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Enough already! You goofballs have no idea what their overhead is, what they sped on R&D, Wages, taxes, etc, etc, etc. Without this information, WHICH YOU CAN’T GUESS you don’t have anything resembling an argument. Now move on and complain about the VF-25 or something, I'm sick of seeing this thread at the top of the list.

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I have always wanted one of these and it seems like prices are coming down. I need some advice on which one to get though. I would much rather pay for the 1/12 scale one but if the 1/6 scale unit is just that more impressive, well……….. 1/12 Aoshima Aliens Power Loader for $85 or the 1/6 Hot Toys Aliens Power Loader for $275 ish. Thanks a lot for your input!

Not another one of these stupid threads again. Yamato is not gettig rich selling these, I assure you. Everyone who voted yes clearly has no idea what is involved in designing and producing a product.

What is H2O2? (Yes I know its Hydrogen and Oxygen)

I have 2 VF-0S's with Ghosts and they are as tight as can possibly be. When I tranformed the first one I thought I was going to break it! I also have a VF-0S without Ghost and it will hardly stand up. It's a POS. I had a VF-0A without Ghost and it was so sloppy if I used harsh language it would fall over. Sold that one.

Ma oh man I wish I could talk myself into affording getting all of my 1/48's done! That sucker makes my stock one look like crap. Great work.

Well this could be great news. Another run means the pricing will be going down on the secondary market.

This is the badest muscle car on the planet! It's just like my Mustang...................... but 10,000 times cooler

Define withstand

I'm waiting too. I don't see much point in releasing the armor seperately or not at all. I mean who is NOT going to want it? Seems like money in the bank to me.

The bike looks cool, cannon or not. But, if you look close you will se that almost all of it is photoshop. Good photoshop but photoshop none the less. I was thinking about building a ride armor bike about a year ago and even purchased the bike I was going to start with. Unfortunately my regular shop work picked up, I got 2 more racebikes and I tore my car apart again. I have plenty of projects, LOL. I ended up selling the bike I was going to use for the project (Suzuki TL1000). I had a pretty good plan, it was going to look 95% line art accurate. There are somethings that are impossible to do and still have the bike functional. My intent was to have it functional enough where you could do everything you can with a "real" bike like wheelies, stoppies, 160mph, take it to the track, etc. I guess I can always tackle it in the next few years. It won't be too expensive, just a lot of work.

I agree too

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It's called work

The more I see the chestplate of the 1/60 v.2 the happier I get about not getting many of them. It looks horrible! It certainly outweighs the thinner more line art accurate legs. I can’t even see the legs past that piece of doo doo sticking up in front of the head/neck in Batroid mode. I have one 1/60 and it’s the VF1A S&S. The only reason I got it is it wasn’t available in 1/48. It’s still in the box. If it comes out it’s being left in fighter mode for sure

The TV FP's should be a bit lighter and "blue/greener". Why don't they have the missles (or whatever they are) sticking out of the forearm armor? I'm looking at my 1/48 VF-1J TV special pack deal and it has the missles. The M&M's have them too.

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Clearly you don't know much about Ferrari's They have a massive ammount of problems.

Where are you seeing pricing for the Beagle? Are they up for pre-orcer yet? Where? Got a link? And lastly, when are they due out? I'm sure I will be getting one.

I typed my post out wrong. I transposed CM and MH. My box is the one on the right. I just couldn't figure out why there were no MH branding on it and was wondering if I got some kind of third (crap) option by mistake.

Thanks The big rub here is that we are not in a market that is officially serviced by Yamato. As far as getting spare parts and having to pay international shipping that is on us and our choice. We are buying “grey market” toys. When you go grey market you automatically loose some of the advantages of buying it in its selling market. The fact that they are fragile is most likely based on cost. I guarantee you that Yamato is not getting rich off of selling these. The cost to design and produce one of these is incredibly high and the very low numbers that are produced don’t help one bit. One of the products that I designed for Ducati motorcycles I sell for $675. I generally take pre orders of 20-30 at a time and then I have my machine shop run them off for me in those small batches. In the last 4 years I have sold about 300 of them. When I was pricing these out it was amazing how much less I could get them produced for if I purchased them in large quantities. Not only would it cost me less simply because of the volume, they would cost me less because with the large numbers comes the opertunity to use different manufacturing techniques. For example, my product is currently made from billet aluminum. If I was say ordering 1000 at a time I could have them cast aluminum instead and that right there would cut my cost in half. I can’t afford to order a 1000 at a time though. So my point is when you as a manufacturer are dealing with a niche market you are very limited in your production choices. The second manufacturing downside to the small quantities is that if I had them cast opposed to billet the part would be considerably lighter which firstly saves me money on materials, but it also becomes more attractive for the customer because light is right when it comes to motorcycles. Yamato is probably in a very similar situation. They are most likely working with antiquated production equipment and methods which make their base cost go way up. And the obvious that is that they are very low production. I did some searching last night on population statistics of boys between the ages of 5 and 12. Then I tried to guess at the potential market of a Yamato toy based on the amount of members on this board times 10. That is probably more than there really are. I figured the 5-12 buying market by using a number that was 25% of the population which is probably rather low when it comes to Transformers. I imagine it’s fair to say that 25% of boys 5-12 in the USA have some transformers. The numbers I came up with are absolutely mind boggling. My very rough and half guess method of potential markets tells me that Transformers outsell Yamato over 250 to 1. That is an incredibly massive difference in production numbers. And if we had the real numbers it would probably be even a bigger spread. The ability to wash out costs across such massive sales is a huge reason why Transformers are not much money at all. They get to take advantage of every single large manufacturer cost savings method. It’s probably fair to say that a Transformer probably costs 10% of their retail price to produce. I’ll bet dollars to donuts that Yamato’s cost is 50% of their retail price. From the above it’s pretty clear how large production runs give a manufacturer an incredible advantage. The “quality” of the Yamato product is directly related to this situation also. They simply don’t have the profit margin to do enough engineering, product development, product testing, etc that a larger company has. That leaves them in a position where they either send them out fragile and possibly flawed or raising their retail pricing to absorb the additional cost. Clearly they decided that sending them out fragile is much more effective than increasing the retail price. They are already at the top threshold of what someone will pay for a model/toy. In the long run I’ll bet they end up selling a lot less units if they go with a higher retail price and improve the product. At some point it could be flawless but it would cost so much no one would buy it. After you purchased your first Yamato and found out it was fragile/prone to breaking you knew if you purchsed another that you would not get what you expected. At that point you knew the quality and you knew the price but you still chose to buy it. Hence you did get what you paid for. You knew the quality of the second one you purchased before you paid for it. This was defined above. You do not have the ability to level that statement. No one person does. And once you purchased your second one you lost all rights to even think about being able to claim that. By purchasing them you are in fact stating that they are not too expensive. If they were too expensive and you believed that from the bottom of your heart you would own one Yamato product because you would never have purchased a second. Who buys something that they know is not up to their expectations or thinks is over priced? The answer is a moron, and it’s clear you are not a moron. You have made the choice that they are not “to expensive” by purchasing multiple units. There is no arguing this. Unless of course you would rather classify yourself a moron.

I always wondered if the ones that were sold at the show were different than the ones that went into "mass production". Now we know. If you are a die hard collector you are looking for the Matt finish packaging and not the gloss. It seems reasonable that they would be different. If the boxes were printed at two different times it could simply be a matter of the "ink/finish" being different between the two runs. If I buy one I want one of the "show" examples, always have. No I know what to look for.

I would like to have a atmospheric booster and launch arm released that will work with either the 1/48 or 1/60v.2. Those things just look so cool! VF-0D would be nice A re-release of the VF-0A that isn’t a floppy mess would be great too. GBP armor for the VF-0S would be spectacular (I would need to get another VF-0S to display it though) And will someone please make a big and accurate SDF-1? Something about 24” long would be outstanding.