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I'm pretty sure Eugimon has this one figured out... coming from a VF-1 familiarity those knees are a bit unexpected.

I'll have a review on my website probably about this time next week. Unfortunately I didn't take a comparison pic with a 1/48 (all my 1/48s were in storage at the time) so all I can do is echo Mowe's statements regarding size. It definitely has more of a presence than a 1/48 on a shelf, especially in Gerwalk/Artillery mode. Is this mech on March's M3 yet? If so you can get the overall dimensions, divide by 100, and that SHOULD give you a rough estimate of overall proportions.

Ugh, the 19's Gerwalk is wonky, the arms over the wings thing is just silly and it never sits or looks right. I'm on the VF-1 as the winner in the Gerwalk category with the Zero right behind it. My Fold Drive 19 should be coming in this week... sounds like I'll have to take some pictures to justify my opinion <GLEE>

I'm not sure it's the head sculpt sucking on the 1J as much as it is the neck is just too long. I think the 1A does the best job of hiding the neck and I think the 1S sculpt is so lame because they tried to elongate it to cover some of that neck up.

Says Graham as he whirls hirls his 1/60 Yamato 1S around the room... Just playin' of course. When fugly heads get in the way, it's just more time for Gerwalk or Fighter mode! With the fast pack I'm hoping the weaknesses of the 1/100 fighter mode will be largely concealed... time will tell. I'll be interested to see how well the display stand cup holds up to the extra weight of fast packs as well.

don't mind me, i'm feelin' nit-picky lately i guess,

I *think* the connector for the Alpha (in Soldier) to the Beta as seen above is actually part of (or supported by) the large display stand beneath. If this is the case than that should really help alleviate some of the strain. I'm really hoping the open cockpit of the Beta was just a quick mess-up by the person who put it together... (fingers crossed)

I think you guys use the term "vaporware" too freely. Vaporware is stuff that never shows up, like the Macross game on N64 or whatever, Toynami's stuff is just incredibly late to arrive. In the case of the Aoshima Legioss, it hasn't really been that long ago since news of it first broke, it's way too early to be calling it "vaporware" especially since it seems closer to release every time we see it and Toynami has announced that the fact its release is going to happen was a deciding factor in why the Beta is going to happen. Anyway, that's all just a matter of semantics. This is pretty spot on. The actual tweaks that would have been needed in the molds is small so its depressing to think they didn't happen. If the slots the upper winglets attached to were pushed forward just a bit that would have helped, the same with where the arms attach to the legs. These are not things that could be easily rectified from a hobby stand point. Usually when the 'banana' effect is exagerrated it's because of a problem with the transformation (or mechanisms involved with transformation). If something somewhere is getting snagged, or if the mechanism has too much flash or slop in the sleeve to collapse properly, you're pretty much screwed. With Toynami's *STELLAR* build tolerances you just never know what the scenario is.

Lynx, you seem a bit behind the times. A few misconceptions that have already been cleared up: 1) Aoshima isn't really "producing" anything, Toynami is supplying Aoshima with these toys. 2) The CMs corp Legioss/Tread has been delayed until some time next year 3) The Toynami Beta is due out for a release this year, it will be available in paint schemes that match the original MPCs and the Aoshima versions. I don't think the arched back has been fixed but the landing gear looks to be touching the plastic in that picture which means any banana syndrome must be pretty mild on that mock-up (although it'll probably be much worse on the actual releases).

On G4's coverage last night they showed a Legioss cosplay and a VF-1 cosplay in the backgrounds during some of their bits... it was pretty impressive stuff.

The Ride Armor in cycle mode dead center was sold by Gakken as 1/20 scale. The transformable ride armor that Gakken made is to the far left... and is also about 1/20 scale (maybe 1/22?) but with wonkier proportions. So the CMs version should be between the middle one and Matchbox's effort to the far right.

1/18 is just about the same size as the crappy Gakken smaller transformable Ride Armors... An interesting choice in scale. It seems it won't be competing much with the 1/10ish Toynami.

I liked the 87 film . I think we all have to accept that this movie is aimed at children... children who will demand toys from parents OUR age. Sad... but true. I think the 87 film actually caught flack as being way too mature for children, I think this one can get the opposite criticism.

The wii fit looks great with anything from Ikea!

I finally did a review of the set I got, you can check it out by clicking here. In the meantime, here's a teaser pic from the review:

Don't you think it'd be prudent to bump Macross25 merchandise into a much earlier release date so the toys can coexist with the airing of the animation?

LOL, looks like a bunch of wishful thinking to me. No 25th anniversary valks? No VF-1 repaint? A 0b and a 0d hot on the heels? Nah, I think anyone could have guessed on the YF-21.

If I may be so bold... if you're not familiar with 1/48 Fast Packs then you should definitely CLICK HERE. That will take you to a plethora of Fast Pack pictures... Not my best work, I'll have to clean it up some time, but certainly good enough for these purposes. Examples: That's the difference between DYRL and TV colors (slightly different hue) That's the difference between DYRL and TV arm armors.

Yes, the TV valks are a slightly different hue. There are comparison pics up on my website (anymoon.com), just look for the Yamato 1/48 Super VF-1J review. If it's not in that review it's in 1/48 Super/Strike Parts Review.

Need English subs...

If anyone is keeping tally, I would be way okay with the decepticon who obviously should be Soundwave being named Soundwave. He basically did everything important for the Decepticons... which I would say is what Soundwave should do. Sure, it's kinda lame to have the third (or arguably second) most important decepticon be 4' tall but giving him that important of a role seems to make up for it. Besides, him and Starscream are the big survivers... that seems important also.

No one should ever have faith in Toynami products regardless of release dates (and I seem to be one of Toynami's bigger "supporters" around here). Also, and separately, no one should ever have faith in Toynami release dates. If those toys had cards stating a release of next month and you went out and bought the VF-1J expecting it to be true you'd most likely be burned. Toynami has NEVER hit a release date.

Alright guys, don't hte me too much for not reading all 60+ pages of previous posts (although honestly, I did scan a few of them), but I just saw the thread on "Who do you want in the sequel" and Soundwave is winning? Was Soundwave not the Decepticon on Airforce 1 that transforms into a boombox?

I just saw the movie, here's my brief review from someone who watched Tranformers as a kid and that's it... haven't followed them since. I might just be echoing other people's opinions. I'll do it in bullet-style format since I'm feeling really lazy. 1) There is WAY too much intro and WAY too much "getting to know the humans" time. There were roughly 10 Transformers the audience was going to be acquainted with, a little more time to flesh (so to speak) those characters out could have gone a LONG way. This leads to my second point - 2) Did anyone care at all about any of the Transformers other than BumbleBee? Maybe we cared about Optimus out of some sentimental attachment but seriously, when Jazz gets ripped in half shouldn't that have been a kinda sad moment? Nobody in the audience cares because all we heard Jazz say was one sentence. 3) The camp... way too cheesy for an adult. I'm totally not holding that against the movie since I'm certain it's aimed at new children to sell toys to. For me, the scene with the Autobots hiding at the house went on way too long and the main Section 7 guy just seemed ridiculous. Above all though, a scene so bad it tainted the rest of the movie, when Soundwave (I'm assuming that's who he was) snuck off of Airforce 1. WHAT? He actually walks like a human, lifts a claw to cover his face, and scurries. Was that supposed to make me laugh? Also, everything having to do with the super hot chick's backstory was straight 80s date flick camp (again, kids might eat it up though). 4) The movie seems to have some pretty big logic issues. The Allspark only creates Decepticons? How did the autobots ever stand a chance? When Sam goes to put the Allspark in the Blackhawk, won't that Blackhawk just become a decepticon like the Escalade he bumped into en route? Also, how did Optimus know about the glasses? Sam didn't know yet, so Bumblebee wouldn't know yet, the Decepticons did know though, but how did Optimus know? 5) When you introduce a character as Optimus' "Weapons Expert" it is an absolute requirement later in the movie he lives up to the title. Sure, we got to see him fighting (his name escapes me at the moment) but he has been established as a bad *** so he should have had a scene where he just totally punked a Decepticon.... I'm talkin' blown to bits punked. 6) It was kinda cute that they listed statements from the original series/movie. I'm pretty sure i've heard Optimus' "Two of us will stand, one of us will fall" line before (that's probably a terrible misquote). The one sentence that didn't strike me as quite right was Megatron's "Starscream you have failed me yet again!" It was like 10 seconds after we see Starscream for the first time and all he's had time to do is mobilize the Decepticons. Sure, the Allspark isn't there but it hardly seems like Starscream's fault. All-in-all, I would say this film is totally average. I'm not particularly happy I spent $10 to see it but I've seen worse in theaters. Obviously the visuals are stunning.

IIRC the fast packs did not have any indication of a release date. It seems the MPC Beta is Toynami's current priority as it was the only one that had a prospective date of this year with others all being TBD... which certainly could mean this year... Really, if they're smart, a whole bunch of toys will get released in Sep/Oct to take advantage of the holidays.