1/1 LowViz Lurker

Definately want one. It looks like it comes in two different shades of diaorhea?

Can the legs squat down really low? Or is that the lowest it can sit? It just seems a little tall compared to what it normally looks like.

I was planning on getting one of these. Could you post a pic of them standing together just for the sake of it?

I would also recommend not to post any prices so Yamato/Wholesellers do not have the advantage to know "how far they can go"!

Good idea. Almost all the members here could be yamato spies for all we know! (now I'm getting paranoid.)

Minmay and Hikaru/Rick had thier Guardian/Gerwalk stuck to the ground because a dead Zentreadi had it's hand grabbed to its foot. Roy leaves expecting them to make it back to sdf1 on thier own, but then they are traumatised at the site of the giant alien so they don't do anything. Later, Roy comes back to pick them up, sees they are stranded and detaches thier cockpit to his arm or something. (very strange! I wonder if yamato will re-release 1/48 with this feature! )

Later when roy makes his escape and has zentreadi pods chasing after him (Hikaru and minmay are still hanging on somewhere, Roy is still escaping when suddenly a single zentreadi pod appears from behind a cliff armed with missiles and everything. Then I remember it cuts to a closeup of Roy's face to indicate panic and concentration, and as he flies within range of the pod.. bam! 1 shot of the "Laser" cannon kills it (making the pod explode I think), ....and they escape and fly away to the hangars of sdf1 in space.

Anyway I can't remember the episode name. I just sort of thought it was cool how he could kill a massive pod in 1 measly hit. (Based on the idea that they are bigger than standard vfs.) And it's not like he aimed for a weak point or anything.

EDIT: Actually now when I think back to it, the lasers were shot from the cockpit and not the gunpod. My mistake. doh

Anyway there are a lot of "hidden" compartments we don't know about such as the little miniture "robotic repair arm" that pops out of the forearm/wrist area of the VF. I swear I saw this in the tv series. The mystery makes it alll the more sweet when you're a little kid.

It's wierd, when I ws a little kid I always assumed the gunpod was just a rapid fire laser cannon (with options for single and burst fire) because of the sounds.

In the tv series we see Roy (in the episode where he has just rescued Hikaru and Minmay and attached the detached VF cockpit to his own veritech) actually killing a zentreadi pod with a single shot! (which is why I always thought it was just a beefy laser cannon with full auto, single and burst fire option)

In the macross plus collection dvd (haven't seen the movie edition btw) I've noticed the sounds for the gun pods seem a little different when you switch to japanese sound. It's a noisy gatling gun sound, but when switching to US audio, gunpods sound more star warsy. (go to the last ep where Bowman and Dyson are dogfighting in the air then keep switching audio with your audio button while it is playing in realtime to compare sounds. I probably wouldn't have noticed the difference if both tracks weren't on the disc.)

Cannons look right to me.  Look at the destroid mode.

They do need to tuck into the fuselage to become part of the drive system in shuttle, so proportionally they look good.

Yeah I agree now. Must be the angle they put it in playing tricks with my eyeballs.

The big ass cannons look a little short to me... Is that thier real length?

I have two of these without the FP and armour. They have good poseability with the legs and you can make some nice "crouching-with-both-arms-pointing-gun-forward" poses. (mimmicking that pose when hikaru breaks a hole in the Zentreadi scoutship of the 3 spies in the tv series.)

One of them had a loose ball joint so I had to put some blue tack right inside the part where it connects to stiffen the joint a little.

The best modes (in order of best to worst) to look at them imo are:

1. Battloid (I have mine set to holding a little Handgun (from a GI JOE style toy hehe) up next to his face like the cops do when behind a wall, with legs spread apart like he is crouching low for cover, and his other hand is supporting the base of the handgrip of the handgun. His gunpod is attached to the underside of this arm too.

2. Fighter (becuase it just looks sleek)

3. Guardian. (worst because the legs can't spread out and the shoulders scrape against the wings, limiting the amount of movement for arms.

One thing that stands out (I don't have many macross toys though) is how the shoulders in battroid mode look really natural when pushing them outwards or hunching them forwards to create a more dramatic look. When you push the arms forward as far as they reach, the shoulder will hunch inwards to compensate because they've got a little bar atachment between the upper arm and the area of the main body where the shoulder connects. (hard to explain but basically you can make him look like it's stretching back in a heroic superman pose or squeezing shoulderblades forward)

The same sort of freedom is in the upper legs (attached to thier independant bars) since they are independent of the "hips" of the mech. This means you can have half the asscheeck of the mech stretched way back and the other half of the asscheeck (sorry about the strnage terminolgy ) up front, as well as rotate the legs outward, bending the knee, and adjusting heels accordingly.

I think these are fun to play with provided you aren't unlucky and happen to get one with loose pieces that fall off. (my heatshield is very loose) Overall I think they strike a nice balance between poseability, playability, and look. (they look pretty good for their size if you ask me)

Now if only the guardian mode allowed the legs to rotate outwards...

There will not be any 1/48 Macross Plus toys ever. They would be too big and too expensive.

There may be new 1/72 scale or perhaps 1/60 scale versions released sometime in the future.....or not. With no news for such a long time, perhaps Yamato has given up on Macross Plus toys.

Graham

Ah well, 1/60 would be good to match up with other macross 1/60 toys. We should get all fans and hobby stores to create a poll: "would you buy M+ 1/60? Or redone 1/72?"

Maybe if they space them apart long enough, they can make more money. So no word until everyone who has wanted the existing toys actually has them. ...and THEN, bang! announce a new 1/60.

If people knew for sure newer and better ones were planned it would kill sales of existing ones. (just how long has it been since the original M+ anyway?) You would be competing against yourself since there aren't any other companies competing to make the M+ toys.

Thanks for the impressions.

I'm a newbie. I've been lurking for a few days here and have had a look at some of the collections you madmen have. Unfortunately for me to buy Yamato or any other imported toy from a local import toy and hobby store usually means paying up tp 3 times the price! I'm in australia. For example I've seen a Yamato Low Viz 1/48 costing $450 AUD (rougly $310 USD ) Insane. Ordering online is much cheaper. A 1/72 YF-21 w FP is $260 AUD (roughly $178.548 USD)

Anyway I'm looking forward to any 1/48 MP toys that will be done in the future. I have only got a few model kits of Macross plus and am dying to finally get a transformable toy in a decent scale.

I was thinking of getting the YF21 w FP since they are on sale. Are the problems mentioned in Graham's sample review still present in the final?

I'd like some impressions from those who've had one.