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48 minutes ago, Shawn said:
I thought we all had to have
1 to open
1 to keep sealed
1 to resell later
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eh.... 1 for each mode on display actually😁
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On 3/12/2024 at 6:21 AM, twich said:
So, does anyone have any insight as to why this was pushed to W3 2024 on the ShowZStore Website?
TwichBummer that this is delayed, but seeing that we are almost at the tail end of Q1, Q3 sounds more likely than the original release date of "End 2023/ early 2024" on the listings on Taobao which has not been updated since.
These delays seem par for the course for products of this nature. In fact, besides the VF-1Ss, some of the proposed VFs became vaporware: The CFs, Angel Birds.
I just hope that this will actually be released.
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Steam now has it listed, but only unlocked in about 7 days
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2103230/MACROSS_Shooting_Insight/
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On 2/9/2024 at 10:50 AM, sh9000 said:
Ordered another spare VF-1A Kakizaki and will see about making some Alaska Base VF-1As with them.
Alaska base VF probably easier with Max though. I mean, even if you don't do anything, with time the blue will naturally become green/teal anyways. 😅
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I don't have access to my DX armor now, but it could be from one of the micro missle ports. it could also be another random part that was somehow inadvertently dropped into the box in the factory itself.
Whatever it is, keep it together with your armor. Who knows, you may find yourself staring at that precise spot missing the part on the toy when you handle the armor in future.
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Indeed, a shame that the 1/60s did not see the light of day.... but they were a ittle too late....... if they were mooted during the 1/60s heyday, it might have a different outcome.
Here are my HMR versions
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Cautiously optimistic. Since it is Sunrise, hopefully there will be a refocus back to the Mecha. Mecha has played a distant 3rd fiddle to the idols and love triangles long enough.
Shoji Kawamori for the VFs and Kazutaka Miyatake for non VFs. Yoko Kanno for music. Kawamori should take a break from directing.
Main concern is the possible “Gundamification” of the VFs though.
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On 11/3/2022 at 11:46 AM, dtwn said:
I'm located in Singapore and I can say that growing up (80s-90s), I never saw a Macross toy in typical toy stores.
I am not sure what you meant by "typical toy store" in Singapore, but I know for sure that they were carried by major department stores with toy departments, as well as smaller stores (at least in the Bukit Timah areas of Beauty World and Bukit Timah shopping Center (Where Yaohan was)) circa mid 80s. Not just the 1/55s, also the 1/100s and the all plastic versions (we could get them at 7-11. Some of them were sold with a modified backpack as a pencil sharpener) almost like the later Banprestos. During my Primary 1 days at least ('87), classmates would routinely bring the all plastic versions to school to show off.
I bought a strike VF-1S between somewhere 86 - 88. It was placed together with Jetfire in the toy section in a department store in Woodlands Central (near the Causeway). I cannot remember whether it was NTUC (more likely) or Emporium though.
I can remember they were sold side by side because my same aged cousin was trying to convince me to get the Jetfire, because he was more a TF fan, and I primarily a Macross fan, and in the end, he got Jetfire, and I got the Strike 1S.
I have absolutely no doubt Yaohan carried them, at least between 85-87. Their toy department in the 80s were an absolute heaven. I would literally tell my parents to just leave me there to watch the dept's VCR showing cartoon episodes of the toys they were selling while they went about grocery shopping.
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Just now, nightmareB4macross said:
Sure, they did fine with Kairos but even after the Strike incidents there were more rampant issues occurring with NY. I for one got severely burned by them. So yeah, Fuk ‘Em. And I am sure a few not only here, feel the same.
Thats right. I'm one of those burnt by them
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1 minute ago, MKT said:
Still available at Anime Export
Catch is you need to pay upfront
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58 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:
......a well-animated but badly written, clumsily executed mess of a story ...... where the villain's motivation makes infinitely more sense than that of the heroes and OG Macross characters show up to drive home how disappointing Delta's are with the subtlety and grace of a piledriver seating a channel marker.
I couldn't have said this better myself. I could have sworn that movie planning committee realised what a pile of dung they were putting out, and they brought back OG charracters to salvage the movie..... and even then, they did this in a very lazy manner. They writers simply gave Max a blue 29 because didn't know what plane to give Max, what kind of lazy writing is this?!? I could say the same for many things that happened in this movie.... they all happened because of either fan service, or simply out of the blue, without proper reasons.
Minus the OG characters (I thought the Archivist was very poorly animated.... straight out of a B game) and The Jenius doing what he does best, Kawamori would have turned me off future Macross anime projects for a while. At this point I agree that Kawamori needs to take a break from DIRECTING Macross, and simply focus on mecha design. I can understand why the pages for Delta simply aren't updated. Delta was simply too lacklustre to get long time fans fired up over.
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1 hour ago, twich said:
Short answer, one control by student, one controlled by instructor
Twich
Same reasoning for why there are 2 sets of eye cameras/ visors
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13 minutes ago, brouken said:
I'm afraid even gray plastic is not immune to yellowing. I have Ozma's renewal, and some parts have also yellowed....
Actually plastic of ANY color can yellow. The question is only whether it is obvious or not.
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Even if you can find any link, I seriously wouldnt recommend it. These particular ones as as of now, vaporware. The KO 1Ss and M&M are still readily available a couple of years after release, so no reason to think why these guys would hard to get, if they are ever released.
TLDR: No point POing these
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Hi-Metal R
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Finally some proper TV arm armors!
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Hi-Metal R
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3 hours ago, eXis10z said:I don't remember this scene. Which episode was this scene in?
In his sarcasm-fueled imagination. 😂
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25 minutes ago, Shawn said:
Is this the preorder where it opens and closes in seconds being sold out, or is it the put in your web order here and we will send you 5 if you ask for 5 like the original fast packs were done
21 minutes ago, Miles_Wolf said:OMG
Yeah I would like if this is one of those preorders that go out hyperfast or will it be available at other webs?
And yes, I would had prefered for these the hi-metal scale.
The latter (though once their allocation limit is reached, it will close). The only catch is that you need to pay for it upfront.
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Probably the most affordable DX VF-1 so far, given the current yen rate.
Would prefer if it was the CF though, most of us would be down for multiples.
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The plastics used for this and the shoulder joints look similar. And given the the shoulder joints are heavy-load bearing joints, it could be another potential point of failure a few years later.
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11 hours ago, wm cheng said:
I know NY has screwed a lot of people here (they are my last resort). I've been lucky so far (maybe pushing my luck) but they have never failed me yet - even with the VF-31A I still got it from them. I don't mind getting my armor set in October as long as I actually get it (I couldn't get a pre-order in anywhere else). I'd just hate to wait on them only to find out they couldn't get it and I've missed all these windows of opportunity at release time. I think that's just the anxiety and fear I get when I read these forums and hear about all the horror stories from other members here that did get screwed.
The prudent thing to do, in my humble opinion, is to get the still easily available armors at reasonable prices, like right now. Hedge yourself against the real possibility that you might get screwed over by them. If they do come through, then good for you, and you can still let go of your extra armor at little or even no loss.
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59 minutes ago, wm cheng said:
So the double set (both VF-1J and Armored parts) came out before just the Armored parts set? or did both come out at the same time and my just Armored parts set is delayed to October because NY screwed me and dumped me to the 2nd issue?
53 minutes ago, sqidd said:NY screwed you? Shocker.
You'll be lucky if you get your stuff at all. I know I still haven't, from the super parts fiasco despite all my efforts. Good luck.
In other news, my stand alone armor arrived from Big-in-Japan!
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1 hour ago, Kurt said:
Nice to see some of my work still being enjoyed.
I will always especially enjoy seeing your Enigma schemes.
Bandai DX Chogokin 1/48 VF-1
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Very nice! Did you agonize about having to cover up the majority of the tampo printing though?