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The 1/48 line is dead. Yamato just offers exclusives for it to the diehards that still love it. It's like Microsoft still servicing the XP crowd even as they roll out 7. You can think of it as a question of demand but really it was by Yamato's design. They released a new product, they wanted people to buy the new product, they pimped the new product as hard as possible and shut down the old product. Companies do it every day.

I can't click on your links because I'm at work but I suspect that both of the toys you are looking for info on are at www.anymoon.com. There are categories for Alpha/Legioss and Cyclone/Ride Armor so I'd start there.

Uh no... that's not what he said at all. He said the 1/48s (TV Max and TV Hayao) were made to order so it's doubtful they would appear on HLJ. Money does funny things though so if Yamato sees there's money to be made by giving some extra stock to HLJ than it might still happen.

I believe this is a response to my questions and I believe you misread them. I asked if they were a similar size to the 1/100s and requested a picture of it with something we'd be familiar with so we can see how it scales to that item. I was not asking what fixed scale this line was in. Yes, your measurement is helpful, as is ff95gj's newest pic.

I need something for scale... they look tiny. Are they 1/100 size?

I personally like my fighter mode only stuff in gashapon so I think what Bandai did with their 1/250 stuff was great. In the VF100 line I would have liked it to be less anime perfect but be a toy that could be disassembled and reassembled into different modes (but no completely new parts or very very few). The real reason for this is the thought of having transformable versions of all those obscure valks like the VF-4 and VF-2SS. In the end it seems none of us got what we were hoping for.

Note to self: Say more sexist things on this forum... the bar isn't set nearly high enough.

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If the VF100 line is dead I don't really know if it could be pinned entirely on bad marketing. The product didn't seem like it knew what it was trying to be so I don't know if Bandai knew how to sell it. It was far too much a kit for a toy and far too pricey of a toy to be a kit. They either needed to knock the price way down and let it be sort of a prepainted snap together model with parts for every mode (like it was but even less assembled) or it needed to have far fewer parts and be more of a toy. If this were truly a toy they should have made it imperfect transformation in the sense that it had to be pulled apart and put back together again... not entirely new parts for different modes (the price could have been kept the same but obviously the toy wouldn't look as nice). As it is I think it really only appeals to a very narrow spectrum of the population... and I think those people it does appeal to wouldn't have minded having it be more like a model at more of a model's cost.

Since the 1/48 VF-1J Hikaru is a relatively new weathering release hopefully this means that in the future we'll know about HLJ being an alternative to the Yamato webshop exclusive in time to purchase through them. If they put the GBP with launching effect up I might have to make a preorder...

I love my two weathered destroids and it sucks to see I could have got them for a lot less if I was patient... but that's the case with 95% of Macross toys.

Man... I feel like i jinxed you... The replacement parts were NOT improved. Wait until the new Roy 1S is released later this year and then order your replacement parts and hope for the best.

This board is not owned by Yamato. Yamato bought ad space on the board and hooks Graham up with the inside scoop but there's a big difference there.

C'mon, it's "Unacceptable"? I think you meant just "disappointing"

I don't think it was a case of "couldn't make this happen" but, being an accountant, probably more likely a case where the accountants won. I imagine they did up their prototype, it was super awesome, and some of the cooler heads thought "A lot of people want SDF-1 toys and this is going to be too big and too expensive for them." So, the cooler heads probably started designing a smaller scale SDF-1 toy that would be more in line of the cost of Yamato's ordinary releases ($100-$200). The camp working on the super scale super expensive toy seem to have then run into problems where they over-designed the toy and would need to be made with more but smaller pieces and the expense kept escalating. In the meantime, the camp working on the smaller scale toy probably made great progress and started showing a really promising toy that would work for a ton of people. Suddenly the huge SDF-1 didn't seem at all worth the additional cost and the accountants said "profit margin x units sold = yay". Rather than scrap the 1/2000 they said "Hey, for our folks who worked on it and those few who it did appeal to, we'll make some available rather than leaving it as a one-off display piece for our corporate headquarters."

The shoulders on the Roy VF-1S toy were VERY fragile (the original release with strike parts). Both my shoulders broke and even the replacement shoulders I was sent were broken before I could put them on the toy. There was a thread on MW dedicated to just how bad the initial shoulders were on these toys. The problem seems to have been solved around the release of Hikaru's VF-1J.

Whoa! How'd you get the arms to stay connected to the shoulders!?! That's a joke, very nice ugly poo (I really must be missing an inside joke somewhere).

I'm on board, each new toy or repaint should get its own thread. Even if it's Hayao's DYRL VF-1A and it has one person saying "Look, it's green!" I also love the idea of the titles having things you could SEARCH for. I can think of some occasions where it'd be silly though. Would we have a separate thread for Max and Miria's VF-22 toys?

I think CMs is done with Mospeada after the trading figures so I'd be a little surprised if we see more toys from them. If we were going to I'd guess that the Clear/Metallic versions of the dark ride armors would be next.

Some day I'm going to bust all my CMs Mospeada toys out and do a diorama for you guys to try to inspire some jealousy I agree though, CMs toys are way expensive for what they were and while it's nice they pretty much completed all things Mospeada they never got closing to nailing everything just right.

MH Houquet = dead.

I handle my DXs pretty lightly busting them out for comparisons occasionally. For the most part I haven't had much of an issue with the paint. My Ozma DS is probably the most banged up since all those armor parts can cause issues with each installation (and with all the popping off many parts do there can be qutie a few installations).

Gamlin was the messiah. He is killed, then is reborn with more understanding and even more power.

The Robotech background music is PERFECT 80s music. I love it and it makes for good ringtones. Whenever I call my brother his phone plays the Zentraedi theme. The actual songs... not so much although Yellow's songs aren't too bad for cartoon songs (and the Mospeada songs never really excited me other than some occasional Mooootooooocycle freeakk! humor). Macross' bgm (in the original) is classier and works just fine and the songs are obviously top notch in comparison.

I was Gaius Baltar, my girlfriend was Caprica Six. Sadly, we went to a party where not many people watched BSG.