GutsAndCasca

Thanx! Unfortunately... no store shall ever exist in Utah that would actually carry something that cool.

I now fully appreciate the awesomeness of the 1/48 line. They are truly incredible.

Yamato released the VF0 line in 1/60 scale. Now they're going to release Mac Plus in 1/60 scale. I decided I might as well get some good old fashioned 1/60 scale VF1(A,J,S)'s to go with what will eventually amount to a big collection. A few weeks ago I ordered a Max 1A from Hong Kong, and he arrived in the mail today.

First off, I was shocked that the legs are made out of metal. (Why?) It freaked me out. And the transformation process really sucks. Max is now standing in battroid mode and I have no intention of switching to any other mode anytime soon because it's a pain. I'm debating about whether or not to ink-panel line this guy before I sticker him. Anyway, here's where I'm going to get flayed by everybody... I put his fighter mode next to my 1/100 toynami fighter mode toy and, well. I think the toynami looks better. Yeah, if you stare really hard and look at all the details lacking on the toynami ('cuz of scale) then the yamato is superior in that sense, but I am sorta' disappointed. I haven't tried gerwalk mode yet because as soon as I was done looking at fighter mode the intrigue of the 'removeable legs' gripped me too tightly and I had to figure it out. Which was a pain - BUT it will be easier next time I'll admit. You can't put the gunpod on the fighter plane either. (the gunpod is weird and chubby, IMHO)

One more thing I have to add to my rant before I change course - why didn't it come with a pilot? I've seen other picturse of 1/60's with pilots and mine didn't come with one. ??? If they don't come with'em... then where can I get one? Or two? Or three or four? No pilot? C'mon!

Okay don't get the wrong idea. I still wet my proverbial panties at just about anything macross so I DO deep down love this thing. And battroid mode looks absolutely awesome. So yes yes yes, I do like this toy. I just sort of expected more out of something from Yamato. I ruined myself by purchasing so many 1/48's before jumping on the 1/60 bandwagon. Also, putting this guy up next to my VF0S makes me appreciate why Yamato decided to not make the Macross Zero line in 1/48 scale. The 0S is freaking gigantic! Holy crap.

My closing words will be... whining about where to get good stick-on stickers for my soon-to-be growing 1/60 collection. I've tried to contact takatoys but to no avail. Devin makes great water slides but I don't feel like future-finishing my 1/60 line just for stickers and a panel-line job. And once again, if there ARE pilots made for these guys, can someone fill me in?

Peaze out y'all!

---Brian

Okay VF1D has been taken care of.

What a cool half price book shop. That's what I can't get over --- what's up with all the macross pictures in the bathroom?

I personally love the new dub. To be perfectly honest, I do miss all the voice actors from Robotech, especially Misa/Lisa. EXCEPT - I am glad to have Mari Ijima as Minmay. It's nice having a Minmay who doesn't come off as a monumentally retarded bimbo-ditz.

Well... I emailed toynami about getting new stand pieces. They must be inundated, 'cuz they're sure as heck not writing me back. Oooh, by the way, now that I'm used to these things, I think they VF1S head does look cool. And of course, I don't even need to mention the 1As. They look as cool as they possible coulda' made'em.

Geez. So no price quote?

Well I guess I've probably got a considerable amount of brain damage by now. *dabs drool from chin* I hope it's not 2 knotizoble...

Well. No matter what, I think somebody on the net got pretty bored insinuating that Otaku-ism (even if just in name) began with macross. I think macross' biggest contribution to modern culture is keeping old guys like me young at heart indefinitely! And that takes a certain amount of magic, in my opinion. My heart's been captured since the age of 5! Yes, I can remember a whole range of shows and toys from childhood... but only one franchise still fascinates me even to this day.

How much are these things going to cost, approximately? Any guesses?

Ain't it great how everybody on Mworld bands together to help those in need??? This site rocks!

I can verify Guts' "Gut Feeling" Toy's'N'Joy does not have any of the 1/48 VF-1J super valks in stock. Only bet is MW For Sale, Ebay, or Yamato reissue.

A-men.

My stankin' YF19 is costing me almost 200 bucks after shipping. I pre-ordered a VF0A from HLJ but they haven't even sent me an email letting me know when they're getting a shipment.

Okay I checked it out. Pretty awful. And it kind of pissed me off. Anybody who associates anime like Macross with this is just terribly off. Miyazaki or whatever his name was could just as easily been into Looney Toons; it's not fair for anime to catch a bad wrap because of this. Also, I finally read up on the word "otaku" and it seems to be a derogatory term anywhere except in the USA. (I also read some humorous paragraphs about how otakus in Japan don't know how to communicate with the opposite sex; they are just dorks to the bone) Hopefully.. well crap, this is really old news - not to me though - but hopefully this won't/didn't permanently tarnish the image of anime, especially my beloved Macross.

Okay now I'm really scared.

Yeah I think... wait, I'm not sure if I've posted here a while. I think I was posting on that one too.

This one?

haha. j/k. It's just a photochop I did a while back. GutsandCasca asked for a bigger pic. So here it is!

That picture rocks! That's what I call wallpaper.

What I'm wondering is, what the heck (who the heck) is the "otaku killer", what the heck did he/she do, and how come anime is sort of shunned now because of it all?

Toynami must always be shunned and consigned to the dark reaches.

(jk) (kind of)

also, has anybody made decent stickers yet for the toynami 1/100's? While I'm at it... I need stickers for my vf0s. Time to contact taka. Anyway, if someone can find me a VF1D that isn't 70 dollars, that'd be awesome. As for the banpresto strike parts... well, I won't hold my breath. Also. Anybody have a banpresto Max VF1J (solid blue)?

Thanx all!

---Brian

For the love of God stay away from Toys'N'Joys. I'll bet you 50 bucks they already sold that thing a year ago but are too lazy to take it down from their site. Seriously.

Never have I been afraid of glue until reading this thread. But what the heck, I'll buy some!

I want them to replace MY sockets now. What do I just email them?

Crap. And I was thinking of not buying this one. If that's an actual picture of the in-game vf1s, holy crap

Well before I assert the SHE is cooler, I'll wait until I see a fully painted yamato YF19 1/60. Well okay. The Yamato IS cooler, but the SHE just looks cooler. For now anyways. (Those unpainted tan things just don't do justice, I wanna' see what it's actually going to look like.)