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I gotta disagree. I feel strongly we'll be seeing more Hikkie 1S' eventually. Didn't the 1A stink it up and get reissued anyway? I'm pretty sure it did. Edit - (I'm referring to both the Hikkie and Max 1As)

Agreed! Who is it... and how can I obtain her?

Don't worry Eugimon, i'm in the same boat and thinking the same way. I probably have it even worse, not only am I at work but in a company of 320 people i am the ONLY person at work. If I had a fantasy about going to work naked I could actually pull it off today. Kinda quiet... a little too quiet... Pics look sweet. I might have to drop this as a good idea for a friend or family member as a present

Eeek! Anytime people start talking about modifying toys I get a bit concerned. The problem is, when you bought the toy was the back arched in fighter mode (depending on if it's a FP version or not I guess). If it wasn't arched when you bought it then you know there's a way to get it back to normal. If it's the original version, and other people have non-arched backs, what does that mean? I think there's likely some miniscule detail in the transformation process that has been overlooked and is causing all the tolerances to be off by a tiny fraction. This would cause all the same symptoms and explain why some people can get a decent fighter mode and others can not (ie. if one of the legs has to be turned exactly so many degrees to one side and some people by dumb luck manage to do this during transformation and others do not). All that being said, I'm at work right now so I can't check my own It could also be like Toynami's alphas where some of them look decent in fighter and others look like they have arched backs due to sloppy manufacture (although many of those arched backs are also due to an overlooked detail in transformation). If that's the case then yeah, I'm all for figuring out a way to fix this.

If they ever did a perfectly variable 1/60 I'd be very wary of it. They better make darn sure that those little screw covers didn't come off in a stiff breeze. I was honestly quite underwhelmed by the VF 1/60s so I am very hesitant to rally behind the idea of them trying again. I think they made the right move by going to 1/48. If you dislike the hands so much it shouldn't be difficult for someone to mold a fist that barely fits within the hand chamber and flips out.

I never ponied up for the Animeigo set so I'm voting yes. I am going to hold off and wait to hear about the quality of the dub. I've would love to be able to sit my girlfriend down and watch an episode with her. As it is though, I feel horribly dorky just trying to get her to watch an early 80s cartoon... let alone one she has to read the subtitles on.

LOL, oh God no. It was listed as a takatoku item and, if memory serves at all, the box is just like the one pictured on Toybox DX. It definitely came in a box, not on a card. It was individually packaged and had the proper Focker paint scheme (or very close to it).

Sadly I think I can only check like 5 days worth of ended listings. I'm pretty certain though that it was the legitimate Focker type henkei. Obviously if I still remember the BINs I stared at the product quite a bit. I believe it was listed as "Takatoku Focker VF-1S"

Totoro, there was one of those in the box on eBay about two months back with a BIN of $99 that got relisted with a BIN of $79. I don't know if it actually ever got bought though. It was the Focker type.

It's nice but I think you need to tear an arm off

I wish I could, unfortunately I only collect Macross and MOSPEADA gear... and even that makes my wallet sob. Very nice toys you got there. Would you believe I've never even seen a single episode of any Gundam series? I've seen almsot no anime other than what you can see on Adult Swim and my childhood stuff. Most the childhood stuff I don't even remember any more (a la Orguss, Captain Harlock, that era). So sad... I need to get Netflix and a ton more free time.

I was wondering the same thing as Godzilla but then I thought it might be them showing the progress from an earlier article that was in the magazine. Kinda a "We broke the news and showed it to you when it was this rough of a stage, take a look at now!"

is the Labor Core a custom or a model? The paint job looks really nice.

Ya know, the Toynami Alphas were an immediate heartbreak for me. My first one broke in two different places almost immediately. For some reason though, I couldn't stop thinking "I so wish you weren't broken 'cause you could be so cool." So I had it replaced and I really do love the ones I've gotten since (except the broken ones that needed replacing). I think they're pretty decent toys if you get 'em for half price, especially if you're lucky enough to get one of the random few that doesn't exhibit the arched back in fighter mode. I've also had good luck with my Yammy VF-11B. It's actually my favorite of the Mac7 Yamato toys. I've transformed it far more than the rest and it still looks brand spankin' new. It's even taken a big fall without breaking. My longest honeymoon has been my Taka SDF-1 though. It was my first pricey purchase and I love the thing and it's been quite a while. Shortest honeymoon? Any Yamato 1/60 valk. I take it, transform it, pose it, put it on display, collect all the screw covers that popped off in transformation and put them in the box, then hope to never touch the things again.

This thread needs more Southern Cross - First you arrive and abduct some humans and alter there brains enough so you can use them as pilots for your own mechanized terror. Then you sit in orbit and use them as inefficiently as possible until the day one of them finally turns against you and destroys you despite your clear tactical, physical, and scientific advantage. Wait, this thread needs more MOSPEADA First you arrive in a fiery hellfire blast of biblical proportions by morphing your entire population into pure energy. Use the blast to wipe out locations of strategic importance and any area using a high level of advanced energies but ignore areas of high population. Place bases, or hives, along major transit routes and then single out and destroy all remaining insurgents... no matter how small their group may be. Be sure to only send out your least capable and clumsy troops to fight the insurgents though as you never know when space-borne foes may arrive in massive numbers.

Do we KNOW that Shannon is dead though? I say it only seems 99% certain... but if it IS an island full of nano-robots that strive for balance maybe they'll repair her. Hey, it happened in Jason X.... Personally, i think telling the "tailies" story is just a convenient way to stretch things out forever. "Look, we're starting the show all over from another group's perspective. We're going to go back in time to when the plane crashed again so we almost will never have to answer any questions!" I'm losing my patience with this show.

If that mecha had a hard helmet, I would swear it was a construction worker with its lunchbox.

The price is ridiculous. I certainly won't be preordering one of these bad boys. The seams on the legs are also a bit Toynami-ish... but forgiveable.

I'm an accountant, I can certify that "negative profit" is not a commonly used term... but it does sound like a very peachy way of talking about losses. I think I'm going to start replacing the word "loss" in all my financials going forward with "negative profit." I wonder how that will go over with the big wigs. My dear Vandermeer, I think you're onto something!

where's a good place to get the Orguss series? I wouldn't mind watching it again. Seeing as its been so long since the first time I've seen it I have absolutely no recollection. Oh yes, and that was absolutely beautiful work... I wish i was talented with computers.

Double post, i'm sorry.

Umm, qui il est beige clair I think that's the first time I've ever spoken french... or typed it. It's tan, and it's not even that light of a beige.

EXTREMELY Doubtful... the hope now is that a future YF-19 would be in 1/60 scale.

Yes Sir, to my knowledge it is the only other 1/20 figure produced. There were plans for at least one other but I don't think it ever made it past the prototype and press-release stage. Very nice additional pics!

it looks like a takatoku 1/55 chunky that someone stripped of paint and then left to yellow.