TheBooyotch Posted April 10, 2008 Posted April 10, 2008 (edited) I can't for the life of me find any information on this at all! No info on exactly what set this is, when it came out or anything. Does anyone have a clue? I'd REALLY appreciate it, it's driving me nuts! is this some re-release of the GBP-1S set? I'm stumped... Edited April 10, 2008 by TheBooyotch Quote
jenius Posted April 10, 2008 Posted April 10, 2008 It's a classic Takatoku toy from the early 80s. The valk doesn't transform, it doesn't have much in the way of articulation, and it's in an off scale, something like 1/76 or something like that. It does have a neat gimmick though in that the you can move the head out of the way and expose a pilot's seat IIRC. Quote
Alex Posted April 10, 2008 Posted April 10, 2008 It's a classic Takatoku toy from the early 80s. The valk doesn't transform, it doesn't have much in the way of articulation, and it's in an off scale, something like 1/76 or something like that. It does have a neat gimmick though in that the you can move the head out of the way and expose a pilot's seat IIRC. I never realised that it had that head gimmick (assuming you recall correctly ) Quote
emerson Posted April 10, 2008 Posted April 10, 2008 Yep, it does have that head gimmick, and it's definitely 1/76 scale. It looks like a vinyl toy, but it's actually hard ABS plastic. There's also a VF-1J Hikaru version in a black box. The toys aren't exactly great, but I'm a sucker for that old school Taka packaging and box art! Quote
TheBooyotch Posted April 10, 2008 Author Posted April 10, 2008 Yep, it does have that head gimmick, and it's definitely 1/76 scale. It looks like a vinyl toy, but it's actually hard ABS plastic. There's also a VF-1J Hikaru version in a black box. The toys aren't exactly great, but I'm a sucker for that old school Taka packaging and box art! Gaaahh! Thank you! I couldn't find mention of it anywhere Quote
sidearmsalpha Posted April 10, 2008 Posted April 10, 2008 Yeah, the sliding seat gimmick on this would have been pretty cool on the newer VF-1 toys, even if it couldn't transform. It's too bad some company like Kaiyodo couldn't have done this with the Revoltech figures. Maybe, Yamato will attempt it with the GNU line. I mean someone has to try something different, since nothing truly innovative is being done with VF-1 toys. The new 1/60 version has more articulation and a better Battroid mode and a 2-seater with the proposed perfect transformation, but some totally brand new gimmick would be cool to see. Quote
VFTF1 Posted April 10, 2008 Posted April 10, 2008 since nothing truly innovative is being done with VF-1 toys This is a good point - but only sort of. The perfect transformation is a major innovation - and I imagine it took them quite a long time to get to it. Personally - I would rather that they focus on QC and the like now, rather than innovation. But - then again - a little innovation never hurt nobody VFTF1 Quote
ruskiiVFaussie Posted April 11, 2008 Posted April 11, 2008 sweeeeeeeeeet, it has a retracting pilot seat exposed thinghy. Quote
big F Posted April 11, 2008 Posted April 11, 2008 I'm a sucker for that old school Taka packaging and box art! Yup Yamato could learn a few things. Quote
Totoro242 Posted April 11, 2008 Posted April 11, 2008 Word of warning, this is an awful toy with no articulation to speak of, oversized gunpod, the GBP armor mostly clips on the front and is exposed in the back, there is no die-cast, the paint is poor on it, and there is no detail anywhere. There is only the one good feature on this toy and thats the hinged head/raised cockpit. I wouldn't recommend anyone casually buying this toy unless you are some sort of completist or vintage toy collector Pictures of both 1/76 toys can be found here on the Toybox DX datafile: http://www.toyboxdx.com/datafiles/data/tak...u2/macross2.php Quote
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