jenius

I think there are going to be a fair amount of people let down by the Hi-Metal R line at this price range and this difficulty level in obtaining the toys unless there are numerous improvements over the original HM line. They were great 1/100 toys in my estimation... but 1/100 makes them a totally different beast from the premium renewal DX toys that this preorder window felt more in line with (and it's pretty ridiculous for those toys also).

A few years ago it was said that brown was going to go extinct as a car color... it has since rebounded significantly. Wouldn't be my choice for a high visibility sports car though.

Man... I still don't have mine . I'm worried maybe NY scribbled the address on it funny.

I suppose anything is possible. It might even be possible that they were actually able to leverage the old molds on the cockpits like they did with the guns and thus, that would be a way of saving money and keeping the feature too.

I very much doubt they're using exactly the same CAD on these toys as the originals. Once they change anything to the CAD there's no longer a benefit to copying the 'old CAD'. I think it really is more a thought process like "Yamato had this on a much cheaper toy, we need to have it on our super expensive toy." I don't think you can make an argument that something that necessitates another mold/part and additional assembly in any way would SAVE money. We're all paying extra for something that's only visible for a moment during transformation. Seemed silly on the Yamato toy... even sillier now. That said, it's not like I'd buy another one if this toy cost $5 less so that's probably just as good an answer as anything else.

I don't think it's clear that Milia killed Kakizaki... we just know it was one of the lady folks. The Q-Rau is a perfect example of why I'd go TV over DYRL.

The old ones do have it... and it's pointless. If they could have charged me $5 less but ditched that gimmick I would have been happy. At the price range their at I wish they'd get a little more conscious of the returns on the gimmicks so they could save a few bucks... but I guess they figure people are willing to pay so might as well go for broke.

The rotating cockpit gimmick is so dumb... I hope they didn't have to make this toy more complex/expensive to accommodate this gimmick everyone will only see momentarily during transformation.

For sure they would, just like if you did a chargeback with your credit card.

Or... HLJ will be canceling lots of orders.

Fingers crossed you're right! I have a new photo rig so I'm really looking forward to getting this buy and playing with it!

I'm getting a little worried... mine has been in Los Angeles since 4/30 according to tracking. Last time this happened USPS lost my package.

Me likey.

It's robot spirits scale which was like 1/120.

This is Macross collecting. It's not a question of which one to get... but which one to get FIRST... because eventually you'll have both

I'm all TV all the time... but I do love me some VT/VE.

The plot thickens...

I hope the wings on the Hi-Metal Rs are not removable. It was a silly gimmick. Do people really hate visible hard points that much?

Bad guy toys usually sell terrible, that's why companies usually don't make them.

This is probably a hand painted, possibly resin prototype, don't draw too many conclusions.

NM I might have looked at a cached page.

I got one on HLJ... I never manage that with DX releases so I'm going to assume this is a little easier to snag. I very much doubt the next big Bandai announcement has anything to do with the Hi-Metal R line.

The only impediment to an ab crunch is Yamato's way of integrating the canopy shield. Since it's attached to the chest it would create a lot of hurdles. If the shield were instead attached to the canopy then the chest could be angled in a way different from the fuselage. I don't mean to imply it'd be easy but with some more innovating it seems do-able. Also having the legs have a more accurate transformation would enable a better waist.

Yes, I thought they were exactly the same shade of red throughout handling the toy. It was only later when I actually began editing the photos that I noticed the Yamato was ever so slightly warmer red. It's possible Arcadia was going for something more pronounced and it just fell short but I think it's more like when you go to a store and buy two cans of the same custom blend paint only to find one looks slightly different on the wall than the other. I think the brightness of the yellow helps the Yamato toy look brighter overall which might be adding to the effect.

The red is different but I think that is unintended and you'd never notice it under normal light.