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Looks like it is going to be 30cm tall or 12inches! Marked it on the photo. Now I just have to wonder what it will cost and how many organs do I need to sell to buy this and the New Yamato SDF-1!!!!!

Like everyone else OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!

Now $500 is a bit step but I think most of us will find a way to swing it . Maybe cut back on the VF-1 1/60 purchases!

Anyway all I really have to say is

CAN YOU IMAGINE THE SIZE OF THE BOX YAMATO IS GOING TO PUT THIS IN!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Will Yamato include a stand similar to the YF-21?

I don't think so. If you check out the picks they include parts for it to be attached to the Yamato stand (look at the attachment point tabs). Note that the YF-21 only included attachment parts for it's own stand.

Should work. Just say you have a defective wing, which you obviously have. In just had "cracks" in the hinge of my VF-1S shoulders and they sent replacements.

Got my flexi-stands today and I have to say that I am impressed. For about 12-16 bucks a piece they are so totally worth it.

I personally don't think there will be a major problem. If there is well at least we can all get replacement parts now somewhat cheap from places like Overdrive. Everything right now IS SPECULATION until someone actual gets their hands on one.

Now don't get me wrong, I am NOT putting this on pre-order (no matter how much I want to!). I'll wait till I hear from people on these boards who purchased them before I make my final decision. That's because I don't want to drop $180US on something I never researched. I want to wait to see what the reviews are at the very least.

Damn another 1/60 I'll have to pick up! That VT looks awesome (even has the different wings!). Anybody know if there is an MSRP listed for it yet?

Now the only problem is to decide which 1/60 repaint to order with it!

Also need to find enough scratch somewhere to get a VF-11B.........makes it tough when, by the time I save enough money, I start thinking I could buy 2 VF-1s for the same price.

I think best foot design has to go to the destroids. The range of movement and pose-ability there just rocks.

Otherwise my favorite Yamato feature is the lack of need for swappable parts. With Yamato 1/60 and 1/48 Valks swappable parts are an extra feature (anime hands) not a requirement for the transformations.

Also I have yet to see a Yamato toy do the Gerwalk mode wrong unlike some Bandai releases.

If it was around $100-$120 and came with Max or Mira it would so be a buy for me even if it did not have much posebility. Otherwise it's kind of a pass. Would much rather have a Reguldor a Glaug even if they did not come with pilots.

Maybe I'll pick one up latter this year just to have one.

YF-21 also makes my YF-19 look like a piece of poo now too. YF-21 is nice and tight almost everywhere while my YF-19 has a case of the floopies.

About the only thing my YF-19 has over the YF-21 is that in batroid mode the YF-21 pretty much always wants to tip over. It's a strange experience expeically when you compare it to the destoids that require a sizable push to knock over even when I have them in some extreme positions.

Still like it though but at that price there is no way that I would ever buy 2.

It looks great! Question: For the engine pods, is that a space behind the curved plates?

Little bit yeah.

It came! Hands down the biggest pain in the ass to transform out of all of them. But it's solid and looks awesome so that's ok!

Looks cool. Personally I love the "dish soap" effect on the canopy. Looks reminiscent of contemporary canopys on jets like the F-16.

Would like larger tail fins but I think I could live with it. Now I just have to recover from the YF-21 I bought that is supposed to show up today.

Those are pretty huge tail fins. Maybe they run into a breakage problem or something. That or giant tail fins on the batroid mode looks ridiculous. They do look a bit smaller on the line art batroid.

That's what I've hoped for. That doesn't fix the stubby nose, but at least it would look better with bigger tail fins.

At the very least someone in the community could cast some bigger ones in resin. I'd buy a pair.

Vostok 7

If the nose where bigger I think people would be bitching about the batroid mode "Hanging Low". If you compare the batroid and fighter line art there is no winning here. Yamato can't compete with anime magic.

Some people have been saying a week or two but for me it took about a month. Also cost me $18US with shipping to get them ($3/part and $12 shipping EMS). The longest part was waiting for them to get back to me and tell me they had the part and could ship it. Once I gave them my credit card info. it only took a week to get it. Check out the "Overdrive now offering replacement parts for Yamato" thread at the top of the toys forum.

Hey guys remember that this could all be due to camera lighting. Lets wait till someone actually has any of the production "brown" valks in their hands before we start bitching about the color being wrong.

But yeah your right it does look a bit light from the photos.

Just ask for the shoulder hinges from overdrive and spiecify exactly what valk you have (ie. 1/60 Vf-1S Roy F...). I just got my new "shoulder" hinges and this is what they actually send you. Note that I removed the shoulder pads so that I could loosen the screws a bit.

Now I will have extra arms (minus hands) if I ever break them.

Yep Macross Cannon Fodder Brown is like the Red Ensign of Star Trek and why I love Galaxy Quest........those guys should never leave the ship.

Guy: I changed my mind. I wanna go back.

Dane: After the fuss you made about getting left behind?

Guy: Yeah, but that's when I thought I was the crewman that stays on the ship, and something is up there, and it kills me. But now I'm thinking I'm the guy who gets killed by some monster five minutes after we land on the planet.

Nesmith: You're not gonna die on the planet, Guy.

Guy: I'm not? Then what's my last name?

Nesmith: It's, uh, uh - -I don't know.

Guy: Nobody knows. Do you know why? Because my character isn't important enough for a last name, because I'm gonna die five minutes in.

DeMarco: Guy, you have a last name.

Guy: DO I? DO I? For all you know, I'm "Crewman Number Six"! Mommy... mommy...

Dane: Are we there yet?

:lol:

Yeah after seeing that cool model from the VF-11B thread I have to agree that if Yamato could come out with a toy half as nice as that model it would be awesome.

Nah, I think in the cartoon the way the legs attach and how that area is colored/treated is the stuff of anime only territory. In fighter mode I'm sure you'll see the nose is all white.

Yeah looks like an coloring error. No matter what happens someone is going to scream "it's not anime accurate" cause in one scene they noticed a strip or something that wasn't in any others. Lets face it cartoons from the 80s where not exactly colored or drawn well all the time so I think people need to be a little more forgiving sometimes.

Edit: I know this would probably not be anime accurate but I wish that the shoulders where brown. Would look better IMO.

Just got my parts from Overdrive yesturday. Talk about fast. Great service from Overdrive. I will have to use them in the future for more purchases. Just have to wait for the dollar to get stronger before I do that.

Argh! I just replaced the head on my VF-1S only to find that both of the shoulder hinges are cracked! I hope Yamato has fixed this problem by now. Looks like I will be sending another request to Overdrive. This time for replacement shoulder hinges.

I may have to re-think any further purchases of yamato ver. 2 1/60s.

I wouldn't worry about it that much. Most people report the problem with the VF-1S and as long as you loosen those upper arm hinges under the shoulder pads it should be allot better. Mine hasn't broken yet (just cracked) and considering what I got for my $18US to replace I am happy (both arms, minus hands, instead of just the shoulder hinges). If we lived in Japan it would have cost nothing but what can you do?

Edit:

Here are the pics I said I would take. Here are the 2 arms that I recieved from Overdrive when I requested the should hinge replacements. Note that they come with the shoulder plates attached but I removed them this morning so that I could loosen that ball joint up a bit.

Yes they're all models. It's Model Graphix Magazine of course. And that VF-4 was a scratch built.

SCRATCH BUILT! That Boy's got Fu**'n skills!

I have to agree. I like the fact that I have 1/60 VF-1s to go with my 1/60 YF-19, YF-21 and VF-0. Keeping it common makes it more attractive as a collector IMO.

Oh and I don't think Yamato is expecting everyone to buy every single valk (just some of us ubber Otakus how have NO impluse control! ). People are going to buy the schemes they like and ignore the rest. For example I love the DYRL VF-1As and will probably pick those up over the TV VF-1As....

Demon on my shoulder: "The TV ones look so cool in batroid mode though!"

Angel:"Stop it! Remember what you said about impulse control?"

Anyways I think you also have to remember that at this price point ($90US)I can see why they are releasing mutilple versions. If they where priced the same as the 1/48s I would probably only see myself picking up 1 or 2. With the 1/60s I have 1 (with 2 on order) and I can see myself picking up another 2 or 3 latter this spring or in the summer. Crap I can pick up 2 or 3 VF-1s for the price I just paid for a YF-21! That's pretty fricken attractive no matter how cool the YF-21 is (VF-22 is cooler though ).

I am not going to collect the whole line just what I like....if I can control myself! Besides they are just repaints, basically, so it's not like it's costing Yamato a whole bunch to produce and it keeps, some of us at least, salivating over the next one they are going to release. I personally think the CF VF-1J looks awesome! Now I just need a release date............

OH and I love those huge 1/48s but, like I said, I just don't think they would look right with my other valks.

Got the replacement "hinges" from Overdrive today. Have to say I am happy as a Pig in Sh**!

FYI replacement hinges included arms (minus hands) as well which I find a little bit troubling (Yamato could have just sent the hinges and I would have been happy) but I am not complaining! Oh and I see I will have to take these arms apart as well and adjust the screws a bit on that ball joint (as others have mention on this forum) for the arms is still a bit to tight. I think it could be a factor in the cracking on my existing arms.