jenius

I hear Bandai is not going to bundle the super parts (but almost certainly will release them). The idea is that the economy in Japan is not very good and there seems to be a toy buying threshold just above where they're going to be selling their Hi-Metal VF-1. The price + super parts is viewed as above that buying threshold. So, I'm not expecting to see any bundles until this line picks up some momentum. The same logic is also why the VF-19K toy has had so much after the fact development. They figured people would balk at the idea of purchasing it for just a tiny bit more than its MSRP but if people really liked it they might pick up the extras that might have otherwise come bundled with a more expensive toy separately.

I have a review up on anymoon.com, I think it might even include a video.

I pre-ordered the special version... there will be a review.

I just read Mr March's comment about how useless it is to have a highly articulated fighter and GERWALK mode after I completed my review but I wish I had beforehand because that's a really good point. My full review is up on anymoon.com. Here's a teaser pic:

Thanks TLW, still not exactly what I'm looking for because of all the schematics and such. I think I'll continue using that slightly off angle line art... it's good enough for people to get the big picture.

I disagree with the banner being a better idea (well, except when viewed from a fan of the originals). The point was to make a cohesive show that people would want to watch from start to finish which would be far easier to sell to advertisers and TV channels than a banner show. "Wait, so at 30 episodes in it becomes a completely different show? What if they don't like the new show?" That would be an awkward question that "All the shows would be very similar" would only go so far in answering. In business you have due diligence and pitches where you have to back things up. The fact of the matter is saying "We'd bring in shows X, Y, and Z" would then mean you'd have to pitch why shows X, Y, and Z would be as successful as show A. In the case of Robotech, shows B and C could never be pitched as being as successful as show A so intertwining them with show A raised the stock of all the shows and made the whole adaptation we know worth doing.

I wouldn't be so fast to judge... just because the new crotch is there and the canopy tint is gone doesn't mean the shoulders won't break. It seems like every week we're still seeing more people post to the "need shoulder hinges" thread.

Yamato isn't allowed to service areas outside of Japan because of licensing issues. It's not really a choice Yamato makes to not help you out. Yamato would love to be able to legally sell and service toys outside of Japan. Since they can't we essentially buy toys without warranties which does make it that much more frustrating when a clearly poorly researched design element is foisted upon us and then not corrected before more variations of the toy are released.

I played golf the other day with a guy named "Jayce" and I thought about asking him about the old cartoon that starred a guy by that name. Is that the show you're referring to?

Playing the NES Castlevania series is a memory that sticks with me well after all these years. I can't remember which one it was but I had an older cousin come visit just as I reached Dracula and I became uber anti-social until I beat him. I can't remember which Final Fantasy game on the NES also sucked up a bunch of my hours. No baseball fan should have been without Baseball Stars (and Baseball Stars II). Then I became a Genesis fanboy with Phantasy Star II. Man... those were much simpler times.

I'm pretty sure Yamato expected demand to be very low for TV Kakizaki and so they didn't make very many of him. If his after market price keeps going up we'll probably see a reissue.

I think I did a decent job of this on anymoon.com. Look at my LowVis VF-1S post or maybe the VT-1 post.

The only way you'd be able to do that is to take apart your brand new toy... it's not something you can tell by eyeballing it.

This isn't much of a compliment but we all have to admit that Tommy's work is a hell of a lot better than many of the original Robotech comics... every now and then I see eBay listings for old comics and I actually laugh at how terrible they look.

My guess is that Bandai will do all the ones that Takatoku originally did, except maybe the CF 1A "misa" variant. What I'm more curious about is the super parts. Having the Max be released sans super parts is a bad start.

Started what? Are we arguing?

Find the old thread and start the fight back up again... I'm pretty sure the argument was between Hurin and some member who probably quit Macrossworld after being berated for thinking the WAVE toy should be poseable. I think you're going to need to come prepared with information like the range each joint can move and the speed at which each joint can be moved... the fight was going in some pretty crazy directions last I checked (all of which were entertaining)... not my fight but I do invite you to make it your own. Start a new thread and call out the "non-articulation-ist" crowd and argue that future SDF-1 toys be super-poseable. Or, keep posting in the Regult thread information about the SDF-1's joints... that's entertaining too.

I thought Max only got his VF-1J after the rain of death... his VF-1A would be the more iconic valk but that paint scheme doesn't sell well.

They're within the confines of the armpit so I don't find them distracting right now. I think the picture without the wing makes it look worse.

I think you should have been a part of the SDF-1 thread that was being referenced as I don't think you're understanding the conversation... in fact you're sort of feeding into it. It went something like: "The SDF-1 should have knees!" "Why, they couldn't bend!" "They could bend!" "To what degree could they bend?" "They could bend a lot, look at this pic!" "that pic is just poor animation from a poor angle!" "RAAAGE!!!!!" So, I think the people who argued for very limited movement might re-think their argument in light of the Quarter's fancy moves. For the record, I don't remember even being involved in that conversation... it was just fun to watch some members get really heated about it. I don't think it's really here nor there as far as the Regult goes... I think we all agree that thing ought to be pretty nimble.

Wow, are we going way back to the WAVE SDF-1 not having knee joints? The guy's argument really boiled down to the fact the WAVE was over-priced for a toy with such a simple transformation and essentially no articulation. I think the Bandai Macross Quarter toy essentially proved him right. With Macross being a tiny bit revisionist by nature, I think we could probably extrapolate from the Quarter's fancy moves that the SDF-1 had a bit more articulation than most of us think (and potentially would prefer).

I'm of the impression the only thing you can't attach to the very first issue of the VF-25 toys is Luca's radar dome. I only have a first edition and I have dressed it up in the super parts no problem.

Do you by any chance have access to a pretty much straight forward line art of a VF-1 in battroid mode? I want to compare the VF-1 battroid to toys being released but the only line art I could find was at an angle looking down at the battroid and it's essentially in an impossible to obtain pose.

Hurin, I'm trying to see if I'm understanding you. What you're saying is that you would like it if they all gathered in the church, enjoyed their moment of realization, and then as they exited the church their consciousnesses from the island depart for the afterlife leaving their physical bodies which then go back to who they were before their "reawakening"? That would address my questions earlier of what the world would think happened in that church if that world continues to go on (so that Ben could be with Alex and David with redhead). It creates lots of new issues on its own though and brings back the problems of Miles' ageless father not to mention how Christian would play into that. One strike, I would think, against the nuke creating the alt timeline is the number of people who would be dead in the alt timeline. A second strike I would think is the depiction of the island as sunk which seems much more akin to what was happening at the end of the show rather than a big explosion (although a nuke could have blasted that secret heart up and caused the same effect I suppose). Moving on: When Christian popped up, I thought it would be a funny twist if it was really MIB and it was kind of a sweet he got off the island but in such a way as to not cause a catastrophe since he was now just an ordinary soul and not some monster stuck in between realms. Desmond's plot line doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me right now. On the island he seemed aware of what was happening in the alt-time line... but if the alt time line is the hereafter that's pretty quirky... then again what he was saying did have that ring of "it's alright, we're all gonna be in heaven soon." OMG, Desmond is a Cylon!

Here's another oddity... going into the light "is worse than death" unless you're Desmond or Jack? I'm guessing Desmond is excluded because the light has some electro-magnetic quality that for some reason Desmond is immune too (perhaps from his time in the hatch). Shouldn't Jack have become a smoke monster? If not a smoke monster, shouldn't he have some how been worse off than being allowed to wander a while before dying in the bamboo forest?