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I LOVE the mechanism for getting in and out. Not exactly sensible (God forbid it rain). I imagine the windshield was a rather expensive item. It seems a rear window might have also made the car a bit more user friendly. Basically, this car looks like it'd make a better Hot Wheels toy than an actual vehicle... but it is neat how outside of the box it was.

I asked a retailer in Japan about the 17S, he said feedback was "Luke warm." He added that most people think it's too fat in fighter, too thin in battroid, and too expensive. Of course, he might not have asked many people about it and just has the misfortune of having talked to a couple people who were vocal about why they wouldn't be buying it. On the flipside, he pre-emptively told me not to try to buy any Bandai Macross Frontier merchandise from him because it was selling so well he was having a hard time getting stock (he runs a small store). I'm really hoping the 17 is a toy that blows the socks off early reviewers and generates more interest after it's out for being a superb product since it's priced too high and not beautiful enough to convince everyone to plunk down cash beforehand.

I just updated my post on anymoon.com to include series 2, 3, and 4. I tried to make it a one-stop shop for all the information anyone could need to know about these toys. Give it a peak and let me know if you feel I missed anything. -

Ugh... do I wait and have this shipped with my VF-17? If I do that I probably won't get my VF-17S, VF-19S, YF-29 Super Parts and VF-19 Sound Booster until mid January .

With discount? Lol... not bloody likely. Maybe you'll find them on sale but Yamato doesn't make a habit of decreasing their MSRP for later runs... unless those later runs come with fewer accessories and these days they're already selling us the bare minimum accessories.

i'm never choosing SAL again

It appears Toynami felt the Battlepod market was super saturated by the first two releases (the second of which was selling poorly) so they lowered the floodgate so demand could build again.

I think I've owned one of just about each 1/55 toy at some point.

yeah... that's what it is... there's a standard, heavy, and now light artillery pod. The only thing that differentiates them are the weapons on the head.

not interested... I'm done with the v2s.

Just "meh?" or straight up disliked? I disliked the VF-25 VF100 line quite heavily. I've been "meh" on many items.

yes, the chest on my dyrl variant is yellowing so I gues I need a new one

To be fair to all the people who may have loved their V1 VF-25 toys, I'm sure there were lots of people when the V1 VF-1 toy came out (and Toynami's MPCs, and just about every toy out there) that were super enthused at the first version of a toy that was released. People are people, they have different expectations. Some people expected more and were super let down at the first version of just about any toy that comes out (with tons of exceptions I'm sure). Some people are super thrilled and think the first group has expectations outside of possibility. In the end, a new product comes out and the whole world gets to move on. What's really cool for all of us Macross fans has been that the second efforts by these companies (sometimes third efforts) have been really outstanding. Sadly, I don't have my VF-25 'renewal' yet so I just get to sit here twiddling my fingers and lookin' at the pretty pictures.

Ha, I was just debating that same thing.

Aw c'mon, you can't seriously stick to that argument. You should just laugh and move on. People were picking the Bandai chunky monkey and the Toynami MPC over the Yamato V1. I remember at least one member praising the 1/48 when it came out (was it Exo?) saying that they passed on all previous incarnations because THIS was the VF-1 toy they were waiting for. Again, you can completely unravel your statement by changing the order in which toy you're talking about. Both toys were totally surpassed by subsequent releases... and both toys had people pass and wait for subsequent releases, nothing strange there.

LOL. The V1 VF-25 toy still looked good, good enough that many VF-25 fans bought it. Your argument kinda just fell flat on its face.

Ironic that they took a page out of HG's "the issues with Macross' rights don't affect Robotech" playbook. Just like HG will never produce anything in the future that includes anything from Macross, neither will MW include anything that HG has claimed.

Not a review yet, but perhaps a preamble to a build-up and then review? I'd love to see it.

That can't be right can it? Wouldn't that make GERWALK incapable of moving forward?

The rumor was that about half way through the production line Yamato made a change to how the shoulders were being assembled which largely solved the problem. So, that means about 50% of the Shin 0A toys are potential candidates for broken shoulders. Of that 50% it's hard to say how many will actually show problems but it seems to be fairly common, so I would guess that about 15%-25% of the total toys produced have serious issues. You can add that to the 3-10% that would have other manufacturing issues and you're not looking at very good percentages (although statistically there'd be some overlap). This excludes the known issues with the toys arms falling apart at the bicep swivel since I have no idea how prevalent that failure is. The shoulders can break regardless of handling although handling obviously will make it worse. The main issue appears to be that putting the shoulders on their ball joints caused stress to the plastic which meant that the plastic eventually cracks (if it didn't crack already at the time it was popped onto the ball joint). $220 isn't a bad price and the part of the shoulder that breaks is usually covered (for the most part) by the clip on shoulder plates. So, you could purchase the toy with the anticipation of having to fix it before long. You're paying about $70 bucks more (before shipping) than the new 0A unknown type goes for and you're getting a more heroic paint scheme plus a ghost. I don't know, for me, this would be a toss up. If I liked Shin's scheme that much more than the unknown soldier type and I was desperate for a 0A I'd probably roll the dice... especially if I didn't care about resale value or something like that.

i'm bummed, I would have like to have had this shipped with my yf29 super parts.

The problem with the vajra is they're an enemy with no personality. The zentraedi were fun to watch in the original show.

shameless plug: go to anymoon.com and check out the reviews! but yeah, 30 years is a long time and toys have come a long way, the yamato is pretty and sturdy

I'm very interested to see Cadillac's ATS car and how it develops and what that will mean for the CTS. If the ATS takes on the 3 series and the CTS takes on the 5 series I'll have to consider them. I was toying with the idea of buying a CTS for a while but I probably have another 2 years before I can consider buying a new car.

I'm sure this has been posted before but I was just playing some music while I updated a review on anymoon and the Lost Prophets song Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja came on. Out of the corner of my eye I could see the tiny CD cover art emblem in my media player and noticed that there was a drawing of a mech on there. Sure enough, there's a Super VF-1S on the cover with a second piece of close-up line art there as well. Neat.