DarkEyes

Pretty good the VF-19, like these and if it is hi-metal, much better! But I think it is too small.

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Please, it is Bandai, owner of the Chogokin line, Masters of Metal. The lack of metal in Macross Frontier valkyries was pretty disappointing, now these Hi-Metal figures are something more Bandais style. As a fan of Soul of Chogoking, Im pretty glad with this new idea, but too bad about the scale. By the way, when I see statements like "superior quality valkyries in plastic", I cant avoid to think in crack shoulders and other issues of Yamato because of his light plastic, but of course metal has problems too, fans are never happy!

Wooo, he is really blue! now I dont know if get it or not.

Love the YF-19, nice figure derex3592! congrats! Im wondering in buying a YF-19 too but not sure if this one or the orange one.

Beautiful colors, horrible price.

IXTL said it. Beside it is not really a "right move" to get a crack shoulder because a light plastic I prefer metal parts, of course they have problems too. I love the old school 1/55...

Wonder how many metal parts have these Hi-Metal figures, I dont really like the light plastic used by Yamato, love the appearance of the 1/60 series but not so much the plastic.

Yamato can milk us in neverending ways.

Thats so freaking awesome!!!! But "a little" expensive.

More or less plus imagine the usual problem of a lot Yamato pieces, something could break in any time...ups a thread named "your Yamato $2000 DYRL MACROSS is broken or perfect" would be epic!

Ah, ok, I thought it could be something like the super parts set, that now Bandai is gonna release the valkyrie with super parts. Thanks for the info.

Hi, everyone! Im from Venezuela, love Macross, SOC and Transformers!

Newby question When is gonna be released DX VF-25 armored Alto Custom???

Excuse me, Im sure everyone here is happy for you but I think is not necessary post the same message so many times.

Do you really think that this figure with those big foots cant support by himself in GERWALK mode?

Oh damn, that VF-27 looks really amazing! and finally the VF-25F Super Messiah is gonna be released!!.....well pretty bad to my economy, in this way Im gonna be broke pretty soon, at leat Im gonna be happy.

Much better and exactly, ok your Convoy example isn’t worked here because thats a QD problem, so sorry about that, ALL of mine are perfect and (to me) he is the only one who could be named Masterpiece (well maybe not the only one, I don’t own Grimlock yet), all the others "Masterpieces" have design problems. Even GREAT companies like Takara have design problems, I wanna talk about that Masterpiece Seekers mold, thanks for introducing the topic, all of them have the same problem that Yamatos pieces "extremely nice looking but don’t touch me very much because I break into pieces", that is not a QD problem, not, it is a problem with the design, the desing isnt capable of resisting transformation. The fact of the matter is that Yamato has problems, big problems with the designs, not only with YF-19, other models too since several years, special atention to crack shoulders, plus QD in the factories is other factor.

Yes it is. We are talking about design and you can simulate situations like those, but other factor of course is the quality department IN THE FACTORY, and if you start with a bad design your QD is not gonna be very good and man, please, I’m a Transformers collector too, Hasbro is one of the worse companies in the quality department, I strongly suggest use Takara as reference, instead of Hasbro. But Bandai is different, and you are so right, even the HUGE Bandai has problems in QD, but in desing and material's resistance is different, a lot of pieces of Bandai are designed to resist the stress in the transformation, they have a very good design, but Yamato doesn’t do that, problems of Bandai are more about paint (QD), and yes even failures like this screw of VF-25 but there is a loooooong way with Yamatos problems like crack shoulders, shoulders that cant resistance several transformations (even one), thats a big desing problem and if the company isnt capable of control the quality deparment.... Of course talking about Macross, because Bandai has desing problems in other pieces like some Myth Cloth but thats an OT.

Man, of course you don’t need to wait 5 years! hehe you can simulate situations like those in a lab, like every company does before selling something, you can define what is the failure stress of the material and the amount of stress the figure receives in every transformation, besides when you use a material you have a lot of data like that, about material's resistance even if you don’t touch it in a lot of time, Yamato isn’t creating new plastics, just designing figures and very bad, because they only are focus in the look of the piece and not in fracture mechanics to understand the causes of failures...it is so sad that Yamato has serious problems in this department.

Cant wait for the "Is your Yamato $2000 DYRL MACROSS broken or perfect?, Only vote if you actually own one" thread.

I have ordered a Yamato 1/60 v.2. VF-1S Max Type ! cant wait!!! But even when he didnt use strike parts on DYRL, I think he needs ones, so not sure if getting parts because the price is half the price for other valkyrie 1/60!

Not me

Thats is gorgeus! so dont know if buying it or VF-1J M&M