SuperDimensionalDave

Finally found Iczer 1 to go with my Iczer 2!  Now they can do battle in my Detolf!

I assume this is dead dead deadski? 

Bump added and deleted sold items. I'll have some more up by weekend. 

1 hour ago, amptor said:

I just got my SAL package today so now I have 10 VE-1 Elintseekers.

With 10 Elintseekers I suppose no Zentraedi can hide in your toy collection. 

I personally have the original Yamato release YF-19. In fact that is the only YF or VF 19 toy I have ever purchased aside from the old school OG chunky Yamato release (1/72 I think they were?). Admittedly it has its faults (although at the time of it's release both I and all of Macrossworld were gushing about it's awesomeness lol) I have never seen enough of a reason to "upgrade". Like most collectible toys it was top of the heap for a time but has been one upped by superior efforts. It's still more than good enough for me though. That said the upcoming Bandai release has my interest. If it doesn't sell out 10 minutes before going up for pre-order I just might bite.  The only Macross toys I ever upgraded and dumped were the original Yamato Macross VF-1 toys. I only had a few and they were the best of what was available at the time (Toynami "Masterpieces" anyone?) but as soon as their venerable 1/48 appeared I immediately grew severely underwhelmed at their prior efforts and dumped them on Ebay. Now I don't care what else gets released in the future, a Bandai SOC DX VF-1S, Arcadia 1/60 V3 VF series, I'll buy the new ones but I'm never dumping my 1/48's. Love those big SOBs! 

4 hours ago, Lolicon said:

The Miria 1J I bought during the recent sales arrived this week. Do... do I really need more than one of these?

"Ray, when someone asks you if you're a God you say YES!"  I feel like that applies to this question as well. 

We need more enemy mecha. Bring on the Queadluun and Nousjadeul already!!

34 minutes ago, HardlyNever said:

Eh, as good as that looks (and it does look good), that isn't what I'd want my PF to look like.  I'm not a huge fan of the cell-shaded look.  I think the SDF-1 pulls it off, mainly because it is sort of a dull gray, but I'd still rather have what Arcadia is doing versus a "cell-shaded" sdf-1.

I agree on the overly cell shaded finish, although fantastic looking it's not my style. I was more referencing the level of detail/effort put into the finish. The paint shades and gradations. For the price tag on Arcadias PF I personally feel like you should be getting more.  That said their use of glow in dark paint apps is brilliant and something I'm working on adding to my regular release. 

Wow that looks so good you could convince me it wasn't real and was a photoshopped image. Amazing work!  If Arcadia sees this they may cancel their release of the "Premium Format" Macross out of shame. Oh wait the price tag on that is how much and it's pre-sold out?  Oh yes they still would. But this is what the "premium" should look like for the price tag they've slapped on it imho. 

18 hours ago, jenius said:

Does anyone happen to have a clean, fairly high resolution photo of a Yamato 1/3000 SDF-1 assembly kit box they could send me? I'm hoping to find one that is pretty straight on. I can fix color or whatever, just need a clear image that's not blurry. If you got one, please either just post it here or shoot me a PM. Thanks!

Courtesy of Mandrake. Hope it's clear enough.  This is still listed as available in their site if anyone is interested  

11 hours ago, akt_m said:

Instead of making 10 mini statues they could have done a single figma instead.

Didn't they show a few Macross Figmas a few years back at a Wonfes iirc?  MF is notorious for showing prototypes for figures they're 5 years away from releasing (and also never releasing). The God Hand from Berserk didn't all get released until a little over 3 years after I was drooling over the prototypes online. You never know, Macross Figmas may still be coming. 

I man not a fan. Blue and black are two of my favorite colors but blue black and gold?  That is not a good color combo for a Valk. I see no celebration here. 

On 2/11/2018 at 3:17 AM, locidm said:

Max and Milia time. 

That Millia figure used to be the VOTOMS 1/12 Fyanna figure right?  That looks great!

3 hours ago, Master Dex said:

And since I'm there, I'm going to say as well, a story or plot being complex and convoluted doesn't make it smart or clever and certainly doesn't mean more thought was put into it. If anything it means less thought was put into it or it'd actually make some sense.

I agree that just because Zero is complex or convoluted doesn't mean is it's smart and clever. And I did not find Zero to be particularly very much of either one of those things. But I do think it was a convoluted mess due to trying to accomplish and say too many things all at once.  Like 7 different people all talking about 7 different relatively interesting things in a small room talking all at once At same volume.  You can't really follow any one conversation. But if you break each one down later and look at it it makes at least a little sense and might be worth thinking about. But at the time everyone was speaking you were like WTF?  I think it was well done overall despite that. At least it gives you a lot to think about afterwards. 

47 minutes ago, Stampeed Valkyrie said:

Officers CF-1J from KC..    and my First Arcadia Valk  Milia Super 1J..    now I just need to wait for NY or someone to put Max on Sale 

Nice!  Yeah I'm in the same boat now. I was fine sticking with the 1/48 Max / Millia set but when NY put the Millia on sale I jumped also. Now I need a Max. Can't rock a Millia on her own. I think 1/48 Max Millia then 1/60 Max Millia in front of them and  then the Hi Metal R Max Millia in front of that wil make for a really cool display. Think I m going to work on that. 

Ok guys. I appreciate all the attention. I guess I'm just not used to it on here. It's rare that anyone even notices one of my posts or comments on one. I apparently struck a few peeps nerves here. I hated Dullta. That's it. I liked Zero. Appraently I "got it" more than you guys did. My advice to you, put down the pitchforks and drop the accusatory fingers. I'll talk about something else now. Back to the toy side of the forum. Macross is about love. I love you all ❤ lol. 

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

I mean, hell, I didn't care for Basara but that Heart and Soul duet with Emilia?  Perfection.

Without a doubt, I gotta give you that one.  I agree with every word here... Perfection

2 hours ago, kajnrig said:

I... wasn't, but alright.

Who said I was angry? I'm trying to make sense of your criticism about the show, and am noticing that despite your repeated attempts to frame some of your criticisms as less pressing than others...

...you continuously come back to specifically gender role and sexuality as reasons why the more recent Macross shows are not just not to your taste, but bad.

You bring up Frontier, and even though you say that you like it overall, the only things you dislike about it that you deign to mention are that its main character is pretty and one of its supporting characters is gay. In the case of Delta, you say that the biggest reason why you dislike Delta is because of its shoddy writing and dull characters (no argument there), but the other reason (and the one you spend more digital real estate on) is because it has a large cast of handsome/pretty males.

Then you bring up Zero and position it as a direct contrast to "this new crap," even though it largely shares the same storytelling and character faults as Delta. The only way in which it is a direct contrast to those two is that it doesn't have a bishounen aesthetic and an openly gay character.

And even when it comes to speculation, your opinion about a future show's quality hinges not on any significant story details or character profiles, but on whether the characters are in a boy band.

So to say that what worries you more in a Macross show is the quality of its story and characters isn't accurate. What IS accurate is that what worries you more, or at least what worries you enough to express it, is whether the characters in a story conform to your, yes, narrow ideas of gender roles. I just wanted to clarify that.

I don't know man. Looks like you're spending way too much time and effort analyzing Just exactly what I didn't like most. The narrow gender views or the writing, directing or plot.  While doing an awful lot of judgemental finger pointing. It seems to me like you subscribe to the dominant liberal view that if you aren't on the gender bending train that is ok with sex changes, cross dressing and the like then you are a racist, fascist hate monger. I love that attitude. Sorry but there is a middle ground. Yes I prefer men that look and act like men and women that act like women. No I don't want the next Macross to be dominated by men that look like women and act like women. Yes I liked Zero and I disagree that it was duller and more poorly written than Delta. My opinion buddy. Yes it was convoluted but at least they put thought into it. Dullta could have been written by High school kids. In fact I believe it was. I think they scanned the internet for fanfics and pulled the outline for the "plot" off of that. My opinions my man. Feel free to disagree but you can stop accusing me of having narrow views on sexuality and masculinity. That's simply your opinion. My views are simply oldschool and traditional and outdated by these liberal new generation standards. Too bad. Deal with it. If I have to deal with Mr./Mrs. Bruce Jenner getting a sex change and being voted Woman of the Year then you have to deal with me saying that I want my male characters to look and act like just that. Men!  And I just read your summary of Zero. I get it, you didn't like it. That's fine my man, I don't care. Why do you care so much about exactly why I didn't like Dullta?  I made it very clear. If you disagree then so be it. Remove thy beak from my heart already. Go troll someone else and stop whining. 

6 minutes ago, kajnrig said:

But Zero was terrible. All the writing and story issues you have with Delta, Zero also revels in. So this...

...rings especially untrue. What bothers you most isn't how dull, boring, or lazily-written/directed Delta was, it's that the characters didn't conform to your narrow view of gender and sexual roles.

In which case, own your opinion. No need to hide it behind other criticism. Just lay it out there. Other people have, and the forums haven't come crashing down because of it.

Whoa whoa Capt. Butthurt I have laid it out there. I said that very clearly. It's just not solely that despite your attempts to try and convince me otherwise. And if I'm not onboard with the trendy and hip view of liberal liquid genders thing that doesn't mean I have a narrow view of gender or sexual roles. It's just means that I prefer men that look and act like men. And women that look and act like women.  I know that is an outdated concept nowadays but I give Zero F's. Not apologizing for or hiding that buddy.   Bobby from Frontier doesn't fit my "narrow view" but I enjoyed his character because he was written well and interesting. That is sadly missing from Dullta. And I didn't say Zero was great. Just good. And it was and is good. To me. Not great, not perfect. Lots of "issues" with it. My opinion. Yours is clearly differing. No need to start a war over it or break the internet. Why are you so angry?

25 minutes ago, anime52k8 said:

100% a 1/20th scale pilot to go with their 1/20th scale VF-1.

That makes sense. There's a severe lack of classic SDF figures. I'll buy whatever it is. Bring it on already. 

31 minutes ago, Sandman said:

Yeah I agree with some of what you are saying and concerns. Delta was the first series since the original that I watched in real time (each episode as they came out).  I would get excited to watch every week. Then after episode 13 it was followed by disappointment. Every week I continued to be excited with hope that this would be a good episode. Unfortunately that didn't happen. Hopefully they have learned from their mistakes and will improve for this new series.

Brother I'm right there with you hopin' my man!  I rewatched all 5 Mac Zero last night after not watching for several years. Man I forgot just how good it was. I needed a good classic Macross fix to rinse away this new crap. 

That hair looks too sharp and detailed to be a Figma figure. More likely a kit. But man I hope I'm wrong!!!  Gonna buy it regardless!

2 hours ago, Sandman said:

I don't get how Basara seems like a woman to you. I actually think of him as being very masculine. He has very not talk much or share his feelings attitude that men in early Hollywood movies had.

I don't think he is womanly per se. I said that the trend started with his character. I'm fine with Basara. Won't say I liked him but I didn't hate him either. Call me apathetic towards him. But since then we got Frontier which moved slightly closer to the trend of the beautiful boy characters with Alto who is effeminate and Bobby who is gay. Mind you I actually liked Bobby. He was funny and kind of a badass behind the wheel of the Quarter. Might be one of my favorite Bridge Bunnies. Now skip to Dullta and the entire cast (okay not all but MOST) is Bishonen. Bobby the gay Bridge bunny from frontier could drag any one of them outside behind the woodshed and give him a good old fashioned a** whooping. They'd probably get off on it too. And that pathetic excuse for a love triangle?  It was like watching painful High School hair pulling and love note passing. Now I hear the discussions of the new series coming and people speculating that the idols are a "boy band" and the fact is that I am putting a bit of stock in this theory. Looking at this progression towards the Macross beautiful boys I'm thinking this might not be far off. And it worries me. Greatly. What worries men more though is just how dull and boring Dullta was. Just lazy lazy writing and directing. The animation was great and mecha designs were fabulous and the music was good. I guess to me as an anime it was abysmal. But as a commercial to sell toys and music CDs and downloads it was a success. And that makes money. So I'm concerned that this is what we'll continue to get.   All Macross' exist to make money and sell toys and whatever else hey can slap the brand name on. But they were entertaining at same time. This was not entertaining at all to me. 

Updated,  meow

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Nah, just assumed you genuinely didn't know the things I pointed out.  (I'm kind of an "answer guy" on these boards.)

You seem to be pretty upset by the series as a whole tho... if you've only watched a few episodes, I hope you didn't go all-in on the limited edition blu-rays.  Those are EXPENSIVE.

Still, if you're interested in other works with official subs I'd suggest looking for those Macross Frontier combo pack movie editions.  

 

Ironically, I'm accused elsewhere of being a grumpy old fart who hates the series because I criticize the show's writing. 

 

Considering the show's popularity in Japan, I wouldn't bet on that if I were you.  The more popular the show, the more likely future works will reference it.  A big part of what's keeping Roy's memory going is references to him in subsequent works, even if he's not actually mentioned by name.  I suspect we'll see quite a few references to Delta in future works, just as Delta and its supporting media are peppered with references to Frontier, 7, and VF-X2.  (Not counting Berger's historical summary.)  The extras on the Blu-rays only further expand on the number of in-jokes, references, and homages to previous Macross shows too.  (Sadly, the blu-rays didn't subtitle the extra features.)

The idols have obviously dominated the show's fandom because they dominate the show itself, but there's a surprisingly big following for the Aerial Knights of all people.  (Possibly helped by a gaiden manga that actually explores their backstories and motivations in some depth and makes the a LOT more sympathetic than the series did, and that they're very popular with the cosplay crowd.) Messer might also fail to fade, considering in Japan he's quite popular due to the Messer x Kaname shippers thanks to his tragic death (though some western fans, myself included, think he's a prick).

You know you are right. I am very angry about this series. I haven't spent a dime on it either. Nor shall I. All online. Yeah you are definitely an answer guy I'll admit your knowledge of this show and Macross as a whole exceeds mine. I'm just very... angry. Despite my low expectations of this show it came in far BELOW them. And they were already sub-basement level!!!  Although I've only watched (now 4) episodes from what if seen and now read about it online I'm done. Throwing in the towel.   Seen enough. I skipped all the way to the last episode and watched that. Granted I didn't know much of what was going on but I can tell that I also don't have any interest in finding out beyond what I read online. I had low expectations of Frontier just due to character art, bios and plot outline but I'll admit it exceeded them greatly.  Not a favorite but It had an interesting story tied in well to larger mythos and I loved Ozma (go figure, the Marlboro man stereotype lol). Hell I even liked Bobby (He was gay and STILL a bigger badass than anything I've seen in the little I watched of Dullta). Still no use for Alto though. This Dullta though. No sir El Paso Texas man. Sorry if I came off a bit rude. Going back and reading through your replies I can see where you were coming from.  Couplenthat with the fact that I know where I'm coming from. It's a place of bitter anger and disappointment lol. I'm 45 and it's just that Macross holds a dear place in my heart. From my high school days of rushing home to watch Robotech to discovering that Robotech was actually three even more amazing shows that had been bastardized. That led me to discovering anime as a whole (Gall force, Urotsukidoji lol, Votoms, Layzner, the Lovely Angels...) and it was all downhill from there. I'm now 25 years in to my massive anime/Sci-Fi and horror collection that legitimately could fill my entire house (if my Wife wouldn't divorce me) and I owe it all to Macross really if I really trace it all back. Well Macross for Anime and John Carpenters and Sam Raimi's classics for horror. Dullta really hurt me like on a personal level I guess lol.  Oh I forgot to mention my love of Klan Klein or Klein Klan (never get it right), she alone could make me rewatch Frontier over and over.  She was a great idea.  See I'm cheering up already thinking positively about all the good stuff Macross has to offer.  Think I'll bust out my DYRL Bluray tonight.  That will help unchap my a**.