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LOL, amiami's webiste is straight garbage when it comes to preorder madness.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/B0964F8HDZ?psc=1&smid=AN1VRQENFRJN5&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp

My Yamato 1/48s are all in excellent condition. Broke a laser off one of their heads but that wasn't the fault of the toy...dropped it onto hard floors from over 6 ft up so that's all the damage it sustained so not bad at all.

This part may be true but I don't know the aftermarket prices. You would need to buy the separate parts for missiles and Super Parts for the DX while the Arcadia comes with it all. Anyways, all different items, all worth having, IMO.

Yeah, and I wouldn’t say the detail and quality are better on the DX. I’d say they are different. There is definitely more detail on the DX compared to the non PF Arcadia.

If you don’t have any of those, I’d absolutely go with the Arcadia 1S every time, all day. Such a great and basically flawless figure when you can’t exactly say the same for the other two. The YF-19 set is nice too and would be my 2nd choice. The added bonus with that is you get a huge selection of armaments that you can use with other DX Valks. I don’t have the 25S and won’t buy one unless they make a improved version like the recent 29 full set but I do hope they do since I love the look with the armor parts. I just don’t want to deal with the flop.

Uh....ok, thanks boss!

Lol ok, all I did was post an article with HMR announcements to show to anyone that it’s not dead since there are always people talking about the possibility. You did not quote me and I’m perfectly calm, so relax.

Hmmm Anyways, yeah I like all the HMR releases but would definitely like to see some more Macross releases.

While I appreciate looking at customs, I enjoy owning a packaged figure with the accessories it comes with and don’t like trying to rig it into something it wasn't made for. Sure, it would have been great if the toy came with alternate pods to begin with or the pods came with a previous super parts set but they didn’t. So, it’s not preferable but these are toys that I enjoy so I’m not worrying about buying more of them too much.

HMR is definitely not dead: https://hobby.dengeki.com/news/1261705/ Just no sign of Macross releases lately.

Nice pickups! That's a pretty good deal for some more CFs that are definitely useable for Battroid only. I would have bought them too!

Are the announced KO's for the CF and AB ever going to be released? I ordered them over a year ago I think...

A ~1/100 SDF-1?! I’ll take it and the house that it comes with to store it.

Lol! Nice @tekering

Enjoy them if they are yellow too. Don’t be toycolorist.

Oh, so the mainline is better than the MP?

Just curious which one that is.

Haha, while I get the appeal of that and appreciate it but it ranks low on my care factor. Mainly because I rarely use the landing gears on any Valks. Probably the most boring way to display a Valk imo but yeah, I do have one Arcadia displayed that way atm.

Haha, if only it worked that way.

Yeah, I still think there is a level of quality in Arcadia Valks that you don't see in Bandai figures. Of course, I like them both. As far as Bandai just being "dumb" and not making more...It's not that completely. They are one of the world's largest toy companies and they make millions of toys from who knows how many brands and franchises. They might be huge compared to Arcadia but they still have limited resources AND, as a multinational corporation that focuses on profit first, they have to consider that they have a lot of other more profitable products to make over the extremely niche Macross items. Basically, make enough to guarantee a sellout and no more because that's leaving money on the table (not to make more Macross for the relatively few of us that want them to but to make other, much more profitable items).

People are getting some nice stuff lately!

The main thing is Arcadia is a small shop that focuses on Macross items. So almost everything they do is basically made to order and as long as long as people are still ordering them, they can just make more. Once they are sold out after release, the prices generally go up just like any other Macross products.

Yeah, I was going to quote “capitalism” too.