jenius

I called my wife over and said "Honey, how cool is this guy? He can make the toys he always wanted." She laughed at me and patted me on the head... but I still think it's super cool.

Look at the dates. Its an announcement that a 1/60 version of the gbp is coming. The 1/48 must just have been an eye catch.

More posable but immaterially so and the pilots are fixed.

He says that, almost word for word, at 7:24. I'm not judging his body of work but he's making some leaps for sure in this video. I don't mean to sidetrack the conversation from Prometheus though.

Well yeah, I'll probably get both. But if another variant of the 171 drops at the same time as the VF-4 there's gonna be a lot of people making tough decisions... unless we all get this first release of the 171 and decide it's not all it's cracked up to be. As gorgeous as the 171 looks so far, I'm still more excited about the prospects of the VF-4.

Sure, we've already seen people having to make decisions in the past between the V2 DX toys and Yamato's recent toys. The competition will lead to some people choosing a DX toy over the Yamato toy (and vice versa) at some point. Competition is good though, it looks like both manufacturers are really stepping it up. I hope my preorder on that 171 comes through!

LOLz, the Illuminati is trying to wreck mankind's DNA? An entertaining clip but a little heavy on the crazy. Still, I'm lovin' everything I see about Prometheus. In fact, I'm getting scared now I've reached that hype point where the only thing this move will be able to do is let me down.

It belongs to a pretty unpopular toy so its worth is very limited. You could buy the whole toy, in box, for less than $50.

Yes Sir, my first. My world is about to get changed big time... the first of which is the likelihood I won't be making any cons of any sort for a long while.

I got a baby coming in august so i'm guessing the wife would like me to stick around for the weekends.

We won't know the real answer to that for several more months.

In the future, the reasons why we paint landing gears white are no longer valid... 'cause in the future there are no leaks of anything and everything is made of impossibly strong metals. The future is nice.

Carbon fiber wheels? We've come a long way. That car has kind of an jumbo jet feel in the windshield to front door windows effect but overall, I approve.

Does that say it's dropping in May 2012? I would hope we'll see preorders soon.

That's lucky... usually they sell out of an item but keep selling it.

mr march's mac mech manual are his color representations, not neccessarily canon.

That reminds me of the Sega game Nights.

Might have something to do with the last reissue of the M&Ms in 1/48 scale which were gigantic shelf warmers... Yamato might be gun shy now. They might also be trying to figure out how to make it so the paint isn't so easily scratched off around the shoulders.

I agree in many respects and feel there is no doubt the inclusion of the line art comparisons is imperfect. Ultimately though, in my estimation, a flawed reference to the artist's concept is better than no reference at all (or the even more flawed reference of a person's memory from the animation). My goal is to provide as much information as possible so that, while my own opinion is certainly present, the readers have enough to form their own take on the toys. For readers who don't like the notion that a toy should represent a certain line art (either for preference of other line art or from the belief the line art some how "got it wrong" as people have argued about the VF-1 battroid mode) it should be easy enough to look beyond the presence of the line art and just compare the toys (although sometimes this means they'll have to open up several pics on their own desktops to do this). As for arguments arising from having a line art comparison, I think it's way better when someone on a forum can point to at least one piece of line art that asserts their position about any given detail. If another member can produce line art that refutes the position at least there's two people in a forum argument actually providing hard evidence to an argument... a rarity in most forum back-and-forths. While landing gear are certainly doable they would have had a trade off. If they were present I can imagine lots of people complaining about the chintzy landing gears with the anime-inaccurate bay doors and all the seams on the legs. I don't really see how a clip on heat shield is better than the swap out variety. Is it because you only have 1 part rather than 2? Again this seems to create complaints in the other way as the clip on heat shield wouldn't sit flat and might leave visible tabs like on the old chunky monkeys. I agree it would have been cool if the gun was just a smaller version of the Yamato 1/60 V2 gun but I assume they didn't go this route for fear that the grip area would prove to fragile... seems like they could have pulled it off though. At this point I'm 100% convinced that Macross simply doesn't have any market left except the high end niche crowd. The main people dumping money into Macross are older men. These aren't men who need or want affordable options. These are men who want a high-end adult collector's item. If they don't have a ton of money for luxury items they'll buy just one high end item rather than several lower-end items. Every effort Bandai, Kaiyodo, Toynami, or Yamato has made to expand Macross into lower end niches has failed. Even the people who could accept a 1/100 scale toy still end up saying they'd be happier with it only if it had all the frills of the high end toys... which obviously doesn't make a lot of sense.

Ooh, this is where I put up my obligatory Hi-Metal pics and then Eugimon angrily denounces the fact I put them up in every Hi-Metal thread! Fire Bomba!!!

In my neck of the woods diesel costs more than premium. Seems crazy.

Didn't mean to derail this with the talk of the Legioss. One thing I'm concerned about with the VF-4 will be the arm mobility. With a potentially massive uni-boob getting the arms to extend out forward well will be required for a number of decent looking poses. That would mean that whole shoulder assembly is going to have to rotate... which could be a difficult trick to pull off. If the shoulder assembly doesn't rotate then there should be a beefy joint that rotates and pivots right where the bicep meets the shoulder so the arm can extend forward all the way pushing those dangly bits back up.

I like brawny looking battroid modes, that's why I like the Legioss... and while I'd take the legioss' soldier mode over the VF-4 there's no doubt the VF-4 has a much nicer fighter mode.

Needs more cow bell.

Yamato's production runs are very small... Bandai almost certainly produces more but of toys with much greater demand. That'd be my guess anyway.