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RIP.. I thought he was a great actor with a talent for comedy. Anyone remember that series 'Hooperman' where he played a detective? I loved him in that.

I like Sithlords idea - you get a small support vehilce and a couple of scale figures with each mech, so you have to buy all the destroids to create a neat diorama. My opinion on the 'gimmicks': I think withe the destroids all you can really have is opening missile bays and cockpits. I would much rather have the attention go towards articulation and detailing. I'd love to see some weathering effects like oil leaks from the joints etc. Lastly, I hope Yamato doesn't make them too big or to diecast, as I would hope that they have a wider spectrum of priced toys. At the moment they have the 1/60 (medium price) and the 1/48s (high priced) and the upcoming moster (bend over). I am hoping the destroids will be about 4000 yen to give us macross fans a financial break after shelling out several hundred dollars for their 1/48s.

I wonder.. is everyone getting the yellow 00? I'm not as the blue is the same sculpt and looks cooler, and at $55+ bucks a pop it makes me think twice.

here's a few from my 'favourites' list: http://users.ev1.net/~superjaw/ - superjaw has some nice customs and good tips for painting. This is how I got into it, and found macrossworld about 2 or 3 years ago. Jung's Valkyrie Hangar has a lot of sweet custom pics: http://www.geocities.com/hunt4r/macross/jetfire.htm Kidkorrupt's site is also good: http://www.geocities.com/valkcreations/index2.htm And for lots of other sci-fi stuff and GREAT tips, go to starship modeler: http://www.starshipmodeler.com/ Oh, and also try the old MW forums and try searching in the 'toys & models' for custom valk threads - there are lots of them! http://www.macrossworld.com/cgi-bin/mwf/ikonboard.cgi

oh man! I never much liked the Optimus prime toy, even as a kid! But that is a work of art. hlj has it listed for $84, which I can stomach.

Anyone know if it will be made with the original colour scheme? The 19 is the only yamato toy I don't have as I missed out when it was released.. I have the 19a but I always wanted the 'ol white and red one.

I love the jacket! Personally I would make the shoulder patch a fair bit smaller to make it look like an airforce insignia patch.

ha! It would be a bastard love child of gasaraki and Macross 7! blurgh..

That mode would make his arms rather floppy.. and not much headroom either!

Hey, sebastian - why is the beast (your son) on the list? I thought your backpack (wife) would be looking after him? After all, you will need both hands to push away the rest of us when we all see something we all want and there is only one of them on the shelf!

I have all all 3 and they are great. Thanks go to Rob (Monkey Nugget) who managed to find me 2 of the 3 kits for a great price! Pity bandai never released a MG kit of the mechs or the kugai..

nahh.. make mine Mac Plus - I love the streamlined design of the 11b and the 19. Although to match the size of the macross 1:48's they would be roughly 1:55 scale? (at a guess?)

haha, I did a Film & TV degree and I work in television so I can give you a few tips! Just stay away from the zoom and you'll be fine! But I hate being on camera - that's why I went for the behind the scenes work.

Well, it's all males so far. Sebastian said he'd bring his backpack (wife) and my wife is going too, so they will probably look at us 20/30-something guys and go "LOSERS!" and go and do tourist things together.. Or, if the more salacious members of our shopathon group visit a girly bar, we may end up with a few hangers-on! Sebastian: you'd better hope your wife doesn't come along, unless she likes girlie bars too!

yep. get em if they're cheap. I noticed hlj.com is having a sale on the super hikaru. What I DO like about them is they look cool on a shelf if you have a few other scale toys - sort of like a school photo with the shortest guys in front. I have a shelf with my banprestos, a 1:72 hase battroid, 1:60's and 1:55's. oh, and 3 of those mini destroids the exo squad toy line rereleased. My secret shame is I paid WAY too much money for the roy, max and hikaru when they first came out, and everyone was saying how limited the Max one was so I shelled out money thinking how cool they'd be... <_<

lol, that's so cool - our own commemorative fashion wear! MW Superdimensional Shopathon: our motto should be, "STICK IT ON MY CREDIT CARD"

Thanks for the great itinerary! What a shopathon! I see you included a few bootleg shops - I'd love to take home a bootleg jumbo grade 'GUNDAN' toy - not worth the postage but if I could bring it back with me that would be excellent. We could do tourist stuff before 1pm while we wait for the toy shops to open. B) not just that: we'd be a bunch of rabid DRUNK macross fans high on a berzerk toy shopping frenzy!

I hate to say it but this crazy idea started from me saying to sebastian "wanna go shopping in HK in January as that's when I get my work holidays!" And it's mutuated into this! Hmm, we may have to split into 2 groups: the 'singles' group and the 'married' group... we can keep shopping while the rest of you go off to a girlie bar!

Yep - all my banprestos have blue tac to stiffen the joints. I like them personally, but I try to avoid touching them as they are as solid as a house of cards! one touch and they fall apart.

when I had more room, my biggest toy was a star wars AT-AT. And that made a great coffee table! Stupid thing would always have coffee rings on its back.

1/72 = 3 pcs 1/60 = 11 pcs 1/48 = 4 pcs

For anyone who has the metallic versions, is the paint job better than the normal ones? - ie, crisper lines and less over/under spray?

That's true. Only LOTR has lived up to the trilogy hype. Star wars = disappointing. Matrix reloaded = didn't bother seeing it.

Hi Kevin, I don't have my toys yet, but the dimensions from HLJ list it as: Elint: 38 x 38 x 12cm/1170g OStrich: 38 x 38 x 12cm/1140g and for comparison: normal valks: 29.5 x 27.5 x 10cm/820g super valks: 30.2 x 27.5 x 11.5cm/950g So it seems the box is bigger in length and height but almost the same size in width.

48 hours!! Did they open up a shop in Florida? Maybe they've fixed their shipping problems finally. So I won't have to wait 25 days to get my stuff.