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We may look back at some point and realize it was over for Arcadia after the VF-0D.......which essentially was the last of the Yamato legacy..... Anyone wanting valks not featured in "current" Macross shows will probably be at the mercy of Bandai's Hi-Metal R line......unless Bandai goes DX on us? Even if they do go forward with this prophesized DX legacy line of valks....will it include anything other than the classic VF-1 from SDFM and DYRL? I can't see Bandai releasing a DX VF-5000 toy from an almost 20+ year old show that is not as popular as SDFM/DYRL.....That was the niche served by Yamato and now Arcadia...however, it seems to be unsustainable, at least in the way that Arcadia is trying to make it work....I guess only time will tell.....if anything a new show will help keep a general interest in Macross alive...so there is at least a fool's hope...

Good point...the backlash on current pricing is real...as in a Japanese reality, as that is what Arcadia ultimately needs to be concerned with..... some KO companies can take advantage of this pricing backlash and can start replicating existing molds from either Yamato or Arcadia....but what is the market for KO products in Japan? Based purely on what I have seen listed in YJA, there really is not very much available on that site in terms of current or past Macross KO products.....very few MasterMade Makurosus and Fans MakeToys SD VF-1S's.... The US seems flooded with them, but are they really selling? Does anyone know if the MasterMade Makurosu was a "sales success"? The Fans make -1S doesn't seem to be successful.... I would like to see how successful a NON-SD VF toy would be coming from a 3rd Party.....if the quality would be as good as the takara KO's mentioned, then I think the average collector would not care that they are not "officially" licensed.....sadly, I think the "SD" non-licensed Macross toys killed it for the potential of some 3rd party making a NON-SD Macross toy....hopefully not..... I am also looking forward to how well (or not) the VF-2SS does from Evolution Toys..... Of course, we could also be on the verge of Bandai, once again, being the only game in town...in terms of PT VFs....which, based on what I have seen from Bandai, wouldn't be all that bad....beats not having anything at all.....

No mention of licensing costs and their affect on total cost... Also...did he insinuate SV-51's are coming? If so....they really need to get him out of the decision process for new VF products.... They should just go with a subscription type model were consumers vote on what should be made next....then pay up front, no money back....the choices offered would include the final price of the product...only the products that received consumer support would get produced... At this point, they do not seem to be a company that can absorb one failure and still survive....I would like for Arcadia to keep making PT VFs....but they can only survive if they actually make what consumers want, not what Mr. K wants

Wonder how much licensing adds to the cost....must be quite a bit

Miss just one day of searching and you may miss out on an the item that will show up only once in a lifetime.....

Looking forward to Arcadia and Yamato VF-0A side-by-side pics.....

After 30+ years....I will no longer need to stalk YJA for the few missing Takatoku items I still needed to find....so that will drastically reduce my Macross collectible searching/browsing time...of course, there are still always never-before-seen stuff that shows up to acquire! So it will probably never drop down to zero time........

Someone should delude Toynami into a VF-4 kickstarter!

Until the whole issue of "blacks getting killed off too soon" on The Walking Dead came up...I didn't even "notice"....they were just characters to me.....now it's a "race thing".... Why not complain of the lack of Hispanics or Asians on the show (well, there's Glenn I guess...for now)...pretty sure Hispanic or Asian actors wouldn't mind getting killed off on the most popular show on the planet! And FtWD takes place in Los Angeles.....no Latinos hooking up with white chicks in that town? They could have selected a Hispanic as the leading protagonist......what? No one would watch the show??? or how about this idea.....the show could have centered on the fight for survival and "escape from LA" of an undocumented Mexican family living in East LA.....and their quest to head back to the "safety" of Mexico!!! But at least Star Wars is now politically correct!!!

#imaginaryblackcharacterlivesmatter

I'll be spending a lot less time now....

I'm thinking it could also have to do with the fact that we know what they folks are in for..... But, yeah....we already know what is going to happen....I think eventually the viewer may come to "connect" with this family...we must....or we just won't be emotionally vested when the sheit hits the fan and some of them fall victim to what we know must come to pass....it happened to the Grimes family.....and we'd all be outraged at this point to see little ass kicker become a walker snack.......the FtWD showrunners have a tough job with making us feel the same for a junkie.....good luck to them.....would love to see them pull it off.....it would mean great TV.....

I think there is a limit to how many times the bidders can extend the clock....not sure if it is based on the actual bids or the amount of time from the original ending time... I've kept many a Japanese Macross collector up way past their bedtime!

Wish ebay did that...or at least gave sellers the option. It's more like a true auction that way....it ain't over until no one is left to bid any higher... Sorry you got outbid....but that just means you have a chance at getting it for less next time....these VF-4's don't command what they used to...

So are you are saying Arcadia can't afford it or it is just not available to anyone at the moment? Because attaining one from any media that included a VF-4 would resolve the "current situation" of not having one...wouldn't it? Unless you are also insinuating that Arcadia has no desire in re-releasing it at all?

Can't unsee that now....

"Current situation"?...I assume you go into that in your blog... Only thing that could keep Arcadia from making more would be the absence of a license for a VF-4 and/or the inability to afford one that includes it... With that said, perhaps we are expecting too much from Arcadia....a VF-4 may actually be a better possibility from Bandai or some other company (much like the VF-2SS)...

Finally had a chance to watch thru the entire first episode of FtWD... Not bad...but not sure how this could be a whole new series....should have just been a mini-series at most. In the "behind the scenes" clip it is mentioned that the events of this show are the the time Rick is stuck in the hospital...how long was that? The one thing that was interesting in the episode was that it was mentioned that the same things were already being reported in 5 states... The one thing I hope this show has the freedom to explore is an explanation of why the zombie apocalypse is unfolding...I also want to know if it spreading across the whole USA...if it is global....and more importantly if there are any areas that are unaffected.... This whole thing can easily be some kind of biological weapon gone wrong....but it could also be some new drug cure for something that went wrong...or how about a biological attack on the US?...doubt that last one though...as the guy from the CDC in one of the early season episodes of tWD kinda seemed to insinuate this was home-grown....but who knows... In the age of instant news and tweets...if the show doesn't at minimum show if this is happening anywhere else in the world...then it's pretty lame... One final thought....in the show...they cut classes short and insinuate that it was as a result of the police video showing the attack of the walker....really? Why would a school system do that? What I'm hoping is that the video was an excuse for the government/military to start shutting down places where large groups of people congregate....would probably want to shutdown airports too...and start isolating the areas of contagion...judging by how well they did that in Atlanta....seems LA should unravel into a much greater cluster-fook....

Maybe Arcadia can release a VF-4 under a Macross the First license?

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Guess now we know why The Walking Dead hardly deviates from the source material.....