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I have a super ostrich 1/60. should have got the elint I guess but I always liked the super O the best on bandai so since the price is still up there i settled with teh yamato instead.

seems like the prices on reissues and all are becoming too inflated so my interest has died down quite a bit even if they come out with more, they will cost more than they started out. ah well.. I still would like to get my hands on a VF-1D but not for $100+ that they command now.

Imho.. since I keep mine boxed mostly these days and even with updates Yamatos are kinda fragile and more than likely will yellow if set out in the sun accidentally.. I just buy what I find a good deal on. I recently picked up a v1 Yamato VF-1S Fokker 1/60 open box for a decent price, as much as I was wanting to pay for a VF-1D as I recall. I'm still missing some 1/60ths and just kinda bargain hunt not too concerned with what version it is.

I think I was reading somewhere that the V2 Fokker with upgrades had shoulder cracking problems that the V1 didn't have anyway. I forgot. I might be thinking of the Super O or some other model.

I also found that locked "toys" thread on here rather entertaining to read I prefer the toys because they have more nostalgic / sentimental value to me rather than building something out of styrene that is brittle and flimsy. I've built model cars and model jets in the past. They look/feel cheap compared to these Yamatos and Bandais we are collecting.

I'm looking for a VF-1D to add to my collection. Version 1 or 2 depending on asking price. Send a PM my way if you have one for sale. I'm located in USA.

what's to improve? bandai is king of quality control. re: Japan pride in quality.

nice articulation on this strike. I hope this means that there's going to be a super ostrich up next this is actually a better price than getting an older 1/55 strike from the bay. but I know 1/100 is kinda small. I have 1/55 super sitting on the nightstand next to me as I type this so I feel pretty evil edit, vf-1s foker boxed right next to it double evil feeling.

Nostalgia is for the weak. Embrace the future, buy a toy that isn't an ugly brick.

speak for yourself. I have always liked the looks of the 1/55ths ever since I started seeing them in hobby stores back in the 1980s.

Yamatos have little value to me. I'd actually consider selling them and holding on to the 1/55ths. Plus the yamatos are so mass produced that they are most definitely not worth the money that we pay for them. Best value I got was on that spare 1/60th Hikaru I bought. Yamatos are flimsy.

1/60 Yamato VF-1A Hikaru. I think I spent $85 on this when it came out. One of the wings is yellowed and also one of the landing gear openings. Yamato uses cheap plastic. I did acquire another one from ebay for $25 I think it had free shipping brand new so I'm good on that.

Thus ended my Yamato collecting.

edit: also had remorse over buying Yamato 1/60 VF-1J Fokker non strike edition. I sold it to my friend and haven't seen it since. I'm guessing he has it tucked away in his bedroom somewhere. I wanted to strike version but never purchased it which is actually lucky too because Yamato literally flooded the market with reissues of that one. Yamato collector value is - (negative) imho.

NO remorse at all over Bandai 1/55 reissues. They are better than Yamato and even hold nostalgia value which all Yamato toys plainly lack.

I'm doing fine economically but I just have more bills now so I can't really buy any. Also I've been seeing that reissues don't tend to gain any value, so you pretty much should only be buying these for if it is what you want. If I was to start buying again, I'd need to finish out my 1/60 collection not worrying about stupid variants since these things aren't worth that much $ to begin with and also would need to get the new 1/55's with boosters which I find to be overpriced.

I was hoping for at least a VF-1D 1/55. Now I don't know where that is going, probably nowhere. It'd be nice to have a super ostrich some day too but I doubt they'll ever reissue that the way things are going.

I stopped buying Yamatos because I was hugely disappointed when I found an entire wing on my Hikaru yellowed from being on a shelf nearby my computer. I have every 1/60th except for max and mirya with boosters, all roy fokkers, elint seeker, VF-1D, and TRU limited edition cannon fodder. I also have a brand new boxed Hikaru I purchased for $25 + s/h on ebay. I keep that one in a dark closet butted up against other Yamato boxes so even if I open the closet, light won't penetrate the box.

Are they still coming out with more bandai 1/55? I have noticed that the q/c from bandai is superior to Yamato as well. I have not seen anyone complaining about broken joints. This is what happens when you have a Japanese company in full control, although the 1/55ths are made in China.

As far as issuing Yamatos in the USA and them being cheaper than in Asia, I highly doubt that. Look what happened to transformers. The reissues of those were fetching a lot more than they originally cost in the 1980's at toys r us. I feel that introducing Yamato or Bandai valkyries in the US stores would have done the same and possibly would have caused prices in Asian markets to go up as well.

Toonz, are you going to post photos of the box art?

I bought two of each Bandai reissue last time they were issuing them and I believe I bought 3 of the first issue, what was that called.. TV version Hikaru VF-1J I think. I love the things more than my yamatos. I can wait til july, hoping for the super ostrich.

I bet if this thread got real big that'd speak to Bandai Hmm also I've seen april fools jokes in the past start well in advance of the actual day.

I'd pay for a yamato that doesn't yellow Too late for that I guess, waiting for Bandai to release more reissues

Here's to hoping for the Super-O and Elint Seeker. Also the strike. Those are the only ones I want to buy and I'd definitely buy more than one of each so they can count me as more than one person buying And the VF-1J and VF-1S Hmm I dunno, I already own 2 VF-1J reissues and 3 VF-1S reissues so ya kinda not interested either but hopefully enough are interested so that they see how the market is. I wonder what the new box art is like, may just buy some of those for the box art (yes I am a bandai nut).

C'mon Bandai you can do it.

hopefully bandai will do something for the 25th anniversary.... missed out on them releasing the last 3 valks... hopefully there isn't a big licensing issue :S

I would've bought at least five super-o if bandai had reissued it. I got one Yamato.

imo yamato toys depending on which one are a pretty bad investment. roy fokkers get reissued 3x or more and the white plastic they use yellows. I keep all my yamatos in a dark closet to try to prevent the yellowing, but none of my bandai reissues have yellowed at all. my vf-1a first yamato I ever bought has a yellow wing and some other plastic is yellow. transformers toys go up and down, so do macross. When the dot coms were booming, I used to see most C8+ bandai valks go for $1000+, now they hardly ever reach that amount unless it's a C9-C10 elint or super-o. but even then they might only fetch $800 tops. It all depends now on who is looking. I'd kill for a super-o sometimes but it's pricey and I've since moved on from macross since bandai lost interest sadly.

I completely stopped collecting Yamatos because I noticed the plastic yellows, and it wasn't expected..but I hadn't bought the last 5 1/60 versions yet. I might pick more up if I ever find some super cheap deals, I got a spare vf-1a hikaru for around $35 shipped about 2 years ago.

I'd be interested @ $65, just send me a pm when they are ready because I don't frequent this site as much as when bandai was reissuing. I like the strike and the super-o, but right now I think I like the strike best so you're in luck I guess that means the armor pieces will need painting to be finished right, I guess I'd have to go find some japanese tamiya paint, as testors doesn't cut it unless they bought tamiya as well now, I know they own pactra.

I don't know if this is the right thread, but I need a wing for a 1/60 first version red hikaru movie edition vf-1a.

Thanks

interested in a good deal on a 1/60 vf-1d and also may be interested in a 1/60 strike, unopened and no decals applied.

Someone should let Yamato know that for the amount of money they're charging for valks, we should be getting plastic that doesn't yellow over time.

Am I crazy? well maybe but I've seen PVC pipes that lay outside for years that don't yellow. I'd be preordering right now if I didn't think the thing was going to turn a nasty shade of bright orangish weird color in the future. And yes yes..keep it out of the sun I know.

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I need a wing well whitining toothpaste? what? I somehow doubt that'll work. But I guess I could try it anyway. The yellowing isn't way too bad but it is noticable and I think there's parts that were yellowed already when I got it (I got it from one of the first shipments of the things that came out) I wonder if anyone sells spare 1/60 parts somewhere. But it's not that big of a deal, it'd be worse if it was a broken wing or such. I don't even rememeber how to transform this, I have the documents how to transform it on my pc somewhere. All I gotta do is keep it out of the sun I guess.

Did you keep the toy in a display case or was it on a shelf somewhere?  Was that particular wing in the sun more often than the rest of the toy?

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It was just on a shelf, but the wing was pointed away from the sun. But then who knows maybe I turned it out of sunlight after it yellowed. Maybe I should see if I can find someone with spare parts, new wing please

Yep, just as I figured... eventually it would happen and it has. The right wing on my 1/60 Hikaru has yellowed, leaving the rest of the valkyrie white. Looks kinda weird, would be more balanced if the other wing yellows. I'm thinking about some day painting all the plastic parts on the thing.

my gripes about yamato:

1) proven cheap plastic

2) reissues flood the market, driving the value of the ym valkyries down and causing you to wonder why you paid "retail" price in the first place (my open box yellowed hikaru was $90, whereas I bought one months later for $25 shipped on ebay MISB and keep it locked in my dark closet)

3) newer issues cost more than older ones

4) is it really worth all the extra money for a 1/48 that is going to be completely yellow by 2008? MAJOR reason why I don't own any.

5) makes you wonder if a "masterpiece" really is all that bad

bandai: 1, yamato: 0

I'm glad I bought every bandai reissue in duplicate and sometimes triplicate. None of those are yellowing and there's a slightly higher chance that they used a better grade of plastic this time around.