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Meh... They should release it in Low Viz Grey and some weathering. The grey low viz 1A is still the best valk ever released by Yamato Imho

The out of control Prices of the 1/24's made me happy to stick with my 1/35's. Luckily I got two of the 1/35 command car kits to boot :0

Nope Nope Nope. the extent of my photo etch experience is tacking on pre-printed eduards panels together and making cockpits look dope. Wouldn't touch this with a 10-ft pole unless I really hated myself

Except that Arcadia doesn't make Macross Frontier stuff

Despite what people may think, Bandai is what we call a Business. Businesses have to make money, so it's normal for Businesses to take less risks and focus more on things that actually make them money. One only needs to look at Yamato to see that catering to a niche market is financially risky. SO it's no surprise that Bandai focuses on Gundam because there are way more gundam fans than Macross fans, despite what people may believe by participating on Macross fan site.... Hell, Preorder crap aside I'm happy there's more than one company making Macross toys at all! Back when I first Joined Macross world last millennium (there was another mw-world board before 08/2003!) the Macross landscape was desolate. All we had were out-of-reach 20+ year old 1/55s that could go up to over a thousand dollars (MIB 1/55 elint anyone?), Garage kits that were pricey, or reissued Arii / Imai kits. Hell, when Yamato released their crappy 1/60 V1's we bent over and took it all because we were just so happy to have macross anything back then. Just appreciate that Somebody is supporting the franchise and making a risk to provide Macross Toys at all.

Yeah I was really surprised too. Luckily I didn't jump at 1st and bought one for like 13000 Yen a few months back :0 The lack of Panel lines made it hard to break up those huge slabs of purple :0

Last time I checked the VF-25A and RVF-25's weren't super popular Hero valks

The Preorders were up at like 06:00 ET (03:00 PT) .... you went to sleep right when they came up

Every site was messed up last night. Ami Ami died as expected at 0300 EDT - around 17500-ish Yen Hobby Search went next around 0310EDT, got cart jacked. - around 17500-ish Yen Cd-Japan was up for what seems like an eternity, no discount. Bought one with SAL shipping 23100 Yen *yay* Fell asleep. Woke up at 5:45EDT NY Started updating FIgure arts figs on their site, and YF-30 went up around 06:00 EDT. Got Two via separate accounts at 19200 Yen each before SAL Shipping. NY was nerve wracking because the site was uber slow during the preorder window of like 45 seconds. Yay, got the three I wanted. Sleeeep. Good luck on Anime Export and HLJ, I doubt HLJ will give a discount much greater than the tiny 800 yen discount NY put on the YF-30.

I never thought I'd see the day when we'd see printed photo etched on macross models...... It's not eduards, but getting closer

If you want 1/100 spend twice as much on a VF hi-metal. Those were freaking awesome.

Blame the designer, not the Toy maker kawamori's fault

Part of me is sad to see no YF-30, part of me is happy July will be wallet-friendly

I guess people in japan are skeptical of a VF-25S re-release anytime soon when a scratched up used ozzy goes for 250 http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/item_s-886852.html

considering how slow it's setlling at NY at 10 bucks above retail you can bet these will be around during release time for retail at least.

Yeah, like OMG they're charging 10 bucks above retail which is prolly what it takes to break even after preordering it from another brick and mortar

So I guess my prediction was right that these would be easier (in relative terms) to score than the Ozzy 29's

lol got me 3rd at NY. 128 not bad at all. now I just need to upsize figure out how to take off the tampo #1's and replace them with 2 and 3 in June

fot my usual 2 at HS. woot woot

Amiami's teaser is up http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=FIGURE-004931&page=top%2Fsearch%2Flist%3Fs_keywords%3DYF-25%24pagemax%3D20%24getcnt%3D0%24pagecnt%3D1

Confirmed PO's open on 3/3 at 1600 JST from two different sources. I'm on vacay, gonna be up all night with preorder madness

until the valk is officially on the tamashii webpage and the usual blogs give an actual reservation date who knows. I will be checking the blogs regularly for updates. Though I don't think this one will be as bad as the ozzy, it's a non hero.

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/item_s-1403378.html Bonus came in, this will take a tiny chunk out of it due to the price drop

the side profile in the second magazine scan looks close to the yf-25 cockpit on the 1/72. I think they used separate parts for the cockpit block. On the model it was only a few different parts to make the two seated. you can tell it's different by how the cockpit is more straight in the middle, just like on the model (I have 4 of them I know lol)

Welp, there goes a chunk of my bonus Official Tamashii link http://tamashii.jp/special/pickup/201406vzpcg/ Oh, and it says this: ※上記商品は一般店頭での発売を予定しております。 which basically means General Release.......