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There's one of those also... but there have been no less than two promo shots of a weathered 1/48 VF-1J Hikaru as part of the Macross Chronicles deal.

Hey hey, the 1/48 line is not done, it will continue to be milked! Kakizaki's TV variant is probably only a couple months from release and then who knows? Isn't there also a weathered Hikaru 1J that's supposed to come out at some point?

My August and September look like they're going to be pretty busy but I'll keep an eye on this thread and see if I can make it.

Just a simple exchange rate difference... there are lots of places to pull an exchange rate from and small variances are common.

I had just about all the 1/48s at one point (except a few DYRL paint jobs). Now I just have Roy's 1S, Hik's Super 1J, both LVs, Max's TV 1A, a Super/Strike Stealth, and a 25th anniversary 1S. Crap, that's still a lot of 1/48s. I really hate how much room the 1/48s take up. I'm being much smarter about the new 1/60s though... just getting the ones I absolutely want and think look cool. I've sold my Max, Milia, and Cannon Fodder shrines and that cleared up a ton of room and is saving me a lot of money on all these new releases.

Wasn't Kakizaki released after Max? Maybe that's when they made that change.

Can you draw circles where the differences are? I can't see them...

I know nothing about toy rights or licenses. Do you think it'd be possible for him to show the bags attached to that bike and just sale them as "Accessory bags for toy bikes" and never mention Mospeada?

Yeah, and Southern Cross mechs!!!!!!! (that's a joke).

Thanks for those who brougth that post back up. I went and fixed the links in it and updated the 1/60 V2 section to mention the upgrades in the upcoming releases and the fragile shoulders of the first run of Roy's VF-1S

Because the schedule I saw just had it listed as VF-1S Focker Type.... and I wanted so much to believe they wouldn't paint something bright yellow and call it LowVis. Now what do we do if we want the original 1/48 LV scheme in 1/60? Clamoring for that is going to be confusing.

When bright yellow becomes a "low vis" color I'll start liking that. I've seen store listings calling it LowVis though but I didn't see anything from Yamato calling it that... but then again I don't read Japanese.

I believe the description calls it "prototype colors" and gives that short descritpion of this being Roy's first VF-1S before he was given the white one. So, I'm sticking with "prototype colors"

A 1/35 VF-1 would be something to behold...

Jetfire did appear in some early promotional materials also, this might be what has you convinced he was in the actual TV show Macrossman. If I recall correctly, and it's quite possible I don't since I'm not a huge Transformers guy, when Takatoku went out of business Matsuhiro picked up the molds to the VF-1 (Matsuhiro having had some sort of business relationship which allowed them to grab whatever they wanted to repay debts). Matsuhiro grabbed the molds, didn't really bother too much with licensing, and made a deal to sell a ton of VF-1 toys to the West as a Transformer. Unfortunately, at a very similar time, Robotech was coming into formation. As HG had officially paid for the rights to the VF-1 outside of Japan they were bound to have some issues but the genie was already out of the bottle. The immediate legal "WTF?" session ended with an agreement that the VF-1 would never appear in Transformers.

The inspiration for the Angelbirds paint scheme was school girl uniforms in Japan, it was kind of an in-joke and that's what Roy Focker is referencing.

I believe it's a safe assumption at this point that all future V2s will have 1/48 style crotches. Now if only they'd confirm they reworked the shoulders some how...

um, sh002, did you not see the pictures of the wedding outfit pilots? That was our first indication that they were making the virgin road 1D.

LOL, because you HAVE to buy them the second they're released. This is a blessing in disguise, ask one friend/family member to buy you Milia for the holidays, and another one to buy you Max... then you'll have both and not have paid a penny. All you have to do is stomach being without something you don't need for two months... maybe even a little less.

Yammy's 1/60 YF-21 is nearly pure win. I'm let down about the guns on the VF-22 but otherwise I'm really looking forward to it.

It's impossible without alien technologies in just about every facet you could conceive. You could build a big, lumbering, easy target but it'd be easy pickin's for every tank out there. Most mechs don't make much sense... transformable mechs tend to make even less sense...

If that's the first you've seen of an MPC VF-1 then you're lucky... but also a bit behind the times... i think they came out in like 2002.

This isn't anything near official but I understand there is going to be a bit of a break between the Beagle Ley and Beagle Fuke toys. I'm guessing since they won't have the Beagle Yellow ready for Xmas season they'll push Fuke back quite a bit to throw her right in the middle of the big buying season.

http://anymoon.com/blog/2007/01/17/toynami...terpiece-yf-1r/

http://anymoon.com/blog/2008/09/03/toynami...yries-series-2/ http://anymoon.com/blog/2008/09/02/toynami...yries-series-1/ http://anymoon.com/blog/2008/09/01/toynami...sdcc-exclusive/