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Take your time yamato. The wallet needs time to replenish. I just bought a bunch of older yamato stuff from hlj recently when they had a sale. I thought I was done with vf-1 but noooooo just had to buy another one.

Then landing gear is still there. Just that you pop it on. You can still display it in fighter mode in a hangar. It's just that for me at least I put it on a stand flying around much more often than on the ground with the landing gear out. I like the landing gear but I think having the missile is important too. If yamato can pull off all three that's cool but then it might also look uglier. Remember when people complained about stuff on the 1/48 with the tiny hands and the massive chest in GBP display? Don't you think fighter mode will look worse if they have to compromise vs just leaving one thing out? Oh and I am aware that they don't park in gerwalk mode in the hangar but that since majority of the time you see them flying in space this is the image most people have of the valkyries: flying around doing interesting things like shooting and dogfighting. I've had my masterpiece starscream and SV-51 on stands in fighter mode and never once have I left them displayed with landing gears out on a flat surface. 9 times out of 10 I prefer seeing them look like they are taking off or in a slight dive ready to attack something. Landing gear (but not power armor) is for pussies.

I'm just saying that only uncool people need it. In fact robot mode allows people to just crash land on the ground like hikaru did in SDFM with his orange vf-1d lol. The toy is complete, you just have to pop the gear on. What isn't complete is the lack of inclusion of side covers for the battroid mode for all yamato 1/60 vf-1 toys.

Yeah but they have limits too. Otherwise we'd have intake covers that are perfect transforming. Just saying..

I agree with the above but I'd sacrifice landing gear. Just make the landing gear a pop-on thing like the 1/72 yf-21. It's space dude. Nobody needs landing gears. lol The valk doesn't land on the surface of planets that have no landing strip for them to land on. They use gerwalk mode and can transform so quickly that they can park in battroid mode. Didn't you see that part in macross plus when dyson dives to the ground in battroid mode and then goes into gerwalk mode at the last moment to show off? That's what valkyries do and I suspect when the vf-1 was first being shown to the public in SDFM, the only reason you see them having to land normally was to keep the secret that the valk is an anti-giant killing machine as well as a fighter plane. Since the VF-17 is a elite valk it gets to launch outside. Landing gears are for pussies. Nobody cared when the yamato vb6 monster had none. I can see more people putting these in battroid mode on a stand anyway. So that's why I think gunpod needs to stay, then missile, then landing gear.

I use blutack on any figure that can't hold thier gunpod in place. The pegs in the palm of current toys eliminate that need now. For smaller toys I just stuff tiny tissue paper in the areas to add friction. Did this with the transforming revoltech vf-1 on one of the shoulder armors. (yeah I bought one just out of curiosity This toy is way better than the non-transforming revoltechs imo. You just need loads of patience transforming it because some bits go out of alignment easily but the final form is ok. (just leave it in bot mode, fighter mode is not the focus)

This is why I use youtube to help me. Loads of transforming videos out there. I just pause and watch how they do it step by step. I remember when I first got my old 1/72 yf-21 and I was stuck for ages trying to figure out how to get the thing from mode to mode. Now it's pretty easy. But when you get something for the first time you can't see internally where things are connecting and how they are connected. You wonder what will happen and if you will snap something accidentally. I do this for all my transformers (not as risky since they are much cheaper) now heh.

Also put magnets inside the golf ball just in case it holds a big gunpod lol.

I was lucky with old 1/72 vf-11. I got the fixed release that came with the fast packs included. This is the version people should have got. To me Ivanov and gamlin are more close to black than grey. I think white is more worrying because doesn't it hide stress marks better? If you are getting one secondhand you won't be able to see them as clearly. My 1/48 vf-1 low viz is holding up fine. heh My first yamato.

Old version 1 owners should start selling their version 1 toys now and see if they can get good value for them while they are still "current" on ebay. That's what I would do if I had any earlier vf-25s. I'm sure collectors who never open stuff wouldnt care that much about things like "how chunky the robot is vs the cg model from the show" and stuff like that.

Yes go back to ratchets yamato. Have you not learned your lesson from the old Qrau 1/60 which always falls back on its butt thanks to the ball-jointed hips and back heavy design of this mecha? Small figures can get away with it but not big ones. Posing (especially ones where you are trying to make them look like they are flying at a weird angle) sucks with ball joints on large figures. You can give us ball-jointed fingers on hands and stuff, but use common sense on the larger limbs.

I agee with the balljoint thing. I wish they invented some kind of joint that was a ball joint that clicked like a revoltech joint that didn't look ugly but was great for large toys. Maybe make a square joint that is like the rubick's cube but with clicks? lol "I am the future of mech joints!" Each row/column has different click frequency. So you cna do a large and fine click. Like how you had two turrets on the leader class brawl. But just imagine this joint was easy to pop off so you can "tune" it? (like a quick release thing) Forget springloaded gimmicks and other things, let's see inovation in joints for larger figures.

I'm eager to get one of these as soon as I have enough money. What do the limbs feel like? Will they start getting floppy soon? (hopefully not) When the vf-25 v2 come out I want to get the ozma with armor pack. Grey valkyries are the best.

So no tiny feet or tiny hands for bot mode then? (I'm not skeptical about the feet but what of the hands?) 1/48 vf-1 all about fighter mode. Clown hands were provided but were not perfect transformable ie did not fit into the sleeve) extra big hands had to be used for gbp. 1/60 vers2 hands are more normal. Robo mode is fine. 1/60 vf-11 everything looks fine in bot mode. 1/60 yf-19 people now want fat legs after seeing vf-19 1/60 vf-22/yf-21 shrunken feet and the lower legs lack calf muscles like in the lineart. 1/60 vf-19 short and stout and good bot mode. I'm thinking the hands need to be beefy just because it is a fat robot. But you never know with yamato. They gave 1/48 a big chest, and skeleton fingers. It's time these robots ate a few burgers now that people are sick of skinny look. (I'm not against skinny robot look since I believe fighter mode is the main one though. If they are 3d cg objects they should be skinny in bot mode. 2d drawings in bot mode which are fattened up = not the true real world proportion imo. valks should be all about a skinny guy lightweight armour and dodging unless they have add-ons like gbp)

Another thing to keep in mind is smaller means you can display a group better. You may not want as much detail since you are viewing it from a distance in a display to put other guys in the frame with the toy. (an example would be a theoretical revoltech Qrau engaged in a zero G space fight against a revoltech vf-1 max to recreate the arcade game duel in SDFM tv series. Seeing the action further back, you might not be able to make out as much detail anyway. (that's not to say it's not important to have detail on a small toy, just not as much as a larger toy where everything is blown up and your eye can notice things like cockpit or pilot detail looking ugly at that size - kinda like when you watch a standard definition movie on a giant big screen tv in a home theatre room vs seeing it on a small tv in the bedroom. Your eyes won't think the standard definition image is all that ugly if it is squashed down into a small space but it would if blown up onto a large area where the drop in quality is much more obvious) Having said that though, durability is important at this size since the transforming robots have more moving parts. This is why I bought it because I like the idea of a durable small guy that has ok detail. If this was easy to break or something like that and I had to be delicate with it I would not have bought it. I think that is partly why I want a yf-19 himetal because yamato's is still plagued by the non-locking chest which kinda makes it dangerous to handle in robot mode.

I just ordered vf-1 hometal recently and love it to bits. (VF-1S Strike Roy from DYRL) I do not need love advice. She's perfect for her size. The himetals are really mini-yamatos but with more part swapping on small bits. These are the one I'd bring to work and put on a desk since they are small enough to not be a hassle to handle. But durable enough that you don't feel like they are going to fall apart when you try to manhandle or put pressure on a peg. (banpresto had that problem, some of the little pegs have stress marks on mine) If people aren't buying them they are missing out imo. As for the wife, buy her a ring for gods sake and dress her up in female zentradi uniform once in a while. She is probably pissed that you are not buying her a 1/3000 sdf-1 and wasting all your money on small toys instead of big man toys. AgentGHQ is full of crap. These toys may not be better than the 1/60 ver 2 vf-1 but they are superior to most of the other crap out there. These actually threaten to compete against the 1/60 line for people who really can't get those due to using their money on other things or just being too poor. Bandai stop being a pussy and give us news on the macross plus toys. It's not as popular in japan but you guys need us badly to buy your poo so listen to us. Now that yamato has released the vf-19 you should try to focus on these macross plus valks while they still don't have anything on the market right now. And to those who say "I have no money left" they could at least give us some news about this right? Why are they going all "haromony Gold" on us. We are scared that the himetal line is finished. Personally I think yamato should try to do a 1/100 pt line of macross zero valks. The zero is bigger than a vf-1 and it shouldn't be hard to replicate what bandai has already done with their vf-1 at this size on a vf-0 which is bigger and slightly simpler than a vf-1 in complexity. (most of the transformation is the same) What do you guys think? Should yamato experiment with 1/100 scale for the shows that weren't as popular? If they can get us to buy all the macross zero stuff then they can start on stuff that "isn't worthy of 1/60" like the vf-4 and other things. If I had a choice between a really detailed vf-4 that never comes out due to lack of exposure on a show, or an "ok detail" 1/100 pt toy that actually isn't vaporware then I would go the latter. Imagine a vf-11 at 1/100?

I'd be very interested in yf-19 himetal. They should get this out asap before a possible yamato v3 yf-19 is announced officially. Take advantage of the lack of any new mac plus toys right now.

Robot mode looks the best to me. Hopefully this doesn't fall over like the 1/60 qrau. Mine can't take the huge back pack by itself and I have to lean it against something.

To me its more about the look more than characters. Even though vf-11 gets blown away in the backgrounds in mac7 it still looked ok in mac plus when it rescues dysons yf-21 from falling to its doom as well as when fighting rogues using zentradi powered armour. vf-17 is a nice break from skinny vfs like sv-51 and vf-11. Don't think its fighter mode is all that special though. I like vf-11 better.

vf-17 to me isn't a grunt though. It looks like it is equiped with way more tools than the standard issue vf-11. It's just that the story is so focused on basaras quest to save whales and exorcise people from alien-demon mind control with sounds and mysterios magic that we easily forget the importance of the ordinary looking vf without a mouth on it. They were not blown up as easily as the cannon fodders, they just look like a "more heavy" vf so it blends in. vf-11 = easy to kill vf-17 = hard to kill vf-19 fire valk = amuro-ray-levels of plot armour with pinpoint barrier abuse to the point where you hope the underdog bad guys can actually suceed in getting at least 1 hit just to remind you that macross might still be a real robot show and not a super robot show. haha

The g mode has a big back but its still not worse than yf-19 and vf-19 gerwalk mode with wings under its arms. I want one mostly for bot mode.

I took out my old bandai vf-17 chunky monkey the other day and just realised how much more intimidating the robot looks. Unlike the vf-11 (which i want milia version of) I like that the main colours are dark instead of some flashy scheme. I think now that the bulky forehead adds to the scariness of this vf which I didn't care much for at first. If only S came out I'd get it, but we know yamato will milk it and release both. But please give us the option to bend those knees forward in GERWALK like the other vf. Maybe it's not supposed to, but I love the idea that a VF can do the classic "point your feet forwards to do a hard brake" gerwalk move to slow down suddenly. I don't see why elite pilots should be forbidden from doing it, so please don't restrict the knees! Also give us stiff ankles, not all of us have fancy stands to hang them in place to simulate zero g combat poses. Some of us just want them not to fall off the shelves in neutral looking pose with action.

As long as they are willing to improve and listen to feedback then they are ok in my book. I didn't buy any vf-25 toys but I got the konig monster based on pics and the posability of it. You could argue that there is always room for improvement. Yamato sometimes forgets stuff like not having chest lock for 1/60 yf-19 which surprised me. This is something small and easy to fix. So it's not like they are perfect all the time, but if they ignore the criticism and feedback they might think fans don't care that much about that stuff to be enough to affect thier chance of purchase. Over a long period of time they can fine tune things as long as the fans are clear what it is in particular they think is bad about the toy. Some people seem to get excited over small things like say, the ability to remove covers on the yf-19 head to see underneath, (placing importance on looks) while others like me look at things like durability over a long period of time and how secure everything holds together. (robot modes shouldn't have to suffer from floppy limbs or the upper half of the figure not being tightly held down - this increases the 'play' value of a toy to me because you shouldn't have to feel uncomfortable just holding it.) If you are a fan of macross in general, try to be clear what it is you hate so it gets addressed early on. For example when yamato brought out the monster I thought having tampo printed markings would have reasonable given how little markings it has but then some complain they like to apply their own custom markings so they like LESS details. Who should they listen to more? If you don't tell them what in particular you are angry about, it will be harder for them to cater to fans because they just interpret good sales as meaning they shouldn't change anything. Or if sales are crap, they might just decide there is no profit to be made from macross toys and then they just go back to doing re-releases of chunky monkey toys to vintage toy collectors only.

I ordered vf-1s roy w strike/super parts. Later I'm going to get the blazer.

me too. This and a future redone yf-19 v2 make me excited. I have zero interest in the boosters. Instead yamato should give us vf-11c armour. (this is way higher on my wish list)