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I would buy this over a helmet and since my 2 Strats have frets all worn down I'm in the market for another guitar.

I've yet to get my hands on yamato's VF-17 and I was wondering what the battroid comparisons are between bandai? Overall impressions on bandai's version is good but not perfect. Fidgety transformation to the point of frustration. Lots of fragile bits and things poppin off which is better than breaking. The leg transformation is difficult to understand in their manual and chance of breakage is very high. I noticed also that the knees are molded in that grey plastic. I've had toys molded in the same grey plastic and they deteriorate over time and all of them were in a display case and left alone only to find those those joint fractures when I had to packed them to move.

Got mine.

Thanks for that link Kurisama!

This is not the the right thread to debate this but AFAIK the Macross license had been contested and HG lost. So sorry to propagate this here.

Absolutely gorgeous! Now it's tough to top that masterpiece unless some talented person knows how to light it up with some fiber optics and LEDs. It absolutely needs to be done step by step. Wonderful work as always wm cheng!

Will they address the shoulder issues that were problematic w/ all the newer 1/60 VF-1 v1 or were the VE-1 had not been affected at all?

HG worldwide exclusive license is debatable and unenforcible. HG does not have the money to beat Bandai, IMO.

That's too bad!!

I'm gonna say what may have been stated by others on occasion regarding the marketing aspect of the Macross license which is that it is not big as Transformers or Gundam. Those two examples, you would see see products that vary in price range and has a price appeal that can't be beat. I don't know how Macross Frontier did with a world wide audience but it may not have been what Bandai was expecting in Gundam numbers. It may have brought some attention to the Macross universe but I'm not seeing Bandai products flooding the market. Yamato is much smaller and it's licensing deals have a small percentage of recognition which is one hit against them. Another hit would be manufacturing a complicated product that it may not be ideal for a toy company to dole out the capital to produce a product avoiding the risk of speculative demand which is why you see these "Web Exclusives." So, I don't think it's greed on their part and I'm thinking that they would like noting more to produce these in heaps for the consumer to purchase at a reasonable price. But over the long drawn out recession in countries that are keeping their money within their shores, I think Yamato had to look at it from a limited vantage point for keeping the company rolling through the rough fiscal turmoil. The Japanese Yen is at it's positive stride against the US Dollar and I see that HLJ had to take some proactive approach to keep their US customer base from being dormant patrons. I feel that if they loose those customers from abroad it would be detrimental since their business is a web english-centric consumer site. And on the other hand, Yamato is a manufacturer and it is not as flexible like HLJ where loss leaders could be implemented to keep them afloat. Yamato does not have another popular toy license to supplement them to invest in their next bold product development. It is really down to the consumer who has a voice in their company whether it has a thick skin in the toy arena.

My current world view is that the dollar isn't as strong as before and perhaps over the long recession we've been experiencing the market for these kind of collectibles dwindle because consumer demand isn't there for the manufacturer to produce these more affordably. I'm no financial analyst and I don't think you have to be to figure out that most of everything that you buy now a days has hiked up in price and I apologize ahead of time, if my response could be interpreted as condescending. Label me wacko for purchasing of what I deem to be as a work of art. Some people collect paintings which is just a canvas stretched over a wooden frame and sometimes pay exorbitant prices for it. Later to find out that the piece that they purchased has doubled in value.

It's been awhile since I posted and I caved in and bought the dayum thing! Well things!

All of items that I mentioned that had breakage were display pieces. It has never been transformed more than twice and the grey part still deteriorated.

I will have to check mine but all the Yamato products released with grey plastic had suffered from breakage starting from the 1/72 vf-11, 1/60 vf-0a, 1/10 garlands, I will have to also see whether the 1/60 vf-11 may have any cracks. So will Yamato address this issue?

Is the crane truck included in the set or are selling that separately?

wow looks nice

The backdrop looks like my parent's neighborhood

way cool.... can't wait to see more

let see on the top of the $2300 I would pay an extra $500 for a new 17" MacBook Pro definite big fail whale for Yamato....

I wonder if this is a trend for Hasegawa to make more of the VF-1 with it's innards exposed. Next 1/48 would be all the avionics at the nose section and if you buy all future releases this way you'll have an accumulation to build up an exposed cross section of the VF-1.

If you can get anyone to wear it then I would say pretty rare. One must realize that there's a limit to fandom and anyone daring enough to hop over that fence is a rare breed indeed.

My bets are all in for every valk suggested in the list but I would wager more on a VF that has not gotten the 'mass product to consumer' treatment that it needs. So vf-2ss is truly a compelling product to purchase in this tight economy. Sure we have the Bandai's version but it was crap and I don't particularly care for parts-formers. Then I would say, 'make way for the Yamato's VF-4."

If the toynami alphas weren't so shotty and fugly I would go and get all the betas & remaining alphas to my collection. It's as if Toynami had the ability to produce an optimus prime and the trailer is the only note worthy part of the toy. But that's expected in Toynami's track record for making ass backward decisions, they flower up the packaging around a heavily flawed product.

This might help you if you put all the valks that you like in fighter mode on the top shelf of course that would consume quite a bit of real estate. However you might want to look at several sites that sell acrylic risers or display risers that you can stack fighters on top of another. The second shelf would be all that is gerwalk and you can use flexistand or yamato's stands to display those with or without. The bottom shelf would of course be in battroid mode and that would be a space saver when compared to the other shelves. If you don't do it I will most certainly set mine up in this fashion.

The monster is probably the only non-part swapper of the bunch.