jenius

You are alone.... these delays began long before anyone knew the economic crisis. Having a finished product and shelving it indefinitely and abruplty is odd. Edit - That sounds rude so I'll clarify. Toynami had a simple distribution deal. Bandai has completed a production run of the toy (generally they'd just make more and give Toynami some to sell in the states). The preorders indicated that this would be how things were done with the original US release date being only a short time after the Japanese one. The Japanese release date has come and gone, Japanese people own the toy, Toynami never managed to get any of them or sell them in the states. This is odd. It would be odd that Bandai would plan a second manufacturing run to meet an order that was available at the time of the first manufacturing run (it makes no economic sense). If you want to bring the economic landscape into this, the delay is even MORE odd. One production run would have been way cheaper than two. Also, both companies knew they wanted to do this like back in June, that's plenty of time to make Christmas deadlines. Why would a company willing choose to miss xmas? Again, it doesn't make sense.

On the Bandai/Tamashi/Toynami relationship it very well could just be a random and long delay (Do you not think it's odd to take preorders for a finished product in June and then not deliver said finished product until some unknown date in the following year?). I've been nay-saying that we'd ever see anything from it for a long time so far and wouldn't mind being proven wrong. Still, the random and long delay seems to be the precursor to the cancelled preorders followed by the official announcement that, for whatever reason, Toynami won't be bringing chunkies stateside after all. That's my guess. I have no doubt a lot of people will manage to beat me to the Alto and Ozma reviews . Still, I'll try to get it up quick enough to be relevant still. I really hate placing preorders like 5 months in advance of a toy's release... here's to hoping the next five months go well!

The VF-1 is way too big to have a 1/18 scale toy. No one would be able to put that thing anywhere. Don't get me wrong, it'd be really cool to see but I can't imagine enough households would have a spot for it ot make it worth the effort.

I've put in a request for all of these toys and will be doing full reviews, hopefully not long after they're available in Japan. I'll also be trying to get my grubby little hands on all these exclusive armor parts and extras.

I'm still doubting the original Bandai Toynami deal will ever happen. Seems a very odd delay going on. I can understand if Bandai doesn't want to steal focus from their Frontier stuff but I suspect they hit a legal hurdle and that was that.

I got an email from Overdrive earlier, they're around and will respond. You have seven days to figure this out, why worry? Contacting your credit card company is ALWAYS the wrong move if there's no fraud involved. It costs a minimum of $15 for the people you bought the item from (and some hoops to jump through) when you over-react.

Shameless PLUG, the VF-0S with ghost is the latest review on anymoon.com

website exclusives are not hard to get, they just suck because you pay more for them because no one wants to mark them down below the website price. You end up having to pay full retail, plus a mark-up that covers shipping the item once, plus a mark up for profit.

How can we answer until the new Yamato VF-0S and Bandai VF-25S are released? What if either one proves to have huge problems?

Still might make Xmas... I'll be pretty surprised if they pull that off.

I figured they'd save the black male ride armors for event exclusives but maybe since Mega House did there Dark Ride Armor as an exclusive CMs didn't want to look like they were copying the idea... That and it's probably more economically sensible not to make them 100 a piece exclusives like just about everything else they made has been. Needless to say, I'll grab one of each. I hope they reissue Stig and Ley with their 2nd edition improvements also (sturdier wind screens and metal swing arm locks).

Yes, that full page scan totally needed to be quoted. Now, ZOMG That thing doesn't even resemble the VF-25!!!!! FTW!!!!

Well, except these come from outside sources from the means in which they're supposed to be available and come with packaging that isn't 100% correct...

Each shop varies but usually they're very lenient on cancelling preorders. I can't speak for Overdrive personally but they've worked with me on lots of stuff so I wouldn't worry.

So are these high quality knock-offs made from existing Roy VF-1S toys? That's what it sounds like...

YESSSSS!!! A toy I can live in, my dream has come true!

They came with the Yamato 1/48 GBP, they detachable parts I found kind of annoying that you would slide into the side of the Battroid so it didn't have a big gap when viewed from the side. It does make the battroid look a lot better.

I see the Bandai DX VF-25 haters don't like to let the people who are okay with the VF-25 be the only ones who seem petty...

Ya know, I'm not bowled over by fighter mode either. I'll buy it, but I think I liked the 21 when I saw it's initial mock-ups more. The tailfins do make it look a little less aggressive.

Curse my slow fingers!!!

Hmmmm, this is dangerous. People defending the VF-25 are going to start making huge stinks about slight problems with the VF-11B.... EDIT - that said, if you do a lineart comparison I'd be pretty interested to see where this bad boy takes liberties ('cause I'm sure it does)

Wow, it's really over compensating for something with that head laser.

Seriously, I mean just imagine how not flush the legs will be in fighter mode. ZOMG... Yamato would make this so much better! The size isn't quite as big as I'd like but who knows how it's being measured just yet. If it's WHAM SDF-1 size I'll be a little sad, hopefully it's bigger.

Articulation looks really good but I suppose it should be with all those parts being swapped.

To be fair, the other dead give away is that if you got the Mega House it will have a giraffe neck.