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Looks like Splah Mountain's replacement is coming this summer at WDW... https://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/tianas-bayou-adventure/news/13feb2024-disney-announces-opening-for-tianas-bayou-adventure-at-walt-disney-world-and-a-first-look-at-new-animatronics.htm May head to DL instead....haven't been there in over a decade...

Looking at the Dana figs....I really don't need the removable armor gimmick for the Zentran/Meltran figs....instead...the 2-pack gimmick is pretty good though....

The pattern of the "fabric" used on the white thermal underwear figures lower arm seems different....not great but less disctracting....wonder why they did not use that same fabric throughout the entire figure? Does the black fabric have the same pattern as the lower white arm fabric? I guess technically it still has "removable" armor... Hopefully they can come up with a better solution if they do the Zentran/Meltran armored and pilot figs...

Some sell for high amounts too....guessing collectors trying to complete sets

If I ever find a second one I'll use those instructions....lol

It's also possible they were just inspired by the folks at R-Area again.... Just like they seem to have been inspired by R-Area's VF-1 "Orguss Pack"...

Because they are toys and most consumers likely do not care to know. Unless you are a toy industry analyst, insider, or work at the various companies producing these toys in Japan...no one is going to have production figures. Especially for the vintage items...the people who may recall or perhaps have old records are likely retired or dead. Perhaps Bandai may have kept records from Takatoku but who knows. The only available "general" figure tossed around that I have read is the production count for the original Takatoku 1/55 VF-1J which is said to have been about a million toys sold during the original 1982-1983 release. Although it would be nice to know production counts....as a collector it is easy to determine what is "rare" simply by what you see available for purchase on the open market on sites like YJA over the course of several years of collecting. The good thing is that sometimes rare does not necessarily mean it is expensive.

Apparently, it's exponentially less difficult to import any given illegal and/or dangerous item known to man into the US than a set of 40+ year old Macross fireworks... Japan has more of these than they know what to do with and it seems no one in Japan wants them....maybe they finally realized that there are only 2 guys on the entire planet who actually want a set...lol

Wish was the first Disney animated movie I did not go see in the theatres post Covid.....lol I'll probaby skip Moana 2 and wait for the D+ release.....

Buy them all before I do....I can clean my nose with the extras!

Takatoku Toys VF-1S Large Vinyl...loose.....71,009 JPY https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/x1122910604 Anyone here buying these on YJA? If you are missing the VF-1J Max and Milia large vinyls (boxed) PM me...I also have the small vinyl Max and Milia VF-1J (loose) if interested