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Bike mode looks hot,armor mode not so hot, reminds me of Bubblegum Crisis.

Thanx Save ,that looks great ,can,t wait to get 1 or 2!!!

Whats the average price for this book? How many pages does it have? Is it a hard or soft cover?(with or without dust cover jacket?) Does it come shrink wrapped? Does it have new art like the cover? THANX.

the WF 2009 saddle bags for the Beagle look great!!! (painted/moulded? dark green) Anyone got the word these..as in are they only on sale or display at the festival ,or ending up on online store,s to buy??? I,m gonna go ahead and get me some Ray Beagles before they go.it would be great if these saddle bags became available to compliment this dead line,it would help soften the blow alittle!!

True that, I guess we can hope that this Robotech movie gets made to capture the wallets of gen y & z ,we can bitch along the way ,but it could be a means to an end ,hopefully toy engineering will be more cost effective in a few yrs with techknowledgy and we could see an even better ride armor for a affordable price range and we could have the buying power of younger generations to see an entire line being made!

I just hope that future companies aren,t scared off by touching the Mospeada franchise from this current situation, in the next 20-30yrs as generation x starts dieing off from the aging process + disease etc there,ll be an even smaller niche market to sell to ,unless it,s gets remade somehow ( all I ask is they stay with the f#*kin, lineart).Alot of people like,alot of people can,t afford it, perhaps in a few yrs if/when we recover from this economy maybe someone will have the insight to try again and exploit gen xer,s while we,re still healthy alive and kickin,.

When both Beagles sell out ,the after market will increase for sure,but will it level off at some point because the line only includes Stick + Ray ,or will it just keep on climbing.??? Hopefully there,ll be a poll or list of people who could afford it right now,including people who can,t afford it now ,but will invest in it at some point, a time capsule for futures companies perhaps...yeah I know I,m dreaming,but it,s nice to.!! I wonder how this has/will effect this "Mospeada book" that,s mean,t to come out ,we haven,t heard much,I hope the same fate eludes that book!!!!

OK cool,thanx Save ,sorry I miss understood!! I don,t know if it,s wishfull thinking or not,but do you think it might be possible Beagle will still release Houquet as they,ve come this far with the prototype, and then call it quits after they,ve released her ?,it seems that they,re half way there, or is it too much of an expense to put her through final production ?

Yes a great toy released at the wrong time!!! Perhaps even in the wrong order ,maybe if Beagle had released Houquet second, sales might have been enough to keep the line going (atleast for a third release perhaps),I guess sales for the Ray might pick up now,if Ray sells out and the line doesn,t continue ,are we to assume that nothing could have saved it anyway in these economic times?? And if Ray does sell out ,and still faced with a dead-end toy line- I guess we can put to rest the idea(atleast in this circumstance)that it,s the toy collector,s fault for waiting for the sale.I just don,t like the link refering to my post ,as if I,m to blame

SH*T,better shatch up those Beagle Rays if that,s the case!!

Tober,Agent-GHQ You,re both Aussie,s me to, from Brisbane. !! Yes I know about the various price range from $200+,the highest I,ve seen awhile back was $280.00 (so you know,who cares,rounding up ..whatever ) HLJ.COM was the lowest I,m aware of at $150-60 abouts. That,ll probably never happen again due to being discontinued so the cheapest around (Beagle that is) seems to be $219.00 at over-drive and they haven,t gone down for clearence always the same.Anyone got an idea of Houquet,s release date?

Is this movie going to be released to theatre,s or dvd???

Some people (myself included) can,t stand the sight of a HUGE frickin, hole in the side of Stick,s, Ray,s neck ,for a $200-$300 toy it,s just not good enough!! Some members joke that it,s his throat cancer hole

Thanx Hiriyu for the link,thanx atom for the review.It does look a little tighter in bike mode as atom was rolling the bike across the floor,the the front wheel armor and gun didn,t move at all!!!,on the Stick release it would have flopped all over the place,damn I,m soo tempted now to get one ...must control myself until Houquet,s release( Ray if you,re cheaper then ,you,ll be mine)

Agent-GHQ. I forgot to mention,everything that I,ve mentioned refers to the Stick Beagle..NOT the Ray Beagle.(I don,t own one),but from what I,ve read here at Macrossworld & jenius,s review it seems that the bike atleast ,is a little bit tighter,and that the helmeted head is fixed,PM some of the members here or visit jenius,s site for Stick & Ray,s review,if your not too emotionally attached to Stick ,I say get Ray,s release he,ll have some improvements and you can go from there(the screw hole in the neck is still with the Ray release,but from the prototype pics of Houquet it may be covered with her release)

Agent-GHQ. By the way thanx for your reply to my previous post,about collectionDX.com !! Sorry if I,ve made you nervous about theBeagle,that was not my intent!! The cloth has been a issue with some for 2 main reasons: 1.the look of it(personally I like the look of the cloth) 2.it comes apart at the seams.(which is my problem,and a few others on this thread ,and other sites I,ve visited) Stick,s front wheel armor /forearm armor is very loose in both modes. The windscreen attaches to the bike ,is also very loose. The HBT(feul) tank attaches to the seat ,is also weak/unstable-comes off easly. The targeting scope is very loose,infact it falls out ,I don,t even bother taking it out and attaching it anymore,for me too much hassle. The ankle armor (MB tampoed) is very loose,I find it hard to get it to hold it,s position extended out (but is possible). The loose helmeted head.(but jenious,s excellent idea of putting some tape on the ball joint has fixed that) These are the main problems,but transforming it correctly(and there are a few instinctual things in the transformation that isn,t in the manual)and you shouldn,t have any problems!! I was trying to say in my post that I,ve transformed this thing excessively,easly over 200-300 times ,and for that, it,s held up pretty well. Sorry I don,t have a camera ,as you can tell by my avatar ,but most of what I,ve mentioned is in jenious,s review.

Acid milk projecting from tits,there,s got to be an award for that!! Japan I LOVE YOU,good to see your still not conforming to this political correctness that the rest of the world is bowing to. 10 out of 10!!

+3 on that Mospeada book!!! I must say I,ve had my Stick Beagle for 6mths now and I,ve transformed it 2-3 times a day(give or take a wk here and there)just to test it,s durability,yeah I know I,m "that guy" ,and besides a few things it,s holding up pretty well!! To my surprise it,s the figure that,s still tight(the seam in the cloth in the crotch has a ever widening gap,but that was happening right from the start.plus a little bit around the figure,s shoulder pad,aswell as the cloth looking a little flaky all over) The figure,s right hand index finger has come off(the hand used to hold Stick,s gun,the "big" gun that also attaches to his bike)it,s not broken,but has "popped off",just a little glue and as good as new! The attachment that connects to the the underneath of the bike that enables it to lean to either side is quite loose now ,I am leaning the bike to it,s side now just before you hear the first "click",it can still hold it,s pose with the friction,but after the first click the weight of the bike carries it past the second click and it falls over. Stick,s bike has it,s loose area,s (that have already been disscussed),but the hip armor/back wheel guards(you know the things with the stripes on them) are very loose and can hear them rattling around when you,re holding the bike etc.. Other than that it,s holding quite well,i,m going to keep transforming it everyday(not just to test it,s durability,but because it,s so much fun),and see what happens in a yr,I predict around that time I,ll probably leave it in bike mode then,as it will most likely be very loose by then,and I,ll take it out on Ray and /or Houquet at that time!!

(maybe I,m doing something wrong,but..)I can,t seem to find any Beagles at hlj.com it keeps coming back as "sorry page not found",just curious as their price on stick & Ray.Weird??

Wasn,t Jenius saying that the Houquet Beagle was going to be delayed ,for some reason a few pages back?(I could be wrong!!)

Ilike it!!!

If storage room isn,t too much of an issue then I say keep ,em. They have more detail than the 1/60 v.2 (if yamato doesn,t revisit the 1/48,s after the 1/60 v.2 line ,their collectability should be fairly good) As far as poseability goes, their not really any better than the 1/48,s...sure they have the improved elbow joints etc..but there,s not many new options for posing even with this improvement-just a little more range of motion ,and the legs are exactly the same as the 1/48,s articulation!!!!