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From what I had read it's the other way around, Yamato had acquired this sculpt before the Arcadia thing came out, and it caught people by surprise when it was solicited for pre-order under Arcadia rather than Yamato.

That said, as Exo mentioned in the other thread, these types of figures really make up the bulk of this industry and are MOST of what gets shown at places like Wonderfest, so the answer might be less 'who buys that stuff' and more 'let's hope they still cater to the few of us that don't'... Although again, I'm not particularly worried.

I would expect that only their newly produced goods will carry the Arcadia name, I don't imagine the Macross stuff will be listed under the new name unless/until it's reissued. The old company name will still probably be around for a while yet to come, at least until all of the backstock gets cleared out, I would assume.

I'd almost be interested in that, maybe... But then again, at that point, what's the difference between that and the one they already make? Seems a little pointless, but eh. Their business what they feel they wanna market, I guess.

That's fairly typical of ball-point-dolls, yeah. It's a pretty huge collecting fandom, actually, but understandably one with very little overlap with mecha-toy collecting!

I've personally known girls that have spent upwards of a thousand dollars on a single ball-joint-doll, though, so... It's clearly a demographic that's worth tapping into if you're a big specialty toy manufacturer.

http://arcadia.ac/wf.php

They still have the macross 30 logo listed in their event schedules. Most likely they're still just constructing the new website and it only reflects the items they had already announced under Arcadia over the past few weeks.

That's honestly what I suspect, with the name-change simply being a reflection of their expansion. The mid-season upgrade, to put it in mecha terms, with the sudden announcement simply being an effort to coincide with a major toy-event, just for publicity. Personally I doubt much will chance if anything... I just hope I'm right about that!

Hahaha if they did stop making Macross product (which seems unlikely given the factors you just said re:licence acquisition and the like) I bet a LOT of us will end up eating their own words when it comes to Yamato Criticism... Kind of a case of 'you don't know what you've got until it's gone', maybe.

I noted this in the other thread, but I might have seen some evidence that this whole company change thing had already started a few weeks ago when an upcoming Yamato figure was put up for pre-order under the new company name, so IDK. What are the chances that it's something that's more clandestine and they were just waiting for a big event like Wonderfest to make the announcement? If they moved their headquarters, maybe it's something as simply as they're expanding and shifting the company name and focus somewhat as a reflection of that... IDK. I don't really wanna think it's all gloom and doom just yet.

So we're getting Nendoroid Macross figures now?

That's kind of exciting, actually. My younger sister collects these, I'll have to call her up!

Aha, okay. Did a little more digging around. A few weeks ago, an upcoming figure release that had been labeled under Yamato had shown up instead under preorder from Arcadia, so this might not actually be as 'last minute' as it seems.

http://plastikitty.tumblr.com/post/41641922222/is-yamato-handing-off-their-elin-to-arcadia This tumblr post isn't a very good source, but it was posted two weeks ago, so I submit it as some evidence here. It also suggests that Yamato's planned releases will simply be released under the Arcadia name instead, so... Make of it what you will.

I had seen at least one figure they're releasing up for preorder on Amazon.jp, so I think they had at least some presence, but I can't confirm how long or in what manner.

I think it's a bit early to be sounding the death knell and forming a funerary procession here. Nobody has said they weren't going to continue production. Let's wait for a little more actual news before we start to eulogize here...

Ah, perfect, thank you! They look pretty good together, really. Looks like I'm gonna be hunting one of these down soon!

Q-tip with rubbing alchohol seems like it'd be the safest and most efficient solution to me, but I haven't actually done it, so maybe somebody else can weigh in on a better idea

I don't think there's not too big a likelyhood of v3s any time soon, unless yamato gets ahold of the licence and decides to do a competing toy. The original retail for these version 2 toys was somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500 yen (or thereabouts), which is something like $180 US dollars depending on exchange rates at the time. Since the version 2 toys seem to suffer from low production numbers and are hard to find now, anything below $250 USD is doing okay. Nippon Yasan's VF-25G is probably about as good a deal as you're likely to find anywhere right now.

I don't know offhand if preorders for the RVF-25 have started yet or not, but most of the recent bandai releases have had horror stories about how hard it is to get a preorder in, so you might wanna just go with a sort of 'bird in the hand' mindset for these.

To be honest, personally it was all too much of a hassle to deal with the V2s and I've just settled for the older V1s, which I've actually found to be pretty okay toys, regardless of popular opinion, but that's just me.

However you go about it, welcome to the fold, and best of luck finding the toys you want!

GBP Armor seems to be pretty hard to fight right now, I haven't seen it around anywhere... Which is a shame, because Ideally, that's how I'd prefer to get the VF-1J.

Correct. Only the original releases seemed to have had that, and none of the reissues.

I'm getting more and more excited about this the more we see of it. I seriously cannot wait to paint one of these up and stand it up next to the old Imai transforming kits. Like, 30 years of progress.

I started my larger scale Macross collection with the DYRL VF-1A, which is almost identicle to the 1S apart from the head and some of the markings, and I have to say that I love the slightly off-white grey color it comes in. It makes it feel a lot less 'toy-like' somehow, but that's just my personal opinion. I'm leaning towards grabbing a Hikaru VF-1J in the near future, but I'm also a little nervous about that bright white.

Nippon Yasai seems to be a pretty good bet, at least as far as the VF-1S goes. The VF-1J was reissued recently but it seems to be out of stock pretty much everywhere I've looked too. You can always try ebay, although I have to say I've had very good experiences buying from our fellow members right here on this forum, if you don't mind the secondary market and have the patience for it.

All of this talk about food, it's a wonder nobody has tried to eat their valks yet...

I'm pretty hesitant to use anything like that, because again it's all still chemicals- I don't see why it wouldn't still eat into paint over time... I know people use that to affix their valks here and haven't had trouble with it, but it still seems too risky to me. IDK.

I tend to leave things like that detached and just apply a tiny dab of superglue to the peg and let it dry before sticking it back in, just to thicken the tab slightly to add more friction. Seems to work pretty well with pretty much anything I've ever tried it on

This is more of a request than a question, but does anybody happen to own the old Yamato Konig Monster and Yamato's newer destroids? I'd love to see some photos of how they compare sizewise, especially with the monster's Gerwalk... I know they're not actually to scale with each other, but I'd still like to see how they size up

I wanna give a shout out to stormshadow0621 for hooking me up with a sweet set of unused armor parts! Thanks again!

It's been a really long time since they did any 1/48, so IDK. Seems kinda unlikely at this point that they'd go back, since 1/60 seems to have become the standard default for the series, even across company lines, since Bandai looks to have roughly the same stance...

Stranger things have happened, but I wouldn't hold my breath.