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  1. Mechapilot77
    wonder when they go on preorder (i have never done a metal gffmc....i only have the rx-78-2 for the origin version) and if it'll be crazy. the regular green one looks great too!
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    is there even an official one announced in the metal build or metal composite lines?
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    there is no reason to think hasbro coudln't make it happen for $200-$220 or less if it wanted to, everything included. Mp-10 was 22000 yen retail. Hasbro MP MP-10 based Optimus was $99.99 before scalpers got to it and that was when the dollar to yen was roughly 1:100....roughly...45% the price of takara's. and lets not be idiots...tkara's V3 is a much much higher profit model than mp-10 was....so there is way more room to get it under $220...and lets be real at 220 it ain't gonna sell much at a mass market retailer. it'll be $170 ish like the titan combiners if it happens. yeah you'll have to wait a few years if it does happen but i can't gurantee that it will with the whole hasbro takara products being the same now...
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    Funny, i've been wanting a modern roadbuster/ calibur figure too. i picked up that generations figure (the same time frame as whirl or so) an its...pretty decent but yeah not "g1 enough". i guess what i really want is an "MP" level roadbuster. the 3P options (FP and MMC) don't cover that either. what would an MP look like? there is no toon inspiration so we can only look to the toy...and of course the dorvack anime. someone a few years ago did a pretty cool custom from the dorvack toy (that was released about 10 years ago...and it was very stiff and not articualted enough) and added some nice joints etc. i'd love something like that. i also picked up the litle SD guy. nice figure. drop kick has a really nice alt mode, and it seems like a good enough toy. if i can pick it up cheap i probably will, but won't go out of my way for it.
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    wow forgot how good that whirl is (dont' like the chicken legs but everything else is tops for a mainline figure!)!! dropkick loks like a downsized knockoff in an odd color by comparison (yes i know its a totally different toy)
  6. Mechapilot77
    thats because listed price is with japanese tax included...you are a foreign buyer so you don't pay that. you do pay shipping obviously but they are super reasonable with shipping prices. as a side note you can get your taxes paid refunded on purchaseses in some countries like japan if you visit, i forget how you do it though...
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    so about $310 shipping to usa? still...too much for the level of figure we appear to be getting closer to an acceptable number for what is on offer here. good thing about amazon is they will give you the lowest price if the price lowers between now and then. i can't see how this isn't he best bet for those wanting to preorder. i sure as heck ain't paying retails at release to NY or the like. lol. hmmm...
  8. Mechapilot77
    in a weeks' time its gone up $10 already. guess they are selling too well. pretty much everyone who wants this deco on the V2 mold (of which this is a ko of) already has it (on this board anyway). how about if they are gonna do a KO, release some unique decos? or at least hard to find ones? my preference would be for unique as i've ever yamato/arcadia vf-1 i want other than the super ostrich (i'll have to track that down some day...ugh! was hoping arcadia would reissue it with good shoulders at some point but not looking promising!). i mean look at stuff the KO/KO OS people are doing in the TF world. some of those unique decos are nice! cell shaded anyone? battle damaged? totally original decos (like a white movie optimus?). do something the officials guys won't or can't do! also at $160 a pop for something known to be a KO...it was just a couple years ago arcadia released fully legit strike valkyries that could be had for just under $185 ish or so...25 bucks isn't a lot of savings but yeah vs. afteramarket its way cheaper.
  9. Mechapilot77

    Hi-Metal R

    Mechapilot77 replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    bring on the 1D! i thin i want 2! wonder if bandai will choose the 1D or any 2 seater for a DX chogokin release in the future.
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    Every conversation about arcadia doing something new inevitably leads to the question and anxiety of how much it'd cost. does anyone have conclusive evidence that yamato folded because its pricing strategy for macross items? i mean they made a lot of stuff other than macross too. also, why do i get the feeling it had something to do with financial technicalities/legalities etc. rather than actual profit/loss from operations etc. Did I read that somewhere years ago or am i making that up in my head? anyway, it'd be nice to know once and for all. lol. while i am 95% sure an arcadia tv sdf-1 would beat anything bandai or KC (i mean the fit, finish, tolerances are way better from a molding perspective and attention to detail other than coloring is very very good) would do....do i want something that is 25% better for 150%-175% the cost? i used to root for yamato and then arcadia, but their recent pricing and tampo withholding for PF versions is really irksome. i find myself wishing bandai would release things i wish yamato/arcadia would. and no, this isn't just because i miss yamato pricing. i really wish arcadia could be more competitive because competition is good.
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    that arcee looks great in kumas photos. they gave her some truly psycho faces. probably an idw thing. i wonder why mmc seems to like issuing the black "redeco" before the main colors recently. they did the same with hellion. is it to get some business for the people that just can't wait to get their hands on the mold? i guess it sells better as a lead in rather than an actual redeco. anyway, looks great. on the fence if i actually want to get the S3 autobots as there isn' t a good kup (don't care for FT's) out i like and to be honest i love seasons 1 and 2 way way more than i like season 3. for the cast i already have giant fat no waist swivel magnus (mp-22) and mp hot rod (which ft's hoodlum seems like it will beat but do i care about hotrod very much? ntrly) . i think openplay's springer is still the springer to beat honestly (maybe mmc or xtb can change my mind but i doubt it), FT's upcoming blur looks great. this arcee is best of the bunch i think. ft's rouge is prettier but thats about all it has on mmc's. toyworld/zetas half assed (literally in car mode) is not a consideration at all. to S3 or not to S3? hmmm
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    i dunno who did the art. i just know i generally liked arii box art...had a few kits as a kid. the vf-1s fokker battroid and teh vf-1j fighter and gerwalk boxart are also faves. http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models/arii/ar-315-30box.jpg http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models/arii/ar318-36-box.jpg http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models/arii/ar322-44-box.jpg anyway i'm just excited we are getting a new 1/72 Vf-1 this year (robotech licensing be damned) AND a new 1/48 (new standard?). could a new 1/60 be far behind? and yes these valks sometimes look fat but i think its just perspective...done in a strange way.
  13. Mechapilot77
    only problem its oversized. you got that one?
  14. Mechapilot77
    haha yeah the boxart aint my fav....lets see how the toy inside is! as far as old boxart to imitate....the best IMO is from the arii model kits...wish they ahd gone this route. like the one below.
  15. Mechapilot77
    its hard to be a macross fan and not get excited for a new vf-1j and vf-1s i think. its like a new mp optimus coming out for transformers fans and yes like the rx-78-2 for gundam
  16. Mechapilot77
    i too have too many thundercrackers...my mp-11 mold is a usa hasbro version that was repainted before takara's hasbro asia arm made an official one, but yeah lightning and mp-7 still reside in my closets. i'm not sure what igear was thinking with the grey thights though as their prototyps were colored correctly. I was even thinking if i should get the maketoys one. then i look at this picture and can't help but think the mp-7's color and deco is so majestic. **sigh** then again we buy countless vf-1s that are essentially repaints wiht different heads so i guess its all good. haha
  17. Mechapilot77
    Yup, what we like is what we like and it can change too. lol. Apologies if I came on too stron with my opinions and language...but yeah its perfectly valid to love what i consider over the top designs that have gone too far and yes the old ones can be "boring" to some but not to me. lol. Anyway, i think i expressed my dislike of the flame toys stuff because i felt like people who like that aesthetic....already have a huge selection of other anime/gundam robots so i just wondered wny it had to "encroach" on Transformers. yeah thats super biased and probably not fair. lol. To each his own and yes i'm sure that Star Saber is super aweome to some...and more power to them i guess.
  18. Mechapilot77
    i don't even like th movie designs and i like that thing. its like so monster meats mech its awesome. might have to go in on that weijiang. i hear some places are running out of the first preorder.....and atking second batch orders for march. its gonna be super successful because its 10X better looking than the leader class mold its based on. i really can't say i like the movie aesthetic most times but i really want the UT challenger and weijang hide shadow (and no i don't need the set b diaroma BS)...but they are pretty big and well space,, don't knwo if i can resist.
  19. Mechapilot77
    there was tengen though. haha my first home version of afterburner was from them and their black unlicensed carts. lol. yes flame toys is 3rd party. and yes i kinda hate the flame toys aesthetic for transformers and the fact they don't transform. FWIW, it "looks like gundam" isn't an indication of looking like an rx-78-2....it looks like modern gundams with their over zeaslous addition of wings, extranneous looking BS, stupid over hip thrusting, shrunken torso huge weapons and calves look. the rx-78-2 was a beautiful design. there are a lot of decent gundam designs...most recent ones look like they just add BS on top of lazy design IMO and that is what this star saber looks like...BS..IMHO.
  20. Mechapilot77
    yup that is why they said "respectively". :-P looking forward to this. wish it would all come 12/12 but i guess a month a half delay for fast pack is better than post CNY. i forget is it only the fast pack that has LED or does the main valk have it as well?
  21. Mechapilot77
    taht thundercracker is igear lightning isn't it? the vf-0 is much closer in size. f-15 and f-14 are someohwat close in size. the vf-1 like and f-16 size.
  22. Mechapilot77

    Hi-Metal R

    Mechapilot77 replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    same...i missed the pay by X date email....didn't know they moved up the release date too. oh well...its availble on cdj still but for more money than NY of course. not sure i still want it enough anymore....hmmm.
  23. Mechapilot77
    i only have mpp-10 from them as sort of an outsized homage to prime because well....prime...i met get the weijiang megs to go with him because well it's nice to hav a sparring partner, but i can't collect a whole other scale of mp transformers especially since they don't do every one, just a few. i know a couple other companies supplement KO OS MP (robot hero is one and tanaka is another) but its just not complete enough and to be honest they take up way more room haha.
  24. Mechapilot77
    quietus seems SOOOO close. i don't make it a point to collect S3 bots but i do already have andras and sovereign and no takara cyclonus on the horizon ( i don't own eligos either)....if there are any left during the next ebay flash sale i may use it on him. i've yet to pick up the MT skycrow and lightnig though (Which are more core to the characters i collect....bu ti already got meteor and am not convinced its my definitive seeker despite great proportions and articulation). decisions...and yes the white thighs do kind bother me a little bit as do the overly contrasting forearms and knees...but again its soooo close.
  25. Mechapilot77
    for those of you who been eying the ET toys zeta legioss (the red one)....get thee to amazon japan...the shpping to the states is like $11. i paid basically full price for mine but letting you all know its like 18550 yen right now (19700 with shipping) so about 90 bucks off right now from seller "Akihabara X アキバのエックス　通販部(土日祝日も毎日出荷！宅配買取受付もやっております
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