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That looks like a cool video game or a crappy cartoon.

RT.com is a lost cause with fewer and fewer visitors every month. McKeever banned me from the site when I reported that Tommy said at Comic-Con that Shadow Rising would be released after WB got the Robotech name out there more. Tommy Yune was perfectly reasonable about the whole thing at Comic-Con with a "Look, we could do it now with limited resources or we could wait for WB to really put Robotech out there which would allow us to put out a better product with more support." Unfortunately, while that might be a reasonable thing to discuss at convention stops it's absolutely not something HG allows on their website. So, if you want to post on Robotech.com any more you should probably just leave Kevin alone, he is apt to just decide you're opinions are valid but not something he wants others to hear and delete your account. I guess the real question is, why would you need to post on Robotech.com? It's not like the site provides a wealth of information on anything. -

That little "I told ya!" was just directed at the thread in general. I guess we all know now why the sound booster is being sold separately.

I hate to say "i told ya so"... but I told ya!

I think "unavoidable" is too strong a word. Like so many other things, it's a compromise. The upper plate could have come down at more of an angle or some trick could have been used to reduce it at some greater expense. I've ordered one so you're right, not a deal breaker.

It does show off the big gap on top of the nose cone :/

If it's just a painted statue they should start including figures with the release of other toys. Each new Phalanx toy will come with a Britai Sofubi. Each Gladiator (or is it Spartan?) will come with Exedol. Each new Glaug will come with a Kamjin. Each new Regult will come with a Boldoza. I guess the problem with that plan is that none of those things seem likely to ever be made

I don't know that a mold ever got made. I think it was just resin prototyping and Beagle pulled the plug rather than spending the money on the molds being fabricated.

I meant no disrespect with the question... I was just a bit surprised by labeling that color "pink." My wife loves the color pink (fortunately she exhibits this in tame ways) and so the word "pink" never entered my mind when I saw these... I think she would scrunch her nose at these colors as being much too dark for her. Anyway, this has obviously been an irreverent and irrelevant tangent.

Is "pink" a euphemism that I don't know about? I try to avoid Max valks because I hate purple...

I'm thinking you may not be a native English speaker as none of the valks you've referenced would be called "pink." The YF-29 looks to be red to dark red.

I, for one, like the noises. Priuses and other electric cars are like sharks... I'm always worried I'm going to cross the street while walking my dogs and step into an electric car that has quietly sneaked around a corner.

No, it's speculation and hope. Some Bandai staff said they'd like to take another crack at making a VF-25 toy (in the hype for the YF-29) but no one has said they actually are going to do that. The speculation is running more rampant because the YF-29 toy seems to be very similar to the VF-25 while having a number of improvements.

It was probably mentioned earlier but I hear the same team that did the VF-27 is doing the YF-29.

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Since Bandai is saying this represents an improvement on the VF-27 I'd say you're in pretty good shape.

Probably my Takatoku SDF-1 with the little jets still on the sprue and all that goodness.

If they redo the VF-25 for the 30th Anniversary (and I hope they do), I also hope they come up with all new fast packs. The current ones are floppy and limit mobility... not cool. It always amazes me how much companies have struggled with fast packs over the years... they really shouldn't be that hard and a couple well placed slots in a toy aren't going to destroy its appearance.

I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say that if you hate the VF-25 DX toy, and you have always thought it was never even "okay", and you think the VF-27 toy still isn't that good, you should steer very clear of this DX-29 toy. You're not going to like it. Professors usually do that with stuff like bridges that collapse or something that breaks. The VF-25 toy allegedly can get loose over time... it's not quite the same arena. Even with some time my DX VF-25 Tornado toy is still holding up better than my YF-19 toy (and I think both are "okay"). Yet the VF100 line failed and the Robot Spirits line doesn't seem to have done much better. I asked my retailer friend in Japan how the DX was doing after it was released. He said there was a lot of enthusiasm for it and it was selling very well and while there were some complaints that wasn't hurting momentum. It boiled down to the hardcore fans wanting more and hoping Bandai would make some tweaks on later releases while the general public was "charmed." There are a lot of excellent criticisms raised on MacrossWorld and various other toy forums but it's important to remember fans like me who are going to put a picture of the toy up next to the line art and criticize it (and the fans like me who love seeing when other people do that) aren't the majority of the fandom. In that same vein, after the toy was released and man-handled by the general public the feedback from all sources can be reviewed and it's a heck of a lot easier to devise alterations to an actual product than it is to a design (especially if one of your chief concerns is making a toy that won't break). It's also a lot easier to take someone else's work and tweak it... it's the same reason that, when you were in college, it was better to have someone else proof-read your work. If you wrote it you were a lot less likely to catch your own mistakes. As we've seen with other companies... later releases are often huge improvements on previous iterations also. The VF-27 is a MUCH better toy but the changes to it are hardly revolutionary from the DX toy.

That might not be a horrible idea provided the cannons had some sort of insert to keep them straight.

EDIT 2 - that sounded odd and braggy so I deleted it. If you choose to believe that it didn't sell well and was a colossal failure that's cool.

Not only did it not end abruptly, it saw several reissues and a few were very hot items. The Ozma with GBP goes for more than MSRP on the 'bay so it's becoming a collector's item. Now I'm not trying to say it's a great toy but I suspect ff95gj was referring to my comments that it sold well and that's clearly not a lie. The line did alright while the VF100 line flunked out before Luca was made. I know everyone likes to think Internet message board opinions are the best indicators of what people like but sometimes it's good to look at facts too. If something sells well it generally means that a few people like it.

Well, if you go by MacrossWorld no one likes the Bandai DX VF-25 toy and every Yamato V2 is in desperate need of replacement shoulders. Perhaps one needs to look beyond this drop in the ocean for the whole story? Nah, F that, only what gets posted here matters.

Ask yourself the following questions: 1) How many VFs before Mac7 had mouths? 2) How many VFs talk? In the Macross universe, where the military is building the valk, the mouth seems silly. I try to give Basara a pass since it's supposed to be some sort of civilian glam rock valk.

Yep, a lot of the animation from the Southern Cross episode where they attack the Masters and take down their flagship was simply ported right into the movie. It all happens as kind of a "meanwhile... at another location... this is happening:" and then they flash back to Mark.