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frak! So close. clicked on the add to cart button before amiami crashed. When it came back I had it in my cart. Went to check out, amiami crashed on me again, when it came back "out of stock" Godsdamnit!

In real life, almost everything was done by the canadians. They were involved in planning out the op, staked out the airport and bought the tickets. The movie also pretty much invented the entire 3rd act.

I loved argo, glad it won. It was truly a master class in how to build suspense.

the arm bits do but the belly plates won't

yes, bandai were producers but that means they also got a cut off of the tv shows, movies, concerts, all the little toys, all the merchandising that they were part of as well as the DX toys. Yamato doesn't get to shift the licensing fees to some other high volume, high margin product like a gashapon key chain toy.

No, they're not the same plastics, metals, etc. Yamato and bandai used different grades of plastics, different grades of plastics require different tolerances and thus tooling prices for molds. Other than the vf-19, yamato also puts a matte surface on their valks, which is another added cost. And considering that there is noticeable mold related degradation on my 25g compared to my 25f, I'm going to guess that yamato uses higher quality molds to begin with as my cavaliers isn't anywhere nearly as degraded as my 1st release vf-1s. Also, the 29 and 25 share far more parts in common than the 19 and 17, for instance. Shared costs means lower per unit cost.

If you want to say Yamato's cost too much for *you*, go ahead and say that. But saying that they are objectively overpriced by comparing them to a different product from an entirely different company is pretty silly.

even if you ignore the fact that bandai is an exponentially larger company than yamato was, even if you ignore the fact that bandai didn't have to pay for licensing rights, even if you ignore the fact that bandai sold some of their macross products through their own store (and thus cutting out the middle man)... you're still left with the fact that yamato and bandai valks used different materials and thus have different manufacturing costs and that frontier valks were designed to be translated into toy form cheaply and efficiently while yamato had to figure out a way to make 30 year old anime magic designs work.

saying that yamato's are overpriced because bandai has a cheaper product is.. baseless.

LOL.....picked up 3 detolfs yesterday and will be spending my sweet time today with the nephew arranging hot toys figs in there and anime etc...so slowly the Macross room will remain pure...

you elitist, how dare you buy nice glass shelving units to show off your conspicuous consumption!

Bandai Hi Metal was actually pretty good. Not sure if I agree with you about being lower tier collectibles. I love my VF-19 Fire Valk. Its very decent, I believe high quality all in a smaller package albeit. I am not sure why so many are worried tho. This black hole will be filled quickly. Maybe Arcadia needs some time to look at pricing and logistics

did the hi-metals cost as much as a yamato valk? No. Therefore, it's a lower tier item. That's great that you liked it, not enough people did.

there have been several lower end toy lines

revoltech

yamato gn-u and the aborted 1/100 vf-0

bandai hi-metal

they all failed or weren't successful enough to continue.

there's no point in making a toy for which there is no market.

yay, another informative thread derailed by people butthurt that they can't buy a high end toy at wal-mart for 15 bucks.

yeah, gerwalk could have been better with a deeper intake/thigh extension, stiffer knee ratchets and yes, better ankle joints. But mommar insists that almost any gerwalk pose will ruin the toy, that's just not true.

Did I say that there was "nothing wrong" with the ankles? No. I'm merely refuting the claims that the toy can't do an "aggressive" or "neutral" gerwalk stance without ruining the ankles. Could they be "better"? Sure. Of course they can. But does the mere act of posing the toy within the design limits of the ankles cause them to be ruined as mommar keeps maintaining? No.

Or are you saying that only data points that support your opinion are valid? Or that I have special toys with different ankles able to get into the stances that some people here are impossible without damaging the toys

You and mommar should write reviews for the New York Times.

oh, you watch the daily show too?

But no, I get your point. Obviously the five vf-19 valks I own are special, hand crafted units with special ankles that yamato made just for me. You found me out jenius, you're so sneaky and smart!

edit: or are you suggesting that every 3 months the quality of the ankles will change and that if I just wait another month or two that the ankles on my vf-19 will become useless and that a few months after that they'll get better again?

Or maybe, just maybe, some people out there broke their toys and can't admit it?

first it was that an aggressive gerwalk would ruin the ankles and now a neutral stance will ruin the ankles...

neutral gerwalk stance

same valk standing on one leg with the horrible mangled ankles that are ruinously ruined.

In other news, bought myself a vf-19f off of mandarake

Awesome, ordered grimlock,thanks for the heads up

meh. I've bought toys that were more expensive than a yamato valkyire that hasn't lasted half as long in terms of entertainment value.

I would take an MP10 for MP04 any day of the week. The MP10 sculpt is far and away superior to the old MP01 sculpt and despite the lack of MP01's double jointed legs, the overall posability is superior thanks to better hips and smarter weight distribution.

"Yammies" has a much better ring to it, like yummies. "Arcadies" sounds like the name of one of the royal families in Dune.

I'm gonna go with "arcies"

they're saying hasbro soundwave is shipping with all 5 cassettes... I'll be cancelling my takara pre-orders the second this is confirmed.

meh, I've done pre-orders with them, went through just fine. Shipping was fast and well packed.

How was it broken? Were you forcing it at all or is it just poor design again?

design is fine, if it's like mine, it's because the paint is uneven and one side of laserbeak is a lot more stiff because of it.

Oh man, that sucks

even if you contort his legs around to give him more hip posability, you're still limited by his ankles so that you're forced to balance his back leg on his toe. A toe joint on the foot instead of the compartment would have given him much better posability

You have to remember how little they both knew about their parents. Neither of them knew when (or even if to some extent), their actual mother died, but Leia thought she did. For all Luke knew, she could have been their real mother, with Luke being separated from them before he got to know her.

If she hadn't died when Leia was still young, she may have eventually revealed to her that she was adopted, but it looks like she never learned that from her parents. Given her status in the Senate, the less she knew the better, so they may have never intended to tell her at all.

I'm sorry, but you're totally misrepresenting that scene in order to make it work with the prequels. Luke knows that they're adopted, Luke is trying to get Leia to the point where she will accept that she and Luke are twins and that Vader is their father so that she will acknowledge that she too is a jedi and will continue the fight if Luke dies while confronting Vader.

Luke asks leia, "leia, do you remember your mother? Your *real* mother?" In this context, what does asking Leia to remember Breha Organa serve to accomplish?

Neither of them actually remembered their real mother. Luke grew up with his aunt and uncle so he already knew his parents were gone, but Leia didn't learn she was adopted until Luke brought it up at that point.

Bail Organa's wife was supposed to have died a few years after they adopted her, so that's who Leia was thinking of.

why would luke care about leia's memories of her adoptive mother? At that point, luke already knows that he and leia are twins.