Save Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 (edited) Beagle toys have a booth at this years 2007 Tokyo Anime Fair, and they will be releasing a 1/12 scale VR-052-F Mospeada Ride Armor. They are aiming for an early 2008 release in Japan. They didn't have prototype just a Mospeada display as a formal announcement. It will be fully transformable and made of ABS plastic and die cast metal. It is also a new sculpt not a reissue of the old Gakken mold. Beagle plans to release all 4 types of Ride Armor, and should have the VR-052-F on display at this year Plamodel Radicon Show. I think this will be their first transformable toy, right now they mostly have a few PVC figures for Ghost In The Shell, and Range Murata characters. Edited March 23, 2007 by SaveRobotech
Dante74 Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 1/12? That wouldn't make it very big would it? BTW: Saverobotech, could ya post a bigger version of your avatar?
valkyrie312 Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 Sounds cool! Well, 1/6 would be about 12" tall, so 1/12 should be about a 6" figure, right? That's my guess anyway.
mechaninac Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 All this recent show of love for Mospeada from Toynami ( Yes, I know, but bear with me...), CMS, and now Beagle is making my head spin with giddy fanboy enthusiasm, and causing my wallet to scream bloody murder and hurl profanities at me that would make a street whore blush.
Fly4victory Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 If toynami has motivated the other companies by showing there was a market for Mospeada then toynami has finally done a good thing. Macross, Gundam, Planet Engage, Megazone 23, Mospeada, I am going to be so broke and will have to start working the streets. All this recent show of love for Mospeada from Toynami ( Yes, I know, but bear with me...), CMS, and now Beagle is making my head spin with giddy fanboy enthusiasm, and causing my wallet to scream bloody murder and hurl profanities at me that would make a street whore blush.
EXO Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 sounds interesting... hopefully it's a good alternative to the Toynami one. Can't really do a good Ride Armor without die cast can you? Now... who the F is Beagle? ----->Moving topic------>
Fort Max Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 Schweet, it will be out of scale with Yammies Shinji Aramaki bikes but that's a very minor quibble. I thought I was gonna have to wait until CM's had done the jets to get a decent Mospeada toy but apparently they will all appear at once! btw, This question is inevitable but does anyone have anything by this company cos I've never heard of them.
promethuem5 Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 Good Christ.. the sudden Mospeada toy market competition is just awesome. ANd yeah, who the hell is Beagle?
JsARCLIGHT Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 Maisto makes a ton of their bikes in 1/12 which means these "Beagle" Ride Armors will be in scale with all the Maisto crotch rocket toys on the market. If you've seen those they are smallish but not tiny. They (Maisto) manage to get a good deal of detail into those bikes so I'd imagine no less from whoever this "Beagle" company is... then again IMHO this is an "out of the frying pan into the fire" sort of situation. Which would I rather have, a Ride Armor made by an established but dubious toy maker (Toynami) or a Ride Armor made by a complete "nobody" that no one has ever heard of or knows much about their quality?
jenius Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 (edited) Holy Jesus, this company's first effort at a transformable toy will be a ride armor? That has disaster written all over it... although I hope to God I'm wrong. Was Toynami's version 1/10 or 1/12? It's the same size standing as a Toynami Alpha in Battloid. EDIT - Those bastids have the 1/72 Japanese version of the Gakken Legioss I want in their display. SaveRobotech, go steal it for me! Edited March 23, 2007 by jenius
Retracting Head Ter Ter Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 All this recent show of love for Mospeada from Toynami ( Yes, I know, but bear with me...), CMS, and now Beagle is making my head spin with giddy fanboy enthusiasm, and causing my wallet to scream bloody murder and hurl profanities at me that would make a street whore blush. Heh, the licence holder for GCM, Harmony Gold must be ready to rake in lots of royalties on this slew of toys.
Lonely Soldier Boy Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 I knew somebody in the far east would eventually make these. Now let's the competition for the better toy begin.
jenius Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 If Tatsunoko still exists as its own entity they would be the ones doing the raking... not that this would be particularly bad for HG since it opens up some doors for them if they want to work out an import trade.
Fort Max Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 (edited) IMHO this is an "out of the frying pan into the fire" sort of situation. Which would I rather have, a Ride Armor made by an established but dubious toy maker (Toynami) or a Ride Armor made by a complete "nobody" that no one has ever heard of or knows much about their quality? Holy Jesus, this company's first effort at a transformable toy will be a ride armor? That has disaster written all over it... although I hope to God I'm wrong. CM's Corp and Max Factory were both once only PVC pushers to name but two. Edited March 23, 2007 by Fort Max
tom64ss Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 1/12? That wouldn't make it very big would it? Was Toynami's version 1/10 or 1/12? It's the same size standing as a Toynami Alpha in Battloid. The largest of the old Gakken Mospeada Ride Armors were 1/10 scale. The Imai models were 1/12 scale, I'd imagine the Toynami versions are too. 1/12 scale is plenty big.
jenius Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 CM's Corp and Max Factory were both once only PVC pushers to name but two. Yes, and Gakken wasn't a toy maker back in the day either. There's still more than ample reason to show more tha a little trepidation over a company taking on such an ambitious (and delicate) toy. Even for a dedicated, tried and true company with tons of experience, the Ride Armor is nothing to take lightly. It is very complicated with many small parts that need to move to combine in a delicate menagerie of a figure.
jenius Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 The largest of the old Gakken Mospeada Ride Armors were 1/10 scale. The Imai models were 1/12 scale, I'd imagine the Toynami versions are too. Actually, Gakken's large Ride Armor is 1/8 scale.
Lonely Soldier Boy Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 (edited) Isn't the Yamato Scope Dog 1/12 also? I'm trying to imagine a Chirico Cuvie sized Ride Armor, since I don't own any of the IMAI models. Edit: Thanks to Genius for the clarification Edited March 23, 2007 by Lonely Soldier Boy
tom64ss Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 Yamato has shown that if you put out a well designed, better version of the same mecha, buyers will pay the extra cost of shipping. Hopefully, these and the CM Legioss/Tread will come out really decent and we can all give Toynami and they're crappy Robotech Masterpiece series the bird.
tom64ss Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 Actually, Gakken's large Ride Armor is 1/8 scale. No way. That would make Stick 6' in those huge boots. He'd be like 5'8" out of armor. There's no way he's as short as my dad. I still think it's 1/10
jenius Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 I'm always in the market for better goods. I hope all of these companies put Toynami to shame but coming from a history with a dearth of toys for this series (since the late 80s at least) I'm really just thrilled to see any companies involved, including Toynami. Oh yeah, we're going to see some neat comparisons in scale now too with other franchises. This should be very cool. You guys don't think that Beagle will just be distributing the Toynami product do you?
tom64ss Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 Maybe 1/9. 1/12 would still be about 6"-7" figure.
tom64ss Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 You guys don't think that Beagle will just be distributing the Toynami product do you? Nah, they would've had a prototype. Plus the projected release date is 2008.
jenius Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 Nah, they would've had a prototype. Plus the projected release date is 2008. Yeah but that's actually right in line with Toynami. Toynami is projecting November of 2007 state-side. I would think they would introduce the product first in their home market and then abroad (seems to be how most companies do things). If they're not just repackaging it will make for some awesome competition! Then again, Beagle might not hit until November 2008. Also, if Toynami only has a couple prototypes it'd make sense that Beagle wouldn't be showing one... but you would probably suspect Beagle would be showing pictures of the Toynami prototype at the least.
JsARCLIGHT Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 Which goes right to the question we are all asking: Who is Beagle? What have they made in the past? Are they are a new Japanese company, are they an importer for Toynami? Someone out there has to know something.
Fort Max Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 HLJ has a whopping two listings!... http://www.hlj.com/product/BEA88044 http://www.hlj.com/product/BEA88042
EXO Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 Nah, they would've had a prototype. Plus the projected release date is 2008. so they'll probably beat Toynami by about a year before the MPC hits the streets. Yeah, I looked them (Beagle) up and they seem to have only done PVC figures distributed by Organic in the States. Organic is a relatively new company too. They've done GITS figures. A lot of the Organic people here in L.A. used to work for YAMATO USA.
promethuem5 Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 Organic also does the importing for Revoltech figures.
ShadowerV2 Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 I want to see a prototype first before deciding........ But I really hope it's good.
danth Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 This is one of those things where I really want to get excited but I'm too afraid to get my hopes up. So in effect I'm just nervous.
lord_breetai Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 It's too bad they can't release a Vince Grant Cyclone unit... even if you don't like Robotech you have to admit that was cool
1/1 LowViz Lurker Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 If enough people want it, and they can make money selling it, I don't see why not. Yamato has milked the vf-1 to death with all the non-canon paintschemes.
Lonely Soldier Boy Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 I remeber the character, but not his Cyclone. Was all that diferent from Scott's?
lord_breetai Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 He has the big arm cannon (see pics)... I like it. I guess it would depend how the license works, since this isn't MOSPEADA but Robotech Shadow Chron, since Tat was involved with Shadow Chron, I guess there's a chance.
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