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it would have made the scenes where he was towing mecha a bit more believable, that's for sure.

Maybe it wouldn't have to be a snap on. Maybe Yamato could rearrange the cockpit so you just pull it out and flip it over.

Yep, the feet DO look worse on the black background, on the white background they look just a tiny bit thin, not very noticeable in that first pic.

I find the Bandai toys to have much easier transformations than the Yamato toys. The VF-25 toys only give me a minor head ache when I'm trying to position that plate the neck sits on perfectly in battroid mode. What I really hate is the fear that something will break. For that reason I really like the smaller scale toys... if they break I won't feel quite that same dread as I do with the big guys.

What was the old joke? Anakin didn't have big enough hands to be Vader? Or was it a Spiderman joke? EDIT - from the looks of it they've made the feet thinner so that you can angle them in or out in battroid mode. If that's really how it works I'd say it's pretty clever.

Side covers on a 1/100 toy sound annoying to me. I know "then don't use them" comes to mind but I think sales of this toy might be hurt if it comes with lots of stray parts. Heck, people bashed the Toynami 1/100 for all its extra parts... even though many of them were a stand and the parts related to that stand.

The only Tread that does not make an appearance in Mospeada is a red Tread. The Green Tread is present in the first battle, the blue throughout the series, and the dark tread is witnessed exploding as the group arrives at the Invid victory near Reflex Point in like the third to the last episode. I've been looking to complete my Beta collection for a while and would definitely like to buy the Shadow Beta... I'd pass on a Shadow Chronicles version.

it looks like it comes together a lot tighter than the Toynami... I've got high hopes for this little guy.

Just got mine today... I think I want to take this out and play with it more than the VF-27 I got today also but it seems like more people want me to hurry up and get the VF-27 up on the site.

Guys. it's just boxes that fit into peg holes... anyone with the talent to "recast" can probably just sculpt their own and not bother with trying to make perfect imitations of someone else's boxes that fit into pegs.

I wouldn't write-off the stand's ability to handle guns just yet, it's a really simple matter to make swap out parts... heck the part there looks like it might flip over for some reason.

I think the license only allows 20 per production run so I don't think the price will drop if that's the only way they're allowed to make them. I've heard that Beagle has split up (total rumor, not sure if that's true) so I don't think Beagle will opt to pick them up for a full production run. Toynami might grab them to try to make an appendix to the MPC line but since it died after only two that seems doubtful.

Wow, that's a lot of Mospeada stuff, very nice!

Yes, it's a Yamato website exclusive and it comes with "missile firing effect". Is there a commonly available stand alone GBP product? No. If there are plans for a commonly available stand alone GBP product that isn't some sort of exclusive Yamato has not made them public.

I saw some hoobaloo over whether this belonged in the Macross toys section, it should be noted that the label says Robotech Battlepod and then underneath "Regult" so I think it should be considered a cross-bannered toy that belongs equally in either.

I know of a company who thought long and hard about making the Gosu but elected not to pull the trigger. I don't believe they ever got it to prototype stage.

The two parts I hated about the fourth movie: Monkey Shia, Indy in a lead fridge... Even if he were saved from the radiation the force from being launched would have left him as bloody pulp in the veggie crisper. I can stomach some zaniness.... like the two cars driving on a suprisingly well constructed road in the middle of the amazon while two swordsman spar while standing on the trunk but Monkey Shia and Indy in a fridge were serious "c'mon" moments. Also, I was never quite clear on why the Russians needed the Roswell alien... it seemed like they had pretty much everything they needed already in South America.

Yeah, this is a Macross board so I'm sure the Glaug will win, but I'm thinking Invid all the way.

I thought the pins had to be removed to know whether or not they're the dreaded knurled pins or not? My VF-1S had at least 10 transformations and six months before its shoulders gave up the ghost

Yeah, I guess my point is that there's gotta be some sort of compromise related to the tail section. It was earlier remarked that the backpack looked too high in battroid mode for the Hi-Metal 1/100 (which is fair) but the point is that it kinda has to be too long or too short somewhere.

Presumably so, there's been nothing in the mags relating to improvements.

I just updated my site with some info about the anniversary VF-1S V2 toy Yamato released. While I was at it I did some line art comparisons (thanks to the Macross Mecha Manual). The V2 toy does a pretty impressive job of replicating the line art in fighter mode: But notice how far back the tail section of the plane is supposed to go.

I believe that's the 1/35 scale Regult that was made for a Wonderfest or something like that a while ago. The joke was that it was big enough to be a lawn ornament.

Both were made to order... but not many people care for Hayao so not many people ordered them. The second hand sellers bought extra Max TV-1As because they figured a lot of people wouldn't be aware of how to get them and would really want them after they were released. Since those sellers are still sitting on Max TV-1As they can't get rid of for a profit they chose not to bother with Hayao.

Or more accurately, you typed it... but it doesn't address the volumes of material that have come out of Japan... where Robotech doesn't have much to do with the price of rice. Even the Mega House deal seemed to be more an event of Toynami taking a toy that was being produced regardless of their efforts and then working out a distribution deal (without any Robotech re-badging). Two deals were influenced by Robotech, the Aoshima and Beagle deals. Everything else, including the new line art book, seem to have had nothing at all to do with Robotech. So, while it may be easy for you to say, it doesn't seem very accurate.