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I was down that Rabbit once in general collecting, but felt way better the moment I pulled myself out from it, flogged of my collection and liberated a lot of my mind from being owned of collecting so much.

Why does this have to be a exclusive limited to 3 people... Tamashi Bandai is bringing to Europe all it's Frontier and Delta as well the YF-19 DXs, but is leaving out the most important one... this one...

Yeah, the chunky legs in plane mode has aerodynamicists laughing on the floor. But this is the thing, for the builder having to do such mods, means the purpose of parts forming failed.

Hmmm... now did they strip a Yamato valk and 3D scanned one to make their own molds, or did they obtain a copy of the original mold? Seams seem pretty good for KOs. I still can't venture down this road, mainly that when I watch reviews of KOs, there's always complaints about the plastic's smell.

Nopelandia. The scene is a massive tone killer. Things got so wonderfully laid out with engrossing tension from where Ranka+Alto get separated from Sheryl + Ozma, to Grace's last stand, and then suddenly goes stupid with a giant robot surfing while the captain gets off it.

So I looked into this kit as the scale and posebility got my attention... But what I don't get is that with all the parts forming, plane mode has that ugly exposed block where the stand connects.

I have paino hands and it was a frustrating for me going from gerwalk to plane. Aligning the arms then getting all the tabs to click in followed by gently squeezing various points to seam out any gabs was a bit much. Good to read.

Thanks. The max one tempts me of the YF-29, but I won't put built it with that pair of extra pods on the wings and tone the paint scheme to be more subtle.

Hmmm... Max's light blue version is extremely tempting, as is the standard grey VF-22...

Frontier had good aspects to it albeit some cringy moments, but please, no more bugs as the cannon antagonist, scale down the over the top finales, and no more SDF's types surfing into battle (like in the second movie version).

Any word on which other Vfs will follow these 2 releases in this line?

It's always been like with all collectables. The addiction to click buy and then waiting for the doorbell to ring surpasses all accuracy needs.

We will never know, but thankfully the colour was reviewed after the initial reveal. But, my thought is whether Tenjin will continue to advise them on future VF-0 versions and others.

I wonder what license bureaucracy there might be with BW and Bandai to proceed with all these suggestions? I'm still hoping for a VF-0A revisit... but perhaps a lot of that depends on exposure and the if eventual international Blu-Ray ever gets released.

Question for everyone. How often do you transform your HMR and the joints and tabs still good after multiple transformations?

Yeah, I just finished transforming my 0D to plane mode for the first time, and I'm not impress. Junk was the word that at times when trying to fit the little fists. I've never seen the 0S in person, but where I saw the bad transparent plastic was on a photo of the Max version on display at a Tamashi store.

So finally got some more time to play with it, and at last transform it from gerwalk to plane mode... what a horrible process, especially in trying to fit the little teeny fists in the backpack. I also have to report the bad, mine does indeed have a colour difference... I thought it initially was the bright light in my bedroom. So my question is this, does Bandai do replacement parts outside of Japan?

How did you find the plastic and transformation? I'm still tempted myself for this one, but I tend to avoid white plastic.

Thanks. Was unaware of that considering the amount of related collectables are made and sold there.

I really appreciate this. Really informative, and glad to know it now. Still, this information is only accessible or hunted by the serious Macross 'Collectors'. I have plenty of friends, that even remember some of the lines of plus and 7, yet, know close to zero about the collectors market behind Macross. They sometimes buy maybe a Eva statue, or Gundam or a figure of Jujutsa, a shelf filler, because they're main interest is solely the anime. But sometimes, it feels there's this impression that loving Macross means loving the collectables religiously. Its not like that, just for any other franchise. There are thousands of Star Wars for example, that only collect the comics, the lightsabers and don't care about the toys. I have a friend that's only cased about the helmets. So we cannot always expect a positive reaction from someone that came about Zero for the first time in their life yesterday, then suddenly wants a momentum of it and goes to Amazon, and says, "Oh wow, Hi Metal, this must piece with have quite an amount of metal. And it's made by Bandai, I believe they're good. Cool, add to cart."

You're right, haven't tried it yet, but here's the first time. That is so heart warming, yet sad at the same time. I wish companies would make more this obscure schemes than the usual heroes and credit the original artists... but I know, not possible.

That's really cool. Wish I could read Japanese for the chuckle of these pages. And really like that 1A in focker colours.

Well... that really depends on the state and models of all the mentioned cars. And... the scale... 😆

Well, if the new Macross will be more grounded to the style of the recent Gundam: The Origin, Thunderbolt, Hathaway or Cucuruz Doan's Island, I'm all in. I'm just staying positive it will avoid all the cringiness of 7 and Delta.

I don't recall any episode with Max's valk gearing up skies and a flame thrower? 🤣 But isn't that picture from a 80s model kit magazine?