jenius

huh? These are more expensive because of the molds? I thought the whole idea of making these out of a material other than ABS was because the molds for this stuff were way cheaper to make.

Agreed, Bandai ain't makin' no MacZero destroid. The VF-1 Hi-metal is more different from the V2 1/60 than the V2 1/60 is different from the 1/48 VF-1 so I'm not really sure how that math works. Also, you said Bandai wouldn't do something Yamato didn't do... but this toy proves you wrong by already having differences so it seems a silly argument to now labor over.

I'll steal your pictures. Just post lots of pictures somewhere of Macross or Robotech toys I don't own... or knock-offs... and let me know where you posted them and I'll do you the favor of using them.

Yep. Pictures from my site are used on Harmony Gold's convention tour without permission and with my tiny stamp removed. Also, I took pictures from a French site for a Gakken review (and credited the site) only to find that the original pictures were here on MW and had been lifted and cropped by the French site to remove their citing.

Definitely no metal rod just packaged with the toy as an extra... I can't imagine it falling out out of the toy either. Got a pic?

You guys just aren't thinking positively.

It's tough to tell though which parts are unique even with how they are laid out. Many parts may look exactly the same but have some sort of difference that makes them only work on the left or right.

We'll know when they're released if the canopies lack that rainbow finish.

I haven't been on these boards as long as some of our other members but I know that bitching about bitching just leads to more bitching. If the bitching bothers you, ignore it... bitching won't help. This isn't meant to sound high and mighty, I bitch all the time...

I hope a lot of those parts are just two of the same part, one for the left and one for the right.

I don't think the Focus is the appropriate car to look at, I think it's the Taurus (although I'm not sure they're making them any more). The Focus is a compact by international standards, the Falcon was more compact than most but it's essentially a mid-sized sedan. The Taurus also could nicely accomodate a V8 and RWD... of course, it also nicely accomodates 4 doors... as did the Falcon. The ballooning weight is because of safety features like airbags and other modern equipment. I dunno, if they just added two small suicide doors to all the sports cars to make them 4 doors I'd be happy. I always felt like such a schmuck when people were crawling into the back seat.

I'm not a fan of the tail of the newest Mustang. The rounded edges are a wee bit feminine on an otherwise masculine vehicle... it just doesn't really fit. I'm even less a fan of tailights that blink sequentially. The new Camaro is a big step up from the ones I remember from the 90s but they start to look bloated toward the rear. It's a car I like only from certain angles. I haven't seen a Challenger in person enough to judge. Sadly, I'm at that age in life where every time I see a two door coupe (other than two-seaters) I think "That is so inconvenient... they should just make this a 4 door." Sad... I know.

I can't speak from personal experience but the most recent stand alone VF-0S allegedly has all the appropriate fixes.

I think the remarkably affordable items you found might have been the 1/72 scale models.

Destroid line is on indefinite hiatus. It's one of those "not all hope is lost... but it seems unlikely" toys.

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.