jenius

Yes, Voltron is #1 of this series.

I got an email back from OD yesterday essentially just letting me know vacation was over. I also had a problem with my Spam filters catching their emails when I first started talking to them.

Just a little FYI, Toynami's Battlepod release is rumored to be concurrent with the Maia MPC second edition. I'm not sure if this had been mentioned before. I really doubt HG makes much off toy releases though.

My cover on the foot is loose on one of my Ride Armors also, it was so minor I didn't look into fixing it. Also, the Beagle/Toynami is actually a more complicated transformation than the animation so you can blame them... kinda. Basically they went through and had to figure out how to do it without "magic" and the only way they could figure out to pull it off and not take things off and add them back later was the transformation we got. It's a spectacle of engineering to be sure but the sheer complicated nature definitely makes this feel like a collector's item to be posed in one mode or the other, not a toy one should expect to transform often. PS - Got new Mospeada products in but haven't had a chance to open the boxes: 1) Drone Legioss (CMs) 2) Improved Legioss/Tread (CMs) 3) Riding Figure Set (CMs) 4) Character Figure Set (CMs)

That was really terrible.

Both are blown on my Roy 1S

I would guess that Yamato opted against metal shoulders for cost reasons. I think that plastic shoulders also works better in that there's some "give" to the part since it swivels and has two different primary positions. Essentially this "give" makes the shoulder connectors nicer to all the other plastic parts involved which allows the toy to be a bit tighter overall. Finally, the plastic can be molded in color whereas a metal part would probably remain unpainted metal. Personally though, I'd prefer metal and a shoulder that didn't break over those benefits.

Mospeada could have had a great prequel mini-series. It also could have spawned a full saga if handled properly (had it been SUPER popular). The Mospeada universe wasn't all that flushed out by the story of a rag-tag team driving to North America.

It's kind of hard to believe this is going to be some silly oversight. Even the replacement arms I was sent, that had never been on a valk, cracked from the pressure of the pin.

Ask Kevin why Tommy Yune said that HG wasn't going forward with SR until WB did something with the Robotech name at Comic-con and how that is different from a "hiatus." That's what got me banned... and I'm pretty sure I was simply banned because Kevin was sent off to New Orleans during Comic-con and didn't get to hear Tommy come clean. Since Kevin got in so much trouble for saying "hiatus" he can't believe that Tommy goes around saying "yeah, we're not going to move Shadow Rising until WB puts us in a better position" because it's so unfair that Tommy gets to be honest with the fans while Kevin has to be constantly lying.

Yeah, I got banned from RT.com and in hindsight I wished it had happened years ago. Talk about a waste of time. Does that mean I swore off Robotech merchandise though? No, I still buy stuff. Would I buy anything from RT.com? No... but that was like one item every other year at the most so they cost themselves like $2.50 by banning me.

Is it too soon to start waiting for the 1/48 V2? I was really hoping we were beyond the broken shoulders but that looks exactly like the same issue from the original Roy toys. I guess in the absence of an official confirmation from Yamato that the problem is fixed it's not right to assume it's long behind us. "More caution at the factory" can only go so far.

Not to be rude... but the only difference you would be able to see is the head... the GBP covers like 90% of the toy. I guess if you like posing the toy so you see it's back that might be something different. I took pictures of the 1/48 GBP on just about every 1/48 VF toy (although I shrank 'em too small so the pics don't look all that wonderful) but what I learned from that experience was that the GBP pretty much looks the same on everything.

I was under the impression they're still on vacation so I haven't expected any response. I guess I'm going back to work tomorrow (their today) so I would hope for a response some time this week. From the sounds of it I'll bet they're pretty inundated. EDIT - The Hik GBP was released 12/29. That means it's been like ONE, maybe TWO business days since it would have been received. I'm in the same boat, I ordered seven items to ship all when the GBP was released.

I would hope in the Avatar universe "unobtainium" is slang for some large scientific name or the commercial name of the element.

I'm waiting for the following items from three different sources: 1) Yamato 1/60V2 Hikaru VF-1J with GBP Parts 2) Yamato 1/60V2 Focker VF-1S Strike "Plus" Edition 3) Yamato 1/60V2 Elintseeker 4) Bandai DX Macross Quarter 5) Bandai Robot Damashii Q-Rea 6) Bandai Robot Damashii Alto 7) Bandai 1/250 Collection 2 (1 Box) CMs Drone Legioss 9) CMs Mospeada figure set

Robot Damashii is non-transformable, like Yamato's GNU Mac+ series. They're not really to any scale either, I believe they're slightly smaller than a 1/100 scale toy.

I think this was my favorite pic from the updated post I did on the Stealth.

The more common comment is that the GBP VF-1 looks a lot like a hockey goalie. It makes sense either way, a humanoid form wearing bulky pads.

1/48 fits on all 1/48s... you're doing something wrong but I'm afraid I can't help you figure out what's up.

The trick is making a similar plot line FEEL fresh. Giving it a twist here or there. Avatar doesn't do this. It's one thing to say stories have similar plot points. That's bound to happen. Movies also normally have a pretty traditional format with three major acts, introductions, difficulties, resolutions. As long as the movie keeps you on your toes by misleading the viewer occasionally that's not an issue. Avatar never really attempts to mislead viewers. It points you in a direction and then takes you down that path. It's a pretty path... but not a surprising one.

My guess is, they made the switch, they went on vacation for the holidays, and now something is hung up and they're not around to fix it and even if they were there'd be no orders sent for a week.

I'm in the same boat with OD but I find it hard to believe all the old accounts are just gone. Maybe they'll make you create a new account but there's still a lot of old order information in with the old accounts. At least this doesn't look to be another Amenbo situation.

I know it seems unobtainium took a back seat in the film, and I think maybe we're missing a cut scene, but the unobtainium is the perfect conductor so that's theoretically how everything on the planet is connected. I think they were trying to dumb the film down to appeal to as many people as possible so they didn't focus too much on the undoubtedly very loose science that kept the fictional world together. I heard there was some featurette where it was explained that large unobtainium deposits also have large magnetic properties which is how the mountains fly and why sensors don't work and such. So, while it's not explained well it's playing a crucial part.

I'm waiting for a bunch of other toys to arrive so I can picture them all together. It probably won't be for at least another week . I'm looking forward to it but there's a lot of other things going on right now.