YF-29: 30 Anniversary Version "VF-1S Scheme"

[Drackie]

i really hope that they give us a surprise and improve the valky with more tampo printing and some skulls in the fins

ban dai is now saving some surprises of the releases in the last models that doesn´t are in the promotional pics ,

and i can see that the paint of this valky in the promotional pics it´s hand made, so, the real one surely it´s different, maybe is not mate finish

in some pics we see that the paint is had made, also the skull, so the model haven´t the real tampo or paint, i really hopes that the finished one surprise me,

more because i already preordered hahaha

http://www.500rpm.co...71506142358.jpg

Edited September 19, 2012 by Drackie

[UN Spacy]

ATTN: Yamato...please release a VF-19 with THIS color scheme.

You'll take away sales from Bandai ten fold.

[ArchieNov]

I don't think that'll take away sales from Bandai. Those that will be interested in getting these non-canon color schemes probably have the money to get both this one and the YF-29.

I still think Bandai outsells Yamato by far if what veef says is true about Bandai's production runs being more than Yamato's, but are still selling out anyway while a lot of Yamato stuff ends up in clearance sales.

[Dimis]

I don't think that'll take away sales from Bandai. Those that will be interested in getting these non-canon color schemes probably have the money to get both this one and the YF-29.

I still think Bandai outsells Yamato by far if what veef says is true about Bandai's production runs being more than Yamato's, but are still selling out anyway while a lot of Yamato stuff ends up in clearance sales.

It might also have to do with the fact that Yamato is releasing so similar products so close to each other. VF-19s and VF-19f, then you have VF-17s and VF-17d. How can these not end up on a sale if the initial retail price is almost the double!! The people who will go all out and buy each and every variant cannot be that many. You can buy almost as many as 3 VF-1s for the price of a VF-17, so it's not the same. It also did 3 batches of VF-19 Kai with only a few months intervals and eventually some stores have had to put that on sale too!

Edited September 20, 2012 by Dimis

[IXTL]

Holy Floating Head interview on the YF-29 30th anniversary version.

http://www.tamashii.jp/t_kokkaku/14/

Some changes to the final product:

- Green canopy and fold quartz parts will now be purple

- Number changed from 007 to 030

More pics at the above link.

Edited September 26, 2012 by IXTL

[charger69]

Perfect!

However, I still prefer orange-ish yellow at the first image.

Now it's a pale yellow, much more closer to original VF-1S' color though...

Edited September 26, 2012 by charger69

[Twoducks]

.... I liked the green better.Made the thing pop out. The half Decepticon scheme gets eaten up by all the white: The cool contrast between black and pulple gets lost next to the white and just becomes a solid mass of dark.

Also miss the orange-ish finish....

Ami-ami has the new pics in all modes and in big size:

http://www.amiami.co...T-2516&page=top

Edited September 26, 2012 by Twoducks

[raptormesh]

Yeah would have very much preferred the green, now I don't need to worry about getting one.

[m0n5t3r]

It now looks like a Laker valk...

[Dimis]

.... I liked the green better.Made the thing pop out. The half Decepticon scheme gets eaten up by all the white: The cool contrast between black and pulple gets lost next to the white and just becomes a solid mass of dark.

Also miss the orange-ish finish....

Ami-ami has the new pics in all modes and in big size:

http://www.amiami.co...T-2516&page=top

I prefer the bright yellow but definitely wanted the fluorescent green canopy. Maybe they did it so as to keep the purple of the YF-29 as a color referring to the original, the way the yellow refers to the VF-1s? Although there was some green too on the nose. Come to think of it the YF-29 was rather busy!

Edited September 26, 2012 by Dimis

[Mommar]

The purple fold quartz on the chest versus the green visor don't really work/go together in Battroid.

[Dobber]

While I like the purple tint better, I too preferred the old yellow to the new color but it's not bad though. Biggest disappointment, for me, is that they still aren't putting skulls on the v. Stabs.

Chris

[Mechapilot77]

ugh liked teh old scheme better...makes this easy to cancel i guess. was abotu to pay too much for them anyway. if i ever have remorse there is always ebay.

[David Hingtgen]

Well, if I had been able to pre-order one, I'd be cancelling it. I much preferred the green, but I *hate* the change in the yellow.

Fokker/Jolly Rogers yellow isn't "yellow". It's orange-yellow. That was even its official name years ago. (nowadays it's "insignia yellow" but it used to be called "orange-yellow")

That's an issue Bandai has always had, but Yamato usually got right---using a rich orange-yellow for Fokker's colors.

[jenius]

Did kawamori suggest the changes?

[UN Spacy]

What other mecha designers get this down and dirty like Hory Froating Head does?

[xrentonx]

Boooooo! Liked the original scheme much better but I'm still getting this.

[pud333]

Ugh. They went from ugly to... Ugly. Meh. More money for Luca's Messiah.

[Jasonc]

Laker Valk, I'm getting Steve Nash to pilot.

[isamu-ad]

No!No!No! what have u done Kawamori SAN !!! it s just Awfull in this new scheme !!!

U have destroy my teenage dream with the new blu ray version of "macross do u remenber love censored version" and no you continue with this garbage new scheme ..fluo yellow everywhere purple and black don t match together the original scheme was so far better !!! it s a anniversary version not a clown version !!!!

I really dont know if I will keep it or resell it very quickly very very disapointed green match so much better with the black ....

Mr Kawamori stop to imitate spielberg altough Spielberg said that the 20th anniversary edition of E.T was an horrible mistake

How can people prefer this scheme to that and clearly the 1/72 yf 29 canopy was orange not purple :

Edited September 26, 2012 by isamu-ad

[Kurisama]

For what it's worth the comparison images look 'shopped. Maybe the final product will have a less pale yellow.

Yellow still looks ok in the other photos, can't wait to get this.

[Tober]

Yeah, I'm thinking that maybe they didn't mask the yellow when the color-corrected the green. Either way the violet doesn't look any stranger than the green. And the fighter scheme wasn't the stronger selling point for me anyway...

[Zinjo]

ATTN: Yamato...please release a VF-19 with THIS color scheme.

You'll take away sales from Bandai ten fold.

They would be better off selling "Blanks" and offering after market decal sheets for customers. Either way the customer can customize their valk however they want...

[David Hingtgen]

Yellow+purple is still a horrible combination with most shades.

[Jasonc]

No!No!No! what have u done Kawamori SAN !!! it s just Awfull in this new scheme !!!

U have destroy my teenage dream with the new blu ray version of "macross do u remenber love censored version" and no you continue with this garbage new scheme ..fluo yellow everywhere purple and black don t match together the original scheme was so far better !!! it s a anniversary version not a clown version !!!!

I really dont know if I will keep it or resell it very quickly very very disapointed green match so much better with the black ....

Mr Kawamori stop to imitate spielberg altough Spielberg said that the 20th anniversary edition of E.T was an horrible mistake

How can people prefer this scheme to that and clearly the 1/72 yf 29 canopy was orange not purple :

Dude, I don't think it's that serious. The coloring could be a little better, but everyone's buying one, so in essence, you're just fine with it.

[xrentonx]

I loved the green canopy but I'll live with the purple. You can't win them all.

[Chronocidal]

Honestly? My favorite scheme on this plane is the one I got from swapping around parts.

I'm tempted to order a couple of the Ranka versions too to experiment, but mixing the darker blue pieces from the Sheryl version with the white fuselage from Alto's looks great. Not sure I love the orange canopy, but the purple clashed with the blue enough that it looks a little better.

I still can't believe anyone at Bandai actually considers that fugly scheme a "VF-1S tribute." Though, given the other things they've completely missed before, I suppose it's not that big of a surprise.

[Renato]

Of all the things I would have wanted them to change, the green translucent stuff was the last. Oh well, definitely skipping this and all its acquisition-related headaches anyway.

[Ahab]

Are the Frontier valk canopies cast in color, or coated? Don't care much for the purple.

[Arthurius]

I like the scheme for the batroid mode, quiete nice (so was the original one too actually), but the fighter mode looks very strange, awkward actually with the black front and noce cone, yet the wings white.... In my opinion, this would be much nicer if they did the front white like the wings (nose cone and pilot area), and keep it black only from where the skull starts. As I would keep it most of the time in Batroid mode, it is not a disaster, but still, paying for this to be nice in at least 2 of the modes, otherwise one could just get the model....

[charger69]

If it's the same yellow with VF-25S, then I'm fine with it...

[Gian]

I like these schemes

[ErikElvis]

Im really torn with this valk. Which at this point means I prob shouldnt get it. Always afraid you wont be able to find it though and pay a butt load more a year down the road.

[Sandman]

I like these schemes

Those are awesome. I'd buy both of those.

[NightCastle]

I like these schemes

Wait! Something about the wings (what are the smaller ones up front called?) in the first pic seem weird. Otherwise, I like the color schemes as well.