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I wonder if Toynami will now push the Beta back even further as to not compete with the MPC Cyclone. I'm sure they're aware that many people can't pony up for both a $200 Cyclone and a $150 Tread in the same month. If it's going to be 4 or 5 months between each Ride Armor release then maybe we'll see Tread releases on a staggered schedule at the gap between Cyclones. If that's the case Toynami won't drop the blue Beta until February. That'd be my speculation at least.

RT.com has an interview up with some guy (Chuck Rove) saying they're still working on the script but he really hopes they start going to film next year. He also states that Tobey is currently still only a producer for the movie and when asked if it takes place on Earth he says just that the impetus to all the action will be an attack on Earth.

It's predominantly English... note all the writing.

It gets a little crazy but the essential idea is that the Protoculture came to Earth, did something with the life they found to mold it into a life form not too unlike the Protoculture (this is the whole Bird Man, creation myth that gets repeated a few times), and left a fail safe (the AFOS) to make sure that the life form (humans) wouldn't be torn apart by war like the Protoculture were being when they discovered Earth. The M'yans have been segregated forever on an island so they're the most like the original tweaked by Protoculture state and thus the most in tune with the Protoculture relics. Opinion-wise it's application is extremely uneven with some real peaks of heavy handedness (flying rocks, plants being brought back to life, feathers flying off a valk, etc.).

FOOKE? That's a new one.

I meant it's the best proportioned VR-41 Ride Armor yet... which just means it's better than the Gakken and the Mega House. The same is true of Stig and Ley's CMs offerings but no, beyond that there weren't significant tweaks to things (other than the obvious mold changes). One thing I find interesting, CMs is selling Houquet and Shinobu for $12 more than their other Ride Armors. I wonder why the bump?

No one should be bummed about the delay.... it could potentially mean improvements are being made.

What happened with an escalator at the last event????

1/35 Gakken is about 9" tall so a 1/18 would be like 18" right? Yeah, that'd be a handful! I still think the 1/35 scale is out there just begging to be tried again.

Jesus can you imagine how much people in this thread would gripe if Yamato made a VF-1 toy and completely changed where the head is positioned... Oh, wait...

PHEW... I'm out of October funds for toys...

The bits I've read have actually been pretty funny in regard to this. "We can't do anything right now because of the potential movie... and we can't say there's been any progress with the movie."

Windshield was solid as a rock on mine (but you'll have to forgive me for not deliberately wiggling it too much). I'm pretty certain it is much improved over the Stig and Ley models. The front end wasn't nearly as prone to being pulled apart but bike mode still leaves something to be desired with pegs not holding very well/being a bit too small. Full write up is here.

Got my VR-41 post up after a nice little vacation in Seattle. I also snuck in a little comic of a drunk Yellow putting his Ride Armor on, killing his friends, and then speeding off. Morbid? Yes, but it was made mostly through coincidence. Anyway, check out this pose that was done without any trick photography or stands:

Wow, that's a tricky sentence... "all" meaning "none'? Certainly "some" still are. I agree with Roger, movies don't get made over night... most don't get made quickly by any stretch. If this thing isn't filming in 2011 then I'll start wondering what happened.

Not to brag or anything... but I actually own a VF-11B that hasn't broken at the hips and it's been handled a LOT. Either that or it broke and got fixed so well I'll never know it was broken...

If it's a fast pack version you're in the clear... if it's a non fast pack version they had prolific issues with the hips breaking... Often times brand new toys, never opened, already have broken hips in the package.

So will they do this with all the destroids? Should we always just wait for weathered versions if that's what we prefer?

I wonder if there's any hope the Raus have been improved...

What are we getting next year? Hikaru's bike. Mark my words (i'm cheating).

I picked MacTV, it was a tough pick to choose it over DYRL but I really liked the character drama in MacTV and that gets diminished in DYRL. Second would obviously be DYRL and then I'd go Frontier for third if I could. The others are just the moles and flat skin between the tits and ass (meaning they help keep the beauty together but they're not somewhere you stop and stay at too long).

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.