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I'm only shopping for Macross goods with them but they had the DX missile sets.
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I've been hoping CDJ would list this bad boy... they listed the last few TWE but in pretty limited quantities.
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Don't you have to achieve the highest rank at From Japan to get express shipping without a mark up?
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From Japan marks up shipping also and I feel like they double dip me in taxes.
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The 2002 has a lot of painted on details that were previously factory applied stickers, they also have swap out cockpit canopies for heat shields (excluding Hikaru's VF-1J). The biggest thing though, the 2002 reissues didn't go through a point where they were worth a ton of money. The problem with buying Takatokus is that many of them have been Frankensteined together from several toys. I've owned lots of Takatoku valks and almost all of them had some evidence of foul play. A truly mint Takatoku will demand more than a truly mint 2002 reissue.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
jenius replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
I have a coworker who used to drop $1500 plus on handbags in a single shopping trip. Just tell him how lucky he is you're ONLY spending $550.. per shopping trip. -
I would think they would do a reissue 1J either before, or announced at the same time, as the GBP so my guess is we have some time on that accessory.
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Most of this stuff is barely glanced upon in the show, or entirely not existent, it was the books and then the comics that really expounded upon it. Most of it I have completely forgotten as well... The Masters arch is really where the meat of the uniquely Robotech story is from an animation standpoint. That show easily deviates the most from the original plot to glue Mospeada to Macross. This is actually the only thing that gives Robotech the LAM a chance at existing. They can muddle all of the most generic elements of Macross with the unique story elements from The Masters to create a hybrid story that is Robotech WITHOUT being outright Macross. Of course... at that point you have to wonder why someone wouldn't just create a unique scifi story with mecha and just skip the Robotech license and licensing debacle entirely... which is probably the conclusion that everyone who has been involved with this mess has ultimately reached.
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Not in robotech
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For the record, I think a pretty awesome Mospeada Live Action Movie could be made. Yes, the plot would need to be reworked pretty thoroughly to cram it into 2 hours. The movie would bookend with massive space battles and feature a Mad Max road trip in between... could be kinda cool.
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Yes, and in that case, if there was something there worth mining, I'm sure a studio could spend to get those rights.
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It goes to Tatsunoko and the rights they have to give HG. They only have distribution and merchandising rights for Macross but, as I understand it, they have full rights to Southern Cross and Mospeada so they, or their sublicenses, can use the characters, mechanical designs, story elements, etc. In derivative works.
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Ignoring the copyright point, this is essentially where they and the movie are already at. They don't own the IP to Macross at all so there would be nothing that looks like an SDF-1, VF-1, or any of the story elements you know as Macross. For Macross, all they own is the right to distribute the footage and all associated merchandising. Comics and video games provide a nice area for them to expand upon the story since they're considered merchandise but that's as far as they can go. They can't produce movies or TV shows using the characters, designs, or even story elements from Macross. That's why Maia's parents were "aliens" instead of "Zentraedi" in Shadow Chronicles. This means Robotech: The Live Action Movie will feature mecha that are all brand new designs, right down to the "SDF-1", that will probably be given the generic name of "Space Fortress 1" and be alternatively referred to by the aliens as "Zor's Ship" since that's a classic Robotech-only element. Again, comics are merchandise so they can do whatever they want but let's do the exercise of what it would take to make that entire thing a Robotech/generic story and NOT Macross. 1) Zor's ship is sent to Earth with the secrets of Robotechnology and an infinite power device (let's assume 'protoculture matrix' will be rebadged something better. In Robotech, this event ends WWIII, which would be a safe move since that's different from Macross. They could also choose to do it 100 years ago (or more) and have humans just discovering it now in the modern era in Antartica or Alaska or something. 2) Aliens: In Robotech the Zentraedi are the warrior race for the Masters. It would be very easy to depict the renamed Zentraedi in this movie as the same size, or maybe slightly larger, humans that then have a problem fighting the humans because the humans look just like their Masters. 3) Whatever they choose to do with the plot, it's not hard to do something like Battlestar Gallactica. Maybe have the movie start with the Space Fortress being a scientific vessel or, even better, a colony ship, with a military escort trying its first fold. The fold works but that's what alerts the aliens to the ship's location and they come, attack, and knock out the fold drive. Now the spaceship has a long track home and no way of knowing if Earth is safe... all generic. The movie ends with the Zent... er... aliens realizing their Masters are no good and that THESE Masters will incorporate them as equals so they switch sides... again, suitably generic. So there ya have it, no Macross IP means hard focus on the few Robotech unique story elements and EVERYTHING else being generic. If they wanted to stay tight to the IP they'd have to use MOSPEADA since they have more rights there.
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At that time, every company was very afraid they were all doomed. Stores were afraid they wouldn't be able to move merchandise as well so they ordered less stock causing Beagle and Toynami to order fewer units which compressed margins for both. What surprises me, three or four years later when the recovery was gaining speed, that Toynami didn't go out and buy the Beagle molds (including Houquet). Somebody owns them and is sitting on them, perhaps storing them in such a way as to already have rendered them useless.
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There seems to be confusion here, losing their rights in 2021 to the footage from the original shows has nothing to do with the movie deal since the movie deal is already isolated to the parts of the story they own AND the parts of the story(ies) that are sufficiently generic. That last part is the bigger deal since the vast majority of the scifi war with space aliens story is pretty generic at this point. The only way this would have had a big impact on the movie is if the movie was planned to be very close to Mospeada (we know it was never going to be very similar to Southern Cross). If that were the case, the movie studio could try to acquire the rights to Mospeada directly from Tatsunoko in 2021....
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These are pretty high on my worst toys list... You didn't miss much.
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I'm sure they're just getting old stock from some store for next to nothing, it happened with bbts and Yamato gnu dou toys recently.
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Our prayers are answered....
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It wasn't meant to be offensive. As I explained, when you're a parent (or a caretaker) there are a lot of things you don't have time for and you use those 5 minute windows the best you can. Sure, you can make gaming a priority to get in some side or vertical scrolling shooting, but often times, even with as easy as a Switch makes it, there are other things you choose to do with those 5 minutes (like grab a coffee, read the news, shop for toys on eBay, check MW)....
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No announcement but it's a pretty logical conclusion given the costs of making the molds.
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Alright, here's the list with the corrections discussed: Question for you all, was the Hikaru VF-1S ever reissued as a 2.2 before the 30th anniversary reissue? Not sure if that one needs an asterisk.
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I took my switch on a plane once and played like six hours of BOTW and it was glorious. I also went on a plane with my Switch and never used it because I was settling children and then decided I should watch some Marvel movies so I could see what all the hub bub was about... Because I don't get to just go watch a movie any more.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess Mommar doesn't have kids... EDIT - that said, where there's a will, there's a way... but often time there is a priority stacking list and gaming can quickly slide down. My free time is tiny these days and I don't game because there are other things I choose to do... as a younger man I had few obligations and could do more zero sum activities
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I took the arms off of two Jetfire toys. One my parents bought me and I adored. Then, after I broke it, I was able to trade some transformers to a friend for his Jetfire... until the arm eventually popped off that one also.
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Howard the Duck? That movie is a classic!
