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That is a level of professionalism I can't even imagine these two license holders having. BW makes nothing on the Robotech toys and Robotech toys have almost no penetration in Japan so not much reason for them to change what they're doing based on HG.

They're having too much fun with minimal change reissues for Frontier to do anything new. I wonder if the marketing guys are expecting a swell of interest when the new show hits so we're in a lull period where they're just trying to make sure people who want the existing toys can find them. 

Still on my quest!

A long shot here but I have a Yamato 1/48 VF-1S roy that had the peg on the heat shield break at one point so it doesn't work very well. Does anyone have a Focker they're never going to transform to battroid or one that is due for the refuse heap that they may be able to salvage the heat shield from? 

As much as I'm not a fan of the CM's Legioss, their Tread was much better. Of course, since half the fun is connecting the Tread to the Legioss, the CM's Tread was handicapped. Oh boy, I must have had a lot more free time when I dug everything out to take this picture! Needless to say, I am REALLY looking forward to the Sentinel. 

CM's is these little guys, 1/18 scale:

They're pretty small:

I don't think we need to delve into Robotech shaming in this thread... leave that for the Macross thread where HG has done far more substantial damage. 

Looks like those would be from Roots of Ambition.

They should do an appendix including the damaged parts from the assembly kit, 1/3000 vf-1s, and laser cut detail parts.

That's interesting, I never thought about that head being complicated. I'll have to take a closer look.

Okay, so one change and that's the plastic used for the antennae.

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There's only been two releases over all these years so I don't think bandai is going to be challenging you with many options. There's one other color (white) with this head and several others with a different head.

Curious if that will help. My 639 set is also 'tacky' and I assumed it was the paint breaking down.

My guess is the next update will correspond with the big summer shows like SDCC and the one in HK.

I wrote something once on what Robotech Live Action would need to be to separate it from Macross. I went with the same concept of the "SDF-1" being found buried in a glacier rather than crashing into Earth. Once the humans used its technology, it became easy for Masters to identify where it was and send their slave soldier race after it (they would need a new name). I figured you would ditch the whole giant thing and just have the "Zentraedi" equivalents be convinced that the humans are the offspring of the crashed ship and unclear if they're fighting their own before ultimately realizing that the Earthlings enjoy a better existance and they'd rather be on their side... but not before the Earth took its awful beating. The Exedol equivalent would tell us that Zor had been to Earth and manipulated the DNA of the inhabitants and that's why he chose it as the hiding place for his ship when he rebelled. After that, I figured you could pretty much slide into the sequel stories but clean-up all the rough edges and sync them together better. I'd probably make the Masters look more alien and reintroduce the original Southern Cross concept that they were actually fighting enslaved, brainwashed humans rather than the Masters themselves with all the twisted moral implications. 

As I thought about it though, the more you tease apart Robotech to make it unique from Macross, the more you create a generic scifi movie that doesn't need to be called Robotech. So, if I'm Sony and I want to make a scifi epic, I would be better off paying a writer to take the concepts of the not Macross story and make a new franchise that I wouldn't need to share with any existing rights holders, especially if I don't trust the name would put enough butts in the seats to warrant the expense. You could then market the movie saying it was inspired by all the great 80s mecha anime and name drop a bunch of them. 

For anyone curious about the Weathered Edition, I made a video visual comparison:

And I've uploaded the pictures to anymoon.com if you prefer that format:

While it's not the most logical or realistic weathering, I found it fun! I like the burn effect on the feet. 

For real, if you make replacement parts, I'll be interested.

That makes sense. What's the last photo showing us? Is that the HMR extended or another model? I thought they were trying to tell us it could achieve 'tall mode' it something :P. 

Can you remind me why it extends so much?

Wow wow ..... Wow

The world has shifted as Robotech's relevance and HG's stranglehold has waned. Most manufacturers want to dual badge to cast a wider net. My guess is TZ is hoping to get BW to license their product but it will never happen and they'll release Macross versions of their toys eventually. Crazy that we've come so far that the pilot names are now painted in the toy and that's the big differentiator.

There are lots of non-Macross Robotech toys though so there's no perfect answer to how to structure the conversation. If each toy had its own thread that would be cumbersome. 

Sharon was a very different idol in all ways. They could go the Ishtar route with an alien singer as a way to make a different music experience. Still, if albums are how Macross makes its money, we have a pretty good idea what to expect.

What are they like in the box? Still have the unused sticker sheets? We can find some comps on Yahoo Japan. I know one of mine is beat up and is like to replace it.

Much easier to claim it's a feature, especially if all the toys are impacted.

Maybe the HG staff are creating new names to separate the originals further.