Robotech Matchbox Mini Veritech Fighter Vintage Toy Review 1985
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Robotech was big in the 1980s, but Transformers stole their toys! So Matchbox had to get clever with "deformed" versions of the famous Valkyrie fighter jets. Enjoy this vintage toy review!
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I had the whole set as a kid but tragically I lost them all in a house fire on a Christmas Eve as a child. Still it’s neat to see someone cover them. I thought they were the coolest back then and was one of the only kids to have them in my area.
That’s no frickin joke those super deforms are hard to come by. You’ll easily find them for upwards of $200 on the after market, and that’s ones that are beat up & missing a lot of parts. Had my chance to get the skull & crossbones one when I was a kid, and still regret not getting it to this day. 😑
I actually have the original Macross soundtrack from the TV show and it blew me away when I heard it at the end of this video. Awesome!!!
I remember back in the day, if you wanted to see the original Macross, you almost had to know somebody that went to Japan and taped it off of TV and brought it back. And then it was in Japanese without subtitle. We called that "raw." Today, you can just log in to Amazon Prime video and watch it. With subtitles too.
I own all the Robotech VHS tapes, the RPG and its supplements, and even I didn't know these existed.
I still have my Skull 1 Matchbox deformed veritech. It's missing its left arm (thanks to my golden retriever puppy back in the 80's).
I never once heard gerwalk used in Robotech! It’s like nails on a chalk board bro. In America, they said “guardian mode”
Once, at a comic shop in Albuquerque, I saw a used (but complete, with box) Transformer-sized Valkyrie, styled like Skull-1, issued from Japan. It's price: US $80. Went home eighty bucks poorer, and WAAY happier... Though on the trip home I was near panic, looking over my shoulder for thieves, rascals, and ill-driven car traffic. I figured, I'll probably be able to get $80 again, but can't say that about Skull-1!
I was a Robotech fan back then when it came out in 1985 and i believe i had both of those the Mini Veritech and Jetfire.
Your acting in this episode is Oscar-worthy. ;-)
I got a lot of my Robotech toys from the swap meet in 1985. These were high quality toys with metal parts. If they were bootlegs they were very good ones.
Finally, I get the answers ive been seeking since a child. I freakin knew there never was a American Valkyrie in the 80's but I wasn't sure !!! Great video. Thank You...
Wow, this video has been up since 2012 and I just came across it. I could really kick myself now. I had all three of the "deformed" valkyries: the VF-1S and the Max and Myria VF-1Js. My friend and I were vaguely aware that most mech shows in Japan usually had a "joke" or funny version of their designs available as toys. They were well built as you said and we did appreciate the rotating cockpit that could simulate the heat shield without having an extra little part that could get lost. We also appreciated that these valkyries came with the armor and boosters so you could have the super valkyrie version. Also, the retractable landing gear.
To have an original Valkyrie/Veritech is great and having those little ones are added bonus
That conversation with your five-year-old self... I had that too. I don't know if the transforming deformed toys that used to be available locally (I live in the Philippines) were knockoffs or originals from Japan. Annoyingly, they came with a label: Joke Machine. And while I happily wore mine down with hours of play, that happiness wasn't completely untainted. "Joke"-- with me as the butt of one-- was exactly how I felt in the back of my mind.
Nice potted history, and 'who' was that 5 year old! "Great acting'
And more toys that never made it down here. But then, the Robotech Saga cartoon series was notorious by it's absence here as well. All we got were comics and novels.
Figures they'd show pap like Transformers all over the place, but NOT more intellectually challenging fare like Robotech.
The “deformed” veritechs were not made by matchbox but by Bandai in Japan just like Jetfire. These were sold under the name “Joke Machine.” Matchbox actually imported many of the other Macross diecasts originally designed by Takatoku who Bandai bought the molds from including the SDF1 which they took out all the great firing mechanisms out including a great feature, small plastic veritechs that shooting out. Just like they did with Golion / Voltron not including any missiles when they released that in the US. Matchbox also repackaged and released smaller diecast destroids as well.
If you are a completist of these Veritechs, they also released two VF-1A versions in Japan with the designs from the film, “Do You Remember Love” of Max and Hikaru (Rick)
Matchbox didn’t ask Bandai to make deformed versions of the brown cannon Fodder VF-1A or the Rick VF-1J, my guess all these toys were what Bandai had in excess inventory and Matchbox took the cheapest route and repackaged.
Just like Transformers, if they sold these like hot cakes, I’m guessing other versions would have come out.
i remember getting max's veritech fighter jet that could change in all three modes for christmas in 89 it wasnt deform though.
Hi I have one similar to the small chubby ones but in white with the skull and crossbones on the pilot where you turn it I do believe it came from japan but missing the gun and shield.
Quick reminder for those who watched the video and are trawling the comments - These aren't originally made by Matchbox. Instead they're imports of the Hi-Comical Model or "Joke Machine" VF-1 figures by Bandai, made after Takatoku went bust.
Pushes nerd glasses up, _"Well, actually..."_ Who honestly cares? What's your point?
@@bobafett1849 Wow, calm down dude
These little guys look cool.
When are you 2 gonna do the Robotech vid you teased years ago?
Do YOU Remember Love
There was the veritech fighter from the Convertors toy line. That's how I got mine. Plus I did have the roy Fokker mini veritech. Funny how hasbro got that before robotech came to American TV's.
Will you do a cartoon rant on Robotech? I would love to see that.
Am almost certain that the Select Convertor line of transforming knock-off toys had at lest one Valkyrie if not two in there line up.
It did. I had the Skull Leader super-deformed Convertor. I also had a SDF-1 Convertor. I got them in 85-86.
Convertors had Roy's VF-1S, a red VF-1S, and a black Super VF-1S, as well as 4 Super Deformed.
Matchbox's ROBOTECH toys were generally nice -- with the major exception of most of the action figures, which... sucked. The smaller figures were especially fugly. I didn't realize that Matchbox had made the stubby Veritech toys.
Have you ever seen the SDF-1 playset, complete and unboxed, in person? I recall only seeing it in boxes on toy store shelves back in the day.
Someone gave me two boxes of minty 80s toys and in it was a rare Macross “Jetfire” and a deformed Fokker totally complete. Plus a bunch of G1 TFs and Godaikin in their packages…. GI Joe stuff, etc
Nice!
It’s honestly really strange that these were the only transformable Veritechs released by Matchbox when you realize that they still had Takatoku’s 1/100 Valkyries available to use. Could they not have licensed those toys instead? They certainly would’ve been a better option than these deformed Veritechs, especially for something under the Collector’s Series label.
I still want that chubby little jet fighter.
I always wanted the red one!
I remember seeing Robotech on Cartoon Network and loving it, but I distinctly remember loosing interest the moment the Macross Saga ended. One of the show's crippling weaknesses was trying to get me to care about people in a completely different show. I thought it was asinine that the Macross characters disappeared from the screen, and that I was expected to suddenly care about a bunch of people I didn't know (other than Dana, who seemed bland) who upon first impressions, were annoying.
Interesting stuff.
You should do a restoration on the G1 Jetfire/Macross Valkyrie toy
I had Rick Hunter’s Veritech ... good times
Thanks, I own the bottom half of one lmao. My mom sent me all of my old toys and I've got the (as a mech) the bottom half lol
I still have all 3 With armor and guns. I wonder what they are worth?
more robotech please!!!
Tam Nguyen i thought he said an episode focusing on Robotech would be coming.
They posted it today well technically yesterday as of me typing this
While it's true that there were no official Robotech transforming veritechs, many of the stores in my area had bootlegs available. I never picked any of them up, as I already had Jetfire and didn't have much money. As much as I would have liked to buy Skull Leader, I just couldn't justify spending the money just to get the same toy with a different paint scheme.
what about the 6inch ones
Chubby GERwalkers!
Oh cool jetfire
Batteloid mode. Not "robot" mode. LOL!
You must be talking about Robotech... cause in Macross it is Battroid... or Soldier.
I had the Skull 1 chubby match boc toy and a friend just gave me the Get fire aka Varotec toy like in the video up top
I was pissed of too as a kid....but one summer I managed to get 2 sky-fires and I went to a KB toy store and stole the heads off 2 robotech fighter(a couple of weeks apart) got some of my brother's model paint and turned those 2 sky-fires into full veritechs fighter...I ended up making the sticker out of scotch tape(drew them myself)
I always wondered why there was a Transformer toy that blatantly ripped off Macross/Robotech. Why did Hasbro do that?
Hasbro got to it first.
So did the model kit company Revell, which originally had the name "Robotech" to brand all the various Japanese mecha kits they had licences to (including Macross). Harmony Gold made a deal with Revell to use the "Robotech" name so they could tie-in to the valkyrie and destroid kits that Revell had.
Well I guess I shouldn't be angry about it now despite how much of a crappy deal that was. After all there were no Robotech toys available in 1996/7 when Robotech was aired again on Cartoon Network. By the way, are you going to do any videos about the Robotech toys that were, for some reason, reused for the Exosquad toy line back in 1994?
The question is, why didnt they make toys from the Robotech Master saga (Southern Cross) and the Invid Saga (Mospeada)
Southern Cross did very poorly in Japan, so bad the ending was rushed. There were no toys made and only a few models.
The only Southern Cross toys available were those made by Matchbox.
Mospeda toys by Gakken were sold in 1985 in the US under the label "Henshin Robo" and IIRC a few months later under the Robotech label. Maybe in 1986-7 some of these toys were repackaged by Matchbox.
The Mospeada/Robotech toys included all three 9" tall Alpha Fighters, the same three Alphas maybe 6" tall but well detailed that can only change from battroid to gerwalk, the three Alphas in poorly-detailed triple-changers maybe 5", and then the three triple changers in 4". In addition they also had a fully transformable 8" Scott Bernard Cyclone and Scott, Lancer, and Rook's Cyclones in a scale slightly smaller than Star Wars/GI Joe figures. My brothers and I had most of them back in the 1980s, and they were sold in normal toy stores like KayBee. I think we got some of them at Target and Walmart.
@@Dosetsu1 Actually, the Southern Cross portion of Robotech did have a toy line. I had a Hover Tank, a Logan Veritech and the Red Leader Bioroid with sled. They were not matchbox either. They were (I think) Japanese cause I remeber the Japanese typing on the boxes.
I have an Alpha Fighter toy that transforms. Does that count?
No challenge tracking finding Transformers Sky Fire/ Jet Fire toy as a collecter, Thats what Ebay is for-created by collectors FOR the collector... the deformed minitures are unfortunate where the infringement rights forced toys to be minaturized, there is certain full scale transforming Robotech models still around,all boxed in oringinal Japanese text
i have something similar but half the size
How much do those cost these days? I'd imagine they're rather pricey (especially considering how much of a cheapskate I am).
They were called *Super* Deformed
Snot Nose The term "chibi" seemed to come later on. In the 80s we got the term _super deformed_ mainly off the BB Gundam kits & just said that or "SD." I didn't hear "chibi" until years later, on the internet. I'm not saying it didn't exist before the 90s, that's just what my friends & I knew/used at the time.
Cyclones please
Baby face lucky you
Not "Grrr-Walk". It's "Jerr-Walk". That's what they called it throughout the cartoon, at least. I know, I know, you say tomato...
Surreal Cereal, like how people pronounce the "GIF" file format. 😛
No he's correct. Japanese pronunciation is ガウォーク(ga-u-oo-ku). Nobody pronounces it any other way.
MAAAA COOOOO ROSSSSSS
Thank god Gundam never got the Robotech/Voltron treatment lol
imagine a 4kids gundam
not gonna lie those chibi figs look awesome to have on my desk