I think there's a book or something for the TV series that says it's in both the torso and the legs

The only real reason for putting the city (or the section we saw) in the leg at all was to have the transition scene of Valkyrie's launching from the ARMD panning toward the windows and moving into the city. The fact it has ARMDs instead of Prometheus and Daedalus (as well as the grey and dark grey paint, rather than white and blue) also gives away that it is not the TV series version. The glow in the dark bits really leaning into the opening title shot, when the Macross is revealed in sunlight from darkness

Phoenix Franks he actually has more views now than he used to be a couple of years ago.

Yak decalcha!!

Sadly, not many companies since Takatoku have bothered making a TV version of the SDF-1. The only modern one is this guy: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdKWqqmhlajRmXU.html

lots of close ups in the article anymoon.com/blog/?p=4389

I believe they were only separated in the TV version, not the DYRL movie version

First, thanks for taking the time to provide feedback. Once upon a time, I included this info on the text reviews but it dated the reviews and became misleading. Watching a month-old review that had a USD price would still require a currency conversion because the swings can be dramatic. The manufacturers of the toys I review often don't get American licenses, so it's a poor reflection of their pricing structure. In the last 30 days only about 35% of my audience was in the US which would leave a good chunk of viewers still in the dark for their conversion. So while I can see where it is helpful as a sort of 'gut-check' number, the Yen price more concrete. For toys licensed by Harmony Gold, I do quote the USD MSRP.

Thanks for the reply. I kind of figured that was the case.

Geeda Articulated Figure Reviews check out the regular release review, I talk about installation there. The trick is the same but the matte coat seems to make a little more effort required.

ScorchedEarthToys thanks. I’ll check it out

That is the way the Macross appeared in the movie "Macross: Do You Remember Love" which had not received an official US release (thanks to the death grip Harmony Gold had on US distribution, and Japan utterly refusing any "Robotech" adaptation of the film) The carriers (Daedalus and Prometheus) were only in the TV series version. Every subsequent release, from the film-onward (namely Macross II and Macross Plus) used this version with the ARMDs as arms. This therefore means the "Daedalus Attack" canonically never happened in this particular continuity.

I believe there already was an SDF-2, named Megaroad-01, as seen in Macross Flashback 2012

Welcome to the overpriced side of Macross items.

TheRibbonRed welcome and goodbye.

You should watch this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gc-mqdpqvNuUc4k.html

since the video is apparently unavailable - the answer is, this is the way the Macross appeared in the movie "Macross: Do You Remember Love" and every subsequent release (namely Macross II and Macross Plus)

I like the notion but I think at 1/3000 scale it'd be too problematic to do. The valks would be like 3 millimeters long and it's hard to imagine them looking very good at that size. If they made them over-sized so they could look better then people would complain they were out of scale.

@@ScorchedEarthToys , how big is the toy in the terms of height, width, and length?

@@paxhumana2015 there's a couple pics with measurements above the Total Score anymoon.com/blog/?p=4389 but I don't think I did width.

I believe the movie version (seen here) was quite larger than the TV-series version, further complicating matters.

Where'd you get it? Price is super crazy now

JAMES ALLEN - Me, too!

It’s shown in the anime though. IIRC, also in the movie.

They don't really make it clear in the show or the movie. You just see a lot of components shifting. I will say that DYRL hints at it much better since the city rotates 90 degrees after transformation. That still doesn't rule out the chances that it was in the SDF-1's "chest" though.

You could say that I guess. But Milia's Queadlunn was clearly heading somewhere between the chest's side & the leg in the movie IIRC. I guess fans that couldn't get enough of Macross lore just found out where it is once the model was out, and assumed it was common knowledge.

One episode kinda hints at the leg, when the Zentradi invaded the inside of the Macross via the Daidelous attack .

Xabungle? The big ship sounds like what you describe.

@@colwebbsfmc red body, yellow for guns, guns, and more guns. and a spring loaded launcher at the feet. someone else had a supreme huge version, all the guns could come off and be stored in the chest. am i close? (just looked online) holy crap, IT IS!!!! and I'm getting this 40 years later?! (was 7 or 8 when this toy was popular, got the small one at a flea market) Thank. You.

@@colwebbsfmc I did some research and found out about two other toys I had, an Orgus (small version) Orgoid, and a Gerwalk Nikick.....a mech I never figured out how to transform....but do recall that the head goes into the chest, legs can go from parallel to outward, three mini fighters, and holds a spring loaded gun.....a present from our neighbors back in the day.....

Not since Playmates reissued the Matchbox toy in 1994.

Unpainted? This is the color scheme of the Macross as seen in the movie "Macross: Do You Remember Love" and every subsequent release (namely Macross II and Macross Plus)

only in the TV series. Every Movie and OVA release however follows this color scheme, and uses the ARMDs as arms, rather than the carriers (Prometheus and Daedalus)

Unfortunately, I don't scan the boxes, I just take photos from the various angles which isn't going to be a suitable resolution for you. At best I might have something a little more than HD and I don't have those boxes any more so I can't take pictures with the newer camera. Sorry!

ScorchedEarthToys ah ok np ;) boxes are important! How could you throw them away? xD

But if you can send me what you got, I would be grateful. Egilba@hotmail.com

It IS the SDF-1 "Macross" as seen in the movie "Macross: Do You Remember Love" as well as every subsequent release, including Macross II and Macross Plus. The whole reason for not having the carriers attached was for the reveal that the devastated planet Hikaru and Cmdr. Hayase land in was in fact Earth when they find the wreckage of the Prometheus upon it. In the TV series, the planet is devastated after Macross' return, but in the Movie, Hikaru's Valkyrie is thrown from the breached hull of Britai's battleship mid-Fold, which is how they end up at Earth ahead of the Macross, where they are forced to live alone for the time it takes for Macross to arrive. During this time, they find a sunken city (revealed after the attack that devastated the planet had evaporated much of the ocean) where evidence of the Protoculture (the ancient culture that spawned Humans and Zentraedi/Meltrandi, NOT a power source) was discovered, and becomes the precursor to peace talks between them. That is,... until Zentran and Meltran in-fighting erupts again. Sadly the movie has never seen an official US release, much less a dub (only an Australian dub of some horrifically poor quality), but perhaps now that Harmony Gold no longer has a death grip on legal exclusivity, we can finally get that release.