Shawn

MacrossWorld will be on display in the Exhibit hall this year...come see the "Wall of Takani" in person! Will bring many other fun treats as well (for the newer folks, Yoshiyuki Takani did all the Box Art for the entire Nichimo line of kits shown here, and also about half the Imai and Arii model kits from 82-84)

Its about FREAKING TIME...I was this close to just making my own and self printing something. https://tower.jp/article/feature_item/2022/09/02/3002 If you can't wait 5 more months for the book, come see the "Wall of Takani" in person at the upcoming SDCON in Torrance on Sep 17th!

Sweet!! The Regult Small Missile Pod just arrived at Hobby Link Japan...with just 1 day left in my private warehouse for the GBP...whew!

you can bring that original picture into GIMP and monkey around with the exposure...you get this i have no idea what I am doing...sure someone can do it better

Not really any new info, but thought it was an interesting read ...found on an old hard drive ****************** Subject: Re: Slightly off-topic: Jetfire Commercial From: "mercheant" mercheant@earthlink.net" Date: 1/26/00 12:25 AM Pacific Standard Time hello all... I've been lurking in this newgroup forever; thought I would add my two-cents to this thread... Takatoku Toys sculpted the orginal prototype for the classic 1/55 scale Macross Valkyries; these toys, among others, were released throughout the original Macross series television run. Although the Takatoku toy lines from this series sold well and were wildly popular, Takatoku was in serious financial trouble. Once the series ended its run, Takatoku sold the molds and the rights to produce the Valkyries to the Matsushiro Company. Matsushiro had plans to release another line of Valkyries, but it too had financial problems. In hopes to produce a quick profit, Matsushiro sold a small run of Valkyries to Hasbro. This Valkyrie type was a basic Takatoku VF-1 with the obvious color changes- ie, red armour, red and black paint, etc. The only design difference was the trimmed nose. Hasbro requested this change to appease their concerns that the sharp tip of the orginal design might not be safe for young children. Stop your laughing!! ANywAy, I've gotten ahead of myself... Why would Hasbro need the Jetfire line of Transformers? The answer is, oddly, Bandai, Co. Hasbro was lagging behind in the transforming craze that was sweeping North America. Bandai had its dismal, but popular, Go-Bots line. This series and toys were selling quite well, though both were of low quality. Hasbro was planning to dominate the market with its upcoming Transformers lineup. Transformers had been released in the U.S. and were selling somewhat well; Hasbro was planning a larger toy release with the syndication of the original Transformers television series. However, Hasbro was afraid that the lineup of toys did not include very many large protaganists... outside of Optimus Prime, the good guys were much smaller than those baddies, the Decepticons. This was due, of course, to the fact that the Autobots were almost all cars, and Decepticons were mainly flight capable machines- planes, etc. ('cept a very large Megatron, hehe). The attempt to have a some sort of scale created this problem. Hasbro quieted this concern by including the lone Autobot who was a plane, Jetfire. With the popularity and quality of the Macross toys, the resemblance to American F-16's, and its large size, Hasbro felt confident it would compete well with the Bandai lineup of toys. At this same time, Bandai of Japan had just finished talks to develop toys for the in-development Macross film. The Valkyrie molds were once again sold to another company; this time from Matsushiro to Bandai. Bandai gave Takatokus' original design a facelift to match the DYRL? Valkyries, and sculpted a few added items: StrikeValkyrie armour, and the awesome VE-1 and SuperOstrich. The two new Valks came from the Matsushiro desgn- dull noses fit well into the frame of two ships not meant for heavy combat. BUT! When Bandai acquired the Matsushiro mold rights, they had to honor the contracts previously made with Hasbro. The Transformers series had exploded and Hasbro needed stock... Bandai finished the agreement to make the Jetfires, although the second line had Bandai inscribed on them. This is when the majority of the standard Jetfires were made. BTW, the back stock of Matsushiros that Bandai acquired simply had a black foil sticker placed over the Matsushiro name. Some of the Matsushiros were not assembled- this is why some Matsushiros appear to be standard Bandai, with the exception of the foil sticker. (God don't remove it... unless you want to hurt value). The Matsushiro was only released in the U.S., the standard Jetfire was released throughout the world. Ugh, much too much info... mercheant Obforgot: Jetfire was referred to as Skyfire in the original series, and looked nothing like the Valkyrie. I know nothing of other TF series...

I realized tonight that we are currently as far away from the Bandai 2002 Valkyrie Releases, as the 2002 Valkyrie Releases were from the original Macross airing 1982 > 2002 > 2022 Just a bit freaky

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Ask if your friend wants to sell it 😛

I, like many others here, was a bit of a data hoarder in the old days. We saw cool stuff and said 'Mine!' We should have a separate thread somewhere where we can go down memory lane...post up old saved auctions, website screenshots etc Would be fun to see other's save data

and you can dive into their next gen page...dang this goes way back https://web.archive.org/web/20021202154510/http://member.nifty.ne.jp/musyuku/ENTER.html they are just crazy...literally.

From the Valkyrie Annex page I saved off in 1999 I.H.P 1/100 VF-4G LIGHTNING III （イベント限定モデル） ＷＦ等のイベントで　「　Ｉ．Ｈ．Ｐ．」というブース名で可変物をメインに発表している 造型無宿氏のキット。イベント限定販売のため一般には入手不可能。 キット内容は、１／１００という小柄なサイズながら、差し替え無しの完全変形を 実現している。氏はこのほかに　ＶＦ－１１、１７等を発表している。 氏のＨ．Ｐ．では、間もなくマクロス特集をする予定とか・・・ 詳しくは、こちらから！ http://member.nifty.ne.jp/musyuku/ and going to the WayBackMachine confirms IHP is a modeling circle https://web.archive.org/web/19991008165542/http://member.nifty.ne.jp/musyuku/

I had emailed IHP back in 2000, when the internet was nice people reaching out to each other (IHP/UNCM-Tanmen, heck even Imai and Nichimo...I was young and stupid and said why not!?) From what I recall (searching the old info), I had learned than Ryo Sakuragawa was the main rep for the Modeling Circle called IHP, which consisted of 3 people. I never went further into investigating the name, was too busy trying to buy the kits 😛

maybe they are going to do an english version 😛

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yep-will try and see how easy it is

What...only 19 years of posts isn't good enough!? 😛 Do you mean the pre-2003 posts on the old forum software? I had the pre-2003 set to read-only, but there were security issues even running it that way. I might be able to create a static html representation of it for viewing, but things like search functionality would probably need to be outsourced to a google site search or something...but would first need to find the hard drive it is on LOL

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I've had a few people comment to me personally and I am going to lock this thread. JRdesigns...you are welcome to repost and show your progress on this kit, but I am going to ask you solicit any personal sales elsewhere, such as your Facebook account. Thank you for understanding.

Adrian posted an update...the gofundme finally completed! Great work Adrian, and a big thanks to everyone who was able to contribute. https://www.gofundme.com/f/Miyatake?viewupdates=1&rcid=r01-166030062292-d24437d81a2a11ed&utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_email%2B1137-update-supporters-v5b

Going to step in here and ask people to please be careful and do your research. We appreciate new projects from members, but this is a new account, and asking for a $180 deposit with a very limited presence here is always something to consider. Thank you Shawn

Dug out this book out of an old box I had in the corner I know its not necessarily 'official' but it has some great insights...like the step being the 'toe' on the nozzle And those bar things inside the feet...they flip down to offer more surface contact are on soft ground just thought they were pretty cool ideas

Add to Cart is enabled on the site now (4 hours now) The fact that is was not sold out is a good sign haha I wish

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