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LOL, wouldn't that look like the tread was humping the legioss? I wanna see a pic of the the quasi Diver mode where the tread's legs are swung out but otherwise the legioss and tread are still in combined fighter mode.

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The Beagle/Toynami easily looks the best but rumored price is insane. The MH and the CMs is 6 of one, half a dozen of the other, it depends on what you value most. CMs is a much cooler design but is smaller and figidity (especially in bike mode). The MH has better color but less detail and an oddly proportioned rider and a Lego-like transformation. Both are pretty reliant on the stands they come with.

If you never touch the hands you might be alright. Also take extreme caution with the front landing gear's door as there's a little piece of plastic that maintains its ability to stay closed and can easily be broken or bent. Beyond that you're looking at elevated odds of getting a lemon but not so elevated like you need to feel like you have a 50/50 chance of getting crap. Chances are you'll get one that will be decent enough... but there are chances you won't. Of all the ones I've owned only one had a limb fall off on its own accord, I had another that had crooked landing gears, and another that had the peg on the arm affixed to the slot in the leg. You'll probably also have a crooked head :/

I imagine the red will be on eBay at the end of April. I believe CMs was dropping the greeny mid April and red at the end of April at TRU.

The Beagle CVR Armor doesn't look removeable to me. You can see two screw holes in the back of the chest armor and one screw hole in the waist armor.

I doubt it'd be $60, that'd put it in at less than the CMs! Maybe that's what's happening here though. People are looking at it and thinking "Man, that's ten times as cool as the CMs toy! Oh crap, it'll probably be 10x as much!"

I would think it must be easily removeable since it doesn't look attached in soldier. I'm hoping people just always show it with the arm attached because of the landing gears. They say it has hardly any diecast so chances are the joints will last much longer than they do with the Toynami. You also won't have the crooked head Toynamis have if the pics are any indication... and all it took for CMs to make that happens was to make it so the head couldn't turn...

I hope over-drive-inc ships quickly. I'm gonna go crazy with pics in my review and get it up as quickly as possible. Ugh, I paid the $250+ and I can guarantee I would never spend any money on a vinyl monster toy. I'm hoping that's a very vintage collectible if people are paying that much. There's always a premium to pay on vintage stuff.

My problem is the disconnect between the price and the look. You're supposed to pay more for super-detailed figures that look great and realistic and not-so-much toy-like. Toys that look like toys, meaning big departures from the original show and less intricate parts, are supposed to be cheaper. The price of this CMs offering makes me expect superb detail and dead-on accuracy but the toy itself makes me expect a price that I would pay and not feel so bad if I broke it fighting imaginary Inbit around my office.

NOOOOOoO!!!OOOO!!OO! I may want to sell my some day and want them to be worth something!

Not so much mistransformed (although kinda), it looks like he just removed it from the package and plopped it down and took a pic. Like the tread with its head in its chest, it looks like it's tweaked in such a way as to keep it from being broken in the package during shipping. The back wings are just left folded outward. If I had to guess, i'd say this is another symptom of the above (packaging the toy in such a way as to make it most safe). I assumed the hands were attached and folded inward and that in order to make it into full soldier mode you have to flip the hands out and fold the wings in. Right now it's transformed into "Safe for shipping" mode.

How cute, the Tread is doing a turtle impression. In all seriousness though, I know this thing is supposed to look "toy-like" but that Tread picture makes it just look cheap. Hopefully some posed pics will bring it back to life. Somebody should also let the Legioss know his nosecone is hanging a little low... Hey, maybe that's a feature! You could pull off super dynamic poses and use the nosecone as a stand like the twig that comes with the CMs Ride Armor!

What did you have to file off for the wings to be able to be pushed in? I seriously hate that they don't go in on mine.

I like the fact the Legioss/Tread box looks similar to the Ride Armor boxes. Not my exact cup of tea but I've seen far worse and yeah, it carries forward the opening grid theme from the TV show nicely. EDIT - thanks for the link Roger. Does it say anything about the offer being limited in anyway (besides website obviously)? I think I want to pour over my blue one for a while before I bite the bullet on the green/red ones.

Are you in the US? I'm not sure if he has more in stock but I got mine from laftoys.com

Does anyone have a link to the CMs page where the green set can be purchased?

I recommend leaving Stick in bike mode as Ray's gun practically drags on the ground.

Me LIKEY... ME REALLY LIKEY. Thanks SR!!! In another note, my Wonderfest Exclusive CMs Standard Soldier Ride Armor just arrived... w00t! I can still be a Mospeada completist after all! Now I just have to rob a bank so I can afford a green and red CMs Legioss Tread combo...

RT speak: Ariel was meant to be a spy... but it doesn't work.. she gets amnesia instead. Corg, Sera, and the Regis all keep trying to check in on her but it never works and she doesn't communicate telepathically with Sera like Aisha does with Sorji in that snow episode IIRC. I don't think anyone is bashing Yellow's voice actor, we're more bashing the fact it suddenly flips to a clearly female voice during some songs and it seems impossible that guy's voice could possibly become that girl's voice. Yellow almost certainly knows about Aisha and hints are dropped by the rest of the cast but it's impossible to say they definitely knew. They certainly do seem to suspect it much more than in Robotech.

The dropping of Aisha has to be one of the silliest aspects of the Mospeada plot line. In Robotech she is "planted" using the same animation that shows her being carelessly dropped. The offending idiot who does the dropping goes on to become Batra (AKA Corg). In both series it should be immediately obvious to the viewer that Aisha is an Inbit (they show an egg dropping and then a woman emerging from yolk). In Mospeada though it seems like much of the crew starts to realize she's an Inbit and they just choose not to talk about it (especially to Stick). In Robotech the crew seems to honestly believe she's just a human survivor of a horrific battle up until the point she bleeds green.

I think Robotech handled Yellow Dancer's voice better than Mospeada did Yellow Belmont. The switch from guy voice to girl voice is just too extreme in Mospeada and it's obvious it's not the same person's voice. Also, Yellow Dancer sings songs of rebellion where in Mospeada the music (like it or hate it) is just music for the sake of having music in the show. As to Ray, isn't he an Argentinian or South American of some sort? Yes, he's definitely a hillbilly and in Mospeada, unlike RT, he's somewhat special (he's more in tune to the world due to some side-effect of Inbit occupation but I can't really remember the details... ). There are all sorts of problems trying to get the names from the show right so don't bother fighting it. Stig sounds better than Stick, Houquet makes more sense than Fuke, and Ray makes more sense than Ley. It definitely has some silly episodes. I don't really see the dinosaur episode as all that silly as it's pretty well explained but the people who worship a dam? That's a silly one. The flashdance episode is just horribly dated and I think RT handled it better when it was another attempt at Yellow trying to inspire people while simultaneously make a big display of things. It does have a tendency of getting very serious (everyone trapped and unravelling in the subway of that one city, Houquet's probable gang rape, the dude who sends people to their death on the mountain pass, the town mob out to kill all soldiers, etc.) and it seemed to attempt to circumvent any criticism that it was too dystopian with some silly episodes.

I finally got my MHs yesterday. I'm going to play around with them for a bit before doing a review (probably sometime next week). It seems to get minuses everywhere the CMs got pluses and and pluses everywhere the CMs got minuses.

Stealth 1/48 VF-1 hands? Those would look pretty clowny (too big) on a Legioss.

I thought it was the people who were negative about Mac7 that always did the flaming? This is an interesting change of pace.