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Amiami is not an option for me now. With Amiami adding an additional 10% for Australian GST right on top, It's ¥20295, then the pretty expensive shipping which also gets GST added on top....

I think Anime Export for me, even though I will have to pay up front. Will need to ask forgiveness from the wife later.

wow no discount at all from Amiami this time.

If any one is still waiting on confirmation of a special flight stand for this one, I think it's confirmed it will not come with one like the 1J did.

http://macross.jp/news/?id=1067

■ Product specification 
Length: about 300 mm (at the time of fighter) 
Material: ABS, die cast, made of PVC 

■ Set content 
-Body 
-Replacement angle wrist left and right x3
-Replacement round wrist left and right 
-Gun pod 
-Pilot figure 
-Gerwalk antenna x2 
-Abdominal detail up parts left and right 
-Stand

Would be interesting if Bandai re-release the VF-1J no flight stand edition along side the VF-1A Max as a surprise, kind of like how they will be re-releasing Metal Build Eva Unit 1 when Eva Unit 2 drops.

4 hours ago, jenius said:

This might be like what happened with Yamato's 1/48 VF-1A Max TV, a bunch of retailers are going to think this thing will sell like hot cakes so they'll grab as many as they can... then they won't sell and we might finally see a DX toy get sold at a discount.

but probably not.

You forget that Bandai deliberately limit the number of units retailers can order, so they can't even stock up anyway, let alone order enough units to satisfy their customer base.

It only happened with the Yama 1/48 because they just keep upping the production numbers as retailers request more stock.

I love the Strike, and even without a Striker pack it looks bad ass. It's too bad I don't like how this one is presented. The weird different shades of grey (warm and cool mixed together... bleh), gold instead of yellow, and the over use of chromed diecast. Not to my taste unfortunately. I'd be happy if they released a colour variant like they did for the 00 Gundam that fixes the use of warm and cool greys, but that wouldn't fix the over use of diecast on the decorative accents. 

It would make sense for a deactive version to be released as a TWE release.

Yup the face is a bit off. Kitz prototype is better. It remains to be seen if the mass produced is the same quality.

2 hours ago, Roy Focker said:

I wonder how many of us who says we're going to pass will actually skip it.

@spannerwill use the DX TV 1A Max for his triumphant return to Macross collecting. 

So who did it better? Yamarcadia or Bandai?

They definitely need to retool and beef up the pilot figure for Kakizaki then. Hahaha!

Dang! We all thought it would be 1S Focker/TV Hikaru to coincide with Super Packs.

I'm in for 1 TV Max for sure!

Looks like DX Chogokin is concentrating on SDFM first instead of mixing it up with DYRL.

Personally I only want SDFM units. 

LOL! Still no ejection warning symbols! 

Looks Iike an September release! 1 DX VF-1 every 9 months!!! 

Love the input from everyone here. 

And Congratulations @HardlyNever. 

I'd love to be able to get a chunky for my son. He's very artistic and creative, and he loves all the hands on stuff. I think he really have a blast learning how to transform a chunky. Now the hard part is finding a cheap bootleg in Australia. Nigh impossible for cheap. 

I researched the Toynami 100s but they're still pretty pricey after shipping. Local retailers also selling for a good mark up too AUD$90. Eeep!

I think I'll definitely have to give him my Revoltechs if he shows continued interest. 

He does really latch on to the things I'm interested in. He loves to watch me play Monster Hunter World, and also loves Initial D (the Eurobeat really does it for him). I love watching him pretend to be a monster. Haha

@Shizuka the Cat my 2 yr old daughter is just like a typical girl. Dolls, soft toys. It's so funny because we didn't push these things on her. She just gravitated to them herself. I do encourage her to play the same toys as her brother, but she doesn't show extended interest. Maybe she's still too young. 

Good point about the older siblings. My brother is 7 years my senior so that could be why I was watching Robotech so young, plus being the 3rd child my parents were already over the very hands on parenting from my older brother and sister. 

I did entertain buying a chunky monkey but it's difficult to find a really cheap one. 

I think my favourite part of watching the episode with my son is when he exclaimed, "hey that's the one you have!". Amazing he could recognise the VF-1J under the GBP. 

Holy cow! I gotta get him watching G1 Transformers now. Hahaha! He has some tiny transformers he was gifted from relatives, but since he's never watched it, there's been no connection for him. 

Slippery slope!

So I really want to get my 5 year old son into Macross (via Robotech), and want to know if anyone else has shared their love for Macross with their young children and what they recommend as suitable relatively cheap toys.

It's funny because currently my wife and I allow our son watch very wholesome programming which include teaching and lessons, like PJ Masks, Rusty Rivets etc, but I look back at my childhood and I was watching Robotech when I was 5 years old! We're so scared of allowing my son to watch contentious violent programming least he become violent, but if I didn't become a violent dangerous person, why do I fear the same for my son???

Anyway with that I allowed my son to watch 1 episode of Robotech (original edited aired version - "Miss Macross") over the weekend and he loved it. Later in the day he was playing with his toy cars, and pew pewing the another set of cars and explained to me that the good guys had lasers and the bad guys had cannon balls.

Wow, he was reenacting what he had seen in that episode (and it's the episode Rick takes the GBP on patrol - such a great episode!), plus mixing in some pirate themes he had picked up from somewhere else.

So now I want to provide a VF-1 for him to play with, knowing that he is pretty rough with his toys. I thought about the Yamato GN-U Dou, or Toynami Super Poseable lines, but those are impossible to find now. 2nd option is the Revoltech VF line, and I actually own the 1J, 1S and a custom 1A Max in storage. I do cherish them, but I'm slowly accepting that they'd be well loved by my son - more so than me as they sit in storage. Of course I have to accept that they may get completely busted up, but that's what kids toys are for, and as my wife says - if his toys are busted up it means he loves those ones the most as you can clearly see they've been played with a lot.

Would love to hear from other parents with young kids.

Sad to see you leaving the collecting community. Hope you will still stick around for the banter and discussions though. Us Aussies are only a small number on MWF.

It's tragic when ever I see a valk suffer a such a break.

Hope you can get a replacement or refund.

 

Do you have any photos of when you opened the box initially? Where did you purchase yours from?

I'm in the process of returning one of these to Amazon.jp as it had the same type of  damage on it, along with the opposite leg that had been snapped off at the top of the intake. It was sold to me as new, but the box had been opened and the trays were in the wrong order.  All the evidence points to someone returning it as new after screwing up while trying to swing the legs into position.  I thought it was manufacturing defect as well until I started transformation on mine and the leg fell off.  

Perhaps you were sold the that was returned to Amazon by @onnasake. That was returned as damaged so it shouldn't have been returned as New. 

@onnasakecan provide more about it.

2 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

Or for the massive Armored Pack for DX VF-31's.

 

Fortunately for me I only purchased the VF-31F, and then sold it shortly after as I didn't like it, so no Delta valks in my collection.

Char Zaku is great, but not ¥21,800 great. I'll wait for my work to get it in and make decision based on my finances and other commitments. If we don't order it then the decision is out of my hands. 

I'd probably prefer to put aside funds for the eventual DX VF-1S or FAST packs. 

15 hours ago, kajnrig said:

Given how popular Walkure apparently is, and how much the anime members are pushed in general art material and the like, I'm surprised there aren't more figures of them. I keep saying I'd pay good money for the lot of them in their movie costumes.

The sales speak for themselves on their popularity. Ranka and Sheryl figures historically sell very well. Walkure so far have not sold as well as Sheryl or Ranka, which is why Bandai just abandoned the Sh Figuarts of the other 3 Walkure members and Mirage. If they were actually popular we'd be seeing lots of SQ prize figures and Ichiban Kuji being pumped out like Sheryl and Ranka still are. 

Why aren't they popular? For me I don't feel any the female protagonists in Delta are highly likeable. Sure they're visually well designed, but just don't have that strong characters. None of them are as likeable as Sheryl or Ranka. Plus you've got 6 girls for people to label as their "best girl" and clearly Mikumo and Freyja aren't on par with Sheryl and Ranka. 

Macross tried to catch some of that idol madness that sprouted from Love Live, and it didn't work for them.

They need to improve the paint detail on their female faces if they're going to do Morrigan justice.

Holy cow. I'm in love. 

Where's my Metal Build version 

I wonder if that is the one I returned although my box was perfect when I returned it. Some else’s return?

1 hour ago, JakCrow said:

This will probably be slightly better than a Metal Build if the GFFMC Wing 0 is any indication.

We can already know how it will compare to MB line since it’s already been released twice before . This is a 3rd release of this toy, but with new markings. I suspect there will not be any changes to the mold. 

Its a solid toy with excellent articulation, detailing, and gimmicks. I wouldn’t say it’s better than the MB line, but it’s definitely at the same level. It’s leagues better than everything else that came before it in the GFFMC line. 

Stupid expensive. Gotta sell some organs for that 0D PF. Bandai has all my business now. 

Also would be annoying if hips still not fixed. Assume they would have the 0S hip fix. You never know though.

My prediction:

1S Roy, no missiles

A few months later TWE Super Packs

I’m interested to see how they tuck the 1S head under the body for a super flushed look like the 1J.