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I’ve been eyeing the hayate armor parts for a long time. Finally scored one a few months back and had the chance to put it together today. Looks intimidating and I love it! Wish the legs are sturdier to hold up all that weight but it will have to do.

Bluefin finally sent me replacement part, except it’s a nice surprise. Instead of sending me a replacement antenna and fins, they sent me the entire valk instead. They put the valk in the plastic tray and sent it in a shipping box. Yes, the antenna and the fins on the replacement valk were all good. Props to Bluefin. It took a looong time but they delivered.

I got my copy of the Mikimoto book today. It's so thick and uses high quality paper. Each page feels substantially thick. This is only my second Mikimoto book so I'm pretty happy! I gotta say though, I enjoy his art from the 1980's the most. It seems over time his taste and mine grew further apart. Out of the more modern pieces, I like the ones from Macross Ace the best. Otherwise, 1980's stuff please! I noticed that the book does include the fantastic new Ishtar sketch that Mikimoto made for the patch/acrylic stand that would be included in the Macross II kickstarter blu-ray campaign. So something new!

Ah thank you. I’ve seen the product listing before but didn’t expect it to look that nice next to the Yamato. Perhaps it’ll be easier to tell it’s paper craft in person or at different angle. Very nice color scheme. I wish I have the skill time and patience.

Which company made that TV SDF-1? That Yamato monster looks nice. Never picked up one.

I am getting more and more doubts on this. Yes I want all the products. But even Bandai has never released more than one or two products in the same line at the same time. KC is telling us they are taking preorders for 7 mechs and at least 4 figures without a prototype to show for it and asking for large amount of payment based on sketches.

I was really impressed with the soundtrack. The vocal tracks were amazing.

My brother is getting back into Macross after 30 years thanks to the streaming on Hulu. I recommended him to start with zero, then plus, then go straight to Frontier. He asked about 7, I said it's really hard to watch unless you're a big Macross fan. While there are some charming moments, the plot just does not move forward much. Then he said, oh that sounds great, because he can watch it in the background and not worry about missing key moments.

My first release limited edition from yokakunow just arrived. No poster. It does come with the A4 size acrylic board with Mikimoto's illustration on it, the '84 summer badge, and the "signed" screenplay.

To me the biggest change is the colors, really makes it pop like cels. However, not all is good, the shot with Miria, her green hair seems oversaturated, so is the skin tone of one of the Minmay shots. There are shots where the 2016 version looks better, but for the most part this 4k release looks better.

Thank you all! Good info

Oh this is good to know! THank you. Sounds like you only need either Disney+ or Hulu by itself and a bundle is not required.

I canceled my Disney+ subscription awhile back. Question: Do you need the Disney+ / Hulu bundle to see Macross shows? Or would just the Disney+ subscription do the trick?

Side question, is there any trick to get the flashback bluray that came with the Japanese DYRL to play in US bluray players? Mine would not play. The DRYL disc was fine though.

This section is focused on Macross. Mospeada has its own thread in the anime section: There are some discussions on the Moshow Cyclone toward the end of the thread.