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oh yeah, well I liked Yamato so much, I bought the company! I have my minions currently working on a VF-19 transformable figure that features an exact replica of my own head in battloid mode. Holy crap, how creepy would that be???

well indications seem to be good from the sellers as at least a couple are telling people they're going to have to wait for restocks and the preorders haven't even all been met yet. More likely though I think that tells us that Yamato ran into some problems meeting their production quota. Still, it can't be selling horribly.

This pic should show the difference. First pic is from the first 3000, second pic is from the next 12000. The vents were initially a brighter blue and were then toned down quite a bit.

Looks nice! The MPC Alphas are definitely beautiful toys... dont' play with the arms too much though or else they'll get too limp to hold the gun up in a hurry.

No lie, my friends and I were looking into making quality ghostbusters costumes and we quit when we saw just how crazy the prices could get. Instead we went with the cast of Pulp Fiction... it worked out nice

well, i'm sure your super ostrich is nicer than mine.... mine has a bit of yellowing that makes me sad So hard to find a snow white VT-1.

Very nice! The fast packs (in the other pics) don't really work in atmosphere, I like that non fast pack valk shot.

After tax, shipping, and all that good stuff, I spent $600 on a Bandai Elintseeker. I feel pretty good about it though, looks like it had been removed from the perfect box maybe once... ever. So nice and minty. I've spent $500 on a couple other classic Macross items also.

LOL, very nice!

Agreed, but the clip from the next episode makes it look like he gets busted. I think Libby is going to survive (although did someone post that my assumption here has been leaked out as being wrong?) and she's going to bust Michael? I think this means we can expect Michael's death in upcoming episodes. I don't think murderers are bound to live long on this island. I'm glad we won't be seeing a "AL is pregnant with Sawyer's kid" story...

The problem with that theory is that you would first kill the prisoner and then shoot yourself. It'd take a pretty idiotic guy to shoot himself first and then attempt to kill another person. Nope, I think he shot himself, gave the other the gun, then collapsed to the ground. Don't forget, Henry lied about pretty much everything. There's no reason to believe the others would have killed him or that he was there to pick up the cripple.

It would seem to me that he actually shot himself, gave Henry the gun, and then let Henry escape. Then when the group gets there they find Michael injured, Anna dead, and the other girl near dead. Michael will be undone when that other girl (he thinks is dead) is nursed back to health. That's my take on the ending there. Michael clearly has been manipulated, his child being used as bait, and his rhetoric being used to cause the beach crew to wander into the Others hands. I did like when Hurley said he was gonna get so drunk he'd remember where he knew the girl from and she looked scared. "oh that's right, we know each other because we were both crazy... how exactly are you a shrink???" Does it seem to anyone else that Jack's dad is a super major player in this whole mystery. A doctor with more going on than anybody knows about with connections all over the world and seems to have been in a position to know everyone on that airplane.

Wow, just noticed that all MPC prices have been slashed to $59.99 over at RT.com. Anyone looking for a Jack Archer or a Max Sterling, you won't be able to beat that price anywhere I've seen. In fact, a prudent investor might scoop up a bunch of those and sell 'em on eBay around xmas. I've already seen some MPC Maxs sell for over MSRP there...

Octopus Hi-Balls, they're available on the SDF-1 and the even advertise on the missiles.... (that was one of the animator jokes right?)

So, if a Toynami MPC alpha and a Yamato VF-0S toy got into a fight, which one would be in pieces first? I guess that's not fair since the VF-0S costs twice the MPC's price so maybe their should be two of them? Eh, sounds like it'd be a customizer's dream at the end of that battle either way. I don't get my 0S for another couple months... this thread is definitely hampering my enthusiasm.

Well, I don't think they were super valks, they definitely weren't strike valks, and if I'm not mistaken (it might just be the coloring on my old copies or I might be thinking of a different scene) they're navy blue. The Stealth is not a canon valk, it's just a "neat" paint job like the LV and LVII. Oh, if anyone has a Credit Card valk a pic of the box would be super schweet too.

This thread needs another pic of the Alpha MPC lookin' frackin' sweet (although it is admittedly naked):

Please do a search on Macross7 and read the other threads about Mac7 and maybe revive one of those if you really feel it's necessary. I sincerely hope this thread was just started to inspire the return of A1... 'cause I watched that whole series and rather than taking my breath away I think it gave me gas.

Agreed. A Tread/Beta toy would be about the same size as the MPC VF-1 in battloid mode (although it'd also be about three times as thick). Certainly this thing can't be any harder to pull off than Yamato's Koenig toy and that thing doesn't retail anywhere near $200. What is it that is making the Beta toy so expensive???? Something is just way off here...

You're misunderstanding, the $200 price tag was for a transformable one like the prototype. They're considering making a much cheaper one that can't transform. Personally, still sounds laughably bad in my book. Then again, if they got it to $150 range for the transformable version that'd be the same as a 1/48 and I'm a huge enough GCM fan where I'd probably buy at least one (especially if it was built comparably to the Yammy 1/48s). I serioulsy doubt how many others are big enough fans where they'd pony up for that though.

Yamato is smaller than Toynami? I don't think that's true... Yes, Toynami has the GCM license through HG. This whole thing is silly, the design costs are already sunk, what else could be so prohibitively expensive? I think this smacks of either a craptastic way of getting publicity and being able to up an already inflated MSRP or a way of covering the fact that Toynami is actually in such dire financial straits that they can't do anything more than 3 cents a unit Imen.

would that be like Toynami's Imen?

So Godzilla, having 95 1/48s alone now, what could you possibly do with all of them? The logistics of the space that must consume is mind-boggling. My modest collection is already taking over my house and it's just a fraction of yours. Do you have family that run a rental storage facility or something? I think 12 of the Super Stealth's ought to fill an entire closet on their own!

for some reason I bet the clear covers would look good on the fast packs.

Would this be in comparison to the amazingly fancy looking DYRL paint jobs... white with a colored stripe?