Warrior_Medic

Nice collection there! BUT, you have to get yourself the pinnacle of Macross VF-1 toy, the ever so magnificent Yamato 1/48s

I have 4 of those. I have 2 original issued VF-1As, a Low-Viz, and the 1/48 VF-1S Roy Focker.

I haven't seriously collected anything the past 4 years, but here's my humble small collection:

I don't think it would have went over that badly.  Optimus Prime got killed in the Transformers movie and that did nothing to hurt the franchise (granted he came back later).

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Actually, I disagree. When Prime was killed off, kids got turned off to TF real fast. I should know, I was one of them along with all my friends who were big TF fans back in the day. Man, that was 20 years ago...

You might want to renew your DMV registration before porking over money on a toy.

Just a friendly reminder.

Dude...don't freaking do it man!

No longer the "F/A-22" Raptor, it's "F-22A" Raptor.

Dear Raptor Team,

We did it! Initial Operational Capability (IOC) of the F-22A Raptor was declared this afternoon by General Ronald E. Keys, Air Combat Commander at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia.

In doing so, the General said the Raptor is now available for use in combat around the globe and for use in homeland defense missions. The current 27th Fighter Squadron combat deployment capability with the F-22A is a 12-ship deployable package designed to execute air-to-air and air-to-ground missions.

In the words of General Keys, “The F-22A fulfills a long quest to bring fifth generation capabilities of stealth, supercruise and precision to the warfighter today and 30 years from today. If we go to war tomorrow, the Raptor will go with us. The Raptor’s cutting edge technology brings us continued joint air dominance despite advancing enemy threats.â€

While declaring IOC, General Keys also publicly announced that the name of the Raptor has been changed from F/A-22 to F-22A, as indicated earlier this week when Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Michael Moseley, said the Air Force decided to remove the letter "A" from the first part of the fighter's designation to better align the Raptor with previous Air Force fighters. The “A†in the back of F-22 is also in line with the way the Air Force denotes updated or spiral versions that are produced after the initial baseline model weapons system.

From our perspective, we’ll keep on making the best fighter ever designed, tested, manufactured and delivered to a grateful nation.

Congratulations again and well done on making history!

Larry Lawson,

Executive Vice President & F-22 General Manager

I'd just like to point out that the F-22 has an INSANE amount of power.  An F-22 fully loaded, in mil thrust, will out-accelerate an empty F-15 in afterburner.  (IIRC).  Or something along those lines.  It's not even close.  The engines have some 2/3 more power than the F-15C's, and the plane isn't much heavier but much sleeker.  That makes it very fast. 

Of course, the YF-23 has even more power and is even sleeker...

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Man, I remember that competition around 1990 (read about it way back in 88') and how I wanted the YF-23 Black Widow to win so bad. The YF-23 looked kick-ass and still does.

Too bad the NAVY never got interested in it toreplace the Tomcat.

Any more MP's coming out? I thought Megatron would be next.

while we are on the topic of knowing how much a yamato 1/48 max vf1a how much will a hikaru 1/48 vf-1a mib as im considering selling it

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I havent bought a 148th in years!