MAAS Toys is making Veritech Hovertanks and Red Commander Bioroids w/Biover!

[1st Border Red Devil]

Well folks, Hell has officially frozen over. MAAS Toys announced a few hours ago they're making both the Veritech Hovertank (apparently all 3 modes: Transport, Gladiator/Tank and Battloid) as well as the Red Bioroid Commander w/Biover. Thank God I started with the gig economy so I can afford to splurge on these when they come out. This will be an awesome way to celebrate the coming 35th Anniversary of SDC: Southern Cross. No word yet on if they're doing all the variants of the Spartas and/or add-ons (Space Jump Pack/Space Maneuver Thruster Set). Presumably they will do all 5 versions of the Bioroid eventually. There is a great clamor for the Ajax so far as well and hopefully they will do that. I'd love to get all the Army of the Southern Cross Battloids and the Kraken Dive Power Amplified Body Armor as well.

 

MAAS Toys Facebook Page

 

[Mazinger]

Anyone know who they are?  I don't recall hearing about MAAS Toys before.

Update: Found their site, seems like they have product in the wild.  Any of you guys have one of their pieces? If so can you comment on cost, quality, etc?
https://maastoys.com/news/

Edited December 16, 2018 by Mazinger

[tekering]

MAAS Toys have designed several unlicensed Transformers figures; are these officially-licensed Robotech products?  I see them using the names, the Robotech logo and even the Harmony Gold logo...!

If they're not licensed, they could be courting disaster.  

[Mazinger]

Gotta say, this is a neat little design, seems like a riff on Bumblebee's cybertron design:

https://maastoys.com/product/skiff/

39 minutes ago, tekering said:

they could be courting disaster

Ha! "Courting" pun intended?  Oh well, I do hope they don't get in trouble.  If there is one thing, one tiny thing that I think HG actually improved on, over any of the original works, it is in giving Southern Cross somewhat of an ending, so I don't mind the RT association with SC.  A shame the original never got a proper ending. 

Edited December 16, 2018 by Mazinger

[TehPW]

Where is this company based? If it in Russia, they are fine (TPTB would laugh at any legal action taken against them)… besides, unless they are dealing with Japanese concerns, who cares if HG is losing profits? If it was anyone else, maybe we should be concerned but it's HG. screw them...

[Convectuoso]

I'd love to know what scale they have in mind 

[RavenHawk]

2 hours ago, Mazinger said:

Anyone know who they are?  I don't recall hearing about MAAS Toys before.

Update: Found their site, seems like they have product in the wild.  Any of you guys have one of their pieces? If so can you comment on cost, quality, etc?
https://maastoys.com/news/

I have two of the Mayhem Mekanics/Unrustable Bastards (Spector General and Otomo), and those were "produced" by MAAS Toys (according to the box).

Very very high quality, though I don't know if they use the same factories for every one of their product lines. I think they may switch, since I think I heard that that line was a different manufacturer than some of their previous stuff (I may be wrong though).

[captain america]

I'm curious to see how they're going to handle the Bioroid. While it may seem simpler than the Spartas, it has compound curvatures and joints that may not translate well to 3-D.

[Mommar]

Just now, captain america said:

I'm curious to see how they're going to handle the Bioroid. While it may seem simpler than the Spartas, it has compound curvatures and joints that may not translate well to 3-D.

Why wouldn’t the joints translate to 3D?

[captain america]

8 minutes ago, Mommar said:

Why wouldn’t the joints translate to 3D?

Study the elbows, hips and ankles; you'll see that they're not conducive to the normal range of motion unless armor parts magically shift out of the way. Also, having studied the diagrams MAAS posted, they've taken some liberties with the proportions.

[RavenHawk]

4 minutes ago, Mommar said:

Why wouldn’t the joints translate to 3D?

Weren't there model kits of the Bioroid in the '80s (the Matchbox one later doesn't count, since it was so far off from the lineart)?

 

 

This was posted a long time ago on this site:

 

 

Found this while doing a quick search. Gotta love the hover bike.

http://www.zormaster.com/southerncrossmodels.html

[captain america]

1 minute ago, RavenHawk said:

Weren't there model kits of the Bioroid in the '80s (the Matchbox one later doesn't count, since it was so far off from the lineart)?

 

 

This was posted a long time ago on this site:

 

 

Found this while doing a quick search. Gotta love the hover bike.

http://www.zormaster.com/southerncrossmodels.html

The red Bioroid was a L & S kit; I had it eons ago, as well as the later Academy knock-off. 

[MILKAUTICO]

Damm, I hope the AJAX also and in scale 1/60

[captain america]

1 hour ago, MILKAUTICO said:

Damm, I hope the AJAX also and in scale 1/60

You realize that a Bioroid is only about 14cm tall in 1/48 and would be barely over 11cm in 1/60, yes?

[jenius]

I have some Scopedogs around that size that are pretty cool though. Just the same, I would prefer a MUCH larger scale. Southern Cross stuff should all be minimum 1/32. I think at 1/24 scale it would probably fit most size-wise with something like a 1/60 Macross display. 

[Tober]

Wild stuff! 

I doubt we'll see all 5 or 6 bioroid variants, but I'd be happy to be wrong about that.

[tekering]

12 hours ago, jenius said:

Southern Cross stuff should all be minimum 1/32. I think at 1/24 scale it would probably fit most size-wise with something like a 1/60 Macross display. 

12 hours ago, captain america said:

You realize that a Bioroid is only about 14cm tall in 1/48 and would be barely over 11cm in 1/60, yes?

Perhaps this image will clarify the situation:

Edited December 17, 2018 by tekering

[anime52k8]

3 hours ago, tekering said:

Perhaps this image will clarify the situation:

 

 

there's so much stuff going on in that image I can barely tell what I'm looking at.

[jenius]

Robotech.com may still have their mech comparison tool, that was one cool thing about that website.

[sh9000]

If they make the Hovertank 1/12 scale, it can go with Kitz Concept’s Dana figure.  If they make the Hovertank around 1/18 scale, maybe Toynami will make some Robotech The Masters figures that can go with it.

[Convectuoso]

I'd prefer something of a similar size to an HMR, so I'm guessing it should be around 1/48

[1st Border Red Devil]

27 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

If they make the Hovertank 1/12 scale, it can go with Kitz Concept’s Dana figure.  If they make the Hovertank around 1/18 scale, maybe Toynami will make some Robotech The Masters figures that can go with it.

From everything I've heard, Toynami will make Masters War merchandise sometime after the Sun goes supernova. They had their chance to make super-poseables years ago and did nothing. Screw them.

[easnoddy]

If this is realized, I am IN! IN! IN!!!!

[jenius]

1 hour ago, Convectuoso said:

I'd prefer something of a similar size to an HMR, so I'm guessing it should be around 1/48

Would you care if it required more part swapping? Just curious. I can deal with HMR level parts swapping but I really wouldn't want to see VF100 level parts swapping.

[Tober]

Apparently they are about 20cm tall. 

[sh9000]

Does that make it around 1/35 scale?

[Tober]

Yeah, roughly 1/32 or 1/36 range.

According to the Southern Cross RPG book, the Hover Tank battloids are 6.2 meters tall.

[Convectuoso]

3 hours ago, jenius said:

Would you care if it required more part swapping? Just curious. I can deal with HMR level parts swapping but I really wouldn't want to see VF100 level parts swapping.

Mmmm... I'm just thinking about my available shelf space. It always seemed to me that the hovertank transformation was quite simple, but I may be completely wrong about that. 

[TheLoneWolf]

I don't think the unfortunate residents of Hell will have to worry about finding a new home just yet, considering there's a long list of unreleased Robotech toys.

But in all seriousness, I hope this line does hit retail. It's hard to find a more passionate fanbase than Southern Cross fans.

[Tober]

21 minutes ago, TheLoneWolf said:

I don't think the unfortunate residents of Hell will have to worry about finding a new home just yet, considering there's a long list of unreleased Robotech toys.

But in all seriousness, I hope this line does hit retail. It's hard to find a more passionate fanbase than Southern Cross fans.

It's difficult enough finding a Southern Cross fans at all.  

[Major Tom]

MAAS toys just added the pictures to their site: https://maastoys.com/2018/12/first-teaser-images/

Bioroid looks like it has a gap above the hip section.

Edited December 18, 2018 by Major Tom

[derex3592]

As one of the very few people who liked Southern Cross, be it Robotech or original, this is very exciting news! I hope it comes to fruition! Bring it ON! 

Edited December 18, 2018 by derex3592

[Tober]

I'm not really sold on those proportions. I need to see a prototype first. 

Would be cool if the chest can open, but I doubt it does.

[captain america]

8 hours ago, Major Tom said:

MAAS toys just added the pictures to their site: https://maastoys.com/2018/12/first-teaser-images/

Bioroid looks like it has a gap above the hip section.

I'm hoping those are merely place-holder images. Torso gap aside, the proportions have been altered significantly from the source material.

[jenius]

The bar is set by the Matchbox toy. Beggars can't be choosers!