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I don't have a problem with the 1/48 box size but can see why some do. For those that do, I will happily take their 1/48s (with boxes) from them.

The single most popular complaint is the head seam. Yamato sculpted the 1/48 -1S head in left and right halfs instead of front/rear like they did with the 1/60. Consequently there's a seam going right down the middle of the "face." Not that bad but it's there and I can't really think of a good reason why they did it that way. Then there were crooked skull emblems on one or both of the vertical stabilizers. The canopy woudln't stay open. And IIRC there might have been an issue with an ugly gap appearing on the seam of the nose when the landing gear were open (to some extent this applies to the whole 1/48 line I think, but I've never noticed it on my Low-Viz). I like Roy's scheme/character better than the Hikaru IS, but Roys old toy isn't as good as the new Hikaru will be. Roy's old one doesn't have the Max/Low-Viz fixes (IOW, a reissue and not the old one) and further has numerous examples of bad QC.

Sensors/radar, instrumentation, maybe a simple video feed. It's not like a Regult (or Mig-29, etc) can sneak up behind u or materialize out of nowhere.

All of the mecha of MII were pretty cool.

And with a gigantic advertisement right next to it, at that. Great custom.

My beef with the 1/48 heat shield (love that it's internal) is that you can't use it in fighter mode, which was seen in the anime (Hikaru coming down from orbit) and you CAN with a 1/60. And can't mention removing/adding parts without mentioning the 1/48 intake covers.

I'm also interested in mpeg, but will take the avi's too. Can U FTP them somewhere? Best would be to burn DVD-Rs with em (i'd even pay for my DVDs of course) but I understand if that's not doable... An official DVD release with commentary and maybe extras would be incredible. I still have the toys but boxed em up and put em away. I loved Exo-Squad. Wish they would've had another season or two. I actually smelled too many Hitler/Nazi comparisons with the Neo-Sapiens and particularly Phaeton's madness. That excuses the clones, etc for me... he went bonkers. I thought the destruction of Mars was underplayed. Single best seen IMO is where the Resolute 2 de-cloaked and attacked the Neo-Sape flagship and there has got to be a couple hundred lasers going back and forth as it flies by and rakes it. It's what a full firing Star Destroyer SHOULD look like in the various SW simulator games. Robotech? Those alien "ships" in the last episode were nothing at all from Robotech. They had tentacles and were flourescent. Indeed much more like some space creature than any sort of ship.

I imagine it would be techno-babbled as some sort of retrovirus thing that basically takes the "ingrediants" inside a human and rearranges the soup into the egg, so the mind would never come into it.

Then what about the ultimate bundle? Hikaru VF-1J with Fast Packs AND GBP? Now THAT would be a big box. And way higher priority (for me anyways) than the Monster, for example. I'm thinking this is more of an HLJ thing though I can see the Yamato test thing too. Just doesn't seem much like them, though.

In a word, "yes." But be prepared to pay if you're gonna import it. 1/48 for the masterpiece (heh) of your collection. 1/60 for variety and quantity IMO. Unless u have lots of money, in which case feel free to buy nothing but 1/48.

Heh, I noticed this too. Of course, this also applies to the RMS-1 missiles... and it also applied to my 3 1/60 VF-1s with some missile clusters/pods being really tight in one hardpoint but loose in another. So mix and match until they work. And thankfully it works for the single mini-missiles too, at least for me. These things are great. The right booster is a pain to get in and out of the backpack but the left one is niiiiiiice after putting it on and taking it off once or twice. The color scheme works great with the Low-Viz, too. Still, think I'm gonna have to start seriously hunting a Max -1A if I can't wait for the Hikaru 1S. My only complaint would be Yamato's basic design of the 1/48's arm lockign mechanism. It's not that great for the ordinary valkyrie IMO, and it's just worse in Super Valkyrie trim. Mine is ok and I don't have the arm sagging problem of some, but at least make the arm pegs a little longer (and the correspending holes deeper) if they can't put an additional locking mechanism for a future release...

And the Metal Siren.

Heh. Too bad Basara was a better pilot (by Gamlin's own admission) and that the VF-19 Kai is a better Valkyrie. Maybe Dokker in a Blazer Valk (or Max in a VF-22!) could do it, though.

Heh, would figure as soon as I opened my mouth... er keyboard... that when I went to the door saw the FP sitting there for who knows how long! Two thumbs up definately. After playing with the FP, think the boosters go on a little too tight... but that's for another thread.

I'm on day 14 today (Southern California) and haven't gotten my 1/48 FP yet. Not that big of a deal, but I can't wait to get them! The saved money is worth the wait for me as I have my VF-19A to tide me over until then. EDIT: Well next time i'll check the mail before typing such things. Was there literally right after posting this for I dont' know how long.

Oh yeah, one thing I think Toynami did BETTER than Yamato (even on the 1/48) is the hands.

I'm still hoping for them, but have all but given up hope that we'll ever see them. The time to release them would have been relatively quick IMO. There is still possibly a very slim chance but I think they're extremely unlikely to happen. More likely (and still not very) IMO, is that we'll see another run of Hikaru, Max, and CF 1As that are FAST Pack capable but that come with the UMM and AMM clusters and Yamato sells the Fast Pack sets seperately like they do with the 1/48 (boosters, 2 missile pods, 1 strike-cannon, arm and leg armor, and the RMS-1 missiles). Such a FAST pack set should be pretty cheap (20-30 bucks?) as we don't need any extra parts. Of course, if there would be such a "re-issue" I'd expect the necessary parts would be there as it'd be simple to have a few extra of the necessary parts made. The other non FP 1/60s? -1D just needs a set like I mentioned above as it's already FP capable. I think the Roy is out of luck as Yamato already makes (made?) the Strike.

1) Not a MSRP but if u can find a deal I don't these are as bad in person as they're made out on here (though I still don't have any ) 2) Not likely 3) The 1/48 DOES require at least 2 parts to be added/removed in Battroid transformations (to and from) and thats the intake covers, though I don't think it looks bad when I don't bring em along. My low-viz only rarely mounts the UMM-7 pods where they covers reside. And it's transformation mode is NOT anime accurate but it's definately an awesome piece. Too expensive to have in quantity unless you have more money than you know what to do with IMO. 1/60 are quite posable, smaller, less expensive, and (currently) still have a good majority of different models to choose from over 1/48. I definately recommend the various FAST-pack equipped Valkyries and some of the older ones if you can get a good deal on 'em.

I've been wanting a YF/VF-19 for awhile now and regretting not getting a VF-19A (supposedly the best and most evolved of the old M+ Yammies) on ebay when they were affordable (these days they go for about 2-3 times the price they were around a year ago). So found one in a toy/anime shop the other day and was able to finally get one at a decent price. I know this is an old toy, but thought I'd add some of my thoughts on it and how Yamato has improved in QC compared to this 1999 piece. The design... at first I was wondering why Yamato would bother resculpting the YF-19 for FP when they just did a few updates on the YF-21 for FP. Now I know. The sculpt is nice in Battroid IMO but not a whole lot better than Bandais in fighter IMO. And Gerwalk is far worse on this than on the Bandais (and thus my bootleg Fire and Blazer Valks), but that might be due to the improved knee as I read in Graham's review. I hope Yamato has done better as I am fully intending to get the YF-19FP when it comes out (and was hoping to have it by now!). The QC on this thing is so-so and worse than any of my 1/60 VF-1s. It's missing a screw on the bicep/tricep arm piece and probably has a half dozen noticible paint chips. Worse is a "blob" of repaint (?) on one of the legs where it looks like there might have been a large paint chip and someone at the factory did a sloppy touch up with a large paint brush. At least they got the color right. It doesn't hold a candle to the FP YF-21 IMO, though it might perform better against the older YF-21. I do find myself wishing that Yamato had done and/or will do more VF-X 2 releases... especially VF-17 and VF-22 (which would be sooo easy and would justify the purple... or another scheme). As long as they don't do a red (Milia) or blue (Max) scheme, I don't see how this would interfere with Bandai's M7 license (or lack of use of such <_< )...

TV: uh... the VF-1? DYRL: Improved animation FB2012: The highlight reel MII: Metal Siren M+: YF-21 M7: Combination/evolution of previous material and addition of new M0: Roy

Nice. Why do I find myself vainly wishing for more Macross II? Guess I can only hope that Yamato do a VF-2SS... or maybe Bandai COULD make a 1/55 scale VF-2SS based off the models or, even better, a new detailed sculpt (like THAT will happen) or something.

Wow, THAT is a collection. 8 1/48, 8 FAST Packs. Won't even bother counting the 1/60s. B) EDIT: Oh yeah, close your Low-Viz knee armor.

let me try this poll thing again. We can leave the discussion in the other one, methinks. If there IS a way to edit polls, I'll fix the other one! Someone PM me if that's the case.

Ouch, I forgot about Macross II, also. I want a Metal Siren and VF-2SS! That variable Marduk one would be cool too (was called the "Gilgamesh Type-III Annihilator" in the RPG but don't know if thats accurate or not).

Damn it. Poll > me. If a mod could delete the poll part, I'd appreciate it, sicne I don't see that I can edit? Discussion would still be nice, though.