I guess it was part of the shoping Frenzy, Yamato was coming out with new and nice designs for the Variable Fighters so when some one got the VF-1A it had to get the one with Max paint, then the VF-1S, the strike pack, the VF-1J, the M&M VF-1J, the VF-1D, the Ostrich, the VE-1, then two of each then GBP for all of the Valks, then has to get Macross Plus VFs get the 1/48, we were being bombarded with new toys almost continualy for the last 3 years, was it like that? Now the rate has slow down. The next toys that coming out is the variable monster and the VF-0S and I don't know how much people actually want them, I would like to get a monster but it is right now out of my budget, I am getting the VF-0S but it scare be I will end up losing pieces of it.