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Pulled some Macross’ the First volumes off the shelf yesterday and today. They are gorgeous, and annoyingly incomplete.. i have all 6 physical volumes, i was irritated to find they were rebooted without even finishing a first time around… what got me to get them off the shelf was some very wishful thinking as i am rewatching SDF Macross. I decided to rewatch THIS time with the english dub just to check it out, but I took the blu rays and dvds and replaced that crummy dvd film grain video with the nice 1080p, did a bit of combining in Premiere and the result is not bad. As i age (48) im less actively hostile toward dubbing.. ANYHOW.. its so clear that every other episode or so was farmed out to be poorly drawn and Mikimoto’s character designs are not faithfully recreated in threes Eps at all… which got me to look again, wistfully, at what did get completed of ‘The First’ So the wishful thinking was that someday someone would truly remaster the tv show, like by carefully fixing everything, redrawing the bad stuff with the exact same look as the original.. 36 episodes of Ai Wa Nagareru or Pine Salad quality! (Think Like the grassroots Star Wars Despecialized Edition kind of project.. if i were 20 I’d probably try to do it myself! (I was going to be an illustrator but ended up in graphic design, then IT) … if anyone noticed sell it to that American company we all love haha. ) That is what got me looking at The First again.. ah well, will never happen. And anime character design has turned a corner, mostly into styles I dont like. Even Mikimoto, while getting even more skill.. has still changed to characters with less softness whose nose tips are sharp enough to cut glass in these modern manga versions. At least he still put lots details in. As a kid, one of the attractive thing about Macross was how realistic the story seemed compared to normal American TV fare, and his character designs looked more like regular people than all the superheroes and such. Wow, i didnt mean to write an essay. Maybe ill copy it into a post on facebook and other old timers car reminisce too. Continuing this discussion would very way off the topic of the manga. I’m assuming that Macross the First is truly dead by now and will not be finished. Someone know different??

Thanks! Indeed that thread is a rabbit hole! I have tried the RetroBrite think on a 501st stormtrooper helmet. worked great, then it re-yellowed in record time... Anyhow let me not get off topic any more. Thanks for the lead!

That's the one. Guaranteed breakage over time if you take the armor on and off. and yea, its molded too big to fit easily. Its just such a strange thing to see on a toy thats engineered so well in so many other places!

That makes sense, but I don't know enough about light spectrums and UV to know if the indoor overhead fluorescents can cause yellowing. The room I use has blinds that are always shut. Maybe the yellowing is just inevitable from the plastic used. I'm SURE i can find a thread on THAT.

Tell me if there's a better thread for this. But this looks like a good place to ask about MODDING Detolfs... Has anyone tried, or had success, with putting UV film (like in car window tint) on your detolfs to help avoid yellowing of plastic in the toys?

VF-1J with GBP received. its Glorious... So vaguely remember reading this in the thread somewhere, but I just need to (minorly) vent.. What is with that tiny peg that is too tight in the bottom of the groin armor? its like they put it there just so there was something that would break super easily and you could give your Valkyrie that first little 'breakage' and feel bad like when you buy a brand new car and someone dings the door. There are like 10-20 different kinds of engineered connectors on this thing, and then they give us that one off a 1982 Imai kit?!?!? Note: I did not break it - YET.. but i did shave it down a bit with the x-acto

That might just work. There I was thinking of sanding and scraping and such.

Anyone ever post a fix for the intake covers? the left one seems a touch too big on several of my dx's and just pops out. I haven't seen a DIY thread on fixing it.

Hobby-Genki sent mail that Armor only is in stock and asked me how I would like it shipped. Today is a good day. BTW: Has anyone tried to put the GBP Armored VF-1J in a detolf yet? Wondering if it's too tall. Thanks!

Woohoo! HLJ Charged and I already put on shipping. DHL was a little under $50. Not horrid considering how shipping has been going since COVID started. I have a set of Just the Armor on Hobby Genki, which I'll probably sell when it arrives. I dont think I need two after all.

I’ve done this, it’s not hard. Used rit dye. but then i havent put Stick back together because i mean to paint the yellowed parts and i fixed the fabric in the dead of winter!

Wow. Without being mean too much.. the math.. nope. $55 plus shipping. 2.5 in tall? And (R) branding? Nah. I bought a 2 sentinel legioss, and all but 1 dx chogokin valkyrie. But. At some point the part of my mind that yells “Stoopid!” At the other part of my mind that says “shiny collectible” .. that yelling part sometimes WINS. Maybe they will be perfect transformable. Maybe they will be amazing. But that is way tinier than those way simpler Gakken ones we still managed to break. That many Joints that size and …time.. are enemies. Your mileage may vary

Hahahaha how many times have I said that same line.. after this I'm done.

This every 6 months or so schedule they are doing has really been working well for me... I've skipped tv max (mistake) and DYRL Kakizaki. And having stopped buying Gundam kits til I build the ones I have. The budget can handle what DX Chogokin is throwing at it. I'd love to see DYRL Max. So he is represented in my incomplete collection

I'm still hoping the rest of the missiles will be 'somehow' removable. Even if the upper ones are just painted tips on a flat plastic base... I'm holding out hope for a effects kit with itano circus type 'missile trails' .. that could include the missiles that don't come on the GBP. *fingers crossed* Actually I guess if they are not removeable the 'smoke cloud' could effectively just tab in over top.

HLJ is loading again. Yes. Order that went to 502 after payment and the email came through IS listed in Order History. This is actually the smoothest this has gone for me in like 2 yrs.

Bah.. all these Celebrities.. Kawamori breaks the internet Every time.

I think we killed HLJ

Whew. HLJ email confirmation came in even though the final page after payment 502'd. Guess I'm good. Check your emails if you got 502. if you did CC already you MIGHT have succeeded.

Valkaholics Anonymous.. Everytime we do this, I die a little inside. JK, but.. wow. 3am.. HLJ just asked me to prove 'I am not a robot' ... I'm not sure at this point.

Cool. Thanks! Guess I discussed a little of both.

Just ordered the armor after all. Budgets not tight tight, but I like to be practical. For the few times I transform it, I can take off the armor. $140 hurts a lot less than $340

Ok, so because I read it like months ago.. (I had no idea if his new posting scheme would be good or bad, I hadn't seen it before!) Is this where I lt IS okay to say this: After a change of heart, I registered email to let me know when the GBP was available again at Hobby genki. Got mail this morning and PO worked. I just have to hope they don't turn out to be like another company I used o trust and stopped. (you all know who but I'm not gonna dogpile on them in case they fix their service and return to being good) Also.. OMG that super robot wars video is cool!! Let me know if not. Rules are hard. I'm old. See my new profile pic from 1985

Well crud. I look at the pictures more about how maneuverable it looks and now I have non-buyers remorse. My Yamato 148 GBP is such a brick. Oh well maybe they'll reissue this in 6 months or something. They seem to do it with the other super and strike packs.

I want to want this, but i dont want to pay for it. Anyone else find the GBP turns you off a bit cause its so unposable (in previous incarnations)?? Maybe I'm alone in that. If i had the $350 or $400 to get the whole set i might do it.. Why am I Even posting this? It looks cool, honestly. I'm just getting cheap.