Hi-Metal R Regult

Cool this! Soooo much better than the floppy Revoltech version.... Yes, it's an egg with legs i know ;) but its soooo cute!

Da Monsterrr!!!!

Finally, a decent version of the Monster. Not 1/60, but that'd be too big anyway. :)

Bandai 1/35 VF-1J!

Crazy yeah, the largest scale previously was in 1/48, and the norm now is the 1/60 scale. Could be a one off thing though, as Bandai is known to make the display model but never produce them.

Bandai Hi-Metal R VF-1J

Man, as though Bandai's not taking most of my salary already... :p Soon to be released! Remains to be seen what the quality will be like, cos their last Hi-Metal releases ain't too hot. Still... interesting!

Bandai VF-19

Oh Bandai, why dost thou torment me so? ;__; My wallet cries in agony already.

Tamashii Nations 2014 Macross

Oh man, 2015 looks like it's gonna be another expensive year! Lessee... There's going to be a new line of macross figures under the "Hi-Metal R" line ( i do love how they name these :p), there's a new VF-19 coming out, and FOUR more bots under their existing DX line!

Ouch, my wallet screams for mercy. ;)

Monday Begins!

Wow, this is gonna be an interesting week; Naval Strike's gonna be released on the 25th over in the US of A, prob give it a quick spin seeing how i'm rapidly losing interest in the game. The Diablo expansion Reaper of Souls is out too.... so that doesn't bode well for BF4 haha.

Let's start of Monday with a Macross toy! (Which are getting 1) too expensive 2) too difficult to order online :( ) Below is the YF-30 Chronos, which appeared exclusively in the Mac 30 game for the PS3!

VF-1 Gunpod!

Haha, it'd be cool to have this for fun hehe, it's the GU-11 Gunpod scaled to human size! :p

2 Release Versions:

- Regular Version (Release Date: Monthy Production of 5 Units Only, Price: 12800 yen)

- EX Version - Include U.N.SPACY logo (Release Date: Monthy Production of 5 Units Only, Price: 15800 yen)

Arcadia VF-0D

About time! This is the only one they left out during the yamato mac zero releases... But still a long way to go... 2015!

Bandai DX Chogokin YF-30 Chronos

Given this only appears in the Macross 30th Game, I think it's kinda brave Bandai is releasing a new mould! It's been a while but at least it's progressed to the CAD stage. Looks pretty good! Bring on the repaints haha! :)

 

TGIF! Arcadia YF-19

Woohoo! Made it to the end of the week! :D Just a coupla more hours, and I can go home to level up haha!

Anywayz, some mecha pRon for the start of the weekend! The pricing for the YF-19 is out, gonna be 34,400yen... ouch that is a lot, but still, the usual retailers will have their discounts and such! It's gonna be sweet.. although I have their previous versions already. :p

 

Macross RVF-25

Day 2 of holidays, and man, time passes fast when you're having fun! Saw a couple of F-15's fly by a few times, otherwise, nothing interesting! :p

 

The RVF-25 came out before the VF-25F was released, other than the mint green color, it's pretty sweet; "RVF-25: Electronic Warfare variant, with a dorsally-mounted rotodome and featuring a different head design. This fighter can be used to control AIF-7S Ghost drone fighters"

 

Said ghost drones will be sold separately with the Super Packs and are coming out later this year! :)

 

 

Wonderfest 2013 - Macross Plus YF-19 - Pt 1

Mmmmm.... toygasm...

 

Arcadia Macross Plus YF-19

Updated pic from a Hobby mag! Looks good, and proportions are mucccch better than the last release of this. :) They're also re-releasing the VF-1S, what's new on that remains to be seen though!

Macross the Museum

Oh yes, so want to go! :) Anyone wanna join?

Arcadia 1/60 YF-19

Bout time they updated the YF-19 with the newer internals of the more recent releases. :) The bot mode of the V2 was kinda lanky, and suffered from 'thick neck' syndrome. Out in 2014, so that gives some time to save up! :)

Arcadia VF-1J 30th Anniversary

So Arcadia's first VF is the 1J, guess they're playing it safe! Kinda garish looking.... but prob best to keep it in plane mode! At least Arcadia has taken over Yamato's reins in making 'new' macross toys... hopefully!

Yamato VF-19A

Picked up this classic VF-19A online for cheap! It's something i wanted to buy back then but procastinated till it was too late... luckily it popped up online again as fate would have it!

This is an alternate color version from the game VFX-2 on the PS1! Yes it was that long ago. :p This version is the initial release, not the newer ones, so the proportions and all are not like what you get nowadays. Still, it's the only release of it's type so far that's transformable, not counting the kit, die cast jet and the GN-DOU version.

Spring Cleaning!

Dusted off some of my toys on display, almost forgot about some i had!

Above is the Bandai Soul of Chogokin God Mars, this was released some 2-3 years ago? It's awesome they remade it as i remember watching this on Ch 8 last time in Chinese haha! :p "Liu4 Shen2 He2 Ti3 Lei2 Ting2 Wang2!" It's a pretty hefty piece of diecast, and it's actually 6 bots combined into one!

This should be familiar, Armored VF-1J. This is the 1/60 version which was much better than the initial 1/60 version (where the armor kept falling off) and the 1/48 version (where the armor didn't look correct - too bulky)

Finally, VF-1S Strike Valkyrie from the DYRL movie series. :) This guy was already starting to yellow aleady though, that's one thing bad about toys in white. Well, it affects even LEGO too!

Toys i collect - Macross Pt 2

It was mostly in the recent years that higher-quality stuff started to come up (ie. more expensive), with the release of the Macross Frontier series, Bandai got into the game and started making toys for the Macross range with the licenses they had. For MacF, the initial versions of the VF-25 weren't that good, the proportions were off and the fit and quality pretty terrible. They sorta redeemed themselves with a 'renewal' version.... which was sold in limited quantities and promptly sold out REAL fast.

Bandai had also re-released the old takatoku molds in new packaging, and generally improved upon the quality of the painting (more tampo printing), but basically it was still the classic 1/55 taka toy; wondering why they haven't released others in that line though.

Yamato still had the upper hand in terms of desgin and build still; quality was subjective! By now they had covered the Macross Zero series, released the Destroids (well, only 2 actually), and released an improved version 2 of the venerable 1/60 VF-1 range.

The last few months and future look pretty good (but expensive) for Macross, both companies are now covering the more obscure mechs, with Yamato releasing the VF-17/19 from Macross 7, and the just released VF-4G, and Bandai doing the VF-171 cannon fodders.