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Good catch. The mystery deepens haha.. Is NY caught in some kind of fold-fault, and only certain regions' IP can access?

I'm wondering how is it the site is still accessible, with the latest Macross item listed? The old site was already offline months ago, and I think at one time pointed to something else. Is there a new site address?

Years of playing KOF in the 90's, and never made the connection that Athena's theme was from the original arcade classic. Only got that eureka moment, when came across the remixed theme done for Super Smash Bros couple or so years ago.. Anyway, as its Macross 40th Anniversary, here's one half of idol that inspired the design of Minmay & some of her wardrobe:

Loving Max's colour scheme. The cobalt blue came out in the shade almost exactly as I wanted it to be. Fiddling with it, I'm again reminded this new matte plastic, including Alto's & VF-25 WWM, feels stronger than the older Frontier valks (including the YF-30)? YF-29 was initially not my favorite valk design. Years ago, right after getting the first YF-29, I had a bit of buyer's remorse because the design seems quite.. alien. Which makes sense, because it's supposedly Vajra-influenced in my hazy Macross knowledge. I tended to favor valks whose design have more affinity with real-life jets. But over time, I appreciate this design more & hunted down all the colour variants. With the super pack, the whole silhouette - the various boosters, outer wing vertical stabilisers, longer tail, booster nozzle extension, downward canted outer wings, somehow just reminds of a bat resting on all fours on a surface.. As others noted, the left intake cover is really tight, but I didn't have to trim mine down to install, it just takes much more force to snap it into place. The right super pack booster is very noticeably a tighter fit than the left, but otherwise everything else fits well. Leaving it in Fighter at the moment..

Max has arrived..

Overall I just thought it was a wasted opportunity to make something great:

Just for fun I refreshed Amiami's page every occasionally, but it doesn't appear the PO reopened again this time. I thought Amiami would drip release the quantities several times like that they did on the past few PO, but doesn't seem to be the case here.

Although the overall sculpt may look very similar between Yamato & Arcadia, and Arcadia's looking derivative of Yamato in terms of general design, Arcadia's mold is not the same as Yamato's for the VF's you mentioned. With tweaked proportions, panel lines, different structural materials & engineering, just about every part is new, or at least more than substantially enough to qualify as a totally new mold.

There is still chance of Amiami later on. Plus as its WWM, past experience shows you can very casually PO it in the coming days on US sites.

Hobby Genki available now

What I noticed is, even just adding to cart without check out, will make the product page show sold out lol..

Still available at Anime Export https://www.anime-export.com/index.php?product=61251

Amazon JP, but either hasn't come up for PO yet or instantly sold out: Amazon.co.jp: DX超合金 マクロスF VF-25F スーパーメサイアバルキリー (早乙女アルト機) リバイバルVer. 約340mm ABS&ダイキャスト&PVC製 塗装済み可動フィギュア : Hobbies

CD Japan: https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEOGDS-586505

Anime Export: https://www.anime-export.com/index.php?product=61251

Mr K appear to be mentioning something about ‘preparing instruction manual’ in this tweet. I thinking it’s real early to be doing so, since PO isn’t even up yet. Unless, he meant the assembly instructions for the factory.

From the pictures & videos seen so far, one nice improvement we get is the M&M emblem printed in full across the panels & the hinge for the overhead cannons. Recall how Ozma’s skull logo is split right down the middle from plain black hinge..

Based on Google image translate: Tri-Charger buggy mode approx length: 18cm Tri-Charger Armored mode approx height: 15.4cm JJ approx height: 10cm (1/15-ish scale?) Release date: July 2023 Price: Yen 28,380

PO date: 3rd October 2022

I have v1 Dark Gold and I do like the colors a lot. As a display piece, the gold and subtle silver panel lining makes it pop. But bear in mind with these current prices, you could get Yamato 1/48 non-canon schemes - low vis, 25th anniversary, stealth strike set, perhaps the woodland+armor as well.

PO date: 3rd October 2022 Price: Yen 28,600 tax included (Yen 26,000 without tax) Release: April 2023

This should have been released first instead of VF-25 WWM haha.. but great to see this, & hope the armors will be re-released soon enough.

That's a great score @Darotower. Looks mint!

Interesting valk with history there, all the more when the way it was picked up equivalent to a garage sale.