jenius

Amen. My GF told me long ago that she'll never tell me what I can and can't do but that she'd appreciate me never getting into motorcycles (she's worked with law enforcement for a long time and had to deal with such fun activities as measuring how far apart different body parts of one biker have made it in a traffic collision). In my youth I built a road race Lingenfelter Corvette (Now THAT was an expensive hobby). These days I'm content to play with toys and nobody is complaining. That said... I get the feeling I'm going to be selling a bunch of toys off in the closet to make some room and free up some cash for future purchases.

I got a package yesterday 1) Bandai Ex Gear Alto 2) Bandai Fold Effect Alto VF-25 3) Yamato 1/60 VF-1S LV 4) Yamato 1/60 VT-1 Hmmm... I feel like i'm forgetting something.

Metalocalypse is fantastic. ATHF has its moments. Venture brothers is pure win. They have a lot of misses but occasionally they get some pretty good stuff in there. Thanks for these links... I don't have cable anymore so I need people to point me in the right direction every now and then

Well they did add a stand so that's nice.

They come on a blister card now huh? Did they drop the retail price? EDIT - I really hate Yamato's milking sometimes. They've shown pictures of GNUs with fastpacks/strike parts. Why are they now selling the toys without them? So they can double dip later. Weak.

I agree.... this is boooooooooooooooorrrring. It takes all the blandness of the DYRL paint schemes and takes away the minimal trim.

I go back and forth on the Toynami legs. Are they supposed to be extended in Battloid? I think they look better extended, like how you have them, but it seems like that's not how they're intended to be.

I gotta imagine we'll get one. The VF-25 had lots of paint schemes to go through and the options don't really exist for the VF-27. It's a lot of work to make a toy for just one paint scheme.

Yeah, what Ginrai said. Shadow Chronicles had no budget because there was no toy manufacturer sponsoring the show. Of course, not every show has a toy sponsor, the sponsor could be a network or just about any company with something to gain (Cup O' Noodles anyone?) but I think Shadow Chronicles was made using completely private funding.

I can't surf toys daily but if it comes with a little stand I don't mind it not having landing gears so much. They were in a no win situation anyway. If they made it have landing gears you could plug in then people would have sniveled about how the landing gears weren't integrated. If they integrated the landing gears they would have looked hideous and small and people would have complained about that.

So the VF100 line is dead huh? If the VF-25 was any indication of what we could have expected from future releases, I am anything but sad. Let's hope this new 1/100 Hi Metal line ends up being what we all hoped the VF100 line would be.

'Tis true... I bought all the original releases being a hardcore completist but just couldn't convince myself to get the "improved" version so you'll probably never see a post on it on my site unless I find one dirt cheap some day.

Glad to hear it as I'm not overly impressed.

This is definitely looking like a far superior DX to the VF-25 toys.

I agree on the hand but I don't think the hips are convincing either way since the VF100 hips were awfully similar to the DX hips for the VF-25 toys (in so far as how they appear). That's a very unglamorous pic of that toy, whatever it is.

I know I'm way late to the party but I finally got a review up of the VF-25F Armored edition VF100 toy.

Ley was the only sensible choice for the second toy. You have to think about it from an accounting standpoint. It would take ridiculously low sales to recoup the cost of the separate design for the Ley toy. The problem was that the Stick toy didn't make the resounding sales they expected during planning and they did the math and said "Crap, we'd need every single ride armor to sell as well as our Stick toy did now to keep this thing alive." Ley didn't matter, he was so cheap to make, but there's no way Fuke or Yellow sale as well as Stick so the line was cancelled. Blame the economy. Both Beagle and Toynami slashed their expected quanitities between announcing the line and putting it on the shelf and pretty soon so few toys were beiing made that if they didnt' sell out at lightning speed the line was going to be doomed. Darrin, I suspect all Mospeada lines will be dead after the release of the Shadow Beta (saving maybe a Shadow Chronicles Beta if you want to include RT in the discussion).

You can find them further back in this thread... all have been revealed.

Macross the First. I haven't looked at it much but I gather it's just a subtle stylistic change. This VF-19 is starting to sound like what this line should have been all along (with the possible exception of the price tag). Many Macross fans have the "I don't care what it costs, give me the best thing ever or give me nothing at all" mentality. I'm at that point in my collection where I don't need the most expensive toy ever made in the biggest scale; I'd like some cheap stuff in smaller scales that is still fun to handle. Bandai got an epic fail in the "fun to handle" portion of the VF-25. Unfortunately it seems like they're on the brink of losing the price benefit for the small scale with the newest MSRP news. I really think $40 is the pricing sweet spot for small scale toys... $70 is pretty pricey.

Man, I wish this were a PS2... or even PS3 release. There's nothing that could make me buy a PSP but I could convince myself I need a PS3 for the Blu-Ray.

Macross and Mospeada... I'm an adult with a toy collection.

Go here: http://anymoon.com/blog/2008/09/22/vf-1-to...omparison-post/ Click on links to learn more about each.

IIRC, you just have to pull really hard. It's been a long time though and I never had the nerve to do it with my Takatoku (but I did do it with the Bandai a couple times).

Ah, I see, sorry Sketchley, I must have glanced over that. Backpack is angled up to give the canopy space to extend upward. Very interesting that that was the way SK chose to go with that one.

That's true, although you do still gain mobility by moving both the thruster bell and the thruster itself (if bell can move 50% and thruster can move 20% then you could get a full 70% rather than just the 50%). Even if you can only move the thruster so that it points upward there is still something gained... although maybe not enough to warrant the contrivance. EDIT - you could conceivably camber those fastpacks also (think ball joint) to avoid having them thrust onto the legs.