MacrossJunkie

I only really like the 1/60's because they are in scale with the rest of the valkyries and also took up less space and generally had tighter joints. Plus, that scale had the two seaters where the 1/48's didn't. My beefs with the 1/60's are as other people have mentioned. That stupid ugly hook thing that leaves a hole in the tail and seems to put a lot of stress on the backpack joint. The extra piece needed to attach to the boosters. It doesn't look right and also scrapes against the top surface of the fighter... especially annoying if you have a clear coat on them. Lack of surface details compared to the 1/48. However, I didn't really care so much about the loss of gimmicks.

I hope there is an actual locking mechanism for the chest to keep it from sliding and pointing so far down like this while handling it. I love the final texture of the toy. Looks great in fighter mode at the very least and the profile still seems fairly thin in Renato's video.

I would be surprised if they got the colors that badly matched in the final release product considering that they got the version 1 Ozma's colors matched up pretty good. The completely different color for the knee joint makes me think that is still a test version. With all the care and consideration they've put into the renewal version, it would seem completely asinine and just downright brain dead for them to just pick some random color for the knee joint in the final product. What bothers me more right now are those horrendous poses they manage to display them in... I'm kidding

I'm not sure why the gap doesn't really bother me. I think I just assume in my mind there would naturally be one there due to the difference in shape. The gap in the 1/60 YF-19 seems pretty minimal to me, actually. It also has a little wall a little further in that sort of covers the gap so the hole doesn't reach further in. Does the 19 Kai have that? On a completely unrelated note, sometimes when I look at the VF-19S in the pics, the bright yellow stripes make me think "hey, it's a tron valk!" Just the way the bright thin squiggly lines look against the darker colors in battroid mode brings that to mind. I guess I'm just weird

For me, despite generally liking the fighter mode for valks a bit more than battroid, it was the battroid mode that sold it for me. The fighter mode looks alright to me, but it's a bit thick compared to the VF-25 and 27. The overall design of the battroid mode just looks pretty cool to me. That said, I keep mine in fighter mode because the joints seemed to get loose quickly when kept in battroid mode for some reason. The same with the VF-25G and S I have. The 25G just got completely floppy after I got it and kept it posed in battroid mode for a month or so. The 25S, I had kept in fighter mode after I got it, but then decided to take it back to battroid and noticed it was still very tight. After a month of having it posed in battroid, it turned to flop when I tried reposing it. That may be the main disappointing factor of the Bandai valks. My Yamato valks still retain whatever tightness they had since the day I got them, regardless of what mode I leave them in for a long time.

There is something that has been on my mind regarding the Frontier valks and was reminded of when looking at Jenius' review. Does anyone else feel that the cockpits and canopies for the VF-25 and later designs seem to be comparatively smaller than those of pre-Frontier valks? Back when the v1 VF-25s came out, even though the valks themselves were in scale, they just didn't look like that was the case due to the canopy size, not even taking into account the pilot figures. With the YF-29 and VF-25 renewals, the canopies have lengthened a tiny bit, but the width is about the same and still look much smaller than those of previous generation valks. It makes them feel like they are a smaller scale to me. The VF-27's seems like an even worse offender with the canopy being even more shallow and narrow. There doesn't seem to be room to make the pilot figures any bigger because it would require the cockpits to be bigger. The arms of the pilot figures are already touching the sides of the cockpit. That made me wonder if the cockpits on the Yamato valks were too big. Now, we know some of the pilots figures that Yamato made are on the large side *cough*YF-19 Isamu*cough*, but the cockpit sizes look about right. They look properly scaled to the rest of the valk, so I can only conclude that Frontier-era valks were just designed with teeny tiny cockpits. Even the SV-51 cockpit and canopy which seems slimmer and more cramped compared to other pre-Frontier valks still seems cavernous compared to the VF-25 and up. Not really a complaint, just something that crossed my mind and made me think why the pilots are so much smaller even on the renewals despite them filling the cockpits with hardly any wasted space.

So you're saying it's on the bleeding edge of toy design?

I would be ecstatic with the news of a DX Battle Frontier, Battle Galaxy, or a VF-171EX. An announcement of any of those three would really make my day.

Nice. So then, Jasonc might actually have a shot at selling his for close to $500

I have to say their customer support has been very good and they have really improved the speed of their shipping over the years. Back 7 or 8 years ago, it often took a week or two just to ship out an in stock item. Now they ship stuff out the next business day and with FedEx or EMS, I've gotten things from them in 3 days as well, going from Japan to the east coast. As for customer support, my stickers for the GBP-1S were faulty and I emailed them and followed up with a picture of the sticker sheet. They saw that it was indeed defective and in only a few days, I got an email saying that a replacement sticker sheet was being shipped via EMS. That's some good customer service.

That's probably their overall plan, I'm guessing. Put up auctions for stuff at ridiculous prices for a while so people try desperately to find something not so insane. Then put up the same item under a different account at a cheaper yet still expensive price and people think that's the cheapest they will ever find it and end up buying it at that price. I wonder what is the highest price a YF-29 has actually sold for on ebay.

My guess is that since Tatsunoko was involved as one of the production companies for DYRL, that they at the very least believe that they have the rights to license the designs in it to other companies. Toynami was selling VF-1s with strike packs some time ago which, of course, only shows in DYRL.

Those hands are amazing! I can't believe you were able to have joints small enough for the secondary joints on the fingers themselves. How is it that Yamato can't make hands even half as good as these for most of their Macross stuff? They put tons of design into engineering the valks and then they run out of steam and half ass the hands. Given the small size of the joints, are the hands expected to be fairly durable (as in won't risk breaking just trying to bend the fingers)?

I don't see the problem with the merge. 99% of the pics in this thread are of the 1/55s and their related knock-offs anyway so people posting pics into this thread will likely keep posting the 1/55s anyway. Also, now it's easier for you to see the ones people have posted in the past as well. While we're on the subject of merging threads, could we merge the two "Favorites" threads as well? They are nearly identical.

I like how the canopies are painted. It makes me think the entire fuselage section is carved out of a block of wood. That gray VF-1A in one of the pics looks like it was ripped off from the original low-vis 1/48 VF-1A right down to the shade of the secondary colors and where they were placed. You know they are creatively bankrupt when they start copying non-canon color schemes.

So the toy version of the gunpod doesn't fold up then? That's a little disappointing, but I guess sometimes even Yamato can't perform miracles.

I don't think anyone was saying you were the guy who collects $20 transformers. Eugimon was speaking of a hypothetical situation where someone who collects inexpensive transformers happens to come to these boards and sees people paying hundreds of dollars for transforming toys.

I used to think paying $100 for a toy was certifiably insane... Then the 1/48 VF-1s came out and I was like, "okay that is awesome, I'll just get one, just this one time." Then the VF-1S came out and I thought "Gah, the VF-1S is what I really want." and so on. It's that boiled frog syndrome.

Beautiful shot. That must be a pretty expensive lens too. For the light tents, I got mine on Amazon. While I can't recommend a brand, I'd say to look up the reviews there and also get as large a tent as would be practical for you. Mine is just 24" and I found it to be too small for more than single valkyries. If I were to get another, I'd maybe get a 60" tent. That would give me room to play with better angles as well. I'd also get my own separate backdrops. The ones that came with my tent really really suck.

So I guess the hip gun armor must just clip on instead of using pegs like the original did.

I could hardly call it a love triangle though. It was at the very least the sloppiest love triangle I've ever seen. Gamlin <3 Mylene. Mylene ? Basara : Gamlin Basara <3 only his music. Technically I guess that makes it 4 points so that's a love... rectangle?

Does Klan get an S type because she's the squad leader for Pixie Squadron? Also does that mean that pixie squadron gets some gray VF-25's or something? That red VF-25 looks nice. Milia would be proud.

Yeah, that custom scheme is great. Yamato really should have made a release based on it.

As much as I like them, I would have EASILY chose for them to make the VF-171 in lieu of the Quarter or VB-6 or both.

Why are there two threads of basically the same topic from the same person? The other being Post a pic of your absolute favorite Macross toy Could have just said to post the pics in here also Anyway... I thought about this one and it came down to the YF-21, Max's VF-22S, and the 1/3000 SDF-1. I had to rule out the SDF-1 because while it is awesome, it isn't a valkyrie and valkyries are the main reason I got into Macross. While I like the neat armored canopy and face plate of the YF-21 better, I don't like how it looks with the gunpods attached as it spoils the sleekness of the fighter's profile. Whereas the 22S looks sleeker with the integrated gunpod covers. So I guess my pick is Max's VF-22S. I like its color scheme a lot along with the added stripe on the tail fins, plus I put much more effort into that one than I did with the YF-21 so it holds more value to me. Also, Max. 'nuff said. I don't feel like taking it out to snap some new pics so I'll just repost a couple that I have already shown before.