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I'm so excited for this.  I love getting a new design to add to my collection.

Just got home from my showing.  I think there were about a dozen people in the theater.  Everything started on time.  I really enjoyed being able to see Macross on the big screen.  I hope they bring more movies stateside.

I hope this in a theater near me.  I'd really like to see it on the big screen.

I bought the YF-21 and the VF-11B and I just want to say that the items were in immaculate condition.  And the packaging...Where do I start?  I had to watch all 3 Oceans movies and the Italian Job to get tips on how to break in to something to find a way through the bubble wrap. 

All kidding aside, the amount of bubble wrap and the packing peanuts in the box were very welcome to ensure that the items I purchased showed up in the best shape possible.

Thank you @Chokinzoku81 for a great purchase and helping me fill out my collection.  Would definitely purchase from again.  Also, thanks for putting both items into the same box.

On 7/28/2021 at 9:43 AM, no3Ljm said:

I wonder if Ant-Man is going to show up on some of the San Francisco settings. If not, I'm going to be happy to see some Luis and X-Con gang cameo.  

 

I was thinking the same thing about an hour ago when I saw an ad for this on YouTube and noticed part of it took place in San Francisco.

5 minutes ago, pafy6285 said:

hlj: https://www.hlj.com/dx-chogokin-first-limit-edition-vf-31ax-kairos-plus-hayate-immelman-bans62108

Thanks for the link. I managed to get an order through.  This is the first time I've preordered something like this.  Hopefully, all is good.

I'm looking forward to the story, but the animation, like others have said, definitely looks outdated.

I loved the first season.  I've rewatched it so many times. I can't wait for the second season.

The actual footage does the blue-within-blue of the eyes better than those posters from earlier in the week.  Glad to see that's looking better.

The baron doesn't look big enough to me.  I always imagined him so big he had to use the suspensors to move around, as in his legs were no longer physically able to hold him he was so big.  The movies never seem to get that detail right to me.

Hmmm....Where have we seen this look before?

4 minutes ago, tekering said:

And thank the God Emperor for it!  The most annoying and distracting element of previous film versions have been those cheesy rotoscoped eyes.

I agree they don't need to be glow in the dark blue of the first movie, but if you glance at those images, you're not seeing "blue within blue".  I really had to look to see a blue tint and I'm not even sure if it's there.  From the books, I always imagined that it was quite obvious when someone had spice eyes, and those just don't look obvious to me. 

The Fremen in those new images don't really look like they have the blue within blue eyes.  At best there's a slight blue tint to the white of their eyes, but overall they eyes still look white.

5 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

I rarely look at the parts call-outs b/c I never developed the habit

I have the same problem.  I'll start a build of a new set paying attention to the part callouts for the steps, and halfway through the build, I'm back on my old habit of just looking at what's different between the picture and my build and adding the pieces that are missing.

Wow! That was really great.

Thanks for making it and sharing.

The Republic Gunship is one of my favorite Star Wars vehicles.  I can't wait for this set.  I just need to figure out where I'm going to setup the completed vehicle.

16 minutes ago, Big s said:

I think ink the problem with getting the numbers together on the large scale version has a lot to do with these being a U.S. release of a toy from a series that was seen here as a less popular third season to a show that already wasn’t the most popular show, by a company almost no one has ever heard of that almost no one has ever seen an actual product from. It’s kind of a huge gamble. There may even end up odd complications wit the upsizing of the toy, like weaker joints that may be worrying others from making the choice to buy.

For me, I like things to be the same scale from the same series/show/etc.  Since the Riobot Legioss releases are 1/48, that's what I want for my Inbit pieces.  The bigger ones don't fit with the rest of my collection so I don't have a need for them.

For those that do want the bigger ones, I do feel bad for them that it doesn't look like it's going to happen.

6 hours ago, Lexomatic said:

Earth: We've adopted our Fifth Gen mainline fighter, and we're calling it the VF-24. Here are the redacted plans, folks.

Emigrant fleet 1: We can do something interesting with this.

Earth: First off the block! Yours shall be the VF-25.

Emigrant fleet 3: Our engineers are chomping at the bit. They've proposed all sorts of fascinatingly unethical mods.

Earth: And yours shall be the VF-27. --Wait, what?

It does seem to be the way it works.  It would imply there's a VF-26 out there with some other fleet.  Also, considering that what we've only seen up to VF-31 I'm wondering if only a couple of fleets are actively working on developing their own Valkyries.  Either that, or they aren't registering them to get official "VF" designations.

20 minutes ago, Chowser said:

Calibre Wings is having a sale on their website.  Anyone grab any of their Valk reps?

 

I wish they were 1/60 scale to go with the other Macross stuff I have on display.

1. VF-4 Lightening III (have a toy)

YF-19 (have multiple toys)

VF-1 Super Valkyrie (have almost too many to count in toys...OK you can never have too many)

VF-2SS Valkyrie II SAP

VF-25 Messiah (I have 2 versions of this one in toy form, with 2 more coming next week.)

VA-3 Invader

VF-11 Thunderbolt (I have 2 version of this one)

YF-30 Chronos

VF-31 Siegfried

VF-19F Excalibur

1/72 = 3

1/60 = 9

1/48 = 1

Jason