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...Or this is just a reboot of A New Hope....and Luke will be a crazy old wizard living in some backwater planet secretly "watching over the next new hope"?

Exactly, how many times do the same folks need to come back and agree that they do not like it? We get it, you are displeased...maybe move on to the threads of toys you actually like? The same goes for pointing out what is wrong...again...we get it...there are many things wrong.....none of which any number of posts will resolve....only ET can resolve them if they wish to release a toy that will be more in line with modern toy collectors' expectations....I feel that some of the members have made very detailed explanations as to "what is wrong" and have posted pics to illustrate their point....constructive criticism is always welcome.....but rehashing the same complaints serves no purpose..... In a way this thread has turned into just a complaint fest...similar to how the Macross Delta thread was turning into a "what-if" or "I wish they do this" thread and ended up getting locked.... Maybe ET will decide to address some of the concerns posted on this thread (although wouldn't only the concerns posted by the Japanese market even matter to ET and if that is the case, why complain on this thread...for some Macross II catharsis? Hopefully, similar complaints are being made to ET from their primary Japanese market consumers).... .........Or simply just nuke the thread from orbit.....

Look at the size of that thermal detonator!!!!

Nice find...thanks for posting! It looks great....looking forward to getting it. On some pics it looks like it is not transformed correctly...with some parts not aligned or tabs not connected....so hopefully that is just human error and not poor fitment.... My only issue with the mold is the tabs on the chest piece....they really couldn't have hid those? I'm thinking they could have made them slide up/down or rotate....maybe someone can come up with a solution once it's out.... Oh....and looks like the pilot is still not painted...not happy about an unpainted fig on the retail version...but I can deal with it.... Ballziest toy release of the year!

The Battle 7 was apparently in the pipeline for Yamato....I wonder if Arcadia will go for it now that it's creator has expressed interest? Regarding the HMR line, as I noted in an earlier post...the list of remaining SDFM mecha is quite short...as for DYRL...if you include the HM releases....Bandai just needs Max's -1S and the Q-Rau to match Yamato's output....that is the kind of quick output that put Yamato out of business....for Bandai, at worse, the line will just fail again....but I think it will make it this time with no real competition (in the form of ultra discounted competitor offerings) this time around... Plus....the HMR line is offering toys never offered before at this level of detail and quality...namely the Regult, Spartan, Glaug, and Monster....personally, I'm all in based on these 4

http://tamashii.jp/t...ku/86/?lmode=en ■ If there is any opportunity, and I want to three-dimensional the "Battle 7" of "Macross 7". I concur! So did Yamato..... Is Arcadia listening?.......

Ok....now the HM VF-1J is transformed correctly....... almost 30 years worth of Macross toy making evolution!

Really? Guess I should get around to reading these....

Also made an appearance in Macross the First....

It's not transformed correctly...I'll repost a pic in a bit...

You think this is a tough crowd?.....you should see the hate going on in the VF-2SS thread!

Android....Samsung S4

Thanks for all the comments! During my Takatoku search I believe I also managed to acquire all of the official publications released for the SDFM series....I will have to gather all of those books at some point for a group shot too!

Kind of pin-like....but mostly I don't want to start a new "collectors" thread....

There are some settings on my phone's pic editing software...the one I used for that pic was called "cartoon"...

LOL...you guys are a harsh bunch! Anyway.....it's Macross II so it's going to have to be good enough for the time being....at best it is as good as anything animated on screen.....I'll just say it's closer to anime "accurate" than lineart accurate.... Hopefully the Japanese fans are more forgiving than some MW "fans"..... Or maybe someone can design a SAP for it if Evolution Toys flakes out......

There will always be subset of collectors willing to pay more for something that they consider makes an item "more" valuable....however, that group is small and it would take you longer to find that customer willing to pay you more for your inclusion of a "shipping" box during some future sale. If you can keep the brown shipping boxes, I would advise you do so.

"Just" plastic wraps???! You clearly have no appreciation for mint-in-sealed-box-sealed-in-plastic-manufacturers-bag....MISBSIPMB among collectors of such things...

I set out to collect a cel from each Macross animated series that still used cels....and I think I met that goal a while back... right now, unless it is an exceptionally nice cel at a good price (mutually exclusive conditions it seems these days) I don't see collecting very many more cels than what I currently have.... I would imagine I would want to start selling them off at some point...as I doubt my kids would want them...same goes for my Macross collection in general....the trick is to figure out when to do that.... I think we will start seeing a sell-off from other Macross collectors within the next 10 years or so.... I am not sure what effect that will have on the value of Macross cels and other rarer items...I guess it depends on what value is placed on these items by the new generations of Macross fans.... I'm afraid that value and the group that remains interested in these items shrinks each year.....

What? Don't like the NASCAR look?

It would be an Arcadia valk release finally worthy of it.....