CoryHolmes

Actually, I rather like these. Understated, subtle, and not too busy on the covers and a clear reflection of the original movie posters from '77.

Then you'll probably be pleased with the knowledge that the MPC Cyclones are coming after the MPC Alphas.

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest George Sohn's crotch for not having the goddamned decency to at least TRY and produce a Super Poseable Hovertank or Ajax.

Amen to that. I've recently taken a shine to Southern Cross again, and I'd LOVE some VHTs and Ajax toys in Superposable form. Same with the Bioroids.

But what'd I really love to see are the various armours for all the 15 armies of the Southern Cross. In super-posable scale, those would rock. Since they have faceplates, there's no need for "lifelike" faces on them, which would make construction and painting easier.

Then you'll probably be pleased with the knowledge that the MPC Cyclones are coming after the MPC Alphas.

Pleased? Oh, not so you'd notice...

GIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMME!!!!!!!!!

How'd you find out this little nugget of goodness, Cyc?

Legioss....and a Beta...and some Invid...

Don't forget the Cyclones! They need some love, too

Don't forget that console systems can be hooked up to large-screen TVs, 7.1 surround sound with the subwoovers so deep it makes your bones rattle.

Most computers can't do that

Looks awefully familiar....

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~cyc01/images/ra-cutaway.jpg

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Which only makes we Cyclone Lovers drool

I switched from a PS2 to the Xbox simply because all the games I wanted to play were either out for it or coming out, and I didn't want to upgrade my PC every two months to play the new hot game.

I got the Xbox mainly for the Star Wars games (PS2 gets shafted when it comes to SW titles)

Borg Schmorg. Give a Rifts-style PA anyday. Glitterboys rule

With all the registered folks at RT.com, why haven't the MPC's sold out?

Because the market was (and still is) flooded with many, many different variations of the VF-1, including the more technical Yamato products. As said in previous statements, these toys are geared to the more mature collector and the larger wallet said collector usually has.

The downside to that is the fact that the more mature collector tends to do a little research and find out which other products are out there and how much they cost. In this case, the MPC was a middle-class product in the massivly over-saturated VF-1 market.

However, the Alpha MPC is the only game in town for a fully transforming Alpha toy outside of the massively priced Gakkens that only pop up on Ebay and other auction houses, and even then in increasing rarity. Now take a look at the differences between the old Gakken and the new MPC and you'll see that the MPC is much more line-art accurate (if such a thing is possible, given how much morphing the Mospeada mecha used during transformation) as well as with more gadgets tossed in (missle hatches, pilot figure, boxed-up Cyclone, etc.) and you should see that the MPC Alpha is a pretty good interpretation of the anime mecha.

The only thing that will limit the Alpha sales are the price (a tad high for what we've been shown in the pictures, but not obscenely high) and questions about quality (which every company is subject to).

Robotech and Mospeada fans have been frothing at the mouth for a toy like this to come along, and it was extremely doubtful that someone would fire up old Gakken molds and reproduce those toys (unlike Bandai, which quite happily reissued their 1/55th series amid all the new VF-1 toys).

looks okay.

my problem with this flick?

No United States Colonial Marines with M41A Carbines, Flamethrowers or Smart Guns.

GIVE US WHAT WE WANT FOX!!!

Don't forget their ever-useful welding unit. It's the welder that makes the marine, really.

However, I wouldn't be surprised if they're waiting to use the Colonial Marines in a possible sequel.

That's some amazing piece of work, Fulcy. That set of armour is almost making me buy a 1/48th to put under the armour

Any chance you could give us a step-by-step on you go about making something like this, a la Mascato and WM Cheng?

That's exactly the type of anti-Harmony Gold diatribe that I have seen on this website for about 2 years straight

Agreed. Frankly, I think that some people just react to anything Robotech/HG/Toynami the way a vampire reacts to a cross or garlic. It is completely imotion driven.

Welcome to MacrossWorld, a place of good news, good information, and the largest conglomeration of Elitist Macross Fans around.

To those of us that actually *gasp* enjoy Robotech as as we do parts of the Macross universe, we're definitly in the bad on this site. Get used to the derogitory comments, blatant hounding, and out-and-out insulting by some of the more vocal members.

Any new updates about the release date or pictures of the Alpha fighters?

I'm not a fan of the Stampede variant. If it had a little more guns on it, we might as well start calling it a Gundam and be done with it.

That being said, that was a great little 1/72 kit. Good details on it.

Either way, it's still a HUGE station if it's in scale with the moon like that.

Personally, I'd doubt it was that size. In Robotech, humanity's resources were stretched thin enough as it was in the Second Generation that I doubt they could afford to spend the material and time building something that large.

I dont think it is Toynamis design that we are bashing. It is HG and Toynamis crazy pricing for this item and HGs evil buisiness practice.

Any chance we might be able to get away from that and back onto the toy? Afterall, this IS the MPC toy thread, is it not?

Well, I just couldn't wait

Oh, believe us when we say we don't mind your impatience one bit

*a big non-transforming monster fan - not everything needs 3 modes just to be cool

It does in Macross, it seems.

I'd love to see any Guyver artwork. Mospeada too, if they're in there.

Thanks, A7!

Just a simple question, really:

When people are talking about the price is worth it due to the scale, workmanship and details, I have to ask... what details?

All I see is a simple toy with few panel lines, swappable parts, an inarticulate pilot, and that's it.

What details make this toy worth the asking price?

I'm glad Vader isn't going to have much screentime. It'll make any time he DOES have that much cooler

One thing I like so far is that they really captured how these things do not look like good guy mecha. These evas look mean, properly organic and look like they need to be restrained.

Indeed, that's a very nice touch. But the potential problem with that is that it might be revealing one the series' best secrets too early in the game.

Thanks, Anubis!

And yeah, I remember that hanger room pic from before. I just wish I could read the text at the bottom of the picture.

Any idea when our next movie fix- err... DC DVDs are coming out?

So you didn't laugh when Exedol burst into song because he didn't know Minmay's name?

One of my least favourite scenes in the whole show.

Or when Millia told Misa that if she wanted to hold a baby she should make her own, then threw Komillia across the room?

Or Focker letting go of the steering wheel, standing up, and turning around in a jeep full of people to call Hikaru a dumbass?

I didn't say there was anything wrong with a bit of humour in the show. There always needs to be something to counter-balance the amount of seriousness and hard-core storytelling. I only take offence at the amount of cheesy munchkinism I see in Macross 7. THAT is something I dislike in the Macross Universe.

The original series was never really intended to be taken too seriously.

I'm afraid that I'll have to disagree with you on that point. I think SDF was to be taken very seriously, with bits of humour for flavour.

The show that changed the tone of the universe was Plus, not 7.

You're probably right on that account, which would explain why I don't like SDF or DYRL nearly as much as I enjoy Plus.

That's beside the point.  The point is that a captial-scale ship having hands and arms and a gunpod... is too far into cheeky munchkinism to be taken seriously in any show.

And before you get started, yes, I know that Macross 7 is much less than serious and it's supposed to be cheeky... but by doing so, it drags down the rest of the Macross universe with it.

You HAVE watched the original series, haven't you?

Please note that I said "too cheeky munchkinism". I can handle a little in Macross, as SDF proved with it's Daedalus attack, and even that ship transforming. I can handle that because it was in the story universe RIGHT FROM THE START.

Planes that transform? Yep. Captial ships that transfrom? Yep. Captial ships that transform and have hands and a pod... uhh... nope, that's new.

They changed the whole tone of the universe right from the start with Macross 7, and I don't like that very much. I prefer my Macross as a serious war and character story. To me, Macross Plus is the best example of what the Macross universe has to offer, even more so than SDF.

Anyway for those of us without the DC to get those live-action scenes? Hint, hint

EDIT:

Anubis hit it perfectly on the head. I agree perfectly with what he said.