Slowly turning into the gundam corner.
Picked up my first MG. Wanted Infinite Justice but like I figured, by time I got around to the store that had one, it was gone
Along with my first backup choice of Buster. Decided on Aegis to ween myself in which isnt too bad since I like this one too.
Still never got around to building my Lightning either lol... dat backlog might become real for no reason.
nice athrun kit. i wish they had a RG version of aegis.
Well that stinks. I like Max and Miriya's color variations the best and aren't they technically the best pilots in the damn show?
Yea, Max is the ace pilot of sdf-1 macross=) i love their colors.
It might be worth mentioning that Arcadia's Macross releases have been completely redone from the ones they released as Yamato. Their new YF-19 has better proportions than the previous one, their new VF-0S has better coloring than their previous one, and both have a lot more metal parts so they don't flex as much.
I'm hoping they'll get around to redoing the
Destroids at some point.
just to clarify,
Arcadia's plans: to release one new sculpt ever year while peppering yamato re-releases around the year. (not everything will be redone but will be either a totally new mold never done before or they can decide to go back a revisit a mold mixed with re-releases of existing molds)
The new sculpts and re-releases so far have been a continuation of yamato's secret R&D plans before they folded: some guys in Macross World that live in Japan had relationship w/ yamato so they were able to see secret stuff:
source: Macross World
New sculpts Arcadia completed
-(v.3) YF-19
-VF-0D
re-releases
-VF-19 fire valk w/ fire bomber figures,
-the last item in the secret R&D photo that was shown were clear parts for Max and Miria which indicated yamato's plans to re-release the set, (crosses fingers)
Arcadia re-releases have been few and far in between... it seems like they downsized/slowed plans due to budget the past year. Since they're a small company compared to bandai, they've only been green lighted on molds and re-releases that can be deemed big sellers by their board.
i know right? i wish they do the destroids again but on twitter, the head of R&D for Macross Arcadia toys, said most likely they won't release destroids again due to low profitability.
Bandai is trying to cash in for the demand for destroids and enemy mecha by releasing
their smaller scale hi-metal R line, if it is successful, we'll probably have a chance w/ this lineup to complete the destroids,
Cool, I'll add the original to the queue.
I watched the last ten minutes or so of the first episode of the new series on YouTube and it was flashy but I was twitching -- literally twitching -- at the women performing pop songs on floating platforms with guitars as the one girl got all starstruck and probably talked about wanting to be an idol or something... all during an alien attack, or whatever.
But if the original handles that stuff in a less "this is an idol show" kind of way I'll probably be cool with it.
sdf-1 macross tv series is definitely more grounded. definitely recommend the original to you and all who want to give the series a shot.