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You know, I am so careful with my Valks but my GPB one just had the BP8 go... I guess I must have handled the backpack a bit tough. Anyway, PM sent to Neova.. or if anyone has a glue suggestion, like above, I'd love to hear it - EDIT - trying "cement for plastic models" Testors style first... Oh God I hope this works

I HATE removeable parts. I don't even like removing the intake shields on the 1/48 VF-1 series. I would MUCH prefer a landing gear that could be extended in some way or another. Spring loaded would certainly be cool but there are a dozen ways to accomplish it and I really wouldn't care which one they went with... just don't make me go digging for my box everytime I decide to display it in a different mode.

GTV is advertising that they will have the scoop on the TF moving from the San Diego con in a couple weeks... or something like that, it was pretty late last night when i saw the commercial. "NEXT SUMMER'S BIGGEST MOVIE, and we have the scoop!"

Is the landing gear really such a big deal? Why not make the landing gear collapsible? Have it so that you extend it outward and twist to lock it. Boom, landing gear size problem solved and you didn't have to ugly up the entire front of a jet to do it.

Will they sell a big mechanical horse for that thing to ride. I mean seriously, I haven't seen a gap like that since... well, let's not go there. I'm just kinda teasing a bit. I do think there are a few rough spots, and I did prefer the CAD design the other member did that was a bit narrower with upward sloped shoulders, but I do think it's well on its way to being great. The pelican area is definitely the biggest turn off, I really liked the sleekness of the Mac+ valks and that pelican gut kinda does away with that.

That fits in the "If it's not a 2-seater" section.

You're not the first person to think that: 1/48 Jetfire Click it!

I think LEs are badges of honor for the true diehards of the hobby. A lot of people shun LEs because they're abnormal in someway (not canon or otherwise unique) so the real diehards pick them up. If anything it benefits the diehards 'cause years later, when the investors have driven the price up, the diehards can reap the gains also. I don't find your fight against the LE so noble... if people are afraid of missing out they shouldn't hesitate. Besides, it's a great way for the company itself to make more money on the product through a reduced production run by slapping a higher MSRP on it, thus we get toys that otherwise wouldn't have made the cut.

Thank you for the pic, I honestly had no idea what the Big Track was. At first I was thinking of the O'Mega Supreme transformer... then I remembered that crazy name!

Very good chance it could be. Then again, a lot of people may have Macross toy treasures they've stumbled across or may have a special Macross toy that was their favorite growing up. I think it's kind of an amoebus topic but if someone wants to move it I wouldn't argue.

get an original low vis If that's not in the equation, then just get whichever you prefer. I would say the Strike Stealth likely will get hard to find at some point in the near future so if that tickles your fancy I wouldn't hesitate too long on it.

So I'm at my folks house right now. I keep my toy collection here 'cause they have a heck of a lot more room than I do and I'd hate to have my toys salt my game with the ladies. Anyway, I'm working on the computer and my father tells me to come down and check out this box he found while cleaning out an old storage bin. Turns out it's my three favorite toys from my childhood - So, that made me wonder, you guys ever have a similar experience? What was your favorite toys growing up? EDIT - I should mention that I actually owned two Jetfires. One I bought like the instant it was available and had the Macross symbol and everything. Unfortunately, I left it out a lot and before long it had no arms and was a deep yellow. Then a buddy of mine sold me his for like $5. Well, there it is in the box... but I can tell you, it also is missing its arms

I went VF-17 but I'd certainly be happy with any.

um, you're gonna have to try again on this poll. Each option needs to be its own line. EDIT - nevermind, you already realized this.

Of course.

With the exception of the Ben Dixon, and maybe the Miriya Sterling, the 1/60 Yamatos have been selling for less than the MPCs for quite some time now. The only 1/60s that catch any sort of price at all are the supers, strike, elint, ostr, and GBP+1J.

I'm diggin' the deep chocolate brown on the chest and sleeves.

Okay, this too has probably been asked before, but wasn't there a reissue Max 1A not long after the first issue? Remember when Neova (or someone) dumped them all for $95 each? I thought that was because Yamato had flooded the market with a second release.

Can someone back this up? I seem to recall the destroids (except the MACII) were all just about exactly the same height as the battloid valks.

I'd go for it. It'd mean the value of the 1/60s we have would be turned to dust though (not that they have much anyway). Honestly though, the 1/60 VF-1s are so bad they almost make me angry so I'd love to see Yamato revisit them and improve them in every way. Then 1/60 would be the NEW scale for all Macross and we could get our Monster and destroids and everything else and leave 1/48 scale for the true "ultra collector's items" and their crazy prices.

Graham, can you swing by Yamato and pick up the lime version prototype for me. I've been looking to score some one of a kind Macross items and that seems like a good one. I'm totally willing to pay full MSRP even if it is missing missles. How generous am i? Thanks!

Well, sounds like we'll still have a Shin release to look forward to in the future also...

With everything seemingly being 1/60 now that Yamato is producing, I say 1/60 all the way. It's not like these things transform so I don't think additional size would really reap much of a benefit. Besides, I'm running out of room FAST.

Call me crazy but I actually would like ot see the green Alaska base VF as a limited version. That doesn't necessarily mean I want it more than the others, but if one were going to be made limited then I think that's a good choice. It's kind of a draw with the Hayaos as I think limited is the only way that guy would ever see any production

Sometimes, when work is slow, I daydream about what new toys I would like Yamato to make. Now that Yamato has moved away from the VF-1 I was wondering what kind of VF-1 toys Yamato could make that'd keep me buying. So here it is, my first attempt at a poll -