscale/KO the heck out of it...heck maybe even improve on it a little after all the hard work is done!

Glad to hear that you and several "first adopters" of the VF-2SS have been generally happy with their purchases. I too have been hoping for 3P Macross ever since the Makurosu came out...even though I am not a big fan of SD versions of toys....the Makurosu was a great first try and gave me hope that it would encourage others to create more Macross product....sadly, all that has materialized are those awful SD VF-1's, which no one seems to like....I guess Macross is just too niche even for 3P... All we can do is keep on dreaming for now... But all is not lost....at least we have our resident 3D artists regularly pumping out cool stuff for us!

You should do some more of those gif pics showing what it would look like with "corrected or swappable" parts....like some intake extenders, shortened backpack "plank", and boosters in proper height when in Battroid...

Thanks for posting the pics....looks really nice!

I say ET should forge ahead with the VF-2J Icarus next....then do the Metaaaal Siiiiren afterwards....then they can revisit the VF-2SS after Bandai releases their diminutive HMR version so they can then upscale it to 1/60 and KO the crap out of it Hong Kong 3P style!

Looks great...congrats!

Awesome display! Is that the wood model sold on ebay? Would you mind taking some shots of it on several angles.....I've always been curious about it...is it the one labeled as "large"? Agreed, it is great to have....plus Macross II valks are no longer absentees in your 1/60 VF collection!

Do it!

That is awful to hear....I think the pics posted by vf5ss also show that he is missing one of the tires from the rear landing gears....let the retailer know and maybe they can help you get a replacement part...hopefully you bought it from HLJ....if not, it is still worth a try...good luck!

...or how about M&M fitted with atmospheric escape boosters on mobile launch pads! The ultimate VF-1 stands! These need to be done in 1/100 for the HMR line!

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From here on out....All VF toys must be subjected to the flop test! Can someone post video results of an Arcadia VF-4 flop test....ASAP!

Man of Steel....meet Ballz of Steel! It does look much cleaner and nicer!...so no more fighter or gerwalk? Or does the middle chest tab still holds it in place?

I was probably going to add the VF sticker to mine...it should have been tampo printed...I don't think the manual tells you where the stickers go other than the VF sticker...but they shouldn't be hard to figure out their placement....they are standard aircraft warnings, etc... I'd like to see someone do some panel lining and light weathering on it though.....

Yeah....usually we want these companies to stick to the lineart....It seems Bandai can do no wrong these days....Still....it appears in the anime with bigger feet....so it's all good!

Thanks for posting that....I could actually hear the the tightness of the arm pegs as you pulled them out of the leg slots...great job.....so really...just some application of future eh? So just a quick question....where your tabs loose fitting before you applied the future? Just wondering if maybe I have a defective one.... I wonder if that fix will also work for the tailwings....those are even worse IMO..... BTW...did you also apply future to the tabs that slide into the legs above the intakes?

Bandai's Monster "BigFoot" anime style v Original lineart "LittleFoot".....

So if the VF-17 lead to the VF-171....is it possible there is an in-universe SV-26 and SV-261, which the SV-262 derives from?

After having it for a few days...a solid B+ overall.....it loses points due to the poor fit in fighter mode and ugly Gerwalk mode, but makes up for it with a very solid Battroid and Gerwalk (although worst looking mode). This score is just based on the toy, as everything else, such as packaging, etc would do little to affect the purchasing decision for many but the most die-hard collectors. However, I think the biggest impediment for the Silvie VF-2SS was all ET's doing....they should have sold it with the SAP...it would have been perceived as a better purchase packaged as a valk + armor combo.....I think many customers skipped the Silvie when ET announced the bundle sets and will be purchasing at least one of the upcoming SAP bundles...I have no reason to believe that the VF-2SS will not be able to accommodate the SAP armor in at least the Battroid and Gerwalk modes....I'm thinking the current weak attachment points in fighter mode will be "fixed" by either improvements from ET or better attachment points via the armor itself. Well....at least I am hoping that will be the case! As far as the price....it is a very niche product with most likely a small run, so the price is probably as low as it can get for ET to still make a profit...with that said.....if my thoughts are correct regarding dropped pre-sales after the SAP bundles were announced...it may be possible to get one at.... "gulp".... clearance at some later point in time.....but that is if they do not announce a stand-alone SAP.....just some personal speculation on the market for this toy....I guess it all depends on how few they actually produced...

It is not "floppy" per say....the fit is just very poor and weak in FIGHTER MODE....some areas I would expect to get worse over time....it will hold it's poses and configurations in gerwalk and battroid........ The poor fit in fighter mode is due to two areas and 4 attachment points..... The first area is where the arms attach to the legs....see pic This would normally not be an issue...it attaches very similar to how the arms and legs attach on a VF-1.....the issue is that on the VF-1...the design allows a further attachment point between both arms...the VF-2SS as designed by ET...can only connect between the arm and the leg...the arms cannot connect to each other.... To make matters worse, the flip-out style arm tabs as designed by ET are too thin and do not stay secured to the legs when they are inserted into the leg slots or you can argue the slots in the legs are to big for the arm tabs..... ......this can be resolved by either making the arm tabs thicker or narrowing the leg slots.... The second problem area in fighter mode is the where the leg assembly attaches to the fighter body..... ....See where the arrow is pointing?....That is the only area where the leg assembly attaches to the body in fighter mode....and it is moderately tight out of the box, but I can definitely see this getting loose over time if you transform it often.....the tab is located on the body and slides into a slot located on the leg...it does not click or lock in place.... I would not trust swooshing the VF-2SS without holding onto both of it's legs......and afterwards, due to the poor fitting connection where the arms and legs connect....you will surely need to "adjust" it..... So again, not really floppy...just not very secure in fitment in FIGHTER MODE....it is not something you will want to handle too much in fighter mode as its attachment points will only get worse for wear over time.....and probably not that much time...

Monster feet as drawn for the anime... Monster line art....