Graham

Hence, why it is often referred to as 'Star Trek the motionless picture. Graham

Cool for those that like em', but not my thing. I'll pass. Graham

Hah, "blame the toys", this is obviously a cunning plan instigated by your wife to get you to stop collecting toys. She's probably seeded the area around your toys with itching powder and as soon as you throw away your toys, the itching will 'mysteriously' disappear. Of course when you attempt to buy any new toys it will come back again. Cunning are the ways of women. Graham

Actually, jenius has a review of the Kaiyodo and Movic variable VF-1 toys up on his Scorched Earth Toys website, surprised he didn't mention it. Graham

I got to try transforming that at Wonderfestival a couple of years ago. It was incredibly fiddly, extremely lose and had no locking at all that I can recall. From what I remember, many of the parts were joined together by wire or fishing line. Graham

Yes, but they were non transformable. I still have them. Graham

Max VF-1S has a black heat shield......WTF!!!!! It should be blue damn it! Sorry, I refuse to accept that black is anything but an animation error. Gonna have to pick up a second DYRL Max 1A when they come out, so I can I can snag the blue heatshield for the 1S. Oh well, planning to keep ithe Max 1S in fighter mode mostly anyway. Graham

That's from last month's hobby mags. New mags should be out by this Friday, so hoping for some new pics. Graham

Ya' missed the small print! Graham

It was posted in another thread, possibly in the custom toys and model thread IIRC. Anyway, here's some more pics. First pic shows my very quick photoshop modifications taht I proposed to Yamato. Graham

I second that. Graham

Jasonc, has anybody ever told you, you bear a resemblance to a young Jean-Claude Van Damme? Graham

.......checks in. Sees there's still no news of a complete Macross Frontier BGM collection CD. checks out.......... Graham has left the building.

I don't hate the VF-4. But it's never really appealed to me either. There's lots of other VFs I'd prefer to see made before the VF-4. While I'd like to say I have that much influence at Yamato, I doubt what I say will effect their final decision too much in the end. Graham

Definitely in the tens of thousands. Steel tooling is very expensive. Graham

Spartan would require all new toooling. No tooling from the Tomahawk/Defender/Phalanx can be reused. Tooling is very expensive. Yamato is not sure the Spartan would actually make a profit. Graham

Heh, unless I'm color blind or my laptop's display seetings are screwed up, I'm seeing it more as a dark blue than green. Graham

VF-0D, VF-4 and one more VF (I'm not saying which) are on the short list for the next 1/60 PT Valk, to be released next year. VF-4 is currently least favorite though, so VF-4 fans don't get your hopes up too high. Graham

Can somebody PM me where you guys are downloading it from. My Web-Fu is weak today and I can't find it at the usual sites. Graham

Buy a Toynami Masterpeice VF-1, LED already preinstalled. Graham

Non-VF-1, means NOT VF-1. More repaints coming for VFs other than the VF-1. G-

Since the 1/60 YF-19 was released, I've been pestering Yamato to release more color variations, specifically a white version, based either on the white w/blue or white w/orange trim Project Super Nova versions, first shown in the TIAS Macross Plus bok and later featured heavily in a couple of issues of Model Graphix magazine. More recently, I've been pushing them to realease a white w/yellow and black trim version, similar to a custom that one of our members did. I forget who, possibly, Kurt or Jung? (See attached pic). I really wanted this Focker version, with the possible addition of a vertical black stripe down the side of the olower legs and also a black stripe terminating in a pointy end running along the nose, below the cockpit. I'm not sure why you guys are refering to the "Double Nuts" (stupid name IMO) version as an Angel Bird. To me, it looks just like a standard YF-19, but with white plastic instead of the standard light-tan. I''ve known about the VF-22 for ages, but not the choice of color schemes. Yamato were pushing hard to be allowed to do an M7 Max & Milia version, but I still don't know if they got approval from BW. As to whether this is an official MD7 Gamlin version, or just someting made to lok close to it, I don't know, but I will check. Mr. March - I'm gonna have to rewatch MD7 again tonight, cus' it really surprised me that you show Gamlin's VF-22 as green(!?). From previous viewings, I always got the impression it was black, or at least very dark grey, nearly black. And yes, there are more non-VF-1 repaints in the works. Graham

Max 1s & 1A out now in Hong Kong. Will pick up mine tomorrow.

Kaiyodo & Movic (K&M) variable VF-1 figures from about 5 years or so ago. Far smaller than Joke Machines.

April 20th, is just the date my local toy store told me a few weeks ago, not a date given to me by Yamato. I haven't checked with Yamato about the exact release date. Last time I spoke to Yamato just before the Easter holidays, they told me final checks before shippment were about to take place. So whether it comes out on time or not, depends if any problems were found in the final checks. A good indication on whether a toy is out or not, is to check Yahoo Japan auctions (link in the 'where to buy' section of the main page). The 1/60 VF-11B is not showing up yet. Graham