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Do I believe the Beta will eventually be on sale? Yes. Do I think Toynami will meet their projected release date? No. I'd expect to see the first Beta out by this time next year at the earliest... hope I'm wrong on this, though. Do I expect the toy to have exorcised Toynami's poor engineering, material choices, and abysmal QC? IMO, we'll see little, if any, improvement over the Alphas. Do I hope Toynami will revise their MSRP (currently proposed to be anywhere from $150-$200)? No. If anything, I foresee them proposing the final cost to be closer to the upper limit then the lower one... hoping to be wrong here too. However, I believe that we'll see them selling under MSRP within 4 months of release. Unless reviews are absolutely stellar I'm not shelling out full retail for this. IMO, their Beta should be no more than $120 (1.5 x the price of the Alpha) each.

Please don't feed the Troll; then maybe he'll just go away and we can have some cogent discussions again.

eugimon, you're one sick, twisted, individual... I like that in a person. Keep'em coming; your Mr. Roger's Neighborhood remake "brain fart" is better than 99.5% of the dreck presently on TV... at least until BSG kicks off this Friday.

This picture shows exactly what I wanted to see regarding the legs in fighter mode, and is reason enough for me to give any fleeting thought of purchasing this toy no further consideration. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and to me CM's execution of this aspect of the toy is absolutely hideous and completely unworthy of the price they're charging for it. From my POV this is a shame since the Tread does look pretty good, but the Legioss makes the combo a no sale.

I didn't know of a perfect place to put this but thought this thread would be just about the most appropriate place for it. For all our fabricators/scratch builders out there... SWEET!

Then you should be one happy camper. According to the text on the box of my Rei the Fraulein figures are 1/10 scale... the same as Beagle's RA.

I think that's just the look of the unfinished rapid prototyping material you are seeing. If you look closely, the piston that connects the front wheel to the central hub, and the "V" shaped pieces, and their hinges, that lock around the lower abdomen in RA mode look to be made of the same fuzzy looking whitish stuff. I could be wrong but that is how I interpret what I see in the picture.

Oh snap!... there goes more of my money... @spedfish: Beagle's RA is supposed to be 1/10 scale.

Because... they're Dee Tee Dee...

What donor did you use? Can we have a "how to"? And we need pictures, lots and lots of pictures...

IMO 1/100 MG Gundam Hands, specially of the Ver. 2.0 variety, might be workable options for replacements... they seem to be about the right size. Zeon hands (Zakus) might also be a closer fit, looks wise, than Fed ones due to their rounder designs.

In regards to the standing pilot figure in Wicked Ace's pictures, that's a recast of the pencil sharpener figure. The recasts were made available by MW member Rohby about 4 years ( it's been that long? ). Their size makes them perfect for 1/48 representations of Roy and Kakizaki. @misteryno: Happy Birthday!

Considering that the big guy was named Lunk in the Robotech version of Mospeada I find this quote all kinds of context awesome:

Even in the Enterprise 2 part episode "In a Mirror Darkly" they got it right as the uniforms worn by the crew of the Defiant had a logo reminiscent of the starship pennant that adorns the secondary hull and warp nacelles of all Constitution class vessels. If they got it correct for a TV series they should do so for a theatrical feature film.

And Graham's post above should make you fall in love with it all over again... Thanks for the clarification Graham. Now, if Bandai did decide to make a VB-6 toy for their Macross F line, would they go with 1/100 (admittedly Yamato's territory in scale if not series wise), or go all out with a 1/60 jaw dropping, wallet crushing, behemoth? Or would they just go with a 1/72 model kit?

Retracting Head, Every time I see your avatar I want to smack my screen... The only reason I have most of my 1/48s in Battroid mode is because they take up less shelf space that way, but they do look best in fighter mode, don't they? Edit: Woo Hoo! Thousandth post!

And I was afraid that I had made the wrong choice in preordering the CM version over the MegaHouse. Now I can see that either choice is a crap shoot. Personally I think that CM's has the better balance overall sculpt (specially the rider figure), and Megahouse's the more dynamic looking Ride Armor mode and "richer" looking finish... perfect transformation tipped the scale for me. I'm eagerly awaiting the Beagle version. That looks almost perfect.

Add me to the legions of disappointed pre-order buyers who cancelled instead of putting up with Toynami's BS. I do not blame BBTS or TMP for the screw up; I would expect them to eat a $20-30 discrepancy but not a 87.5%, at a minimum, difference in MSRP, even if they misinterpreted the promotional flyers they used as the basis for their pricing. I do hope that the bean counters at Toynami will get some feedback for these and other vendors about the appeal of their product at their asking price and recess accordingly (not very likely considering the company in question). Now, like most here, I'll be waiting for reviews and the laundry list of features before even considering to buy the Beta at anywhere near full price.

Patience my young Padawan... all in due time. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Glaug and the Queadlun Rau, at least being displayed, before Year's end.

1/18 would be awesome; but, for now, the 1/35 kits are the only game in town, and for 1300 Yen each (before shipping) they are a great deal on a pretty good kit that's in scale with a multitude of modern Armor models. @Da Pinche Haro!: they are HG quality kits... snap construction, poly cap joints, swappable option parts, molded in 2 colors, and include PVC figures to scale (seated and standing).

No need for apologies. Beside it wasn't your post that read like a "you don't know jack" assumption. It was this one by JBO: When I read your original question I just did a minor double take and thought to myself... "that's true but isn't that the idea I just put forth, only not is so many words?", and felt it was unnecessary for me to add anything to it; but after that, the above remark appeared and I felt that what I said needed clarification. Now I feel the need to apologize for the confusion.

Heck, Yamato's toys lack the guaranteed QC issues that justify the higher cost of Yamato' toys... However, I agree that what Toynami puts out aren't even worth their standard MPC MSRPs. At most the Beta could retail for 1.5 times the Alpha's retail price ($119.99)... I think I could talk myself into swallowing that; but $150-200, with their track record, is most definitely too much.

Is it really, absolutely, positively, necessary to explicitly voice every possible permutation and minutia in a simple statement meant as a moderately sarcastic response in a thread where it can be assumed, by the very nature of the topic at hand, that those reading it are well enough versed in the basics of the physics involved to understand the idea(s) presented without said ideas needing to be pre-digested, and without the knee-jerk jumping to conclusions regarding the poster's understanding of the subject or any part thereof? Or is it just the nature of the Internet Forum beast that any statement must be dissected for any existing, and more often only perceived, flaw in order to poke holes in same or otherwise diminish what is being stated regardless of whether the statement is true or not? This If/Could've/Would've/Did it/Didn't it/Will it/Won't it merry-go-round is beginning to look more and more like a Schrödinger's cat experiment...

Now you're just going around in circles. I'm not missing the other side of the coin, as you put it, because the other side is just the same side stated in a different fashion: if it blows up today we'll know in 8K years, if it already blew up 8 millennia ago we'll know shortly; it's the same thing... C is constant in a vacuum so the light will take 8000 years to cross the distance, so if you feel your chromosomes disintegrating by this time tomorrow you'll know that WT104 may have indeed exploded 8K years ago (excluding other causes for a massive X-Ray overdose). Of course there is no way to know if/when a star has/did explode before the radiation reaches us. The only time we are able to know of any such occurrence is when the EM radiation reaches us, and when it does, if it's lethal, there is nothing to be done about it anyway unless you're in a deep cave or a deeply submerged Nuclear Sub when the fireworks gets here. And this brings me to my original statement... unconcerned.

Starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, and directed by Michael Bay... wait