Toys i collect - Macross Pt 1

Still thinking it's like, Tuesday or something. :p It's actually Friday tomorrow yippee! That's what happens when you start work on a tuesday.

 

Dunno why, but been seeing a lot of Macross stuff around, not to mention having no space to display what i have kinda sucks haha. I haven't been buying much BUT the price has been going up and up AND it doesn't help that some vendors have decided to make the stuff exclusive, causing the price to inflate artificially.

 

*pic from anymoon.com!

My first Macross valkyrie was bought from OG in chinatown, back when they had TONS of japanese imports of Robots and such... ah, the golden days of toys. Anyway, it was a takatoku 1/55 VF-1J which was super fun to play with! Back then, manufacturers weren't so obsessed with proportions and such, cos of manufacturing and moulding limitations. Simplicity and playability was the order of the day. Somehow, i still managed to break the leg!

In between, smaller toy versions and various model kits, i never really bought other toys in that line other than a Bandai VF-1S Super Strike valk below.

Fast forward to the year 2000, and a company called Yamato released two toys based on the Macross plus line; this was generally well received as no one had made Macross toys for ages, and these two in 1/72 (the YF-19 and YF-21 were pretty popular).

 

You can see the rest of the Yamato catalog here! all the way up to the latest releases.

 

2001 brought in the 1/72 VF-11 thunderbolt followed by modernized 1/60 versions of the classic VF-1 fighter; these were good for their time; lots of die-cast, although it wasn't a perfect transformation. Also because it was in die-cast, the details weren't very fine, and the joint were kinda loose.

 

The following year brought the first 1/48 scale toys from VF-1, these were mostly in plastic with the critical parts in die-cast. The size for these were nice, but a nightmare to keep as the boxes were HUMONGOUS esp. with Yamato's habit of creating boxes with 50% empty space.

 

It was only in 2008 that yamato released a new version of the 1/60 scale VF-1 that it really began to shine, the balance of size and detail was there, but as with all toys, there were reports of breakages at certains points of the toy. Mostly to be expected these days unfortunately.