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Hmm, but isn't "don't play too much with your Yamato or it'll break" SOP for Yamatos as well? Here's my suggestion - 1. Deal with ugliness of the DX toy but have fun playing with it. Abuse the hell out of it. Hey, if it's a chogokin, it ought to withstand some roughness. We shall see if this will be the case though. or 2. Get the 1/100 partsformer. You'll have to deal with partsforming but at least it'll look good in all 3 modes plus since it's an action figure, it ought to be able to take some abuse. We shall see if this will be the case though. or 3. Figure out a way to make the 1/72 kit more sturdy. If a certain piece is found likely to break, there's a good chance modellers in Japan, maybe some one here at MW, or one of the magazines like Hobby Japan might come up with a nice solution.

Make it 1/200 scale. Price it at oh~ ..... US$1200! IIRC that's about how much one would pay for a 1/200 scale R/C USS Nimitz.

That looks fantastic PetarB! If I had your skills, I'd build one too. $42 (HLJ price) seems a bit pricey for an injection kit that isn't easy to build. ;

It's 1/100 scale and snapfit.

What's interesting about the GA article is that it says that Kawamori came by the booth and checked out the brand new test shot model of the DX 1/60 and was quite pleased at the work. So, is what Kawamori holding in his hands different from what was on display?

Um, no. This is a model kit. The paneling lining and weathering you have to do yourself.

Weathered version and "OD" version Tomahwaks to come out sometime in the future. Dunno what "OD' means.

Anything is possible. The key I think is to have the Frontier franchise last a while. Which means Kawamori and co. needs to exploit Frontier as much as and as long as possible (movies, sequels, side stories, manga, video games, etc.). The more it stays around, the more different products come out for it. As they say - out of sight, out of mind.

Read my post above. They went back and resculpted the thing. Ignore the photo.

It says at the bottom: With regards to the Tomahawk, a certain person said "We don't like it at all, so we went back to 1 and remade it. Don't believe the image on the posterboard."

Different angle. Shows the landing gears a bit better. Not messed up like some of the earlier pics.

Here's a better pic of the VF-25G

We don't really know if the Mac7 toys sold well or not. Other than the Fire Valkyrie, they did release a VF-19S and a VF-17S. Certainly not the whole range from Mac7 but then Mac7 Valks weren't that popular to begin with.

To me, it's the SoC SPEC Dragonar from Opening Silhouette. The toy is everything that a collector's toy of robot mech should be (IMHO). It's perfect in every way. I can't even recall Gundam getting this kind of treatment.

Well, we don't know about durability yet.

But just because the VF-25 was created using computer models doesn't automatically mean it can easily be made into identical sculpt toy. I mean, sure it was conceived at the sametime but when you start adding gimmicks to a toy there's no doubt that certain things have to be compromised along the way. Ofcourse the difficulty for a toy designer is deciding what to compromise and what not to compromise.

Ofcourse this is all assuming the DX toy isn't appealing to the buyers and/or won't sell well based only on aesthetics. Maybe it will sell well. Maybe this is exactly what the Japanese fans want.

Well it seems that VF-25 model kits are selling well, so that's a good sign. Companies don't operate that way. They don't drop an entire product franchise just because one product line doesn't sell. And every company that wants to stay in business will drop a product if it does not make a profit. Also, in one way a smaller company may be quicker to drop a product than a big company since their margins are slimmer. A big company could absorb more hits than a small company.

Maybe it was to mimmick the DX toy.

That appears to be the case. It looks like the separate super packs will be available exclusively through Bandai's Tamashii site. This leads me to suspect that Bandai eventually intends to bundle the super packs at a later time. I bet they're doing to this to get the plain jane VF-25 out the door as soon as possible and give themselves time to develop the super packs. IOW i think it's a delay tactic.

Whoever pulled out (or put in) the nose landing gear was absolutely clueless.

Ack! No, not like the Toynami. No more visible swing bars please.

I don't know of any stateside dealers who have the kit in stock. Luca's green RVF-25 is not out yet. Probably won't be out til sometime early next summer (just my guess). As for details on the kit itself, I think Jarrod's exhaustive review answers everything: http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=27823

The VF-25's cockpit/canopy looks rather small compared to that of the F-15. I'm assuming they're both the same scale. Then again the F-15's canopy is pretty darn big compared to most other aircraft anyways.

Ofcourse every fan out there wants a toy as detailed and accurate as possible. Key words being "as possible". Because it's not just detail and accuracy that fans want. That's where things get a bit tricky.