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Don't forget the Elintseeker and Ostrich heads... but yeah, if you're talkinga bout just the TV series, true. If they make the VF-1D Trainer do you think they'll also make the VF-1D Virgin Road (with Max & Milia in wedding attire pilots)?

Seconded! I think that should have been your first post. We shouldn't jump to conclusions that things like slanted shoulders necessarily mean less rigidity in the toy. It's a neat gimmick that makes the toy look more like it's supposed to so I'm all for it but I'm with you, I really hope it doesn't come at the expense of the toy's ability to stay together... but at this point there's no reason to assume it does.

Is shaggydog crazy? I mean, I know Eugimon's crazy, but I'm pretty sure so is Shaggydog

Wow, great pics everybody! Penachoy, that's a very solid collection you have going there. Detolfs display cases are great but they really are tight on space aren't they??? I tried to do a bad guy cube like you have and there just wasn't enough space

What Graham said. Yamato has made it's money back on a mold, this is a manufacturer's dream place to be. All they have to do now is recoup very limited costs in the production of subsequent releases so long as they produce them in the right quantities. The fact you don't see the prices on these things being slashed and sold for peanuts lets you know they've figured out how many to sell. They also know that if they don't release enough they can always do another run so it seems they now consistenly err on the side of a shortage rather than surpluses sitting in warehouses.

Wow, the pic in the middle on the bottom row is crappy! It shows how loose the airbrake is and how bad it can make poses in battloid look. Did you notice they also forgot to extend the gun pod?? Man, people need to start hiring me to pose toys for publicity shoots.... I'm glad I don't buy DYRL paint schemes... Yamato is sucking me dry as it is! For the rest of you, you have my sympathies!

That's not really all that fair in a discussion about the 1D. Yes, Yamato could have made a Max 1S (and might still) and a few others of the rarely seen valks but there's no real indication that these canon-but-only-glimpsed-valks would have more draw than the more elaborate paint schemes Yamato has been offering. Besides, you should be thrilled as more and more 1/48 VF-1s come out, it likely indicates Yamato is making money and can invest that on new molds like the YF-19, VF-0, and potentially VF-1 2 seaters.

i've always dreamt of modding an existing pinball machine into a Macross machine

Is there any way, or anyone, who has ever designed a YF-19 that could rotate at the waist? Is it truly impossible? I'm not talking full rotation, maybe just a little bit of pivot in either direction?

Didn't this precedent get set with the 1/60s?? That's where the infamous Super Hik 1J first appeared. Hik 1J in 1/60 only was released as a GBP or a super... never as a standard valk. My take on it is that Yamato just does a Hik Super 1J to recoup the costs of doing the Max & Miriya Super 1Js... everything gets more cost effective if it's for more units.

I feel kind of dirty looking at the YF-19 lineart from the angle in David's post.

What really drove the craziness of Yamato's price home for me was when I was sitting here thinking how crazy the price of the PS3 was. I was thinking "Man, that's stupid, I'm gonna wait until that thing drops $200 in price to pay for it." Then I got my email from Neova (Anthony) telling me I owed $450 for various Yamato products. Hmm, a few toys that I can throw on a shelf or a small computer that plays blu-ray DVDs... man, I need to start spending my money more wisely.

I hope this isn't too true because I purchased a 1S Roy's BP8 to replace my broken Hikaru's 1J's

I put up the review for the 1D. I also added the scale subcategory to my site to make searching for this kind of thing easier in the future. To see all of the Yammy 1/60 VF-1 products on one page, go here.

Yamato got better very rapidly. Toynami has clearly not gotten better so rapidly (although I'd say they're taking baby steps as the MPC VF-1 to Alpha to Voltron and VF-1 1/100 all seem to show improvements over their predecessors). Still, I would hope that as Toynami turns profits it is able to reinvest that money in itself and improve in a manner similar to Yamato and one day actually compete with Yamato. If that were to happen it would force both companies to be more innovative and certainly force Yamato to start considering how much its asking for its toys...

My thoughts exactly and honestly, like many others on these boards I'm sure, my time to play games has been so limited that there are still tons of PS2 games I want to get to but haven't. As a result, I'm pretty confident I can spend the next year getting caught up on cool PS2 games I meant to play while the PS3 builds its library and drops in price.

Looks like the knees need to be inverted a bit for the battloid to stand straight... I hope that's just the pose they were going for but with the angle of the back I wouldn't be surprised if it were necessary

I figured as much but just in case someone does want to take that and run with it as a good idea... I say no. Collapsing landing gears I support, magnetic missiles I oppose.

Missiles with magnetic hard points?? That *sounds* like the worst idea ever. Maybe they could amaze me and pull it off but seriously, if you own a Yamato 1/48 Super then you no how much a pain in the rear missiles can be to get to stay on and stay straight. I have a hard time believing magnets would work better than the "insert pole in hole" approach. If all the missiles do is get crooked and fall off then it'd be more frustrating then having no missiles at all (although I guess the missiles would still help for static displays).

I think Graham was misinformed about the 2nd edition of the VF-0S... either that or there's a 1.5 run of them. My understanding now is that both the 0S 2nd edition and 0A are due out in a couple weeks... but I'm betting it takes longer than that. Then again, if I had to trust me or Graham, I'd go with Graham, but I've heard from a couple vendors now that they got additional units to ship but have not yet received a 2nd edition of the 0S.

Did a quick check at macrossnexus and, from their listing order, what you say could definitely be true.

Honestly, it's been a few years since I even tried this so I can't even tell you what emu I was using any more. I ended up resolving the issue by just hooking up my old system and playing them the way they were intended and everything worked fine. I remember Dark Wizard would do all the opening cinemas on the emu and let you play the first battle but then would freeze rather than going on to the second battle. I think Shining Force screwed me worse, I believe it was either the last battle or the mid point of the game or something like that where it'd just refuse to load the next chapter. Man, that ticked me off somethin' fierce. All the games are originals though.

If Popbox is working with Toynami wouldn't they try to build a 1/55 Zent to go with the MPCs before a 1/48 one? I think they ought to make all the Mospeada characters and then Toynami could release MPC Cyclones that mate to them and finally live up to the MPC name.

You sure? I thought the Hik 1A released in 2001 was the first and the TRU was the 4th after the Max 1A. This website's toy section seems to back that conclusion as well (although I admittedly gave it quite the cursory parousal).

I thought the deal was that Nintendo's first party games will all be non-regional and everything else will be left at the developer's discretion. The real trick for this system is going to be Nintendo's ability to woo developers to Wii... seems like everyone's been leaving them ever since the end of the SNES. There are Sega-CD emulators out there for computers but I've had a lot of problems with them. I pulled out Dark Wizard and Third World War and both of them ended up glitching eventually. I think even Shining CD gave me problems. If I bought a Sega-CD emulator for the Wii (not that one has even been considered yet) I would sure hope they'd make it more reliable. A Saturn emulator would be fantastic... but that system was so complex that developers hated it and that probably bodes very poorly for emulation.