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Arcadia boxart twit This link shows an example of how the waterslide decals are placed and look http://ameblo.jp/arcadiaac/image-11603097379-12666946444.html

Nope, probably high contrast scans washing out the colors.

I presume because Nippon-Yasan screwed up the shipping estimates on the 30th preorders and now has to recoup it's greedy shipping fishing scam. HLJ, AmiAmi and A-E have both priced equally http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljlist?Word=arcadia&DisplayMode=images&Dis=2&Sort=std&qid=NKSVN4ZJTYZUH7A&set=1&q=1&Scale2=60 http://slist.amiami.com/top/search/list http://www.anime-export.com/search?search=arcadia

Switchero' you say? allow me.... this will be long, but will have a big point. Hikaru is delayed and arrives late to the SDF-1 launch ceremony. The Angelbird presentation goes as planed, Roy content gets to flirt with Minmay and impresses her by showing and offering her a ride in the VF-1D trainer, the Zentradi attack and Roy launches in Skull 1, Misa yells at Minmay to take off, she does and immediately crashes at Studio Nue, somehow her bratty little cousin finds her and yells at her to come out, she start pulling levers and turns the VF-1 into battroid until Roy comes and saves her. They go into the SDF-1 that's heading into space, Misa yells at Roy for carrying a civilian, Minmay gets mad at the old lady complaining to the man who saved her. Claudia only listens. Roy finds his old pal Hikaru among the civilians saved as refugees. Minmay shares her singing dream to Roy and he convinces her that if she joins the military they will sponsor her singing career. While Roy and Minmay train, Claudia grows increasingly jealous and shares her pain with Roy's friend Hikaru. Minmai becomes a pilot but a bad one and is always being saved by Roy as Claudia's jealousy grows, Max and Kakizaki join the military and are assign to Skull squadron. Due to Minmay's incompetence Kakizaki is killed during the Daedalous attack. Roy advices Minmay to drop out of service and tells her he enrolled her into Miss Macross and that could help her singing career. During the Mars mission Misa dies in Riber's room after overloading the reactor to save the SDF-1, Claudia is torn by the loss of her friend but Roy is unavailable for comfort since he's helping Minmay getting discharged and into Miss Macross, Claudia finds comfort in Hikaru's arms again. Claudia is happy Minmay is finally out of the picture but wishes to see more of Hikaru since she's fixated in him now, he entices him to join the military, he goes under Max's command. During the Miss Macross contest Max destroys the bugeye and kills Rori, Konda and Warera. Minmay wins Miss Macross, Roy is overjoyed, Claudia is furious. After Quanzin destroys the antenna, Claudia is sent on the catseye, Roy, Max and Hikaru are escorting, Roy's growing suspicions on Claudia and Hikaru gets them distracted while they argue and they get captured. Roy is injured while fighting Bretai, Claudia and Hikaru kiss to try and scape and finally do so thanks to Max. The SDF-1 arrives to Earth, Minmay is a big star and Claudia pulls strings to finally get her off the ship. Minmay returns to the SDF-1 with Kaifun, Claudia and Roy relationship improves after nursing him from his injuries and Minmay attention on Kaifun now. Meanwhile turns out that Quanzin was micronized as a spy but he does not get culture shock, after seeing Kun Fu Dandy and informing Breetai, he's commanded to assassinate Kaifun, he does swiftly. Minmay's loss draws Roy close again. Claudia seeks shelter in Hikaru who she never stop thinking about after that kiss. Miria decided to find the ace Quamzin told her about, the night before the attack Roy got drunk and stayed with Minmay, he overslept and could not scramble so Hikaru commands the defense and is heavily wounded and left bedridden. Miria infiltrates to try and find Max. The SDF-1 gets send out into space. Miria finds Quanzim and elaborated a plan to kill Max, they find out Roy, Max, Minmay and Claudia are visiting Hikaru in the hospital and decided this is the best time to attack; when they burst in they find Minmay singing to everyone at Hikaru's bedside, Miria and Quanzim get cultured shocked. They later confess they are spies and peace talk begin. Before the Zentradi attack on Earth, Hikaru dies of his injuries, despite his suspicions about Hikaru and Claudia, Roy mourns heavily the loss of his friend, Minmay is empathetic and sings for Roy during the attack to calm him down. Claudia's sadness of the loss of Hikaru causes her to mistakenly broadcasts Minmays song on all channels and culture shock Bodolzas fleet. Earth is destroyed and the SDF-1 survives. Laplamiz does not adapt to Earth life and begin to gather disgruntled Zentradi, Claudia and Roy are together but Minmay still lingers around as a star. At christmas Roy meets up with Minmay but gets drunk and they spend the night while Claudia is on duty, Roy realizes war is the cause for his alcoholism and the loss of all his friends, he decides to quit the military life, Claudia and stay with Minmay who makes him happy. When Laplamiz does her final attack on the SDF-1, Max and Miria save the day. Claudia Max and Miria are assign command of Megaroad-01. Roy and Minmay get married and stay on Earth. In Eden Isamu and Guld decide "Bro's before hoes" and ditch that attention seeking whore mess of a women called Myung in high school and live a happy succesful military live and are both assigned into project Supernova due to their great flying skills. Myung creates Sharon apple and attempt to hypnotize and control UN Spacy since she needs the attention, Isamu and Guld engage and destroy the X-9 and later save the day together. Myung is committed to a mental hospital. Due to being a war hero, an old veteran Roy is elected president of Macross 7 with his wife Minmay and Guld commanding Battle 7. They find the Varuata. Since Guld and Roy are commanding Macross 7 and not Max, the VF-19 Kai is never constructed and Basara never given any attention, Basara is found stupidly dead of starvation in front of a mountain. Roy finds out but approves and support the corrupted officer dude from Macross 7 Trash thing to garner spiritia energy from emotions, this combined with Minmay's super duper strong anima spiritia and the later assistance of the Megaroad-01 get the Varuata defeated. Gamlin meets Mylene when the Megaroad-01 comes to assist and get hitched, the flower girl happily gives a gracious Minmay the flowers at Gamlin and Mylene wedding. THE END. I wrote all this to get rid of Macross greatest sin Basara and the 19 Kai.

Got the shipping notice earlier tonight. it's on its way No one else preordered this?

The only way I would buy a Bandai VF-1 is if they considerable raise the bar on transformation (press button and converts to gerwalk mechanically).

De verdad es impresionante la cantidad de fans aquí de habla hispana. Lastimosamente no tengo ningun amistad que sea fan de Macross, si tengo un conocido que le gusta Robotech pero rara vez hablo con el.

Woohoo!! just got my request and payed for it. 40 bucks Fedex shipping for two VF-1J 30th and a few other items I had in private warehouse. The subtle thing to notice on the pic with all the wings is how they are send to be assembled, carefully placed and housed in a plastic tray to avoid scratches and damaging the complex tampo scheme. Props to Arcadia.

All promo pics showed the gunpod with no tampo markings. Waiting for payment request from HLJ for my preorders. HLJ marks the item already in stock with USD 26 bucks for EMS shipping.

Preorder is up in HLJ, made mine, I have until december to see if I really need this. http://www.hlj.com/product/aca82019

I'm pretty sure Arcadia is going like the VF-4G, everything made to order, hence the upped price and they're compensating with extra stuff to at least justify the price for us customers. I think their real first full blown release will be the v2 YF-19.

IF Arcadia ever does a repaint like those shops, all they need for the crotch is to be the same shape on both sides, swivel 180° to show the backside in the proper color for battroid. At least, that what I figure would be an easy way to solve the issue if they keep the VF-19 crotch transformation.

Are the VF-1J M&M considered popular "hero" valks in Japan?

The S head suits the scheme really well!! make sure to tint the shoulder lamps only on the side that goes inside (with the little tab) if you do it outside also it will tear off when your transform it back to fighter and once you put it in it's impossible to pop out.

Oh man! you're making mine look so bland now! I guess it's time to panel line mine to keep up. Great job!! why no battroid shot? I want to see it with the S head.

who's to say this isn't an old Yamato they had lying around and use to take the pictures?, hence no option parts on, hehehehehehe

Nice, I'm debating if I should get another VF-1S Hikki, I already have a 30th w/option parts, I probably will. I wonder is amiami has some kind of direct contacts or relation with Arcadia since I've seen Arcadia link several times to amiami website for preorders and extra pictures.

This are probably quicky pics that were taken to show all three modes of transformation and they probably forgot to put them or didn't bother to do so. They seem to be old pics since they are the same that were in the WF display pamphlet.

So it appears the base will be gray but the arm clear...

:wub: Looks great!

Yep, I do the same, makes a huge difference!

I think the renewals with option parts were around 70 bucks MSRP.

Thanks, I'll be ordering it soon from amazon.jp, just waiting for my renewal cc.

Maybe they will bring a nifty stand or arm to hold the Super/Strike parts when not attached to the valk to justify a price increase and a huge box??

Thanks! wow!, 30 bucks international shipping, hate it when shipping is more than the item itself.