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To be fair, even if the joints were strong enough, with arms/weapon/flightdeck that big you'd still want to support them if holding a pose like that for more than a few minutes. And even the "real" thing would only be able to stay like that in zero g.

It would be great if they started tampo printing all the markings on these things. At least it's nice to know the Phalanx is still on the way.

I'd rather have Phalanx and Spartan with all markings tampoed on. A regult would be cool as well. Has Yamato given up completely on releasing any more destroids?

The VF-1 is silly small if you believe the official size. Only 1 Falcometer, or 50 feet, in length; the same length as an F-16. Of course, it was almost always drawn much larger in the original series. In reality a VF-1 or a Zentran would not be able to hold a person in one hand--or at least it would be a much different fit than always depicted in the shows. I'd like to see Yamato make a Regult and a Spartan. But I doubt they'll make either.

'Spartan or bust'

Are requests okay? If so, I humbly request some pics of Bandai's reissue 1/55 Max 1J. Specifically a few pics/poses that show off gerwalk and battroid.

Lol. If rumors had sources, they wouldn't be rumors, would they? http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/iam-cybergundam/article?mid=27958 11月發售 ROBOT魂 Macross F Queadluun-Rea 3,200Yen ROBOT魂 クァドラン・レア 11月發售 ROBOT魂 Macross F Super Messiah (早乙女機) 2,800Yen ROBOT魂 スーパーメサイヤバルキリー(早乙女アルト機)

Rumor says the first Robot Damashii VF-1 will be the VF-1J wearing GBP.

If the world only had one battleship, and nobody important expected to actually have to use the thing in their own lifetimes as anything more than an advert for global unification, it wouldn't be painted grey.

http://ga.sbcr.jp/mgangu/013038/

The whole idea that they would remove some avionics and stick a second seat in the VF-1J, and it is just that--only an idea, is predicated on the assumption that the VF-1 series would be designed for just that ability. It wouldn't be the first fighter designed with modular avionics packages and the ability to quickly accept a second seat. And it makes sense that modularity would be a key feature of something like the VF-1, where the whole thing is made up of so many major and minor parts joined by transformation mechanisms and moving frames. All of this is just logical supposition, but admittedly unlikely to be what the writers had in mind; if they even gave it that much though at the time, which they probably didn't. Remember also, directly after the aerial wedding ceremony maintenance crews likely would have set about returning the 1D or 1J or whatever it was to normal. But hours later the same plane was available for two seats. If it was just a matter of stripping some easily-removable gear and locking in another seat, that's something that could have been done (again) on Max's request while the pilots already on station were scrambling. Of course, maybe the paint on the 1D was still too fresh to allow them to strip it/repaint it right away, so it was left sitting there and that's how it was available. But that wouldn't explain why the cockpit often looked as small as it did in the animation, why the front and back torso plates on that fighter were the standard versions and not the VF-1D, and why they didn't transform in combat. If you wanted to find an explanation other than animation error, which admittedly is the most likely explanation, a swappable second seat fits what is seen in the episode. Since the Macross had to function as a closed system and still maintain fighting capability, it makes sense that they would salvage as much of wrecked fighters as possible. That would mean lots of left over Valk arms, Valk legs, Valk cockpits and other parts, all being cycled through repair/restoration and waiting to be plugged in in place of more more recently damaged parts. Given how quickly they continued to lose entire squadrons and the fact that they were able to maintain a fighting force, I'd say it's a given that the VF-1 is decently modular, and that wrecked and damaged fighters constantly contributed to the materials they used.

Lol. They can make a jet that can transform into a robot but they can't split the feed from one camera to two monitors? The episode actually shows both 1A and 1J heads. (The 1J head is mostly just seen from behind, but is definately a 1J head and not a 1D.) The real tell is that the chest plate is always the standard one, never the 1D version. Plus, it wouldn't have made much sense to paint up a whole VF-1D, which most likely would have been assigned to other pilots or actively used for training new recruits, just for that wedding ceremony. And even if they were going to paint up a 1D just for that ceremony, why make it look just like Max's 1J instead of giving it some special wedding scheme, like all white but with red trim on one side and blue on the other.... I always thought they just stripped some avionics and plunked a temporary second seat into his VF-1J. (Notice a second seat added in such a manner would preclude transformation, and Max never changes modes in that episode, unlike just about every other time he dogfights.) Or maybe they just repainted the cockpit from a 1D and swapped it onto his 1J.

Fighter planes, regardless of matte finish paint, are smooth, and will look very shiny or reflective from many angles. But more to the point, these are toys. Expensive ones, besides. And a textured surface exposes more surface area per square centimeter to light and oxygen than a glossy one, which means faster aging/yellowing, and less time before the plastic turns brittle. (As if they didn't have enough survivability problems already.)

Truth. Word. I fail to understand Yamato's predilection for textured plastics and dulled, flat surfaces. Makes no sense on toys in general, and even less sense on Valkyries. And it rises to the level of travesty on Max & Millia variants.

I'm not buying anything from Yamato until they announce a Spartan. I understand that this might be self-defeating, as this boycott-of-one might well put Yamato out of business, but at this point I feel drastic measures are called for. Hopefully they will realize their folly before it is too late.

They'd best not make a Monster before making a 1/60th Spartan. There would be rage. And incalculable gnashing of teeth.

Yamato. Yo. Seriously. Make a Spartan. Do it.

Thanks. Glad you like it.

Wasted a few minutes in paintshop and came up with this: I think I'd rather just stick with the froggy face than bother with a mod, but I do wish they had made the main sensors green rather than red. Ehh... I'll probably not buy one anyhow unless they rerelease these things in a few years with all the classic markings tampoed on. And dammit yamato, make a Spartan.

CF-1A http://www.toysdaily.com/discuz/thread-94166-1-1.html

Hm. Well, I guess it worked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9ance

It'd be cool if they at least released some regults and other enemy mechs in their GNU-Dou line. Though they'd best start with a Glaug or q-rau or something else, what with the revoltech regult already availbable. (I can't stand that revoltech stuff. Cheap rubber chew toys the lot of 'em.) Not nearly as big a risk and if the scope and quality of the line was good enough it'd likely see strong sales. I'd sure as hell buy them.

So, I'm actually thinking thinking about getting the Super Ostrich. It would be my first version 2 yammie. But if I get one I'd probably like to get rid of that rainbow coating on the canopy. Is there a safe and reliable way of removing that film?

Lol. Years of working with/buying from Yamato and you still buy first releases? Who be shortsighted, yo?

It makes sense that the hangar bays on the SDF Macross would have been pressurized. Hell, it even looked like they were flying into a giant airlock when they entered those. But they would have had to build some big ass space-wasting longer-time-to-launch-taking airlocks into the Daedalus and Prometheus if they wanted to have functional pressurized hangar bays there. Improbable. Alternately, they could pressurize the hangar bay between attacks, but that would mean not constantly cycling fighters through CAP duty, which we know they did. Impossible. So hangar deck scenes most likely depicted the hangars aboard the Macross proper, like the one they used when micronized Exedol was taken aboard the SDF by that recon pod. In any case, all the directing/last minute repairs/rearmament/salvage of mecha taking place on the flightdeck of the Prometheus or within or near the various airlocks/doors/openings all over the hull where Destroids arranged themselves during battle would have required space-suited ground crews. But hey, why are the main sensors red on the Yamato 'roids insteada green?