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i'm pretty sure these were just an attempt to make money off of what originally was intended to be store displays. Store displays are typically static and more or less crappy but they draw your attention. Imagine one of these superscales at a convention with all the MPCs in front of it. It's the MPCs you're meant to buy. Since Toynami took the effort though to make the super scales they figured they'd actually make more and sell them but c'mon, who besides store owners would buy them at any cost? It was all just a big failure but once in a blue moon one does pop up on eBay so a few people apparently bit on them.

Toynami has never been at all timely, accurate, or informative on their site. The site is just terrible. I wouldn't read anything at all into anything you gleam there.

May I humbly recommend you click on this link here. It's my website dedicated to Robotech and Macross toys and I believe you'll find an article on every Alpha toy ever made there.

Stealth FIGHTER, not bomber Ruski. The bomber is the flying wing, it doesn't have much in common with the 17.

the FP version is floppier than the non FP version but has a sleeker profile. The FP version is also harder to transform properly. Of course, the FP version does have the guns. The original has a deep blue color as opposed to the FP's purple. Uh, wait for the 1/60.

I'm pretty sure Eugimon has this one figured out... coming from a VF-1 familiarity those knees are a bit unexpected.

I'll have a review on my website probably about this time next week. Unfortunately I didn't take a comparison pic with a 1/48 (all my 1/48s were in storage at the time) so all I can do is echo Mowe's statements regarding size. It definitely has more of a presence than a 1/48 on a shelf, especially in Gerwalk/Artillery mode. Is this mech on March's M3 yet? If so you can get the overall dimensions, divide by 100, and that SHOULD give you a rough estimate of overall proportions.

Ugh, the 19's Gerwalk is wonky, the arms over the wings thing is just silly and it never sits or looks right. I'm on the VF-1 as the winner in the Gerwalk category with the Zero right behind it. My Fold Drive 19 should be coming in this week... sounds like I'll have to take some pictures to justify my opinion <GLEE>

I'm not sure it's the head sculpt sucking on the 1J as much as it is the neck is just too long. I think the 1A does the best job of hiding the neck and I think the 1S sculpt is so lame because they tried to elongate it to cover some of that neck up.

Says Graham as he whirls hirls his 1/60 Yamato 1S around the room... Just playin' of course. When fugly heads get in the way, it's just more time for Gerwalk or Fighter mode! With the fast pack I'm hoping the weaknesses of the 1/100 fighter mode will be largely concealed... time will tell. I'll be interested to see how well the display stand cup holds up to the extra weight of fast packs as well.

don't mind me, i'm feelin' nit-picky lately i guess,

I *think* the connector for the Alpha (in Soldier) to the Beta as seen above is actually part of (or supported by) the large display stand beneath. If this is the case than that should really help alleviate some of the strain. I'm really hoping the open cockpit of the Beta was just a quick mess-up by the person who put it together... (fingers crossed)

I think you guys use the term "vaporware" too freely. Vaporware is stuff that never shows up, like the Macross game on N64 or whatever, Toynami's stuff is just incredibly late to arrive. In the case of the Aoshima Legioss, it hasn't really been that long ago since news of it first broke, it's way too early to be calling it "vaporware" especially since it seems closer to release every time we see it and Toynami has announced that the fact its release is going to happen was a deciding factor in why the Beta is going to happen. Anyway, that's all just a matter of semantics. This is pretty spot on. The actual tweaks that would have been needed in the molds is small so its depressing to think they didn't happen. If the slots the upper winglets attached to were pushed forward just a bit that would have helped, the same with where the arms attach to the legs. These are not things that could be easily rectified from a hobby stand point. Usually when the 'banana' effect is exagerrated it's because of a problem with the transformation (or mechanisms involved with transformation). If something somewhere is getting snagged, or if the mechanism has too much flash or slop in the sleeve to collapse properly, you're pretty much screwed. With Toynami's *STELLAR* build tolerances you just never know what the scenario is.

Lynx, you seem a bit behind the times. A few misconceptions that have already been cleared up: 1) Aoshima isn't really "producing" anything, Toynami is supplying Aoshima with these toys. 2) The CMs corp Legioss/Tread has been delayed until some time next year 3) The Toynami Beta is due out for a release this year, it will be available in paint schemes that match the original MPCs and the Aoshima versions. I don't think the arched back has been fixed but the landing gear looks to be touching the plastic in that picture which means any banana syndrome must be pretty mild on that mock-up (although it'll probably be much worse on the actual releases).

On G4's coverage last night they showed a Legioss cosplay and a VF-1 cosplay in the backgrounds during some of their bits... it was pretty impressive stuff.

The Ride Armor in cycle mode dead center was sold by Gakken as 1/20 scale. The transformable ride armor that Gakken made is to the far left... and is also about 1/20 scale (maybe 1/22?) but with wonkier proportions. So the CMs version should be between the middle one and Matchbox's effort to the far right.

1/18 is just about the same size as the crappy Gakken smaller transformable Ride Armors... An interesting choice in scale. It seems it won't be competing much with the 1/10ish Toynami.

I liked the 87 film . I think we all have to accept that this movie is aimed at children... children who will demand toys from parents OUR age. Sad... but true. I think the 87 film actually caught flack as being way too mature for children, I think this one can get the opposite criticism.

The wii fit looks great with anything from Ikea!

I finally did a review of the set I got, you can check it out by clicking here. In the meantime, here's a teaser pic from the review:

Don't you think it'd be prudent to bump Macross25 merchandise into a much earlier release date so the toys can coexist with the airing of the animation?

LOL, looks like a bunch of wishful thinking to me. No 25th anniversary valks? No VF-1 repaint? A 0b and a 0d hot on the heels? Nah, I think anyone could have guessed on the YF-21.

If I may be so bold... if you're not familiar with 1/48 Fast Packs then you should definitely CLICK HERE. That will take you to a plethora of Fast Pack pictures... Not my best work, I'll have to clean it up some time, but certainly good enough for these purposes. Examples: That's the difference between DYRL and TV colors (slightly different hue) That's the difference between DYRL and TV arm armors.

Yes, the TV valks are a slightly different hue. There are comparison pics up on my website (anymoon.com), just look for the Yamato 1/48 Super VF-1J review. If it's not in that review it's in 1/48 Super/Strike Parts Review.

Need English subs...