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Ruskii, I believe RT.com states that STig stands 7.5" tall without the armor, 8.5" for full armor height. I can only imagine why you want his bits under his clothes flesh colored... you must be thinking of one crazy custom.

Best of luck to you and your dog. It's amazing how much pets can come to mean to us.

These things definitely cost way too much to try to collect all of them (weathered, repaint). Oh well, I think it's cool we've got choices as the plain brown wasn't my favorite.

I was wondering what happened to that prototype. Beagle actually showed off pics of it a long time ago but I guess they then shelved it while they tried to design a proper helmet-less head for Ray. Now we need close-ups of this head so we can argue over whether or not we think the RT MPC will come with a "Yune-ified" version.

I can't comment if they got it exactly right but I'm fairly certain she still has her ride armor when Stig and crew find her. I believe she's zipping around on it filming the group's battle against the human-style Inbit when a shot down Inbit clips and kills her.

Or Toynamis, Aoshimas, or Gakkens. I don't really follow your argument. You're okay with the CMs Legioss not much resembling lineart because it's so far from the lineart?

This reminds me a lot of the bickering that went on when CMs confirmed that their Legioss toy was actually going to look only remotely like the Legioss from the anime. This VF-25 looks a WHOLE lot closer to the VF-25 in the show than CMs ever managed. Even with CMs giant leaping bounds of liberties taken plenty of people still love it because it's super durable and fun to handle.

So CMs is going to release black repaints of Stig and Ley also? Man, CMs is making my life as a completist hard. I suspected the black camcorder version with the girl for sure (I'd be surprised if Mega House doesn't do her also... makes coming up with a Houquet mold a bit more profitable). EDIT - Ugh, first CMs call Yellow's bike "Blowsperior" and now they're calling Houquet "FUKE."

Hikaru's VF-1A 1/60 version 2.0 is probably the best bet. The VF-1S 2.0 has had some reported broken shoulders but there's been less talk about that with Hikaru's 1A. That's the VF-1 and should be your first. Of that list my next favorite is the YF-21. If you can find a VF-0S with Ghost (the 0S doesn't come with Super/Strike parts) that'd also be cool but the 0S is less glorified in the Macross universe than the 19 or 21.

Someone should put an LED behind the head. The dark red they used is too dark IMHO.

Honestly... while much better than the Toynami in many respects... it's still a long way from really good.

Send Overdrive an email. They're very friendly and the worst they can say is "no."

My review is up!

My intakes have a bit of tartar on them but different lighting goes a long way in how well you can see it and I'm not sure how well it's going to show in pictures.

I also thought it was smaller.

Europe pledged 2.3Trillion into the market, that ought to boost everyone's spirits. Roger is right, Toys = crappy investments in the grander scheme of things. Sure, you might get some every now and then that pay off pretty well as an investment but the vast majority of the time you'd be way better off playing the market. That said, this has been a really bad couple weeks to prove that point. At least with a toy you'll always have the toy and the government can't buy it all up and take it away from you just so it can continue to exist. EDIT - maybe what's happening with LOS could affect numerous of our collectors. In the name of rabid speculation, it's quite possible that he had a business that depended on credit and he can no longer secure credit and is facing hard times.

My review on this will go up tonight but it seems like I'll largely be reiterating everything said by everyone else... I'm thinking I'll have the best pics though

I was going to sell a bunch of my toys this Christmas season... but now I think I'll wait for the next Christmas season as I suspect many people are watching their wallets for fear their company may soon be unable to pay them or something like that.

To be sold separately.

I can definitely vouch for Overdrive's shipping. I'm pretty sure I had my Tomahawk before any HLJers did. They also have worked with me in the past about when to ship when numerous items were being released within a month. There's a reason why they're the only Japanese company I've endorsed on my site.

Hate to spoil your fun but they've already announced it's the Defender.

It's still a little confusing on that note. Robotech.com says it comes with "two removable heads" but it also says "with helmet and without." This seems to imply that you only get one helmetless head with your purchase.

I'm really finding it odd the number of people who saw pictures of what Toynami was calling their MPC before the Beagle and saying it would cost $79.99 and now see pictures of the leaps and bounds better Beagle and say "That should cost $79.99!" Are these people saying they want the crappier prototype at the original price instead? Should Toynami have made their own and sold it for $79.99 and then offered the Beagle as a "Super Masterpiece." I could only imagine if that had happened everyone would be saying "This thing sucks, I'd rather have the Mega House for $59.99!" when they bought Toynami's home-brewed MPC. If I were Tam my announcement would be: Good news! Toynami has cancelled their MPC Cyclone and thus I have to cancel everyone's preorders. Why is this good news? Because Toynami is instead importing the Beagle Ride Armor. It's about three times as expensive but looks five times better! Don't get me wrong, I'd be thrilled if the Beagle cost $79.99 but considering how much better it looks than what Toynami was showing... well, I've rambled enough.

I'd definitley second that, especially if they made very minor improvements to fit and finish. The only problem with an all plastic one is that it seems like they don't use very good plastic... Also, I still have yet to hear of anyone with an MPC Scott over 10K so I think there are more lurking in a warehouse...

I certainly don't want to speak for him but the recent "over-selling" of the Mega House VR-41 had to be a pain in the butt. I apologize to him if I put words in his mouth.