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I don't think you're going to be bowled over by the detail on the back of the Toynami Beta. It's not unfinished by any means... I just don't see you finding something there that's going to make you want to display your toy ass end first.

LOL, I don't know if they've always done this but I remember my RT.com ordered Beta came with a RT.com return address in the box. I thought to myself "wow, they really expect us to have to ship this right back to them?" Maybe they handled a sample of Maia's Alpha and expected the worst.

Is Japan about to have a Gold Week or something? I suspect I'm going to have to go through an agonizing wait for these...

I need to rewatch that episode where the crew first finds the Tread... I could have sworn the cockpit looks very similar to how it does on the Toynami Beta. I thought they nailed it in bomber mode but maybe my memory is faulty. If it was smaller I don't think the bomber would look nearly as good.

If you look at my close-ups from my Hikaru 1J several pages back, the burr side of the pin is on opposite sides and i think we concluded previously that the burr side of the pin facing whatever direction wasn't the problem because people with broken shoulders had them pointing in various directions... there was no common bond. My 1J and 1S are both perfectly fine still but I haven't handled them too much... too many other new toys have been coming out.

It ended up being a moot point, I got a bunch of DVDs for Xmas and this was amongst them.

What from that thread says that this is out in Japan? I was expecting to see people playing with them with lots of cool new pics!

It's still way early for that... many people haven't even gotten their's yet. Then there will be the engineering phase. I still like my idea for doing it, like thus: 1) Have a solid piece of plastic that connects to the hinge and forms the back part of the cockpit. 2) In the center of this pieace of plastic, mount the cockpit (it will have to have its own rear as well) in such a way that you can spin it around. 3) Make the bottom of the new cockpit look like the chest you'd want to see on the Beta (obviously you'd have to make some compromises so the bottom of the cockpit didn't look too freakish. 4) When transforming, simply spin the cockpit around before folding it down. It'll still probably be rounder than the CMs but I think you could probably come up with a substatial improvement. I have no talent for modifying or modeling whatsoever, that just seems like a good way of doing it to me. I'm totally salivating over that Mospeada but DREADING transforming it for the first time. I get the feeling I'm going to have to dedicate an entire evening after work to putting it through a couple transformations.

Crooked head is ridiculously prevalent... avoiding that is night impossible.

Another positive Beta review... it's a shame that they're following it up with the Maia MPC Alpha. Someone on Robotech.com confirmed that it really is just a repaint of Rook's MPC so none of the Aoshima improvements AND they didn't even add the slot for the Destabilizer gun so you can't attach the gun in fighter mode... WHOOPS! I'm surprised the CollectionDX guys didn't even mention the fold down cockpit and give a little praise to CMs for how they handled that but maybe it seemed like a dead horse already.

For those of you who don't have one preordered, I've definitely got them preordered and am looking forward to doing a nice big post or two like I just did with the Toynami Beta. There will be reviews... oh yes, there will be... (sadly, probably about a week after you've seen a ton of reviews from folks who didn't have to wait to get them shipped to the states).

He left MW when his work got criticism in another thread and took down all his pictures.

The price on HLJ changes every day with the currency conversion they give you. You should compare the yen price of this toy against the yen price of other toys otherwise you're really just complaining about the value of a dollar.

I'm sorry, it was $102.99 not $109. http://www.over-drive-inc.com/store/produc...products_id=547 Of course it's long since sold out and the dollar was stronger then (nothing you could blame on Bandai).

Uh, I got this thing for $109...

Wait, did you get an Ivanov? Sounds like yours has the reversed hinge in one of its wings (a common problem on the Ivanovs). Check the old SV-51 thread from when the toy was first released for a fix.

First the gnomes steal the underwear... then step 2.... then PROFIT! I have no honest idea but maybe it wasn't so much a sequel as a "what happened to those colony groups who fled Earth?" I'm sure it was a very different concept at its inception just as Mospeada was very different on the drawing board from what actually got produced.

No, no art yet for the Shadow (that I've seen) but Ariel is my guess.

Fire up the tubes on the interwebs!!! We gots us a debate!

Oooh, I don't own a detolf anymore but I suspect you'll have problems. If my tape measure pops up suddenly I'll try to give you better dimensions. the wing span is pretty huge so even if it would fit length-wise it might prove problematic width wise. The greenie is going to be volume 3... it's probably the one I'm looking forward to the most as well. The instructions that come with the blue Beta show that Lunk will be the guy on the book.

Check the reviews on my site! Essentially you should just save your money though for the Beagle (although there's still a chance it won't live up to the hype).

No screen cap but you've got the timing right. Yellow is on stage still as a woman and we see Sera racing to his concert on her ride armor. Later we see her in the crowd after Yellow reveals his true identity. Sorry 007, I looked for a tape measure and couldn't find one.

Oops, saw my mistake, yes Mog, when the Alpha is in soldier mode, not fighter, that's when you're not supposed to have the hood. Sorry about the confusion.

Three notes: 1) The back of the MPC Certificate of Authenticity (that gold certificate within the book flap) does list the people involved in the MPC's production including "ENGINEERING - AOSHIMA" 2) I just rewatched the last 5 minutes of Robotech's TNG to try and remember what note Scott leaves on, turns out Sera (Sorji) has her own ride armor paint scheme variant. My hope is piqued for a future limited edition (it look's like it's the same model as Rand's). 3) I just reviewed some new pics of the Maia MPC. All Toynami did was repaint Rook's MPC. This isn't at all accurate as it has the round intakes instead of the Shadow Intakes and it has the VTOL that isn't present on Shadow Fighters. Since it's quite clearly just a repaint and obviously not very line art accurate I've got almost no inspiration to purchase it and it definitely won't be on my site any time soon. EDIT - AcroRay, I don't think this is an indicator of things to come but rather an indicator of things that were. Toynami and Aoshima annouced the intention to make the Beta/Tread before the release of the Aoshima Legioss. After the Legioss turned out so poorly it appears Aoshima walked away from Toynami, probably after the engineering work had been done for the Beta. If we do see Aoshima repaints we'll know the hatchet was buried but from everything I've heard those two companies are done working together.

It butts against your toy in three different spots and usually it's not hard to place one of those bumpers somewhere where violent shaking won't cause any affect at all (like in the foot of a battroid or in a wingroot of an angled fighter). The rods are very stiff (and can be tightened and loosened to your liking). Unfortunately it appears the pictures of my Detolf displays are long gone but I used to have five 1/72 Yammies in one cube with a YF-21 and a VF-11 in fighter mode on other side at 80 degree angles on flexidisplays... they never fell. The trick is to buy multiple display stands of different sizes so you can swap in different rods to make sure your poses are supported perfectly. I definitely found the flexis more versatile for poses than the Yamato launch arm.