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New series, new opportunities to woo outside Japan, i.e. North America using Disney+ Hoping the action sequences don't flash by so quickly like in Delta. There's no opportunity to enjoy the panorama and mechanicals. After the Oscar's "crush Miyazaki" statement... well, look at the artistry as much as his productions' depth of storytelling. Sunrise could do anything Ghibli does, leverage some Gundam talent, but they'd have to value that perspective. For Marketing, kids have so much ultra-fantasy out there now, sticking to neo-reality tech like Macross still has its appeal, plus grandpa is more likely to introduce the series and buy "Junior" a Macross toy since he can relate to it too...bridging fan generations can have huge market penetration impact because you start with a large base. Neo-reality, Newtonian Physics friendly shows like The Expanse can still attract younger viewers. The "magic" should be applied sparingly like fold crystals and protoculture. Zettai Live-like elements should be used. It was the best fix to major characters and plot progress on several fronts. It brought back Max and Megaroad 1. It revealed AI and future tech possibilities...AI singers, and the clone/daughter baby set a new stage. How about time travel or inter-dimensional travel to encounter the Ancients? In Zettai-Live!!! the Fighter vs. Battleship victory took us back climactically to M7 Lt. Kinryu's suicidal run in his armored VF11. Make sure "against the odds" sub-victories happen. Embrace some space physics...sure, let us still hear the explosions, but in dogfights how about exploring some true-physics spin-around and shoot the guy who's chasing you (remember Atari's Asteroids?) while you're still going in the same direction? Maybe that evens out some of the freakish high-G advantage ghost, squire(m2) and SV303 Vivasvats have? If this new series can continue that, letting us have time to admire the scenery, action and mechanicals, and getting more Gundam/Ghibli-esque in the narrative, my grandkids will surely get to visit Disney's "Macross-World" in Orlando someday.

WHAAAAT ?!?! Watched both vids. Looked at my supposed gerwalk-only version. From what I see, it has the same slide-in grooves for the thighs allowing the legs to extend past the wing for fighter mode. And the top tip of the thigh does have a grated texture that appears purposeful when the tip slides visibly forward in front of the wing. So, were the videos basically saying the two models are physically the same, and it was simply a packaging/box art differentiation?

That is an EXCELLENT response @no3Ljm and is VERY helpful. You nailed it spot-on. Thank you!

Okay, so I found a <$200 1/48 gerwalk-only Bronco-II. Took the wallet hit. Did ANYBODY ever post the differences/mods that would allow a Gerwalk-only 1/48 to become a Gerwalk+fighter? (That kit was $1000 to wit I said "Good day sir!" Or can anyone point me to online scans of the kit instructions?

Well, the situation is just like Minnie's affair with Mickey's best friend. ...****ing Goofy.

Certainly worth the wait...hope you get your MOJO back! A lot of us are obviously rooting for you! Settling into a new job takes awhile for sure. Quick question et al...what's the fundamental difference between the ARII 1/48 Gerwalk and the 1/48 Gerwalk + Flyer in terms of the kit's mechanics allowing transformation? Secondary market (Ebay) is brutal for those kits $160 vs. $1000+ respectively...

From RHL002, really great Tomahawk conversion. Somewhat like the Cheyenne with the wheeled feet of the Macross-II Tomahawk. Bought hard copy on Mandarake. $15 cheaper shipped than best price on Ebay.

They combine shipping sort-of... backed my way into it for two of my transactions since last year by buying multiple items and then asking for a partial refund "after" payment. Took awhile but they finally came thtough. They aren't very public facing, as someone mentioned earlier. Not the most responsive, either... Didn't respond when I'd win all the auctions or had orbs on the cart, just after I'd paid... so whether they're super busy, or just a couple of "wise guys" (ba-dum-bump, tish!) Feels like they're doling it out slowly because there's never more than a handful listed at any one time, among their trains, planes, paints and other stuff for sale. Patience and persistent inquiry with these guys is key to getting value and fair dealing. No complaints on my end in delivered quality for several rare kits.

Several intriguing kitbash and scratch mod examples in RHL002 Robot Hobby Life 002, several enhanced Valkyries, an insane new spin on the destroid Monster, and a variant on the Macross-2 Tomahawk. All on a flip-through YouTube review, but no comprehensive scans. Anyone got?

https://macross.fandom.com/wiki/DX_Chogokin ...is an example of a catalog/guide for DX Chogokin, but had any other site attempted a more inclusive tally of the various, non-KO 1/55 through 1/72 Valkyrie, Destroid and Misc.Vehicle brands? The most elusive aspect of toy data "appears" to be final production figures (counts) for the purpose of knowing rarity. Any insights to why, and how to investigate?

Any forecast?

Nice detail and articulation

Thank you!

Toy maker? Saw a destroid advertised on Mandarake... had never seen the brand before. Came to realize they've been around since the 1960s and get credited for popularizing the gashapon industry? No idea what scale or articulation level these are either but they look better than a KO since presumably they got licensed. Looks like they did 5 types, VF-1s,j,armored, tomahawk and z-battlepod...

So progressing from that generation to Frontier, you go from a huge engine room to a ghost or large missile sized accessory (albeit for a much smaller ship...the VF25). Is anything documented for that unit? I don't believe VFDN or Macross Variable Designer Notes did...

Movies and TV forum back ~ 2006 has a long dialog about the PPB on the VF-19 , and it reviews history about the tech's creation as a malfunction of a fold drive, and varying opinions about the gradual reduction in size as the series / years go by. But, what I can't get any visual on is the tech itself... the fold generator, manifolds, power systems etc that were used for the VF-19 shield or any other mecha up to the SDF-1. Any concepts or line art exist? Or any loose comparatives with fold device setups? Or am I stuck with just that lovely pink missile on the VF25 ? Shout-out to anyone who might have better concept art?

The third example VF-25.... did the book give any hints in Jaoanese from the concept sketch progression?

Oh...example #1 considering translations, it's rather from the translation "fold projector" is more like the M-II Minmay Attack hologram and those are holographic lens clusters? Speaker pods weren't really a thing until Macross-7, right? So fold projection makes more sense.

Presuming then from example#1 that those are each clusters of pods and the extending arms on the shoulder units are transmitters/signal boosters?

That's interesting. Were there any Valkyrie-based projection units in Frontier or Delta? M-II had the monstrously huge Minmay Attack stations which I've posted about before. But I can't say I recognize any other projection tech on a Valkyrie.

And 3rd example a hauntingly sexy VF-25 Armor variant...can't tell what the triple vanes are, the housing they spoke from, or the forward facing instruments or weapons in front ofvthe vane hub, and behind the cockpit. Genius design, but struggling to understand what these "semi-canonical" accessories represent...help appreciated.

2nd example... For the PC Games SDP1...are these attitude thrusters and an antenna?

Pursuing ambitious scratchbuild endeavor for SK's brilliant prototype & concept designs, but not sure what some of the accessory items are... In this first set of images on the VF-1SOL are these mini-missiles? Or something else? And the expanding/retracting vanes on the shoulder units?

Now that several more years have gone by... has anyone else announced a 1/72 render, or even STL files?

How they keep managing to ignore the VF-11B and C with thearmor pack that allowed Lt. Kinryu to take down a battleship singlehandedly... I'll never understand. t