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Considering I missed out on the LE stand version, that's pretty much a no-brainer for me. If I did managed to get the LE version, that's a bit tougher due to financial considerations.

Would be nice to have one for each configuration for display though if I got the cash for it.

On 9/19/2018 at 12:48 PM, sketchley said:

As indicated by sh9000 here:  http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/29133-macross-books/?page=19&tab=comments#comment-1419680 , Great Mechanics.G 2018 Autumn features a major Macross article, and a gorgeous VF-1/SDF-1 (TV ver.) painting on the cover.

The bad news: as it's the 36th anniversary of Macross, the article is dedicated to the SDFM TV series.

That's a bad news?

On 9/19/2018 at 12:48 PM, sketchley said:

 

 

 

While it looks great by it's own, the YF-19 really needs to be paired up with the 21 to be a complete set. It'd be like releasing the tv Max VF-1 only. It just looks lonely and out of place without Miliya's VF.

And yeah, count me in as one of those that missed out on the VF-1J DX. Looking at the prices now, it far exceeds the prices going for the YF-19 in many cases.

26 minutes ago, derex3592 said:

Seriously.....Bandai needs to finish the Destroids, the waiting is becoming old...

AmiAmi shipment notification late last night, and then a DHL email this morning saying it's coming tomorrow by the end the day!!! AND texted me the link to tell them if I wanted them to leave it with my approval with no signature!  SCREW EMS from now on!!! I'm all on board the DHL train!

 

If you don't mind paying for it, sure why not. I believe DHL is double the price of EMS? But with the speed  and service to match.

And yes I want the rest of the Destroids too. Been nearly 2 years since they announced the Tomahawk? Sure feels like it.

I've yet to check and it is the one thing that worries me about them after reading about it here. Been too busy of late.

5 hours ago, easnoddy said:

Anyone else waiting on NY to ship theirs?  Mine has been in "Preparation in progess" since 12/26.

Mine is in the same status. I'm beginning to not expect that to change till the end of the month...

They may turn up in some independent and 2nd hand stores but expect to pay a pretty penny for them since it's still rather new and a web exclusive product. Hell I remember coming across the Max Super 2 days before the release date in a store in Akihabara and it was selling at a hefty markup, though that was largely due to someone trying to cash in on breaking the street date. 

Damn good job, if you told me it's a photo copy of an actual street in Japan I'd believe it. Lawson really sells it.

On 9/1/2017 at 2:33 PM, Shawn said:

Seems the stamps went on sale this morning...any lucky winners here?

They didn't go on sale, they're just taking pre-orders. Or at least that is what it looks like. I don't see a release date anywhere though.

As mentioned before I fear that this unit is so niche that it'd be another web exclusive, which means extra $ on our ends.

Funnily enough it's more well know even though it has less on screen across the series time than the Cat's Eye.

On 8/5/2017 at 2:26 AM, Zx31 said:

I don't believe they carry webshop exclusives

You'd be paying at a premium for it, an extra 2,000 yen. It's most likely thru their own proxy service.

Still no date on the Tomahawk I take it? It was announced before the Defender and that has a date of release.

On 5/6/2017 at 6:53 AM, Sandman said:

At least Delta is last on the list....oh wait plus isn't on the list at or even Macross 2. Buuullllllshit.

Strange that Frontier could be first as a series and last as a movie.

Plus was never that popular in Japan unfortunately.

I'm actually surprised that Psycho gun and Order a rabbit is so high there in the list.

5 minutes ago, beatsing said:

I see, so they should have included fists as alternate hands for punching Zentraedi.  

That is my issue with it as well, after all it actually did just that in the tv series.

3 hours ago, Lorindor said:

I have a dreadful feeling that this new series will be something like Macross Delta S2. Normally, I would be geeked out by this kind of news, but there's no enthusiasm from me at all. 

Can't blame you, I'm pretty much in the same boat about this.

Delta had some good songs but pretty mediocre everything else. The only thing I can hope for is they do much better this time around and redeem themselves but the bar has been set pretty low now.

3 hours ago, Slave IV said:

Speaking of exclusives, did anyone who ordered the Roy 1S exclusive from the recent HLJ sale get the stand included? I know it was originally in a separate box but could they have smartened up and included it in the main box like they did for Max?

My friend who was with me on that trip picked up his Roy S1 + stand together at a 2nd hand store and they were in separate box. Then again, maybe the shop had them separately and decided to throw them together to help make move along. How many times did they release the Roy S1 in Hi-Metal R?

27 minutes ago, MikeRoz said:

Missile set is still available at N-Y:

https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures/19163-hi-metal-r-super-valkyrie-missile-effect-set-limited-edition.html

Yeah, I'm looking into that one at the moment. F360 mentioned as much before. Thanks.

2 minutes ago, Slave IV said:

Max was not an exclusive, just Milia and her Valk hasn't been released yet.

Yeah, I meant Milia and the missile set being the web exclusives. Doesn't that mean they're less likely to turn up in regular stores?

I knew Max was a normal release which happen to fall on the time I was visiting the country, which was why I didn't bother to pre-order it since I could personally pick it up on the day. 

Mlilia and the missile set I didn't even know was coming out until I was there. I couldn't find listings for it from the usual online stores I use for a while until I found out about Bandai's own premium series and by which time they closed the pre-orders.

Well, that's just the way it goes I guess.

That's a real pity. I was actually in Tokyo at the time of Max's release so I could just drop into a store and pick it up on the day of release. Looks like them being a web exclusive, even if I was still there I wouldn't even be able to easily pick it up in stores.

2nd hand stores at a massive mark up is something else altogether, which also makes them may or may not worth it.

Btw, since I don't see Miriya Strike Hi-Metal R on pre-order anywhere, does that mean that it's part of the Premium series? If it is, or if it's just a limited run, I find it strange since they released Max's normally. You would think it's a given people would want both units. That and the standalone missile set.

Now just waiting for the Tomahawk as well. As soon as I saw the Spartan, I knew it was a given that would be coming. Though I would have thought they would have released the Toma first. Personally I loved the Spartan more so I'm happy, though I'm not too sure about the color. The green is too... bright?

BEST SCREENPLAY:

3. Toshizo Nemoto (Macross Delta)

What manner of BS is this?

I have a friend who's not really a fan of Macross and watched Delta because he thought the music was good and the story was passable. When he got to the end of the last episode, and I was actually chatting with him online at the time, he just went "WTF?!!"

Pretty much says it all really.

Well I sadly predicted that the sponsors would probably ruin the show all the way back when we were just 3 eps in. Now to be fair sponsors are going to do what they're going to do but the sheer amount of them, something of which satelight proudly promoted at one time (5? or so model and toy companies alone) is pretty much their undoing. That much pressure from them is probably overwhelming.

Now if Satelight is banking on the Macross name and previous Frontier's success to cruise them to a comfortable winning position, I do think they're in for a rude awakening.

That said, got any news about the reception from Japan itself? Perhaps this is something that will be touched on in the next Speakercast. I hope so atleast. Got nothing about it so far.

Such a change from the Frontier experience.

I'm glad those who actually enjoyed Delta but from my own experience and opinion, well, I could remember being anxious and really excited waiting for the last episode of Frontier back when it was finishing airing. With Delta I was just glad and wishing that it finished already so that I can stop being disappointed anymore.

They had a chance to bring me back with the last episode, but, well......

HAHAHA!! Indeed!!

I'm sure the mayor sponsors after seeing how successful the convoluted mess of the two Frontier movies were they just decide to do something more crappy, confusing and mindless to see how many merchandise they can sell out of it. Frontier was not good, it was succesful because people wanted new Macross and took whatever was thrown at them, and besides, Frontier recycled a lot of plot points from SDFM as "nostalgia" nods to the original, in the end, Frontier didn't make much sense at all´either.

But the sad truth, Macross hasn't made much sense since Zero.

I didn't think too much of the first Frontier movie since it is practically re-doing the first half of the series and to be fair, much of the second movie didn't do much for me either, however everything from when "Houkago Overflow" started playing onwards was just pure pleasure.

One can argue that the recycling is what made it work since it is taken from something that is familiar and worked. Meanwhile Delta is trying something newish and um.. err.. is doing something I guess, I don't know what though...