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Fire Valkyrie Check that link out, it has pictures of the boxes and a brief write-up on ways of telling the original from a knock-off. There might be more encompassing info elsewhere but that should help you out in a pinch.

It was bankable enough for Robotech to even exist though and Robotech nearly spawned a sequel if it weren't for the collapse of the Yen (or was it the dollar?). The fact is that HG was out to squash Macross in English and they are at this very moment bringing over the original in dub fashion. I'm not really sure what your point is but the Macross name has a very dirty English past mired in many difficulties. It would absolutely not be fair to say that Macross isn't bankable to English-speakers based on that troubled past.

By "like" I do not mean I want to be their friend, by "like" I mean I want to know more about them and how they became who they are and what will become of them. I didn't care about Basara so I didn't care about his singing at a mountain and what gave him his passion... he didn't involve me into the story. I like the Scarface character because he does draw you in. He's an ass but he makes you want to know what's going to happen next. Writing is a complex art and everyone has different tastes to cater to. The characters themselves are also products of their environments and this too can have a deep impression on whether or not you "like" them. So, in the case of the M+ characters there might not even be one tangible thing you can point to as a reason you're put off by them, it could simply be because of the way they interact with larger universe as a whole. Anyway you put it, I did not find any of the three or their interactions with each other to be a reason to come back to the show, it's the mech porn that draws you in. So, again, I still very much like the series but I found the characters to be pretty sophomoric from a writing standpoint but when a series is only so long some times you have to settle for sophomoric.

Nah, all the DYRL Strike parts are definitely blue, they never made them in a greenish hue. I might be mistaken but there were more difference beside the color (like the arrows on the head I believe were painted differently). I think the idea is also that in DYRL the VF-1S is a very bright white where in the TV show it appears to be an off-white (a hint of gray). I don't believe there's ever a straight GRAY VF-1S though. Then again, it might just be because I'm not watching the remastered version... yet

Let me preface by saying, nobody really knows what Yamato might do in the coming years. As it is, 1/60 was just too small a scale to do a good VF-1. That said, 1/60 is an excellent scale to do MANY other Macross mechs (like we've seen with the Zero and the upcoming 19). Yamato will probably still make some smaller items in 1/48 scale (like new VF-1s and VF-1 accessories... and who knows what else) but the 1/60 seems like the scale for pretty much everything not VF-1.

The Yamato may be a fat duck but the SHE is scrawny goose. I don't think the Yamato is perfect, I think it could stand to be a little less chubby, but I love my toys in all modes (I've always disliked the 19's Gerwalk though) and so if it has to look a *little* chubby in fighter to pull off decent other modes than I'm all over that.

Meh, I just didn't really like Isamu, Guld, or the girl. Maybe if the show was longer they could have developed the stories a bit better. It's the problem I've been having with Macross since the original. I didn't like Isamu, I liked Basara less, and I didn't care about Shin either. I do think had Shin or Isamu been given the amount of on-screen time that Basara had either of them might have been able to become likeable through a lot of development but in the short stints on-screen that just never happened. As it is, the lofty themes just fail to really develop and it comes off as a bunch of show-off apefaces who don't get along getting in fight and then hugging and making up. Even their raid on Earth just comes off as another vainglorious stunt. I like the show, a lot, but the character angle just doesn't grab me. Like I said, they may have been victim's to the show's exceedingly short length though. You know, with Maverick we at least got a scene (Goose's death) that made him into a sympathetic character.

It's new, when people say "the 1/60s" they're usually refering to the VF-1 1/60 which sucks, not the 1/60 VF-0 or YF-19 which rock.

It definitely won't be affordable. Yamato will make 1000 less than people are demanding thus allowing middle men to bump the prices way up. A year later Yamato will release 500 less than people are demanding and prices will still be astronomical. The good news is the 1/72 series might start getting pretty cheap in the secondary market now.

I don't think the Ghost goes with battloid does it? I think it needs to be jettisoned before the VF-0 can transform... I'm definitely no authority though.

Repiv, is that a "mint" color or more of a teal?

Robotech.com is now offering their MPCs (Ben, Miriya, Lancer, Rook, Sue) for $39.99. At that price, I think it's worth over-looking the MPC Alpha's flaws. Heck, at that price you may be able to resell the MPCs on eBay and make a profit!

Kicker, I wouldn't exactly call that "small." You could buy a car with the scrath represented there! Speaking of buying cars.... Where do you put them??? I have 8 or 9 1/48s, no duplicates, and half of them are sitting in my closet and it pisses me off every day. Do you have a huge display?

If I'm not mistaken, Enigma is sort of a generic "low vis camo" term. Kurt has a beautiful one in this thread: Kurt paints pretty things here. Edit - you have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to see it.... it's purdy.

Typically, this is when I'd smote you for blasphemy and send you to the place where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, but it sounds like you may have begun to see the light.

I don't know about a prime time cartoon that's not a sitcom in the US doing well but Cartoon Network's adult swim certainly did well with some anime. I would agree that you'll never see anime in our primetime slots on the big channels but there's a billion cable channels, anime can still do well here. US definitely does have some different tastes from other countries though.

It all started with the purple YF-21 Fast Pack version... Yes, yes I do That's just a model right? I can't imagine Yamato ever making that thing (not that I would mind).

Amen! Obviously we're engaging in rabid speculation here but if they package a drone with the attachable Ghost I'll think that's kind of lame. I have absolutely no use for a drone plane in my display cases... let alone one I don't remember ever seeing in the show. So basically if they package them together, as I would suspect, I get to pay for an item I don't want. Awesome. You know, I thought the EXACT same thing. Roy gets a yellow stripe, the CF gets a red stripe? My only guess is that Shin must get the blue stripe which for some reason also seems fitting for him. Still, I did/do find the red a bit misleading. Oh well, maybe it does mean that Yamato honestly didn't intend to release a VF-0 Shin but then the HFH caved and told them to go ahead and make some more $$.

Maybe they'll make an Enigma scheme VF-1 to go with it.

My guess: Both Ghosts in one set only available separately running the same cost as a GBP. That's not my hope, that's my guess.

Ooh, thanks for the info. So I i guess the question is now whether it will be one box we buy with both or if we'd have to buy both separately. Interesting.

Looks like the ghost also acts as a drone. It does have its own landing gears, that's cool. The white thing only has one fin, the other fin is an optical illusion from the front fins of the Ghost.

I think you're okay, I don't think there is a separate YF-19 2 seater vs 1 seater. I just think the blonde guy comes with the fast packs and can be squeezed into an existing YF-19 toy.

Yamato is apparently confused or they're making it with two different stick sets. Note that Yamato changed the original from a Prometheus held GBP to an ARMD-1 GBP. Unfortunately, Yamato still has a Prometheus sticker on the GBP's knee. Also, the Prometheus sticker looks cooler on the leg than the ARMD-1 does. Very odd... I think Yamato's take on the fan made custom is really solid. The only reason I can tell (other than the stickers) the fan made one looks way better is because it has a wash and some weathering.

Well I'm no proponent of idolizing Yamato, I just think that the blonde guy and making it two-seats was a pretty pivotal part of the OVA. In this particular instance I think it was a bit obvious of a suggestion to think it took some forum clamoring to make it happen. If I see the toy though and it's clear it's an after-thought they pinned on I'll be much more likely to agree with you. I don't doubt that forums have some influence, I just think that influence is far more likely to be related to "look, our customers keep complaining about this part breaking" or something like that. Or maybe "There seems to be a lot of demand for this product." Design tweaks, especially after prototypes are making rounds, aren't likely to be something I would think we could play much of a hand in. Now, if they released a prototype, it was widely scorned, so it got scratched, that might be something we help with. I wonder if that's what happened with the 1/100 VF-0? Back on subject... GIFT SETS!!!! C'mon Yamato, give us some sort of break by letting us buy multiple purchases together.