Mospeada

[Mog]

You would hope we’d see a colored prototype soon.

Feels like we’ve been waiting for Sentinel’s Tread just as long as we had to wait for the Toynami Beta. 

EDIT:  2.5 years since they showed the initial prototype. 

Edited August 2 by Mog

[no3Ljm]

15 minutes ago, Mog said:

You would hope we’d see a colored prototype soon.

Feels like we’ve been waiting for Sentinel’s Tread just as long as we had to wait for the Toynami Beta. 

Sentinel's Tread feels more ages now.

 

To a point where some of us, including me, are now thinking it's probably vaporware at this point.

[roboemo]

3 hours ago, Perxion said:

Thanks for responding friends!

Anyway: the magazine is great, the paper is a very good weight.  Most are in black and white and the information and designs are incredible. The printing is not as high quality as previous editions of Mospeada art books.

 

 

Without cover

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Any image on the 3 exclusive chapters? Like art of scenery.

[Mog]

So just for gits and shiggles, I looked to see when Toynami first showed off its Beta prototype and when the bastard was finally released.

* First prototype shown = Summer 2005

* Actually released = December 2008.

C’mon Sentinel, don’t keep us waiting!

[Seto Kaiba]

2 hours ago, roboemo said:

Any image on the 3 exclusive chapters? Like art of scenery.

Eh... I'd recommend reducing your expectations a fair bit.

Chapters X-1, X-2, and X-3 do have art... but with the exception of Chapter X-3 it's rough sketches that are way below the level of the art elsewhere in the book.

Edited August 2 by Seto Kaiba

[505thAirborne]

3 hours ago, Mog said:

You would hope we’d see a colored prototype soon.

Feels like we’ve been waiting for Sentinel’s Tread just as long as we had to wait for the Toynami Beta. 

EDIT:  2.5 years since they showed the initial prototype. 

It's possible with the constant increase in production costs not to mention a factory with solid QC, Sentinel is probably still weighing in if it's worth it or not to build a Tread. I have a feeling that despite those who really want one, the inevitable price tag will scare off the majority. 

I'm still wondering if Sentinel will take on a Dark Legioss/Shadow Fighter one of these days, not to mention a matching Ride-Armor. 

[no3Ljm]

3 minutes ago, 505thAirborne said:

It's possible with the constant increase in production costs not to mention a factory with solid QC, Sentinel is probably still weighing in if it's worth it or not to build a Tread. I have a feeling that despite those who really want one, the inevitable price tag will scare off the majority. 

I'm still wondering if Sentinel will take on a Dark Legioss/Shadow Fighter one of these days, not to mention a matching Ride-Armor. 

Hmmm. I'll probably just use my Tread budget to Dark Legioss and its matching Ride-Armor.  

[roboemo]

36 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Eh... I'd recommend reducing your expectations a fair bit.

Chapters X-1, X-2, and X-3 do have art... but with the exception of Chapter X-3 it's rough sketches that are way below the level of the art elsewhere in the book.

Still nice to see them.

At least for a good ref for t-shirt and some headcanon ideas for fan art at least.

Now, part of me feel that Simon might be 40k Dreadnought equivalent.

[Seto Kaiba]

For the curious, Chapter X-1 "Simmons & Necessary" is a one-chapter short story that gives the broad strokes of Simmons's backstory.  He was a miner working a deep sea mining platform in 2050 when the Invit first invaded, how he was gravely wounded in a friendly fire accident early in the resistance against the Invit occupation, escaped to Mars, and was rebuilt as a Robocop-style cyborg soldier to continue fighting.  It ends with him being introduced to Necessary and inducted into the Breakers.

Chapter X-2 "Case of Every" talks about Every's backstory and how she came to join the Breakers.  Most of it covers her early career as a pharmaceuticals researcher developing a combat drug for the Mars Army in anticipation of a war of independence against Earth, before joining the anti-war/anti-Mars Gov't group "Woodpeckers".  It briefly talks about her final, doomed mission as an anti-gov't operative to destroy a secret Mars Army thermonuclear weapons lab on Ganymede that culminated in her being captured and sentenced to 320 years of imprisonment in cryogenic suspension for her crimes.  It ends with the Mars Base administration thawing her out 46 years later in 2082 to inform her she was being drafted to serve in the 2nd Earth Recapture mission.

Chapter X-3 "Case of Eagle" talks about how Eagle came to join the Breakers.  It starts with him being injured in an accident during a routine escort flight over Mars, then being briefeed on how his remote connections to the extremely wealthy family that founded the Intelligence Bureau led to him being selected for its secret mission to Earth during the 2nd Earth Recapture operation as a bodyguard for the mission's leader, Gate.  It ends with him training Gate at a firing range and realizing, belatedly, that his memories of his life before the accident had been tampered with.

[Seto Kaiba]

1 hour ago, roboemo said:

Now, part of me feel that Simon might be 40k Dreadnought equivalent.

You mean Simmons?

Somewhere between a Dreadnought and Robocop, yeah.  He's basically just a head, a spinal cord, and a bit of upper torso grafted into a military-grade robotic body.  In one sense, it might actually be worse than both since Simmons and the other "robot" soldiers had their brains forcibly reactivated after clinical death to be offered the choice of accepting their demise or being installed in robotic bodies and sent back into the fight.  Simmons is said to have died multiple times.  His Ride Armor's closer to a 40K Dreadknight though.

Genesis Breaker really REALLY reenvisioned MOSPEADA as an absolute hellhole of a setting... and not even on Earth, it's Mars that's the absolute hellhole.

[sh9000]

By R_AREA2019.

[roboemo]

38 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

You mean Simmons?

Somewhere between a Dreadnought and Robocop, yeah.  He's basically just a head, a spinal cord, and a bit of upper torso grafted into a military-grade robotic body.  In one sense, it might actually be worse than both since Simmons and the other "robot" soldiers had their brains forcibly reactivated after clinical death to be offered the choice of accepting their demise or being installed in robotic bodies and sent back into the fight.  Simmons is said to have died multiple times.  His Ride Armor's closer to a 40K Dreadknight though.

Genesis Breaker really REALLY reenvisioned MOSPEADA as an absolute hellhole of a setting... and not even on Earth, it's Mars that's the absolute hellhole.

Yeah, reading that story. I thought that Mars Base just sift through destroyed ships and/or retreating ships with dead crews onboard for such project.

Maybe I might be seeing Shadow Fighters being made from similiar process (either brain reactivation or neural pattern downloads).

Also I am wondering if they expanded on Mars Base, like is Mars City only city or other settlement exist (again, I do bios on fan arts to flesh out characters and wonder if they made official lore on cities on Mars, maybe Mariner Valley or Olympus Mons)

[Seto Kaiba]

1 hour ago, roboemo said:

Yeah, reading that story. I thought that Mars Base just sift through destroyed ships and/or retreating ships with dead crews onboard for such project.

If Simmons's case is typical, Mars Base's candidates for cyborg soldier augmentation are frontline troops (infantry and pilots) who are killed or wounded unto death but whose bodies can be recovered, preserved or kept barely alive on life support, and shipped back to Mars.  Simmons himself is in the latter category.  He was wounded beyond any hope of survival on Earth but shipped back to Mars on life support, only to die while his transport was on approach to Mars colony.

 

1 hour ago, roboemo said:

Maybe I might be seeing Shadow Fighters being made from similiar process (either brain reactivation or neural pattern downloads).

Well, there's nothing called a "Shadow Fighter" in Genesis Climber MOSPEADA or in Genesis Breaker... are you referring to the Dark Legioss?

Genesis Breaker doesn't appear to have changed anything with respect to the Dark Legioss.  The regular version is still a conventional Legioss that's had some stealth upgrades to mask its HBT emissions and make it harder to detect by other means.  The unmanned Dark Legioss is still described as an unmanned conversion of the Dark Legioss fighter that's controlled by an onboard AI computer.

 

1 hour ago, roboemo said:

Also I am wondering if they expanded on Mars Base, like is Mars City only city or other settlement exist (again, I do bios on fan arts to flesh out characters and wonder if they made official lore on cities on Mars, maybe Mariner Valley or Olympus Mons)

There's nothing called "Mars City" in MOSPEADA either, as far as I can recall.

As far as official material, there is "Mars Base" the military installation and "Mars colony" which refers to the actual civilian settlement(s).  It doesn't really get any more specific than that.  Some sources appear to conflate the two and refer to both as "Mars Base", like MOSPEADA Color Graffiti, which refers to the residential block that Stick grew up in as "Mars Base 22" and lists Stick and Yellow's hometown simply as "Mars Base".  It's never actually seen except for Stick's one flashback in "Jonathan's Elegy", so we don't really have anything to go on.

Genesis Breaker further muddies the waters there by treating "Mars Base" as the name of a specific armed service rather than one specific installation.  Specifically, it presents "Mars Base" as another name for the Mars Army... a new armed service separate and distinct from Mars's defense forces that exists specifically and solely for the business of retaking Earth (and subsequently governing it as a colonial dominion of Mars).  It does suggest that proper development of Mars for large-scale habitation was done after the unification of Earth, such that the individual experimental research stations were all folded into a single Mars colonization program.

[roboemo]

18 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

There's nothing called "Mars City" in MOSPEADA either, as far as I can recall.

As far as official material, there is "Mars Base" the military installation and "Mars colony" which refers to the actual civilian settlement(s).  It doesn't really get any more specific than that.  Some sources appear to conflate the two and refer to both as "Mars Base", like MOSPEADA Color Graffiti, which refers to the residential block that Stick grew up in as "Mars Base 22" and lists Stick and Yellow's hometown simply as "Mars Base".  It's never actually seen except for Stick's one flashback in "Jonathan's Elegy", so we don't really have anything to go on.

First episode had Marlene mentioning a wedding dress she found in Mars City. Just wondering if it's the only one or other cities exist.

18 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Well, there's nothing called a "Shadow Fighter" in Genesis Climber MOSPEADA or in Genesis Breaker... are you referring to the Dark Legioss?

Genesis Breaker doesn't appear to have changed anything with respect to the Dark Legioss.  The regular version is still a conventional Legioss that's had some stealth upgrades to mask its HBT emissions and make it harder to detect by other means.  The unmanned Dark Legioss is still described as an unmanned conversion of the Dark Legioss fighter that's controlled by an onboard AI computer.

I was referring to Dark Legioss actually.

Edited August 3 by roboemo

[CoryHolmes]

3 hours ago, sh9000 said:

By R_AREA2019.

Oh, this is noice!

[no3Ljm]

On 6/21/2024 at 5:20 AM, enphily said:

 

https://hobby.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1601933.html

I wonder how big is this going to be. Seeing that most Moderoid kits stands around 6in/16cm. Hope this one too. That way, we can display it along with the Sentinel ones while we're waiting for them to produce the classic ones down the line. Hope there's an update during SMILE FEST 2024 event in Osaka this weekend.

Saw this photo online. Hope the figure can sit up properly on the bike.  

[Big s]

45 minutes ago, no3Ljm said:

Saw this photo online. Hope the figure can sit up properly on the bike.  

I think it really depends a lot on how well the knee bends, but I guess we’ll find out eventually. Personally as a guess I’d imagine the knee probably bends a lot better than that

[okinawaHAI!]

Per my earlier post, Sentinel did nothing to improve the weak swivel joint on their initial Mospeada Ride Armor release.  

I purchased the reissue of Stick and Yellow hoping this was corrected; however, you can see from the photos that the swivel joints are still plastic and Stick is already showing a stress mark.  

I noticed the stress mark  when I took the figure out of the package.  Equally frustrating was Stick's leg and arm kept popping off.  This may be an isolated QC issue with my figure since I haven't had any issues with Yellow.

I also included a photo showing the positioning of the foot rest since the question was asked.

With that all being said, these figures still look freaking awesome. 

 

 

 

Edited August 9 by okinawaHAI!

[Mog]

A minor word of caution with Yellow:  when you're pushing the visor down and in for Ride Armor mode, don't push it too far down. 

You could cause the visor to rise up on its edges and pop off its tab.

[twich]

Does anyone know if Toynami will display their upcoming Mospeada stuff at New York Comicon?

Twich

[graphic revolt]

Got the Yellow fever… and there are some improvements to the problematic rotating hinge associated to the gauntlets by the introduction of their earlier models but there are potential hinges that maybe prone to stress marks if not handled correctly. Not going to do a photo account for it but it is something that people may need to be aware of because this is not close to being “Toyific” I like the cargo panniers being a modular addition! Here are some toy porn for your eyes to feast on. 

[shazam]

12 hours ago, graphic revolt said:

Got the Yellow fever… and there are some improvements to the problematic rotating hinge associated to the gauntlets by the introduction of their earlier models but there are potential hinges that maybe prone to stress marks if not handled correctly. Not going to do a photo account for it but it is something that people may need to be aware of because this is not close to being “Toyific” I like the cargo panniers being a modular addition! Here are some toy porn for your eyes to feast on. 

Good looking display.

[Chas]

Anyone hear any  further news on the Moderoid Ride Armor?

https://hobby.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1601933.html

[Duymon]

was packing my stuff up for a move to a  bigger condo and and had to stop to admire the awesome boxart again

[Mog]

Still love that they snuck in the Blowsuperior on the VR-052T boxart!

Would love to see some Tread boxart too. 

[Big s]

On 8/17/2024 at 8:57 AM, Chas said:

Anyone hear any  further news on the Moderoid Ride Armor?

https://hobby.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1601933.html

There was a lot on that list of items upcoming. I doubt we’ll hear anything before Christmas. Although I’d be really happy if I were wrong about that 

[Ignacio Ocamica]

Quick out of the box pic. Same as the first release.

[shazam]

Robotech: The New Generation YR-052F Cyclone Figure Set

TOYNAMI - MOSHOW TOYS

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/290464?o=1

[Alex GS]

WOW! out of nowhere , I mean the price for such detailed figure of a Mospeada  and created by Moshow?, damn is a great price, in the meantime I preordered right away and put those 18 bucks down! , I been waiting for this figure so long since the very moment it was shown as a prototype, I hope the quality materials used be great  and of course a good / proper amount of diecast in it  

Thanks @shazam for the heads up  

Edited September 6 by Alex GS

[mark-1s]

That’s a very surprising price. I was expecting closer to $300.

Tempting…

Edited September 6 by mark-1s

[Mog]

So, who’s face is that supposed to be, because it don’t look anything like Stig/Scott.

[no3Ljm]

3 hours ago, Mog said:

So, who’s face is that supposed to be, because it don’t look anything like Stig/Scott.

Stig/Stick/Scott in Robotech form.

 

Seriously, I was surprised to see how low the price is. But no, still not for me. 

[MKT]

Hmm I guess the wheels are still too low at the shoulders. And the face sculpt looks totally off lol.

But at this price, I’ll likely overlook it. Quite a surprise, because from the first rendered images couple of years ago, they stated the targeted estimated price was USD 220-250.

I wonder if HG gave some significant discount on licensing fee or something.

 

[CoryHolmes]

Hnnnnnnnnngh!

 

I don't need another Cyclone toy, but boy this is sure making me want one!

[shazam]

12 hours ago, Alex GS said:

WOW! out of nowhere , I mean the price for such detailed figure of a Mospeada  and created by Moshow?, damn is a great price, in the meantime I preordered right away and put those 18 bucks down! , I been waiting for this figure so long since the very moment it was shown as a prototype, I hope the quality materials used be great  and of course a good / proper amount of diecast in it  

Thanks @shazam for the heads up  

I also got an email from BBTS this morning advertising the figure. 📧

Thanks for your previous order of Robotech/Macross items! We wanted to let you know about a related new release; please check out the link below:

Robotech: The New Generation YR-052F Cyclone Figure Set In collaboration with Moshotoys, Toynami is proud to present the next evolution of the VR Cyclone: the YR-052F. These highly advanced Cyclones are used by the main characters for both combat and travel. They can transform into battle armor mode and are a key aspect of the New Generation's fighting capabilities. Don't miss your chance to add this highly detailed Robotech figures to your collection!

I have to agree about the great price. I thought it would be around $250 US. No complaints here. 😁 Here is hoping for the December release to put this figure under the Xmas tree. 🎄

Edited September 7 by shazam