Opinion on some RT toys

[rewooh]

I'm contemplating on selling some RT toys I dont like.

Namely the 'power armour'.

It doesn't seem like I need anymore since the q-rau's from yamato are out

do you think its worth keeping?

[EXO]

Do we really "need" any of these toys...

That would probably be the first one I toss out. I wouldn't like one if Yamato made it. Unfortunately I have one given to me when I was little. A nice gesture...

[rewooh]

aren't those toys suppose to be the q-rau and the Nousjadeul-Ger?

if so then, i wouldn't mind a Nousjadeul-Ger from yamato...or atleast a better looking one.

but you are right about the neccessity of these things..

Edited August 2, 2004 by rewooh

[Renato]

I think I only have one RT toy and that's the small Macross in storm attacker mode.

It's the only Macross toy I have and so I'm keeping it for that reason alone. But it's too ugly to display..

[Skull Leader]

errr, that's not really a question any of us can answer for you man... they either mean something to you or they don't. I never cared much about the RT power-armor line, so I'd toss it or sell it, but to each his own.

[ewilen]

Out of the Robotech Macross Saga toys, I think the Power Armor is probably one of the weakest in terms of sculpt (surpassed only by the hideous 12" dolls, and the majority of the 3-3/4" and 6" character figures).

The sculpt represents a Nousjadeul-Ger and is around 1/96-1/98 scale. It was sold in a green "Botoru division" version and a purple "Quadrono division" version. Since "Quadrono" is the RT term for the Queadluun-Rau, either somebody was dumb or they got lazy and tried to pass a purple N-Ger off as female powered armor. But it's possible that purple N-Ger's appeared somewhere in the show; in fact, the the Imai 1/144 N-Ger kit shows it in a purplish blue scheme:

The problem with the Matchbox version is just that it doesn't look all that hot. On the other hand, it's the only N-Ger toy out there, and if Yamato ever makes one, it's very likely that it will only appear in the DYRL version, which has a radically different appearance. (The Q-Rau changed somewhat less from TV to DYRL, so that people have been able to make nice customs, and it wouldn't be too hard for Yamato to eventually do a resculpt.)

So if you're a fan of the N-Ger TV-style sculpt, and you don't plan on building the 1/144 model, I'd keep at least one of the Power Armor toys. I have a green one; here it is posed with a 1/100 Valkyrie:

Edited August 2, 2004 by ewilen