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Thanks Alex. Can´t wait to see pics!

Great work! Looks really well done. The Max 1A is really cool. I hope Yamato makes one of these.

2 comments. Incredible quality of work! Incredible productivity! This thread looks like a Hasegawa catologue. I nearly drove myself crazy building 1 Hasegawa battroid kit so your work is truly impressive.

Looks great!

Haterist- Not subtle, but I have to agree with you. Internet fraud is terrible. Thank you for your posts, I definitely have picked up some pointers from you especially the phone thing. The two times that I have gotten ripped off from ebay has definately made me suspicous as well. It pisses me off that we have attracted predators on this board. Buyer beware. Thanks, Steve

Personal smersonal. It takes 15 minutes to ship something and even if you are in a wheelchair and can´t leave your house you can still call UPS to pick up and deliver the item. For god sakes they even have a 1-800 #. Whoever paid with credit card you are in luck, call them immediately and reverse the charges. I had a few bad dealings on ebay and now pay new sellers with Visa on my Paypal transactions. I had an overseas seller from Singapore (Jessicuster555) try to bone me on a Takatoku 1S and after 60 days of lies I called Visa and had my $215 refunded after 2 minutes. Do not wait. Call Visa. Those of you who use Paypal always pay with credit card for this reason - you have 60-90 days to make a claim. As Haterist said protect yourself always with net transactions. Good Luck!

Couldn´t they leave the backpack down like the way the old Takatoku Battroids where packaged? I am all for smaller boxes. The box storage is killing my closet.

Hurin- Just because you can type fast doesn´t mean you have to write a novella evertime you answer a post. Economy is the most important aspect when writing - and you keep saying the same thing over and over and over. I beleive everyone got your point of view and it is cool. Thousands of words, examples, cutesy dilogue quotes, metaphors and logic theoroms later and we all understand that you do not beleive Yamto is going to make more Low Viz Valkyries. Chances are you are right, that doesn´t change the fact that I still want them to make more, and so do a lot of other people. And I think now, people are happy that they can get the reissues Roy and Hikarus. Alot of people missed them the first time out. This is good for the fans as well as Yamato. Don´t get me wrong Hurin, I do like your posts they make me laugh. Thanks Steve PS I type slow and make alot of spelling errors one of which is i write ¨teh¨alot instead of ¨the¨.

Hurin- Thanks for the info. I started this thread as a fun way to see if there where more Low Viz 1As to be had. I think it was kinda evident in my tone of my original post. You seem a little worked up from your responses - asking for sources, writing make beleive cutesy dailogue, and even bringing logic to the table. As Dr Clay mentioned the 4 valk thing was from Graham on the Old Boards, which are available, and this is pretty much common knowledge - I didn´t think this was grounbreaking news to anyone here. The first pics of the 1/48s had the Roy 1S and the Max and Hikaru 1A with talks of a possible VF 1J. No one said four was gospel it was just there initial plan or guestimation. Yamato made 1/48 valks they sold well they made more (reissues and variants). Low Viz sold well make more. How is that illogical? Limited Production is meaningless. ¨Logically¨ all the valks are limited productions. Which one is an Unlimited Production? Unless the Low Viz are numbered they are not lying by making more. Limited Production is not synonymous with we are not going to make reissues. I myself have two Low Viz Valkyries that I bought from Frank & Sons when they first came out for $125 and $135. I want one more for a custom. But it seems like a lot of people here missed out on them and are pining for them, another reason for my post. Also I would like to see Yamato profit the most from the Valkyries they make. This keeps them in business and able to make more toys for us. That to me is more important than any level of collectability that the toys have as I have no plans on selling mine. Also no one has answered my question including you. How many of these where made? I still hope that if they don´t make more Low Viz 1As that they make a Low Viz 1S or a 1J.

So how limited is limited? Is that like less than 5,000? When the 1/48 where first announced they where only going to do the VF 1A Max and Hikaru a Roy VF 1S and a potential VF 1J. Sales where successful and they sold more variants and did reissues. I don´t understand how that would be different than making more Low Viz valks. I mean Limited Production is not a defined #. The boxes are not numbered 1 out of XXXXX. What toy isn´t a limited production? Also the comic industry was plagued by limited edition covers for almost a decade, and it just ended up pissing off the fans/customers. Yamato has been successful and it´s not because of limited editions. Just look at the MPC´s - their Limited productons are going for half off on ebay.

Yamato also said they where only going to make four 1/48 valks and now they are up to 8. They also never said they would do reissues of the VF 1A Hikaru and VF 1S Roy. Is it confirmed that they ae not going to make more of the Low Viz? I was kidding about them listening, but I still hope that they do another variant of the Low Viz hopefully a S model.

I guess we where warned by the ¨limited Production¨ on the box. But why let all the ebay sellers make all the money on Bulky Lee¨. Yamäto please reissue the 1/48 Low Visibilty. Also since you are reading this please also do a 1/48 Low Visibilty VF 1S. Thanks

Looks great! Also the red one is cool also. Great job guys!

I go to Corvetteforum.com to feed my other addiction. Also ebay, Viperclub.com and imdb.com for Movie reference.

Mecha - 1/48 or larger Battroid only VF 1x w/strike packs. Like the Hasegawa battroid 1/72 kits. - Perfect Grade 1/32 Bandai transformable VF 1x that would have all the heads and options for VE 1, VT 1 and VF 1D. Like the numerous 1/60 PG gundam Kits by Bandai. - 1/32 VF 1X Fighter only, w/strike packs. I know these are expensive options but the only ones I would comsider my dream kits. Non Mecha - 1/6 scale resin kits of the main characters like the C&M trading figures.

Why is everyone assuming the 1/48 VF 0 would be so much more expensive than the current 1/48 VF 1 series. If Yamato is selling the 1/48 scale better than their other scales chances are they would follow suit and charge the same pricepoint for a 1/48 VF-0. There is a business model of sucess with the current 1/48 VF 1 series (2 models being reissued). That is not the case with the 1/60 and 1/72 line. Shelf space? Wouldn´t it be worth consolidating your collection for something as cool and detailed as a 1/48 0, especally if it was the same price as the current 1/48s?

I second the motion for having a permanant custom gallery on this site. Great Idea

1/48 all the way. Let shelves everywhere tremble in fear! Yamato seems to be selling the 1/48´s better than the 1/60s - based on them reissuing the VF1S Roy and the VF1A Hikaru. Also remeber When the 1/48s where announced they said they would make 3 or 4 versions of the toy and now they are up to 8 versions of the 1/48. So it seems a better move to make them in the large scale. Steve

Looks awesome! What about paint scraping during transformation. The 1/60s when custom painted seem to scrape the paint off.

Original Macross Toys My favorite toy for semtimental reasons is a Bandai VF 1S Strike that I bought from a comic book store in 1985 when I was 11 for $45. This toy started this whole love of Macross. Still in great shape all stickers applied and original box still going strong. My original Takatoku 1/55s VF1S C9 VF 1J Hikaru C7 VF 1J Max C9 VF 1J Millia a C9.5 beautiful from Blackaces VF 1S Super C9 and one in C8 Bandai original 1/55 VF 1S STrike C9 VE 1 Elintseeker C9 VT 1 Superostrich C9 Also two original, NOT recasts, of the 1/48 Ultimate strike kits from ClubM. Contemporary Macross Yamato 1/48 Fokker VF 1S Strike is my favorite toy of all time. Non Macross Original 12 back Star Wars figures on the cards in C8-C10 condtion some even are unpunched including Palitoy (English Kenner much rarer) Han, Luke and Darth. Vader. Toys McCoy 12¨Indiana Jones figure MIMB. Real life toy 2002 Corvette Z06 w/405 hp six speed, Carbon Fiber hood and HRE polished 19¨rims on all four corners wearing sticky Yokohama tires. The car has seen over 130 MPH on a racetrack and has embarrased many unwitting LA Porsche owners.

Which stateside vendors will be carrying these?

Looks great!

I´¨ll take the parts off your hand. Make a cool custom out of it.