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I 100% agree with the camera talk... i think we're just seeing slightly different angles and lens... I doubt much is happening with the actual toy.

That looks very unnatural... Wonder how it could have happened.

Ooh it is available again. I just got a cryptic email from Moehime that seems to say I bought one from them or I would grab this 

awww bummed i missed it.

A VF-11C announcement would have been a lot nicer. Then we could hope for an 11B and an 11MAXL. As it is, we'll definitely get the 19Kai and probably a 19S, maybe a 19F... the other two are just funzy display pieces for this show,;they're no where far enough along to expect a release next year for the anniversary. 

I'm curious also why Arcadia never did a VT-1. Maybe BigWest jacks up the price on the license when they know Bandai is also working on something? Maybe that's why they haven't given us a 0A Premium Finish also... Bandai said "Hey, we're doing some MacZero stuff in the next couple years, chase Arcadia off for us." 

Looking at pics of the original VF-19Kai Hi-Metal, it doesn't have that notch above the nose cone so I think it must be a whole new chest shape which probably agrees to the obviously new legs and makes me think it's a totally new mold. The sound booster looks the same as the original though.

It has obvious landing gear in the legs, I think it's a full retool.

The other two in sound force look like half-baked 3D prints with no engineering.

Okay, I think that's a Last Red Shoulder TC in the upper left and a the Blood Sucker so two more releases? Surprised they didn't go to the round mover, parachute pack, and Melkia versions for the easy $.

8 minutes ago, treatment said:

HM-R Clown Sound Force incoming...

https://hjweb.jp/article/1243752/

 

So we'll get the Fire Valk with Sound Booster and the other two will come out right after the Tomahawk and Phalanx.

Sigh... Such an easy thing for them to fix but they ignore it.

If these sell out, that will be the next exclusive.

Affirmative, same plane, less accessories.

I change the scale to make them all the same size so they can be compared to each other. I think both comparisons do a good job of showing the DX shifts the mid point of the line art forward.

What KitzConcept figured out, and Arcadia has shied away from, is that if you're going to have the factory produce toys, like the VF-1S Focker/Ichijo reissues, there's usually only a small outlay to tell the factory to produce another 100 with a different tampo process. So, if there's enough market to warrant pumping out Hikaru and Roy, it's a golden opportunity to do a TV Roy and a Max 1S in very limited numbers. Maybe make those "premium finish" only and do 100 of each. 

1) I hope it pays zero attention to the movie universe and it's timelines/fragments and just does its own thing
2) I'm curious how the choice of medium will be leveraged. My guess is that they'll go hyper gory at times. My hope is that they do some cool future scenes.

I'll probably check it out after a season 2 or cancellation is announced... I never have enough time for shows these days. 

Isn't Arcadia basically one guy at this point and he does it as a hobby? 

I put silica packs in all my closets and tubs to keep humidity down. If you're somewhere hot, your AC is probably also dehumidifying for you. A food grade vacuum sealer is an interesting thought if you're really putting things in deep storage. 

Well this isn't really helpful at all but I told Photoshop to make white white and black black and this is what happened:

I think I would go a little darker than the image you posted above.

I grabbed one from anime export.

Convert this to a poll thread and let's vote if Robotech and KO toys should all just go under one 'toy' section.

I assume you would put Mospeada in 'other anime' still? 

5 minutes ago, raptormesh said:

Glad I still kept a single VF-22 Gamlin from my collection of 12+. The fighter mode on the older ones can't be beat. 

Still interested in this one though. Have also PO'd the 1/100 Hi-metal one. Not complaining as a big fan of this planform. 

You mean the HG model kit.

Well now I might preorder a reissue of the VR-052F to see if they revised those joints like they had on Houquet. I don't have a buddy at Sentinel anymore that I can ping for info

I haven't reviewed the Houquet because I have very little time for reviews these days and a massive backlog. I'm chipping away at it but these new reissues may be out before I get to Houquet. 

Good, I'm glad it wasn't supposed to be a baby all along. It generally looked like odd floating shapes in bubbles but obscured and dark. So it was just a blob of nebulous Star Singer tissue that coalesced into a Freyja-like baby when Freyja and the Windermerians moved it with their singing. That's a new twist on the usual Macross ending.

Alright, so you describe her as "Clone soldier Mikumo", so she's not a pure star singer clone then, rather some sort of almalgam?

I didn't think the crimson SV-262 looked too heroic compared to the others but whatever... they went with a lame paint scheme for a mostly unlikeable character so not much of a loss. 

One last question... runes bloom? What does that do/mean? Did they know that happened? Stuff got weird. 

I thought, when they did the scene with Hayate going berserk because of Freyja's song, they were going to explore some sort of a symbiotic power the Protoculture devised as part of their effort to bring people together. Like, the fact they had Hayate with Freyja would have them overcome New Sharon Apple because she didn't have a matched pair. It kind of worked that way but more incidentally.

I could really pick this film apart but instead I'll just say that I look forward to the next Macross. 

I finally watched this last night. It feels almost like an overreaction to criticism of Delta. I was never really a fan of the Lady M storyline and this... i don't know if 'resolves' is the right word, but certainly leans heavily into it. So do I understand this correctly:

Epsilon steals Star Singer DNA, clone it, make a baby, sort of connect that baby to a newer Sharon Apple (but one that also has a robot body), and the New Sharon Apple is able to amplify its sound energy because of the baby?

Meanwhile Wright got some of the DNA also, cloned it, but they made a full grown Mikumo to counteract whatever Epsilon would do? 

The baby at the end threw me off a bit.. was it gestating still in the pod? Also, shouldn't the baby grow up to look more like Mikumo than Freyja? 

Bogue should have been given an all crimson VF-31AX with gold accents like his 262.