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Well if they have the art and boxes done up for him and don't sell many then they'll end up losing money. *Max* doesn't sell that well (his valk is always pretty cheap compared to Hikaru and Roy), it's extremely doubtful Kakizaki (who's a big fat loser in both SDF Macross and DYRL) would sell better than MAX. I'm surprised we saw a Max in 1/48

I'm so-so about Battroid (and the heatshield) but fighter mode looks gorgeous.

I've successfully resisted most of the 1/48s. Bang for the buck is too bad for import pricing. But think I might do the Hikaru VF-1S after all... already have the FAST packs waiting for it. But that said, still some great deals on the Max -1A... just want it to get a little. bit. lower.

Can I get a royalty on the name? If not, then I just second the suggestion of "eyesonme78sfriend.com"

Those ships are troop transports not battlecruisers or even destroyers. Makes it even worse! Why build a big fleet of troop transports without proper armament? But it wasn't the worst movie though. For what need do the troop transports need to be armed? In the movie, they didnt know the bugs had the plasma-fart cannon things... And who says there weren't armed escorts "off camera"? Don't get me wrong, Starship Troopers is hardly a great movie, but there are far far worse things out there. And the book is kinda overrated, anyways. Distinctions need to be made with the low-budget crapola and the big stuff. You can nominate almost all 70s-today low-budget sci-fi. First, if it's got such a low budget, then it's almost certainly crap (possibly a gem in there, but who wants to dig through the crap to find it?). I'm not trekkie enough to decipher why Enterprise could make it to the center of the galaxy but I would question if Voyager was even out yet when ST V was made (and if not, it would be the fault of Voyager). I've read that Paramount sacked the budget and much (including the finale) had to be improvised but still doesn' change the fact that the plot is a stinker. But it's still miles ahead of other things like Battlefield Earth and Waterworld. Anyone mentioning The Phantom Menace or the Matrix can go back to the Tool-shed. Say what you want about the prequels, but they are miles ahead of anything with Costner or most of Connery in it.

Economics dictates that the smaller and more affordable valkyrie will sell more. Many people are scared off by a >100$ toy. But having an improved 1/48 and an improved 1/60 aren't mutually exclusive options... some people will want bigger with fine detail like the cockpit, etc. Others (like me) want the functional detail and better sculpt but smaller and more affordable. The 1/60 sculpt is inferior and very little about the 1/48s sculpt can't be replicated effectively in a smaller scale and there shouldn't be any inherent fragility in it, beyond that which is already in the *1/48* (namely the backpack connection). You're not talking about the air-brake, etc but that is practically the ONLY detail the 1/48 has that the 1/60 doesn't. Little things like the cockpit would be nice for something like the 1/48, but we don't have a whole lot of it now beyond a sticker that doesn't fit without custom trimming. My 1/60 dreams aren't gonna happen because it would kill a good portion of the 1/48 market. But let's not mistake it for what it is, though. I like the 1/48 but they're too big and expensive (at import pricing) for me to ever want more than a couple.

Very nice, but yeah try to make the shoulders a little closer to the cardboard one... well just don't use cardboard and stuff. Are there any big cosmetic changes between the VF-11B and VF-11C or is it just electronics and that sorta stuff? I'm thinking of getting a VF-11B FP and painting it white... but was wondering if I'll need to do anything else cosmetically...

Crazy. My Fast Packs NEVEr fall off. Especially the lower leg panels. And transforming is complicated, but not terribly bad. The leg is designed to bend at the knee after all. My one complaint, and major disagreement from Graham's review, is that there's more than enough room for folding landing gear to be put on the Fast Pack panels. In fact, looks like there's MORE room on the FP than on the normal leg covers! But undoutedly a cost saving measure. Best bet (and more realistic) would be to have just doors on the FP covers and a telescoping real landing gear, but that would be complicated and unwieldy on a 1/72 scale toy. And I like the color, but it would have been more appropriate to a VF-X 2 VF-22S that I hope Yamato will do one day.

Nice. Does it have the little radar dish thingys for a hand or two? What scale is this thing in anyways?

I don't really think so. Think about the main "detail" points of the 1/48. The removable radome, the intakes/covers, telescoping feet, the flaps, the airbrake... even the flip skeleton hands... should all be pretty much as easily doable at 1/60 as 1/48. That detail is what justifies the larger price, though... as well as the larger size and complexity (but is even that larger size necessary for the 1/48's "semi-perfect" transformation?). Yamato could easily do a "2nd generation" of 1/60 or whatever they wanted to call it with nearly all (if not all) of the 1/48 features. Price it in between the current 1/60s and the 1/48s (maybe around 9,000 Yen w/o FP and 11,000 or so in Super/Strike trim) and I'd gobble em up because of their smaller footprint and affordability. But yeah I'd like a Roy in TV type flight suit, but Max and Milia are a pretty sure bet as Yamato isn't gonna just go with a single TV valk (gotta milk the cockpit and head molds, after all). Kakizaki? Don't hold your breath... Bring on these accessory kits!

That has got to be the silliest thing on that list. Very little on that list has a serious chance. The only thing that is likely to be done is the fixing of some SFX (Obi-Wan/Vader lightsabers in ANH, etc) and maybe the inclusion of some deleted scenes (the Biggs scene, Luke seeing the Star Destroyer chasing the Tantive from his macrobinoculars, etc)

Damn I keep telling myself I'm gonna resist this. And I think the Super VF-1J's box is incredible. Reminds me of the Club-M, I think. With the weapons layout, etc. I also like the blue one. Reminiscent of the Low-Viz but in a new scheme. Definately like it. Damn, might not be able to resist... we'll see.

No, according to their bio, the ARC troopers are a special few that supposedly trained with Jango himself on Kamino. The regular ones while well trained, aren't nearly as specialized in either training or equipment. Naturally no more could be trained (at least by Jango) after Geonosis.

Nice, but I don't think I could do that to a Low-Viz... maybe if it was more common...

Seems exactly how it was, wasn't it? The fact that Obi-Wan can't seem to kill him is pretty interesting too. That scene with the ARC & Clone Troopers shooting him up and then blasting him with the rocket (only to have him come back up even worse than before) was great. I loved the initial "jousting" duel with Obi-Wan. The space battle was pretty damned cool, too... This cartoon rocks. Anyone else have any commentary about the episodes up to this point? I was originally saying I was going to go without buying them until the whole thing is done, but I don't think I'm going to be able to.

1/72 VF-22S. Parts are already sculpted man! Just tool up and spit em out so I can have mine. M'k'thanx. Metal Siren, VF-2SS, Feff's Marduk Armor. 1/60 preferred. Regult, Glaug. EDIT: Forgot the Nos-Ger! 1/60 SDF:Macross/DYRL Destroids (other than Monster). 1/60 1/60 M+ Mecha. 1/60 scale articulated Zentran figures would be cool. Maybe include a bunch of tiny fixed posed humans (Hikaru, Roy, Max, Milia, Misa, Minmay, etc) a couple with each Zentran. Preferably the Q-rau (and hypothetical Nos-Ger, Regult, and Glaug) will be able to take these inside it!

Yeah, what he said. 100%. Especially on the 'butt-haneous' part. YF-21 is my favorite valkyrie period and I don't want it in 1/48. Be too big and too expensive. 1/60 is perfect compromise to allow significant detail. And it would let me do mock battles with in-scale Q-raus, and VF-1s (and hopefully destroids other than the Monster, to say nothing of Regults and Glaugs).

Hell yeah! I KNOW my 1/60 Hikaru 1J will have GBP armor on standby if it should so come to pass! Thank YOU, Yamato!

Nice. Damn... I still I'm gonna pass on the Hikaru 1J. My favorite 1/60 but just dont' think I need it in 1/48. The Hikaru 1S is awfully hard to resist...

Hmm... I like the old one, but agree about the canopy design, etc. The new simply looks like an evolved version of the original. Which isn't necessarily bad... But that leads into the whole remake thing. They should have just made this a sequel and not a remake. Keep what little continuity they have... (:shudders at memorys of Galactica 1980 or whatever it was called:) Have the Galactica leave Earth and draw the Cylons away and have it be years, decades or whatever later. That way they can have the new characters, as cheesy and PC as they're gonna be, and not "rewrite" over the original. Ah well. Speaking of Cylons they could have had them evolve away from the mechanical automatons we all knew (though I'd have preferred if they just kept them the way they were).

That's what I'm talking about. I love my 1/48s... and my 1/72s... and my 1/60s... but they're still just toys. <_< Oh yeah and that IS a great avatar. Who is that chic anyways? Oh yeah, welcome to MW, Magnus!

Yeah think I agree with you... DYRL uniforms are too... Japanese/Samurai looking compared to the TV ones. If "movie in a movie" wasn't thought up till years afterwards, wonder what the rationalizing for using that stuff was when production of DYRL took place... the continuity (such as it is) of today had hardly come together yet as most of the stuff hadn't been done yet (M+, M7, M0)... hell Macross II hadn't even come out yet, nor most of the games that expanded the continuity that's not consigned to limbo...

Accessory sets like Graham is mentioning would sell like hotcakes. And if Yamato doesn't do it, why doesn't someone else? How big is the 1/48 model market anyways?

Except was T3 half the cost of T2? Much less the original ("T1?")? And it wasn't that noone could afford Cameron, wasn't it the fact that he didn't want to do it? I get your point, but aside from Nick Stahl, T3 was pretty good. Nowhere near the "Da biggest hit of da summah" like T2 was though.

I've been resisting the Toy-Wave Max, but probably won't for too much longer. Good price. Still tossing up Hikaru VF-1S... But I might well have to grab a 1/60 CF or two...