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For those wanting those Bandai Valkyries posted earlier in this thread, Anime News Network has posted the answer you've been waiting for!

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In a nutshell: Toynami is going to import those toys to the US!!

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Originally Posted by ANN

North America's Toynami announced that it will distribute Valkyrie robot toys that the Japanese company Bandai had based on Takatoku's classic Macross toy line. The defunct Takatoku company developed the first transformable toys for Studio Nue's Super Dimension Fortress Macross space war series (1982-1983). Takatoku's 1/55-scale VF-1 Valkyrie fighter toy were eventually remolded and recolored as the Jetfire toy for The Transformers line.

Toynami will start its Valkyrie toy release with the VF-1S (pictured above) and VF-1J (pictured below) variants this summer, and continue with the VF-1A variant with detachable Super packs this fall. These first releases will be sold under The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? name. Macross: Do You Remember Love? was the 1984 theatrical film adaptation of the first Macross series.

Toynami plans to release more toys from the first Macross series under the Robotech brand in 2009. The North American distributor Harmony Gold USA partially released the first Macross series on home video in 1984, before rewriting and editing the series with two other series to compile the Robotech project in 1985.

Toynami was founded in 2000 after Harmony Gold USA asked for compensation on the toy imports for the animated Macross Plus sequel by Toynami's predecessor, Toycom. The issue grew into a larger dispute with two lawsuits and led to the recent impasse in Macross releases outside Japan. Before importing the upcoming Valkyrie toy line, Toynami produced its own line of 1/55-scale toys as well as lower-priced 1/100-scale toys. Both of these in-house Toynami designs had less die-cast metal than the Takatoku toys.

Yamato Toys, the former Japanese partner of Toycom, produced a recent 1/48-scale line of VF-1 Valkyrie toys. This June, it will start a 1/60-scale line (pictured at right) that matches the scale of the toys from the other Macross projects in Japan. Both Yamato toy lines use less die-cast metal than Takatoku's toys of the 1980s, but are more faithful to the original mechanical designs.

Bandai is reissuing the Macross toys in Japan to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the first Macross series and the 2008 launch of the Macross Frontier

Hopefully this will help clear up some of the Macross legal quandaries in R1 land and open the door to Macross DVD licenses.

Personally, I can't wait for this:

http://tak.rooms.cwal.net/IMG_5086.JPG

I think I might be one of the first persons to buy.

- Tak

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Originally Posted by Tak (Post 1591846)

Personally, I can't wait for this:

http://tak.rooms.cwal.net/IMG_5086.JPG

I think I might be one of the first persons to buy.

- Tak

I'd second that! (^_^)

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Originally Posted by dodgethis_sg (Post 1594144)

http://happy.ap.teacup.com/runchicke...1210813936.jpg

lulwut? A Vajra kit?

I want that badass bug

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Originally Posted by dodgethis_sg (Post 1594144)

http://happy.ap.teacup.com/runchicke...1210813936.jpg

lulwut? A Vajra kit?

It's nice to see the non-Variable Fighter units get some love.
But that Vajra doesn't seem to be very posable, with its only semi-humanoid articulation and overly busy organic design.

Now, if they would come up with a nice Quaedlunn-Rea kit...

I wouldnt mind a new Koening Monster kit (but it's going to be so expensive :heh:)

Hmm i'll buy a VF-25, in the future... really nice plan, but the Koening Monster also a very 'attractive' stuff. :D

But i really want a Klan Klein figure in her true self, not the loli version. :love:

Check this, really nice T-shirt!! AWESOME T-SHIRT!

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10066210

Released today and sold out the same day. I should have mine by the weekend.

^ Congratulations ;)

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Originally Posted by dodgethis_sg (Post 1625350)

Such a happy man today. :D

rich bastard... joking... i kinda regret putting bunch money into gundams now.... should invested in Marcross instead....

I'm not big on collecting toys but I really wanted a die-cast valkyrie and I found this pic online:
http://www.ehobbyland.com/Macross-Ac...t-VF-1JMax.jpg

Is this rare or something because $40+ seems a bit much for such a little thing. I can't find it for any cheaper.

About those new "Fully tranformables"

Anyone know if they are transformable as in, no need to detach the legs and then attach em to the cockpit like some of the older toys from yamato, i got the YF-11 and the VF-1 Max and at least the VF-1 needs a replacement of the legs, detach em complete and stick em into the cockpit

I saw the YF-19 didnt have this anymore.... shame i dont have the cash for it right now :(

Anyone know where to find more news about Bandai's plans for the fully transformable VF-25 Messiah? I wanna get a few, but hopefully after a few people have gotten them first and posted reviews on them. So that bandai will read the reviews and correct any flaws.

Hmm speaking of which, I wonder if Yamato as fixed any flaws which were in the previous releases of the 1/60 YF-19 model for their 25th Anniversary YF-19 model.

There's a new Macross game coming for the Sony PSP!

"Macross Ace Frontier" is coming later this year.

It features VF's from every series!

Macross Ace Frontier (PSP)

Release date: Fall 2008

Series list:

The Super Dimension Fortress Macross

The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?

Macross 7

Macross Plus

Macross Zero

Macross Frontier

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Famitsu magazine scans:

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/5...ier1ly9.th.jpg http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2...ier2us8.th.jpg http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/1...ier3ew8.th.jpg http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/8...ier4fq1.th.jpg http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/1...ier5bw4.th.jpg

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Originally Posted by xytrix (Post 1661606)

aww....thats cruel...so cruel...why don't they produce the game for the ps2 platform!! darn...i so wanna play this game from the looks of things...