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Has anyone seen this yet?

http://yokosonews.com/news/japan-post-to-halt-all-air-parcels-to-the-us/

Hobby Link Japan has said this won't affect them but i wonder how this will affect others if at all.

Getting those Japan only exclusives is probably going to get a lot harder.

I brought up this question again a couple of weeks ago when Yamato's CEO visted HK and we met for lunch.

I'd also realy love to have a VF-0D, as I think it has one of the most beautiful fighter modes in the Macross universe.

Basically zero chance (pardon the pun).

Yamato considers Macross Zero a dead property, that is not very popular with fans and thinks the cost of having to retool much of the toy to make the VF-0D to be prohibative. Basically, they feel the potential sales would not cover the cost of the retooling.

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Graham

That is too bad, like others have said i think MZero has some of the best designs. I'm a fan of pretty much every mecha of the series. I wonder how Yamato came to the conclusion that Macross Zero is a dead property. If they are going by sales of their product i think they have to remember there was probably a major factor on why these didn't sell as well as they would've liked. Barring one or two releases, each release of this line had a least one major design flaw (eg exploding shoulders). I know this stopped me as well as many others from buying one. The VF-0a/s is one of my favorite designs and i still don't own one due to that shoulder issue. I hope to finally get one now that they've been re-released and i haven't heard of any problems with them. But still i don't think the Macross Zero line has been given a fair shot by Yamato.

I'm going to vancouver in a few days and i'm wondering if there are any shops there that sell any Yamato Macross products or even maybe some bandai and/or toynami stuff? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Is there a tentative date for the release of the stand and the 27beta?

Sign me up for 2. Thanks.

So those stands are exclusive the same way the super parts, galla set and Luca's ghost set were? In other words we can't get them unless we live in japan?

The Nora is almost as cheap as the 1/48 Angel Bird? That's crazy talk. I'm not sure why the Nora gets no love. It's one of my favorite VFs. It has design lineage with the vf-14 and vf-27. I'd buy another for that price but i just bought 2 vf-27s last week.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Yamato-Macross-1-60-VF-...=item3354544153

I'm so glad the vf-0s/a are getting rereleased.

Not sure if this has been mentioned but it looks like Yamato is rereleasing the Yf-21 without the display stand.

http://www.hkcollectibles.com/macross-robo...-avf-yf-21.html

How'd you guys even hear about this improved legios. I can't find any listing for it.

When Orguss was coming out through Imagineasian, I just so happened to look at righstuf.com, and saw that it was going to come out. Luckily, I was able to get the entire series. It's a lot of fun to watch, and the story is very good. I've seen it through twice. The only problem I have with the DVDs that Imagineasian put out aren't of the greatest quality. Nevertheless, they had it out in a 6 disc DVD box, and I think it's the first 14 episodes you can watch with the english dub, or is it 17...somewhere around there.

I remember seeing them on right stuff too along with cat's eye which blew my mind. Unfortunately i wasn't able to get all of them brfore they got discontinued. Been scouring ebay but they never show up.

Yeah that Nora has a tempting price even though i own one already. i Would get another but there was so much else i wanted. I ended up getting a vf-11b, vf-1s hik and a vf-1d. Really wanted to get max and mil vf-1js too. Wife is going to kill me as it is.

I have a couple questions i'm wondering about and i'm hoping someone here can help me.

1- I just got an Alto Dx 1/60 vf-25F. How can you tell it apart from a first and second release? Are there any improvements in the second release?

2- I noticed at some web stores that the yamato vf-1s 1/60 v2 roy with fp is getting rereleased. Will these have the shoulder problem fixed?

Thanks in advance.

I remember seeing on ebay BGC figures and moto-slaves for each Knight saber but it wasn't from Yamato. Any one here know who produced them. They looked pretty good and were pretty expensive.

So is Yamato done with BGC? I was hoping to see other variants and maybe even the 2040 versions.

Well this sucks. I just bought a VF-1S hikaru 1/60 v2 from an ebay seller for $70 last night. Bought super dx superpacks and the gamlin vf-22 last week. Now they have this incredible sale. I've never seen prices this cheap. I want a vf-11b so bad but the m&m vfi-ijs with fp are priced so frickin low that's i'd be stupid to pass it up. Unfortunately don't have cash for all 3. I might have to sell some things. Damn fiance is going to kill me.

I hate to do this but i have let this slide for too long. My blacklist post will be against Toboro. Late last Dec i purchased some misc parts for $25 which included some 1/48 fists and other stuff. I waited about 6 weeks for these to come in. He then pmed me saying the envelope fell behind his desk and that he'll send me it asap. I wait some more. I think another month. I pmed him no response. I've pmed him a few times following that and each time with no response.

I kinda wrote it off as only a $25 loss plus whatever shipping was. But it's really bothering me the closer it comes to the year anniversary of the transaction. Like i said above i hate to put anyone on here but i can't let it slide. My first bad transaction here on macross world.

The Macross 7 podcast from CDX was awesome. It's what made go back and listen to all the other ones that were out at that point. I liked all the macross podcasts but there was one i think there was one that could've been better. I think it was the Macross zero one, though it's been awhile and i could be wrong.

Yeah, Dragon Ranger will always stick out in my memory as the coolest too, though I am really fond of the Eagle Fighter guy from the anime Dancougar, which is almost a sentai show.

Yeah when i watched Dancougar i remember thinking Alan Igor (Black Knight) was a lot like a dragon Ranger type. He even dies before the end of the series like Dragon Ranger did. I only wish his mecha combined with dancougar to form the wings (even though they already had an add on like that).

Yeah i ended up loving all that 90s sentai. These days not so much. Jetman, Kakuranger, Carranger, and Gingaman were my favorites. Dragon (Green) Ranger was still the coolest "6th Ranger".

Why did I read this post?

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Damn i didn't need to see this either. I just bought the VF-25F DX movie version yesterday but i can't pass this up.

Thanks for the update on Ms Sakai. Too bad for her.

Whoa...the Japanese companies really take compliance with society norms very very seriously.

They take it really seriously apparently. Acccording to Ms Sakai's wikipedia entry:

"Sun Music president Masahisa Aizawa said, "We apologize from the bottom of our hearts for the alleged misdeeds of Ms. Sakai." Sun Music removed Sakai's official web site from its web server. Soon after Aizawa's announcement, he was demoted to vice-president. Chairman Hideyoshi Aizawa removed himself from the position, and is now an adviser to Sun Music, with no right to represent the firm."

Wow that's pretty interesting Pete. It puts things in perspective. Thanks for the info.

My biggest gripe with the VF-11 is that there are no head variants like -J or -S for the single seaters.

I wish Shoji hadn't been so lazy in this regard.

I always wondered why we never saw any different variants. The whole line couldn't been just cannon folder 1A types? Did even squad commanders pilot a 1B or 1C? I think a J or S version VF-011 would've looked pretty cool, especially with skull 1 trim.

We have a new podcast up at:

http://www.destroyallpodcasts.com

It is about the Power Rangers mini series from the early '90s, Green with Evil. What do you think, sirs?

This mini actually got me interested in the series and made me seek out the orginal sentai.

http://www.mahq.net/mecha/macross/macross2/vf-2ja.htm Pics of the Icarus in all three modes, with and without FAST packs though I don't believe it ever appeared with them on in the anime anywhere, so I'm not sure how canon the packs are. It's a different model than the VF-2SS in many ways, so it's not exactly like Yamato could milk the mold with it, but if they make one they may be open to the other, who knows. I'd have used the M3 for reference but there's no entry for the Icarus in it, sadly.

Thanks for the quick reply and the link. I totally don't remember that valk from macross 2. I may have to watch it again to try and spot it.