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They've been selling DYRL stuff for a while now, the 1/100s and the super poseables for example.

I kinda like the MPC Book packaging... although I wouldn't qualify it as being very important to me. If the Yune-ified head is an extra on top of everything else I wouldn't complain about that either.

Look closely at the forearm armor. There's also a color difference.

The tip of the nose is no longer removeable to expose the radome, instead now the entire cockpit and fuselage is removeable. This is so you can emulate the scene in Macross when Roy saves Hikaru and Minmay

For those of you having problems with the swing bar, double and triple check that you've walked the nosecone/fuselage all the way up or all the way down. The first time I transformed the toy thinking "I've transformed a million valks, this won't be a problem" i had a devil of a time with the swing bar because I hadn't brought the nosecone up all the way. Now that I know how to manipulate my cone properly, it's a lot easier to swing.

Lonely Boy, are you talking about OmegaBlue? I think all he said was "don't be a dick" which hardly qualifies as lashing out with name calling. Seemed to me OmegaBlue qualified his opinion with a background and stood by his opinion. Who is having the issue with pluralism of ideas? Seems more to me that Exo is just unduly peeved about some perceived elitism. Maybe I missed an angry diatribe somewhere though so if I did my bad.

There's no joke here. Tommy Yune is the guy who does most the art for Harmony Gold these days in relation to Robotech. He has his own style. Toynami said a long time ago that they may scrap doing their own Masterpiece Cyclone in favor of bringing another company's version (from Japan) to the states instead. Toynami has announced that is exactly what's going to happen, they're going to repackage the Beagle Ride Armor as a Masterpiece Ride Armor here in the states. Rather than simply repackaging it though, they're also going to include an exclusive head. Look at the pictures on the previous page, you can see the heads are slightly different.

Uh, it wasn't in SC because this is a fan-made creation, not a canon design. There's a dialogue error in the Robotech version of the show where the fighter is referred to as a 'veritech fighter' and 1st Border took that idea and ran with it. The real problem with it is the Sylphide is a terrible looking fighter so kudos to the artist for making it more attractive in the other modes. You could also say the concept Gamma fighter is unique uncontested transformable fighter design but HG didn't like that one enough to keep it in Shadow Chronicles apparently. When it comes right down to it, as with just about anything that goes live action, we should expect completely new designs that have only the slightest resemblance in form or function to the original. The studio will hire someone and they will give us their take on what these mechs should look like with disregard for the originals.

If you look at the pic of the VF-1J leaning back you can see a thin gray area between the blue of the armor and the white back of the Valk.

I swear by Overdrive. What is it you wanted to know about their preorder policy? They do that whole thing where they'll hold your orders until they can make it whole and I think you have to pay up front. Email them with questions though, they always get back to me pretty quick.

There's no friggin' way... the sculpt isn't similar to the old one at all. You could probably frankenstein it but why bother?

LOL, my girlfriend was with us, while she appreciated everything she saw and learned I don't know how she would have reacted to me taking home a resin Klan figure like that! Here's something Overdrive pointed me toward: http://homepage3.nifty.com/rs-labo/

Guys we're derailing, this thread is meant for the Bandai Frontier toys, not a discussion on the new Yammy 1/60. I apologize for my part in the derailment. I hope we get some exciting news out of Wondefest! At the very least, has Bandai shown painted versions of their Frontier gashapons yet?

Still can't say anything concrete but Wonderfest is coming very quickly and I've heard from a couple different sources now that there is no CMs Dark Tread and that the CMs Dark Legioss is just a pre-release. I believe they may also be pre-releasing the Blow Superior there as well as having a few exclusives.

I'm certain Overdrive and other toy stores will have a lot more to say about this after Wonderfest. Yamato will have someone there and I'm sure they'll be answering lots of questions on this subject.

It is a phenomenal time to be both a Mospeada and a Macross fan. New Macross series plus all these new Macross toys while companies are still actively making toys for the original series... WOW. NB4M, you're missing out on the 1/60 2.0... it's quite nice.

There are also two cannon fodder VF-27, not that'd we should ever expect to hear from either.

Yes, the VF-1S should be released very soon without super/strike parts (which are also being sold separately). Go to overdrive-inc and they have them available for preorder. I don't know the URL to overdrive off the top of my head but the link is on www.anymoon.com.

Once I have confirmation from my source I'll open up a bit more. My understanding is that CMs has no intention of releasing a Dark Tread and is simply pre-selling the first run of the product at Wonderfest so it will be exactly the same as the ones sold later. The wording used was "... will be released early at Wonderfest, limited to 30. Will be released in late August even if you don't get it there." I'll also have to double-check on the green one but I'm pretty sure they sold exactly the same green legioss tread combo at Winter Wonderfest that they ended upselling on their website. I have to double-check on this because I think CMs might have had a last minute supply problem and didn't actually get any of the greenies to the event. Man, I either drink too much or have way too much going on these days (okay, it's both).

From what I've heard, CMs is releasing 30 pieces at Wonderfest and are doing a larger release later this year that will be regularly available. If memory serves, they did something similar with their green Legioss/Tread set at winter Wonderfest.

I think I have that same $1 piece of cardboard. It's so friggin' hard to get a good picture rig going. If you use somehting too reflective you get blinding spots from the lighting... but I just got done snapping pictures of those all black 25th anniversary valks and taking pictures of anything that's all black is pretty frustrating.

I think Save mentioned those GNUs as having been handed out by Yamato to people attending special events in the past so it's no real surprise that they're going to be made more available.

My YF-19 GNU vs Revoltech post is up. It includes some pics of a very heavily washed/weathered GNU. That's the real strength of these toys, they're so much better to modify than Revoltechs. That said, I don't modify my toys and the Revoltech has a better price and comes with more accessories which, combined with their better pose-abilty, makes them the winner. Here's one of the pics of the heavily weathered and worn YF-19 doing battle with the Gnu YF-21 Note - I didn't weather the Gnu myself, I have no such skills. The weathering was done by someone who enjoys the site.

Sheryl downloaded? Are you confusing Sheryl's coming out of spacefold with being downloaded? As far as we know she's "all natural"

Wow, only $120! What a steal! Wait, WTF? That's like the worst price ever for that toy. Wow.