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Linky! The Big Escape! I remember seeing this as a lurker and being amused as hell. Not sure where the original poster got the figures from. But you might wanna try asking nightmareb4macross if he's recasted any.

It may have been buried. But this thread was never forgotten. Don't have much new stuff to post in this thread yet. But that'll probably change next spring/early summer. (Already have a few ideas brewing for this and the "Strike a Pose" threads!) P.S.--Thanks Toboro! I had a feeling they were different colors.

Spanking?! Must.........not............make..........obvious......joke!

I really haven't been following Toynami for awhile now (or they haven't updated their website....same difference), but did they ever release their Shadow Chronicles recolored Alpha? I figured that little bad boy/turd would be their next release.

I won't disagree that there were patches of Season 3 where the story really dragged (the love quadrangle anyone?). But those first few episodes of Season 3 absolutely rocked my socks off. Also, the look into life in the Cylon basestar and learning more about the inner workings of the Cylon culture were intriguing. And then, there was of course the season finale that pretty much turned almost everything on its head and set the table up for Season 4. As I said, I still have my issues with certain parts of the season (I still consider Helo's killing of the infected Cylons the worst plot contrivance of the entire series.), but I would easily say Season 3 holds its own against the other two seasons.

.....And lead us not back to Toynami (lest Toynami improves their quality). For thine (and mine) collections are empty without the power and the glory of the Tread...................Amen.

Thanks for resurrecting this thread! Is it just me, or do the grey parts on the Max Rau look to be a slightly different color than the grey on the Milia Q-Rau? Or is it just the lighting?

I really hope that price is inaccurate, because that's just unreasonable. Even if everything were perfect on this, that price would seriously give me some pauses. And with the issues I've already seen, there's no way in HELL I paid that much. I love me some Tread (and this Tread still looks good), but I absolutely refuse to pay that much for this combo. Geeze, do I have to add the phrase "reasonably priced" somewhere in my signature now?!

^^It was probably a compromise to keep the arms from dipping too low in fighter mode.

FINE!! You guys can have the delimiter mode, as long as it's not a floppy mess.... .....in Eugimon's Omega Pants.

- The best way to get a girl to notice and pay more attention to you is to crash your plane, preferably with said girl in it. - Unless it's strapped to the back of your ride, the only good Ghost is a DEAD ghost. - Don't point any sharp objects (such as knives or sticks) at anyone, unless you plan to hook up with said person down the road. (This rule does not apply to any sharp objects affixed to gunpods.)

Very nice work and pics. I think most of the folks here would agree: don't worry about not using the flash. The flash usually obscures a lot of details or oversaturates the brightness of the pic, making the Valk and its colors look slightly different from what they are in "real life." I'd also recommend rechargeable batteries. Even without using the flash, I typically have to switch them out at least once during a typical multiple pose photoshoot. (And it'll save you from having to buy a ton of batteries for your digital camera .)

As I've said before, I'm more for solid joints and tons of posing options. So, I'm actually against adding the delimiter mode. Visions of floppy or broken joints just worry me too much. It's more an issue of QC concerns than anything else. Besides how can Guld be a hardcore blocking the Ghost's direct shots if he doesn't have his tailfins/shields? What's he going to do?! Bleed all over the Ghost?!

To eugi, no need to apologize; we were posting at the same time. I wasn't posting in reply to your post there. To Dante74, I don't know if I just made the delimiter mode more cool or uncool. But I just had to watch that Black Knight scene again after thinking this up. That whole scene still kills me!!!

So much for my attempt to lighten the mood of the thread (or at least getting us to discuss the delimiter mode pros/cons again). I'd say more, but it's not my place to say nor is it appropriate for the thread.

I just looked back at the two sets of pics from the hobby mag scans (the old grey prototypes and the somewhat recent black prototypes). And unfortunately, it doesn't look like the intake/chest holes were made any bigger. I think the black color of the prototype kinda obscures a lot of the details. As I said, you can tell they tweaked the connecting boom every so slightly. And I'm pretty sure the fully opening Tread cockpit was only recently revealed. But a lot of the big issues we've been mentioning are still in the prototypes. What's weird is that in some pics it looks like the tailfins go completely into the Legioss arms. But in others it's partially exposed. Probably a mistransformation, but still leaves me a bit worried.

Should I start the next round of "b!tching"? Apparently, I found a super-secret snapshot of the upcoming YF-21 in delimiter mode : ................. ................. ................. ................. ................. .................

You wanna know what the saddest thing is about all this? If I were to disregard Toynami's well-earned "reputation," I'd easily find myself longing for Toynami's version of the Beta right now. Sure, Toynami's Beta has issues where the cockpit doesn't hide/disappear in battroid mode. But it can do the A-stance, and the combos both in fighter and battroid mode look fairly accurate. Add to that, Toynami's actually modified and improved its Beta sculpt a bit since its intial introduction. Of course, we're going into Year 2 (or 3) of their "preproduction" phase . But that's a whole other headache. That's what's so frustrating about this whole Tread/Beta situation: I wanted CM's to come out with a kick-ass product. But they just seem so damn unwilling to make any kind of changes or improvements to the sculpts. Remember, these things were originally supposed to come out last summer. With all this extra time, what have they done to improve the sculpt, design, or look of these items?

- If you're a bad guy, avoid taking on the rookie pilot in the first episode. - Apparently, some of the best pilots wear glasses while flying. (So, what if you wear glasses AND drink like a mad, mutha-Focker? ).

Nice, Black Valkyrie!! I kinda wish you went for the Force choke somewhere in there too.

Dammit eugi!!! Both of their gunpods are way too small. And the gunpods aren't BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wohoo! Got us to the next page!

Let me preface this by saying that I still love those pics of the D'Stance YF-21 (Hell, I still have the website bookmarked). BUT I do see an issue with the D'Stance's "beefy" legs: there's some rather unsightly gaps around the joints, especially at the knees. As for Yamato's offerring, my only concerns with the feet and legs are that they be poseable as heck but sturdy enough to easily hold the battroid upright. Honestly, the "look" of the legs never really bothered me all that much. Edit: Geeze Dante74!! Are you mentally deficient or something?!!!

You know, I'd like to say it's just prototype pics and just wait for the final product. BUT the issues we've been complaining/hoping CM's would change haven't been resolved. As I said way back in April, they needed to fix the fighter combo connection. They haven't. Sure, they've made the connecting boom a little bit thicker. But it's not enough to make a significant improvement on the fighter combo's overall look. Since the first pics of the Legioss in fighter mode came out, people have been concerned about the stretched-out nose and scrunched-up arms/boosters. What, if any, improvements has CM's done to the sculpt in these areas? Look, I knew when we first saw these back in February that they were going to be a more stylish/artistic interpretation of the Legioss and Tread. But there are certain things you just can't change on the design (like how the two should be flush when in fighter combo mode). Yeah, I'll probably buy one of these ('cause I really, really want a Tread). But the day I finally get it will somehow be a little less glorious than I expected. In all likelihood, I suspect I'm gonna have to mod these ever so slightly to make 'em look a hell of a lot better.

Umm, can we go back to posting pics of Zardoz and calling each other mentally deficient? (Dante74, stop. It was a JOKE. Leave the Zardoz pic back on your hard drive. )

Alrighty, still getting over a hangover right now, but here's my impressions of the latest pics. (Thank you for the link, Black Valkyrie!!) The Tread by itself still looks good. Though I'm hoping those overhead missile launchers fold down more when in bomber mode. If that's the furthest they fold down in these pics, then that's just shameful. Regarding the linkup, !@#$*$%^*&*(#$%, mother of frak!!!! Wasn't I railing about this since last March or April?!!! It's not so much that the Tread is too high up. It's that the Legioss is sitting too low. Why can't they force the Legioss to sit higher up? It'd make the combo a helluva lot better looking, and it'd allow the Legioss' feet not to be splayed out so much. ARGHH!!!!!!!! Tons of lineart, pics, and models depicting the thing, and never, NEVER do they show the combo looking so "split-level" like this. MAKE THE COMBO FLUSH, CM's!!!!!!!!!!!!! As for the Legioss, the less said, the better. Between CM's apparent stubbornness about its sculpt inaccuracies and Toynami's "we don't have the balls to produce and release our Beta" attitude, it's just a bad time to be a Tread-head.