Valkfan

Let me help you out on this Nightbat®. Think about what you've said. In 1985 $30 was a lot for a toy. It is not a lot for a toy today. If you're paying about $40+ for that same type of toy today, it's like paying about $10 back then. Also, nobody forces you to pay $40+ for a Bandai, right? Obviously, if the design is 20+ and you're interested in paying for it, that means that you don't mind the old design. As a consumer you should pay for the quality of the product. When you want quality, you want Bandai.

Okay Sithlord, you make me feel a little better about my Chunky Monkey situation. Here is what I currently have. Bandai Vintage DYRL VF-1S Strike x1 VE-1 Elint x1 VT-1 Ostrich x2 VF-1A Hikaru x1 Bandai Reissues Hikaru VF-1J x5 Roy F. VF-1S x4 Hikaru VF-1A x7 Fodder VF-1A x7 Super VF-1S x5 Max VF-1J x3 Millia VF-1J x3 Joon's Valks Max x1 Millia x1 Green x1 Taiwanese valks Super Boot x1 Jetfire valks Jetfire future customs x13 completed customs x3 Frankenvalks x2 $5 bootlegs x2 Total of 63!!! I'm still looking to complete my Joon's valks. I am also looking to acquire the Galaxy Defender Jetfire.

As long as you live in Iowa or New Jersey.

I'm not quite sure, but the Jetfire valkyrie seems to be the rarest one to find at Wal-Mart. It really seems like these are not sold on the West Coast. There is one seller on eBay that was selling them for a while. He was located in New Jersey. So it seems like we have confirmation that these items are being sold in Iowa and New Jersey. Any MW members from these states that can help some of us out?

Now you know my pain.

In my endless search for the Galaxy Defender VF-1S, I found this! http://www.2005boards.com/showthread.php?t=12903&page=2 Edit: Never mind. I jumped the gun. I thought they were talking about the Galaxy Defender Jetfire. My mistake.

Hello and welcome to MW! The guy who made the resin heads in Hong Kong stopped making them a looooong time ago. Try sending a PM to mslz22. He has recasted these parts. Also, next time you are looking for something like this, make sure to post your request in the Wanted section and not the Toy section. Here is the link below. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...c=6105&hl=resin

Damn, this is a cool thread. I don't know how I missed this one! Does anyone else have some cool valk poses? I do but unfortunately, I let my friend borrow my camera.

Too bad they don't sell them in the supermarkets in Cali.

Hey guys, it finally made it to eBay! Too bad it's extremely overpriced. Especially considering that you have to pay about $20 for shipping! Here's the link below. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5904251095&rd=1

I thought that this could work as well. Unfortunately, the white plastic doesn't match as well as I would have wanted it to. Especially with the extreme white on the Hikaru VF-1A. If you try to swap a Jetfire head onto the Hikaru VF-1A, the Jetfire head will suddenly look yellow.

Heard about it, tried it, then discovered that it was a lot of BS. I also tried Oxyclean before. Yet another few dollars spent in vain. Bottom line, unless the damage (yellowing) is minimal, you can't sand it off.

OOPS!

Maybe this was old news, but I really don't know about this story. I just happened to see this while I was using the search function to find an old topic. Maybe someone can fill me in on this?

I have about fifty 1/55th's but still don't have GBP! I really need to sell my second Superostrich and get the armor.

"Banned for being a multi-name hizzoe" LMAO! Hey MODS, this is just pure genius. I really think that titles like these are just too funny not to add to the other banned members. Sorry, I wanted to add this to the custom titles thread but couldn't because it's closed. I just needed to give props to whoever gave this title to the banned member. Thanks for the laugh, you really made my day. RJ

Has anyone else found one of these at Wal-Mart. I know that they're kind of funky looking, but I have heard that they are built as well as the Bandai's. This claim, if true, would make the Galaxy Defender, the best bootleg 1/55 (quality wise) ever made. If anyone else has found them, let me know. I'd really like one myself. RJ

After working on and customizing several 1/55 valkyries over the past three years, I have found that there are some Jetfire's out there that seem to have an almost indestructable paint. Usually, if you stick the Jetfire parts in paint thinner or Pine Sol over night, the paint will fall right off when you apply a little pressure with a Q-Tip or a stream of hot water. However, because many of my Jetfire's have been parted together, I find that a piece here and a piece there seem to have a red base coat that isn't affected after weeks in paint thinner or Pine Sol. With these parts, I have had to sand the paint off! Unfortunately, the white plastic is discolored or else I would put all of these parts together to make an indestructably painted Jetfire. Now this is the paint that I would like to know about. Too bad you can never know if you possess a Jetfire with this paint unless you are willing to test it in paint thinner. If you're wrong, you've just destroyed a Jetfire. If it were only as easy as saying, "it's only found on the Matsushiro ones," or " it's only used on the painted Macross symbol ones." This paint must be reverse engineered at Area 51!

Hey halfan, maybe arafat wants to be your sidekick, halfass.

Another vintage figure that shows the classic yellowing is the first Luke Skywalker figure from Kenner. Now that is an eyesore.

Well, some plastic doesn't yellow. For example, the auto industry adds an element to the plastic so that plastic parts (light colored trim) from your vehicle don't yellow. Unfortunately, this is only cost efficient when you're talking about the price of a new car. If this was done to our valks, we would be paying MAJOR cash for them. RJ

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Check out this auction from our old buddy arafat! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5902542601&rd=1

Hey Guppy, "we" doesn't include me. Speak for yourself. I for one, would really like to customize one of these bootleg valks.

Hey Mylene, you are right about sunlight bleaching out colors, especially red colors like stop signs or Coke cans. Sunlight will also turn the cardboard on rental game boxes white over time. However, sunlight will not bleach out plastic. If this was the case, you could leave your yellowed valks in the sun over the summer to make them white again. Unfortunately, this will never happen. RJ

Hey Exo, I believe that the yellowing was due to some mild form of partial exposure to light while your valkyries were outside their package. If you feel brave, try this experiment. Take one of your valks apart. Expose one of the inner surfaces to sunlight for about 5 minutes. Put your pieces back together and put it away. In about a year open the pieces up and you should see yellowing on the inner surface that you exposed to sunlight. A valkyrie doesn't need to sunbath at the beach to begin yellowing. Even as little as one minute of direct exposure to a UV source (even energy efficient lightbulbs) will cause enough of a chemical change in the plastic to begin altering its color. While your valk will no longer be exposed, the plastic will continue to change while it is put away. The longer the exposure is, the darker the yellow will be.