Aegis!

I´m keeping my 1/60s all the way , I intend to have at least one toy of each scale and of each different VF (i.e. just one VF-1 , one VF-5000 , one Glaug..etc) depending on availability. I´m hoping Yamato will release a Glaug and a Spartan in the future as well as a GBP armour in 1/60 , it´s likely I´ll buy the YF-19FP (whatever happened to it).

I think the most feasable way is to make it fly and then when preparing for landing the model releases the legs and lands (obviously it would need to release various air-brakes as well , before releasing the legs at a very low altitude ). What I´m worried about is the mechanical structure of the legs for walking and at the same time thrust.

I too would love any of those valk's, but there isn't much hope, if any, that they will be released by Yamato. We will just have to rely on talent in the MW community to give us those creations. We said the same thing when the Proto-Low Vis was featured in the Magazine and now we have a Yamato Low-Vis

Mods , can you please resize the pics ? just resize. thanks

I think the concept behind the VF-1 Low-vis is pretty cool and original in the sense that Yamato has adopted a custom colour scheme from sombody´s work and released it as a toy , and if they do that again with another colour sheme then it would pretty cool.

I´m very interested in this toy (a non-valkyrie Kawamori design and cheap domestic release , what can I say ? ) , but I haven´t seen any recent pics , does anyone have more info on this toy ?

HMOJ !!! those look awesome , makes me wonder how a GBP armour would look like

MAcross Zero is a 5 Episode OVa series , so far only the first 2 episodes have been released and we´re waiting for Ep.3 to be out around the end of the year (I think I heard October). You´ll be waiting a good year for the series to end , add to that a few more months for the whole thing to be sold as a pack.You speculation though

...wow , that´s one thing I hope the industry will support for the sake of technological advancement , just imagine this in conjunction with Nanotechnology

Oi Oi ! I see there´s another englishmen here , I bought my set for 19 pounds at HMV. How would you rate the video qualityof your set ? just wondering if is just my PC that has a crapy video card.

Thanks I´ll keep that in mind , I´m currently waiting until someone posts a review of either te AC-MAC version or the 2 in 1 version . Cheers

I would have to say Macross Plus gets my vote , which is interesting since I really don´t like japanise music (be it J-pop or otherwise). The music from VF-X2 was nearly OVA quality and is second on my list and Macross Zero OST makes for a great background music (which is good , concidering M0 is not as music-orientated as the other series like M7 ).

I´m a bit picky and miser (ok , a lot actually ) so I don´t often buy things which I consider to be surcharged (i.e. current 1/48 toys) unless it´s REEEAALLY special. The biggest pruchase I´ve made (anime related) is the Yamato Hijaru 1J. *Though I´ve paid 214 Pounds for a N10 minidisc recorder (online , mint condition from the factory), which has a highstreet price of 275 pounds so even then I paid less than what I was supposed to pay.

Hey, I'm not trying to deny anybody anything. Besides, what weight does my opinon have against the possibility of 1/48 Macross Plus toys? Yamato decides, not me. I [was] a supporter of the 1/48 Macross Plus toys when the idea first spread here. I even went head to head with Vf-19 geko coz he was against it. But since seeing that Pic I keep mentioning, and basing it off of the current price of the 1/48 VF-1s, I found the idea of a 1/48 19, 21 or 11B very impractical. If Yamato makes it, whoopee, if they don't fine by me. Hey you still remeber ...oh I remeber those days , well at least I convinced someone. I have to say , I´m not against a 1/48 M+ line at all but when we start to think that a 1/60 M+ line would be just as big , detailed and expensive as the current 1/48 VF-1s then the idea of 1/48 plus toys appears to be unnecessary and unpractical in every sense. Just how much more detailed than a 1/48 VF-1 could a 1/48 YF-19 toy be with the current technology and production standards ? not a lot. It´s not a matter of size , is a matter of how good and how many resources Yamato has available to produce such a toy , and I don´t see them discovering any revolutionary technology to allow them to add any more detail that they have done with the 1/48 VF-1s. I have to say , I myself get exited when I think of a 1/48 VF-0D toy but even I realise such a toy would be too big in 1/48 scale and no more detailed than what Yamato is currently offering , and in that sense , I´d be glad if they release the ultimate VF-0D toy in the most comfortable scale they can, as long as it´s the best we can get.

When I first knew of MW I went stright to the forums and lurked some time but never registered , in those days people were still waiting for ToyCom to release the M+toys but that never happened , I instantly fell in love with those toys but at the time I was unable to import any of them. One day I went to my local shop and saw the 1/72 YF-19 v.1 on the shop window and almost pissed myself of joy , I couldn´t believe my luck but as I went inside and asked for the price my ass droped and broke into pieces (basicly the guy was asking for nearly 200 Pounds as it was the only one he had and it was his own). Then miraculously in one of my trips to Paris I found a tiny little anime shop with lots of Mangas but nothing too interesting and then in the display shelf there was a 1/72 VF-11 !!! I bought it immediately under the price of 60 Euros and to this day there´s been no problem , not even the hip has broken (I´m a lucky bastard ) but I´ve kept it inside its box ever since I transformed it once. Then I registered in MW and was drawn into the new 1/60 VF-1 line , I was impatient for getting my own VF-1 and finally got a VF-1J Hikaru through HLJ and two weeks later I was as happy as a newborn baby.Since then I´ve waited for the right moment (or variant) to buy a 1/48 but haven´t found a coherent reason to spend so much money on a single toy but who knows maybe I´ll get a Low Viz when the prices go down to a reasonable level. PS: Yamato , We want GBP god damn it !!!

Ouch ! , I can see it now , BIG VERY BIG , I wouldn´t mind buying one I guess , but if the 1/72 VF-0s are really gonna be the definitive version of the VF-0 then I´ll be satisfyed with that. I really don´t care what scale they´re in as long as I know that´s the best thing I can get and is affordable within common sense. I wonder if Yamato would make a AFOS as well ? Hey, the idea pf an AFOS is actually pretty cool! I don't think it would be in valk scale, though, it'd be small, and polystone, and maybe would be a little diorama with the two scientists on the "cherry picker" lift. On the subject of a small scale, i'd love a, say, 1/300 Asuka II/ASCA! It would be nice if they made it around the same size as the Q-rau , that would be big enough I think. Yamato is a good company when it comes to figures so I think it would be really nice , possibly some detachable parts+articualted ¨wings¨+articulated limbs as well , Maybe even two versions : a Brand new Protoculture Era version (i.e. without structural damage) and 2008 Version. An anti-gravitational fold system would be nice too

Ouch ! , I can see it now , BIG VERY BIG , I wouldn´t mind buying one I guess , but if the 1/72 VF-0s are really gonna be the definitive version of the VF-0 then I´ll be satisfyed with that. I really don´t care what scale they´re in as long as I know that´s the best thing I can get and is affordable within common sense. I wonder if Yamato would make a AFOS as well ?

Not really , I´m just interested in the level of detail and articulation as well as features , and to me a 1/60 YF-19 would be just as good as the 1/48 VF-1. Furthermore , If they made a 1/60 YF-19 , it would be just as big as the VF-1 in 1/48 so it wouldn´t look too shocking like the 1/72 YF-19 vs a 1/48 VF-1.

OK , I´ve come to the same conclusions: I´ve found the following versions so far This one is the AC-MAC version which hasn´t recieved any review in any page , interestingly enough the producer AC (as in anime cartoon) seems to be the same as MI so I´m a bit confused. ------------------------------------ the other version of Ep.2 is this one This version is the well know MI version which features the distortion problem <_< the MI version of Ep.1 looks to be good so I may buy it but I´m reluctant to decide which version of Ep.2 to buy , oh BTW , I can´t find any shop that sells the AC-MAC version yet (import-anime has it listed on their reviews but it´s not on the shop section )

It's one thing to not buy... It's a whole another thing to hope they don't make it at all. And I'm not sure why everything thinks that a 1/48 would be so unwieldly. It's not like the thing is made out of cast-iron and takes two people just to pick it up. In reality a 1/48 19 wouldn't weigh too much more than a VF-1. People hear that it's X meters longer than a VF-1 and go, "woo, too big!", when in actuality it only translates into a longer fuselage. And while we don't know if it will be as detailed as a VF-1, there's no real reason why it wouldn't be. And I'm pretty sure you have no real proof that one wouldn't be either. Also, I don't see how people can justify buying nearly 20 1/60's and then call the 1/48 expensive... (not directed towards you Aegis ) You haven´t got any proof of how light it would be in 1/48 either as it hasn´t been produced yet. As I´ve said it earlier , I´m not against an improved , more detailed and bigger version of the YF-19 or YF-21 or VF-11 but I think a 1/60 would be big and detailed enough (as big as the beloved 1/48 VF-1 ) for all of those people that are satisfyed with the current 1/48 line. thin about it , 1/60 M+ toy = just as good as 1/48 VF-1 toy (specially if they use CAD/CAM this time). Why wouldn´t Yamato be able to do just as a good job if they had to work with something of the same size as they have done with the 1/48 valks ?

It looks like that extra wheel is up when it walks around, but when it rolls, the back section of the leg swings down and the wheel makes contact with the ground and creates a larger and more stable surface to roll around on. Hell I was thinking the same thing. I think the legs fold and then the two wheels serve as a way for the Destroid to be like an armoured vehicle , kinda rudimentary which makes it more retro than advanced IMO.

WOW , that´s a very nice and beautiful custom Thepilot looks very nice as well , wonder if iy could be painted in a Macross PLus-ish kinda fashion?

I'm generally speaking for myself, and the fact that other members really can't afford a toy of that scale. Even IF I tried, I wouldn't be able to get one. I'm already having a hard time keeping up with my 1/48 collection, as well as my Chogokin and Ghost In Shell figure collection. What would be more feasible for me at least, and I am sure, some will agree, is that Yamato do the Macross Plus Valkyries in 1/60 scale. That would the just the right size, and it will be big enough (it should be about the size of the current 1/48 VF-1's) to accomodate the detail, gimmicks, and [possibly] the perfect transformation we area looking for. Anyways, that's my piece of the pie I have to agree with you Omni. The main reason I don´t buy 1/48s is because there isn´t any real variety (unless you consider different colours and heads to be variety ) not because I can´t afford one (I have the economical resources to buy a 1/48 but not a reason to justify such a big purchase for a toy ), that and because I already have a VF-1 toy. I feel tempted to buy a Low-vis now and then but I can´t find any logical reason to spend $100+ in a toy, so I think I´ll wait until the prices go down to $90 or something. The idea of a 1/48 YF-19 toy is horrendous , not only would it be unnecessarily expensive but it would be unpractical , with almost zero playability (too big to transform by oneself) , too big for display purposes and too heavy (even if it was made entirely out of ABS) for ointernational shipping. A 1/60 YF-19 would be just as big as the 1/48 VF-1 toy and should have the same amount of detail. I see people making a misconception about a possible 1/48 YF-19 toy thinking it would be the same as a 1/48 VF-1 when in reality it wouldn´t. I´m not against the idea of a better and bigger version of M+ toys but please don´t make it unnecessarily big and expensive like it would be in 1/48.

Ditto. For some reason I always get the one thing I never wanted , so I´m just waiting till someone starts offering them without random selection...

[sARCASM MODE ON]I doubt Yamato would deliberately make us buy the 1/72 toys if they planned on releasing better toys afterall, it´s definitively not in their nature[sARCASM MODE OFF]