I am loosing confidence in Yamato Products!!! I just purchased the VF-1J Stealth with Strike Booster pack
and the flimsiness of the plastic is disappointing. For a $200 plus CDN dollar toy I cant help the feeling I have that I got reamed again!
The small hinge that is supposed to hold the folded wing pack to allow you to add the booster does not have enough strength to hold the booster upright and within seconds launches off like a takara missile! I have purchased many Yamato products over the years and have steadily been getting more disappointed. Which is why I did not buy the first production run of the YF 19. I still believe that the first (2nd Production run) Di- Cast set of their Macross Plus toys were their best.
When I bought the Koeing Monster for $250 CDN the bottom Cockpit of the ship mode does not stay flush under the chin of the gerwalk mode and just hangs there. The whole thing is a lumpy mess of plastic!
I cant believe people would poo on Toyanamis valks and little on Yamatos. Toyanamis 1/100 scale valks are much more studier and we still have to wait how they incorporate the booster packs, but I bet that I wont have to crazy glue pieces to hold them in place!
As a collector of transforming mecha/robots especially transformers, quality wise I would rate these companies as follows
Takara ie MP,THS line, Binaltech, Micromen, Robot Masters, BW (all lines), MP Liokaiser, main line transformers
Bandai SOC line, ( I have the Aquarion, Dancouga and Unit 1 Evangelion and all are spitting images of Quality and engineering design.)
Hasbro ie Main line transformers, BW, Titaniums, Movie toys, etc
Toynami ie Robotech valks, MP Voltron, 1/100 Macross veritechs
Yamato - what I own... VF-0 1/60, (2nd production run)all 3 Macross 1/72 die-cast valks, transforming Escaflowne, 1/60 Garland, Koeing Monster, Die-cast 1/72 VF-1 Hikaru, Vf-1J Super Strike Stealth 1/48
Here is a list of the Yamato stuff I am disappointed with:
-Escaflowne
-Koeing Monster
-Vf-1J Super Strike Stealth 1/48
-1/60 Garland
thats $800 plus of dispointment there and I think Im done with yamato. AND IM SICK of people saying that Yamato is small company so their prices reflect that fact BULL! There not that small....they sell many different product lines and do quite well with them in Japan.! Hey Yamato.... want my money... how about concentrating on smaller scale products, put back the die-cast! and can it with the huge boxes! (they might save more there alone in production costs and at least get nicer boxes like the Toynami ones)
ok im done with my rant
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