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So they stuck Miria in the ultimate trainer VF-1J

NEVER!! I don't own a single duplicate, I buy one of each and move on. I also don't collect DYRL-only paint schemes. Those two rules keep me from buying a lot of valks. The only problem I have now is that I'm out of room for anything new in my display cases or storage spaces (garage/closets). I did get photoshop for xmas though so I think I might just clean up a lot of the pictures on my website and then sell a bunch of toys off and just have the pictures as my permanent keepsakes

Oh man, I feel totally guilty for dropping his name and that joke in the first place now. Sorry everybody... I had assumed there would never be a resurrection.

My "at-work-wife" (best female friend at work that everyone thinks I'm schtooping) just bought herself a USED bag for $1,700. I laughed at her. Her response, "Yeah, well I'm only getting one of these this year (LIES!), how many $100 toys will you be buying?" My answer? "Not 17!" I may have lied too

LOL, I just totally had an image of a woman looking at the toys "Let's see, you have 12 of these 1/48s... yep, that's a new bag when I need one." C'mon guys, we're crazy for having a bunch of toys but when you convert them into the kind of things girls "collect" (they'd never actually call it that) we're cheap dates!

Wow, glad I got it when I could! Still hasn't arrived yet but that's fine... although when buying stuff online there's still a feeling of relief I get when it's actually in my possession.

LOL, so BBTS charged $200 for their YF-19 and then had them shipped via BOAT to the US? That's like prison sex for the toy world. You guys sure are die hard fans of great customer service... although I tend to think service begins with getting me my item promptly. Safe to say I'll never preorder anything from BBTS.

Mospeada? (from the updated Alpha reviews on anymoon.com)

I am absolutely lost as to the point of this discussion anymore... The VT-1 is a trainer, we all agree right? Maybe it doesn't make the most sense that it is a dedicated trainer but that doesn't stop it from being what it is. I mean seriously, if you want to pick a bird that makes the least amount of sense then you should really stab at the VE-1. Why make that thing transformable at all?

LOL, I haven't even applied a single factory decal to any of my Yammies. I can't say my total would change at all. I like the look of the done-up Yamatos but I don't trust my own ability in any of it to risk touching such an expensive toy... besides, there's something to be said of the clean and pure look too.

Kensei and Godzilla can take heart knowing that they still have only spent a fraction of what Lord Kung-Fu had. I mean, that guy even needs to calculate in the overhead from his climate-controlled warehouses buried deep within the sands of California's deserts. (How long does Lord Kung-Fu have to have not posted here before I should stop making fun of him?)

To be fair, I calculated that into my price, and anyone coming up with their own price could do the same. I get the feeling when someone is done calculating just the stuff in the sig, they'll be satisfied knowing that Godzilla has spent a LOT of money.

Well, his sig lets you know, just add a price

Matchbox was just a distributor for Bandai, they never made their own SDF-1.

Sometimes all ya gotta do is look up

For some reason, it seems to me like your YF-19 is gettin' ready to pistol whip that Ride Armor for being a glory hog.

I think no one would disagree with the following assertion: You COULD make a VT-1 combat worthy. The question is, did they? There doesn't seem to be any evidence of that. Obviously, before adapting trainers into fighters you'd send your fighters out first and there doesn't seem to be evidence from Macross that they had to resort to arming VTs. Now, onto the price thing. Let's say upon building the VE-1 they found the frame perfect for a trainer do to the seating arrangement and slightly greater space for sensory equipment or something like that. Now, having additional VT-1s may also mean they can be converted at a later date to VE-1s as well. Now say they only planned to make 100 VE-1s at a cost of $10. They now choose to make 200 at a cost of $17. The average cost of a VF-1D may be $16 but the VT-1 is better-suited and has upgradeable features the VF-1D does not. Eh, basically, who knows on the price issue, we could make a billion hypotheses there (unless the compendium actually covers that). The other consideration is that humans are so proficient at producing valks by the point the VT-1 comes around price isn't even an issue and the common thought is that students should have the best available equipment to train in.

That depends on what you're doing with the backpack overall. If you're planning on having the fins folded rather than splayed than yes, that would be incorrect. Again though, do what you want. You could always rationalize it by saying your's is a custom VT-1 with something specific in mind. Completely white without a hint of tan. I'm inclined to say that on all matters defering to the Yamato is the proper way to go (paint and arm armors). The Bandai toys are great and all but the chunky was never known for its anime-accurate-ness.

I don't believe it actually has arm parts. Bandai included a gun and arm parts but Yamato did not.

I'm a little confused why anyone has a problem thinking the VT is a dedicated trainer. The airframe exists for more than one vehicle (the VE-1). Maybe it was purpose built for the VE-1 to replace the cat's eye and then they realized "Hey, this air frame makes a heck of a lot better trainer than the VF-1D" and so they made some stripped Elintseekers, outfitted them with training equipment, and voila! dedicated trainer! It actually makes a lot of sense that way too as it makes building the VE-1 frame more cost efficient. Now, could you mount weapons on a VT-1? Sure, but why would you ever do that? If you wanted to get into a fight the more sensible vehicle would be a standard VF-1, if you wanted a fight with two people in the cockpit you'd grab a VF-1D. I wouldn't let any of that stop you though if you're making a model. Let canonicity be a "who friggin' cares" deal and do what you want.

So are you saying trainers in general seem stupid? Theoretically it could carry a gun pod, instead it carries a dummy gunpod for training purposes. A VT-1 will never see combat (unless some idiot on a date steals one) so it'd seem stupid to give it live ammo, no?

And you call yourself an addict!

Here's my understanding of it: I would presume the VF-1D still would exist as a two-seater fighter and would still have training variants as the VF-1D likely has some purpose beyond that of a 1-seater VF-1. The VT-1 is a strictly built training platform. It might work something like everyone gets their taste for the VF-1 in a VT-1 and then may move on to additional training in a VF-1D for eventually assignment to a VF-1D or that pilot then goes directly to a 1-seater VF-1 (like the VF-1J Hik trains in in the original series) or a VE-1. Yes Position of the instructor. Beyond that I would defer to the compendium. Seems like anywhere there's an active force that may require new recruits there would be VT-1s. I imagine if any Valk lends itself to non-military (in an agressive sense at least) applications it's the VT-1. As such, the trainers could be painted for whatever that other purpose would be. Are there squadrons of VT-1s with their own paint schemes? It wouldn't seem likely. EDIT - it also seems like the VT-1 is the same platform as the VE-1 so you could just consider it a repaint with different internals/externals. There may be other applications using the same frame as well where a two person crew would be appropriate. These other applications could eschew whatever training devices are present for combat devices or something like that.

Crap, I forgot the Mac+ 1/72 series and the 1/60 Q-Raus... Quote modified For the love of God, no one remind me of any other Yammy toys I may not have included...