Mommar

All is well that ends well.

Well never mind. Amiami decided, although I preordered, that they didn't have the quantity of items and apparently canceled it. Or, rather, the pre-order had an error and then disappeared from my cart.

That's pretty cool. Too bad it can't transform. I want to see a Giant Playboy Bunny on the Heatshield in Battroid mode.

Geeze, I got screwed. I Fed Ex'ed to Albuquerque, NM and the damn thing is holed up in Anchorage for whatever stupid reason.

Holy crap, where do you live? Mine went out the 23rd and it's still STUCK in customs.

I'm still waiting for mine to be delivered. Will let everyone know what I think once it arrives unless somebody else here beats me to the review. That crouching position is pretty cool looking. And the shots of Hikaru and Max back to back makes the Max Valk look pretty cool.

I wish I'd ordered a Max as well now... that's a nice shade of blue.

Damn, nice pics. I'm so glad I broke down and decided to order one of these.

I'm waiting on Fed Ex to deliver a VF-22 Sturmvogel and a second VF-11C (hopefully with legs that remain attached in Battroid) from HLJ. Estimated delivery, Monday.

Excellent job. While it's a bummer I have neither the money or space for something like this I highly encourage you to keep taking fancy/detailed pics so we can all enjoy vicarously through you.

I do seem to recall there being red triangles on the shoulders of Roy's Valk as well. It's not hard evidence for Roy's valk but if you check out pretty much all of the other Yamato TV Valk's they have Red triangle's on the shoulders. Hikaru's 1J, Max's 1A and 1J, Milia's 1J. I think pretty much all of them have it, I don't have Kakizaki's or the CF's but I do recall the animation having red triangles on those fighters as well. I'd bet Roy's was done the same.

I'm curious about the engineering and how well the toy will turn out because I'm hoping they'll make other variants of it. However, I've never liked the look (especially the garish color scheme) of the Valk and really don't want to buy one. I'd be much happier if they made an S type in the blue color scheme like the 1/100 Hi-Metals. Still, it would be cool to see if they make this 19 work better than their Mac Plus version. Maybe they'll return to the older design and create something that works better.

I only just got into collecting Valk's with Yamato's V2 1/60 line. The first valk I got was the DYRL Hikaru 1A with fast packs. To be honest, I didn't like it much. The thing that really bothered me was the crotch was too hard to manipulate to warrant transforming much and it would always fall open with the fast packs attached. Several months later I was still itching for more valks (I do love the Macross TV Valks best too.) I saw they were releasing multiple version of Max's valks. I decided to get his TV 1A, 1J with fast packs and his 1SD from DYRL (which has a functioning crotch system so that's where Hikaru's fast packs now reside.) Since then I started collecting more of the VF-1's, got Milia's 1J, the Low Vis one, the Elint Seeker, the GPB (which has not exploded on me as of yet.) I liked the way the VF-11B was designed but disliked the color scheme, ended up with a VF-11C which I love to death. Like Roy, though, the VF-19 is the one that I don't care for as much. I always liked the fighter and Gerwalk modes but didn't care for the color scheme until the Double Nuts version came out. I decided to get one, the fighter mode was kind of cool except it didn't quite fit together right. The Gerwalk mode looked good except the back half is floppy and doesn't attach in any way. Then I switched to Battroid... good Lord, it doesn't hold together at all. The other valks I can't turn every which way and they remain intact, the VF (YF, rather) is in pieces just picking it up. Quite a bummer to me as well.

It looked like that gunpod was jammed in that battlepod's crotch.

Damn, I kinda always hated that color scheme but at the same time I love the way this toy looks!

I just got mine the other day. It's great looking for a statue. Too bad it's not a little more articulated. I'm still getting one with the heavy missile pods when they're released because they look great but I'd love more articulation. A 1/60 scale would be great but it would be HUGE. I wouldn't have the shelf space for something like that.

Very "bird-of-prey."

So due to some effed up issues with work I currently live in a city other than where my Macross toys reside. I can't take them with me because I simply don't have the room. Every weekend when I go home I look at this 11C and the only thing I can think is, "I need at least three more of these!" That's not healthy.

That explains why I don't know anything about it, I didn't get into any of this stuff until the end of 2008.

Which line is that Ravens toy from? I love the color.

I was never planning on trying to get every scale Valk they make but between how good this looks and the awesome Toynami Regult I may wind up with at least a few 1/100 scale items now.

Those extra flourishes, like the small red stickers on the wings make a pretty big difference in how it looks.

I apologize. Thanks for the great pics. I'd take some but I've got no camera skills of my own.

Exactly. Every other show with transformations goes from vehicle to robot. The hybrid mode in Macross is what really differentiates it. I guess I'll have to get better at photography so I can post up some VF-11C pics in Gerwalk for the minority of us who like that.

Look at all of the pics and... no Gerwalk. I must be only person on the planet who likes that mode.