Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0

perhaps, LOL funny if it did. But this is what I got. FRom tmp bryan_f_davis@yahoo.com post Oct 11 2004, 09:51 PM Post #12 Member ***** Group: Members Posts: 21 Joined: 28-August 04 From: Hollywood, California! Member No.: 3422 Gender:m I have been contacted by several of my Japanese import vendors who have confirmed the 1/48 1S will be reissued. From what I understand, there will be some minor diffrences... Better Paint Job Different sculpt hands (??) Roy TV Version Pilot Possible Grey PVC instead of White (body of fighter) color As soon as I hear more, I will post it here. Re-Issue Roy will be released in December or January. 1/48 Rumor mill also posts other reissues are on the way in 2005! I paid an arm and a leg for my 1/48 1S. Ah, well. Live and learn.

the one battle mentioned at that site,, describing the girl flanker pilot who shot down her mentor, was vry interesting. That site rocks! So informative~!! Any info on the mirage F.1? and... Mirage F.1 vs MIrage 2000 vs rafale. The fresnch sure have a thing for deltas huh?

EXo, I scombed through the threads here and found nothing. THe first post about it was from kensei but he mentiones "another board". I went to tmpforums.com and that is where I found the rumor list from one of the members, who still hasn't said how credible his sources were or who they were.. Now if Kev was the one who said "oh yea grey VF-1S, TV hands etc..." THEN I would belive this rumor. Thanks for kev for getting in touch with your suppliers. Looks like we will be getting some SOLID info soon.

it came out because some dude over at tmpforums.com posted details about it that he apparently heard from some vendors in japan. I asked him to clarify but so far he has not. AS it stands noone really knows who his sources even where or how credible they are. IF kev. tam, shawn n graham, neova, or Joel from BBTS said the details, THEN I would believe them but so far I am VERY VERY skeptical. I mean he hasn't said much more to us and even then it just seems too good to be true. HLJ and the aforementioned retailers don't even have the details and these guys are in constant communication with the wholesale distributors and such. SO yes I don't give much credence to the rumor...at least not just yet.

Mmmm.... less than the yf-19? Please don't get angry with me, but the lack of new macross items from Yamato, and the upcoming rumours of Macross-mania going definitely down on Japan, makes me think that seeing a new yf is gonna be very... difficult. At least, we got hope (I guess). NOPE! MONSTER II was announced WAY before the YF-19FP ever was~!(2000/01?) anyways I think with all the hype, the YF19FP will eventually come out.

gee, shouldn't this be in another section?

Unless the hornet pilot was an idiot I don't think the apache even has a chance. IT's got tons mopre advantages....teh apache has a chain gun and @least 2 sidewinders as wel as hellfires. As long as the hornet stays high up and uses dive attacks it will be fine.

GUys, I made a thread for all the newbies to read with a bunch of ANSWERED questions. I believe Max Jenius pinned it. Anyways, this guys question, and the questions godzilla or sithlord brought up are all answered in there. What I would think is that eventually this toy WILL come out....remember how long it took until they finally said when the MOnster II would be coming out?

Hmm. High value targets I'd want to shoot down are a modified concord(fake), XB-70 prototypes, and the X-15(would have to kill with EXACT precise timing an precision)

LOL. I misread that too and was confused. Anyhoo only 3 more weeks~! Hopefully ALL the ace colors in AC5 rock. For each variant or upgrade I believe there are all new colors. So far for the F-14D I have seen DACM camo. For F-14A it is the hiolly rogers influenced color, assuming there is 3 colors per variant, we get to see 9 differnt tomcat colors! BEUAUTIFUL! (lets hope!)

OOOOO!!! F-20 vs MIG-29SMT F-4 2000 KURnass vs Kfir/mirage 2000 BTW is storm shadow the missle used by the rafale in AC4?(pod with wings that fires and spreads cluster bomblets)

The movie is called: "Revenge of the Sith" not "Revenge if the Sissy" I definitely agree. Darth vader would more than likely use the chokehold before he even played a guitar. Then maul it with his saber because he is badass. No guitar for this guy, just an orchestral empire theme of graphic war and capes with red sabers yea!!! Basara's got nothing on this guy.

KeV that's the lowest price I have ever seen for that! Bravo!

Refer to this. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=11308

I AGREE! MAn thought this was going to be awesome news about a PG nu or deathscyte or something.

ooo. Which parts on the MIG-29M? Hey guys will FRAAM be a lot more heavier than the AMRAAM and be in a size class similar to phoenix? and any update on the YF-23 potentially being used as a regional bomber proposal?

See first post.

UH yea. Since most newbies come to our site and start topics that we always refer them one way or another to use the search button to find their answer rather than start a new topic, I have made this thread with the hope that... 1-NEwbies see THIS first before they ask anything. 2-THe search button gets used more often 3-Less annoyance and inconveniance for having to answer a question already answered. SO without further ado..... 1- Where is the YF-19FP? Is that still coming out? A- NOONE knows! Seriously if anyone really did someone would have said something by now. HAs anyone seen it? Probably not otherwise AGAIN someone would have posted it here or something like that. Yes it was planned but that was like a year or 2 years ago. So just remember if ANY sign of it coming out will equate to a FLOOD of "NEW YF19FP " threads. So dontchu worry if it's coming out, trust me you WILL know. 2-Wy doesn't yamato make a SDF-1? A-Noone knows. Even though it is very famous in the series, it takes a backseat to the valkyrie. PLus if you think about it, when has yamato EVER done a space battleship? NEVER!! So yea if they DID want to make it I imagine it would be kind of hard considering they are "virgins" in the diecast ship territory. Plus the market right now is saturated by macross and stuff so yea. 3-PERfect variable VF-0 & SV-51 Noone knows this as well and I for one have been begging for these. Why hasn't yamato done these? Maybe because they are busy with BGC and votoms or the other non macross merchandise they are doing. Some say OVA's in japan reach higher populatiry status after the series itself is over most of the time, so who knows. So noone knows. 4-Will bandai make anymore reissues? According to Xstoys and an unnamed bandai toy rep seen in a convention in the philippines, NO, not anytime soon. Xstoys stated that competition between yamato and toynami and market saturation are a factor but he also did confirm the existence of an all new mold SDF-1, and 1/55 destroid as well as redesigned parts on the 1/55 reisues that never made it into production. The cause? BAD TIMING! The bandai rep who was asked at a convention in the philippines buy a member of greattoys.net message board quoted him saying "the license was too hard...we will focus on other properties like gundam etcetc" Not the exact words but you get the point. SOmething tells me they are just waiting for the right time to reissue stuff. 5-What is the difference between 1/60 and 1/48 VF-1? 1/60=swap part transformation, most diecast content out of all VF-1 toys. 1/48=PERFECT variable, minimal diecast, more articulated. if there are any more newbie answers you guys can think of, post here! MORE answers! Oh no rubber is SEEPING out of my 1/48!! Should I worry? Depends on who you ask. This happened to me, and I sanded the paint off the diecast ball joints. The rubber no longer seeped out but the friction between the balljoint and leg encasing was decreased. This made the hips on my 1/48 considerably looser. I PM'd graham about this & he thinks the rubber seepage is not a big deal, in many ways I regret even sanding the joints since the rubber wasn't constantly seeping out, just some rubber exposed. Box is green takatoku with usually orange font and styrofoam tray. packed in BATTROID mode aside from the super valk. How can you tell a vintage takatoku from a bandai reissue? Takatokus have NO swappable heatshield. Focker VF-1S either has a painted skull on canopy, or skull sticker on dark canopy. Hands are hard plastic, wings are not indented on paint stripe, and there are stickers rather then painted on decals. Most importantly lower arm assembly is different so arm armor from reissues will not work on this and arm armor from a takatoku will not work on a reissue(unless it is on the 1990 bandai VF-1S super reissue). Bandais have painted details(most) softer plastic in hands, SWAPPABLE heatshield(Focker VF-1S and all after this version), different lower arm assembly, different box, all packed in fighter mode. Box resembles fueselage of VF-1. The 1990 reissue sticks out. This one has a different head( was supposed to be supposedly more TV accurate but this is debatable). LEss diecast and less painted parts. Clear canopy. How can you tell a reissue from a first run 1/48 hikaru and roy? Velcro on box missing?(not sure about this) and more importantly headrest within the canopy is changed. There is no 2nd edition sticker. Will another company be granted the license and produce large (6-12") transforming valks if other companies (mainly Yamato) slow the rate at which new figures are released? Probably not. Regardless if yamato or bandai slow down(which is happening to both), licenses are kept for up to a certain point of time, which could include a few years or months. I doubt any other company aside these 2 would rise and try to outdo them with their own line of valks, and for them to do this, they must prove themselves to big west(much like yamato had to prove the market for macross was healthy enough to grant sales of a VF-1 toy were profitable by first testing the waters with their macross plus toys). Big West does not hand out licenses just like that especially for a property like macross. Why hasn't yamato made a Kakizaki VF-1 or VF-1A max type/angel birds? The 1/48 max VF-1A in DYRL colors gathered dust in japan and was even marked down to 75USD(converted from yen) in japan tru months back. IF max himself does not sell well, do you think kakizaki would? Kakizaki would most likely be only bought by either completists or diehard macross fans who are really into the series. To yamato a kakizaki must seem like a automatic shelfwarmer and loss of profit. Bear in mind obscure colors like the low viz(based on a fan custom that impressed kawamori) and the black credit card promotion VF-1 toy are VERY limited. That is one of the reasons the low viz was in such high demand. That and it looks cool, but the fact that it was seemingly rare upped the demand. WIll yamato rerelease the low viz? Probably something similar when the market is not as saturated. Since it was not a mass release, IMHO yamato would not want to decreease the after market value of the toy, so if something does come out, it might be a low viz VF-1J or S. Perhaps in suttle differences with decals as well. What's a CF and FP? CF="Cannon Fodder"=something that gets blown up in each episode but gets admired by the diehards because it is overloooked. FP="Fast Packs"=external armor mounted on valkyrie. What is this BP8 that people keep talking about? What should I watch out for when playing with my 1/48? BP8 is a backpack connection piece on the 1/48 toy, that can break if you push it past the stopper bump. DO NOT push it past there! The common saying for the backpack is "just push it as far as it will go without going past the bump". This is the main thing to watch out for with the 1/48 toy, that and suppport the boosters on the 1/48 FP set when transforming the toy, since those are heavy and can break BP8 if you let it flop loose. Does yamato cater macross products to the US market? NO. Only japan. They WANTED to cater to us, but legality problems with Harmony Gold prevented them from doing so. Reference the HG debates thread for more info in the "other and science fiction" section. However OTHER non macross products from yamato are readily available in the USA. Why doesn't yamato make an alpha fighter? Because they can't and never wanted to. They said that the market for mospeada was somewhat small in japan so therefore to them, so they didn't think they would get much profit from it. Most importantly toynami and HG have the global license to make the toys. What happened to Billy Wong? He can still do work for the company and probably still does, but in an interview a year ago in a japanese magazine, it was stated that yamato would pick someone else to sculpt the macross toys, someone with knowledge of military aviation, which billy wong lacked. They said he would work on other things. This is where Nishikawa came in, it was OBVIOUS he knew more about aviation than billy wong did(compare VF-1 toys 1/60/48 compared to macross plus toys). hey guys I don't know crap about HTml, so thats why I did not propose a site. most newbies come here asking for stuff anyways so I think its better if they see this here rather than some other site. IS the 1/60 monster still coming out? YES, acording to NOEL who goes to wonderfest each year, it IS! Next year. Yes it is huge. Size of a small coffeetable. WHy doesn't yamato make battlepods and khyrons battlepod in 1/48 scale? How come no 1/48 zentran? Villains in general do not sell well. Look @ the SOC line. HOW long have mazinger fans been waiting for garada? How long did they way for bossrobot or whoever that is? Why does binaltech have more autobots? IN some cases villains outsell the heros in japan but considerably this is mainly talking about the zaku. Plus, you place a 1/48 VF-1 and a battlepod next to each other in the store. Which would sell faster and more? Why does the 1//48 cost so much, even if it lacks diecast?> Out of every yamato release for macross that has ever been concieved, the 1/48 VF-1 has the MOST small parts! Molds are big and expensive, and making a mold for a big piece is a lot easier and cheaper than making molds for several small pieces(which are integral to the 1/48) hence the big MSRP. what is the matchbox/exosquad veritech toy? This toy was originally concieved to be transformable but for some reason it was not made variable. (lack of funds or legalities?). Mde to fit gijoe size robotech figures. NON transformable and more out of proportion than gijoe jets in similar scale. Only came in skull 1(fokker) colors. What are joke machines/HCM? Joke machines are SD(super deformed) valkyrie toys. FUlly variable and have their own fast packs! A few were imported by matchbox in the 1980's. HCM's are (High Complete Models), toys made out of ABS, diecast and styrene made for the japanese business man who had no time to build a model but still wanted something for display and play on the desk(taken from toyboxdx). These toys at the time were the highest calibur VF-1 toy ever created( 1980s). Featured: -clip on heatshield -MISSLES! Mountable under wing and can REMAIN there in battroid even when wings are swept back(the ONLY VF-1 toy as of yet capable of pulling this off!) -tailhooks -balljointed wrists and legs(minimal) -moveable fingers. -somewhat improved sculpt over 1/55(somewhat is a key word here as there are many things this thing does better and some certainly worse) -gunpod mountable in fighter mode -1/72 scale. -more detail than 1/55. The HCM was the 1/48 of the 1980's. The HCM is to the 1/55 like the 1/48 to the 1/60's. Rumor has it the molds for the HCM macross toys were all destroyed in a boat accident years ago. (said by numerous credible sources). DId HCM's have armor? No they did not. However some fans used to make custom armor for theirs perhaps kitbashed from old bandai/imai 1/72 kits. why didn't the super valkyrie 1/55 takatoku look like the one on the box picture? Noone really knows the answer to this question, however upon closer inspection it seems that the mockup in the picture was not meant to transform as the nose is way too long and exegerated. Perhaps it was a proposed new sculpt but noone knows for sure. As it stands it was just a mockup . Takatoku-Came first around 1982/3. CF(brown),Max, Miriya, Hikaru, & Roy. A GPS-1 pack was available seperately or packaged with ROy VF-1S(same as seperate sold roy valk). Super armor was only available with VF-1S. This VF-1S was bone white rather than grey and had an amber canopy instead of dark transparent black plastic with skull sticker like the regular roy valkyrie. Box art had hikaru rather than roy. Almost all details are stickers. Except for the paint stripes. Wing sweep can be pushed full forward rather than blocked. Bandai-ONly came in hikaru 1A, DYRL, strike, super ostrich, and elint seeker. Molds were bought from takatoku upon bankruptcy and altered slightly, a stop block is placed in front of the wings to prevent them from sweeping all the way forward(fully straightened wings). EAch release from bandai had a clip-on heatshield. Super armor within the strike set was more detailed than takatoku's and had removable panels. Joons-bootleg of takatoku, vastly inferior quality, loose springs, different shades and sometimes different color schemes altogether, color schemes are basically off however the packaging resembles old takatoku packaging.

The UErusea aces in the game usually has some awesome schemes, but some just suck. The hornet and fulcrum ace schemes look uninspired. The tornado IDS IMHO and the F-4 Ace have the best color schemes in the game.

Nope!! But some color schemes are prototype/variant specific. Green camo was seen on the F-15B/E strike eagle testbeds. F-15E sports dark grey. SU-37 had forest camo. F-14 engine testbeds for ATE and GE-F110 DFE were red white and blue. got an interesting matchup. F-35C(w/gunpod) vs MIG-29SMT. KNife fight.

30 sec startup? Awesome!! Looks like this one is a close fight! is RB01 the 2 seat rafale? I of course, like the naval rafale. Looks pretty sweet also. Do you guys think britain will go ahead with a naval EF2000?

david and lynx, thanks guys. Thanks hikaru for the PM as well. OK. New topic. F-20 vs GRipen Similar size, highly manueverable, same engine? This battle is for A2A role. Gripen can get into the air with shorter runway to my knowledge. VIggen vs MIrage2000 Deltas. One has canards, the other does not. European delta canard super match Eurofighter VS Rafale VS Gripen A2A and strike. & for kicks. Mirage 2000 vs Rafale. BTW did anyone ever figure out why the eurofighter will not retain its gun in some services? It's a shame really. It is a GREAT knifefighter. also for kicks. YF-17 vs F/A-18F. knife fight. Cobra vs the drag whore.

I think fatal fury II and KOF brought some new ground to the table. I like the fighting engine in SNk but I do agree it can be really stiff. I think SNk actually has the better stories. However the sad thing was I only bothered looking @SNk when I got bored with CApcom. But I am glad I did since SNk is a great experience for me and I now like it better!

David, I'm pretty sure the ADV has the auto sweep, IDS might have hjad it implemented later but as far as I know ADV had it featured in the F.3 version. AS far as the thunderchief, that badboy scored quite a couple mig kills in vietnam, most with gun too!!! I love that plane. I think i like almost all fighter bombers.

Hmm....I guess it is only fair to compare it to the thunderchief then. I love both! Tornado to me is aweome but I guess it was a pipe dream to think it could mingle with smaler migs. HIkaru I did read a magazine last week talking about the lightnings nailing the newly formed tornado sqns back in the 80s on a constant basis. My fav tornado is the IDS and ECR anyways so least its good for someting lol. I just think it is a beautiful design. Seeing it on discovery channel on that wings channel, inspired a lot in me. It was just wonderful always seeing it in forest camo coming down at high speed with full bomb load. BTW why was the gun not implemented in some british eurofighters? What the hell are they thinking? For that matter will future typhoons have the gun?