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Tentacle fan service perhaps? Macross meets Legend of the Overfiend? Graham

Hopefully the wave SDF-1 repaint will be more matte. I personally find the original version too glossy. Graham

When I received my 4 sets of VF-0S and 4 sets VF-0A of replacement arms, they came complete with the shoulder ball joint and the hinged piece that screws onto the backplate, so no need to pop the new arms onto the old ball joint. It sounds like from your post that your replacements didn't come with the shoulder ball joint and hinged piece? Graham

Tenjin is actually responsible for these 25th anniversery colour schemes on the Yamato VF-1 and YF-19. The YF-19 looks absolutely gorgeous IMO. Graham

Can we add that to the MW custom toy gallery? Graham

Why are they making this? Graham

Captain Scarlet is voiced by Wayne Forester, a versatile British voice actor who has provided voices for many UK children's TV programs. Graham

From what I've been told, all the major markings will be Tampo printed on the Ivanov SV-51. All the publicity pics are preproduction versions with either no Tampo Printing or only partial Tampo printing. Although this bird is expensive, you are getting quite a lot for you money as it comes with the new style display stand, overwing boosters and full set of missiles and micro-missile pods so you can display it as either # ep 1-4 standard version of ep # 5 boosters + extra weapons version. Graham

Checking with Yamato about the Nora colors. Will let you know as soon as I have a reply. Graham

Capatain Blue has an American accent, Capatain Scarlet definitely does not. Graham

Still waiting to hear why HLJ charged for the arms. From what I'm understand they weren't supposed to, well maybe just a small handling charge, certainly not 1,500 per arm! Did anybody here order arms though another online Japan based retailer, besides HLJ? If so, did they charge? Graham

Nope, the 'F' doesn't stand for 'First'. Graham

Interchangeable pegging..........LOL! I was just reading a Savage Love column about pegging. Whatever turns you on I guess. Graham

The leg FAST packs could really do with 2 magnets each IMO. Graham

For those asking if the replacement arms have the harder ABS plus SBS parts, my only answer is: RMFP carefully! For those asking about the Shin arms, stay tuned for further information. Graham

VF-0 REPLACEMENT ARMS ANNOUNCEMENT Regarding the VF-0A and VF-0S replacement arms which Yamato has recently made available as spare parts, it seems there has been some misunderstanding and miscommunication between Yamato and myself regarding the exact nature of the improvement to the arms. Based on earlier discussions with Yamato, I was under the impression that the shoulder and elbow parts (the grey ABS plastic parts that have been widely reported on Macrossworld as getting stress marks and/or cracking), would be changed from ABS plastic to POM plastic. However, it turns out that this is not the case and any such statements to the effect are my mistake. Yamato spent a long while studying this phenomonen and determined that the stress marks and cracking of the ABS shoulder and elbow parts was caused by the ABS plastic having an adverse chemical reaction with the PVC parts located inside the arm (this is actually what they suspected from the beginning). Apparently, it is a well known phenomenon that PVC can react negatively with and weaken ABS. What Yamato have done on the replacement arms is two improvements, as follows: - 1) They have removed the PVC cup and O-ring from inside the arm and replaced them with SBS Rubber parts, so there will be no chemical weakening of the ABS. 2) Secondly, the ABS parts marked with a red & green circle in the attached picture were previously just regular ABS. After Yamato found the problem, they had the factory increase the hardness of the ABS material. Whether, these two changes will be enough, only time will tell. Personally, I would have liked them to increase the thickness of the oplastic as well, but that is not possible without complete retooling of the affected parts. Graham

The 1/60 is a thing of great beauty. Hopefully, Yamato can hit a home run and release it without any flaws. Graham

Sorry, got tied up at work. I promise I'll write the whole story tomorrow. Graham

End of August is correct at the moment. Yamato is being extra careful to work out all the bugs, hence the delay. So no, the toys have not shipped yet. Graham

Standy by, stand by. Graham

I've been pushing Yamato for ages to make a white YF-19, preferably one of the Super Nova color schemes, either the white with blue trim or white with orange trim. Graham

Never did receive my replacement parts . I've heard Garner has gone. Graham

Still, it's great that Experten are doing all three anime versions of the VF-22S. Graham

No it should not. Having seen the Experten close up, I can say it's not that impressive compared with the Yamato. Graham

Yes, the YF-21 can fit the 2 x gunpods to the belly plates without the FAST pack. It is shown flying with them and shooting them simulaneously with the lasers in fighter mode in episode # 2 of the OVA. Graham