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Awesome custom VF-1J Spanner! That custom Kurisama head is boss!

Wow, that's a true labor of love right there. I had ambitions of making a lego valk before, but this guy actually upped and did it. Too bad Lego doesn't seem to have an interest in licensing anime-based designs for their products.

@no3ljm: Warmachinerox!

You know, if ever they release Riron's custom VF-27 Lucifer, that would be a perfect match for Yurisha...:-)

I was really tempted to get the Arcadia, but I'm not really a big fan of Galaxy Express 999 (though it blew me away when I first watched it as a kid). Agreed with the nomenclature change for Bandai's line of ships. They should call it "Soul of Senkan" and start making more iconic ships like the White Base, Argama, Nahel Argama, Battle 7, Battle Frontier and Battle Galaxy, and even their own version of the SDF-1, both TV and DYRL versions (since Arcadia does not seem to have any plans to re-issue the Yamato version as of yet). Congrats on your haul Tking! Anyone know the difference between the Figma Guyver I release and the original release from Max Factory? I have the latter and based on what I've seen of the Figma version, it looks a lot like the original. I'm a big fan of the Guyver I suit and still have the DVD of "Dark Hero" to remind me how awesome it can be translated into real life (David Hayter notwithstanding).

Thanks Spanner and David! I did a quick search online and found that the Macross Quarter is 139 meters longer than the Yamato. The Quarter is 472 meters long and the Yamato is 333 meters long. So scale wise, the DX Quarter should be at least a third longer than the SOC Yamato. Thanks Abbadon!

On this week's menu: CAPITAL SHIPS. Count me as one of those who consider the DX Macross Quarter as underrated. The level of detail on this toy is incredible. Pics don't do it justice. Being made more recently, the Yamato boasts even crisper details than the Quarter. Again, phone pics don't do this toy justice. I don't know if these two ships are to scale with each other, but the Messiah Valkyries and the Hayabusas (Cosmo Falcons)look to be very comparable in scale. We MWers however, know fully well who between the two fighters would own the other in a straight on dogfight...

+1 on the wings of the VF-19S. Those things are sharper than a bread knife.

Hey guys, sorry if this was asked before, am a little lazy to browse this entire thread (and the previous ones before it), but has anyone every tried installing the missiles that came with the 1/60 DX VF-25 ver.1 Ghost + Weapons pack onto their renewal VF-25's? I'm looking at how those missiles attached to the ver.1 1/60s and the attachment points look to be the same in the renewal version. Thanks for any feedback!

Yeah! This is great news indeed! Thanks IXTL! Now I don't regret getting a standalone Ghost for my Yamato 0S last year! :-D

Now I'm really interested to see how the arms fold back into fighter mode. I don't see the pivoting connectors on the shoulders in this pic which allowed it to fold together in the Yamato 0S valk, or in the v.2 VF-1 for that matter.

Hahahaha!

Do it Mr. K! Bring on the reactive armor set!

Gorgon squadron motto: "We're rock solid."

Much better Saburo! Reposting here for the benefit of the other MWer's.

Yup! Matches perfectly alright! Superb photography as always Saburo! Maybe you could step down on the aperture a little bit more to bring the YF-29 into more focus? It's such a lovely bird to be blurred, Yuki notwithstanding.

I searched online and saw the name of the store. Its R-Toys at Virra Mall (Great Toys is in Shoppesville): They also have a couple of loose v2 VF-1's there too (a strike Hikky and strike Fokker), both panel lined and missing some parts, w/out boxes. PhP 11,+++ each (around USD250.00). There's some other Macross and Robotech stuff as well, but nothing overly special, in my books at least.

Thanks for the clarification David! My Nihongo is a little rusty (and my kanji even more so), but what I understood was that Mr. K does want to have the Ghost with the 0A/0S. While he didn't specify backwards compatibility with the Yamato Ghost, again, it stands to reason that Arcadia would cut costs and use the existing mold, which David says they already have. That would be great news for all of us who already have the Ghost pack from the Yamato release...as long as Arcadia doesn't decide to exclusively release the renewal 0A/S already bundled with the Ghost pack. Please give us options to buy them separately okay Arcadia? Onegai itashimasu!

Its only for the standalone super/ strike parts. No VF-1 included unfortunately. :-(

Ah, I didn't know that Arcadia didn't get all of the old molds from Yamato during the transition. I guess the 1/48's are considered real collector's items now. Not to start a flame war or anything, but for the sake of speculation (which we MWers love to do during any announcement for a new toy, hehe), I'm still willing to take my chances that this renewal Zero release will be backwards compatible with the Yamato Ghost set. Contributing to my educated guess are the following: 1) I'm sure that Arcadia would have more or less gotten most if not all of the 1/60 molds from Yamato as these are currently the most lucrative. It stands to reason that Arcadia would not have risked coming up with the renewal Zero valks if they did not have a long term plan involving the existing molds from Yamato. This includes of course, the Ghost packs. I'm sure they have similar plans with regards to the valks from the other series. 2) Barring appearances in the Macross games and model kits, we never saw the VF-0D with the Ghost pack in the OVA, so Kawamori can get away with saying that its not compatible. Maybe he never meant for the 0D to have the Ghost pack on in the first place. However, looking at how the Ghost is connected to the first release 0A/S, all that's needed to make the Yamato Ghost pack fit on the 0D is the replacement of the fuel tanks with the ones with the slots. This is the only connection point between the Ghost and the valk on the original release, and -- basing on the pic from Wonderfest -- seems to be the case with the renewal valk as well. In the original release, these slotted fuel tanks came with the standalone Ghost pack and replaced the ones on the valk, which were removable. Assuming that Arcadia has a similar solution for the 0D however, would mean that the Ghost would be connected even more tenuously than on the 0A/S. In the latter, the Ghost is held in place in the rear of those valks by the tailfins. Not a very elegant solution I would agree. Anyway, I must confess that I have a personal stake in hoping for the backwards compatibility since I already have a ghost pack. Having backwards compatibility would at least lessen the pain that I have to get rid of my old 0S for this renewal release. So yeah, my speculation comes with some wishful thinking. Hehe!

Well, that's true. Sans an official announcement from Arcadia, it might be pre-mature to assume backwards-compatibility at this point. IMHO however, it would make sense that Arcadia would make it backwards compatible since they already own the mold for the old Ghost set. There weren't any big issues associated with Yamato's Ghost set so it would save Arcadia a lot of money not to re-design one from the ground up. I own the first release VF-0S, as well as a standalone QF-2200D Ghost pack, and the slots in the renewal pics look pretty much identical to the slots found on the replacement fuel tanks from the Yamato release. Also, isn't Arcadia's redesigned YF-19 backwards compatible with the fold booster pack from the old set? If so, then chances are good that the Zero renewals will be backwards compatible as well. Of course, Arcadia can always re-release the standalone Ghost pack anytime. I guess we'll know for sure following more official announcements.

@Saburo Nice flightsuit Yuki! She would go well in a shot with the 30 Anniv YF-29. (Hint, hint)

Abbadon, when I was in Manila a couple weeks ago, I saw an MIB 1/60 VF-1 super/strike parts being sold in Virra Mall. I forgot the name of the shop, but its the toy shop on the same floor as Toy Kingdom on the right side if you're coming from Toy Kingdom. Its selling for PhP 7k++, which is a bit hard to swallow (about USD 170), but considering that its MIB and that its hard to come by these days, you might want to take a look.

Wow, this news wasn't totally unexpected, but still, was pleasantly surprised to see that Arcadia did have the renewal 0A and 0S in the pipeline! Looking at the pic below, it seems that this would be compatible with Yamato's Ghost pack as it already has the requisite slots on the fuel tanks: Now I'm hoping Arcadia would go the whole mile and announce the reactive armor set for the 0S. :-D