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I'd love to see one but it's a crazy thing to expect. It would be between $400 and 500 if Yamato made it... And like the Captain America's ultimate 1/32 Legioss, when it actually came time to pony up cash very few of these people voting for it would pay IMO.

Depends on the guinea pigs who actually buy one and review it... if it turns out to be pretty good, I could be persuaded to as high as retail. Otherwise, I'm expecting to wait for them to depreciate a bit. Voted $50...

Definately!

I imagine a CF. Doubtful the Kakizaki or Max 1S fans are gonna get any love... Hopefully M+ in 1/60 or something, but I imagine Zero toys are gonna occupy Yamato's productivity for awhile...

And without looking at that link, you just pull it straight out. It won't break.

Wow, alot of you guys got them cheap, but noone sharing where and how they got such good deals. Share, you tightwads, for future purchasers! Blaine, $30-35 bucks is for JUST dirty. That savings already accounts for buying the recast stacks. It's even more ($40+) if one is willing to live with the neutered stacks... And at least I got a black gun.

Nice! Look forward to more frequent updates...

Oh yeah, I personally like the Roy better but that's because The Man while Hikaru is a woosie girly man.

Eh... noone "arguing" over which is better. It's undeniable the Takara has at least one improved feature (the smokestacks). The "battle damage" aka weathering is debatable. If I could choose I would probably choose clean, but is "clean" alone worth $30+ bucks? Is "dirty and neutered stacks" worth $40+? That's what our discussion is about. Mostly we're quibbling about price. But noone would disagree having the choice is a bad thing. The problem is that it's not really a choice as only the gougers seem to have any of the Takara version left. If I coulda found a Takara for $100 shipped, I might well have chose it... or maybe not... the fact is that I can't find one for under $110 shipped, many quite a bit more (due to atrocious S&H fees from certain ebay sellers and/or sheer distance). Oh and Tiny, it's not false advertising. They even have the long stacks on the Hasbro 20th Anniversary Prime box. With the famous disclaimer "product and colors may vary"

Definately. The best valkyrie sculpt you're gonna find, but not neither as durable in materials nor as "solid" feeling (due to the entire lack of die cast) as a Chunky Monkey or even, dare I say it, an MPC. But more than 1 or 2? Debatable IMO, depending on how much of a baller you are and how much display space you have.

Yeah, it'd be interesting if there was a different SKU. Anyone have both and can check?

I'm all for deals, but when talking bang for the buck here, some weathering that can probably come off as easy as the Low-Viz did is the way to go. Well as far as I can see on Tamim's site, he's sold out. So if you know of somewhere else that has it for under $100 before shipping, then please post up. Otherwise the Hasbro is a far better buy. $94 SHIPPED?? That's an insane deal. Congrats! Where? Even Toy-Wave (which has got to have some of the best prices I've seen, including the 1/48 Max 1A for $89 bucks!) is $100 before shipping. I'm looking around and I can't find it now for anything else less than $110 shipped on ebay or anywhere else that has it in stock. And why would you insist on paying $69, when you can pay $63 (WalMart), Pfunk? Add tax and you're still under the Target price, much less Toys R Us. Yes, 13$ includes shipping (it's 10$ + 3$ shipping) for these recast stacks.

I don't think the Max 1A does that well... so don't expect to see a 1S. I bet on CF (hopefully the dark brown of the TRU release if not a non-gloss version of the Bandai reissue)with everything else marginal at best (and think the Max 1S would be seen before a Kakizaki).

Where else would the hands come from? If they're not included WITH the GBP, then they're gonna be vaporware like the 1/60 upgrades.

Nice collection! I don't dig Kakizaki but certainly looks good. I like what you did with customizing the missiles and accessories and such...

Ok i went through as many of the links as I could stomach... where's Arcee?

WTF? Are you serious?

Yeah compared to: Looks to me like Toynami wins. Though they definately need beefier upper legs, they beat the older version on everything else as much as the MPC beats the Chunky Monkey on articulation and sculpt accuracy. Neither is in Yamato territory yet, but still a definate improvement IMO.

Roy had a VF-1A?

Looks good. I'm hoping to catch soem discounted but won't pre-order them... whether I pay full price or not will depend on the initial reviews and we get a more complete look at these things.

TOS (gotta love Kirk and his swagger as well the fact he always got the woman and was arrogant about it too). DS9 a close second once they started gearing up and prosecuting the whoe Dominion War. TNG was too PC and "story of the week" and Voyager was blah (what I saw of it). Have only seen like 1 complete episode of Enterprise and there was no reminiscence of TOS. Boring, too.

The VF-2SS is not meant ONLY for space but it is optimized for space. It's perfectly capable of operating in space, though it's not optimized like the VF-2JA.

It's not $75 + 15, it's $63.62 at Wal Mart + $13 for these stacks = $76. Even sales tax isn't gonna add more than 5 bucks anywhere. Find me a Takara under $110 shipped... I see one on ebay for $73.50 but it's $42 S&H Usually $90'ish + 30-35 is the norm. Without this stack issue, the "dirty" paint scheme is more than acceptible. Especially for $30-40 bucks!

A bundled Hikaru Strike would be cool. I really doubt we'll ever get a Max 1S since the Max 1A is still largely lingering around...

I guess it's good if u do dioramas... I always thought the legs were good enough for battroid and gerwalk and landing gear for fighter mode...