jenius

I figured if you have both you should just vote Taka...

I remember the days when I thought less than $100 was expensive for a toy... how my wallet longs for those days...

Uh, that doesn't look like a true LV at all. The paint job is missing the weathering...

The shoulders getting loose is my biggest complaint about this toy. I handled my first one pretty rough and it very quickly could no longer hold an arm out-stretched. The only thing I could imagine doing would be some sort of cheat like a dot of Elmer's or something but I doubt that would even work. If it makes you feel better, all old Alphas (other than the ratcheting 1/35) suffer a similar fate in the shoulder department. Personally, that doesn't make me feel better and I really think Toynami did a piss-poor job here. An upgrade should have been a must.

I have both the Taka and the Matchbox, how do I vote?

Yeah, I haven't yet modified any of my alphas. Although none are in front of me right now I'm pretty sure they all look like this one: I'm pretty sure it's still just mostly an optical illusion when it comes to the "upward pointed" nose. You should be able to draw a straight line from nose to tail.

I've said it before, but I like saying it again, don't buy the 1/60s

I got lots o' valks (clearly not nearly as many as some of the others) and the 1/60 is my least favorite. Maybe it's because I had my 1/48s before I ever got a 1/60 but I think it has more to do with how it needs to be assembled to switch from one mode to the next. For some reason that entirely spoils all the magic the valk has for me. I think I enjoy my Joons more... (nah... probably not). I'm glad I have the one, it does look sharp in fighter mode in my display case, but I'll never understand why so many members here have hard-ons for these things. I have a similar lack of love for the Bandai reissues... I think they could have made some major improvements and if they had Toynami would have had nothing going for it. As it is, it's either vintage or 1/48 for me from here on out.

I am thoroughly unimpressed... I hear this thing can't even transform.

A little update on VF-1 Jasun, I never did get the item I won but he did refund my money. Kinda seemed like he knew it never got shipped and was just hoping I wouldn't come looking for it. I told him I'd keep him bad-feedback-free if he could produce the item or another variant since he owns every RT item ever and he said he would... then posted his entire collection up for auction leaving me SOL again...

Why? The more toys the better as far as I'm concerned. If Toynami actually begins to think it's competing with Yamato we might actually see both companies put a little more effort into what they produce.

If I had to guess, I'd say the Shadow is lingering longer only because the green one is selling poorly. They're probably just givin' it some time to get sucked up. Then again, Gamestop shows the greenie on backorder so maybe I'm wrong. Either way, I sincerely doubt they're doing any last minute tweaks that would affect either QC or the toy itself.

I'll give an update too: 1/72 = 5 (need YF-21 original release) 1/60 = 1 (VF-1S Strike, the only 1/60 i'll ever own) 1/48 = 2 (VF-1S Focker and LV)

Goleta, California? Aww, I remember it as if it were yesterday. 18 year old girls with coke problems away from home for the first time with something to prove... ah, those were the days Go Gauchos for all of those in the know.

Can we start a new poll forum in which we ask which is worse, Mac7 or Robotech? Personally, I'd have a firm vote for Mac7... at least Robotech had the redeeming quality of introducing me to Macross... Mac7 was almost enough of a reason to get me to quit Macross altogether. First and foremost, Aisha/Ariel can fly in the original series. I think she can even just kinda appear places like some sort of phantasm so, while disjointed here, it's not really anything to have an issue with. Now, her lips not moving when she turns is something else. I think Scott's looks will just have to grow on you, like the look of any new anime character. Still... it looks a little like flash. The mechs look like they're on another layer, that's what gives them that "fake" look someone described earlier (or that was my opinion at least). A1, I'm going to rip off your eating someone's soul move and not give you credit when I actually do it so I'm giving you credit now.

man, it's really tough to judge anything off that darn PSA. At times it looks like it was made using Flash. Eh, maybe it's just a bit choppy 'cause it's on the computer. Scott (and Ariel I suppose) is utterly unrecognizable. I still can recognize the alpha though

Sorry guys, two spelling corrections (major pet peeve of mine): affront as opposed to afront and imbue as opposed to embue. I still haven't gotten around to watching Mac7 again so that's it for now -

I think to the number of board members who frequently refer to their childhood as being "raped" my "afront" was very mild....

I was told to use a product called "paper thinner" One day i pull out my old Jetfire and see if I can't find out what exactly that product is...

Usually I'm with you. I typically get a real kick out of terrible movies. Movies like Soldier or any Kevin Costner flick... but that's because there's normally something pretty darn funny about it which embues some sort of charm... I didn't really find that to be the case with Mac7, it was more like an afront to my childhood.

RT.com members are splashing a 5/1 date also...

See, that's what I get for commenting on something I didn't buy

To clarify, I believe it's only the Super VF-1Js... if you just get the Hikaru VF-1J non-super I don't think it has 'em (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

Nope, it's Stig's paint scheme with Houqet's head from the look of it. Looks pretty darn sweet though. I really love the Legioss.... I'm glad you were able to have fun with Robotech Invasion... I thought that game was really frustrating. I'd get 90% through levels and then get lost and have no idea what i needed to do to finish it.

Well, I would argue the hands are now poseable... so that's an improvement in poseability right? The head certainly is. Having a mech able to look in a particular direction makes a big improvement sometimes in the pose.