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Not so quick, 0A = broken shoulders still. 0S 2.0 the jury is still out on.

I'm guessing the banana wasn't fixed by the fact the pics from the latest person show they didn't transform it properly (small winglets not attached to intakes) which was most likely done to hide the banana-ing.

I think the most I've spent on any of my American JMs was $50, maybe $60, and they were in better condition than this one. One of mine was purchased loose for $35 shipped.

I gotta disagree with Eugimon, that's the first earthquake in a long time that made me start wondering what items I should grab on my way out the door. Fortunately for me, the only valks in my newest place right now are all of the Mac Zero variety and I could care less about them. First I checked my TV mounted to the wall, then I went back and grabbed my keys.... then I grabbed my cell phone... then everything was done and I never stepped out the front door. Still, in Burlingame, that was the best ride I've had in a long time so I would qualify that as a quake. Anything that makes me get out of a chair is worth respecting... and this earthquake certainly rumbled long enough to manage that.

Update: Too Many... expect to see some in the For Sale section soon.

Wow, sounds like a repainted MPC to me with a funky shoulder! I'm still going to buy a Stig version and review it on my site... I was really hoping they'd cost less though. The hands sound really interesting. I guess they went from terrible soft rubber to bad painted plastic... can't believe they didn't figure out a way to get this toy right. Aw sigh, I guess I'll just have to hold out hope for the CMs toy even though their prototype left so much to be desired.

Hey SaveRobotech, what's the going price for these bad boys?

It's pretty standard Yamato operating procedure. They make X amount of them, they sell out, then a year or so later they make another batch. It's doubtful your boat has permanently sailed.

WHAT??? With all the cool games that are PS3 exclusives you're going to refuse to get it because it isn't backward compatible? /Sarcasm The PS3 can be as quiet as a dead baby and just as cold, it still seems to be as hard as the Sega Saturn to program for and with the price of the 3DO... I wanted this to rock, I wanted it to determine the fate of the next gen DVDs, I wanted to get one and have it solve several needs. Instead the whole world is Wii crazy and the DVD situation is a big quagmire. LAME. /Rant Oh well, I guess that's more money for me to spend on Microsoft's new 1/60 Macross Zero toys... Oh, sorry, those were made by Yamato? I was just going off the failure rate...

OH wow... that was terrible.

Are you kidding? Judging just by that pic I'd TOTALLY watch it. I guess I'm a breast man

AH, thank you!

Can somebody tell me what the little pieces of plastic in the upper left-hand corner are used for?

It gets even more confusing because the Fast Packs are called "Super Veritech Armor" by Toynami: Yes, an "Armored Valk" should be the common way of referring to a Valk equipped with GBP, a Super Valk should be a Valk with Fast Packs, and a Strike Valk should be a Valk with Strike Cannon.

MegaHouse's needing a stand to... stand just dropped them down a peg in my anticipatory book. That's a shame... not entirely unexpected... but definitely a shame.

Graham let this drop in one of the 0S threads. He says everything was covered by an NDA so there is no real report other than we ought to be saving our pennies.

bad math, oops. Okay, a ride armor stands 85.2" according to RT.com. So, the toy must be 1/12 scale 'cause there's no way it stands a full 8.5" tall but it's definitely taller than 5.7" a 1/15 would be. There were 1/12 scale models so that'd all work out.

Toynami's MPC is 1/10 scale, not 1/15.

Hikaru's VF-1J was never actually produced... they did some ads but never actually sold him.

That CMs one looks TERRIBLE... might be really cheap though.

I have a conditioned response to questions about Toynami? Is my conditioned response to say "Yep, looks like they fell off the face of the Earth" in question form? Okay...

Zinjo, you're just as right as NB4M. It's an equation with an X & a Y and NB4M addressed X and you addressed Y. If it costs only a bit more to make then you don't have to sell as many, if it costs a bunch more to make you have to sell a ton. Both costs and the number you can sell are pretty important. In this case, NB4M has stated that the cost to make should be minimal so the cost of the very minor retooling could be covered even if only a "few" sold. If it would be a cheap alteration then Yamato's problem more lies in guessing demand and producing the correct quantity. So, if it'd take 1K in sales to cover cost but Yamato makes 5K and only 1K sell then Yamato has costs covered except for the additional cost from the production of 4k in unsold units. So the real question here is how good is Yamato at guessing demand and how much drive do they have to make this variant (if NB4M is right and the cost would be minimal).

does anyone know what happened to Toynami at all? Even their Aoshima product has failed to materialize... no Shadow Chronicles stuff, no more 1/100s, and when was the last MPC? Something is afoot...

Personally I think much of this (compromising) is a scale issue. A really great ride armor could be made at a larger scale. It's time some company man's up and produces an ultimate 1/6 creation!

wow, I was getting certain the Beagle project was dead! Still looks a long way off though...