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1/60 VF-1D "Virgin Road"


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Amen to that.....yellowing on white plastic seems to be very much more pronounced compared to other colors....

Just take a look at them.... <_<

This scares me when I'm considering another White Valk... Really wished the 1S and 1J were gray...

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I hate to keep the steady derailment going, but I noticed something interesting about the TV roy 1S... I used to think it had red shoulder triangles, as seen on Mr. March's site. But I watched an episode or two recently (forget which ones) and it definitely had yellow shoulder triangles. Maybe it has red triangles in other episodes, I don't know...

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No, it's not a VF-1A because it has two seats... but it has a 1A head in the cartoon. For the purposes of the animation they just magically made Max's VF-1A a two seater temporarily but it magically growing a second seat doesn't make sense so later it was decided that it should have been a VF-1D painted the same as Max's 1A. So, ever since the series ended, the magic two-seat VF-1A has been properly reclassified as a VF-1D with the same paint scheme as Max's VF-1A... the head shown in the animation is to be ignored.

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No, it's not a VF-1A because it has two seats... but it has a 1A head in the cartoon. For the purposes of the animation they just magically made Max's VF-1A a two seater temporarily but it magically growing a second seat doesn't make sense so later it was decided that it should have been a VF-1D painted the same as Max's 1A. So, ever since the series ended, the magic two-seat VF-1A has been properly reclassified as a VF-1D with the same paint scheme as Max's VF-1A... the head shown in the animation is to be ignored.

Thanks. It is confusing but I follow you.

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how about the VF-25s that suddenly became 2-seaters in the Galia IV ep.? same kind of magic, maybe...

Apparently there is a fold-away seat behind the pilot for the VF-25 that is usually covered up by a shroud. Or so it says in one of the DVD booklets or Mac Chronicles.

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No, it's not a VF-1A because it has two seats... but it has a 1A head in the cartoon. For the purposes of the animation they just magically made Max's VF-1A a two seater temporarily but it magically growing a second seat doesn't make sense so later it was decided that it should have been a VF-1D painted the same as Max's 1A. So, ever since the series ended, the magic two-seat VF-1A has been properly reclassified as a VF-1D with the same paint scheme as Max's VF-1A... the head shown in the animation is to be ignored.

Given how mixed up the origin of this 'V'R valk is, I'm surprised people are still clamoring for it. I like everything from the original series but this seems like a stretch.

Would be sad to think that this might sell more (never having really existed!) over a destroid Spartan that was shown in detail about 30X . . .

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No, it's not a VF-1A because it has two seats... but it has a 1A head in the cartoon. For the purposes of the animation they just magically made Max's VF-1A a two seater temporarily but it magically growing a second seat doesn't make sense so later it was decided that it should have been a VF-1D painted the same as Max's 1A. So, ever since the series ended, the magic two-seat VF-1A has been properly reclassified as a VF-1D with the same paint scheme as Max's VF-1A... the head shown in the animation is to be ignored.

No, it's just the awful Star Pro animators. It wasn't decided later, Studio Nue intended it to be a VF-1D from the beginning as the lineart for that episode clearly shows on page 69 of TIAS Macross Animation Materials Volume 2 (the RED one). It is even labelled VF-1D.

Remember the same studio drew Roy's VF1S with a 1A head for some scenes of episode 3.

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No, it's just the awful Star Pro animators. It wasn't decided later, Studio Nue intended it to be a VF-1D from the beginning as the lineart for that episode clearly shows on page 69 of TIAS Macross Animation Materials Volume 2 (the RED one). It is even labelled VF-1D.

Remember the same studio drew Roy's VF1S with a 1A head for some scenes of episode 3.

Ugh - episode 3. Awful animation. I skip over that one too. "Star Pro Animators"? Not an appropriate name . . .

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No, it's not a VF-1A because it has two seats... but it has a 1A head in the cartoon. For the purposes of the animation they just magically made Max's VF-1A a two seater temporarily but it magically growing a second seat doesn't make sense so later it was decided that it should have been a VF-1D painted the same as Max's 1A. So, ever since the series ended, the magic two-seat VF-1A has been properly reclassified as a VF-1D with the same paint scheme as Max's VF-1A... the head shown in the animation is to be ignored.

To be ignored? The Valk is undoubtedly a customized VF-1A...

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This episode is full of animation errors... more so than any other episode... just look at the escort CF VF-1s.... what kind of head is it having??? heck... Focker's 1S was also shown shown as an 1A in one ofthe 1st 3 spisodes of SDF: M... anyway, the word is that Kawamori and Co. had intended it to be a 1D, so there we have it: a 1/60 VF-1D releasing by this Saturday.

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Yep, confirmed. It states so On Yamato's website:

Likewise for the M&M VF-1Jsoas well.

1/60 完全変形 VF-1D ヴァージンロード

2009年10月31日 発売予定

予価  10,290 円(本体価格:9,800 円)

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Yep, but if you go to the website, the rest of the items simply just state "Nov" or "Dec" release, In fact this used to be so as well, just an "Oct" release, but now they have a specific date, so I'm pretty convinced that Yamato isn't screwing around with the specific date.

Like wise, I have been waiting and pre-paid in full for this... so i can't wait as well!

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Well, looks like a CF-1D to me... More mold for Yammie to milk.

That's just a mistake. You can see the animators swapped the VF-1A and VF-1D heads. They also traced the lineart a lot for those poorly animated episodes and the only Valkyrie with enough different views is the VF-1A. Even Roy's VF-1S turned into a VF-1A in those poorly animated episodes.

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Yep, thats what I was talking about... episode 3. Focker on his way to retrieve Hikaru

I still wake up late at night in turmoil over that episode, and 'virgin road' for that matter.

Didn't they realize we would be hanging on every screen shot for the next 20 to 50 years!?!

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