my first "macross" toy was the matsushiro jetfire toy. Funny thing is I was watching robotech and playing with jetfire at the same time and notice the similarities and noticed that jetfire had the macross kite on it's wing. I was wondering why does jetfire look like roy fokker's VF-1S? Little did I know.... Many years later, 1996 to be exact, my friend in HS tells me he can get a macross vf-1j toy for 25 bucks. I totally jumped on it and bought it. It turned out the be the Joons VF-1J in the red box. Man, I was stoked that I had that, but then I realized it was a bootleg and I wasn't too happy about it afterwards. After that I was determined to find me a real one. But the ones i would find were always 300+ for each one. Waaaay too pricey for during that time. So model kits sufficed. Then the reissues finally came out and I bought em all and the rest is history!