Dr. Z

I think the kit looks pretty silly... easy pass.

Cool. It'll be my first 1/60 since the release of the YF-21.

I ordered one from amiami, should be here this week. Should I worry about the shoulders breaking?

Imo, HA BB is easily the best thing to come out of the ROTF line after Leader Prime. This new Leader Bumblebee seems to be even better.

And you're right: I got an email today from the store I ordered it from and the owner said he got charged for his shipment of VF-11Cs (that's why he thought they had arrived) but the figures were nowhere to be found in the shipment. He's going to send me a refund. Sucks, sucks, sucks.

That's what I'm starting to suspect; Yamato sent out a bunch of smaller orders here and there to get the toy out there and the bulk of the production will be released in February or something.

Huh? My local online store received their stock today and I got invoiced. Should be here tomorrow or Friday.

RID, Armada, Energon, Cybertron were identical to their onscreen counterparts. Animated toys were pretty close for the most part. There is no show for Classics 1.0/2.0. The last time we got toys that were vastly different from what we could see in the show was during the Beast Machines era.

Fixed. And I am.

Only Scouts wave 1 are shelfwarming here. The rest is selling pretty fast (and that includes FABs, Gravity Bots and Power Bots).

Who cares if Jetfire is not perfectly movie accurate, we're talking about the toy for what it is. We can all still recognize him easily. Macross toys for the most part have been using the same outdated transformation schemes (with slight variations) for what, 20+ years? Pretty easy to be screen accurate with such simple designs. And Jetfire has tons of personnality with his beard and cane in robot mode. Macross toys all look generic in battroid mode. Extremely poseable? Most Macross toys aren't in leg department. And most of them are fragile and really not meant for regular play. Removable cockpit? Whoah, stop the press! Jetfire costs a 1/3 (if not 1/4 or 1/5!) of the price, has electronics, a more unique transformation (look at how the torso is formed) is bigger, sturdier, gimmickier and can combine with another equally amazing figure, Leader Optimus Prime. Macross toys look good from the bottom only because they use smooth and underdetailed surfaces. I don't care how Jetfire looks like from the bottom in jet mode, I look at him from the top anyway. I do like Macross toys for what they are: beautiful transformable display pieces with attention to detail. That's why I own quite a few. But let's face it, they're poor toys (save maybe for the DX VF-25, but even then, it's far from perfect).

Yet it's 10 times as entertaining as the best Macross figure.

F*** lineart, this is a fantastic toy. My favorite valk ever.

I want to know also... -die-cast content -if the transformation is identical to the 1/48 version Super packs would be cool but I will pass if the price difference is too much, money is a bit of an issue.

Ok, thank you!

I want the white/red one released at the end of last year, but I need to know how the box looks like so I get the right version. Any help would be appreciated.

I will never understand the appeal for such figures.

I like Greenscream better too. The red is too orangy on the Wal-Mart version and I don't like the unpainted chest missile pods. And the packaging is better for MP-03. I have 20th Prime, I don't mind the battle damage deco but I'm getting long stacks soon from A3U. And to be fair, most MP-04 suffer from misaligned chest panels, so all is not perfect in MP land.

Can't remember, around 90-100 usd I guess.

Grimlock's price tag is still pretty decent compared to what we pay for CM's or SOC stuff. Also, we know very little about Grimlock's transformation so far. What might look simplistic probably is not. Just look at what they did for Classics Cyclonus. You thought the legs were formed just by pulling on them, but no, front and rear leg halves are hinged and meet to form the lower legs. I'm sure Grimlock will have a bunch of cool little surprises. When you look at MP Megatron, he looks like he transforms like the G1 version, but we all know how complex he is.

Artfire is as overrated as Sunstorm or Minerva. Ugly toys.

Oh look, a positive review by Collection DX! I guess I'm not the only one to like the toy.

You can always check the giganormous gallery on seibertron.com.

Got my City Commander upgrade kit. It is the awesome.

Prime has been shown with different configurations in the Animated show, from G1-esque semi-truck to full-on fire truck to anything in between.