Luclin999

$132 shipped. BS, I say. Don't you just hate it when someone doesn't provide a link to substantiate their claim . My wife's family lives overseas (Taiwan) and pointed me towards the place I ordered it from. However, I have yet to receive a confirmation email from them so I may -not- have the item If they come through and it arrives in good shape I'll go ahead and hand out the details but until then I am not going to point people towards a place which may or may not be reputable. Leo

Ok, I just pulled the trigger and ordered a Yamato 1/48 VF-1S Hikaru. Total of $132 shipped. Most expensive toy I have ever bought before this was $70 for a Robosapien and the Valk can't even dance! Thanks for all the advice. I'll be sure to post/comment when it arrives. Leo

Thank you for the information. At the moment I am looking at either a TV version Max or Millia Super or a VF-1A Hikaru (I would love a Movie Max but cannot find any atm). I was a bit concerned after reading about all the people who had experienced breakage but I don't intend to handle/transform the piece all that much (I play with my Bandai VF-1s and Jetfires when I feel the urge to transform things.) Just as a reference, I own three of the Toynami VF-1s and I am gentle enough with those that I have not had any breakage/problems with them at all. I actually like my "Roy" and "Max" Toynami's but I found out why a lot of people bash the line after buying my "Rick" last week. A -very- shoddy piece of work when compared to the other two I own. (Fortunately I haven't paid more than $40 for any of the Toynami's which is about what I feel they are worth). I think that due to the size difference I'll probably put the 1/48th on the shelf with my SDF-1 rather than on the shelf with the 1/55ths.

Up until now I have been focusing on picking up only items in 1/55th scale in order to keep my original Jetfire company. For this reason I have focused on Toynami and Bandai pieces because the only Yamato ones I had ever seen were in 1/60th and looked puny next to the rest of the collection. However I have been reading about the Yamato 1/48th scale pieces and am becoming tempted to buy one. What I am looking for is advice one what to expect from one of these. How durable/solid are they compared to Bandai or Toynami 1/55 versions? What parts of them are prone to wear/breakage that I should be careful with? Are there any editions/varients to avoid all together? Anything else I should know about these pieces? Sorry to ask so many questions but a decsion to spend $150-$200 on a single mecha (as opposed to getting 4-5 for that much) tends to make me extremely cautious. Thank you Leo

I have to admit I am looking forward to the Shadow fighter more than any other from this set (Excluding the Beta, if they make it). Now that I own my first Alpha and have it out of the box I really don't have a problem with the nose/ground clearance issue people have spoken about. Straight out of the package and with the landing gear out, it has about 2mm ground clearance and the nose looks level to my eyes at least. (I admit though that the curved paint on the nose made me look twice at it to verify that it is in fact, level). Very happy with it so far (unlike the MPC Vol. 1 "Rick Hunter" I got last week).

Hi new to this forum (Just found it the other day). Spent the last few hours looking around and catching up on what has been posted, and I'm glad that I did! If I hadn't I wouldn't have thought to go looking for an MPC Lancer at Gamestop. Found the last Lancer at the Galleria (Houston) store just a couple of minutes ago for $19.99. So now Lancer #2,760/15,000 has a new home!