>>10701934The Arcadia/Yamato 1/60 V2 were up until the DX VF-1 the definitive Valkyrie figure, and there's still a few things they do that are more appealing than what Bandai opted with the DX.
The actual loser in all of it was Yamato's older 1/48 VF-1, the progenitor to their 1/60 V2 and once holder to the title of "best VF-1 figure ever." The DX is in pretty much every relevant metric a better 1/48 scale figure than the Yamato 1/48. The Yamato is still a historically noteworthy figure, but it's now sorta like what a Chunky Monkey Takatoku is: a milestone, but not the benchmark.
You're right about the size though, as the DX is in the 1/48 scale range it doesn't stand well next to the plethora of 1/60 scaled stuff, which pretty much every other DXC Macross valk is proportioned to, not to mention the majority of Yamato/Arcadia figures being at 1/60 as well. The VF-1 isn't just simply "shorter than a Gundam on average," it's a tiny machine in general that a lot of mechs, especially pretty much every other variable fighter in the entire Macross franchise included, tower over.
