WONDERFEST 2004 thread!

rocco_77 · September 1, 2004

Great pics man!! THANKS!

The Monster looks great.... Can't wait to get one of those.

promethuem5 · September 1, 2004

WOW! thanks for the pics. looks great. cant wait to get my Monster.hehehe. Those 1/44 mini VF-1s look great too, just not transformed well. are they prebuilt or kits? cuz they rock either way. cant wait to get a bunch of those.

Montarvillois · September 2, 2004

ugh. that's so obviously ugly... what are they thinking?
the vf-0 looks like someone stuck bri's head on from appleseed.

service report

cc:yamato higher-up

to:design management

HEY boys!! load up on the sake and lets hit the night scene!!! MAcross fans bought detachable crap before ANYWAYS so lets make the PVC SWAP transformable VF-0!!

subject:RE service report

to:yamato higher up

Uh boss, looks like they are complaining! Hell someone from macrossworld even TRANSLATED our own target market's comments in japanese! MAdcross fans all over now and one of our market even says the toy :"is teh suk"!!!

Subject:re AGAIN

to: design management

Hold the sake boys!! we gotta revise this sucka! nio no no wait, while we're at it lets take artistic license and make the head lasers...ANGLED! God forbid the VF-0A's head laser is angeled but make the VF-0S more COOLllooking!! oh man so dynamic!! oh well too late now that sake's dripping....screw iut!!!!! SAKE DESU!! HEDU SHIKURUPUTU WA SAKU DESU NE!!!!!!!!!!

LOL !!!

Shin, you crack me up man

3.14 · September 2, 2004

Regarding the Garland...

There was a toy of it released in the 80's. I'm pretty sure that it transformed (though not perfect). I remember it because when I bought my Cyclone back in the day the old man behind the counter pulled it out for me to look at as well (Anybody remember 21st Century Toys in the SF Bay area?). Tell'n me the "Cyclone garbage and would break, to get the Megazone23 toy instead" As I recall, it came with the rider as well. In my ignorant Robotech haze I went for the Cyclone...and he was right it was garbage and it did break. Should have gotten the Garland and I've regretted it ever since

...I'm giddy with excitement over finally getting a Garland that's not some "pose and never touch again or it will break" garage kit

Shame about no VF-0D.

Graham · September 2, 2004

Noel,

A few questions: -

Does the Yamato 1/100 VF-0S have a pilot figure in the cockpit? I can't quite make it out from your photos.
Any news of the release date of the VF-0S?
Did CM's have a booth and were there any Macross series # 3 figures on display, or any news of a series # 3?
Did Hasegawa have a booth and was there an Ivanov color (black) SV-51 or a VF-0D on display yet, or any news of them?
Any news of any new Hasegawa Battroid or even Gerwalk kits?

Graham

Graham · September 2, 2004

Disappointed that the VF-0S's head hangs down so low in fighter mode. There is really no excuse for this given that so much parts swapping is involved and the toy comes with a seperate nose/cockpit section for Fighter mode

Graham

newca · September 2, 2004

thanks for great pics all~

where to get the 1/144 transformable VFs?

are they just "perfect transform", but not that "playable" as a toy like banpresto?

Bariaburu Faita · September 2, 2004

thanks for great pics all~
where to get the 1/144 transformable VFs?

are they just "perfect transform", but not that "playable" as a toy like banpresto?

They are limited one day licence items so Yahoo Japan is the best bet at this point. They are much more durable than you would expect, see my pic earlier in this thread for a mini review.

Subotnik · September 2, 2004

Say Noel,
By any chance you saw any Big O series? I saw some pic posted on other site,.. and those figures look pretty nice, and I wonder if you know those figures are resin display item or new action figure? THX

L,

Do you mean these? http://www.maxfactory.jp/big_o.htm

Five have been announced: Big O, Big Duo, Big Fau, Archetype and Dorothy 1.

There are a couple of other pics on the main page.

vanpang · September 2, 2004

Noel, thanks for the pix. Great photos as ususal !!!

Shaggydog · September 2, 2004

both max factory and yamato are making garland toys, which is why there were garland prototypes at two tables:

http://www.zincpanic.com/view_article.phtml?id=18609

Kind of weird, maybe they're working together on this.

Max Factory is new to the toy scene, it made the excellent diecast genesic gaogaigar toy recently, as well as some decent MaK powered armor toys.

promethuem5 · September 2, 2004

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! why do those 1/44 transformables have to be exclusives???? why??? I want them !!! but im not in japan, so yahoojapan no good for me!? arghhhhhhhh1!!!

leo · September 2, 2004

Say Noel,
By any chance you saw any Big O series? I saw some pic posted on other site,.. and those figures look pretty nice, and I wonder if you know those figures are resin display item or new action figure? THX

L,

Do you mean these? http://www.maxfactory.jp/big_o.htm

Five have been announced: Big O, Big Duo, Big Fau, Archetype and Dorothy 1.

There are a couple of other pics on the main page.

Yeah, those are the one,.. it's pretty need that they are moble skeleton,.. say by what I can see they are resin kit an't they??

THX for the link

L,

EXO · September 2, 2004

both max factory and yamato are making garland toys, which is why there were garland prototypes at two tables:
http://www.zincpanic.com/view_article.phtml?id=18609

Kind of weird, maybe they're working together on this.

Max Factory is new to the toy scene, it made the excellent diecast genesic gaogaigar toy recently, as well as some decent MaK powered armor toys.

Max factory is working on a non transformable one thought, right? The one on both displays are the same exact one. I think Bariaburu faita was right about the other stand was the sculptors stand and the other was Yamato. I think we haven't seen Max Factory's yet.

Blaine23 · September 2, 2004

Thanks for the awesome pics, Noel!

The Yamato Monster and Garland look great. Everything else (the VF-0S) and the lack of anything else (new 1/48's) is pretty much a let down.

I hope Yamato has more to show next year.

leo · September 2, 2004

and

Yup!! That's the one!!!!

THX for the pic!!

Wonder when will they came out ? hum....

Once again.. THX

L,

leo · September 2, 2004

and

Yup!! That's the one!!!!

THX for the pic!!

Wonder when will they came out ? hum....

Once again.. THX

L,

That is a resin kit,

they already came out and sold out

DOH!

L,

chowyunskinny · September 2, 2004

Say Noel,
By any chance you saw any Big O series? I saw some pic posted on other site,.. and those figures look pretty nice, and I wonder if you know those figures are resin display item or new action figure? THX

L,

You mean these?

They are soft vinyl action figures with internal skeletons

promethuem5 · September 2, 2004

wow!! those internal skeletons look sweet. thats a great idea...wonder if they would sell just the skeletons tho....

Fort Max · September 2, 2004

both max factory and yamato are making garland toys, which is why there were garland prototypes at two tables:
http://www.zincpanic.com/view_article.phtml?id=18609

Kind of weird, maybe they're working together on this.

Max Factory is new to the toy scene, it made the excellent diecast genesic gaogaigar toy recently, as well as some decent MaK powered armor toys.

Max factory is working on a non transformable one thought, right? The one on both displays are the same exact one. I think Bariaburu faita was right about the other stand was the sculptors stand and the other was Yamato. I think we haven't seen Max Factory's yet.

yeah, that's right.

The grey one was on Yamatos stand, they are manufacturing.

The pink one was on Atlier Sai's stand, they are designing.sculpting.

Max Factorys hans't been seen yet and will most likely be a non transforming robot mode diecast action figure.

Graham, CM's Corp have a website now, I'm not keeping up with the pvcs cos I only really collect transforming robot toys but here it is anyway,

http://www.cmscorp.jp/top.htm

CM's btw are very busy with the two DX GaoGaiGar toys they are working on at the moment.

I should warn people not to get their hopes up over the Genesic GGG they are showing off, it costs $600 and is limited to 600 pieces.

Fort Max

Edited September 2, 2004 by Fort Max

Shaggydog · September 2, 2004

both max factory and yamato are making garland toys, which is why there were garland prototypes at two tables:
http://www.zincpanic.com/view_article.phtml?id=18609

Kind of weird, maybe they're working together on this.

Max Factory is new to the toy scene, it made the excellent diecast genesic gaogaigar toy recently, as well as some decent MaK powered armor toys.

Max factory is working on a non transformable one thought, right? The one on both displays are the same exact one. I think Bariaburu faita was right about the other stand was the sculptors stand and the other was Yamato. I think we haven't seen Max Factory's yet.

Well, we don't know for sure if the Max will be transforming or not, all I've seen is pure speculation based on the fact that they haven't made transforming toys in the past.

I'm still wondering if Yamato and Max are working together on this, but time will tell.

kensei · September 18, 2004

Plus they have a trend of spending more time on development on future products. I would much rather have 1 good macross toy a year than 6 poor ones. Does anyone wish that they spent more time on the GPB and released it late, but with less flaws?

That I agree with.

VF-18S Hornet · September 24, 2004

the 1/48 VF-1 GBP Armored parts are in the pipeline and will be announced next year.

OH MY GAWD (falls on floor) :blink: :blink: :blink: :blink:

Anubis · September 24, 2004

Plus they have a trend of spending more time on development on future products. I would much rather have 1 good macross toy a year than 6 poor ones. Does anyone wish that they spent more time on the GPB and released it late, but with less flaws?

That I agree with.

Unfortunately they did have plenty of time to get the GBP perfect, and even delayed it a few months, but still failed to improve it any more. It's not bad, but could have been much better at the same time.

EXO · September 24, 2004

Plus they have a trend of spending more time on development on future products. I would much rather have 1 good macross toy a year than 6 poor ones. Does anyone wish that they spent more time on the GPB and released it late, but with less flaws?

That I agree with.

Unfortunately they did have plenty of time to get the GBP perfect, and even delayed it a few months, but still failed to improve it any more. It's not bad, but could have been much better at the same time.

They were smoking crack when they made that GBP.

Anubis · September 24, 2004

Plus they have a trend of spending more time on development on future products. I would much rather have 1 good macross toy a year than 6 poor ones. Does anyone wish that they spent more time on the GPB and released it late, but with less flaws?

That I agree with.

Unfortunately they did have plenty of time to get the GBP perfect, and even delayed it a few months, but still failed to improve it any more. It's not bad, but could have been much better at the same time.

They were smoking crack when they made that GBP.

I know, seriously, they have to know by now how to make armor that doesn't fall off every 5 minutes without using the nail polish method, right? Also to make it so the legs are secure to the armor? Ridiculous. As a static piece it at least looks good. The mickey mouse hands were inexcusable though.

I'm waiting to see what method they use for the 1/48 armor. Hopefully they tell you to take the nosecone off and thereby size the crotch armor properly, otherwise it might look funny enough to have some jokes about it.

do not disturb · September 24, 2004

yamato, they can do no right, they can do no wrong. :rolleyes:

EXO · September 24, 2004

yamato, they can do no right, they can do no wrong.

but they'll take your money all the same... :lol:

Graham · September 25, 2004

yamato, they can do no right, they can do no wrong.

but they'll take your money all the same...

No, we'll give them our money all the same :lol: .

Graham

Godzilla · September 25, 2004

yamato, they can do no right, they can do no wrong.

but they'll take your money all the same...

No, we'll give them our money all the same .

Graham

So? We all pay in the end.

Major Tom · October 4, 2004

I found this pic on Yamato website from WF-2004 display.

It looks like the Transformable Garland is about 1/12 scale :blink:

that's big enough to fit the Votom's pilot

http://www.yamato-toys.com/event/WF2004/index.html

Major Tom · October 4, 2004

Here's another display at Chara-hobby show

http://www.yamato-toys.com/event/chara-hobby2004/index.html

sleddogg83 · October 4, 2004

I found this pic on Yamato website from WF-2004 display.
It looks like the Transformable Garland is about 1/12 scale

that's big enough to fit the Votom's pilot

http://www.yamato-toys.com/event/WF2004/index.html

What is the large green item on the far right?

Major Tom · October 4, 2004

that's the 1/12 Scope Dog from Votom series

http://www.yamato-toys.com/event/chara-hob...hoto.php?id=010

sleddogg83 · October 5, 2004

Should I even ask how much that monster must cost?

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