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Ah well, it did have this massive feeling of too good to be true about it.

How many other people actually prefer the Toynami design to the CM's one? I'm very surprised to have reached this realizaition but I'm just not that bothered about CM's set and haven't been for a while and yet yesterday I pre-ordered Toynami's Beta without hesitation. I think both have their strong points, CM's does have excellent looking missle bays but the landing gear and the plain nasty connecting bar spoil it. Toynami's design seems to have improved greatly, most noticeably now hiding the cockpit in robot mode and though we havn't seen any gimmciks yet their Alpha had all the hatches and whatnot so I don't see much reaosn to think this will be any different. There's also the asthetic to consider, CM's went with a more modern looking style whileToynami has actually created a more anime accurate look.I wouldn't be bothered if neither one was perfectly accurate but I do like the look of Toynami's more, it just looks more 80's and wins points for that alone. That said I wish they were more forthcoming with information, delays people can handle but keeping your customers in the dark is a bad idea for pretty much any buisness.

CM's loves them some styrofoam.

This thread needs more pics.

Wow, it looks great, now who can get a bigger version of this pic? Graham, save robotech, anyone?

Wow, Beagles 3d showroom model certainly looks good. I'm not going to hold my breath that I'll have exactly that in my hands when it ships but I will be watching it very closely.

Add me to those hoping for a re-issue of Scott's Alpha. *crosses fingers* The Beta will look nice nough on it's own if they don't though, I suppose....

Cool pre-orders, thanks for posting them guys. I ordered a Blue Beta and a set of series 4 1/100's, it's been ages since I got anything from BBTS, I'd forgotten quite how slick their system is.

That toy can't even be two years old.

well mine is on it's way from HLJ so if I get one with the crooked shaft I'll just have to hope HLJ has another to replace it with.

This thread is just going to go round in circles until Bandai shows the goods!

Fair enough, I do have the Gunbuster and most of the diecast is either internal (lots of strengthening bars etc) or it's parts that don't really scrape against anything else. I think (hope) that Bandai leanrt their lesson with the SOC Dancouga which I belive (I don't own this one) had paint scraping issues where the metal "ear" parts of the mammoth had to be carefully folded isnide the chest. If it'd been plastic there wouldn't have been any trouble.

They just announced a DX perfect transform Chogokin, it doesn't get more metaly and transformering then that.

This is what people keep trying to tell you, Bandai are about the one company that can make painted metal transforming toys work.

Yes, but Bandai are involved so the knives are out. Most of Aquarion's problems are inherrent in it's design. As bold as it was of Kawamori to try and mahe a Getter Robo type toy that worked it was never the best design decision in the world to have 1/3 of it's weight on it's back in each robot form.

I've noticed that both versions have really different scuplts, the MH one has the better looking RA scuplt imo, especially in the torso and hip armour.

Finally a straight up comparison shot. Well that seals it for me, Megahouse win by a mile. And both need support, the deisgn has a huge great backpack sticking out and wheels on struts, there's no way either of them would ever stand on their own unless you could put ballast in the front part of the armour.

I can't wait to see the reasoning used around here to say "Yamato should have made these" when Bandai turns out a fantastic toy you can both afford and play with. Seriously, I know Bandai has stiffed Macross in the past, I've seen those toys and yes they're dissapointing. But those toys were cheap, easy efforts for a licence they weren't really backing. But this time Bandai has said they're doing a chogokin large sized Valkyrie, that won't be a cheap easy effort, it will be a fantastic toy.

Ray was showing as low stock at HLJ so I requested shipment, fingers crossed.

Chances are that Kaiyaido will do a Revoltech one now they're doing that red and white AS.

Not nessacraily a month, could be early March. Maybe their shipment from the factory was delayed and they can't ship them out till necxt month now, who knows.

It's the movie version of Ingram 1, it says so on the poster displayed at wondefest so it's not a rumour or nowt. The poster in question, http://www.hlj.com/hlj_gallery2/v/wonfest/...C_9393.jpg.html

I don't think any of those are the flagship 1/60 Chogokin though, the Wonderfest reports mentioned simpler 1/100 figures so probably those.

Well HLJ have changed their ride armours to a March release as well if it makes you feel any better.

I saw it mentioned on TBDX, thought someone woulda posted it in the CM's Patlabor thread. Hadn't seen those scans though, cheers Graham.