jenius

You only get robber when it's against your will. This was just plain haste and stupidity on the buyers part. 319291[/snapback] I never understand how stuff like this happens. It takes an absolute lack of effort on the bidders part. If you looked at the Ebay stores you would find them for $160 easily (and that's still $30 more than you'd find them at other retailers as preorders online). They searched enough to find this one item, how did they not notice the other items in their search?

Tell him you also LOVE Macross7.... it's always a hoot to see his reaction to that. As far as cheap goes, I've been diggin' for 1/48s lately (as you can see from my earlier post). My guess at going prices for non DYRL ones (I'm with you, I only collect all things SDF TV (except elints, ostriches, and LVs)): 1) VF-1J Hik Regular $150 - $175 shipped 2) VF-1J Super Hik or Milia $190-$220 shipped 3) VF-1J Super Max $215-240 shipped (DAMN IT, I DON'T WANNA PAY MORE THAN $200!!!) 4) VF-1A CF and VF-1S Fokker $135 - $160 shipped I have found one place selling the Max super 1J for $196 shipped but when I emailed about whether or not they had it actually "in-stock" they said "we're expecting more in September." I hate the sound of that since I know they're not making more of 'em right now so where are they "expecting" them from???

I swear this exact thread was started about a week ago....

I've been looking for a Max J, anyone know of a good place to find one? I got a Milia en route and the Max is the last one I need to get

Does anyone know where I can find the outtakes from Thundercats. Back when I worked for a dotcom we received a link to them and it got the whole company cracking up. To just your memory, it's got Panthro's voice actor admitting he's hungover, and somebody esle asking "what the f**k is a thermoplexer?" Oh man, it's good times.

PS - I may be wrong about some of that stuff. Correct me if I am... as I'm sure you will.

OOh, i got more: Can we do this with toys too? Myth: The Yamato YF-19 and YF-19A are very anime accurate Truth: (in Jon Stewart voice): eh, not so much. Graham made some great comments on the differences a while back. Myth: Bandai considered reissuing the taka GBP and the SDF-1 Truth: I believe the mold is on the bottom of the ocean. Myth: Toynami reissued the VF-1S MPC due to popular demand Truth: Apparently they had a distribution nightmare when issuing them originally and by the time they resolved it it was already time for Max to be selling so they just put the extras in a warehouse for later. Myth: Gakken made Shadow Fighter toys but they never made it to market. Truth: Not bloody likely, they *probably* just considered it if the first series of toy were big sellers. Myth: Yamato is going to release a YF-19FP Truth: DAMN YOU YAMATO!!!! It puts the toy in the basket or else it gets the hose again!

OR you were one of those lucky enough folks to actually get ahold of a Milia Takatoku. You now probably wish you didn't play with it so much when you were little 'cause it would make a sweet collectors item. Seriously, that Mac7 attack was way lame, if I was gonna rip on it it woulda been way funnier Don't worry, I won't do that here - MYTH: Sound energy actually has something to do with sound traveling through space. Source: Well, it's called sound energy and its shown to work in space Truth: I think it's a misnomer and the "sound" really hasn't nothing to do with it, it should be called "spiritia energy" or something. I can't recall if the valks actually have speakers on them but I'm hoping they don't and that the scientist just found some way of amplifying the spiritia energy... not the sound of the songs.

Oh yeah man, Christ that's horrible. If you want to though I'll buy it off you so you never have to look at your horrible hack job again. j/k about the hack job stuff -

Amen to that brother. I actually got a 1/48 before I got any of the 1/60s. I'm currently still trying to finish buying up the 1/48s while I occasionally pick off a 1/60. I'm guessing it'll take me another couple months before I have the scratch to pick up a 1/60 Elint and an Ostrich... God this hobby is soooooo expensive.

I think it's $180, not $100. It it's not it's certainly supposed to be.

That doesn't strike me as too insane. It's a lot more than they used to go for but it seems like all the 1/48 prices have been climbing. The Max 1A has been selling at about $200 lately.... that thing used to be worth just as little as the Hikkie 1A

Thank you very much. Sounds like that oughta solve my problems nicely.

I've sent about 4 PMs in the last week and none are showing in my Sent Items folder. I'm a little concerned that maybe this means my PMs aren't getting to people? Also, occasionally I'll read a PM, respond to it, leave MW and come back later to be told I have a new PM... which is exactly the PM I read last time I was on the site. Sorry if someone has already touched upon something similar in another thread... It's always possible that I'm doing something wrong also, I don't claim to be particularly computer savvy.

Fair enough, point is there aren't seven little kids running around the house... Also, can't they drive a lot younger in M7? So that'd be nice too, even less kids around. And people like M&M still got the nannie brigade backin' 'em up.

I can't agree with that at all. First off, they apparently marry their kids off at like 12. I don't really agree with it but apparently that's the way people like it in M7. So, you wouldn't have all kids at home if they're married off at 12 or ace fighter pilots by like 15 (why are the ages so screwy?). Second, Max is a high ranking officer and Milia is a politician, they'd have nannies all over the place. Max gets home from a leisurely day on the bridge to some quality Meltrandi lovin'.... except not in M7 where they hate each other but may still love each other but are publically getting a divorce while they secretly are trying to reconcile (I'm not a fan of M7, let's just stick to remembering the hottie Milia with only one kid from the original Macross).

Milia all the way. You gotta think of it like this, if you met the girl when she was say... 18ish (guessing on M-TV/DYRL age) she was ultra hot (even with anime friend's distorted views). The downside is.... she has no idea what to do in the sack. The upside is, she's ultra competitive. She'd probably want to kill all your exgirlfriends and then would work ultra hard to be far superior to all of them in bed (so you tell a few lies about just how kinky past relationships were and watch her one up everybody). Alright, so you've turned the freak loose in her and now you can't get enough. She pops out kid after kid and STILL has the body of her 18 year old self after SEVEN kids. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I want kids some day so I'm definitely viewing that as a big plus. Some people think she was domineering in M7... Personally, I like to think M7 never happened but even so I blame it more on how the show portrayed Max... seems like he got neutered at some point after the war but was magically still able to have kids. Second place: Rex. I hate M7 but I think i sported half a chub after the biker girl giving a little zipper action. I think I just have a thing for hot biker chicks though.

I think collecting anything Macross in the hopes of a large monetary increase would be kind of optomistic at this point. I would bet at some point Yamato will come full circle and re-release all the 1/48s. They will see demand climbing and climbing and they will plop 'em back into our hands. The 1/72 and 1/60s may not see another run but they're vastly inferior to the 1/48 so their value will certainly hit a glass ceiling (more so for the 1/60s as the 1/72s have less competition). The Takatokus, Joons, and Bandai 1/55s will now also have a much lower ceiling as the 1/48 has clearly limited the collectibility of those to truly diehard fans and the sentimental types. The MPCs are a bit of a wildcard. They won't be re-released and they have greater access to the American market. They also don't compare to the 1/48s but they certainly stand their ground against the 1/60s and the Bandais 1/55s. I would guess they have more long-term value than most the 1/60s but not nearly that of most the 1/48s (even if the 1/48s see several more rounds of production).

I wouldn't say I'm "in the know" but you should look at Cap America's threads about creating the two seaters to see just how much work is necessary. Certainly more than a new paint job and head. Thus, it seems highly unlikely.

Any members in Japan (or wherever this ad is for) want to buy a VF-1J Hik on my behalf and ship it to me?

I noticed this the other day. I believe there are ones at BIN for $60 also? What the heck gives????

If RT continues to rip off from other series it'll probably look a little somethin' like this:

I NEED THAT VF-1J, someone figure this out for me PPPPPPPlllllleasssse!

Why would anyone even include Lynn Kyle in the Sentinels? I thought his exit was great from Macross (TMS). Granted, stranger things have happened... I mean all the Zents were super pro-war and ended up being against it (kinda).... but why Kyle???? I hope they poo-can almost everything that happened in The Sentinels. It's my understanding they've already scraped all the End of the Circle stuff completely out of continuity so I think all that Zor being his own father's mother's cousin's friend's roomate in college is no longer a problem.

The cruddy thing about this is that the original has no gun. I definitely prefer it in every way except for the missing gun. So, that being considered, I guess I would go with the Fast Pack version.