jenius

I just checked out Slusho.jp for the first time. How is that thing related to Cloverfield again? Edit, I googled it, more JJ Abrams BS. I'll save myself the headache and just wait patiently.

Oh oops, guess i shoulda read more... I would have to look at the leg hooks... hmm

I believe he's talking about the big friggin' post that sticks out from the backpack. No, that isn't removeable. Ironically enough I just updated my review on my website to make this more clear: Click HERE to go to the full review.

Well at this point anything is possible but I'm thinking it will have no consistent scale because: 1) No scale has been mentioned, just an average size 2) The line will include mechs of various shows, not just Macross. So if you're building 100' tall super robots and 10' power armors then you can either throw scale out the window or make lines for particular shows in scale. Also, scale inhibits and it sounds like these toys are meant to be cheap (and thus extremely cheap for Yamato to produce).

So this is going to be a line of smaller toys not in any consistent scale right? Like a VF-11B in battroid will probably stand about the same size as a YF-19 in Battroid? That could be kinda cool, it might mean we'll get some tougher to make toys because of their size.

Same as any 1/48. They actually sold poorly initially and could be had pretty cheap at one point. I think $130-$150 shipped to the US would be what the average consumer paid but I know some companies slapped a premium on them since they were limited so some people might have scooped them up when they were fresh on the market for closer to $200 shipped.

He's just going to tell you that the helicopter was never in helicopter mode in space. The Auroran is a three mode, Battroid, Helicopter, and Fighter. In space it's in Fighter mode... which I believe is the same as helicopter mode but without the blades extended. I'm not making any arguments but I know that's the typical "All Southern Cross mecha suck, tanks with exposed drivers and helicopters in space" defense.

I wonder why the woman explodes though?

Well they could be fudging scales again like they did with the "1/72" version of the toy.

I'm a little afraid the CMs figures can't look up. In bike mode they both appear to be checking out their front tires.

Looks to have too much internal detail to be a toy schematic though. Am I wrong? What would be going on in the legs?

I couldn't disagree more. The BP8 is just a hinge, it's not supporting the weight of anything (except in Battroid). The only time it should be at risk of breaking is when you are removing or adding the boosters or when you are trying to lock the back pack into place in Battroid.

I'm certainly hoping they make the other two but I suppose sales of the first two will determine that.

A 1/48 Tread stands about the same height as a 1/55 valk. I wouldn't go so far as to call it "huge". The 1/48 Legioss is the same height as the Toynami MPC Alpha so the CMs Tread should stand the same height as the Toynami Beta.

The 25 still just looks like a VF-11 with an updated aesthetic and wonkier chest transformation to me.

That'd be awesome if we got a shot of two military guys arguing over which weapons to use and one of them busted out "Did you ever see Godzilla? What'd they use in that?"

Do you think that maybe the price is for both Rei and Stig?

Wow, I just noticed, look how low the nosecone dangles in armo-soldier mode. I guess that's a compromise for a better fighter mode.

You would need to see Bandai's release schedule, not Yamato's.

Yeah, the Legioss looks cool but off. The combined fighter also looks off... like the legioss is sitting too far in front of the Tread instead of nestled into it. The missiles on the Tread look really impressive though Man, I better start unloading some Yamato stuff.

Argh, while black might be great for showing mold problems it sure doesn't photograph well!! Ooh can't wait for color prototype pics.

The mist is definitely another movie, I saw the ad for it before Heartbreak kid.

I hope CMs stays stylized as then it makes it more worth it to have both. I like Toynami's for being truer to what I remember and CMs for just looking cool (although, like many others, I felt CMs missed with the Legioss).

I dunno, I think CMs is already retarded for not making it in a larger scale. We shall see how it turns out. When's the next big Japanese toy show??

Gamlin actually died while fighting the Protodevlin like three episodes before the finale. Everything that happens after that is alternate universe (in my mind). I mean, c'mon, we all see him die, how does he pop back up later and save the day?