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It's the perfect release really, it's made for the Japanese market. Very few people outside Japan are going to buy Mac7 merch.
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Probably a lot of metal in the feet.
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That was usually the case but the latest announcement dropped the de minimis exemption because they're so paranoid of companies working around the tariffs creatively. Of course, none of us know what the final shape of any of this will look like so hopefully things like that exception are brought back swiftly and we can all go about our collecting with a sigh of relief.
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Bandai has done white landing gear on prototype before and then they don't end up that way so we will see.
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It seems the Japanese manufacturers have a pegged exchange rate that is working against US dealers. I don't believe BBTS is buying these retail, I think they're just getting and awful price from Arcadia. Manufacturers don't want to assume any currency risk.
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More info in a week right? Not released in a week.
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Not April fools huh? Cool!
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TZ put up preorders for their brutishdog, looks good but tough to compete with HMR.
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Oh, so we're really doing Channing Tatum as Gambit huh? I gave up on Marvel after T:L&T, BP2, AM:Q, were the tri-fecta of "we don't even have to try anymore!" style of writing but I've had enough recovery time to give GoG3 a chance and that was fun so sure, I'll watch this one (on Disney+).
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Congrats, looks great.
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It was a test shot of what became the blue toy.
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That is a level of professionalism I can't even imagine these two license holders having. BW makes nothing on the Robotech toys and Robotech toys have almost no penetration in Japan so not much reason for them to change what they're doing based on HG. -
They're having too much fun with minimal change reissues for Frontier to do anything new. I wonder if the marketing guys are expecting a swell of interest when the new show hits so we're in a lull period where they're just trying to make sure people who want the existing toys can find them.
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As much as I'm not a fan of the CM's Legioss, their Tread was much better. Of course, since half the fun is connecting the Tread to the Legioss, the CM's Tread was handicapped. Oh boy, I must have had a lot more free time when I dug everything out to take this picture! Needless to say, I am REALLY looking forward to the Sentinel.
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CM's is these little guys, 1/18 scale: They're pretty small: I don't think we need to delve into Robotech shaming in this thread... leave that for the Macross thread where HG has done far more substantial damage.
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Looks like those would be from Roots of Ambition.
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They should do an appendix including the damaged parts from the assembly kit, 1/3000 vf-1s, and laser cut detail parts.
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That's interesting, I never thought about that head being complicated. I'll have to take a closer look.
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Okay, so one change and that's the plastic used for the antennae.
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There's only been two releases over all these years so I don't think bandai is going to be challenging you with many options. There's one other color (white) with this head and several others with a different head.
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Curious if that will help. My 639 set is also 'tacky' and I assumed it was the paint breaking down.
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My guess is the next update will correspond with the big summer shows like SDCC and the one in HK.
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I wrote something once on what Robotech Live Action would need to be to separate it from Macross. I went with the same concept of the "SDF-1" being found buried in a glacier rather than crashing into Earth. Once the humans used its technology, it became easy for Masters to identify where it was and send their slave soldier race after it (they would need a new name). I figured you would ditch the whole giant thing and just have the "Zentraedi" equivalents be convinced that the humans are the offspring of the crashed ship and unclear if they're fighting their own before ultimately realizing that the Earthlings enjoy a better existance and they'd rather be on their side... but not before the Earth took its awful beating. The Exedol equivalent would tell us that Zor had been to Earth and manipulated the DNA of the inhabitants and that's why he chose it as the hiding place for his ship when he rebelled. After that, I figured you could pretty much slide into the sequel stories but clean-up all the rough edges and sync them together better. I'd probably make the Masters look more alien and reintroduce the original Southern Cross concept that they were actually fighting enslaved, brainwashed humans rather than the Masters themselves with all the twisted moral implications. As I thought about it though, the more you tease apart Robotech to make it unique from Macross, the more you create a generic scifi movie that doesn't need to be called Robotech. So, if I'm Sony and I want to make a scifi epic, I would be better off paying a writer to take the concepts of the not Macross story and make a new franchise that I wouldn't need to share with any existing rights holders, especially if I don't trust the name would put enough butts in the seats to warrant the expense. You could then market the movie saying it was inspired by all the great 80s mecha anime and name drop a bunch of them.
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For anyone curious about the Weathered Edition, I made a video visual comparison: And I've uploaded the pictures to anymoon.com if you prefer that format: While it's not the most logical or realistic weathering, I found it fun! I like the burn effect on the feet.