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I insult Mac7, you insult me? There's something ironic to such a childish response to a complaint the show was aimed at children.

I'm going to have to listen to this just so I can find out what it was I was supposed to like about that steaming pile... I seem to remember cringing and raising an eyebrow a whole lot more than smilling and chuckling. Hopefully that's just brushed away by some comment about how this was clearly a show aimed at a very young audience or something.

If it doesn't seem like it opens, it probably doesn't. Until you can post pics I definitely wouldn't apply more than a miniscule amount of pressure. If you're talking about the area that the destabilizer gun attaches to in fighter mode then that definitely does not open backward (interestingly enough, it does open backward on the Aoshima versions undoubtedly because so many people broke their Toynami ones). That area just pushes inward so the canopy from fighter mode can sink into the butt a little bit and make for a more flush soldier appearance. On the non shadow fighters you can't fit the shoulder-mounted sensor array in so don't even try. Also, fitting the arms 100% closed is almost always impossible for a couple reasons. Even if everything is 100% where it should be the fit is normally off just enough where the arms don't lock closed all the way and spring open a millimeter or so... you just have to kinda live with the gap.

What would be funny for no real reason is if Yamato distributes it within Japan and Toynami distributes it abroad. That could be a very real possibility.

I believe there's a chronology on their website.

To my knowledge, there is no fix. Replacement might be an option since the first three all have the same hands. The Aoshima's also may have hands made out of better materials since I haven't heard many complaints on that front. The bad news there is they didn't seem sturdier to me. I'm so deathly afraid of Alpha hands I didn't put the Aoshima versions through the ringer. They do seem to be a bit stiffer than the MPC version and I HAVE to suspect even Toynami realized they had to change the hands. That said, I didn't see any difference as far as engineering went. The Aoshimas seem to be even more spastic QC-wise than the Toynamis. In the Aoshima thread three of us found that the neck bar on our blue Legioss was installed backward which screws up fighter mode. My green Legioss is missing a finger (I just noticed) and has a broken crotch vent. All of my Aoshimas seem to have slightly warped front winglets. They're so slightly warped I can't tell they're warped at all in fighter mode but when tucked behind in soldier mode they don't sit flush like the MPCs do.

I believe this was the film Owen Wilson was supposed to be in but was pulled from after the suicide attempt. It's a shame, I could see him being good in this film (although I realize a lot of people don't like his schtick).

The hands are made of a very fragile, soft, rubber-like material. There's a pin that runs through the palm portion that all the fingers attach to. This pin is seated on either side by about a millimeter of the rubbery material. If you open and close the fist, sometimes just once, the pressure on the pin will cause it to push through that millimeter of material that seats it and all the fingers will fall right off.

Honestly, I think they all have the same failure rate but the bluest got destroyed the most often because word of mouth hadn't spread around that the hands should never be touched and that it couldn't be treated as a toy. By the time Rook was released most people knew they had to be awfully gentle with it but otherwise it's exactly the same as the previous edition.

DD also had a number that were sold with reversed hinges in one of the wings. Overall though yes, nothing as bad as their VF-0 releases or the ancient VF-11B and YF-19 in 1/72 scale.

color me interested.

That much has been painfully obvious for a long time now. 1) The Aoshima Legioss colors are different from the Toynami MPC colors. 2) Aoshima appears to want nothing to do with Toynami at the moment so the chances of seeing Toynami Betas in Aoshima Legioss colors seems thin.

You're right, I shouldn't say "definitely confirmed" but rather "strongly implied." I heard it reported in a few different places that Aoshima was done with Toynami and then you said the above. Granted, that doesn't say Toynami *definitely* won't make a brighter blue Beta that goes with the Aoshima Legioss but it certainly doesn't sound promising. You also seemed to imply it was silly of me to think Toynami had a working relationship with Aoshima later when you told Joel he was wrong about his preorder price.

I wouldn't panic too much, lots of Macross fans in Japan are going to know to order one of these for every address they know of. It will definitely carry a heavy premium but where there is a will (and extra cash) there will be a way.

I thought it was definitely confirmed that Toynami would not be making Betas in the Aoshima colors because Aoshima was so let down by the Legioss productions. If the Toynami Beta that's supposed to match the Scott MPC looks good with the Aoshima Stig Legioss then Toynami got its paints horribly wrong. Aoshima colors are much brighter than Toynami's MPC colors.

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Crap, I did this big post about retarded but I feel like I'm inviting a fight. So let me simplify it, regardless of whether or not retarded is offensive (and I understand it is to most even if it's not to me) it doesn't affect a thing I wrote. Hobo sounds retarded even if that word hurts your feelings. Sorry. I say it's 50/50 with the model vs. the toy. Some of what Toynami did I like, some of what they did I don't like, and in the end I really like the look of both. Hey, you know what might be a brilliant idea? I'm guessing the Toynami Alpha/Beta connection will have some major issues due to the gratuitous weight of the diecast in the Alpha. You could probably get a rerelease of the Imai kit and use that as your Alpha. You could also then customize that model to make the connection with the Beta practically seamless. Ooh, I like the potential there... You might even be able to do something similar with the CMs Tread although I'd guess more customization would be involved and I swear that tread is more like 1/60 scale than 1/48...

If you want to keep using "hobo" that's fine by me, I was just telling you that I think it sounds retarded. I also think the CMs Legioss Tread looks pretty goofy and you think it looks great, to each their own. As to the figures, wasn't CMs showing a tiny "parts-former" Ride Armor that was going to be included with these Legioss/Tread combos? I didn't think it was a series of little statuettes but rather something more fun. EDIT - Ignacio, that makes sense now. Nobody likes the arched back on the Toynami. The clown-feet I forgive because in a bunch of the lineart everything Mospeada from the Ride Armors to the Legioss have over-sized feet but that's a personal preference thing and I can get people hating it. As to the canopy, it never grabbed me but I can see a difference. EDIT II - I'm as not offended by the word "retarded" as I am not offended by the word "hobo."

No offense but that sounds kind of non-sensical. If the Toynami were an exact copy, instead of the 95% copy it is, you would have liked it. Since it wasn't, you're going to like this CMs Legioss which looks maybe 20% like the Imai. What was Toynami's biggest change to the Imai kit? The chest intakes look a little different. Look at the CMs chest intakes now... EDIT - wait, I'm not offended in the least by the term "hobo" but I would recommend not using it as it sounds well, retarded. If you need to somehow find ways to insult people with other opinions than your own at least man up a bit and put some meat to it otherwise you'll just be dismissed as being special. If your intention is not to attempt an insult on people then why not skip name calling all together?

Problem with your theory about the names: if Toynami was going to give him a name it'd be Rand, not Ray. MH named him Ray because it's more sensible then Ley (though anything is still possible with a character named Stick/Stig being the star).

I'll take Serenity, any day, over the new SW trilogy. The old SW trilogy I prefer to Serenity though. Serenity is average? You guys must have caught a bunch of truly excellent scifi in the last couple years that I managed to miss.

Hobo - it's the kind of insult you'd hear from a six year old. It seems perfectly appropriate on Internet forums where most the squabbling is child-like at best. "This thing looks like crap." "You just can't afford it hobo!" "Don't call me a hobo you little bitch." "What? I'm a hobo too... haha." Eyesonme - that's a heck of pipe dream you have there. The CMs legioss is very narrow in comparison, I imagine there are lots of spots where the fit just wouldn't work. I'll be happy to give it a go when mine comes in though!

BACK FROM THE DEAD. This is inspired by two things. 1) the argument in the HD thread about Serenity vs. Star Wars and 2) I just made my girlfriend watch it for the first time and I'm wondering if anyone can help us with the Reavers. Now, it'd been a long time since I had seen Serenity but I remembered watching it. She's the kind of girl that hunts down logic flaws so I remembered to tell her "just don't think too much about The Reavers" when the movie started although I couldn't remember why I thought there was a big logic flaw associated with them. After the movie what does she say? "I'm genuinely surprised how much I liked it but you're right, The Reavers make no sense. Does the TV show explain them better?" I shook my head. "So in the movie the Alliance makes a whole planet disappear? 10% of the population becomes so full of rage they're inhuman but they are organized in some fashion? What do they do when they're idling around Miranda? Why doesn't the Alliance just come through and wipe them out in Miranda's orbit and then blame the destruction of Miranda on the Reavers and seem like big heroes?" You guys got some better explanations of how Reaver society works and why the Alliance just ignores them and lets them pillage the outer worlds?

It's so sad that those leaning poses look so cool up until you see the wheels/tires.