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If the VF100 line is dead I don't really know if it could be pinned entirely on bad marketing. The product didn't seem like it knew what it was trying to be so I don't know if Bandai knew how to sell it. It was far too much a kit for a toy and far too pricey of a toy to be a kit. They either needed to knock the price way down and let it be sort of a prepainted snap together model with parts for every mode (like it was but even less assembled) or it needed to have far fewer parts and be more of a toy. If this were truly a toy they should have made it imperfect transformation in the sense that it had to be pulled apart and put back together again... not entirely new parts for different modes (the price could have been kept the same but obviously the toy wouldn't look as nice). As it is I think it really only appeals to a very narrow spectrum of the population... and I think those people it does appeal to wouldn't have minded having it be more like a model at more of a model's cost.

Since the 1/48 VF-1J Hikaru is a relatively new weathering release hopefully this means that in the future we'll know about HLJ being an alternative to the Yamato webshop exclusive in time to purchase through them. If they put the GBP with launching effect up I might have to make a preorder...

I love my two weathered destroids and it sucks to see I could have got them for a lot less if I was patient... but that's the case with 95% of Macross toys.

Man... I feel like i jinxed you... The replacement parts were NOT improved. Wait until the new Roy 1S is released later this year and then order your replacement parts and hope for the best.

This board is not owned by Yamato. Yamato bought ad space on the board and hooks Graham up with the inside scoop but there's a big difference there.

C'mon, it's "Unacceptable"? I think you meant just "disappointing"

I don't think it was a case of "couldn't make this happen" but, being an accountant, probably more likely a case where the accountants won. I imagine they did up their prototype, it was super awesome, and some of the cooler heads thought "A lot of people want SDF-1 toys and this is going to be too big and too expensive for them." So, the cooler heads probably started designing a smaller scale SDF-1 toy that would be more in line of the cost of Yamato's ordinary releases ($100-$200). The camp working on the super scale super expensive toy seem to have then run into problems where they over-designed the toy and would need to be made with more but smaller pieces and the expense kept escalating. In the meantime, the camp working on the smaller scale toy probably made great progress and started showing a really promising toy that would work for a ton of people. Suddenly the huge SDF-1 didn't seem at all worth the additional cost and the accountants said "profit margin x units sold = yay". Rather than scrap the 1/2000 they said "Hey, for our folks who worked on it and those few who it did appeal to, we'll make some available rather than leaving it as a one-off display piece for our corporate headquarters."

The shoulders on the Roy VF-1S toy were VERY fragile (the original release with strike parts). Both my shoulders broke and even the replacement shoulders I was sent were broken before I could put them on the toy. There was a thread on MW dedicated to just how bad the initial shoulders were on these toys. The problem seems to have been solved around the release of Hikaru's VF-1J.

Whoa! How'd you get the arms to stay connected to the shoulders!?! That's a joke, very nice ugly poo (I really must be missing an inside joke somewhere).

I'm on board, each new toy or repaint should get its own thread. Even if it's Hayao's DYRL VF-1A and it has one person saying "Look, it's green!" I also love the idea of the titles having things you could SEARCH for. I can think of some occasions where it'd be silly though. Would we have a separate thread for Max and Miria's VF-22 toys?

I think CMs is done with Mospeada after the trading figures so I'd be a little surprised if we see more toys from them. If we were going to I'd guess that the Clear/Metallic versions of the dark ride armors would be next.

Some day I'm going to bust all my CMs Mospeada toys out and do a diorama for you guys to try to inspire some jealousy I agree though, CMs toys are way expensive for what they were and while it's nice they pretty much completed all things Mospeada they never got closing to nailing everything just right.

MH Houquet = dead.

I handle my DXs pretty lightly busting them out for comparisons occasionally. For the most part I haven't had much of an issue with the paint. My Ozma DS is probably the most banged up since all those armor parts can cause issues with each installation (and with all the popping off many parts do there can be qutie a few installations).

Gamlin was the messiah. He is killed, then is reborn with more understanding and even more power.

The Robotech background music is PERFECT 80s music. I love it and it makes for good ringtones. Whenever I call my brother his phone plays the Zentraedi theme. The actual songs... not so much although Yellow's songs aren't too bad for cartoon songs (and the Mospeada songs never really excited me other than some occasional Mooootooooocycle freeakk! humor). Macross' bgm (in the original) is classier and works just fine and the songs are obviously top notch in comparison.

I was Gaius Baltar, my girlfriend was Caprica Six. Sadly, we went to a party where not many people watched BSG.

I own a Wave... I think it's pretty "meh" and certainly over-priced.

Glad you like the site. I'm spending my day today watching football and taking pics of the EX Gear. I decided to pass on the "improved" CMs release. If I find it some day on sale somewhere I'll pick one up. Right now I don't know a single place offering it internationally.

If they couldn't figure out a better way of fixing that in 1/48 scale then I'd agree with you... no thank you.

That sounds like old news. CMs re-released their blue Legioss/Tread set. The re-release featured optional larger chest intakes, a second gun, and a new linking cradle that held the toys closer together. Most every major retailer I knew didn't even bother carrying it.

Maybe I'd be interested if they put the heads in the right place in battroid.

Hey Seto, are you sure you're banned from rt.com? I was just checking out the "stuff" section to see what RT fans might want more of on my website and I noticed that all my posts had their signatures removed and that no one could click on my profile link. Your account doesn't seem to have that issue. Maybe your ban is just temporary?

For the $2300 i would consider this in the same category as store displays. Not really something collectors or fans should climb all over themselves to get... like those stupid Mega scale Toynami statues.