jenius

Cool, so you'll have your choice between an anime colors set or an Olive Drab set. I'm sticking with anime colors.

far left = mega house

Have you seen this one?

The Beagle is 1/10 scale, quite a bit larger than the Mega House or CMs Ride Armors but a hair smaller than the 1/8 Gakken.

This is one of those conversations that sucks not to be happening in person holding an Alpha toy. I believe what you're saying is that, if that piece didn't flip over on one of the intakes then when you transformed the toy to soldier mode the canopy would knock against it and you'd be left with the nose pointing out more rather than going straight down the soldier's back. The easiest solution I can come up for that would be to simply put the piece on a spring (although a more secure plastic elevator would probably be more ideal). The spring would keep the piece elevated in fighter mode so it appeared to be the right height but it would then be depressed by the force of the canopy hitting against it.

It's really simple to delete. Instead of putting it on a hinge put that piece on two springs coming up from the inside or on a sliding mechanism that allows it to be depressed. Just don't have it connected to the intakes and there ya have it.

Yeah, that always frustrated me about every Dark Legioss toy made... nobody bothered to just delete that flap. It's really easy to design away where it doesn't exist and fighter still looks good but nobody ever bothers... how sad. The good news though, while I may say shadow fighters have no shoulder array, in Shadow Chronicles some of the newer Shadow Fighters do.

There's a story behind that. IIRC, in that episode, Max single-handedly blows up a Zentraedi ship so the animators were like "Wait, one VF-1 shouldn't be able to do that... let's draw missiles all over his tail fins to explain it." Then again, maybe I'm typing too much when I'm tired again.

My greatest fears usually involve acquiring STDs or getting someone pregnant. A live action Bebop could be fun... and it could potentially be like Post Man bad which would be fun also.

I'm pretty sure each has unique stickers. Hikaru has to as the stripes on his arms are red. I suppose it's possible Max and Milia have the same since they both have white strips but I think even their's is unique.

You're probably safe, the Beagle costs an arm and a leg, i'm guessing a few will stick around in stores while people wait for braver souls to let them know if it's worth the price. In other news for Beagle fans, I'm pretty sure I have the release order figured out from some conversations recently. See the last paragraph of my latest post at my site

Pssst.... Shadow fighter's don't have shoulder arrays.

I don't know how you'd make them work but the superposeable fixed hands ought to work perfect.

HG is private so any supposition on their financial health wouldn't be worth anything. They're probably doing fantastic all things considered and their staff seems to be about 10 people deep at most so layoffs seem unlikely (and that 10 might include the two people who did CGI on Shadow Chronicles). They probably made money on the Shadow Chronicles and selling rights to WB and they're probably picking up a fraction on every Beta sold.

Ah, so Joel is the source of the information. Well, we'll all know soon enough, that's for sure. Back in the day I asked a Japanese toy distributor about the Beagle and he told me that they were uncertain but Beagle was hoping to have Ray out in March. That's certainly not very reliable info though so anything is possible. That was also before Beagle delayed Stig by two months... it'd be sad if we weren't getting Ray now until May.

Yeah... I'm a fan of that also... Crud, I can't get all these weathering specials, they're just too darn expensive so I'll probably let it pass.

No problem Edwin. I don't have the model kit so I wasn't aware that on the model kit the head was collapsible. That sounds pretty cool. I certainly didn't notice that feature on my toy... but I didn't even know to look for it so hopefully I didn't just miss it!

I believe he wanted to know WHERE you got a blue Alpha. EDIT - Ravenhawk, I'm almost certain Ray is following Stig. I think someone mispoke or typed something errantly when they suggested Yellow would be after Stig. Ray is already in prototype form... there's been no mock ups of Yellow yet.

I'm home on my lunch break, and I'm looking at photos of both the Alto and Ozma chests, and they look identical to me other than paint schemes. Are you mistaking the two dark paint spots on the Ozma for sensor bumps? Maybe I'm just looking at the wrong spot? Can someone confirm? Are the Alto and Ozma toys the exact same things with different paint and heads or is there an actual difference between the two?

Do you have a link to that? The cover of that mag is so small and it looks like a regular Tomahawk to me. A weathered OD Tomahawk sounds too dark...

I got mine through Overdrive, think I spent $103 each plus EMS shipping which was probably another $50. I think anyone who might be tempted to spend more than that ought to wait... these aren't niche products, I'm sure more will be available and the price will get reasonable again. Plus, the Yen is too strong right now.

Thanks Edwin for pointing that out, I'll have to make a correction when I'm home on my lunch break . For everybody else, I know it doesn't really add a whole lot new but I'm glad you liked it. LeChuck, I was hoping people could determine the size from the picture with the Yamato VF-1 toy. Scale is approximately correct unless you collapse the ankles in which case it's way too small in battroid (but I think it looks way better with the ankles collapsed). Cent, the toy is actually enjoyable to transform, I think that's what I couldn't quite figure out how to say last night when writing up the design section. That offsets a lot of the faults... there are no heart attack points or items you really have to struggle with.

Yes, yes it should be. I think that's my big clue that I haven't been sleeping enough lately. Website corrected... I better crash. Thanks for catching that.

Please visit my site and read my review As always, feedback is greatly appreciated... especially if you notice any flub-ups or something I missed.

I thought we were about to have a unique thread for each destroid. Anyway, Defender weathering edition is available for order next week. I'm just reiterating that because last time I almost missed the tomahawk weathering window so people, you don't have much time to make up your mind. Retail looks like it's nearly $140 at today's rates plus shipping (to whoever gets it for you), plus a finders fee, plus shipping to the US. EDIT - Obviously, if you're not in the US, your exchange rate and final shipping will vary.