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No, it's kind of awesome... because it means it's 1/60 scale instead of some oddball off scale size.
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Too bad there's no little slip of paper in this release hinting at the next big thing.
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I also added VF-17 Super Parts to my list.
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Take them all down! It looks precarious up there.
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Bandai 1/72 fully transform able VF-1 plastic kit for Macross 30th Ann
jenius replied to Vi-RS's topic in Model kits
I think the head size is probably close to what it should be... it just looks comical because the other battroid proportions are all so slender. I love transformation gimmicks but this model looks like it gave up on battroid mode in favor of fighter mode but fighter mode is only "decent" because of the need for other modes. Kinda silly. They should give you swap out arms and legs specific to battroid mode or something. -
I'm not very familiar with this valk but your model looks great (particularly in fighter mode... looks like this is one of those designs where battroid is more of an after thought so you didn't have much to work with).
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Bandai 1/72 fully transform able VF-1 plastic kit for Macross 30th Ann
jenius replied to Vi-RS's topic in Model kits
Looks terrible in battroid. -
I used selling off my red and green Mospeada toys as an excuse to go crazy on Macross items: 1 x VF-4G 1 x VF-171 Armor parts 1 x VF-19F 1 x VF-19S 1 x VF-1A DYRL CF 1 x VF-1S Assembly 1 x VF-11C Someday I'll get a 17D and a 19P but after that spending spree I'm gonna have to put purchases on ice until my next big sell off.
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When are the holidays in Japan?
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Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim'
jenius replied to fifbeat's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
The lead singer of that band sounds suspiciously like Wierd Al Yanchovic. -
Yeah, maybe I'm way off when I keep saying "1/48 V2". A line of 1/32 toys could be pretty epic. First the VF-1, then the Legioss....
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I agree, Toynami's best toys were probably their Alpha superposeables. I'm sure they sold terribly because they didn't have a transformation gimmick though.
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I can't remember the last time I looked forward to a release this much. Seriously... drawing a blank. The 19Kai is cool but I wasn't thrilled to get a Fire Valkyrie. The 17S was cool but the whackiness with the gun splitting into two had me kinda cool on that. The V2 VF-1 looked like a small 1/48 with fewer gimmicks so that wasn't too eagerly anticipated. The V2 VF-25 was pretty hot on my list but even it was a second coming. Man, I bet it was the 1/60 YF-21 that was the last toy to get me really amped.
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I think Major Focker framed the economics argument pretty well. All any of us can really do is speculate as to what the reasons are but generally you can trust the market. If Bandai really is leaving money on the table then you can bet they will or would come around and do reissues. In general though, making too much of something is far worse than leaving the market a bit hungry for more. Over-produced toys would make your retailers weary of ordering so many from you in the future and clog up your distribution channel. They also steal shelf space from other lines you might want to push out. If you don't make enough, you can always make more later. In Yamato's case I'd speculate they do the bare minimum production run size (especially since they have limited products and can do reissues fairlly quickly). The fact they do this and you still wind up with toys getting steep discounts explains pretty nicely why Yamato would be much more outgoing in their search for customers even if they can't pursue foreigners directly. Since Yamato deals with smaller numbers it's also easier for them to produce the right quantity. If you're marketing team is right to within 10% and they tell you demand is 1,000 units that's pretty easy to commit to with possibly 100 toys making it to discounts. If your marketing team is right to within 10% and they tell you demand is 10,000 units you now run the risk of getting burned by an extra thousand units... so if you build only 9,000 units and price with that in mind you've taken the risk out of it. If it appears marketing was wrong the 10% in the other direction you wait for the next gap in your production cycle and make another 2,000 units. Obviously there's a lot more that goes into it... my point is just that, while it may suck for us collectors, there's no conspiracies out there about screwing people outside of Japan.... unless we're talking about HG.
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I totally understand about how Bandai has added stress to collecting and I like knowing I'll be able to get my Yamato preorders as well. I'm a business man though, and I've crunched the numbers to help decide what my company does and doesn't do and how we go about it. I guarantee Bandai does what they do because they crunch numbers, not because they don't want the best return or because they want to piss people off. As an outsider looking in, it seems like Bandai is much more afraid of over-producing whereas Yamato is very concerned about getting enough preorders to warrant a round of production at all.
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I love that in the VF-4G thread people are thanking Yamato for making their toys so available and in this thread people are cursing them for having their toys go on clearance. For the record, I also WAY overpaid for my 17S and 19K.... and that sound booster.
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I could argue the merits of what Bandai or Yamato is doing based on their own economies of scale but it seems pretty obvious that it boils down to not economics at all, Bandai is a company full of Gundam jerk-offs and haters and Yamato just wants to help Americans out. It's pretty obvious now that I think about it.
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Are you in Japan? I just checked the going price for the YF-29 Focker on a Japanese online market that doesn't ship internationally and the cheapest anyone is selling for is about 28,000. If there are stacks of Fockers sitting in stores they need to put that stuff up online because there's demand in the domestic arena. I did find a VF-25G DX for 12,500 though but I don't read Japanese so I can't tell if it's been opened (looks like it from the pics). The only other one I see is priced at 17,800 which sounds like NipponYasan territory. I think the difference you're seeing is Yamato selling to a much more limited audience. Do I want a $350 toy of a craft seen in a 30 minute music video several decades ago as much as I want a $150 toy from a recent hit TV series and follow up movies? I don't think it has as much to do with a conspiracy against gaijin.
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I think we'll get a V3, and I think we'll get it sooner than later, but I think with all the VF-19 toys that are being released Yamato would be better off doing a VF-0D or 1/48 V2 VF-1 first. That's why I don't run a toy company though.
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I did think it was a little odd that each item said "limit 10". That's a pretty big limit.
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Yamato, when you're going to make the 1/48 V2 VF-1... take notes!
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I'll bet they screwed up and posted the sale prices a little early. I also took advantage of the sale but you're right, it's over now. I'm guessing they'll announce a Macross sale again soon and those prices will return.
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171 Armor packs is another $150? Jeeze... I haven't looked at my invoice yet but I'm hoping you ordered multiple sets or something.
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There are two ways that could shake out. One, a ridiculously limited (20 pieces) modification kit licensed at the event and made by someone like TRex. Two, a larger manufacturer makes toys with a normally acquired license and just sells them at the event. If it's the first option then even at an astronomical price nobody would gain any info from the item selling out. If the other option happens then a company would already have to be convinced it will sell well enough to acquire the license in the first place in which case there's no need for information gathering at all.
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My Yamato Scopedog review is up! Sample pic: