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It would SEEM to me (might be wrong) you're looking at two Toynami products. Seeing as CMs is sold in combo packs, and we're seeing a Tread next to what looks to be the Toynami Ride Armor and no Legioss present other than Aoshima's re-tooling of the Toynami version, I'm thinking it's a Toynami display.

Wow, from rumor central here things to note. I had heard from one very unreliable source and one somewhat reliable source back in the day that Toynami was having a hard time making a cockpit that could fit a figure and that was something they were big on. Looking at this prototype, if it even is a Toynami Tread, it would seem that they finally figured how to pull it off. Note the pin at the base of the cockpit which can either denote the rotation of the cockpit and/OR the cockpit's ability to open. The juicy seam looks to me like that cockpit does indeed open up but obviously that's pure speculation. Any other differences are extremely minor so I can't tell if it's an entirely new prototype. There seems to be very mild differences on what ends up being the chest in battloid as well. Obviously if Toynami is re-working the prototype that bodes very well for us Mospeada fans.

Do my eyes deceive me or does the Ride Armor have the shoulder scope up? I was hoping Toynami would incorporate that.

Oh yeah... well I'm pretty sure you're wrong! No, seriously, we just had a thread not too long ago where a member accused the Toynami version of not having a cockpit because it was never displayed in fighter mode... only combined fighter mode with the Legioss at the head.

The Aoshima (i'm assuming) Alpha looks to have a different color green paint on the Yellow version. It's much brighter. Then again, those could just be old prototype Toynami toys that they still just use for display purposes. What the heck is up with that Beta??? We need more info. If it's the Toynami version that's the first time it's been shown in fighter mode to my knowledge. It looks like it may be a retooled prototype if it is from Toynami which would certainly bode well. Hrmmmm too many questions at this point. Someone read that stuff to me!

I still very much doubt that the Aoshima will have any sort of significant adjustments. Better plastic? I highly doubt it. It sounded like they're just adding a missile bay and reworking the hips a bit. Still.... I may just have to pick up a Stig to double-check....

I loved Jack's Joker, although I'm not sure if that's a popular opinion but I would guess it is, I hope Heath Ledger does as well.

The mass of his arm is greater than the mass of the rest of his body. I mean, I'm no physicist, but that don't look right to me.

Flood control bums me out occasionally at 120 because I like to hop on to MW while at work and make a few quick posts and hop off before any coworker is the wiser

I probably have a pic somewhere in here that'd be up your alley. My review of the super/strike parts probably has a pic or two of the other option you were lookin' at.

That thing is begging for a flexi-stand from LOS. I'm sorry, i think all display stands should be transparent.

I read this yesterday and was thinking "Man, some people seem to think the 360 does nothing but break..." Then I went over to my friends house to watch the Warriors game and he turned to another buddy and said "Gee, sure would like to play my 360 after this... oh yeah, that's right, it broke at YOUR HOUSE." The buddy protested that he was just playing as usual and is started generating error codes and it wasn't his fault. He finished his defense by saying "These things just break, Bryan <another buddy of ours> had his break after two months!" There you have it, I know exactly two people with 360s and both of them failed. That said, Bryan has had a replacement now for nearly a year with no more problems.

Interesting, it shows a VF-0S with the ghost bundled with Shin's valk... I wonder if this means we're going to see a VF-0S bundle as well as a Shin VF-0A bundle???

I think he was going for cocktease?

Humidity is a real killer for boxes. Temperature changes are a real killer for plastic. Avoiding sunlight is definitely a good thing though on all counts. If you put everything in locking plastic tubs (the kind at Home Depot or the like) you'll probably help eliminate your humidity concerns... or at least that was my hope. I put everything in tubs and threw a few desacant packages in each tub and locked them. They're not airtight by any means (heck, most those tubs have a few slots for air so if kids get locked in them they'll have to die of dehydration rather than suffocation) but it's a lot better than nothing or just using a cardboard box. Edit - If you want to go real agro, shrink wrap would probably be the best bet. Unfortunately, that might take you a LONG time. Plastic bags I'd worry about as it seems moisture manages to get into those things and then gets trapped inside. No science to that, that's just how it appears to me.

I did a review of this toy, I tried to picture the differences between the original shoulders and the replacement shoulders but it's really hard to see anything other than the new shoudlers don't have painted tips.

Something doesn't look right about that GBP armor in the front... like it's white where it should be blue or something? You own a toy I never managed to grab though, a VF-1A max JM... fortunately, my dislike of DYRL paint schemes will hinder my jealousy. Thanks Totoro for mentioning my website in that post above. w00t! Obviously your Gakken collection is schweet.

Mac+ was brought over unattested originally so now HG can't contest it. If anyone tries to bring over MacZero there's a chance that HG will contest it (now that they're excercising their rights whenever possible) and that would make MacZero a dead property.

I honestly find it very hard to maintain any sense of anger... but I also don't think "foldildo" is offensive in anyway. Sure, the joke may be old but it doesn't make it less relevant. The thing looks like a light up dildo. I say, let the "foldildo" continue and with any luck will get a packaging misprint like Gakken's old "Blowsuperior" ride armor. Oh good times.

Shin's combo pack comes with a more solid-colored light gray version of the Ghost. The stand alone Ghost comes with the blue and gray markings and can be connected to either the existing VF-0A or the the VF-0S.

Wow, I procrastinated a few days, used the cheapest shipping, and I still got them today. I opened the boxes to confirm there's one of each and didn't see any obvious flubs like Hiriyu's messed up Miria. Not a bad first impression although when these were first being called like "magnet action" I really was under the impression they'd be a bit heftier.

Good question. Basara would still hop out and sing at the enemy though which would still result in the enemy infiltrating the ship. I'm thinking if the X-9 were present we would have just seen far less space battles in the first 20 eps and more chaos within the ship.

Well I think we should all acknowledge that having a wall tapestry of a swastika or glorifying it in some way would be a big no-no. Having swastikas on mechs, toys, or whatever is just a way to denote "bad-guy" and that shouldn't be an issue IMHO.

What's wrong with having a swastika on a mech?

duly noted.