Masked Aviator

Video introducing those B2Five figures:

https://www.taghobby.com/archives/548576

11 hours ago, enphily said:

I think they are waiting for Autumn WonFest

Agree. By past experience, Sentinel's Mospeada items usually displayed in Japan's toy show only. I don't know why. They never displayed mospeada prototypes in Hong Kong's any toy shows before.

On 11/16/2020 at 5:00 AM, jenius said:

On the b25 front... At least the display stand seems like a notable improvement.

Seems no progress at all, same grey prototypes w/ no coloring, since last display on Feburary 2020. Nine months by now.

On 10/1/2020 at 7:16 PM, Kuma Style said:

Will you do a review of this Legioss?

5 hours ago, vladykins said:

That makes the mystery of where TFSource got these even weirder if it is first release. It's like their initial outlay got lost in the mail or something. 

The 1st release should be sold out long ago. I wonder why TFSource is still in stock. It is a good deal anyway.

22 hours ago, vladykins said:

Sure. This one?

Yes. This is the 1st issue. Be careful when you transform it into armour-mode. You better first put something like adhesive tape in the belly of the figure before putting the bike on the body. Otherwise the metal rod of the bike might leave a stress mark or even scratch the belly. This was my lesson. I heard Sentinel fixed this issue in their 2nd release by fine tuning something.

22 hours ago, vladykins said:

Got my Stick ride armor from TF Source. The tape was cut on the box, but the box was in good condition and the toy inside looked untouched. No stress marks on the connectors either. Still don't know where these came from but since I waited to long and can no longer get Stick for retail, $20 more than retail is pretty damn awesome.

Congratulation! I always wanna get a second Stick. But it is too late. Once the Legioss was released, almost all Sticks were sold out.

Your Stick is 1st  or 2nd issue? Could you take a photo of the barcode outside the box?

3 hours ago, vladykins said:

I preordered the Stick and am waiting for September to see if it actually does release. I'm curious since I haven't seen any other re-release info anywhere but TfSource.

I wonder if it is a real preorder. I don't see this preorder anywhere else. Besides, arrives in September, very unlikely.

15 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

For those in the know, do you think that the stock that comes to the American retailers will be intial issues or reissues? Just curious, as I orderd mine through TFSource, and it wouldn't hurt my feelings one bit if we ended up getting reissues with some of the known issues fixed. I don't expect that's the case, but it's a nice thought.

I think Sentinel will fix those known issues as far as they can in the reissue, just like what happened to ride armour Stick.

2 hours ago, tekering said:

That's the influence of all the other European languages, of course, with their contradictory spellings and unique phonemes; if you research the etymology of "decal," it turns out to be a French abbreviation, which explains the inconsistent pronunciation.  Those of us unfamiliar with the French term are likely to read the word based on English phonetics, so we've got it wrong... but if enough people make the same mistake long enough, we end up with new pronunciations like "Paris" (completely different from the proper French pronunciation) that become established as unique for that language.  Japanese is full of these ignorant mistakes becoming full-fledged Japanese words, with consistent meanings and pronunciations existing separate from their original English roots.

He doesn't watch the shows often, but @jenius knows what he's talking about.  

The sketches are so cool! 

7 hours ago, jenius said:

Same as a VF-1, chair rotates and the pilot looks at monitors showing the action outside. I don't recall them every making a point of showing the cameras though... But one assumes they're in the head. The green one has the big obvious eye.

Thanks Jenius.  I see what you mean. It’s a common design in Japanese cartoon robot. However, it is weird that I can hardly see any opening of cameras in the head. The design of the head could be more stylish.

I never completely watched the cartoon. A silly question: Does Legioss have eyes? As the cockpit is inside the body and facing downward, how can the pilot see the surroundings and control the robot?

16 hours ago, Shawn said:

Did someone think the Bandai  DX SV 262 was just too easy to transform and we needed to 'up the game' ??
I literally was anxious watching this video seeing all the was needed to get it from one mode to the other, especially at this scale.
Every movement revealed another panel to open or slide or unhinge. It is an engineering marvel for sure, but I don't know if I have it in me to tackle this....

Definitely super complicated transformation! I dare not to buy it and transform it. It involves too many pivots. I doubt these pivots durability, especially from Sentinel.

Thank you Perxion. I’ve been waiting this for ages. You’re the best!

18 hours ago, jeniusornome said:

Just guessing at this - the Tread isn't an especially popular mecha, it's very large, so it would probably be $300+ given the price of the Legioss, and likely not a lot of people would want to buy more than one anyways? So making the matching "hero" one is a safe bet, if they make one at all, but making more than that might depend entirely on how the first one (and the line in general) sells.

 

Agree. I may not buy these Legiosses. In Mospeada only the armour bikes attract my attention. These motorbikes are the main dishes to me.

The macross valkyrie looks much better in jet fighter mode IMO (because they look like F14/F15?) .Of course die-hard mospeada fans will still get Legioss.

3 hours ago, adugifever said:

Do we have an idea on scale?

Looks like their usual figures 1:28 scale, so small, 2.5 inch?

In this scale, unlikely to transform. I check b2.five’s Facebook photos.

2 hours ago, mechaninac said:

It's completely clear, when applied and after it's cured.

As for Mr. Hobby; it looks like a perfectly viable alternative, bu I've never tried it myself.

Nice to know this cement as alternative. Thanks a lot mechaninac!

13 hours ago, mechaninac said:

You can try this stuff, or something similar:

https://www.micromark.com/Watch-Crystal-Cement-Two-1-3-oz-Tubes

Thanks mechaninac. It is crystal clear after becoming dry?

Have you ever used this "MR.HOBBY" glue?

10 hours ago, Guyffon said:

Yeah super glue tend to do that to transparent parts due to the glue vapours, when I need to glue transparent parts in my tamiya models, I use tamiya cement, not sure if that will work with these toys.

There is a kind of modelling glue specially for transparent parts. I may use that.

9 hours ago, kanedaestes said:

Mine was like that too. A little glue fixed it. It’s as if the glue they used wasn’t good enough 

Definitely. In Stick and Ray, they’d already used the wrong type of glue in the headlights.  There were whitening in the transparent parts.

13 hours ago, Mog said:

Windshield looks like it still has the front tab.  So, it should be able to tab back into place.

Didn’t need to use superglue to keep it in place.  But could be probably done as an extra step.

Regardless, just be careful not to push the windshield too far down when changing to armor mode.  It looks like you can push it in more, but then it starts to “lift” the windshield off of its place, making it more likely to pop off.

Thanks Mog. I guess I need to use some kind of glue to fix it, since the tab is not very deep. It popped off when I was transforming it back to bike mode. It happened when I was adjusting the “ level “ of it.

58 minutes ago, jenius said:

Is anything broken or just popped off?

Nothing broken (maybe a little in the windshield tab edge),  seems just popped off while transforming back to bike mode.

I play carefully and they still come loose....