RavenHawk

I believe you mean to say: "I'm seeing blue Aoshima Legiosses on eBay for around $60 to $70, but only one Scott MPC for $160."

Ok, I get your Legioss vs. Alpha point. The point I'm trying to make is I'm seeing Toynami ones that aren't in Robotech-labelled boxes.

Thought they were Toynami and Aoshima.

I'm seeing Toynami Alpha's on eBay for around $60-70, but only one Robotech one for $160.

Well, you can still find the blue one on ebay. Yesterday I got my sencond blue from there, at $130. (I'm a lucky bastard, as the price of this toy in the last months has been between 150 and 250).

That's good to know. Unfortunately, I'm a bit of a cheap bastard when it comes to these things. Too many regular household and family expenses, don't spend a lot of money on myself, so have trouble justifying spending a lot on, well, frankly, what is a toy that I will mostly display, rarely playing with.

Here's a pic from http://www.robotechcollections.fr/:

Gorgeous. Thank you.

The blue legioss are sold out, so my second choice is a dark, but I wanted to get one to match whatever tread I end up getting later, so wanted to make sure it would be available at some point.

I know, I feel the need for all color of MOSPEADA (not that I've bought any yet), but am content with one color of legioss/tread.

Thanks again.

I thought it was fine. I rewatched the original this weekend, and think the original is a better movie as far as acting and directing goes, as well as preferring the characterization of Klaatu in the original, but I will say that I went into seeing the new one with really low expectations (the reviews on it were terrible) and was pleasantly surprised. Some nice nods to the original, a more complicated story, maybe more interesting, though it did seem to rely on special effects more than characterization. It's just a different movie.

It is interested that it says that it is based on the screenplay written for the first movie, as opposed to being based on the story that that screenplay was based on.

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Really, my only complaint is that they never say "klaatu barada nicto"

That's an old Gakken 1/35 Legioss and the Tread is 1/55. It's an apples and oranges comparison that's causing your visual confusion. If the MPC Alpha was present you'd see the Beta towering over it.

Ok, thanks.

here you have guys i finally got mine

I'm not really a stickler for being "anime-accurate" but, looking at this pics, isn't the Tread supposed to be a lot bigger relative to the Legioss?

I see the older reply. Don't know how I missed it. Looked for it, didn't see it, though maybe the question somehow never got posted.

Thanks again.

This was just asked a while back and answered with "there was a mock-up at Comicon so presumably so"

Do you know if it was Toynami who had it?

Anyone know if there is going to be a Dark Tread/Shadow Beta?

Does anyone know if they're (Toynami, that is) planning on making a Shadow Beta, or just the Blue, Green, and Red?

Thanks.

While the Beagle MOSPEADA does look like it's going to be pretty good, the issue for me isn't so much the fact that it's $200 for one toy... it's that it will be $600 for Stig/Scott + Yellow/Lancer + Shinobu/Sue.

Sadly, I know myself well enough to know I will want all three.

And if they do Ray/Rand and Fuke/Rook one... $1000.

And another:

http://basil0619.hp.infoseek.co.jp/zaboeger.htm

Here's another one off the same site:

http://basil0619.hp.infoseek.co.jp/taurus.htm

Not from any anime but a garage kit that was last displayed at Wonder Festival Summer 08.

http://basil0619.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ladyroses006.htm

That's pretty cool. I like it. Thanks for adding that.

Do you know if that's for sale anywhere?

BTW, stuff that is not from anime is 100% fine. I'm not trying to restrict this to anime, but rather have it be any variable bikes from anywhere out there at all.

Thanks again.

Is Aoshima still another company making Legioss/Alphas?

Anybody feel free to correct me if I'm wrong at any particular point.

CM's: Ride Armor, Legioss & Tread

Megahouse: Ride Armor

Toynami: Veritech, Alpha, Beta, Cyclone

Beagle: Ride Armor (same mold as Toynami's Cyclone, different head)

I thought Beagle was the maker of the new Masterpiece Cyclone, which is a much larger scale than any of the others?

CM's Corp and Megahouse are two seperate companies. Competitors, in fact.

Ok, so CM and Megahouse and Beagle all make MOSPEADAs, and CM and Toynami both make Legioss and Tleads?

Are CM and Megahouse the same company, or do we have 4 separate companies making MOSPEADA items: CM, Megahouse, Toynami, and Beagle?

Sorry, I'm a little new to this side of things.

Yes, 15K of the Toynami were made, it's probably closer to 1.5K of the CMs. Also, the CMs is made of higher quality materials and is just all around made better. Another plus for the CMs is that it has the unique Shadow Fighter shoulders that the toynami Shadow Fighter lacks. Sadly, it's not all sunshine with the CMs, it has its faults too including two different tones of white paint, a head that can't be turned, and the CMs interpretation of the sculpt. Visit www.anymoon.com for more info

Thanks for the info... though I think I'm better informed and much more confused now...

Along the same lines, I'm thinking about getting a Dark Legioss/Shadow Alpha. The one on Robotech.com is $59.99. Not sure which company makes that. I'm assuming Toynami? The Brave Gohkin (is that made by CM?) which I see other places seems to sell for around $130-140. Does anyone what is different between these two, justifying such a huge price difference?

Thanks.

Yeah, that new Maia Sterling is..... crap. Purple? Tommy Yune... get out of here with that crap.

Not to mention that toy on my shelf would just be a constant reminder of a crappy movie, with a terrible script, awful dialogue, abysmal directing, mediocre integration of CG with hand anmation... and no real new mecha.

They're selling the toy for the same price they did four years ago. Can't say the same thing about Star Wars figures.

Is anyone still expecting to get their Masterpiece Beta for $80? ;p

Yeah, except 4 years ago at least it was a toy from a shows that many of us cared about. Now, it's just a recolor, from a horribly disappointed lazy self-serving movie.

Maia Sterling Shadow Fighter is up on RT.com and is listed for $59.99. I was suprised since I was sure it would be $79.99. They say it will be here in 1 to 2 weeks.

http://www.robotech.com/store/viewproductpreord.php?id=351

Yeah, but why would you want it?

I saw these going for cheap at Singapore 3 weeks ago. If you have a sg friend you might want to ask them have a look for you. IIRC they were only 100 bucks for two. These white colors are the limited edition mail order exclusives btw. Retail versions are red and blue colors i think.

I have to admit, the white ones are much cooler, in my opinion.

Unfortunately, no friends in Singapore. The ones I saw for sale on eBay were from Singapore, Hong Kong, and I forget the third, maybe Japan... all three are around $140-$150, plus $45 or so for shipping.