jenius
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I agree in many respects and feel there is no doubt the inclusion of the line art comparisons is imperfect. Ultimately though, in my estimation, a flawed reference to the artist's concept is better than no reference at all (or the even more flawed reference of a person's memory from the animation). My goal is to provide as much information as possible so that, while my own opinion is certainly present, the readers have enough to form their own take on the toys. For readers who don't like the notion that a toy should represent a certain line art (either for preference of other line art or from the belief the line art some how "got it wrong" as people have argued about the VF-1 battroid mode) it should be easy enough to look beyond the presence of the line art and just compare the toys (although sometimes this means they'll have to open up several pics on their own desktops to do this). As for arguments arising from having a line art comparison, I think it's way better when someone on a forum can point to at least one piece of line art that asserts their position about any given detail. If another member can produce line art that refutes the position at least there's two people in a forum argument actually providing hard evidence to an argument... a rarity in most forum back-and-forths. While landing gear are certainly doable they would have had a trade off. If they were present I can imagine lots of people complaining about the chintzy landing gears with the anime-inaccurate bay doors and all the seams on the legs. I don't really see how a clip on heat shield is better than the swap out variety. Is it because you only have 1 part rather than 2? Again this seems to create complaints in the other way as the clip on heat shield wouldn't sit flat and might leave visible tabs like on the old chunky monkeys. I agree it would have been cool if the gun was just a smaller version of the Yamato 1/60 V2 gun but I assume they didn't go this route for fear that the grip area would prove to fragile... seems like they could have pulled it off though. At this point I'm 100% convinced that Macross simply doesn't have any market left except the high end niche crowd. The main people dumping money into Macross are older men. These aren't men who need or want affordable options. These are men who want a high-end adult collector's item. If they don't have a ton of money for luxury items they'll buy just one high end item rather than several lower-end items. Every effort Bandai, Kaiyodo, Toynami, or Yamato has made to expand Macross into lower end niches has failed. Even the people who could accept a 1/100 scale toy still end up saying they'd be happier with it only if it had all the frills of the high end toys... which obviously doesn't make a lot of sense.
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Ooh, this is where I put up my obligatory Hi-Metal pics and then Eugimon angrily denounces the fact I put them up in every Hi-Metal thread! Fire Bomba!!!
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In my neck of the woods diesel costs more than premium. Seems crazy.
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Didn't mean to derail this with the talk of the Legioss. One thing I'm concerned about with the VF-4 will be the arm mobility. With a potentially massive uni-boob getting the arms to extend out forward well will be required for a number of decent looking poses. That would mean that whole shoulder assembly is going to have to rotate... which could be a difficult trick to pull off. If the shoulder assembly doesn't rotate then there should be a beefy joint that rotates and pivots right where the bicep meets the shoulder so the arm can extend forward all the way pushing those dangly bits back up.
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I like brawny looking battroid modes, that's why I like the Legioss... and while I'd take the legioss' soldier mode over the VF-4 there's no doubt the VF-4 has a much nicer fighter mode.
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Needs more cow bell.
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Yamato's production runs are very small... Bandai almost certainly produces more but of toys with much greater demand. That'd be my guess anyway.
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To be fair, Yamato has been over-producing its "limited" items. Look at the weathering destroids.
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When I originally heard about this toy was about to go up to preorder I was also told I would have to order by 3/14. Then it went up for preorder and instantly sold out everywhere so it can't be like it's made to order.
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I hope we see a renewal version some day... but there's a lot of other toys I hope we see first... like a successful run of 171 toys, the rest of the 25 toys, tornado parts, and Ozma YF-29.
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I hope this toy is really good... I hope all new Mac toys are really good. I also hope that everyone who really wants one at release is able to pick one up. I asked a friend in Japan and he told me that demand is way higher than expected and that lots of people are making multiple preorders with the expectation that wholesalers won't be able to deliver (that is to say, he's seen the same things we all have). Sounds like chaos. Hey, at least Macross has these kinda problems. I assure you, Robotech rights holders would die in a masturbatorial frenzy if that license was having these kinds of issues.
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I'm definitely going to get one of these... and probably a VF-1S TV with option parts... but only if they sell a super version.
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Over 100 dollars more? I wish there was a happy middle ground.
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I dunno, Bandai produces toys for 10,000 yen less so that's kinda nice... only if you can find them though I suppose.
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I still don't have a preorder in... I'll have to keep an eye out. In the end all the people who grabbed their pitchforks and torches will probably be able to find preorders while I'll consistently find myself late to the party. It'd only serve me right.
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Alright, I can't speak for HLJ, or amiami, or any toy retailers but I can say it's fairly common business practice to have an expectation of units you will receive and try to beat the market by selling them first. When you do something like that you have to be conservative with the amount you sell just in case your normally reliable wholesaler isn't able to get as many as usual and makes it so you screw your preorderers (BBTS). It's entirely possible that all allocations are out... but it's also possible they're not. I love the leap to blind rage, and the defense of blind rage. We also don't know that all production will be limited to the amount of people who preorder. I dunno, seems the anger is a bit early. I preordered my VF-25S like a couple weeks before it came out and now people act like it was impossible to preorder it.
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Sorry, i didn't realize u guys were such industry insiders. I can try asking someone who does this stuff how it works but it looks like rage is a far more fun answer. Grrrrr! Damn u bandai!
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so ishoptogo knew the first day a pic was shown what their allocation was?
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so... u guys know that bandai has communicated the shipping amount to the retailers huh? You don't think there is an incentive for retailers to jump the gun? It's too soon to say... it's too soon to even be angry yet.
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You guys are insane. Damn u bandai for letting retailers jerk my chain! Be upset at the retailers, not bandai. U can't know if u'r even pissed with bandai until after the toy is released.
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I'm guessing that Ferrari looks a lot better in person... 'cause I'm not a fan of the pics online.
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Yamato does not have the frontier license... the bandai license to frontier probably just doesn't preclude others from using names, emblems, etc. Don't read too much from a sticker sheet.
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Wow, I remember seeing earlier versions of this work, I really love how he wrapped it up. Very nicely done.
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The 29 was a bit of a gamble, I'm not surprised it wasn't released in large quantities at first. These are tough times for manufacturers and retailers alike which means they play things more conservatively.
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FYI, word on the street is that preorders will likely be up (at stores that care about official green lights) "early March" so either the end of this week or Monday.
