gwfalcon Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 (edited) Do you guys think Yamato will release new 1/48 line with 1/60 ver2 material and technique? Personally I really wsh they can do that. If so, do you wanna buy one, some, or even the whole new series? Edited October 31, 2009 by gwfalcon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ff95gj Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Do you guys think Yamato will release new 1/48 line with 1/60 ver2 material and technique? Personally I really wsh they can do that. If so, do you wanna buy one, some, or even the whole new series? I believe that would happen, when newer technologies appear, but not in 3 to 5 years. The old 1/48 line had a life cycle of around 3 years right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugimon Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 not if it's just an upscaled 1/60 ver 2.0. Maybe if it were the same sort of revolutionary leap that the 1/48 represented... and the new one would have to be amazing and affordable for me to rebuy them... again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dobber Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Doubt it would happen, BUT.....if it did areas the could be improved would be the arms hanging low fix, like what was done in the V.2 1/60's and the wide canopies that both the 1/48 and the v2 1/60's have. Design wise, imo, the v.2's seem to be pretty close to perfect as I think they can get except the wide canopy thing and that isn't even too bad. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UN Spacy Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 No....I hope the 1/48 lineup stays as dead as Hayao Kakizaki. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vi-RS Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 No....I hope the 1/48 lineup stays as dead as Hayao Kakizaki. +1, and bring more schemes and accessaries in V2 1/60, space booster packs etc.... I think the 1/60 is in good scale and affordable to get the whole line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueMax Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 For me... if they are going to do anymore 1/48 VF-1s, it HAS GOTTA BE THE 2 SEATERS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwfalcon Posted October 31, 2009 Author Share Posted October 31, 2009 For me... if they are going to do anymore 1/48 VF-1s, it HAS GOTTA BE THE 2 SEATERS! It is my another dream. But if they make them true using 1/60 ver2 skill, it would be perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenius Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Maybe I'd be interested if they put the heads in the right place in battroid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lechuck Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Maybe I'd be interested if they put the heads in the right place in battroid. At the cost of having a cockpit with pron star proportions... no thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatalist Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 If they decided to do anything else in 1/48, I would hope they'd consider doing something other than the VF-1. It's been done to death. Leave the VF-1 to the 1/60 v.2 line. Personally, I wouldn't mind if they took a stab at making a better sculpted YF/VF-19, 21/22 and VF-11. The latter with CORRECT tailfins and functionality. Overall, I'd like to see Yamato get into variants we have yet to see. Rehashing the same thing over and over again is getting boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutch Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 I'd rather have the 1/60's. They're just about perfect (except shoulders on some) and they fit in nicely with the 1/60's from Frontier, Zero, Plus, and 7... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotheran Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 I doubt Yamato is going to do 1/48 again. I picked up some while ppl were dumping. They have the 1/60 done so well so I doubt they'll do 1/48 again and i think they sell 1/60s faster than the 1/48s did. Doing 1/48 for other designs would be too large and expensive. A 1/48 VF-1 is smaller than a SV-51 and a 1/48 is only a tad taller than other valks like VF-11 and VF-25. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nugundamII Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 (edited) Thats a big NO 10 . 4 Edited November 1, 2009 by nugundamII Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valk-1S Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Highly unlikely in the short term. Maybe in a long time over 10 years from now they could consider. Reason being is that if they do, I doubt sales will do well. One, there's the old 1/48 where some people are happier with the 1/48 as compared to the 1/60. A revised 1/60 had the benefit over a revised 1/48 as the scale match all the other recent releases such as from the Macross Plus and Macross Zero line. For people who want the scales to be consistent they would purchase the 1/60. Market overflooded with different VF-1s, and people have collected a few now while in the beginning, they had none. Also, 1/60 sales did not seem to do as well as the original 1/48. You did not see HLJ having sales when the 1/48 first came out and for quite a while, while for the 1/60 they already had sales on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hirohawa Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Bring on the 1/32 Valkyries! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent-GHQ Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 I speculated that the new 1/60s was intended to match up with the more dominate 1/60 Valkyries. But it was just around the time the economy took a dive. I'd rather pay $100 bucks than $150 bucks for a 1/48 V2. I think the 1/60 V2 price is more attainable in this time. Who knows, maybe later! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
optimator88 Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Whats wrong with you people?!?! V2 1/48 valks would be nothing but asskicking awesomeness! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EXO Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 they'll make them for $1500 each special order for 100 Yamato website customers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondo Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 I only have one 1/48 but it makes me smile every time I look at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vi-RS Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 The only thing that the 1/48 wins is the size, other than that 1/60 V2 wins everything. 1/60 is a good scale and price point to capture more sales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenius Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 At the cost of having a cockpit with pron star proportions... no thank you! If they couldn't figure out a better way of fixing that in 1/48 scale then I'd agree with you... no thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Until the economy gets back on it's feet I wouldn't even bother thinking about it. Even when people DO have some disposable income for larger scale purchases like a 1:48 the market is pretty saturated with VF-1's, and even if they pulled something as random as a VF-5000 or VF-4 out of their @$$es I imagine that a lot of people would be wanting it in 1:60 to match a majority of other valks in their collection. The 1:48's are amazing pieces of design and engineering and will usually dominate any display they are incorporated into, but 1:60 is where the cool kids hang out these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regult Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 No....I hope the 1/48 lineup stays as dead as Hayao Kakizaki. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0 Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 they'll make them for $1500 each special order for 100 Yamato website customers.5,000 for low viz. I don't think Yamato is going to take another stab at the 1/48. Why would they need ver 2 materials? They are made out of the same materials basically. For the 1/48, the only things to really improve would be to give it the double elbow joints from the v2 1/60, arms that don't go below the legs in fighter mode, pegs for the hands to clip the gun on better, bigger hands, slimmer legs, a more durable BP-8, the simpler FAST pack booster connection, et al. Yet why pay more for that when you can get all of that on the V2 1/60 version? I think chances are higher that Yamato designs an all new fuselage component with a longer nose that's collapsible in battroid mode for the v2 1/60. This eliminates the priest collar, and gives it the long nose that the 1/48 has in fighter mode. Being that the front fuselage component is removable to begin with, the idea isn't too far fetched. Though honestly. the shorter nose and priest collar aren't even remotely big deals for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruskiiVFaussie Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 (edited) No....I hope the 1/48 lineup stays as dead as Hayao Kakizaki. lol nice, +2 of course. 1/60 FOREVER! Edited November 2, 2009 by ruskiiVFaussie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwfalcon Posted November 2, 2009 Author Share Posted November 2, 2009 Woo, so many people are ..... not in line with me Now I am pretty sure that Yamato will not redo it (Even if they want, they will stop right after seeing the discussion here). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ignacio Ocamica Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 I don't think they'll release a v2 1/48 VF-1. I'd buy it if it's better than the new v2 1/60 (it's already 99.9% perfect in my book). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Train Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 After they finish generating every random permutation of re-coloring for the 1/60 VF-1's yea... they will probably revisit 1/48's. There are 256^3 = 16,777,216 possible hexadecimal color values so we might have to wait a long time lol! TASTE TEH RAINBOW.... In all seriousness though, I would like a revisit of the 1/48 series. Since they are larger, it will probably be easier to keep things within design tolerance&specification and hence more quality and less prone to breakage? Don't know, just quotting from my engineering textbook . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VF-18S Hornet Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 +1, and bring more schemes and accessaries in V2 1/60, space booster packs etc.... I think the 1/60 is in good scale and affordable to get the whole line. Agreed the 1/48 line was good but the V2 1/60 is much better in size and design, I had to box two of my 1/48's to make room for the five 1/60's I have now---correction six forgot the the VE-1 comming in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
optimator88 Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 For the 1/48, the only things to really improve would be to give it the double elbow joints from the v2 1/60, arms that don't go below the legs in fighter mode, pegs for the hands to clip the gun on better, bigger hands, slimmer legs, a more durable BP-8, the simpler FAST pack booster connection, et al. Yet why pay more for that when you can get all of that on the V2 1/60 version? I think chances are higher that Yamato designs an all new fuselage component with a longer nose that's collapsible in battroid mode for the v2 1/60. This eliminates the priest collar, and gives it the long nose that the 1/48 has in fighter mode. Being that the front fuselage component is removable to begin with, the idea isn't too far fetched. Those are the only things to improve??I think you just named everything that a new 1/48 could be. Sounds ok to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vi-RS Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 Lots of online shops and stores still have the Max and Milia with 40% off, but still sitting on shelves. Why TV Max 1A is special order with limited run? That shall give us an idea how the 1/48 has gone through with the sales, I seriously doubt that 1/48 is doing good like 1/60. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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