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Yeah, I asked about the head shot but nobody answered

The green Alpha historically in toys has always been attributed to Yellow although yes, Rey does fly it occasionally. Rey also flies the Beta a couple times. The problem with his ride armor is that it's just a less cool version of Stig's. What would be cool is if you could swap Stig's head with Rey's and they included the two pieces for the arms to convert the Ride Armor into whichever you liked (obviously you'd need a more robust sticker sheet as well). Do I think that would ever happen? No... not it a toy, just models. Unlike most my other reviews that take several months to come out, I'll preorder these to get them pretty quick and do as thorough a review as possible on my site.

The Gakken Tread (Lansey Tread) is 1/72 scale and is tiny. That toy would be absolutely useless in Toynami's hands. Check out my review of the 1/72 Alpha if you need to know why the 1/72 Beta would be so usless by clicking here. Robotech.com made a big deal out of the Cyclones and Shadow Fighters on their page but no mention of the Beta. I think Mog has the right attitude just yet.

Yep, when I read Eugimon's first post I was like "Yeah, I totally see what he's talking about." So, I decided to scour my pic collection for stills of the Alpha/Beta to prove what his point was. Unfortunately, I only have one still of the two combined (most my stills of the Beta are it in battloid kicking butt). Here's the one still I have... looks like it pretty closely resembles the Toynami. That's probably just because the two combined looked better in some episodes than in others. As was said, LOTS of anime magic in Mospeada...

So the rules are all Macross toys made by Yamato? Or is it all Macross toys in general? If it's all Macross toys in general the Takatoku 1/100 series (except Max) and an ultra minty VF-1A HCM at a bargain price are the only things I'm lacking (of stuff that exists that I want) . There's also one old Mospeada toy I haven't tracked down. Beyond that it's whatever comes out!

Toynami is certainly an anomaly at the moment. We see the Beta and then it vanishes and is completely replaced by the Macross figures. Then Macross figures vanish and are completely replaced by New Gen stuff. Seems to me that Toynami isn't capable of carrying more than one big production at a time. If they're going back to Robotech to take advantage of Shadow Chronicles then it may take a while for them to get back to Macross... I don't know though, the Macross line seems too cheap and easy to ditch and it doesn't seem like it's selling to bad either.

The poseable hands on the VF-1 series blow away anything done by Yamato to date. They might not be the best poseable hands on any toy ever but they work pretty darn well. If the Alpha hands were remolded out of a different material they'd be stellar (although I don't have one in front of me so I think they may be lacking in the wrist articulation field). I'm happy with swappable hands though but I would like for one set of hands to work in both modes.

Ooh, looks like there might be a targeting scope hidden away in the right chest piece.. I'm a little confused about where the front shocks are going to go, the Armor mode pics don't seem to show them anywhere (on the models and toys they're very promient over the arms). I think the wonkiness is mostly contributable to the fact the bike looks a bit too small for the rider.

Nice how they didn't transform that Alpha correctly (nice wing Noob)!!! I was thinking about it, with more Alphas coming out that just makes more likelihood for the Betas at some point. I really hope we get one as it will validate my owning so damn many Alphas... Out of curiosity, what did you want to see in this toy that isn't present that is bumming you out? I can't tell from your comment if you just don't like the Beta (which is a big box with wings) or if you think this toy makes the fact it is a big box with wings too apparent.

11lbs 11oz??? Was he late? Obviously congratulations. Edit - she? Yeah, I'm an idiot... I think I was too busy staring at the weight!

Gakken made models also. I don't own any but Totoro's pic would be, if it's correct, the picture of the Gakken model, not the toy you're thinking of. I believe the toy is 1/8 scale, not 1/12 scale.

You know, for their size Kaiyodo did pretty well for the detail on their destroids. I totally think a 1/60 scale Destroid would be fine.

Anyone looking for Lancer's swords in New Gen (or Mospeada) won't see them. His ride armor has them but they're never in the animation. I don't like the Cyclones as toys. Honestly, the MPC Alpha is a step-up from Imai's kit and I'm sure the Cyclone will also be much better than the model kit. That said, 10 to 20 years later a toy should be a TON better than that model and once again Toynami's mild improvements just won't be enough. That said, there's no way this will be a three volume MPC, we'll see Fuke and Rey no doubt, as well as a Vince in synchro attire. It's very depressing to see that the Shadow figures are just the exact same Alphas with different hands/heads/paint jobs. I don't see an obvious improvement in any way... except they knew to take pictures to hide the arched back. Let's hope there's improvement that fixes that. Obviously no ball joints at the hip and I doubt they took the diecast out of the forearms so don't expect anything good from Shadow toys.

NOOOOO!!!!! <gasp gasp> NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Lancer better have real friggin' swords.

Hey Graham, why is there a close-up of the head in that first flyer? Did they change something there?

I think it was pretty clear that there situation was hopeless. The Haydonites were handing them their tuckus. They didn't blow up the shipyard just to wax people, they did it to survive and escape in a POS colony ship. Also, most of the technology present in that complex had been modified in some way due to Haydonite help (note how the entire defending force all gets mowed down because the Haydonites know those ships are using their technology) so it's not like anything in that major base was going to be useful at all without a lot of time & effort (and Maia and crew took the few things that were useful). So, blow up a now obsolete space station to survive or... die. I don't think that seems too crazy to me. The NS Missile thing still doesn't seem that crazy to me. Regardless of what Reinhardt said, we know that they're Haydonite technology and that they move real slow. So, launching them at the Haydonites doesn't seem very intelligent. Hiding it within the structure the Haydonites are approaching? That seems like a clever (if not cliche) rouse. Besides, they create a black hole, if you launch them you're still probably going to lose that space station.

Whatever the deal is that's been worked out, apparently HG can use Macross all they want in print and video games but absolutely, under no circumstances, can anything Macross appear animated. I have no idea how that works but it's pretty clear from the comments being made and the merchandise sold that HG CAN and will use Macross where possible but will run like h*ll away from it in anything that will be shown on TV or in a theater. I agree 100% with your statements on the recap. There seemed to be a lot of fear from the writers about discussing the first arch of Robotech. I would imagine they were trying to be as non-specific as possible as to not get new viewers lost right from the get-go but I sure don't think that's how it plays out. I've read a lot of reviews on the show now from a lot of different sources now. The animation is generally panned as being standard at best for five years ago, the character designs are generally panned for being cookie-cutter with odd proportions, and the story is generally panned as being catered to the existing fans and having no resolution. The third complaint usually brings out the ire of Robotech fans (again, who the story was catered to) who point out that the movie is meant to be the start of something, not the end. It's funny though, some very large criticisms are heaped on the film but the score almost always ends up being average rather than terrible.

With the Internet nothing is impossible to buy. You could have started by asking if anyone could pick one up for you. As I'm in the bay area I might be able to help. Heck, Roger might be able to help also.

So are they starting with the Ride Armors or jumping straight to the Legioss SHUSH!!! A man can dream.

Ooh I hope that's true.

I, for one, would be totally fine with the Zentraedi being renamed the "Zents" in Robotech. I dont' think that would stir and legal commotion and it sounds like it just might be a natural English-ifying of an originally alien term.

Pehaps the girls can come with inflatable chests...

I agree to an extent but doesn't Marcus say "We should kill all aliens" or something to that effect. I think it was written as it was to play on Marcus' ignorance... although I thought "I'm half Zentraedi" would have sounded better also.

I'd give her the ol' motorboat.

See, what ya gotta understand is, through some mysterious attribute of Protoculture the Zents were able to be huge. Once humans got this technology it was only a matter of time before they started applying it to specific body parts. All the dudes have macronized wangs and all the chicks have macronized boobs, that's the miracle of Protoculture!