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I don't know how much a distribution deal with Yamato would affect the quality of the toy one way or another. If Beagle is making it and Yamato is just distributing it we wouldn't be able to use Yamato's toys as an indicator of what to expect. Using the Megahouse Ride Armor as an example, it appears Toynami is only distributing it so we can't really expect Toynami-style QC from the toy since it's just their name on the box. Even if Beagle is designing it and Yamato is in charge of manufacturing it, we still wouldn't be able to fully base our expectations of the final product on Yamato's previous toys because most of what Yamato releases they also design (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm far from an authority on Yamato).

Takara and Bandai make a lot more toys than Transformers and Gundam, and most of them do exhibit consistently good QC. One of the things that is so rewarding about Bandai's Soul of Chogokin line for example is that when you buy a SOC toy you are pretty much guranteed to get a toy with immaculate QC. Beyond the big dogs like Bandai and Takara/Tomy and even Medicom (who also makes QC a priority), there are the smaller dogs like Kaiyodo who are generally committed to top-notch QC for their products. Kaiyodo's Revoltech line has been superb overall. Then there are even smaller companies like CMs who has always been respected for quality toys (the windshield on the Ride Armor is the first 'major' problem I've heard from any CM's toy). I know there are several I'm forgetting, but my basic point is that there are still a lot of companies who are committed to excellent quality control. I'm not sure why companies like Yamato seem to have so many hiccups (pretty much everything I have from Yamato is problem-free but I can't ignore what I read here), especially considering the premium that fans pay for their toys. Maybe their designs are too complicated for most factories, I don't know. As for Beagle, I can't name a single thing they've done nor can I recall reading anything about any of their products, so I don't know what to expect from them. I'll certainly wait to hear some reviews of the Ride Armor before buying one, regardless of how great it looks. Nothing makes you feel like you wasted your money quite as much as a crappy toy, so I don't like to take my chances.

At least with today's modern computer technology they can digitally remove the woodpecker that's constantly following Keanu around.

I'm surprised just how many people over there have bit the bullet and ordered every Animated figure available from HK sellers who already have the toys. Typically a few people will do that, but this is the first time I've seen so many fans buy so many pre-market toys. I bought Bulkhead from a seller in Taiwan but there's no way I'd buy any more until they hit. Waiting longer than we should have to sucks, but whadda ya do?

I wonder if it's possible that what looks like fabric could be something like the flexible latex that some Evangelion and Patlabor kits use to cover the joints. I'm hoping it's some kind of fabric (less chance of wear and tear).

From what's been reported it may be a wee bit smaller, but it's supposed to be 1/48 scale which would put it close to the size of Toynami's. If it's a genuine concern you may want to wait until someone else gets one and takes some pictures of it next to other toys for a better idea of scale.

The CMs is supposed to be roughly the same size as the Aoshima/Toynami.

I'm not pretending anything. You're just simply wrong. You even acknowledged that fact yourself with your first sentence "at least the toys I'm interested in". I'm not trying to fight with you because it's nothing to argue, you're just exaggerating or misinformed.

No, it's not really true. While some things have questionable QC it's not a blanket fact that can be laid over every Japanese (or American for that matter) toy in the market.. I'm sure you have the two most recent Ride Armor toys in mind with that statement, but they are hardly indicative of the industry as a whole. While there always have been and always will be a certain percentage of toys that come off the line with QC problems, it only becomes an issue when the problems are widespread and the percentage is high (such as most Toynami toys and the two recent ride armor toys). For the most part there are a lot of recent toys that don't suffer from widespread problems. I'm not saying there aren't problems out there, but it's certainly not so widespread that someone is most likely to get a crappy toy.

Looks like HLJ is taking more preorders for this set, it's not on order stop anymore. http://www.hlj.com/product/CMS65132

I was just reading about this film in Giant Robot, I can't wait to see it.

Ah, I knew someone was getting the green one. I'm looking forward to the photos since I'll probably never get that one.

Sure, but it sounds like something Barb from Accounts Receivable would say to her coworkers about "that one UPS driver with the tight shorts".

Nice photos! I'll repost a couple of my CMs photos since I'm too lazy at the moment to do any fresh ones.

Correction: A poor lonely drunk in a boxcar who can't tell if the sour smell is coming from the whiskey-soaked straw he calls a bed or from his eight remaining toes. My skin, it burns!

Yeah, 1/48 scale or thereabouts. Didn't someone say those figures were extras that willonly come with the exclusive green Legioss? Either way, they do look pretty bad. To be fair though I've never really seen human figures that scale that looked very good.

Oh jenius, you shining pillar of common sense you. This forum would be such a silly place without you. Almost as silly as telling someone not to use "hobo" because it sounds "retarded". Here's a suggestion for you. If your intention is to berate people for taking part in silly internet arguments, which you yourself are a high master of, and to insult people's intelligence for using a light and inoffensive early 20th century word in jest, first get over yourself and then take it to PM.

The pics were the most recent ones that SaveRobotech posted, I thought it looked like the pilots were now painted but maybe I was just having a stroke. I'll go back and look for them. As for plastic quality, it's almost impossible to tell from photos. I thought the plastic quality of the ride armors was actually very good, it's just that the pieces are so small that it may seem brittle. CMs has a reputation for quality toys so that's what I would expect from the Legioss/Beta. Anything can change anytime though, especially with the troubles factories in China are having lately, so we wont really know what these will be like until someone holds one in their hands.

Back on topic for a moment, has there been any close-up photos of the painted pilots yet? In some of the recent photos I can see through the canopy that they are now painted but I'm curious what they look like up close.

That aint bread, son...that aint bread.

:Edit: I also blame >EXO<

It's cute how offended you guys are choosing to be by the term 'hobo'. Me? Ima gonna go sit down on my pile of millions of mecha toy purchases. Being as unselective as I am, I've ammased quite a few. I blame gingao, from whom I learned the fine pleasures of paying thousands of dollars for toys I don't even like. Based on his teachings I'm going to send CMs an extra Y20,000 for the Legioss/Tlead I'm buying.

Ah youngling, you are but a wee hobo. It takes much practice and patience to be a BIG HOBO. Do you even know what the inside of a boxcar smells like?

Jenius, you're the biggest hobo of them all.

I've called myself a hobo many times and I never got offended.