TheLoneWolf

Does anyone know how feasible it would to take a picture of the poster with a good digital camera? Or, if kinko's has poster-size scanners? Oh yeah, to all interested parties, full scans of the YF-19 box set are now available in a whopping 28mb zip file! If I left anyone out, toss me a PM.

As much as I would love to have a fold booster mounted on my Yamato 19, I heard a rumor that the Yammie isn't even 1/72 scale and is actually closer to something like 1/76. Can any verify this?

More than likely, you will be downloading the images from Garoquel's secure server once they are completed. You can then print them on any paper you want. Will there at least be an option where we can pay a little bit extra to have them printed by Garoquel on DVD quality paper? Not all of us have high or even medium quality color printers. I know if I printed them off my printer, they'd look heavily dithered.

I know he isn't a director, but my vote goes for Chris Claremont! No one has written better stories than him, hell the movies have already adopted enough of his ideas and plots.

Dude!! I am all about this!! The perfect compliment to Paul's box set! edit: what kind of paper stock will these be printed on?

Also, the R2 DVD's feature the initial two episodes in the form of the original 1-hour Macross pilot. The Animeigo just has the first two episodes as individual eps. You're only missing slightly modified intros, eyecatches, and endings.

I still maintain it was the other way around. The DVD had already come into it's own by the time the PS2 launched. The players had reached the <100$ range. Every store around carried the disks. I think DVD helped the PS2 more than the PS2 helped DVD. I think it depends on what part of the world you're talking about. In Japan, the laserdisc market was strong and right on track up until the PS2 was released. There was a definite positve correlation between PS2 and DVD sales in Japan. In the US, well the LD format never really caught on, so DVD's had an instant appeal when compared to our crappy VHS tapes.

Aside from the detachable legs, I think Billy Wong's 1/60 VF-1 has the best proportions out of all the VF-1's ever made. No small feat, even the mighty 1/48 suffers from gangly arms and shrunken hands. I admit his Macross Plus toys were mediocre, but they were Yamato's first venture into Macross toys, their designs are near impossible to implement in a perfect-transformation toy, and he was working with a relatively small scale (1/72).

Hey man, feel free to mix and match the images Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I'll be able so snag one of these box sets, so customize it however you like! I would make some more variations, but I'm hardly ever home, hell I'm not even home as I type this.

Yup, they're all from the dvd box sets. Except for the Myung pic, that's actually a full size poster I've got. If you want to use it, I'm gonna need someone's digicam. Bobe, you and everyone else help yourself to editing or whatever to the pic. I only wish I had mad PS skills like you guys

figure I might as well and don't worry, I do have the original image that's on the top. That's just a low-res scan I picked up off the net. Also, if I were better with PS, I would've added a nice unifying border and the logo somewhere. Come to think of it, the original image with Myung, Isamu, and Guld has a small Mac+ logo in the corner.

figure I might as well give it a shot

True dat, just messing with you Max, that's all. I used to post on MW daily, till I got a job where they blocked the WWW. Now, the overzealous fanboys don't seem so bad anymore.

You're right, the earlier proto looks much better than the Dengeki pic. It's possible, but unlikely, that a later version would actually be inferior. Hopefully Yamato will release some publicity photos of their own to set the recrod straight.

Jesus Christ, Max will never be happy with SW fans.

Which Walmart? I'm kinda familiar with the DC area.

Eh, what the?! I'm still here! I never got any PM's about higher res scans or anything, so I figured no one cared If one of you is serious about making wallpaper or something, shoot me an PM and I'll upload some tifs to the Internet. I would do it here, but the mods would probably ban me

It's refreshing to see Yamato release a Macross toy that isn't a VF-1. But, that doesn't give them luxury of releasing something so ugly that I'd confuse it for a Toynami product. The latest pic of the Konig Monster, at best, only bears a passing resemblance to the lineart. Please note: The rat claws that are supposed to be hands The positioning of the legs. They're supposed to end at the "crotch." Instead, they go up as far the Battroid's chest, not to mention they're spread so far apart that it looks like they attach to the shoulders. The head looks like it's sunken into some sort of backpack. The missing gun from the chest. The slumping shoulders. Hate to draw so much attention to crotch ,but just compare the two. The colors are way off, but this is just a prototype. Hopefully the final product will bear the colors from VFX-2. The toy is not without its merits. Shuttle mode looks fantastic! But the Battroid is complete mess. Had this been one of Yamato's early ventures, like the YF-19, I would be more forgiving. But it's now 2004, and we've seen what Yamato is capable of doing. Unless Yamato is going to market this as an "economy" toy, ala the VF-0, I cannot understand why they've done such a poor job with Battroid mode.

from what i've read, its $40+, you have to glue it together, and paint it yourself. it can hold all the valks(1/60, 1/55, 1/48) as well as other mecha? other than that, theres not too much info on these. Two more things to note about Yamato's launch claws/stands, from all the pictures we've seen so far, they won't be able to accomodate the 1/48's gundpod in fighter mode. OTOH, haterists stands can handle the whole she-bang. Also, let's not forget that Yamato's launch claw holds the Valkyries incorrectly. They should be grasping Valkyries from above by their boosters, not from their undersides. Overall, haterists stands offer flexibility. Not only do Macross toys look great on them, but practically any other toy or model. Somehow, I don't see an A-Wing fighter looking too good on Yamato's launch claw.

That would be more palatable. But then, who's under the helmet? Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of a CF pilot, but it would be really chessy if it was just a sculpt-swap with Hikaru.

Huh? PLEASE! Show me a pic of Millia with pointed ears!

I agree, these two limited figures are just a bunch of donkey doo-doo. Why in the world would I want to pay over a hundred dollars for a Hikaru figure whose colors are completely off and an awkwardly posed Minmay. My guess is that the Hikaru's are just factory defects and CMs is brilliantly marketing them as limited editions. I guess a factory defect would be rare.

Funny but those ain´t sound boosters , itwas never mentioned in Scrambled valk that it was a sound booster , I would say it´s more of a energy abosrbtion pod or something else. Dude, I was joking. Hence the " " Besides, who would want to hear Hikaru sing?

Awesome! A VF-1 with a Sound Booster! I never knew lineart of this Valkyrie existed, much less that it was designed by Kawamori himself. I always assumed it was by Ohta or another of the ELS designers. If you don't mind my asking, which book was this scanned from?

Re-releasing the low-vis will only hurt the sales of the original low-vis, which Yamato doesn't care about since that run is long over. Someone perfectly described "completists" as buyers will bulls-eyes on their backs The "completist" is precisely the type of person that Yamato counts on to buy their reissues and variants. Conversely, while the average Macross fan would know better than to buy the exact same toy twice, mom & pop shops and TRU don't, so Yamato still makes money off them. It might not be this year, or even next year, but I firmly believe Yamato will re-issue the low-vis (or some variant such as a 1J). Just look at the ridiculous prices this cash cow is commanding on E-bay, there's most definitely a demand for it.