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i have to agree with you there. its messed up cause everybody wants their cut. i understand but some people are just selfish and figure, "let the US retailers deal with the inflated prices...as long as i get my money i could care less". i wish this whole retarded lawsuit would be over already that way we'd all get the hook up on the nice price...including the sellers and retailers here in the US. i'm sure they wouldn't mind not having to pay a "inconvience tax" to their hooks in HK and in japan as well as getting hit with ridiculous shipping and customs fees. well this thread is coming to an end. i hope members here will hold their tongue when discussing prices for new upcoming products in the future. and if they can't....atleast lowball the figure. 1/48 1S hikaru, $100 shipped. 1/48 1J w/FP's, $125 shipped. 1/60 1J GBP, $60 shipped. 1/60 monster, $130 shipped. 1/60 q-rau, $100 shipped. 1/60 destroids, $40 shipped, if/when they come out. anything more than that, i'll wait or pass. while i enjoy macross, i don't enjoy it enough to get ripped off because of too many middlemen wanting a piece of the pie. i need a friend in HK/Japan badly. i got the hooks on nike sneakers, stussy clothing, supreme gear, if anyone out in HK or japan are down for trades, hit me up. Don't worry about that. It's not a US retailer thing only. Yamato gives a fixed price point which mainly reflects these itty bitty dealers who only purchase lots of 30 or 40 at once time. The most likely reason behind Toys R Us being so cheap is that they buy in far greater volumes and thus receive a larger discount on the price per unit from Yamato and in effect they're able to sell at a lower price and still make the same profit.

hee hee, nice one. I think we'll have to wait till 2004 to see the new 19. Oh well...

http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=...oducts_id=3825& free shipping release date: Dec. 23 Dec 23!? What in the world?

Heh, only now I noticed that you skipped that pink/cream colored nose. Hooray for that!

Sounds right. Most likely they'll throw the Monster in first, just to show what they can do, then rattle off a slew of hopefully inexpensive yet most likely somewhat uninspired stuff in the middle then top it off with the grand-daddy tomahawk. Hopefully somewhere in the middle they'll start releasing enemy mecha as well.

To add to that, if Macross toys were ever released domestically and oficially, I strongly believe that the prices here would most likely mirror Japan TRU prices. http://cgi.www.infoseek.co.jp/cgi-bin/toys...=1&id=1-11-25-0 Now even the 1/48 naysayers can't tell me they wouldn't be tempted by a sub-$100 Low Viz, not to mention a sub-$70 Max.

Don't forget the Japan factor. For some reason everything that comes from there has inflated prices. Look at the price of Japanese CD's and DVD's over American ones. Look at the price of their Escaflowne toy ($70 in Japan) versus the American Toycom version ($50).

Most likely nothing. I think my self-indulged expenditures for this year have totalled up enough for more than a few christmases already.

It would be interesting to see what kind of marketting breakup their consumers fall under. "What percentage of their toys are sold to Macross fans, and what percent is sold to people who just casually picked one up off the shelf of Toys R Us, not knowing anything about it", kind of thing.

While that would be ideal (no one really wants to spend thousands of dollars on simple plain-jane color variations), it's bad business for Yamato. It probably costs them a fortune to go through the design and molding process. And they risk far too much by creating a custom scheme like blackroses rather than say.... making a 1A and 1S version for Hikaru beause the red and black stripes are just more well known. So as long as sales for the 1/48 vf-1 are strong we'll most likely be forced to stomach a bevy of repaints (this probably means every and all dyrl VF-1)until Yamato is ready with their next product.

I dunno. I watched through the little mpeg thing, and at the end it only says 1 player. Oh, and the part where they select the Love Drifts Away stage (TV battle against bodolza's little asteroid base), it says stage 13.

Have you ever considered making customs? Nothing so drastic as kitbashes, but custom paint schemes, especially for the 19 and 21.

So wait... you get 2 versions of Bodolza? Does the same applies to the other Zentradis? Does that mean that choosing either arm will give you radically different missions? What about UN Spacy pilots? Do they look any different? Or do they still wear DYRL swag by default? This sooooo confusing!! Oh. I thought by now someone would have addressed this by now. Apparently, you get to play through both DYRL and SDF-1 TV scenarios. I'm gonna grab that video one more time and watch it again...

That detail has escaped my notice as well, though I suspect it has something to do with the optic sensor. Can anyone shed any light on the issue? You are correct, sir... the optic sensor on the TV version does not have the black frame around it unlike the DYRL version. Isn't that the 1J? No the VF-1J is just the color shift. Which may or may not be an animation error. The VF-1A difference is physical. The DYRL version has the black frame around it while the TV version is just a green square, much like the VF-1D. Oh okay right. I see what you mean now.

Damn. And I just went through all the trouble of setting my PS2 up in the living room so my parents can use it as a dvd player. Time to bring it back to the bedroom.

If you're wondering about skinny arms + big armor, you can take a look at the Armored VF-0. So far, it doesn't seem to be a problem with anyone.

That detail has escaped my notice as well, though I suspect it has something to do with the optic sensor. Can anyone shed any light on the issue? You are correct, sir... the optic sensor on the TV version does not have the black frame around it unlike the DYRL version. Isn't that the 1J?

So far, all the heat shields have been clear, and painted to match the appropriate valk. Am I missing something? H saw a picture on HLJ, it looked pretty solid to me. Looked clear to me.

Excellent point. Things are becoming mysteriouser and mysteriouser. And I agree with TenScaryonkeys; I never understood all the hoopla over an absent GBP-1S until now. I might actually plunk down the cash for this one, expecially if they offer it separately from the -1J. Perhaps Yamato wants to make it so that you can attach the armor to any VF. So far it looks like the armor isn't using any of the normal fast pack attachment methods.

Well, seeing as how the 1J came out after the CF, I'd say square. My 1A Max also has a hex peg while my Max and Miriya and Hikaru supers all have square.

The problem is that people expend so much energy hoping and praying that so-and-so company will release so-and-so product, and when it doesn't live up to their expectations, or it's too expensive, or it's too big, or whatever, then they feel they have to shoot it down. That's just the nature of the toy forum and it is inevitable with so many differing opinions and tastes. This is also why I'm afraid to see what happens when the 19 comes out. People have built expectations so high by constantly linking those pictures of the YF-19 model everytime the 19FP is mentioned. For the most part, the "don't buy it" approach works for most. Other times, people have legitimate complaints, because honestly, no one wants to drop $140 for a "perfect" toy only to have it's wings falling apart, and little pieces of transparent plastic missing right out of the box. What's really wrong is when some people seem to take personal offense when it comes to a company not making a toy to their liking, or when they feel a company's market strategy is designed only to torment them. No doubt a lot of you have noticed a few of the generic, "Yamato is out to get me!" threads, and after reading the replies, the response those types of comments get here is pretty obvious.

They're shooting at each other, but they only manage to hit each other's FASTpacks.

Does anyone happen to have any mp3's of the CD dramas that were released after the SDF Macross tv series? Link: http://www.anime.net/macross/production/au...#MacrossClassic I have generations but that one sucks.

Stop being so negative all the time. You 1/60 fans finally get new signs of life from your line and yet you still get all depressed over it. Stop worrying about the 1/48. Let Yamato worry. Just because the 1/48 fans on MW are so vocal doesn't mean that there's no love for the 1/60 line. I remember seeing two "Love for the 1/60" threads in the recent couple weeks. You buy your toys and we'll buy ours. Let's just leave it at that.

Sweet. Even if it isn't the 1/60, that still doesn't explain why it's sitting in the middle of the Yamato booth. Maybe it's a painted prototype?