I didn't make this, I bought it! No joke. I bought it at the same time I bought my Super Robot Car. I paid $10 for it. Iirc, the guy I got it from found it in a big flea market in Belgium, where many of the carnival machinders are from. So I figured at the time it was worth getting just in the off chance that it might actually have been an authentic vintage carnival prize based on Super Robot/Getter 1. I thought today would be as good a day as any to "review" it for a laugh. :)

"This must be settled the way nature intended....with a vicious, bloody fight!"
Onyx Blackman
Principal, Flatpoint High

What the hell is with the Macross crack? What did that even mean?

http://www.collectiondx.com/review/jumbo_machinder/valkyrie

sorry for the crappy link, but I'm a guy who can't upload a profile image.

In any case, NekroDave has been going after Macross for a while. It seems like the guy gets a jab in there wherever he can, even in this review. I'm pretty sure it's partly jest, and partly backlash against the glut of product, because nobody can really hate Macross that much.

NekroDave, some friends and I are going to Mexico City and renting a steam shovel for some landfill excavation. Care to join?

Well, in the case of this review, which I literally wrote in like 2 minutes (obviously), I wasn't meaning to put down Macross (or Mazinger Z or Gundam) so much as jokingly raise this item above them. All in jest, as the day calls for.

But just to set the record straight, no, I don't hate Macross. I actually really liked the show (I've only seen the original, though) and I think the Valk is a great design. I just think enough is enough. It's like listening to the oldies station. I like the Beatles as much as the next guy but do we really need to hear them every hour on the hour?? But even that example isn't good because they don't play the same song every hour. With Macross, it's always the same song. I hate Transformers too, but at least there's like a million different characters. Every time I see one I think "damn that sucks" and move on. But with Valks... it's "this thing again? AGAIN?!?!"

"This must be settled the way nature intended....with a vicious, bloody fight!"
Onyx Blackman
Principal, Flatpoint High

Did someone say song!?

--
Sanjeev

"A world of things we've never seen before"?? What series is she singing about? ;)

"This must be settled the way nature intended....with a vicious, bloody fight!"
Onyx Blackman
Principal, Flatpoint High