eriku Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 What is the Legioss at the bottom right with the shoulder missile pod and the open missile hatches on the legs, and the little Stig? Is that a kit?
Alex Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 (edited) The Stick is the 1/12 kit and the Legioss is the 1/48 kit. Both are non-variable. I wish I knew where that prototype were now (if not ground to plastic atoms long ago). Imagine if Toynami's original Ride-armor had been based on THIS design. YAR! Edited February 17, 2009 by Alex
RD Blade Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 Which is quite disappointing. This supposed prototype looks to be far better than the 1/8. It even has complete and detailed verniers (an important and sadly neglected area on the 1/8.Pardon my ignorance...but what's a vernier?
Alex Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 (edited) A thruster. The 1/8's thrusters were always pointing up. Hate that. All the thrust would force them down. Stick- "Ok. Now to fire this thing WHUP!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ray- Ew? Edited February 17, 2009 by Alex
jenius Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 (edited) Which is quite disappointing. This supposed prototype looks to be far better than the 1/8. It even has complete and detailed verniers (an important and sadly neglected area on the 1/8. Could it be that they thought this version would be too costly/delicate/impractical to mass-produce? Yes but it also essentially looks like the rider could never even come close to interacting with teh bike in bike mode. I'm also guessing they had issues with certain parts being too small and would potentially break. It looks like every single product on that page is a prototype. The 1/35 ended up having a bronzed canopy in the production model. Edited February 17, 2009 by jenius
regult Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 I am wondering what's that wallpaper you're using on your computer!?? I like that crisp pic of a Super VF-25F
Alex Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 (edited) I guess we can dream of the 1/8 that could have been. Interesting though, why what eventually became the 1/8 gakken was so drastically simplified. Could they have at least kept the chest design from this ride armor? (Wow. I'm bitching over a 20-plus year old toy) Edited February 17, 2009 by Alex
eyesonme78 Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 well guys, hope i am the first to post this.. Toynami new release... something new i hope.
jenius Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 I wonder why they didn't have a Shadow Fighter Alpha in that display. I didn't see anything that would qualify as new on the RT side there though. They did have art up that seemed to confirm that Ariel will be on the Shadow Beta's box.
Totoro242 Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 I guess we can dream of the 1/8 that could have been. Interesting though, why what eventually became the 1/8 gakken was so drastically simplified. Could they have at least kept the chest design from this ride armor? (Wow. I'm bitching over a 20-plus year old toy) If you look close, the cycle is a seperate model from the Ride Armor. Neither are transforming as there are no mechanisms or seams where the pieces should come together. In the pictures below you can see that there were also Legioss models made, those are also non-transforming. My personal opinion is that these are models that the animators used for reference while animating. I'm sure they were given to Gakken to help them visualize the toys and models, but in the end they chose a different look for the large Ride Armor toy; I'm sure because it needed to be more functional. The Legioss though, seems to have directly inspired those awful little 1/55 3-mode toys
505thAirborne Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 The new Beta/Tread Fighter bombers look awesome!! You wonder if the Alpha/Legioss fighters in front are the old piles of junk or new mfg'ed? Either way looks great!
jenius Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 (edited) The new Beta/Tread Fighter bombers look awesome!! You wonder if the Alpha/Legioss fighters in front are the old piles of junk or new mfg'ed? Either way looks great! Why would you wonder about those Alphas? They're the same old pieces of junk just being used to help drum up sells of the Betas (and, from Toynami's perspective, help sell those old Alphas). Toynami just put out an Alpha WORSE than the original ones, they're not going to start suddenly making better Alphas. That ship has sailed, for the MPCs at least. They'll make a much bigger deal if they have a new or improved product rather than just putting it next to a toy with the same color. Totoro, excellent hypothesis about those seeming toys. You're right, they do look completely non-transformable (the ones we don't recognize at least). I'll bet that's the same deal with that Tread toy we saw that looked roughly 1/35 scale in one of those obscure pictures (since it seemed to match up with that clearly non-transformable Legioss). Now, why did they put a jolly roger on that Legioss? Edited February 17, 2009 by jenius
RavenHawk Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 Anyone who preordered a Beagle/Toynami Cyclone on Robotech.com received a shipping confirmation yet? There were supposed to ship yesterday, but I still haven't heard anything.
DarrinG Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 Have heard nothing yet from Robotech.com - I preordered the cyclone and red beta. I did finally see the combined art for the Beta MPCs of Rand, Annie, Lunk and Marlene and actually liked it. Don't care for the pic of Scott on the cyclone. They have stolen the nose and mouth from some type of rabbit or sheep or something. Looks anything but fierce.
EXO Posted February 17, 2009 Author Posted February 17, 2009 Now, why did they put a jolly roger on that Legioss? no decals ready for it. The rest of the decals composes of Area 88 and an upside down UN Spacy kite and decals from other kits. Like Totoro said, preproduction pieces.
Totoro242 Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 no decals ready for it. The rest of the decals composes of Area 88 and an upside down UN Spacy kite and decals from other kits. Like Totoro said, preproduction pieces. Thats probably part of it. I also heard somewhere that the jolly roger was a sort of tongue-in-cheek poke at the fact that they had to make a transforming fighter because Macross was so popular
EXO Posted February 18, 2009 Author Posted February 18, 2009 They also did the art for some of the boxes, but from the upside down kite I say it was just a filler. I decided to take off the fabric from the Beagle Stig figure... replaced it with some foam and heat shrink tubes. I gotta say, taking it apart I understood why they included the fabric... I'm gonna play with my mod some more to see where the compromises are I'll take better pictures tomorrow in the sunlight.
Alex Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 I much prefer the effect of the thinner cloth, but this works really well. I was even considering getting a 1/10 jumpsuit from Volks or somewhere and gving stick a new colour. Just for Gits and Shiggles.
Vostok 7 Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 Gonna need a new thread soon, eh? Vostok 7
Pat S Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 I got a shipped confirmation from Robotech.com for the Ride Armor (with FedEx tracking number), should be here (Seattle) on Friday.
RavenHawk Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 (edited) I got a shipped confirmation from Robotech.com for the Ride Armor (with FedEx tracking number), should be here (Seattle) on Friday. Mine says the 24th. All the stuff I've gotten from there takes forever to arrive from Cali to Mass. Edited February 18, 2009 by RavenHawk
EXO Posted February 18, 2009 Author Posted February 18, 2009 Gonna need a new thread soon, eh? Vostok 7 One more page! But what's left? Beta..check. Beagle... check. Someone else start it... too lazy. Dont forget to link the this last thread!
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