Mechapilot77
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personally i like the grey goggled one inside the armor, the naked 1J gets the normal white visor. its just the way i always had them. i switch the heads once and i thought it looked a bit odd. lol. i dunno,
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yeah i got that too. if i don't pay by the 24th, which i assume is release day they will cancel. i'm thinking.....why would i pay them this early?! Product is not even in stock yet. Its 2 weeks from being in stock. i can at the very least wait til my CC billing cycle is up so i can defer the actual cost to next month. lol. In reality i will just pay them probably Monday or Tuesday after the CC cycle is up and before i forget. lol.
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on the classics starscream new arms. Arms looks good. 2 aesthetics things. the hands seem a little too detached from the wrists? minor really. second, the null ray looks a little bit funky with that barbershop swirl design near the middle. otherwise its great.
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What toy company would be your dream company for the macross brand?
Mechapilot77 replied to Gakken85's topic in Toys
i' m still hoping arcadia will pick up all of the macross stuff from yamato. the molds, the designers, everything. -
is the dyrl 1s max lighter than the other dyrl valks or is it jus the way the photo looks? way back when i prioritized sdfm over dyrl so inever picked up that max, nor the 1a. the only canon dyrl valks i have are hik's and roy's.
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A V3? hmm...the V2 is already so good in so many ways .....BUT...sure it can be improved. Lets look at the weak spots? Owing to its transformation, it has no waist or ab joint and limited mobility in his lips ( i mean we never saw a vf-1 do a sidekick but it'd be nice if it could if it wanted to). I think both are possible by going with a non swingbar still of hip. By doing not having the swing bar the waist and ab joints become immediately doable. the hips may still be a stretch. other than the posability weakness, there are a couple line art issues (jenius mentioned them but i'm not a stickler for it because i think the backpack and head location is fine). Other than that, we can add more gimmicks and more details. I'd prefer if they could do this in a 1/60 scale and keep mostly the same aesthetics as I woudln't rebuy the whole line now that i'm like 15+ valks deep into V2. lol. so in summary, my wish list would be 1. improved articulation in the mid section by improving transformation scheme. 2. line art tweeks 3. more gimmicks and details (transformation pistons, radar dishes, builit in perfect TFing option parts, wing flaps were all mentioned but i'm sure there i s more) 4. all that while keeping the aesthetics similar enough where a mixed collection doesn't look silly. that said, they can take their time....i'm still totally enjoying this V2 line of 2008-2013. :-)
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wow all these 1/48 pictures making me like the 1/48's again. i mean i have almost all the 1/60s i want but back then....i only had the chance to acquire 3 of those 1/48's and only exactly 1 is on display now. they have such presence. i may have to bust them out of storage sometime.
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so is there or is there not a super pack coming out. don't wanna miss that after being able to jump in on a preorder for this!
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^^thats a good idea if you have lots of the same mold as the trays should be stackable right? i've not tried^^ as to how i pick what to collect? i try to get the "best" versions of my favorite designs. in the world of macross it usually goes in this order sdfm/dyrl, frontier, zero, plus the only other thing i really collect are TF's/3rd party TF's. i try to stick with the "best" verisons so usually MP or 3rd party as priorities although i will get neat mainline stuff too. other than that its random and not prioritized.
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wow step away from MW for a week or so and there is a full on panic thread. is there confirmation somewhere arcadia won't be releasing macross stuff? man am i happy i'm not a Mac 7 valk fan. i woulda just spent thousands of dollars in vf-17-19's. that being said i'm quite sad i'll probably never (for a reasonable price) be able to get a super pack (TV style), the destroids, and a few random variants i sort of liked but weren't "worth it" at the time (vf-x, angel bird, super ostrich, the dryl versions of max, kakizaki, the yf-21, and yes even the aging yf-19.) etc. shame is, back the day you could get a super tv fast pack set for like $35 if i'm remembering correctly and kakizakis were on sale all the time. that being said i'm happy i prioritized my favorite designs/decos at the right time and have say...85-90% of what i wanted from yamato.
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One more quick display question: Detolf Glass Door Curio?
Mechapilot77 replied to Gakken85's topic in Toys
lol yes they are heavy as hell (93 lbs i think?) in the box. i bought 2 at a time the first time and it was a b*tch to carry that myself and i'm not a small guy. There's just no good way to hold the box, no handles etc. anyway i think for the price, they cannot be beat. yes you have to dust....but it'll be 2 maybe 3 timesa year vs. monthly if stuff just sits out. Also, they are glass and also have a slight tint (they are dipped i thnk?) so I think they do at least offer some UV protection too (even clear glass offers some). My biggest complaint is also width. Not wide enough. if they made a double or tripled wide i'd jump all over that. There are better displays out there.....but not for $65 there aren't. -
So what will be the first Arcadia branded Macross offering?
Mechapilot77 replied to jvmacross's topic in Toys
:-( here's hoping for the best. -
nice photos man. its a hard bird to photograph well i think and those....ain't bad. :-)
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if you are moving it by yourself, recommend you disassemble the detolf. if you have movers coming, they'll know how to move it whole without breaking it.
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So what will be the first Arcadia branded Macross offering?
Mechapilot77 replied to jvmacross's topic in Toys
odd, hlj has listed a VF-1D unpainted kit for release in march from yamato. will that ever see the light of day or is this going to actually be released by arcadia? -
damn i've never wanted an winterming green valk before....wtf. haha i don't know if its the challenge of finding one thats drawing me or the "completionist" in me....i skipped him in V1, but oddly i really want this version alll of a sudden.
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Are they ever going to release a super pack or tornado pack for the VF-25G? IMO the VF-25 looks a little too scrawny without a super pack on..although those dynamic poses tcracker posts does help it look meaner. oh and yes a tonrado pack bundled fo the VF-25F would be awesome if they released that.
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
Mechapilot77 replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
took some pics of my tv vf-1s with EXO's option parts and DarrinG's gun strap....MW rocks! -
never been a ranka fan but ranka in minmay's out fit (DYRL final scene outfit, no?) with that head/face sculpt is cool. i kind of agree. i think the original SDF bridge crew should be represented but I doubt I'd buy that many figures unless they were tiny...
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Wow did we just revive a 2007 thread in 2013? hehe. Anyway yeah before the whole Arcadia thing I do think Graham dropped a hint in the form of advice hinting at a new vf-0 coming. I was about to start thinking about selling my VF-0's until this whole Arcadia thing...Now, I'm keeping them unitl we hear something solid from Arcadia. My hope is that they revisit allthe valks that need revisiting/redesigning.
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Wow this thread is pretty epic in its tangents. lol.
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Yeah same here. The gunstrap is pretty nice.
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exactly my point...they adjust to the market to suit the business case. its not "oh i want to make something most can't afford". its market adjusted...
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Jwinges, Not to sound rude, but I think you are trying to impose your morality/ideas on money/the toy market onto yamato and criticize them for it. Sure, yamato's transforming valkyries do cater to higher end collectors. Does that make them elitist? No. They are a business in business to make money (while presumably doing and desingin and making things they themselves would enjoy?). They must have done more than enough market research to figure out that those interested in this franchise would like a certain "feature set" if you will and are willing to pay a certain price point to get it. If anything, they have backed off and made concessions to the market. Clearly there was lots of work and passion put into the 1/48 scale VF-1's. They were an engineering marvel (by collectors toys standards) at the time, and people loved them. Unfortunately i'm sure their sales data showed that the market could not support an entire line of VF-1s AS WELL AS OTHER Valkyries in that scale (due to pricing and costing analysis i'm sure). Could you imagine how large a 1/48 VF-19 or VF-4 would be and assuming they'd want to operate at similar margins....how much that would cost?! Clearly the shift to 1/60 was done as an adjustment to the market. Also your point about every release being $150 is moot....they have macross items at far below that....in their GNU line for example. I REALLY REALLY hope it continues on. Sure we have the current "definitive" version of many valks, but many could also use improvements as well as more variants. I think the market could support it. :-)
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lol yeah i didn't notice that. wonder why. lol