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Well I just went and checked mine. I only had two with the clear tips. One had a dx vf-25g on it - don' t see anything wrong. The other had the vt-1 ostrich - there was slight sticking from the back two prongs for a 10th of a second but no visible damage. However the front prong tip had a smudge of red paint on it. Looked over the ostrich where it was touching - saw no where where the red could have come from. I was puzzled until I remembered my Roy vf-1s used to sit on that stand 4 months ago. Checked it out and sure enough there it was -on the same place as pud's pic, the red clear part on it's leg. It's barelly noticeable unless I really look at it, still annoying though. At least it wasn't the ostrich. I don't know how the manufactor can claim there is no problem when there quite obviously is. These should not be sold at all. The sad thing is i just paid for 3 used ones from a member here about 4 hours before reading this thread.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Unfortunately none of them worked. I've done some researching online and it seems finger oils can react with the plastic and paint permently damaging the surface - ie. Leaving a shiny worn out looking surface. I've seen this effect before on laptop keyboards and casings that have been "well used". I'm not sure how I could have done this within a few hours of opening the yf-21. I did get this used off of eBay. I.m starting to wonder if it was like this before i opened it and didn't notice at first cause of the low lighting of the room where I opened it in.

Thanks for the quick reply. Is there anything to watch for? Anything that might strip the paint?

I was wondering what cleaning supplies everyone uses to clean their yamato valkyries? The reason i ask is that i have a 1/60 yf-21 that have skin grease/oil spots on the wings. I can't seem to get it off. They look like 2 shinny wet splotches that won't ever dry. Any ideas on how i can get them off?

I may be willing to do this as long as the costs of shipping don't become prohibitive. I live in Canada, I'll have to check with the postage rates and get back to you.

How about the MAX 1A DYRL version. Did that ever get re-released?

How big were the Macross the ride Valkyries in the last pic?

She's almost as sexy as the red sv-52.

The SV-52 is soooooo sexy. I want a yamato 1/60 version so bad.

Ditto. Love that color scheme.

Has anyone seen this yet? http://yokosonews.com/news/japan-post-to-halt-all-air-parcels-to-the-us/ Hobby Link Japan has said this won't affect them but i wonder how this will affect others if at all. Getting those Japan only exclusives is probably going to get a lot harder.

That is too bad, like others have said i think MZero has some of the best designs. I'm a fan of pretty much every mecha of the series. I wonder how Yamato came to the conclusion that Macross Zero is a dead property. If they are going by sales of their product i think they have to remember there was probably a major factor on why these didn't sell as well as they would've liked. Barring one or two releases, each release of this line had a least one major design flaw (eg exploding shoulders). I know this stopped me as well as many others from buying one. The VF-0a/s is one of my favorite designs and i still don't own one due to that shoulder issue. I hope to finally get one now that they've been re-released and i haven't heard of any problems with them. But still i don't think the Macross Zero line has been given a fair shot by Yamato.

So those stands are exclusive the same way the super parts, galla set and Luca's ghost set were? In other words we can't get them unless we live in japan?

Not sure if this has been mentioned but it looks like Yamato is rereleasing the Yf-21 without the display stand. http://www.hkcollectibles.com/macross-robo...-avf-yf-21.html

How'd you guys even hear about this improved legios. I can't find any listing for it.

I remember seeing them on right stuff too along with cat's eye which blew my mind. Unfortunately i wasn't able to get all of them brfore they got discontinued. Been scouring ebay but they never show up.

Yeah that Nora has a tempting price even though i own one already. i Would get another but there was so much else i wanted. I ended up getting a vf-11b, vf-1s hik and a vf-1d. Really wanted to get max and mil vf-1js too. Wife is going to kill me as it is.

I have a couple questions i'm wondering about and i'm hoping someone here can help me. 1- I just got an Alto Dx 1/60 vf-25F. How can you tell it apart from a first and second release? Are there any improvements in the second release? 2- I noticed at some web stores that the yamato vf-1s 1/60 v2 roy with fp is getting rereleased. Will these have the shoulder problem fixed? Thanks in advance.

I remember seeing on ebay BGC figures and moto-slaves for each Knight saber but it wasn't from Yamato. Any one here know who produced them. They looked pretty good and were pretty expensive. So is Yamato done with BGC? I was hoping to see other variants and maybe even the 2040 versions.

Well this sucks. I just bought a VF-1S hikaru 1/60 v2 from an ebay seller for $70 last night. Bought super dx superpacks and the gamlin vf-22 last week. Now they have this incredible sale. I've never seen prices this cheap. I want a vf-11b so bad but the m&m vfi-ijs with fp are priced so frickin low that's i'd be stupid to pass it up. Unfortunately don't have cash for all 3. I might have to sell some things. Damn fiance is going to kill me.

The Macross 7 podcast from CDX was awesome. It's what made go back and listen to all the other ones that were out at that point. I liked all the macross podcasts but there was one i think there was one that could've been better. I think it was the Macross zero one, though it's been awhile and i could be wrong.

Yeah when i watched Dancougar i remember thinking Alan Igor (Black Knight) was a lot like a dragon Ranger type. He even dies before the end of the series like Dragon Ranger did. I only wish his mecha combined with dancougar to form the wings (even though they already had an add on like that).

Yeah i ended up loving all that 90s sentai. These days not so much. Jetman, Kakuranger, Carranger, and Gingaman were my favorites. Dragon (Green) Ranger was still the coolest "6th Ranger".

Damn i didn't need to see this either. I just bought the VF-25F DX movie version yesterday but i can't pass this up.

They take it really seriously apparently. Acccording to Ms Sakai's wikipedia entry: "Sun Music president Masahisa Aizawa said, "We apologize from the bottom of our hearts for the alleged misdeeds of Ms. Sakai." Sun Music removed Sakai's official web site from its web server. Soon after Aizawa's announcement, he was demoted to vice-president. Chairman Hideyoshi Aizawa removed himself from the position, and is now an adviser to Sun Music, with no right to represent the firm."