jenius

It doesn't appear at this time to be a kit but there's not a whole lot to go off of right now. Remember Yamato wanted to make their 1/2000 but ultimately settled on 1/3000 so who knows what will happen between now and a launch... if that ever happens at all.

if it weren't for the stupid light up gimmicks I'd be hoping $250ish. After all, Yamato was giving us the 1/60 V2 for peanuts in comparison. I'm assuming the V2 was a bright spot for them and not the reason they're not around any more . What variants will we see? I'm guessing: 1) VF-1J Hikaru 2) VF-1S Focker 3) VF-1S Hikaru I'd be surprised if it goes beyond that but as I recall, Yamato never planned on making many 1/48s.

But I think they lost the license... I don't get what the problem is? Again, I can't impact reality with my thoughts. You don't have to worry that I'm going to convince BW to pull the license from Arcadia if they still do have it. What if people are assuming Arcadia has the license and Arcadia has lost it and they hadn't considered that? I'd say I'm doing these folks a service by pointing out the likelihood that they should reconsider what they're waiting for. It's not like I go around stating "Arcadia has definitely lost the license." I say things like "I think..." "it seems to me..." or what have you. Worst case scenario is someone sees my comment and says "Jeez, I hope that guy is wrong." Then, if I'm wrong, they'll feel relieved when Arcadia makes an announcement. No harm, no foul.

How is it counter-productive? My stating "I think they lost the license" doesn't actually impact whether they have or not. The toy industry doesn't produce negative news releases so Arcadia isn't going to tell you they don't have the license any more... well, Mr. K might on twitter if you ask him. Maybe someone should try that. Otherwise, the absence of product is all we have to go off of. Bandai didn't go 1/60 though so there's definitely a door of possibility there.

I also owned Yamato's V1 1/60 toys, that didn't keep me from getting excited for V2. I did state earlier that now is the time for excitement and the time for negativity will arrive when we all know more about the designs and compromises made. I'm sure some people will bemoan color selections, others landing gear details (or God forbid, a lack of landing gears), and some of these designs may even parts-form! You can skip straight to negativity if you like, we'll meet you there in a few weeks or months when more information becomes available. It's inevitable, there will be loud protestations and gnashing of teeth... but for now we don't know enough so YAY!

He's the anchor at Scramble News.

Why is everyone happy? I demand negativity and anger!

It's really too bad they can't just work out a deal and continue the 1/60 line as Robotech Veritechs in the states if they're being boxed out of Japan by Bandai. They'd never do it because it'd mean BW would never work with them again.

I think Bandai is all in with 1/100 on the HMRs so the 1/35 move lets them do "the best ever" VF-1 and keeps them from cannibalizing any HMR dollars.

don't forget the one "forever mint in box"

Okay, can I pose a guess? There's something in the nosecone that folds out to receive the legs. The legs then do the anime accurate transformation and latch on to those connection points.

For a YF-19 vs. a VF-19Advance, we would expect no need to include the stands for the wing boosters and no wing boosters. That seems like it leaves room to me for a fold drive and an arm cannon. I've got my fingers crossed... that would also go a long way to convincing people to double-dip (I don't need convincing ).

I'm also making a ton of assumptions in regards to how the rights are being handled. The YF-19 rights may very well be separate from the YF-21 rights or they may be wrapped up in an "all of MacPlus at this scale" type of deal . I bet it depends a lot on what Bandai asked for. If Bandai only wanted the YF-19 they could probably get that cheaper than locking up all of Macross Plus. If they perceived that this was their opportunity to lock Arcadia out then they might have been able to secure everything for Mac Plus. We won't really know until it actually plays out. I mean, we did see Kaiyodo doing Revoltechs at the same time Yamato did GnuDous so there's also the possibility some non-exclusive rights could be granted. So I've definitely got my opinion on how things are being divvied up but I'll freely admit to there being plenty of opportunity for me to be wrong.

I like the blockier shoulders, looks more intimidating. I don't think the angle of the one pic we have let's me determine too much as far as the size of the chest and the position of the head goes. The shape of the lower half of the leg looks like a big improvement over the 1/48, as does the wings aligning with the nosecone. They actually put a little angle on the red stripe on the chest for once.

I love how in the Delta thread folks are like 'I'm a grown man and this doesn't appeal to me.' And in this thread people see a robot squatting as it gets hit by a pipe and start fart and sodomy jokes.

I dunno, seems like it must transform as it's so easy to accomplish, would be kinda a huge fail otherwise.

Do we see any clips holding the modes together? Look like it has a traditional Gerwalk mode.

That's a really odd Takatoku there, it has a heat shield and the VF markings on its feet. Eh probably an Origin of Valkyrie version.

Yeah but wing and nose cone size seem to suggest transformation. Sadly, we probably have a long time to go before we'll be well informed.

Bandai or arcadia? Bandai is doing Orguss through the MegaHouse brand. Arcadia should do patlabor and votoms, I'd live for them to do Mospeada also.

No interest in the light up gimmicks but it's big, that's for sure.

No, that doesn't work. If you buy an exclusive license for a scale the licensor can't grant another entity the right to make a toy the same size, regardless of how it's labeled. If they did that they'd never be able to sell an exclusive license again.

Bad transformation is the likely scenario as I don't remember it being a problem on the original HiMetal line.

Thanks SS. I think you guys should hold off selling your bigger toys, we haven't confirmed the HMR versions don't suck.

I read that to be two boxes, one for Silvie one for Nexx both in the HMR line.