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The 1/48 Fan Racer is smaller than the old 1/60 kit from Yamato? That's a bit of bummer! Looking at it too, I think there doesn't appear to be enough space under the pilot's seat to fit in the front landing gear. Perhaps that is why it was never done for both 1/60 and now 1/48 versions..
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Mine from Luna Park has shipped on 20th. The e-mail notification came one day after actual shipping though. I had earlier enquired with them: they mentioned first batch of >100 units have been shipped, and they hope to ship the balance out by end of this week.
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Instabuy to go with the new VF-1D! haha..
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
MKT replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Thanks for the heads up @derex3592. I got it as BIB item, the doors look properly shut, but I guess I'm never opening them now. Motor's already dead, which I hear is par for most of the used examples out there. At moment I'm struggling to keep it standing with the landing gears down; it keeps wanting to tip over backwards, even with the weight of batteries in its compartment to counterbalance the front.. Can't wait to set it up with the rest of 80's vehicle heroes. @borgified Yeahh these old 1/48 Yammies non-canon scheme still have great life to them. They make great complementary pieces to the new Bandais.. -
Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
MKT replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Some stuff arrived recently: Always wanted a great Airwolf model, & aftermarket prices of this Aoshima 1/48 is mostly kinda crazy. But managed to find one for a price I thought was quite reasonable. The 1/60 Zentraedi uniform is a KO from Taobao. The quality of stitching & cloth material is pretty good, and colors appear similar to pics of the original. There are some key differences when comparing to @jenius review of original. The zipper head is different, there is no hole in cap to thread Max's head laser through in battroid, and the logo on the cap has way off proportions. But NBD, I plan to display in gerwalk mode, so the cap will be unused. Whilst waiting for the VF-1 of the month to arrive (Chogokin VF-1D), this Yamato 1/48 VF-1S 25th Anniversary still makes for a formidable display. Snagged this off YAJ for only Yen 5500, advertised as junk. From what I can tell, it only has a bent, half-snapped head laser, which is easily fixable. Of all the different VF-1 toys of any scale, I think the Yamato 1/48s have the best landing gear detail.. -
Yup, prices of these have dropped over the years into HMR territory. On other hand, the old school large boxes makes shipping a bomb, especially in these times lol. Quite excited when fan racer was announced with the VF-1D, but now it seems a bit of missed opportunity by it not having any landing gears..
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The new valk's named VF-19? Ok I found the image in my head for the new valk's battroid. Not so much EVA units, but the Mechas in Steven Spielberg's AI: But maybe Kawamori is just borrowing some aesthetic from his other anime Last Hope:
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If monies weren't tight, and having to budget for the upcoming slew of new Delta valks, I would pick up a bunch of Yamato 1/48 Angel Birds to go with the new Fan Racer. The Yamato 1/48s aren't really going for much at the moment..
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Oh boy.. our wallets!! haha.. That new valk looks shocking at first, but the more I stare at it, the more I like it, in the same vein when the SV-262 was first revealed years ago.. This new valk has classic, popular culture alien vibes all over it, not unlike when we first laid eyes on F-117s that look like some alien spacecraft. Battroid mode's slim torso and long legs just recalls some alien beings in a movie that I can't recall now.. As for that new crimson & gold SV-262Hs, it's all cool.. but, where's the long awaited Ba pope head??
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Don’t think I’ve actually seen a Macross stop-motion before. This is great!
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The whole, larger wing outward of the vertical stabilizers give it quite a different vibe than the normal 31A. It makes it look more similar to the VF-27 now, which in turn look like bat wings..
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He seems to dwarf Hikaru.. not just the height, but everything else. As if a different scale altogether.. Waiting for mine to arrive..
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Great outdoor pics! I imagine how tricky it is to balance the mini-figs, since there must be lots of wind at such an open area.. Edit: Only noticed afterwards the mini-figs have a clear stand piece on their foot..
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Now we know why Bandai decided to refresh Alto’s YF-29 toy.. it was in the plan all along to have a new re-color
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Very nice! It’s amazing how, with just light panel lining & shading, so much more great details can be seen..
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Honk haha! I wished Bandai would have moved on to the VF-2JA & Metal Siren. It's funny, some of the other HMR lines have shelf warmed quite hard, and they were all different molds for each release in its line.
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The Unlicensed Third Party Transformers Thread
MKT replied to slaginpit's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Agree on Mista's price; it's the biggest drawback. They were pretty ambitious with the price, and it seems to be at that price point at which Hasbro would put if it was an official product. Thankfully, it is a very nice toy, & there doesn't seem to be any serious issues or quality failures in the product itself, which is why I picked it up right after the initial first reviews came out. Ravage comes in separate packaging because, if I remember correctly, there were 2 versions during PO stage, and the difference is one comes with Ravage and the other without. Probably this is a way for NewAge to capture data on which price point is more acceptable to buyers for future releases. Once I got past the base price of Mista, the other consideration was whether to pick up the one with Ravage or not. Ravage actually came at a high premium, if I remember, something like the equivalent of $20 or so. -
1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
MKT replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
This might be old news to some, but... I only just came across this: MacrossJunkie’s albums | Flickr So much pron in one place. Just.. wow!! @Macross Junkie -
Bandai did give us the non-hero VF-27 variants from Frontier, twice over in both v1 and v1.5.. I haven't started collecting yet when they were released, but how did they do then? Were they shelf warmers? If non-hero valk is really a reason the 262 did not do well comparatively, then the chances sure gets higher with the upcoming new Delta movie. Since, it's already strongly hinted the Windemerean folks will be joining the Delta Flight in battle.
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Yeahh I really want more 262 and Ba.. I'd be more excited for this than the new 31 variants in the upcoming new Delta movie.
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This set really looks fantastic.. Hopefully, they will follow up with a DYRL Minmay. The old CM Minmays are quite ridiculously priced now..
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
MKT replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Lol.. there are just so many choices. Like @Slave IV, MCU Iron Mans (and other MCU figures) were never on my radar, and I was quite satisfied with just Sentinel's interpretation of their Iron Man figures. ZD Toy's pricing was just too good to pass up, especially at this level of paint, sculpt & detail. Articulation isn't strong, but for Hall of Armor style display, articulation isn't really much needed anyway. Size is actually slightly larger than 1/12, the size of the Sentinel Re:Edits. -
Yeahh.. as noticed from previous VF-1J Armored set PO, many shops like HLJ, AE now price them equivalent to base price + Japanese domestic tax. The domestic tax should actually be waived for export. In effect, these shops are already scalping during PO..
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Still up at HLJ.. after 20 minutes. Not much of a mad rush this time..
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Agree.. but they always seem to re-open every few minutes.. And its up again: AmiAmi [Character & Hobby Shop] | DX Chogokin Movie VF-31J Siegfried (Hayate Immelmann Custom) [Field Projection Unit Equipped](Pre-order)