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Oh, I feel like I am relapsing into some old habits. I must have spent several thousand dollars on anime LDs, back when laserdiscs were king. Macross, Gundam X, Five Star Stories, Master of Mosquiton, Nadesico, Campus Guardress, Silent Mobius, and the X^2 music video were just a few of LD titles I collected back then. Who would have guessed that DVDs would come along.. which I probably sunk tens of thousands of dollars into. Then Blu-Ray... But, I had mostly stopped buying anime media a few years ago, and have not really watched anime in the past couple of years. I recently even threw out a bunch of anime LDs that I had already duplicated on DVD or Blu-Ray, with a few exceptions... like my Macross Memorial Box. So I thought I had finally shaken off my long time anime-spending habits... *sigh* Darn you valkyries, darn you! Why must you be so cute and dynamic and nostalgic. OMG.... I'm having a mid-life crisis, aren't I? OMG!
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Hello again. My name is Shizuka, and I am a Macross-holic. It has been 10 minutes since my last purchase. I swore to myself yesterday that I was done, that I had bought enough valkyries to last me until I finish grad school and start making money again. But then I saw a used Arcadia 1/60 VF-1S Strike Valkyrie (Hikaru Ichijou) just show up on AmiAmi, that was not listed there 2 hours earlier. I price checked eBay, Jungle, HLJ, Mandarake, and a few other shops, and AmiAmi's price was quite a bit cheaper. So..... well.... you can guess what happened next. *sigh* I am both elated by my purchase, and think I need an intervention. *sigh* I blame @jenius entirely for causing this addiction in me by creating such wonderful review and transformation videos on YouTube and anymoon.com Love, Shizuka
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4 new arrivals came in the mail just now. Welcome home my children! I ordered these through robotech.com, since they sell the set of 3 VF-1J Super Valkyries for $150, rather than getting them for $55 each thru stores like bigbadtoystore.com, so I saved about $15 from retail. Plus. they had the Comic-Con exclusive version of the VF-1D that uses matching color Super parts, rather than the generic grey ones that come with the regular edition of the VF-1D.
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Thank you for the welcome. I would like to consider myself an optimistic and genki person. I have cats, after all! So... if Arcadia/Yamato v2 are generally considered to be the best 1/60 scale Macross VF-1, then what is considered the best when it comes to 1/60 scale Macross Frontier VF-25 and VF-171? Bandai Renewal? Yamato? Thanks! Note to self: Oh no... please don't fall into the Macross Frontier rabbit hole.
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Given that Hikaru looks like he is wearing something baggy/rounded around his neck, it is probably the scarf he got in episode 34. Other outfits he wore in the TV show generally had sharp collars, so this stood out to me.
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My 2 babies arrived today... the Arcadia Max + Miria VF-1 Super Valkyries. I was a bit inspired by the amazing Macross collection photos I saw here. So.... this is my first attempt at it too. But i am realizing... I don't have enough room for the other 4 1/60 scale Arcadia and Yamato v2 Valkyries coming in, yet alone the 8 Toynami ones. EEP!
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Yeah, my experience at buying Valkyries is about..... 2 - 3 days old now. I am learning though. I almost bought a bunch of Yamato v1 1/60 VF-1's. had it not been for @jenius Thank you for saving me from that disaster!
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Noticed that someone on eBay is selling an Arcadia VF-1J Super Valkryie (Miria) for $215.88 + free shipping. With the 15% coupon eBay is running today, that brings the price down to $183.50. Why did I buy mine without coupon yesterday? Why?! *sigh* My timing sucks.
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Somehow I feel like the valkyrie is too big.... Voltron should be way bigger than a VF-1, even with the Strike package. *hee hee* Oh yeah, I vaguely remembering owning one other small mech toy as a kid. I have no idea what show it was from. I wonder if anyone here can identify it? Sorry for the bad picture. I used MS Paint and a mouse to sketch this.... and I am no artist. I have not seen this toy in forever, so my childhood memory may be very flawed. I recall it had a round shield on the arm, with a gun attached I think. It also had an insecty-looking face, but a face cover could fold over, hiding the face. It also had wings attached on each side of its hips. I also think it could transform, but god help me if I ever figured out what it was supposed to transform into. I think it was also sort of a grayish-blue color for the most part... maybe? Thanks!