and yet there was hardly any engineering put into the 1/55, the most complex tihng on them was the landing gear, and when they first came out they were like $15-$30 current macross toys have shitloads of design and engineering invested into them so they are expensive but it's justified, on the other hand bandai's reissue 1/55 were not worth $60 there was hardly any work involved for them, take the old molds, clean them up, make a few small changes