RavenHawk

I prefer the more brooding face too. I know it's a cartoon, but I still don't like my cartoons too cartoony...

It is true that I, like most people here, will probably leave the helmet on almost all of the time. I just feel, for $200, it should be perfect, and I know this head sculpt is going to bug me.

The 1st pic of the Beagle on HLJ and the Toynami Ride Armor on BBTS are the exact same toy...

Look at this:

http://wildcats.pupui.jp/mt/archives/2008/...eview_pa_4.html

If you're talking about the Ride Armor/Cyclone, I believe the Toynami/RT one is a repackaged Beagle figure... the headsculpt is cartooney because it's from a cartoon

The Beagle one, not repackaged by Toynami, is MUCH less cartoony.

This is the first time I've seen the head sculpt for the Toynami/Robotech version, which I ordered last week.

I am REALLY disappointed. Why is it so cartoony?

So, do I cancel and get the Beagle instead? Isn't the Beagle more expensive?

I've bought a number of high dollar items from them. They always come well packaged and shipped fairly promptly. I'd recommend them.

And they were legit items? Not Hong Kong knockoffs (I guess there have been some high quality ones circulating last month or two, more so than before)? Shipping was reasonable?

Thanks.

I did a few years ago and it turned out fine. DOn't know how they are now.

Cool, thanks.

Anyone else?

IF you are SURE those two are the only ones you want then go ahead (no serious problems reported for either EXCEPT for a few unfortunate cases of snapped handlebars on the Proto). Just make sure you experience the Factory Garland first, so that the Proto G will bowl you over with its better execution... like the optional vehicle mode clip-lock, flip out rear-view mirrors, detented shoulder joints, non-floppy wrists, and smarter weapons-grip with peg/hole design in fists and grips.

Do it the other way round - like me, with the Army G as 2nd purchase - and you're far more likely to feel cheated. Good luck!

Good advice, thanks. This is the Yamato you're talking about, right?

If you desire to own just one example of a Garland, get the Yamato Proto Garland – it's the best QC'd version of the toy and has lots of improvements over the original breakage-prone red/white Garland (which has not been re-issued with the fixed shoulders AFAIK).

No personal insight for the Aoshima kits... but if it breaks, at least it's your own fault. :-)

Good point.

I'm kind of a medium level fan of Megazone 23, I guess, at least compared to MOSPEADA, which I am a huge fan of, but for some reason, I'm feeling inclined to get the Proto Garland and the Factory Color (white) Garland, but no other recolorings.

Anyone ever ordered from angolz.com?

Any good or bad experiences?

Shipping issues (seems like the have typically expensive shipping, and what looks like a free option as well)?

Thanks.

Does anyone have any opinions on how the Aoshima models and the Yamato ones compare?

I know the Aoshima ones need to be built (glue, paint?), and the Yamato ones don't, the Aoshima are 1/24th scale and the Yamato are 1/15th, and the Aoshima are between half and 1/4 the price of the Yamato ones, depending on where you shop, but are there any other differences between them? Any opinions as to which to go with (quality, look, scale, durability, matching with other variable bikes)?

Any input here is appreciated.

Girlfriend just texted me that my "toys just came."

No, that's not dirty.

Should mean I have a blue Beta and a Shadow Alpha waiting at home for me right now...

I feel like a kid on Christmas. Kind of sad, huh?

Still have to find a blue Alpha...

Yep, finally coming to DVD in a few short months.

I don't think HG actually sued, btw. It was just Matchbox cashing in on old molds I think.

Sorry for thread-jacking there. I'm going to let that topic die, and let's get back to the purpose of this thread...

My Toynami blue Beta and Shadow Alpha should be arriving tomorrow... though the shipping info hasn't updated since the 19th. Can't wait.

If you don't reference things you're not allowed to discuss in the TOU then robotech.com will let you say whatever you want and not delete your post. Unfortunately, you can't discuss products not sold at rt.com or officially licensed by HG so if your complaint was "this VF-1 is balls, Yamato makes way better Macross products." you'll probably see your post deleted. If you just said "this vf-1 is balls" your post will stay.

Actually, what I'm referring to are some perfectly polite comments I made. Nothing rude or anything of that nature, and completely in line with the TOU, stating my personal opinions on some things (pricing of the Beagle, back before I knew that the non-Robotech Beagle was even more expensive elsewhere, as well as disappointment with Shadow Chronicles) which were deleted on a number of different occassions. These were fully in line with the TOU, and I did not insult Tommy Yune, simply said that I was disappointed with the poor quality, and stated examples of why.

Or, even better, on Robotech.com.

You mean the site where any negative comments get censored or deleted? Yeah, that's definitely a better place...

Yup. It's a model kit. You can see the info in the 2nd picture in English:

Motoslave (Priss)

AOSHIMA 1/12 injection-plastic kit

modelled and described by Kazushige TANASE

Beautiful colour scheme. Priss in a new improved stealth hard-suit (?)

Thanks for the pictures.

Think I'd like to see a stealth scheme on the hardsuit and on the motoslave, with some small red spots for highlighting.

Two pages from Model Grafix magazine

NICE!!!

So that's a new model kit, as opposed to a custom paint job or an existing kit, or one of the Yamato toys?

HG wanted a Tommy Yune style face.

It is absolutely beyond me why Harmony Gold has put all of Robotech in the hands of the Yune brothers...

Yes, Tommy Yune is a perfectly decent (actually pretty good) artist... but his writing, his continuity revisions, and his directing of Shadow Chronicles are just terrible...

But I guess that's a conversation for another topic.

I have talked about Mospeada and RTSC with Kakinuma in 2007 and at that time he was very interested in doing a new Mospeada animation. Kakinuma feels pretty certain that the current anime industry is not interested in funding a show that is not new or pretty much non-existent to anime viewers in this day and age. He said if it came down to it he would write Mospeada novels but as of now nothing has been written.

He also said if asked he would be more than happy to work on future Robotech productions.

Tastunoko has no plans to do anything with Mospeada other than licensing for merchandise. So unless there is a rich Japanese producer that also happens to be a huge Mospeada fan out there I don't think there is much of a chance one will ever get made.

You dpn't think that something like Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 (sorry if I'm incorrectly remembering the more recent reworking of Bubblegum Crisis) would work for MOSPEADA?

I had to email Aramaki-san about something so I figured I'd ask him about the connections between the series. Here are his unadulterated answers:

And there you have it. Merry Christmas!

Wow... Thanks!

If you ever have a chance talking to him or to Hideki Kakinuma, could you ask if either would still be interested in doing an updated MOSPEADA, perhaps along the lines of the artwork that I believe Kakinuma did a couple years ago, and darker and more serious like they oringinally intended?

Seems like, with all the new material out now, it would be a prime time for an OVA at least.

I don't know if anyone post/see it...

New stickers on ProtoGarland.

It looks rather cool.

Pretty cool. Where'd you get them?

Angolz has it for $77 but they are listing it as "pre-order" so I don't know what that means.

http://www.angolz.com/home/productDetails....?PLU=0000106890

Vostok 7

Nice, I'll check it out. Thank you!

Any experience ordering from this place? I've never heard of it before.

Ok, so I ask again, if we're in the USA, how do we get to see these (specifically Viper's Creed and Rideback for me), other than waiting for an eventual DVD release?

Ordered my 2 days ago. Still waiting for the final shipping bill... suppose to be 4000 yen ems shipping, but I have another stuff ship with it, hopefully will pack them together!

And, HLJ just list the Proto as 'backorder' today, i think.

Yeah, I saw that, right when I decided to just suck it up and accept the shipping charge and went online to order it.

The commentary track on the ADV Megazone discs are full of errors. The ADV people may be old school fans, but they are also full of inaccuracies.

Is the Aramaki interview you guys are referring to the one with Kakinuma as well from the ADV Mospeada DVD set that I transcribed on my old Masterforce.org website?

Here's that interview: http://web.archive.org/web/20050316002800/...icinterview.txt

No, it's not, though that is an interesting read. It's an old interview I read about 3 or 4 years ago online. I've been looking for it ever since, but haven't been able to find it. He went more in-depth on MOSPEADA than I've seen in other interviews, except for the one with the MOSPEADA DVDs, and had sketches from the AD Patrol design stage.