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It's a prototype... a bit early to be complaining about the paint or the details of the tower. This is also a toy, it will come painted and assembled and made out of even more durable material (hopefully) than the durable stuff the Regult model is being made of. Still, the price on this SDF-1 is astronomical. If Yamato doesn't find a way to start making toys at more reasonable prices they will soon found themselves undone. The market has spoken and extremely high price toys are more a niche market now than ever.

That's a pretty bizarre assertion. Yamato hasn't done any Macross Frontier product and this Monster already has the gun turret the Yamato didn't have.

Parts-forming comes in two varieties. The first would be like Yamato's V1 1/60 VF-1 toy. The original Yamato VF-1 1/60 toy requires you to remove the intakes to turbines of Jet mode and reconnect them in a different manner to create the toy's battroid mode. This "parts-formation" does not require you to go get parts that weren't already on the toy, it just forces you to disassemble the toy a bit and put it back together differently to produce the next mode. The second type of "parts-formation" would be like Bandai's VF100 line of VF-25 toys. This type of toy requires you to swap parts of the toy out with different parts that weren't used for the original first mode. Often times this means you disassemble the toy into its base components, go to a box, pull out different components, then reassemble the toy leaving you with parts from the first mode you no longer need any more. "Perfect transformation" also comes in a variety of flavors but it basically just means you don't have to remove anything from the toy and put it back in a different spot (save maybe a gun).

Great work, especially for 5 hours. I think it'd be great to see some of the pale blue like Yamato used in the trim areas.

Thats gotta be an allusion to Robotech II before the whole Yen crash thing and Matchbox backing out and ending production

I seem to recall a show called "Andromeda" that wasn't particularly good but my recollection is extremely vague. How about "anything having to do with Starbuck in the last couple seasons of Battlestar Gallactica reboot"?

At my wedding we had a table of 50 or so Toynami VF-1 Morphers in fighter mode. In the little fists sticking out the back we put signs telling people which table they were to sit at. The toys were a HUGE hit. Nobody knew what TV show they were from but everyone loved having a transformable jet to play with. There are lots of pictures with guests wooshing jets around. That there was my nerdiest Macross moment. I have a close runner-up though, my brother had a cake professionally made featuring Alto and Sheryl since my now wife is constantly saying she wants to cosplay as Sheryl at Comic-con. Most people just assumed the cake was the wife-to-be and I and didn't understand why I had a pony tail

The VF-11 is a great $100 toy... but I wouldn't pay MSRP for another one.

I think there is a lot of misplaced anger in this thread. There is no ruling elite desperate to make sure new technologies don't surface. The reason we never made it "to the year 2000" where we'd all be driving hover cars is because of our own limitations, not ones foisted upon us by people reluctant to change. Instead of a hover car you got a high definition flat screen TV. There were huge technological leaps from 1900 to 1950 which got people thinking "in another 50 years, everything we can dream of will be possible!" That's not really how it works. We got a lot of things people didn't bother to dream of and realized other things we DID dream of didn't make much sense to actually make/do. The space program in the US is (ironically) a land mine. People say "Why spend billions of dollars to go into a vacuum when that money would do so much good in my community?" Think of all the books you can buy for local libraries with the money it takes to fuel a shuttle... let alone building a fleet of them. That's not to say people don't generally like the space program but it's that luxury you keep putting off until you have extra cash. Space colonization is a huge way off.

Whether or not the US should drill domestically doesn't seem to have a heck of a lot to do with colonizing space. I think the broader point is that, absent of a force that compells mankind, the decision will boil down to money. It's like private enterprises going into space. So far there hasn't been much of that because there's no money to be made. Until colonizing planets offers a profit (and there's obviously an assumption of feasibility there) then mankind is going to keep playing in the cradle.

I think it's easy to say "all of Robotech fandom hates The Sentinels" now because it's a 22 year old abortion. Had it come out in 1988 things would have been different. Back then all the things we rip on in the Sentinels from the Care-Bearans to the Amazonian She-Rahs (sp?) and all that other crap was en vogue. I still love the scene where the Regent 'rewards' the Tirolians for their honesty.

Seems a bit lofty... citing sources requires time and research and nobody is being paid or graded on these posts. I think once we get members who do start citing and then counter arguments with more citing this thread would instantly be stomped for being too political. I think if you want something cited you're better off saying "That sounds like an interesting point, where did you come across that info?"

Ugh, the Earth isn't going anywhere. While it's true, spreading out would be a good idea, the idea is way in front of the ability. We could easily do another 4000 years just like the last 4000 years and still have enough resources to make things work. When the oil runs out there will be some synthetic means to the same end and it will always work that way. This is like the whole recycling debate. When people hear how inefficient and generally wasteful recycling is they typically REFUSE to believe it because of just how certain they are the Earth NEEDS them to recylce. It is not human waste or a dearth of resources that will wipe man out.

I'm taking August off with the moving, wedding, and honeymoon but I have every intention of getting one of these and reviewing it promptly when I return.

If $500 fell in my lap, I'd get a nice new coffee table (well, half a coffee table)... not a model.

I have an HCM VF-1J that looks like the kind of condition you're interested in. I haven't seen it in years (storage) but check out anymoon.com and look for the pics and if you like it shoot me a PM.

Fast packs are looking pretty fail at this point... angled way up, backpack seems to be having issues. Maybe those are resin fast packs and the extra weight is causing issues.

VF-27 looks sleeker, SV-51 is more kibble-y (boosters and missiles attached). VF-27 is MUCH better in battroid.

My nerdiest Macross moment (which is saying a lot for a guy with a website dedicated to toys) should be coming up in 8 days...

The Hi-Metal is DEFINITELY too big... I crunched the numbers on anymoon.com -

I doubt it, the fin on the head looks like there's some articulation to it or something so I bet you just have to angle things properly.

Maybe not all hope is lost. Maybe if the super premium model sells really well Yamato will make a budget version without the opening cockpit and all that jazz (think a bigger Toynami but with more points of articulation).

Maybe they look bigger in person but the back wheels don't look wide enough to give me that muscle car intimidation factor.

I'm gonna wait until I handle a VF-19K

LOL Exo, please do! Choosing not to do something because it's not a guaranteed success doesn't mean you can't do it... it means you've chosen not to.