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Just an FYI, the Weathering Defender was linked to a page or two back, it's also on Yamato's site.

If I remember correctly, the Koenig wasn't supposed to be the launch of a new scale, it was just the logical size to make a toy from an existing resin kit. The vf-0 was being made at 1/100 just to keep it the same size (not scale) as the existing VF-1 1/60 series. This was probably the snapping point where Yamato turned the corner and realized they should make a true 1/60 Macrossiverse.

You guys are too tough on the stock Ozma neck... I found it entirely sufficient. The only other toys I own that have as obvious a neck as some of you guys are putting on your Ozma toys are my Ride Armors... and those need big necks to get the head above the armor.

You must have the best living situation ever to endure that.

I'm quite afraid at this point I won't be able to get my review up before I go to Orange County this weekend. I've spent an hour and a half taking photos of the toy and haven't even tried transforming it yet. For any of you who have floppy neck syndrome, the best fix I've found for any ball joint that gets floppy is to just cut a tiny piece of clear tape and apply it to the bottom of the ball before putting it in the socket, this generally provides the extra necessary resistance without any threat of damaging anything. I wonder if vendors will now send all their Maia stock back to Toynami rather than marking it down. I was waiting for these to get to the $49.99 price before I bought one but now I'm afraid that won't happen now. They'll stay at $79.99 and then 50 days from now all the vendors will just ship the leftover stock to Toynami.

It's the MAIA paint scheme that is being recalled, not the normal shadow fighter. I don't really know that the normal one was considered much better than any of the others either but this recall sounds promising.

The $50 price difference is most likely a simple result of supply and demand, I wouldn't freak out too much over it. Beagle is probably just making much fewer products comparatively for their home market than they are making for Toynami or some other derivation where the pricing works. Cost per unit of the box and the cost of shipping hundreds of pieces from China to Japan vs. China to USA probably are not more than a couple bucks. We'll all know for sure soon enough.

Is that a solid piece of metal that's been cracked in two?

I think the Japanese MSRP is over $260 US at this point so Overdrive's $220 isn't bad at all. They ship quick... too bad for me today was a holiday.

I thought Mac7 sucked and that episode was a bit strange but it certainly didn't make me throw up my hands at the whole series.

Yes, word on the street was that BW charges a comparatively large licensing fee. Maybe Yamatos recent quest to make every single paint scheme ever dreamed of in 1/60 is an attempt to saturate the market so thoroughly that Bandai doesn't go nuts with the VF-1 in 1/100 scale form? I think it would suck super hard (but be great on my wallet) if Bandai followed the VF-25 with the VF-1 and then proceeded to spend the rest of the year just milking VF-1 1/100 releases in every paint scheme.

I think Luca's VF-25 has the Elintseeker and Mikhail's 25 all sorts of trumped for cool factor, I'm with Miriya. If they're making a bonus super pack that includes a Ghost then this thing is just all sorts of MacF awesomeness (even if I expect the Ghost would be a pretty lame representation). Now, Mikhail was a cooler character but if I'm getting just one of the mechs? Definitely the greenie.

Lots of sensitive Eva fans in this thread... Eva is totally an anime, and so is Macross, I don't know why I thought it was off topic, my bad.

It seems to me that a lot of people who seem to have issue with Macrossworld lately are part of the very issues they complain about. I was pointing out that the last several posts (which make it appear as if there is 1/100 news) were off topic, which is lame. If you go to 1/100 Macross threads for discussion in Eva talk then I can see why you'd take issue with my statement.

I checked this thread for 1/100 Macross talk and all I see is Eva talk? lame.

how about a 1/60 Koenig... it'd make more sense in lots of ways... and still be too large.

Cool, so you'll have your choice between an anime colors set or an Olive Drab set. I'm sticking with anime colors.

far left = mega house

Have you seen this one?

The Beagle is 1/10 scale, quite a bit larger than the Mega House or CMs Ride Armors but a hair smaller than the 1/8 Gakken.

This is one of those conversations that sucks not to be happening in person holding an Alpha toy. I believe what you're saying is that, if that piece didn't flip over on one of the intakes then when you transformed the toy to soldier mode the canopy would knock against it and you'd be left with the nose pointing out more rather than going straight down the soldier's back. The easiest solution I can come up for that would be to simply put the piece on a spring (although a more secure plastic elevator would probably be more ideal). The spring would keep the piece elevated in fighter mode so it appeared to be the right height but it would then be depressed by the force of the canopy hitting against it.

It's really simple to delete. Instead of putting it on a hinge put that piece on two springs coming up from the inside or on a sliding mechanism that allows it to be depressed. Just don't have it connected to the intakes and there ya have it.

Yeah, that always frustrated me about every Dark Legioss toy made... nobody bothered to just delete that flap. It's really easy to design away where it doesn't exist and fighter still looks good but nobody ever bothers... how sad. The good news though, while I may say shadow fighters have no shoulder array, in Shadow Chronicles some of the newer Shadow Fighters do.

There's a story behind that. IIRC, in that episode, Max single-handedly blows up a Zentraedi ship so the animators were like "Wait, one VF-1 shouldn't be able to do that... let's draw missiles all over his tail fins to explain it." Then again, maybe I'm typing too much when I'm tired again.

My greatest fears usually involve acquiring STDs or getting someone pregnant. A live action Bebop could be fun... and it could potentially be like Post Man bad which would be fun also.