1/60 Yamato VF-4G Web-Exclusive Toy

[Graham]

Yamato webshop exclusive

Will be fully assembled and painted.

Discuss here.

Graham

[Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0]

Oh man. Hope this isn't too pricey(main thing I was worried about).

[treatment]

heh!

does Yamato-Toys really wants to out-a-hole Bandai for going web-shitclusives with the VF-4?

[Tking22]

If it's a kit I'm out, I have always wanted a VF-4 but I'm not much of a kit builder, and I suck at painting, hopefully we'll get confirmation that this is a completed toy, or maybe a toy version and a kit version.

Edited December 28, 2011 by Tking22

[David Hingtgen]

Hmmn. Depends on price. And is it more or less an unassembled plastic toy (as in, snip parts off sprues and glue/screw together) or is it more like a transformable resin kit, where you have to align and drill the holes and hinges yourself in a brittle material? The former would be easy for me, the latter a nightmare.

Regardless, whatever color it's molded in would be the final overall color, in my case. My 1/72 VF-25 taught me that painting a transforming anything is futile. Let's hope it's molded in DYRL-off-white.

So what schemes are out there? (quasi-canon ones, I mean, not "showed up in a magazine once") I can only think of Hikaru's 2012 one------there's also the blue-edged one that the SHE kit is always seen in---is that from anything, or just what SHE did for box-art?

[ff95gj]

Graham, we NEED an assembled toy. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

P.S. The flyer says nothing about whether it's a kit or toy. It only says it's to be merchandized and news to be released on the home page in Feb.

Edited December 28, 2011 by ff95gj

[Britai 7018]

I'm in, obviously I prefer the assembled toy, but woohoo either way!

[M'Kyuun]

I'm also hoping it's a toy and not a kit. It's a beautiful design, one that would look great next to my VF-1.

[Dobber]

Interesting......price will be the big issue as is if HLJ will carry it. I know they have carried other web exclusives but have they carried all of them once they got the rights to do so?

Chris

[GU-11]

I'm all for a VF-4, but it being a web exclusive and possibly an un-assembled kit....

If it's a plastic kit, I can still hack it, but resin kits are WAY out of my league. Not exactly a maestro with kit painting, either.

[eugimon]

cuz it's going to be a 600$ websclusive kit.

called it.

[Dobber]

I forget was the large super expensive SDF-1 a resin kit? If this is a kit hopefully it will be like the VF-1 kits. Problem is, if it is a kit and it is a web shop exclusive that may not bode well for it being plastic....if the original SDF-1 was resin.

Chris

[Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0]

If it's fully painted and assembled as a toy, I think $300+ might be reasonable. If it's unpainted in kit form and HDP, I'm out.

However I have some hope that it's an assembled toy, since the flyer doesn't make a distinction between kit and toy.

[Frogze]

The fact that the VF-4 is getting made by Yamato is very exciting

The pricing will certainly sting though, especially when one thinks of the much simpler Regult kit hitting the 38000 yen mark

[kanedaestes]

I hope to god it's assembled. I will save and pay the price but a kit of that magnitude I couldn't handle.

[macrossnake]

YES!!! I love VF-4.

Webshop exclusive is 'fine', but please don't make it as resin kit/unassembled kit...

[boyarque]

my oh my....and I still haven't bought the VF-17...

[Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0]

The fact that the VF-4 is getting made by Yamato is very exciting

The pricing will certainly sting though, especially when one thinks of the much simpler Regult kit hitting the 38000 yen mark

Regult was HDP and quite big though. If the VF-4 is made as a toy, it should be substantially cheaper.

[danth]

Holy smokes, please be an assembled toy!

[homura]

hooray!!can't wait to see it, great news after christmas.

[anime52k8]

called it.

You know, I hate it when you're right.

Definitely depressing news.

[Frogze]

Regult was HDP and quite big though. If the VF-4 is made as a toy, it should be substantially cheaper.

I do hope you're right, but regarding the latest prices of the normal released valks I seriously doubt it'll be cheaper than the Regult (HDP or not)

[Mommar]

Very tempting... but let's wait for some more info and a price. If I have to assemble it myself but that makes it cheaper I'm okay with that. Painting probably won't happen though. If it's like the Regult where I have to do the work plus pay through my ass I'm not going for it though.

[Scream Man]

so glad Im not in love with this plane! Hard to get and costs more than even a NORMAL Yamato jet? Yeah, Im good thanks!

[hutch]

Sadly this hobby is just getting too rich for me.

[Uxi]

Wow. Was not expecting a new mold. Guess it doesn't cost them as much if they never get tooling going and it's HDP?

Wonder if that's a viable model for them to do a bunch of less popular designs? Mylene's VF-11 and the Protect Armor, for example.

[jvmacross]

A VF-4 for 2012 is not really surprising.....

But Yamato.....please remain a world-class "toy" producer on this one.....thanks!

[skull_leader001]

must be joking, I can not imagine the price now!

[Renato]

You know, I hate it when you're right.

Definitely depressing news.

To be fair, he's only right about the "web exclusive" part..... so far.

[Kicker773]

hope its a toy... my megaroad needs a valk next to it..

[VF5SS]

Hmmn. Depends on price. And is it more or less an unassembled plastic toy (as in, snip parts off sprues and glue/screw together) or is it more like a transformable resin kit, where you have to align and drill the holes and hinges yourself in a brittle material? The former would be easy for me, the latter a nightmare.

It'd be more work for them to create something like the old SHE kit. I don't believe that HDP stuff they use is quite as versatile for a transforming toy so even if it is a kit I think it'd be just be like the VF-1 kits.

Regardless, whatever color it's molded in would be the final overall color, in my case. My 1/72 VF-25 taught me that painting a transforming anything is futile. Let's hope it's molded in DYRL-off-white.

http://macross2.net/...ck2012/vf-4.htm

Well the VF-4 is white and uh gray with a little red. Most of that could be done with color molding.

So what schemes are out there? (quasi-canon ones, I mean, not "showed up in a magazine once") I can only think of Hikaru's 2012 one------there's also the blue-edged one that the SHE kit is always seen in---is that from anything, or just what SHE did for box-art?

http://macross2.net/...ossga/vf-4g.htm

Oh you of all people should remember these :3

Even though in game they're those weird pastels. Moaramia's VF-4 is more the right color than Max's.

[1/1 LowViz Lurker]

Yes please be a toy. And if you are going to make it expensive please give us a stand with 30th anniversary engraving on the base of the stand or something to make this toy feel more special as a limited edition thing.

I wonder how rare this will be and how many will be made?

Edited December 28, 2011 by 1/1 LowViz Lurker

[David Hingtgen]

Of course those, but I always recall them as being the "most pastel" of all the valks in the game. If people think their VF-22's were "pale", they haven't seen their VF-4's. And if it's molded in white to start with---nope.

(they were also extremely boring, having almost no accent color---like they were simply dumped in a big bucket of paint, and that was the entire paint job) M&M valks need stripes, preferably white ones.

[Raptor One]

I figured it was the VF-4. I'll probably pick it up even if it is a kit as long as it's not too expensive. If it is a kit I hope the build isn't too difficult. I only have experience with snap fit.

[jvmacross]

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Edited April 19 by jvmacross