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I've seen that spokesman before. Is there anything Billy Mays isn't hocking?

Got my parts yesterday. Nice work on Overdrive's end.

The same was said about Transformers. In the end, the changes didn't really matter. Something about live action movies makes them easily dismissed by longtime fans.

True. The character was meant to be Hot Rod (sans name due to legal reasons), wasn't he? Why wasn't he given Hot Rod's color scheme. Yellow's really hard to pull off. Even on a great mold.

The $7.77 seems to only apply to old stock. Picked up Hound there for $10. Meanwhile, Acid Storm was sitting next to him for $7.77.

Yamato USA does. You can contact them directly for Garland parts. Contact info is at the bottom of this page.

All they'd have to do is monitor Aoshima's Blue Legioss sales...which I'd imagine have spiked through the roof.

LOL! *Photo taken while puking outside a nightclub.

Definitely. The Overdrive guys are very cool about responding to emails. And here's the parts request form, in case you missed it... Overdrive Yamato Valkyrie Parts Request Form

I'm not too keen on either head. They're both recognizable as Scott/Stick, yet both lack something. A cross between the two would probably have been ideal.

Bummer. Perhaps Warner should try putting out a good movie from a promising franchise instead of pulling the plug on anything categorized as "remake". Why not judge the damn thing on its own merits? Instead, Speed Racer and Clone Wars will be the standard by which any future remakes are measured. Pffft!

Hasbro's distribution is way inconsistent. I remember looking for Animated Swoop for months. I finally found one and bought it instantly. Now I can't go to a store without tripping over 5 Swoops.

Man...reading about all the Alpha's flaws and breakage-prone parts really makes me fearful to handle mine. I used to transform it regularly, but ignorance is bliss, I suppose.

Wow. That's pretty alarming. And so is the price. A while back, I was trying to negotiate with an ebayer for a KO black G1 Optimus. Dude wouldn't let it go for under $80. Needless to say, no sale. The whole time I was thinking "Uh...you understand it's a knock-off, right?".

Takara choosing Ratchet / Ironhide for the next MP would really annoy me. They should have been properly released as BinalTech / Alternators. (Although, I think that Skids was originally intended to be inronhide, judging from his build and head.) Anyway, Alternators are almost to scale with MP Optimus. An MP Ironhide would have to be bigger in order to justify the hefty MP pricetag. Bad enough scale was totally ignored for the seekers. Maybe I expect too much from the MP and BT / Alt. lines, but I'd like at least some consistency.

I had to choose between the Beta and Cyclone. The fact that I have a blue Alpha and a Megahouse Ride Armor made the Beta the clear choice. Would love to get both, but you know how it goes.

The Alpha was my first Toynami. I was pretty happy with it...cept for the paint apps. But $255?? It must have been somebody that didn't have the forethought to gamble on Toynami ever releasing the Beta. Or it was an impulse buy.

'Tis good to know. Thanks.

I'm pretty sure the Toynami Alpha is 1/48. So it would only make sense for the Beta to be 1/48 as well.

That's unfortunate, but probably true. Freudian slip?

Just heard back from Overdrive for confirmation. Looking forward to doing biz with them.

Haha! I was watching that auction!

What's Gerwalk called in Mospeada?

Anybody feel free to correct me if I'm wrong at any particular point. CM's: Ride Armor, Legioss & Tread Megahouse: Ride Armor Toynami: Veritech, Alpha, Beta, Cyclone Beagle: Ride Armor (same mold as Toynami's Cyclone, different head)

CM's Corp and Megahouse are two seperate companies. Competitors, in fact.