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leader class starscream now out in the wild

AI hack the drones, especially the rocket drones.

LOL at the product placement. Who knew alien robots were so into sports fashion?

Everyone loves to cosplay!

After all the rhetoric and ad hominem attacks being lobbed by them, that post was the nicest I could muster. If they think I'm wrong, they should refute the actual logical arguments I have presented rather than resorting to gross sexual innuendos and name calling.

http://dragonjewelinc.com/home4.htm go to the page, look at the prices they charge for doing some "economical" molds for some VERY simple parts. Then, just for kicks, lets count up how many individual parts there are in the leg of a 1/48 vf-1, just the lower leg: at least 11. So, 11 x 3000$ and that's 33,000 just for the lower leg for the molds. And that's if Yamato were using "economical" molds, which they aren't, but whatever. So you can see that the a 1/48 vf-1's cost, just for the molds, is up there in the 6 figure range. That's PER line, if yamato is running 6 lines, that's a couple hundred thousand dollars per line. Now, I know what you're going to say, "You're so stupid, the 1/48 is soooo much more complicated than the regult!" Maybe, but molds don't cost more or less just because the end product is a transforming jet or an egg with legs. It's just the number of parts and from what we've seen of the regult, it's very likely the actual number of individual pieces in a regult is similar to what makes up a valk. So the actual cost to manufacture the two are going to be similar. So why not just make it cheaper like the q-rau. Okay, let's over look that the q-rau was PANNED by nearly everyone when it came out for being WAY too expensive in terms of cost versus value and that perceived value diminished even more after the destroids came out, even at 80$, who's going to buy it? Macross is a tiny niche market in an ever dwindling niche anime market and even out of those fans, 30 something year old fans with enough disposable income to buy 100$ plastic toys is a tiny fraction. There's a great difference between pointing out the flaws in the "logic" of the arguments being presented in this thread (hell, in every single yamato thread, ever) and being happy or even agreeing with their decisions. But if you just want to keep on with your ad hominem attacks and tantrums, go right on ahead.

I'm happy with the current 1/60 yf-19 but if the new mold has a gerwalk mode that locks together then I'm all there.

played a bit, it's fun. Plays well enough on my gaming laptop (g51vx)

Thanks, my kid's preschool is right next to a TRU so I'll see if I can grab some when they go on sale and make them available as well

what is pretty shaddy is I had already received a confirmation email that my order had gone through. At this point I'm thinking they're going to cancel everyone's order that went through at the lower price point.

Got an email from TRU saying they don't have any idea when they're gonna be able to ship the MP Grimlock now. Along with this nice blurb at the end 30-Day Policy If the item(s) is not shipped by 08/27/2010 the item will be automatically cancelled and your credit card will not be charged, and/or your money will be refunded

hilarious, toynami hasn't sold out of their 25$ regult, what makes you think yamato would do any better with a 200$ version? Look, molds for resin are not the same as molds for plastic. It doesn't matter to the mold maker if the end product transforms or not, they're going to charge yamato per mold and by the complexity of the *individual part* so as long as the regult comes out having a comparable number of individual pieces, which is more than likely, it will cost the same to manufacture a "simple" regult as it does to manufacture a "complex" valyrie. The problem here is, only SDF: Macross fans give a rats ass about the regult and even out of them, only a tiny fraction ever buy toys of the stuff. Factories don't run on fanboy tears people, they take cashy money.

you probably have a bandai somewhere close by.

that's because the 19 is designed to be reminiscent of the flight suits from SDFM/DYRL, bell bottoms included.

So much for the ugly fighter mode. Things a beauty.

Because there's a lot of fixed costs involved here. Tooling costs, molding costs, training workers, these prices aren't based on how much you want the toy and they're not going to go up or down based on how popular or even complex the final product is. The 21/22 is a far more popular and milkable toy, the regult is a two foot tall egg on chicken legs and it's not even a main villain mecha, it's just cannon fodder.

When the voices of the kids on the phone don't match up with how young they appear to be at the end of the film. I've ridden on that train, I know it's not cheap but it's also not so expensive that he couldn't afford to have security with him in the booth. (well, not that specific train but I've taken a cross country in a similar booth cabin on a high speed bullet train in Asia and trust me, if I can afford it, a billionaire can afford to book the whole cabin) The difference here and with other movies is that the things like symbolic names, locations, characters appearing in locations, etc are all pointed at in the movie by the characters as ways to tell you're dreaming, then at the end of the movie the last shot is purposefully ambiguous as to whether Cobb is awake or asleep. The movie obviously invites viewers to have this discussion.

Think about it, every other time we see him, he's being chauffeured in private cars, jets, the whole nine yards. But a guy who is worth billions, who has taken the time to get dream security training, is going to ride in the cheapest seats with no security detail? It doesn't add up. It's not a huge thing but it's just one more sign that points to things not being so simple.

there's some things to suggest the whole thing is a dream. Mal brings it up during one of their confrontations. Then there's how they're constantly just showing up in places the way Cobb tells Ariadne about. Then there's just the opening sequence with them trying to hack Saito, the guy is wealthy enough to buy an entire airline but he rides coach on the train with no security?

and even more people will jump up and down and cry about being ripped off if they don't.

hm, I guess. If I remember right, the yf-19's "eyes" were painted on as well. I hope they're jewel inserts as well, but unlike the yf-19 and the sv-51 the eyes of the vf-19 are pretty prominent, I don't think yamato will cheap out and put in painted eyes. Especially after all the flak bandai caught with the dx vf-25's painted eye

Why would you think that?

It's nit really over thinking it, that idea that cobb is still dreaming at the end is one that Nolan obviously wants you to consider