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DX Chogokin YF-29 (Alto) Durandal Valkyrie - Reissue
MacrossMania replied to joppewo's topic in Toys
Sorry I know opinions are boring on here, but the reissue YF-29 is like Apocalypse Now Redux, Godfather recut, resized and overdone. Stars Wars refurbished in the Hollywood CGI laboratories when the puppets were good enough. I'm sorry to say this but the original is frankly a masterpiece, and all this bumbling about with resized, reshaped and ultimately overdone "modular"-looking sculpt-work detracts from the stunning form and design of the original. It was the seamless transition of the lines, the sheer beauty and line work. Truly a sight to behold. This one doesn't hold a candle to the original. I am prone to raining on people's parades (and not to detract from the thrill of the hunt as a collector), but it needs to be said. Behold the original! -
I mean holy crap! I have a small sampling of every shelf here. This basically contains a who's who of modern toy collecting. I could only wish I had this much. That said, I'm eminently satisfied with my small sampling, given what it is. But wow, this is just a great collection. An obvious devotion to the craft. Well done.
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Your poses are excellent and I couldn't match them. But I have to say that there's a major assist here from Bandai. It always amazes me that they seem to capture the spirit of respective anime franchises more than any other toy company. Truly amazing. Hats off to you both.
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scary indeed
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This website is the 12 step program. Hi, my name is... and I'm an addict. It's how every meeting begins here at Macross Anonymous.
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Why he's the reigning king in the valkyrie wars.
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Well, this getting to be an expensive hobby...
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Now I do. (formerly of the belief that this was just another would-be victim awaiting his fate, looking askance at his doppelganger with a profound sense of uneasiness and despair)
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Ok, did nobody comment about the skeleton just hanging out in the background? Did I miss something? LOL. I mean, I know some of us are out of the closet when it comes to our deepest, darkest collecting secrets, but this is a bit much.
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LOL This is basically the kind of collector I want to be, I just don't have the stamina to do it. I can't put in enough time to organize, design and display my collection in a way that automatically bestows admiration and jealousy in the eyes of an admirer as they lovingly pass through (le sigh). Nope. Can't do it and don't care. What I do instead is gorge myself on the best of the lot when I have the money to spend, obsess over the crap I don't have money to spend on, and pine over the one(s) that got away. I've literally lost lives (or perhaps, future wives) over this. LOL. But hey, it's all good. And this is basically the collector I am (absent the lack of nostalgia and the display part). I think I buy the vintage toys for the nostalgia bit (but also the amazing variety of characters they had - which matters when it comes to nostalgia, and also when it comes to the older cartoons when they actually had characters and storylines that were more appealing; now, it's another story). And I buy for the swank design and engineering for the modern "toys." To be perfectly honest with you, I think we're witnessing a large-scale paralysis in the ability of our modern storytellers to come up with anything new. Most of all in Hollywood, but I think it's affecting the traditional robot craze in Japanese anime. When was the last time you saw an Evangalion, or Voltron, or Optimus Prime. So the characters definitely matter more to me when it comes to the vintage toys, but not so much the modern ones. I can pass on six different versions of a VF-31, whose characters bear only a passing resemblance to the Roy Fockers and Rick Hunters of old. But doing the same for Sunstreaker, Sideswipe and Red Alert is a different story (if I had the money!).
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MISB collectors don't have this problem. I honestly have to head scratch sometimes. Trying to figure out how collectors get so many long hours playing with their toys out of the box as grown adults. I've found that my imagination, once boundless in childhood, is definitely restricted these days. i tire easily when handling them, not to mention their origami transformations. Still, they do look good on display out of the box.
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LOL
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Had no idea. Thanks for the info. All the same I wouldn't have bought into the line anyway. Adult collectibles have exploded over the past few years and I can barely keep up as it is.
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Thoughts on this? I personally don't need a gigantic 1/24 scale valkyrie that doesn't transform no matter how many light up features it has. And definitely not one that isn't the grail. Curious though.
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Popularly understood to signify the nuclear age.
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Wow, what a disappointment. And this was one of the few Bandai items I managed to snag a preorder on. Boy do I regret that. I mean the fit and finis is excellent, but come on Bandai, there's more to modern collectibles than that. You need the odd gimmick or two to keep hope alive.
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The way Godzilla is portrayed on the big screen he's an avenging angel. He "rises from the bowels of the earth" amid the ash of the nuclear fire storm as a way of chastising all of humanity for its abuses of nature and god's laws. So yea, he's basically a wrathful god taking aim at humankind for taking too many liberties with E = mc2. So both good and bad at the same time.
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These are some of the most gorgeous valkyries out there. The cannon fodder still holds up. I don't know what they did. Officially I don't think there was any tweak to the VF-25 design, which I think they had perfected by that point. Still, it looks lean, mean and pretty, and stands head and shoulders above the other v2's out there. Just can't put my finger on why.
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This is by far the best Metal Build/Fix Fig out there. It's simply gorgeous. When it came out I did everything I could to get it.
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
MacrossMania replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
This is pure Macross love. Awesome photo set. And if you don't get why the DX 1/48 is the best one out there, look no further than the gerwalk mode here. Pure badassery IMO. -
The only box I'll open. The rest is MISB.
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Love the old and new here. Awesome.
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Fair enough. I myself prefer Bandai's "tweaking." I see it in the Metal Build line. I thought what they did with Gundam Destiny was just amazing, and time and again they've come through with special little variants of the original design that really pop. That's actually what I look forward to. But I guess when I think about it, I'm more of a design purist when it comes to Macross more than any other line. So I agree with you there. Only thing is I don't mind it so much on the Macross Plus line because I wasn't wedded to it Max+Miria style the same way I was with the original Macross series, which I watched when I was a child along with GI Joe, Transformers, MASK etc. All of them when it first aired (a magnificent time to be a child in this country!). So it occupies a place in my heart that all the rest of the spinoffs never could. Never mind the fact that the storytelling has gradually degraded over time with the franchise. But I digress. Either way, to my untutored eyes, this looks absolutely gorgeous and one I've been waiting for.
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This is absolutely beautiful. And with the rest of the DX gang, I'm sure Bandai will knock it out of the park. I don't know what people are complaining about (or maybe it's just high-anxiety anticipation OCD collector-style!). This is definitely something I've been waiting for to complement my DX YF-19. Can't wait.
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
MacrossMania replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Dr. Jones was the father, but you can call him lady if you like.
