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My magic eight ball comment.... the third in the series will likely be a long time in coming. Instead we will see plenty of variants of the first two toys... complete with Tamashii website exclusives! (that's a sad exclamation point).

Robotech the Movie according to Carl Macek: HG Calls, "Hey, Macek, can you make a movie from Robotech? Animated movies are making a killing for Disney right now and we want to try to get in on that action." Macek who has seen DYRL? answers "Yep, I have just the film in mind." HG: "Great, go to Japan, your budget is $X." Macek flies to Japan, says "I want to release an English dub of DYRL as Robotech the Movie. I can pay you $X for the rights." Tatsunoko: "Haha, nooooooo way. You're going to need to come up with a LOT more money than that." HG call Macek: "So, how is Robotech the movie coming." Macek, having no clue what he's going to do now that he can't get DYRL is freaking out but he has heard of MZ23 being a hit and says "Hit a speedbump but I'm still working on it." He then goes on to work some story out of MZ23, flies to Los Angeles, shows it to the big wigs of Canon and HG and they tell him "This is crap, re-work it entirely." Macek makes up a story, right there, on the spot, to replace the story of his original draft of the film. He has the film finished as per his off the top of his head re-write, gets it to Canon, and it sees a pathetic release (going up against Aliens IIRC).

Stop spamming the thread, I keep checking it thinking that something exciting has happened only to find there aren't even pics yet of the new CMs figures.

I don't have the toy in front of me right now or anything but I don't think the head lasers are supposed to be capable of popping out. I remember people trying to angle the Alto head lasers and breaking them so you might want to check if you didn't just get a broken head laser right off the bat. The lower neck piece that slides up can be a little awkward at first but if you concentrate more on getting the chest how you want it then the rest should all work itself out fairly easily.

It should be a very simple transformation without the armor on (like, don't need instructions simple). If you're doing things with the armor on then patience is more than just a virtue, it's a requirement.

I imagine how blue the tint is will depend largely on the warmth of your lighting but I would love to see some comparison shots of movie version next to TV version. EDIT - that request isn't directed at anyone in particular, just anyone who may own both.

Metal in toys is fantastic when it's used properly. Oh if only Yamato had considered a little bit of metal in the shoulders of their toys... so many $$$s would have been saved (and the sales of their VF-0 line would have undoubtedly been higher).

Buy this 1000 limited* Fan Jet model!!!! * We will improve this design and packaging later and sell it openly. Yeah Yamato, you want me to buy a 100 limited SDF-1 from you? Go F*ck yourself.

I can't wait until Gubaba gets caught up, I can't wait to start bitching about the finale. I missed it when it aired and only finished it a couple weeks ago.

I think you're jumping to some conclusions without enough visual evidence. For example, this swivel joint wouldn't work at all because of the pieces on either side of the hip. I think what you're seeing is just a seam on the prototype.

That looks like a way early prototype.. it's even missing a fin. I'm surprised they put it out there already. The big downside right now that I can see is that it doesn't have an integrated heatshield but if it's a 1/100 I hope they give us the ability to swap.

Impressive collection. I used to have so many more Toynami products but I think I'm down to one of each now... I had to sell the duplicates to make mone so I could afford all the CMs stuff.

This is the same back and forth we see with the 1/100 valks. "OMG, they don't look as good as 1/60 toys. OMG, they're not built as good as 1/60 toys." Yeah... the people who PLAY with these smaller scale toys and pay a tiny fraction of the price know that. They enjoy the fun factor and relief of knowing it's essentially a disposable toy and breaking it wouldn't be the end of the world. If you're cool dropping lots more money on bigger toys and you don't mind the durability issues of those bigger toys then pass on these.

No, demand is FINITE, not inFINITE. Think about water, you need it to live but you don't spend your entire day drinking it. As with every commodity there comes a point where it over-saturates and people don't want it any more. Even hot women... what's the joke? "For every hot woman out there there's one guy who is sick of f**king her." None of this really has anything to do with Robotech production though. So, now onto the more relevant stuff. Sentinels got slammed by the value of the Yen shooting up dramatically. Would it have mattered if demand was through the roof? Not so much. Unfortunately, Matchbox had the rights to Robotech merchandise and they weren't exactly experts in the field. Since Matchbox was footing the bill it was up to them to produce a product that would stoke demand but they failed to do this. Imagine if the toys for Transformers were just as bad as Matchbox's non-transforming VF-1S toy. So, Matchbox made crappy toys, they sold poorly (which doesn't tell you much about the demand for GOOD toys), and then Robotech was no longer a hot enough property for them to stick through funding the next season. That's not really HG's fault, all indications were that Robotech was intensely popular for a short while.

Wow... this thread got all sorts of crazy. I don't understand where the racism and Stonehenge talks came in. It doesn't work because Stonehenge isn't as overtly spectacular as the pyramids so it's much easier to dismiss as the work of some really determined early men. Not only is Stonehenge itself no where near as impressive as the pyramids but it also isn't surrounded by similar seemingly miraculous feats. That's why people don't rush to the "aliens did it" conclusion, not because people believe early Englanders were more industrious. Want more proof? Look at crop circles. Those happened over really large areas with frequency in England and Europe and people thought they were alien events and didn't chalk it up to "those industrious white folks." There is evidence of massive ramps in Egypt related to pyramid construction. There are plenty of unanswered questions but as was pointed out earlier, there's more than enough evidence to rule out aliens... sorry. PS - I have two conspiracy theories I like. 1) The Sphinx was possibly constructed by a civilization prior to the Egyptian civilization its largely credited to (and probably a civilization that birthed those later Egyptians). 2) Under the Sphinx is a room of some sort.

The cases don't appear to have any repeats in them so the chance of you getting one you want, if you bought a full case, is 12 in 17 (although, if the one you want is not the chase the odds are closer to 12 in 16).

I find that highly unlikely since the movie version was just released. If fixes were coming you'd probably see some tweaks there.

Agreed, Razor (I watched the extended version) is VERY good.

The Plan sucked balls. I finally finished BSG and watched The Plan so I figure it's safe to go to this thread. The Plan could have been really good, instead it's a lame clip show for the most part. To make things worse... at the end you can still ask yourself "Wait, so what exactly was The Plan?" Cylons apparently don't come up with very good plans.

The 1/48 line is dead. Yamato just offers exclusives for it to the diehards that still love it. It's like Microsoft still servicing the XP crowd even as they roll out 7. You can think of it as a question of demand but really it was by Yamato's design. They released a new product, they wanted people to buy the new product, they pimped the new product as hard as possible and shut down the old product. Companies do it every day.

I can't click on your links because I'm at work but I suspect that both of the toys you are looking for info on are at www.anymoon.com. There are categories for Alpha/Legioss and Cyclone/Ride Armor so I'd start there.

Uh no... that's not what he said at all. He said the 1/48s (TV Max and TV Hayao) were made to order so it's doubtful they would appear on HLJ. Money does funny things though so if Yamato sees there's money to be made by giving some extra stock to HLJ than it might still happen.

I believe this is a response to my questions and I believe you misread them. I asked if they were a similar size to the 1/100s and requested a picture of it with something we'd be familiar with so we can see how it scales to that item. I was not asking what fixed scale this line was in. Yes, your measurement is helpful, as is ff95gj's newest pic.

I need something for scale... they look tiny. Are they 1/100 size?

I personally like my fighter mode only stuff in gashapon so I think what Bandai did with their 1/250 stuff was great. In the VF100 line I would have liked it to be less anime perfect but be a toy that could be disassembled and reassembled into different modes (but no completely new parts or very very few). The real reason for this is the thought of having transformable versions of all those obscure valks like the VF-4 and VF-2SS. In the end it seems none of us got what we were hoping for.