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mmmmm... Cobie Smulders....

Dammit! Did I miss the pre-order?

Phalanx is my all time favorite. If it was the defender I'd skip it. Maybe they'll add the bottom half with the kit. It says something about ABS?

mmmm.... Colby Smulders!

http://www.toysdaily.com/discuz/thread-160786-1-1.html http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=35061&view=findpost&p=920739 not sure what exactly this is for yet... will update post http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=35060&view=findpost&p=920736

Looks like an HDP conversion Kit. I have my extra Destroid ready to go!!!! And Yamato is gonna issue the TRex kits as web exclusives? or each kit will come with the no paint versions? I wonder if it's ABS. Am I guessing this right?

The one without the dish?

You already know how much I love that custom! Great Job!

The GNU's were Yamato's attempt at a lower price point but it was still pretty expensive for small non transformable figures. It's just a case of when certain products that don't have that much of a demand can't meet the consumer's ideal price point. But the GNU's didn't use cheap plastic. It was actually very good in quality. It's amazing because you can take it apart without unscrewing anything and put it back together without losing any of the integrity. But at the end of the day I wasn't into playing with them. I was back to transforming my other toys and I never bought any more. But you can tell that Yamato didn't skimp on the quality. Most Macross fans just don't want anything that isn't the VF-1. I can tell you that from making shirts also. If I made a VF-1 shirt, the sales far out does any other type of shirt almost 3 to 1. Every time Yamato ventures out of that comfort zone, it's a gamble that comes at a higher price point. I wouldn't be surprised if in a couple of years they redid the 1/48s with the 2 seaters in mind, because those projects fund the other valks that aren't that milkable. With the regult... along with the fact that it's not a VF-1... it's not transformable, it's an enemy mech with no specific character tied to it. It has parts that are huge compared to their other toys. You can't really break that egg shape to smaller pieces without compromising integrity. So the steel mold for the head/cockpit alone would be way expensive, add to that the long lower legs. Like I said before, the HDP regult is a lot bigger than the specs say it is. It's possible for them to make it smaller and still call it a 1/60 but I'm not sure logistics of such a product can warrant a plastic toy. It'd be about the same as the Q-Raus, which people didn't really turn on to. But I could be wrong. Yamato has surprised us before. They also said they would never produce the Macross and I believe that was a runaway hit for them. I've heard other toy designers say the Destroids were over designed, but yet Yamato went with it. I like the bravado, but it cost us the Phalanx. I'm not sure though at this point, if you can come out with a different Phalanx with less complexity that doesn't stand well with the others and doesn't take advantage of the lower parts that's all ready to be used.

LOL. I thought that article would be about him following a lizard around for a day.

Everyone should start singing "I'm on a boat" everytime they see McSkeever.

Yamato doesn't do things cheap. I don't mean just price but they hire the best engineers and manufacturers to bring the best representation of the toys. And when there's flaws to the design, they actually fix them and when the toy isn't good enough they do another version. Everytime they try cheap, like the GNUs, they fail. Even if it's never said, they are a prestige format company. And that's what I like about them. They can't be like Bandai that has many tiers and is essentially many companies under one roof. The phalanx has been done for a while, designwise. It wouldn't be cost effective for them to just sit on it if the molds weren't so expensive for the parts needed.

http://www.onesixthwarriors.com/forum/sixth-scale-action-figure-news-reviews-discussion/625323-hot-toys-iron-monger.html SPLEEN... WHO NEEDS YOU ANYWAY???

You can't kill it with fire! What do we do???

People still rewatch Robotech? lol. I look at it on youtube for art references. Easier than pulling out the DVDs.

That was what Beagle had planned or at least the engineers that worked for Beagle were hoping that the Mospeada collection would be successful enough to warrant more 1:10 Aramaki bikes and figures. They were the same ones that finished off the Yamato BGC bikes. A 1:10 Garland would have been pretty huge, I'm not sure how serious they would have been if it came to that.

couldn't find a gif.

I prefer to have the figure. It's a toy and it's added playability. And added realism. But at the cost of not getting a toy at all? Especially with the regult where you can't see the pilot from the outside, I can forego the figure. But as a kid when I use to run around with my one takatoku, it used to bug me that It was visibly pilotless. I remember how much I loved the legioss toy too. Not only did it have the pilot sitting in it but it came with the standing figure. It made the toy that much more awesome for me.

It's so cinematic how he got a shot of the Batmobile with the full moon behind it.

LOL. The only thing that spinmeister can make spin is Carl Macek in his grave.

It'll be resin with joints. I'm still designing and testing materials but there's no cloth at all.

It's about time! I've been watching it on cable and thought it was starting to look dated. I had a dream they rebooted Inception, but then I woke up... but that turned out to be a dream too.

I have a 1/10 (fetish?) fascination also! I plan to make 1:10 figures so if you have a couple of ships to put them in it'll be pretty awesome!