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There were two plants for Gakken toys, Gakken Japan and Gakken Singapore. Gakken Japan made the toys sold in Japan, Singapore made the toys sold everywhere else.

There's also a review at my site, I'd give you a linky here but I'm at work so you can click my sig and take a look around.

Thanks for the info. Any chance you have a pic of that Gosu? I would love to see a new take on it.

Dang... i vowed never to buy one of those but at that price...

Where have you been? No nosecone opening, no missile pod storage (although they are independent missiles), the intakes are just like the 1/48, no air brake, no antenna.

I wonder if hovering was used extensively to keep animation costs down...

Here, I took the bitching to a whole new level! When I graduated college I was delighted to see The toy I always wanted, A Mac Plus YF-19 It couldn't hold its gun but I was still pleased Then I tried to transform it and broke it's "tab B" Some time later my YF-21 lost its shoulder but you couldn't tell depending how ya hold her A promotion and wage increase made me bolder So I got a 1/48 that broke at the backpack folder I then purchased my next toy, the VF-11B Only to find my new toy's hips had leprosy Perhaps a VF-19A would reduce this agony? It might have had the paint not been so flaky Another VF-1 toy would soon be made mine A diecast partsformer of questionable design Missing screw covers and crooked guns made me whine And despite all the flaws I bought at least nine My 0S was the floppiest bird you ever did see Like a worm with wings and narcolepsy So I left it in battroid posed menacingly Then the arms fell off in a strong breeze I was so upset I nearly skipped the 1/60 19 but I got it, in fighter it shoots its own knees I even got the LEs for the 25th anniversary My favorite “Excalivor” whatever that may be With so many heroic failures I got a bad guy Gumma Ivanov, a kadun of war, tyrant of sky But his wings were limp, his missiles wouldn’t apply And a backward hinge left a wing misaligned Fortunately for me there’s a brand new VF-1 With a design and durability second to none Follow these steps your toy will be nothing but fun Remove, smother shoulders with epoxy, you're done!

I don't think you can limit Southern Cross' unpopularity to its mecha designs. Poor mech designs are easier to overcome than a plot that doesn't grab people and characters the audience doesn't like or relate to. Southern Cross had lots against it and it really required people to stick with it for a bit while it developed but it didn't have enough of a hook to keep people coming back (and yes, something as simple as sweet mech designs could have been that hook).

There was only ONE 1A with a broken hinge we saw and I don't think we've seen a single broken shoulder since. The odds are much better than 50/50 on you not having shoulder problems from what we've seen so far.

OOH super dimension burn! No no Graham, they're known as the "dirty dozen" on the Robotech boards.

LOL, I like that drawing for its pure excess but I don't think it should ever be emulated... it's kind of silly. I'd like it a lot more without the giants hip mounted guns. Edit - the artist also got the right leg wrong... he has the toe starting at the knee.

Plastic on the Weathering Edition.

Ooh there are lots. There was a Legioss Tread combo toy never released seen in one magazine scan (scale unknown, transformability unknown), there were all the "Dark" variants that never got produced, there was the 1/72 Tread which only saw a release by Lansay in France but was planned for all color variants in Japan, there were diecast figures planned in 1/20 scale for houquet and Yellow (in both bike and armor modes), and I'm probably missing a few....

LOL SDK, you missed your era... right now you should be somewhere in the 60s obsessing over the JFK assassination.

Vegas inspired me... an Easter Egg that hasn't shown up yet on my site:

Double post. EDIT - Miriya, I've added a comment to the post with a credit to you. -

Yes, the color of the stickers are more subdued... so I guess i could have worded that better. The problem still remains that if there was a black residue over the armor it would also be over the decals, not below them. Still, it's a minor gripe.

Just an FYI, I made a quick post of observations on the Weathering Edition Tomahawk. Check it out by clicking here, teaser pic below:

I don't think Overdrive can put it on their site since it's an exclusive to another website. I believe you have to email them.

That link above will work (and thank you optimator for posting it) but it's sort of part 2 to this link that is more of your typical review: http://anymoon.com/blog/2008/08/04/yamato-...1s-superstrike/

Ya see, I disagree. I think we'll see all new non-canon schemes in 1/60 scale. The non-canon they've already done I suspect they'll leave alone because if you really like that paint scheme it's already available to you, just in a larger scale.

Economically speaking repaints are almost a surefire money maker, even if only made in very limited quantities. i think you'll see Yamato go back into repaints once their production efforts aren't so busy with new products.

Nice... a Monster toy fit for scaring off all the neighborhood cats.

The CMs connection is a massive metal arm connecting two very light plastic toys. This means that when you put the CMs Beta in the cradle (that's another thing, it's an actual cradle for their Tread, not an arm) and pick the thing up the whole assembly slops downward. If you wanted to have the CMs Legioss and Tread together you would have to hold the cradle and probably both the legioss and Tread in place. Also, the way the cradle wraps around the tread you can't bring the Tread's legs down and angle them outward. The CMs cradle has its landing gears permanently affixed so if you're not using them they just sit there as eye sores. Also, the CMs Legioss doesn't physically connect in anyway to the Tread so it just wants to flop right out of the connection if you move it around at all whereas the Toynami Alpha butts up against the Beta so tight it won't shake left and right with normal movement (if you've got it connected right, sounds like you might still be having problems). Finally, the way the cradle attaches to the CMs display stand means you can't display it with both toys connected in fighter mode. It's the most craptastic connection that could have possibly been engineered. I think it sucks the Toynami doesn't lock the arm in the Beta, it seems like that would have been easy to do, but otherwise it's leaps and bounds better than the CMs. Toynami on returns: I'm pretty sure you have to pay to ship it to them and they'll pay to ship it back to you.

No, he's saying there are trade-offs and that Toynami chose fast and cheap over making a good product. Unfortunately, in that example I don't really think "Cheap" and "Good" are two options you can pick simultaneously and "Good" and "Fast" together would probably require a huge premium as I doubt many shops are capable. Basically, if someone wants to make a high quality Legioss toy they're going to have to make it larger in scale and of high quality materials and farm it out to a manufacturing company that can do premium toys. It's a bummer no one has revisited the 1/35 scale thus far because that toy is amazing for an 80s toy and a modern update could be exactly what we've all been hoping for. Ravenhawk, didn't you see pictures of the CMs connection? It's atrocious. You should have no problem picturing it, you should have seen pictures of it. If you haven't, go to my site! Edit - on display stands... I'm having an issue because the stand needed for the Alpha Beta would be huge. I think I'd need to get like 10" rods on a flexidisplay stand and those would probably have too much flex so they'd need to be thicker. The stand would probably also need a four rods (if you were posing the Beta with the legs down, Alpha in fighter mode, 1 for the alpha, 1 for each leg, and 1 for the back of the Beta). I'd probably need a 10" rod for the Alpha and Beta and then like 4" rods for the legs...