Veritas

Yes, I remember those! For nostalgia, i looked high and low for these a little while back but i forgot the exact name of the line. I had the jeep as well, but like you said the line disappeared soon after i started seeing them on the shelves. EDIT: Here we go: http://www.parrygamepreserve.com/index.php?a=xp now that information could have helped a couple of months back.

Megaforce! That's a pretty cool line. It had little miniature die cast military vehicles and the action sets were bigger tanks, planes etc that opened up and you could launch your smaller die cast tanks, helis, ICBMs, jets, VTOLS from. That line was pretty short lived though iirc. I on the other hand suprisingly have the Goliath, which made me the happiest kid evar. The huge thing had everything u ever needed to wage war. In normal mode it was a huge ass tank with tank deployment ramps on the sides. When deployed, the thing becomes a huge mobile land-based aircraft carrier, with runways, a deployable mine sweeper (which has a cool gimmick to deploy a small die cast tank onto the ground) and a mega cool control tower.The control tower has 2 turrets beneath the 2 helipads . You can park tanks along the height of the control tower which had little compartments, and the tanks are deployed or parked with an elevator! This thing i could say was the best toy i ever had as a kid. It was detailed as hell and the designers really went through every detail on how to make a kid's play fun. I'm sorry you didn't get it, Veritas. I still have it now, but as it was inherited to my little bro, it fell literally to pieces. A sad shadow of its former self. 403208[/snapback] Yeah the line died a pretty quick death, premature in my view. http://www.toyarchive.com/Megaforce/Protot...isplayUnit.html It looks like at the time that the Goliath was released they had more vehicles on the horizon, like the Triax Heavy Class Black Heart Bomber but they never saw the light of day. I'm not sure why the line died off so quickly, most likely it was poor sales, but what with Micro Machines being so popular at the time i really thought this line was one of the greatest ideas ever. It combined the genius and detail of the Micro Machines with the military look and feel of stuff like GI Joe only on a larger scale! I can only imagine poor sales without the contribution of a cartoon, comic or movie to build the line around might have led to the line's premature downfall. BTW there was a Megaforce movie released around the time of the toy line but as far as i remember it had nothing to do with the toys and on top of that it was a huge steaming pile... even as a kid!

Dang Wolf, how could i have forgotten Fort Max of all the toys heh. Truth is as a kid i never knew he existed i never once saw him in the stores, or on TV and i never saw any of my friends with one either. Only after i hit my teens did one of my friends bring up the subject of him and ever since i've wanted one as well. Not too long ago i picked up the repainted Brave Max they released in the Car Robots line (RID over here), and as much as i love it, it's still not the original. Oh well.

First off, great topic, bringing back some memories for sure. Secondly here's the brief rundown of the ones that got away from me as a kid: 1. The mammoth USS Flagg Aircraft Carrier from GI Joe. During Christmas the year this was released my local Sears had one of these in a display window with Skystrikers and all. Talk about clever marketing. 2. The original Star Wars AT-AT Walkers. Back when the original line was coming to a close that very same Sears had a Hoth diorama set up with two or three of these beasts gunning down some poor rebel troopers. I barely remembered the movie at that age but that image hasn't left me since. and last but not least, 3. The Megaforce Goliath: Mobile Battle Headquarters. This was the biggest vehicle released in the line. I owned just about all of the other large vehicles in this line and i remember having some large scale battles between the two armies with these giant vehicles as the staging points for their respective armies (V-Rox "Nato" and Triax "Warsaw Pact"). It was such a highly detailed line of toys and i really loved them, but around the time the Goliath came out i was getting more involved with youth sports and for that matter video games when i was at home so my parents decided to donate most of my toys to Charity at Christmas time. There was no way i could rally them to buy me one last Megaforce vehicle and both of my armies ended up losing their never-ending war without a shot fired in the final battle.

Cool...this is the fan-made stuff right? Where can I get my hands on grimlock? 403164[/snapback] I guess you could say it's fan made stuff (high quality at that) since it's not made by either Takara or Hasbro. Truth is it's actually made by a legitimate company named Justittoys. Since it doesn't have Transformers emblazoned all over the box (The box says WST Dinobots) it looks like they can get away with the fact this is basically an illegal bootleg of the original Dinobots. By no means it is a low quality knock off mind you, but it isn't an official release either. You can pick up the first release in the series (Snarl) at TF Source (http://www.tfsource.com/Reissues/WST%20Snarl/wst-snarl.htm), i'm assuming that soon enough they'll be the only ones putting up Slag and Grimlock for pre-order as well. I'm sure once it does go up on their frontpage it won't be long before I or someone else posts about in this thread, so you shouldn't have to worry too much about missing it.

Man those are some skills! That pretty much looks like an official kit if i didn't know any better! Can't wait to see you put it all together.

They are from Ikea. These are the Ingo cabinets. I think they run about 90$ each....should be listed on there webpage. What I did was..........I took two cabinets, added a center strip, screw them together and added some base around the bottom to hide the peg legs. 403138[/snapback] That's a nifty idea. If i could only get Ikea cabinets here easily i'd be all over those.

That is kind of a weird paint scheme for sure, but it still looks downright awesome! Would be a neat scheme idea for an ace... if it weren't a 1D.

You know i'm not a real expert on the subject but i have seen just about every Gundam series released so far excluding Victory, Turn-a gundam, and Seed destiny. If you're looking to start in the Universal Century (UC) continuity that most series follow and is the basis for original, the best place to start would be with Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 (The original Gundam series that started it all). Afterwards there's a ton of series that follow this and fall into the one year war storyline while building upon it, including but not limited to 0080 War in the Pocket and the 08th MS Team. After the One Year War portrayed in 0079, there's Stardust Memory, Zeta, ZZ and Char's Counterattack, along with Gundam F91 and Victory. Outside of the UC continuity there's numerous Alternate Universe series that share similiarities between the original (Superior Mobile Suits named Gundams, Colonies/Earth wars, Genetically Engineered Humans/Normal Humans) but are altogether seperate. These include but are not limited to Gundam Wing, Gundam Seed and G Gundam. There's people on this site (Zeo-mare comes to mind) and throughout the internet that know alot more about Gundam than i do, but hopefully this will give you a head start. BTW Heres is an excellent resource to look at before you take the plunge that is Gundam! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundam

Wow only took 4 days with ground shipping from Hawaii to Maryland...... Home sweet home 402983[/snapback] DyNo - Cool pic. Can you show the rest of your shelf? Just curious about the collection .... (and jealous!) 403092[/snapback] That is a spiffy display you got set up there Dyno. Hard to imagine that VF-0S is just towering over everything. I'm guessing that's not a 1/48 Hikaru in front of him. Super Poseable? Must see pics...

Didn't see this mentioned just yet, but it looks like the third mysterty WST Dinobot that Justittoys is releasing in July is none other than Grimlock! That means both Slag and Grimlock are landing at the same time: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=100087 Plus they supposedly have higher quality sticker this time compared to Snarl's release.

Those look like official releases! Nice and clean paint job. Great work! Wish i had the space and skill for that matter, to start making repaints like that heh.

How about a Minmay Guard? 403000[/snapback] I'd buy two or three, but i doubt it.

Wowza! That is one killer display case.

Thanks for the link, but... wow is that box hideous or what? I'll still be picking up one or two of these bad boys, but these boxes have to go. Wonder what they've got planned for the GBP 2 box...

I really wonder what else they have on the horizon for the VF-1 line now that they've moved further into creating their own paint schemes.

For whatever reason i liked bumblebee and i'm happy to see he's making a re-apperance in the Classics line. Besides who else would fight ravage? One of Blaster's cassettes you say? Blasphemy!

Bwahahahahaha! That's right bitches! G1 Prime OWNZ!! 402607[/snapback] That was one of the funniest things i've ever read Ivan, thanks for the laughs. A def. must read.

Wow, that weathered version is a winner! Too bad i can't paint.

Wow, thanks for the pics. I was wondering where these pics would pop up at. Looks like we'll all be on the lookout for the classics line come later this year. Don't buy more than you need now.

Great News for my collection! Grave News for my Wallet!

Well don't know if anyone is still interested now that we found out the Revoltechs are made out of PVC , but FantoFan is offering up orders for the Figure Oh #100 that comes with the clear yellow EVA 00 that was mentioned on page 3: http://fantofan.jp/

That is a thing of beauty. I'm really more than pleased they decied to continue the MP line with Starscream as the next addition. Thanks for the pics.

It is because Rhino (who owned the rights/printed the DVDs/whatever) went out of business. 401349[/snapback] I don't think Rhino's gone out of business as evidenced by this: http://www.rhino.com/ but as far as i remember they've stopped printing new copies of the transformers movie and the original G1 series, meaning insane prices for something that used to be easy to find.

Couldn't have done it without your VF1s recast head! Thank you! I hope you're enjoying your mangas. 400927[/snapback] NP Brian, i'm just happy you were able to make use of it with lasers breaking off like peanut brittle and all haha. As for Berserk i've only read about the first three issues but it's shaping up to be pretty good already. I really look forward to putting some time into reading it soon. Thanks.