Unix Square Robotech VF-1J

[sh9000]

Garbage x1000.

[anime52k8]

23 hours ago, CF18 said:

Shanghai Wonderfest.  Source: https://youtu.be/XUrMw42iP6g?t=210 

 

tbh, the Tomahawk armor makes it better. Not good, but better.

[jvmacross]

Their idea of trying to kitbash a Destroid with a VF-1 was likely ripped-off from R-Area....

However, the original attempts first appeared during SDFM-era publications....the concept was then brought back decades later in Macross The First....

It's too bad that its first attempt as an actual toy is turning out a complete eyesore....

 

[Seto Kaiba]

2 hours ago, jvmacross said:

Their idea of trying to kitbash a Destroid with a VF-1 was likely ripped-off from R-Area....

Almost certainly... they did basically the exact same thing with the Tomahawk beam cannons.

 

2 hours ago, jvmacross said:

However, the original attempts first appeared during SDFM-era publications....the concept was then brought back decades later in Macross The First....

What was done back in SDFMI-era publications didn't really go much beyond giving the VF-1 a Destroid's arm cannon for a gunpod or sticking the Tomahawk's gun clusters in place of the Armored Pack's chest missile launchers.

Sticking whole Destroid body parts on a VF as a FAST Pack was something we didn't really see prior to Macross Ace and Macross the First when the Macross's chief engineer started to get weird about FAST packs. 

[Big s]

21 hours ago, anime52k8 said:

tbh, the Tomahawk armor makes it better. Not good, but better.

Yeah, still not good. Looks like the legs are having a tough time holding its weight despite being extra thick 

[MKT]

These line of VFs actually look worse in color compared to when they were still in grey mold. I remember thinking this of the base 1J, and now this Tomahawk armored 1J. It's as if the color magnifies all the ugly detailing even more.

[Big s]

52 minutes ago, MKT said:

These line of VFs actually look worse in color compared to when they were still in grey mold. I remember thinking this of the base 1J, and now this Tomahawk armored 1J. It's as if the color magnifies all the ugly detailing even more.

That usually goes the other way. I often see an uncolored prototype and it usually will look far more impressive once all the colors are added to it. This thing in the other hand just gets uglier and uglier 

[pengbuzz]

On 10/3/2025 at 12:18 AM, CF18 said:

Shanghai Wonderfest.  Source: https://youtu.be/XUrMw42iP6g?t=210 

 

(Let's try this again, since my first post vanished...)

An already ugly rendition of the VF-1 with a poorly thought out connection for the legs and shoulders and proportions that make the fighter and gerwalk modes look somewhere between hideous and clownish gets armor nobody asked for.

Hard pass for me... doubly so now with this.

[mark-1s]

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