Alberich

lol macross valks got you, now there is no escape.

The last reissue was the YF-29 alto, which you can get here

http://mykombini.com/en/general-figure/4777-dx-chogokin-macross-frontier-yf-29-durandal-valkyrie-alto-saotome-type-macross-frontier-the-movie-the-wings-of-goodbye-4543112686985.html?search_query=macross&results=28

between the deltas and Hi metals i dont see any reissue soon.

Yup I got the pre-order in HLJ, still is another store that I will search from now on, gracias

You can use this to help answer your question:

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=29393

Thanks for the info, I am already reading it

How do you find the spot sale items?

Weirldy their search is all messed up so the filter doesn't work. However, if you see "in stock" instead of "store front item" it means you can buy it instantly like any other web store.

Well Duymon is right, but when I was searching for my YF-25, I saw that the Sahra branch list only Spot sale items, so you can use that branch when you are searching.

Also i have a question, how ban is the triangle problem for the transformation of the 171? I mean I am already searching in Shapeways and even if I buy one and the triangles explode it seems somewhat easy to fix with new triangles, so is there any other problem even if the triangles explode and you replace them?

I think that I am already lost., because I am thinking about the rest of the year and what I can purchase XD.... so new question, last time when the renewals came how many months were between releases?, because you know Delta Valks are coming... OMG I am planning a shopping schedule D:

Thats true, that happened to me, my wallet can prove it!

Jajajaja, supongo que puede pasar XD, at least I will hope to stay in a budget range for any of my purchases... still in that budget I already got the YF-29 (Alto custom) pre-order for may, and the VF-25A, RVF-25, VF-171EX, YF-29B and from time to time some others XD.... my poor wallet D:

hehe! my wallet vaporized years ago!

my original plan when I restated my collection was to stick to SDFM TV & DYRL Valks and not touch anything else but that plan fell apart pretty quickly!

I will take the warning seriously XD, because with Delta and all the preorder frenzy from those Valks and more Frontier Valks my wallet is going to suffer XD

Finally I got my first Valk and it is a YF-25, is really an amazing toy. Now I am looking to buy a VF-25A after I pay for my YF-29 that is in preorder. Do you think that we will see some re-issue before the Delta Valks come to the market?

Mailman arrived with a EMS package, lets see what we have here:

Yay! my first Valkyrie!!! a YF-25 and is still unopened, just some scratches in the back of the box but if it make the price to go down I'm totally ok with that XD... also a Volks F-15 TSF from Muv-Luv (9 in the collection and counting).

I really like this toy, it is amazing to play with, I got to swoosh with it in fighter mode and to play posing it in Battroid mode

Surely is the first one, because I'll get more.... I was lucky to start my Valkyrie collecting in the last weeks as I also stumbled with the pre-order of the YF-29 (Alto custom) re-issue in HLJ.

reposting as a reminder

#don'tleaveteammirage

The "genki" girl never made it for me, so I will stay with my initial choice a.k.a. Mirage

So...

Just got around to seeing Episode 5 today and it just confirmed a lot of what I had been thinking and what other's had helped point out. It also means that thankfully they are keeping a consistency for the galactic map. The only problem is that of course is that Delta doesn't chart any route from Eden only Earth. So we don't see the Galaxy Fleet's route, but we can make suppositions on where it had been based on Frontier's and well considering the ending of Frontier we can at least determine where Battle Galaxy was last at.

But the Megaroad landing on Windermere further gives me the confirmation that perhaps that ship had SV-51's/52's instead of VF-1's.

Well I did make a supposition that it was the Macross 3's fleet that landed on Ragna, but I looked back at my previous post and realized I kept saying Macross 2. Wow, proof I need to double check my posts. But anyways, it looks like I was pretty spot on with it being one of the low numbered Macross Fleets, but my idea of Macross 3 doesn't work out since rechecking everything made me remember that Macross 3 arrived at Eden 3 and unless Ragna was dubbed Eden 3 at some point, I am wrong there. (At least according to the Macross Compendium: http://macross.anime.net/wiki/2040 ) That aside... Paying attention to the winding routes in Frontier you can see the fleets that shoots off through the mid core out towards the Brisingr Globular Cluster, rewatching that scene a few times helped. Which is cool that there is a degree of consistency... Though one reason I haven't made any new posts since I first brought up the idea is because I've been working on my rough maps and trying to figure out the odd new additional fleet lines that don't match between Frontier and Delta... anyways here's my new maps. With a correction to the Macross 7 Fleet's position as well. But I still haven't figured out some things as you can tell.

It's hard trying to chart and map all the fleets with so little info and with my poor quality screen shots. But I think this is pretty darn close to correct.

Edit Note: Upon looking at Alberich's I was reminded I totally forgot Megaroad 13 and was adding the lost 5th fleet in when it shouldn't be. I'll have to go back and re-edit my maps! Alberich good call on Megaroad 13, there. You were right and I was wrong... which means I was initially right about the Macross 7th fleet's location. So I went back and edited the maps...

Glad to see you posting again, I will finish some work in the next hours and give another analysis, we can work this out with even more data.

I did. I only saw Magaroad-04 and Megaroad-05 in the Frontier star map but it quickly pans away to Macross Frontier and Galaxy. It's very difficult to determine the other fleets since you couldn't read the names anymore since they were too far.

Is not that difficult you just need to go frame by frame... I fact the one with the initial idea was Aisha Blanchette but he/she didnt finish with a statement about Windermere or Ragna, but did this

Taking into account that I got to see for myself, but i didn't put names on the map or anything fancy as Aisha (I'm doing at this same moment my Ph. D. thesis paper), still I got this one for you.

Also I got to correct myself here I said Macross 03, when I meant Macross 01 XD

How would you know it was Megaroad-06 that ended up in Windemere when there was no designation of the fleets in the star map?

Pretty much this

Just compare the colonization fleet route maps in Frontier (where it is labeled) and Delta.

Just realize that...

Was that a......

Megaroad class ship that was landing on Windemere?!

Well...

For me is not a problem as I live in a city in the border Mexico-USA, so normally I just put the shipping address of a friend or family member who lives in El Paso, TX. I just cross the border and go for my things and in the return I normally don't any problem thanks to the free trade agreement which give any person the possibility to cross with an X amount of merchandise if is within a certain value limit (don't remember the value). Only some goods can give you problems so you need to pay a fee but normally that is really pricey stuff.

Ahora que la guerra se ha declarado esperemos que esta entrega de Macross se convierta en una de las mejores

I got a similar mail from HLJ:

Thanks for writing.

Bandai will be supplying us with replacement parts sometime next month. At that time, we will be issuing replacements to our customers as well. We'll be contacting all customers who have purchased this item shortly, with more information about the replacement parts. Please keep an eye on your inbox for that message.

We appreciate your business with us, and hope you have a great day!

Best regards,

Aaron Miller
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I really like this customer service by HLJ, I will probably start buying with them more often.

Thank you for posting this.

I just sent an email to HLJ, I'll post their response. Chances are slim but hopefully there is something they can done about it.

You are welcome. And I hope that HLJ can do something about this, I got the pre-order for this Valk for the may re-issue, the SWS change is not a big problem but if HLJ can do something is going to appreciated.

Seems that Bandai is acknowledging the problem (if someone knows japanese and can make a better translation than google, please tell what it says):

http://tamashii.jp/importance/108

Having seen the episode, I got to wondering just how they had gotten their hands on Valkyrie technology. Especially since they are SV's, which haven't been used since Macross 0... so I decided to look at maps and this is what I found. I went back to Frontier and watched the scene showing all of the colonization fleets heading out and then used the map shown in Delta and found that surprisingly the trails matched up for all the ones launched from Earth. (Side note: We see that Galaxy launched from Eden) So I was able to accurately mark where Macross 7 is and Frontier is as of Delta is on the new map, but also find that it looks like Macross 2 wound up on Windemere. I apologize though for the crappy blurred screen grabs I did for the Frontier shots but it shows what it needs to. Sadly I wasn't able to make out what fleet was the one that reached Ragna due to my bad screen grabs, but perhaps someone else'll be able to tell. Anyways...

So based on this, we can assume since it is Macross 2 fleet, it was carrying perhaps some of the older designs? Such as the SV-51 or it'd be more apt to say it was probably carrying some SV-52's that had been retrofitted with the thermonuclear turbofans and produced by U.N. Spacy. I say this though, mostly based on the novelization of Macross Frontier which mentioned the SV-52's having been in production and were used in the filming of the Mayan Island Incident. I theorize that the Macross 2 fleet probably made use of these instead of the standard VF's.

It'd sure explain why they make use of SV designs and perhaps cover a bit of their xenophobia. Especially if we consider that a fleet making use of the SV-52's was possibly anti-U.N. Spacy/anti-NUNS. Or I might be just stretching things and the real factor is they got their hands on the SV's because they know their history. Either way, just something this episode made me ponder on. Especially after seeing the new Draken's in action.

Just my wild guest...

When do you think that we are going to know something about the pre-order for the 262? or even for any other DX from Delta.

How is average life expectancy only 30? What happened to super advanced alien medical technology. Is Windemere like the galactic equivalent of Sub-Saharan Africa?

Well

What a chapter!. An amazing ending and some more plot to this story which is getting more and more interesting.

I'm too late to the party of collecting valks, but I will stick with the 1/60 scale. Also I'm not the biggest completionist so I will be happy with whatever I like and can get to my collection. But if you really think that is better to go to a new scale, then do it but don't sacrifice you actual collection unless is totally necessary.

Got the preorder for Y14450 in HLJ, thanks for the heads up. I was waiting to get the YF-29 Rod Custom, but hey this one is normally more expensive than the Rod one. Also is going to be my second valkyrie. Right now my YF-25 is in its way to home. Also one question, normally they send some invoice to make your payment for the pre-order? (sorry is my first time buying in HLJ).

Out of all the main singing heroines in Macross, I feel Freyja has the best acapella voice.

Even if her last song was pretty good I disagree, as I still think that Sheryl have a better voice acapella than Freyja.

Tupac did it. It's the Westside hand gesture.

Mikumo is...

secretly cloned from a combination of Tupac's DNA and select Meltran genes.

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