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That is a borderline NSFW link.

I really love the Hi-Metal toys. I wish Bandai had looked at the Toynami model and came up with a hybrid way of selling them. They could charge 5500Y per individual hero mech OR you could buy that same hero mech with 2 lesser valks for like 11000. So, for example, you could buy Hikaru's VF-1J for 5500 or you could get Hikaru 1J, Max TV 1A, and Hayao TV 1A for 11000. The three packs should have been all included in one box so retailers wouldn't get stuck with a bunch of Hayaos they couldn't sell (OR you could make the three packs Tamashii exclusives). The next toy could have been Hikaru's VF-1S or a three pack with Hik's 1S, Max's 1A, and Hayao's 1A. Then you do Roy's 1S with Hikaru's 1A and Max's 1S. To round it all out you have Max's 1J or Max's 1J with Miria's 1J and a cannon fodder 1A. Any left over valks like the Angelbird you can make into event exclusives. Booyiggity. That would have been a more affordable and fun line I would have collected more of.

I am in the middle of a very high stress environment right now and I sneak onto MW for quick breaks and I gotta say... that was hilarious. I don't know if we want to delve any further into this.

Ha, seriously, if anybody wants to start giving me free stuff I'll accept it! Honestly though, I think that might be part of why my SDf-1 review wasn't quite as "OMG I'm touching an SDF-1 toy!" as other peoples... 'cause I also had the burn on my credit card to weigh it against. it might be tricky to keep that same outlook if I wasn't spending my scratch on these toys... it's a challenge I would love to have to take on

If you buy any recent releases you should be fine. They're very rugged toys provided you don't get an earlier version with shoulder problems. I think I originally scored the V2 like a 9 on durability before we realized the breaks waiting to happen. Now that those breaks are allegedly fixed I'd give the V2 a very high score again.

As always I'm late to the party with my review... but you should go scope it out just the same: I have a 1900x1200 monitor now so the pics in this review and future reviews are going to be a bit larger. - EDIT - leave me some comments on anymoon.com if you feel I botched up the review, missed something, or am otherwise very right or wrong. The more opinions on the post the better as they only make the site more helpful.

Yes, but will it be straight? Also, it will be roughly $150 more expensive (guessing) than the Bandai so that might be something to consider.

Hey guys, someone PM'ed a while back about the Zentraedi uniform. I have some work I need to complete this week and then I'll try to work out a sell with that person. If that falls through it will be listed in a sale thread. Thanks -

I'm thinking SDF-1 this week then I'm not sure which post for next week... updated Hi-Metal review to include Roy's may be probable as it'd be an easier post and I'm working on a few harder ones right now that may take more than a week to put together.

It's being discussed as a visitor message board in the 1/60 VF-19K thread... just random suggestions by vistors, not planned items or anything that fun.

Hmm... this toy is cool, no doubt, but toy of the year? Hmmm... I think I'll do a post on anymoon.com for this soon.

Interesting. I've been running it as an overclocked (slightly) 6970 and so far no problems. If it has issues I'll be sure to report them.

Best of the year? The first month isn't even over.

I'm bummed, I've been spending so much time with my new SDF-1 I haven't even had a chance to open my HiMetal VF-1S. I'm really looking forward to it.

C'mon, they won't make a battlepod but they'd consider making a space cucumber? Not bloody likely (unless it's another model).

generally you'd be much better off contacting a vendor. If you got through to Yamato it'd probably be some girl at a front desk who would have no idea how to get you in touch with the proper person (if Yamato is anything like most manufacturing companies).

If anyone hasn't seen it, I did update my VF-27 post on anymoon.com some time ago with pics and info on the Greenie -

Grace ftw. I try to keep only one (or two if it's iconic enough) of each toy so I kept my greenie and sold my Brera VF-27.

Don't forget to upgrade it to a 6970! I've been running mine as a 6970 for a little while now, absolutely no problems.

In case anyone didn't notice, there's a post up on anymoon.com for this now. -

Yours must have been a bit easier to manage than mine was. I was attacking it from the edge and applying far more might than I feel safe with for a toy of this expense. Every time it didn't snap into place I felt I was risking danger to the shoulder guns or the bridge antennae as I man-handled it. I'm hoping subsequent pop ons and off will go a smidge easier now that its lost its virginity. It really does make the magnets seem very superfluous given the grip those guides have. I wonder if that whole area is a function of the prototype not having as strong of ridges so the ARMD popped on and off easier than they felt happy with so the magnet was employed to help keep it together whilst not being concerned about the effort it'd take to install the ARMDs. Another question, did anyone elses look like it was covered in tiny shards of glass when they opened the styrofoam? I only noticed it around the bridge so I suspect it was caused by the antenna rubbing against the top of the styrofoam and sort of skinning that material. I probably should have taken a picture but since it's just an oddity and not anything wrong I just whooshed the toy around once and was done with it.

Do what I did.... refuse to buy anything not shown in the Macross TV series. It makes collecting every line a whole lot more palatable. Can't afford to buy a joke machine VF-1A Max? No worries, it wasn't in the TV show. Can't afford a chunky monkey VT-1? No worries, it's not in the TV show. Can't afford to buy that new SDF-1 from Yamato? It's cool, it wasn't in the TV show. Your wallet will love you... unless you cheat all the time like I do .

Since it's like a billion dollar toy, maybe they could have made it so you push down on the array that sticks up on the ARMD and then a mechanism lifts the guides ever so slightly. Then you would attach the ARMD and take your finger off that bump and the guides would extend all the way again locking it in its channel.

I just started futzing with mine. My fingers are sore from attaching the ARMDs last night. There had to be a better way that could have been handled.