Ali Sama

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You've got some pretty circular logic going here. The 1/60s are the prior line. . . so I must say again: Yamato does not care about the price of a VF-1 line they are no longer producing. . . It's not "easy enough" to just say "supply vs demand" and consider your argument made. Yamato will always endeavor to manage the supply to meet the demand while maintaining a decent profit margin. So to say that they won't release any further Macross toys because that would decrease the value of toys they've already sold and have no intent to re-releasing is just nonsense. Also, I'd take issue with your basic assumption that "1/60 supply skyrocketed" and "nwo their in barin bins (sic)." It's more accurate to say that demand plummetted due to competition from the 1/48s (which itself is debatable). But Yamato did not take a hit from this since the vast majority of 1/60 releases were already completed when the 1/48 line arrived. The only 1/60s they released after the 1/48 were "specialty" toys such as the two-seaters and the Q-Rau which we are unlikely to see in 1/48 scale. So 1/60 "supply skyrocketed" insofar as second-hand 1/60s became more plentiful. But, again, Yamato doesn't care. They had already made their money on the 1/60. They couldn't care less about how many people put their own collection up for a loss now that they've run the course of their 1/60 line. It's nonsense to say that releasing more Macross toys will somehow affect the value of a toy line that Yamato has already released. The only way this would happen is if Yamato were foolish enough to release a toy line that would directly compete with another one of its lines. . . and continue to produce them simultaneously. Which is not the case. An example would be a new line of 1:32 valkyries. Obviously, those would compete with the 1:48 line and Yamato would be foolish to release them simultaneously if it weren't careful to manage its production levels carefully. But, it could possibly be done if demand for each was guaged carefully. Not quite as simple as just: "supply vs demand." BTW, I wouldn't have even felt compelled to post in this thread if you had managed to post your opinions and conjecture with any semblance of humility. Just remember, it's quite possible that you're talking out of your @ss. H no i meant that if they jsut keep releasing more and more 1/48's it will overflood the market adn drive prices down. how many varients can you get on a vf1 before the start rerealsing htem over and over. 1/48;s are in the bargin bin in japan.

Yep, along with many other characters from Jungle Book. Sheer Khan in a business suit like Lex Luthor, stuff like that. it had godo story imho.

Ducktales was a kids show... meaning it was for kids, so when I WAS a kid I was into it. I've outgrown it now, but at least the show wasn't sissy... It wasn't teaching kids to lose their grasp on the realities of war or greed especially... Life lessons were learned in that show and the tough Mo-fo's servived. M7 is a kids show that teaches kids how to lose their grasp on reality, embrace the weakness and standing against authority just for the sake of standing against authority. duck tales was an awosme show. did you watch tail spin? A few episides, but I was a little too old then... Did it have any character connection to Ducktales? I could have sworn Launchpad was in one of the episodes I saw. no that was darkwing duck

Ducktales was a kids show... meaning it was for kids, so when I WAS a kid I was into it. I've outgrown it now, but at least the show wasn't sissy... It wasn't teaching kids to lose their grasp on the realities of war or greed especially... Life lessons were learned in that show and the tough Mo-fo's servived. M7 is a kids show that teaches kids how to lose their grasp on reality, embrace the weakness and standing against authority just for the sake of standing against authority. duck tales was an awosme show. did you watch tail spin?

Uh. . . I don't recall the price dropping for the 1/48 1A Hikaru after the 1A Max was released. Nor the 1S Hikaru after the 1J Hikaru was released. . . and on and on. . . Releasing a different valk has not had any effect on the price of previously released valks. Indeed, even the release of identical valks has not affected the price of their predecessors. . . as the re-release of the 1S Roy and the 1A Hikaru has amply demonstrated. I don't know where you're getting these assertions. But you better start backing them up with some logic or evidence. . . otherwise, they're just assertions. And counter-intuitive ones at that. You seem to be getting your basic rules of economics mixed up. Best Regards, H what. you mean supply vs demand? easy. 1/48s came out. peopel sold their 1/60s to buy 1/48s. 1/60 supply skyrocketed nwo their in bargin bins. easy enough. Ali

This is from a while back, but I haven't seen anyone address this. . . Why would Yamato care about "devaluing" previous releases?!? They made their money on the previous releases when they sold them at wholesale to the retailers. I doubt they give a rat's @ss about how much we pay at retail. As for the rest of this "argument". . . normally I like seeing people quote each other and respond. . . but it helps when you make sense. H if they make more. prices go down. who would buy a 1/48 at 120-140 if thier a dime a dozen.

trailers are never done by the actual production team. And they allways recyle music for it. you will not see that song in the sound track nor anywhere in the movie.

problmes are problems. you forget nose cone falling down. croocked skull wing parts faling off with ease. back packs breakang off. I have 3 1/48's thank you. NO mpcs. and this topic is just my wild imagination isn't it.

conssesion of defeat accepted.

ok. you seem to still not undrestand. Macross franchise is now alive and well. ocne zero is done they will have done most if not all of the mehca in macross. If they keep makign rerealses they are just devaluing previouse releases. what does the hcm have to do with this. stop rambling and learn how to use the enter button.

I am hoping they end it with a sdf-1

ok. then why the hell are you still insisiting that a toy inside a heavliy marketed and anime supported franchise which does not have it's own anime can sell without the franchise and the franchises anime. your contradicting yourself.

you dont; seem to undrestand that a franchise can support related products without the related products havign their own anime.

No new product == No new anime meant that they did nto have anythign new to make. same old same old. being supported by same anime which was not on tv. hence no new product == no new anime. No new anime == no new product is pretty self explanitory. No new macross anime is no more new valkyries being sold as the momentom will die out once zero ends. all product sgo in trends. while peopel anticipate zero it will sell more macross stuff once zero is DONE and no new macross show is coming out. macross will fade again.

minor resulpt. 2 years old now. or so. very easy to make. Nothign ground breaking. all are varients. the tv fastpacs only have a few minor resculpts. a year or so old. I doubt the fp ver will be out. vaporware. the sculpts of the m+ kits where all rips of existign models anywyas. the gbp will be the demise of the 1./60 line mor ethen likely. it wil end this year. when a toy compnay shifts form expensive toys to a cheap alternative for a franchise it mean it is winding down. i coudl be wrong but the signs are there.

with transformers you have energon supporting it. alternators sell to nostalgia gourps and fans of energon./supe rlink. Kids ask for toys they see on tv. again. No new product == no new anime.

Yamato 1/48 could have been a great TOY had its quality control problems been ironed out BEFORE production. that did not pick up till the max version came out and even now i hear of vf1j's having problems. that works too doesn;t it.

There is no reason why they are stopping all Macross development for the future. EXACTLY. DYrl is 20 yrs old. yamato made a VF-1 that noone thought they would ever make. on a 20 yr old OVA. wih 2 scales 1/60 and 1/48. macross 0 is relatively new. 1/100 is first release. whos to say they will stop>? Not every fan in japan is a gundam fan. MAcross still has a presence and if they didnt yamato would jsut stop. Macross is going to go the way of the dodo bird next year. No new anime == no new product. why did they stat withthe m+ toys. to see if vf1's where feasble. they where at the time. they have flooded the japanese market. you can get macross tuff dirt cheap now why less really cheap macross toys now? becuae peopel will buy chepa toys. plain and simple. Milk it for the lat drop then dump it. it;s business..

I think the 1/100 is a new attempt at TWO new licenses (Macross Zero and Macross VFX / VFX2) with better things to come in the future. Yamato started at 1/72 with Macross Plus, and 1/60 with DYRL followed by the coveted 1/48s. They are back at the drawing board with a YF-19 FP design and I hope after the 1/100 VB-6 and VF-0S, we'll eventually see 1/60 or bigger M:+, M:0 and M:VFX toys just like the 1/48 DYRL line. There is no reason why they are stopping all Macross development for the future. My money is on the CF for the next 1/48 too, even thought I want the VF-1D, VT-1 and VE-1! they are follwoing a market trend. macross 0 is their only real viable seller for current macorss fans in japan. the 1/100s are small and cheap they wil sell quiet well in japan. Once macross zero is over. so will yamato's macross endevours. you can be a fan boy or prepare yoru self for the end. If a toy compnay is not breakign new ground with new toys it is loosign intrest in the line, plain and simple.

ok. what has yamato relaly doen for macross since the first 1/48. repaints don't count. yamato is realzing macross is not the "cash cow" it once was. it is a nich player and it wants to expand. They poroved themselves with macross now their going on to more popular titles. just wait a year. I'll say I told you so and laugh at you when you cry that yamato is not making new macross toys.

No new product == no new anime. new toys of an old anime only sell to nostalgia groups.

by the current trends of yamato's prodcution. I predict that the 1/100's are a last ditch attempt at milking the macross cow before they move on to greener pastures. 2004 will probbaly be th alst year you see yamatos.

No new product == no new anime.

no. new product == new anime.