Nani?!

Man, can't wait for them hands. Rob's original recasts rock but I've always loved the DYRL style hands much better. I'm buying a couple for my 1/48's. wonder if you guys will make one to match the color of the low vis. (hopeful) Make em!

If any of these possibilities raised is something yamato is laboring over then I think these are possible answers to those. 1. Comparing the yf 19 fp to the other two is like comparing Micheal Jordan to his teammates.... sure they're on the same team but Jordan's popularity is unmatched. And so it is with the 19... I can still get an original 21 fp for 70 bucks. The 19 is a whole different story. If yamato is seriously thinking of the "financial risks" involved with the 19fp then they're clearly not in tune with the fans. 2. Again. They're all different valks... They WILL SELL. Especially the 19. And speaking of similarities.... Gosh people here buy the same valk at different prices and sometimes even multiples with the only difference being paint scheme... A 19fp will not effect the sale of the Zero.... 3. Ack.... you're right.... PURE SPECULATION. 4. again... The cash they'll make if they release the 19 fp would have been more than enough. and their QC policy of release now patch later (which resembles more of PC games), and the fact that they had 2 years really doesn't seem to point to that scenario... I really wish I can guess what the heck is up.... I had a whole "conspiracy theory" as to what yamato was doing with the 19 fp and the Mac+ line but given the time that has passed even since then... I think I'm just going to place my bets that it's vaporware...

I wish that was the case but I doubt pricing takes the two years they "sat on it" if indeed that's what theyre up to. It's mind boggling to me to see why yamato hasn't come up on it's word with this one given it's insane popularity. If it's vapor ware I don't think it's all that hard to announce that it is. So many people preordered these, and you'd think it's common courtesy to do so. If it's still alive, where the F*ck is it? ekk.... I tire myself with this gibberish... The Liquid stone version looks damn nice for a 1/100. Wish it wasn't a limited release. For a moment thought it was the 19 FP. ugh.... When will we finally get the 19 in all it's glory?

Yamato got a new president and he doesn't like talking to fanboys. Graham wasn't the only one to get cut off. It probably didn't help that he visited this website once... Ugh the new Yamato president came here? Can he read English? No wonder he cut MW off if he read all the whining that goes on in this toy forum... whinings there no matter what... go to any fan site, this crap is common. but there are also very good things said here... some really good suggestions... if it's indeed the whining that scared his butt off then now he gets it AFTER he releases products....

agreed and true, but... is it really hard to communicate with your fans? is it such a vaunting task or hurtful business practice to go down to the grass roots and connecting there? is it so hurtful that they can't hire a couple of employees to feed the community? I dont think so... It really doesn't take much given the desire to... I mean, look at us, we go ape sh*t ecstatic when we see the koenig's knees bend! Given the good people here, I havent seen a (generally) more patient bunch. Most of us are always jumping for joy with every bit of news we hear. Yamato did it well when they were MUCH smaller then they are now... so lack of personnel or resources is HARDLY a valid reason. Look....., in the Macross Community, making toys for it and collecting was always mainly about the love of it all. Seriously who the heck buys this stuff because of anything less than that? Shiet, I can atest to the fact that I would never imagined putting down so much of my money like this for something others view as a piece of plastic... Never did a toy feel like such a great deal for $170 bucks. I mean do you realize how much $170 really is? (The rich guys who blow their nose with bills excluded). WE buy this stuff because we have a strong admiration for it and if it's truly confirmed that yamato made such kick-ass-faitful-to-the-anime valks only for the money well then hell, anyone got wood and a lighter? I don't and won't believe yamato started their business JUST to make money.... they sure as hell didn't make the 1/48's just for the money. That stuff is passion my friend... so why the silence? Why stick your hand out at the face of people like Graham? Why so frigidly? Why famish the very core that brought you to life? all the possible reasons I've heard right now just don't add up...

Wow, Graham, in the two years I've spent here reading most of all your posts, this one hit me emotionally. After my complaint a year or so back regarding yamato's retarded tight lipped policy, the response I got were generally saying "shush, yamato can do whatever they want and they dont owe us anything" or "all you fanboys do is complain about the toy if they reveal info" and such, but to finally hear Graham summarize what I fruitlessly tried to convey then, here in one paragraph really brings me to tears.... Yamato, regardless of how talented they are in turning animated macross valks into transformable figures, have gradually neglected the bond with it's fans. Seriously, I mean it's almost unreal how ignorant they are to the possibilities of being so much more to us than they are right now... They sure have the goods to make us drool but they're becoming like a celebrity who gives a crap or very little about the community who supported it so whole heartly since the beginning.... it's seems like they "moved on" from a "phase". anyway, I don't have even 1% of influence and respect you have Graham, and for you to actually protest like this means a lot... It's become almost standard reaction here to silence or degrade anyone who brings up anything less than happy thoughts. Not to say you're stirring the pot but really... thanks a lot.

yup. no faster way then to get grip for some discontinued macross stuff than x-mas. BUt still, its kinda odd don't ya think? odd, why? it looks like just yer average ebay up and down supply and demand.

uhhhh.....

really jumping the gun... but my guess is it's more than likely.

awesome job majestic.

$125?! good lord, no. thats how much a tranforming, designed-piece-of-art valk is going for and I'll be damned if a snap on gbp costs that much... like haterist said. worth $60 tops. guesstimate yamato markup: +$15

as 1 VF-1 2NV pointed out, it's out. it looks swank. gotta get me one.

I think those were being made by Eternal_D. I dunno if he ever finished them but they would have looked great if they were completed and recast by rohby. And just IMHO, I think the DYRL hands are so much better than the mickey mouse hands of the tv series. I know they're classics, but I'd much rather have a set of cast DYRL hands.

I think both of them rock. I'd be happy with either of them out given the total negligence the yf 19 FP has been given.

You're right. Especially if they're dealing with I.H.P.'s (Mr. Sakuragawa) custom model. I think yamato just put it on the back burner for now... if not vaporware. I really dont see how any valk would take this long to develop... as hard as the yf 19 may be, they have current examples to work with... Given they even have the convenience of CAD, all they really had to do was some trial and error. So yeah.... Either theyre redoing the whole plus series, or it's on hold... indefinitely... if the latter is true, I think yamato has to smell the coffee and realize there are loads of people drooling just by the possibilities of one coming out.

First and foremost, thank you Graham for the awesome pics. In my opinion, as much as I anticipated the yamato konig in battroid, I think I agree with zeo-mare that the pose (which I HOPE is adjustable) is ugly. Also the legs seem to start at the arm pits and the head sculpt seems a bit dopey rather than intimidating like the line art. I'm still buying one but I dont think I'll ever display it in battroid if it looks like that...

I think they're just richer and more corporate than they were a while ago... They've just matured into a typical japanese company. (both in positive and in negative ways)

nice!

shoot I thought these things were done too... wonder if Eternal's still doing it. been 3 months and counting and no word so I dont think we should get our hopes up too much. IF they do come out, I'm down for quatro~

dude. Macross zero is not even finished yet... And to yamato's credit, they're the only company making valks off of it. I actually think they moved at little fast and timely on releasing M-0 toys. If you started the countdown way back with pre-production M-0 photos than that's your fault. As far as speed goes, I think the only thing yamato is testing fans patience with is the YF 19 FP. Which was in production (if it still is) longer than the start of M-0. They've really swept that under the rug. It's going the way of vaporware. Oh yeah, and the QC problems their intial releases usually come with also...

WOW, I love the light underside. Very nice. It's be cool if the missiles and the missile pods were also low vis-ified but every thing you got now is awesome.

If it were up to me, I'd simply offer two versions... A close to accurate proportion non-tranformable GBP with super detail and JUST the armor set for transformables. but since yamato is not me, I think they took the option that pisses the least amount of fans without them using too much of their resources. Good decision on their part as a business. dayam I dunno about you people, but I just want to see a GBP come out for the 1/48 scale... stop beating around the bush yamato and give us what we want!

I agree with graham that adding non canon elements to the figure is wrong. However, I dont think panel lines can be even called enhancements really... It's just details that make it more realistic and believable. Panel lines aren't really hard to do... Yamato has them on some valks, I wonder why they dont do them for others. As for the question whether the koenig is in it's final stages or not, I dunno, I wish I can be hopeful as some of you folks are but I think this is pretty much what we'll get. Really, when's the last time yamato presented a painted sculpt and then actually change elements BEFORE INITIAL RELEASE in response to fan input? Perhaps I missed some examples but I can't remember any~~ They stopped showing us intial sculpt mock ups because they were annoyed with fan input. Couple of examples of fan input that probably got lost in translation: -the vf-0's hips are still birthin hips -the GBP hands still came out enormous I hope yamato proves me wrong. A swing turret on the nose would definitely be cool.

Awesome collection hattori. one question though, are the missile pods supposed to be colored? I thought they remained white? am I wrong? or is it just an aesthetic decision? man that VF-1J miria without the fastpack looks awesome. Now I'm tempted to buy the 1/48 M&M's

For those who did see robocop 3, did you guys catch the strings attached to robo when he started to fly out of OCP's building with the scientist and the girl? You can see it right after robo fries the bad dude's (forgot his name) legs with his boosters and starts to fly off. I guess it's a bit trivial but I thought it was fukin hilarious. reassured me that it was a crappy half assed film. I actually liked number two. not as much as I liked the first but the fight between caine and robocop at the end was definitely a blast to see back then.