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I think that's the Toynami curse. Toynami always floods the market with too much of their product so everyone waits for it to get dropped down in price to buy. I'd be lying if I said I didn't do that too. I always buy the first line of each new product the moment its released (Blue Alpha, Beta, etc) but on the repaints I always buy them like six months later at a drastically reduced price. With the Beagles I don't feel so bad, I bought each Beagle as it was released and then waited a long while before purchasing a Scott Toynami and still haven't bought a Rand Toynami. Toynami has to carry some of the blame for that kind of behavior. With the demise of the MPC Cyclone though I think you have to look at the double-whammy of the sudden Ride Armor competition that was happening and a global recession. That's tough to overcome even without some customers playing the "wait and try to get it for half price a year later" mentality.

http://www.over-drive-inc.com/store/produc...products_id=949 The website isn't overdrive.com... see link above.

I was going to say that it looked like an odd Legioss when I first looked at it. It needs some tweaks but it's still impressive work. If I ever have spare time again in my life I would love to be able to work on stuff like this.

Don't take it too personally HappyPenguins, I'm convinced this is just idle hands over at HG. They've probably got Shadow Rising all figured out. Heck, by this point they probably even have the whole Shadow storyline mapped out and re-mapped out a dozen times. They probably have different versions planned for potential different budgets (both in series length and the sort of things they can show in each episode). Now they're at the point where they're waiting to see if WB will do something to let them use their high budget models. Since there really doesn't seem to be much progress with WB they're just kinda sitting around trying to herd the fanbase. If something appeared on the horizon they'd probably just let the detractors go since the next release would quiet everyone up. Since nothing is on the horizon they're micro-managing their fanbase and trying to eliminate dissent. Oh well HappyPenguins, welcome to the club. EDIT - I saw it quoted and couldn't live with my typos!

So if I want to put Kevin on the spot some time can I do it through Space Station Liberty? I've never checked it out? Is it just an HG lovefest of like-minded people indulging in group masturbation or do they actually say anything worthwhile? PS - I emailed Kevin to find out if my ban is permanent. I'm assuming now it is permanent because it seems like he'd have to admit he was wrong if he lets me back on the boards. As he was wrong, and doesn't seem like the kind of guy who likes admitting that, I'm probably permanently on ice. I'm sure he hopes that I'll make some other screen name and try to log in so he can use that as the basis for my perma-ban but I'm not the type who'd bother with all that. What I am the type to do is keep repeating what Tommy said at Comic-con, that is that Shadow Rising is going to remain in pre-production in the hopes that WB will do something that will give HG more clout. Did they mention that on Space Station Liberty or did they come out with some new spin or say that Tommy was drunk and didn't mean what he said or something like that?

Since I'm in the middle of my move right now I'm having problems keeping up with the website. When things get a bit settled down I'll update that post and put the un-altered picture in and give you credit. That seems to be the right thing to do to me. Sorry I didn't research a bit more and find the original right off the bat.

Well, there's no guarantee that if you get your parts they will be any better. This is Yamato we're talking about. I just was thinking about putting my replacement VF-1S arms on my 1/60 Strike and I discovered that even one of the replacements is broken already before ever making it onto a toy. It did lead me to a new theory on why the cracks form but it still does boil down to a stupid fragile design. God I hope all my future 1/60s continue to do better. You SV-51 guys are in for a Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong wait. Yamato is trying hard to ditch existing inventory right now. I have my doubts that they'll ever kick back up SV-51 production again. Not trying to knock you guys, I know how much it sucks, I'm just saying that you're probably going to find someone parting out a broken toy before Overdrive will be able to help you.

The armor looks a little naked (could use some sort of markings) but otherwise she's a beaut

Yep Carl, I added that caption about stealing the picture because I was taking them from robotechcollections.fr without really asking permission. I've spoken with the person so I was pretty sure it'd be fine but I figured to be safe I'd make it clear where I got the pictures from. Apparently that person wasn't so diligent about labeling where he got his pictures from... Ya want me to go ahead and replace that cropped version I stole from robotechcollections.fr with your original which gives you credit?

What I really got banned for was pointing out that Kevin was wrong. Whatever, that place is a den of misinformation at the moment and it's a whole lot less frustrating trying to set them straight than just ignoring the whole scene. I just checked the thread of my banning, Kevin seems to now be implying that I, a master seargent and not nearly enough free time to pull off that rank while loggin in under other names, had multiple accounts and since I didn't quote Tommy word for word exactly as it was spoken at Comic-con I was "putting words in his mouth." Yeah, right, somebody should put up the unedited film from Comic-con so everyone can hear Tommy say loudly and clearly that Shadow Rising will remain in pre-production while they wait to see what kind of roads WB opens up for the Robotech franchise. The man said it there and so it should be something we can say to all Robotech fans... but I think Kevin is still reeling from getting yelled at for calling the extended pre-production a "hiatus". If you ever decide to stand up to all the crap, I think your eventual banning will be good for you. You can only argue in circles with people who feel it is their duty to lie to the members of that forum for so long before you're wasting a ton of time and energy that can be sent on your own projects. It's a shame that nothing will happen to prove how wrong everyone is about the rights issues over there (especially if the movie never happens). If the movie does happens Memo will make up excuses for why the Macross elements were abandoned way before he'll admit he was wrong. That's the kind of people you have to argue with there... not really a worthwhile venture.

I'm fairly certain that's been translated before somewhere. It's a diagram of the longer range militaries joining with Mars Base for an assault but I forget the nuances.

Whoa, watch your tongue! I'm currently enjoying a ban from robotech.com for two reasons: 1) I repeated what Tommy says at conventions (and even Memo heard what I heard and world knows we never agree) and 2) things I said here that Kevin McKeever didn't like. You keep telling the truth and slamming Kevin and you're going to have one less place you can hang out online.

I have a box of these coming, I'll be sure to share my experience.

I knew someone would do that damaged diorama eventually. Amazing, simply amazing!

on the question about yellowing, the 1/48 I have that is yellowing was purchased second hand. In my posession it's be in a cool dark environment with little sunlight (mostly in storage). I have a few other 1/48s that show no signs of yellowing yet including a Hikaru 1J and LV1. The V1 1/60s yellowed pretty bad pretty quick, obviously no problems yet on the V2.

It's just poor writing. Let's face it, HG is pretty much just a staff of fans. Some fans have computer skills, those become the web guys. Some fans have an art background, they become the creative guys. Some fans were just sycophants.. and they're still just sycophants. Honest question here, besides creating Shadow Chronicles, had anyone at HG ever written anything of note before?

It's not just clear, it's rainbow coated like the canopies of the Yamato VF-1 toys (or so I hear). The idea was to really give it the fold effect. I believe I have one on order and will be doing a full review... after it's released and actually in my position... after I have moved

I'm okay with boob play in anime but the female character designs in Shadow Chronicles were actually distracting on my first watching of that movie. It really did look like they took the same body and put different outfits on it to make different people. This wouldn't have been so noticeable if the one body they cut and pasted wasn't that of a banging porn star.

Seriously, that red shirt has to work the poles as soon as she's off duty. The folks at the cafeteria must always wonder why she pays with glitter covered ones that smell like coconut.

My 1/48 VF-1S has a yellowing chest plate Yamato toys vary from greatness to full on suckitude. I'm glad I drastically reduced the pilots whose planes I would purchase a long time ago. I'm guessing this global recession is going to really nail the toy hobby eventually and interesting things will come of it (besides toys we really want being cancelled).

Yeah, I might have gotten one but it ends up being the $190 MSRP plus a $50 finder fee plus $50 to ship it to the US and nearly $300 is just too rich for a 1/48.

Well I just got temp banned from Robotech.com.... because of things I've said here! For the record, Tommy totally did say what I wrote. I quoted from memory though and offered to let Kevin give me the exact quote but instead he freaked out and banned me. Apparently saying something is "Untrue fanboy speculation" is also worlds different from saying "ignorant fanboy." That's it for me bringing Robotech.com drama to Macrossworld though (for obvious reasons ).

Still moving. The only way you'll hopefully be able to tell is that you'll be seeing reviews on my website for older toys... I'll still be posting their and on forums though.

Yamato is not going to be interested in Mospeada after Beagle's recent failure. Even Mega House didn't find it worth the effort to finish their line. CMs really has Mospeada covered and having had those three companies alone saturated the tiny Mospeada market. Dump on top of that the Aoshima debacle (being made better with a high quality Tread release) and there's just not much of a draw for any other toy company to throw their hat in that ring. Mospeada was big enough for one dominant toy company to make good use of the license but it wasn't nearly popular enough for the landslide we got. So sad.

I kinda have to wonder if the mods at HG aren't intentionally misleading the forum members there. I wonder if Kevin and Tommy kinda gave 'em a pep talk and said "Listen, fans will probably ditch our brand if they hear we can't keep using the Macross designs so please try to keep people believing we can." I mean, I was never one before to believe that HG was that slimy but they did steal one of my pics for their convention tour and a few of their mods are acting so ignorant it seems like it has to be forced. I wonder if they're really on to something. I wonder if Robotech's fandom would dry up in a huge way if people thought there was no hope of ever seeing a Zentraedi officer pod fight and Invid Royal Command Unit or something like that. EDIT - I slipped in the stealing of my pic more for humorous reasons as it's kind of non-sequitor and I just like pointing it out