woll622

I found a couple of pictures of the box for the Toynami Rand version of the Beagle Cyclone on ebay.

I see they're at $30 now with lots of interested parties - congrats.

It's always a good feeling when you put something up to have several bidders driving up the price.

Thanks for your comments!

As a Beagle only buyer so far I keep looking at eBay and other places to see how low the MH versions will go.

I'm thinking I may buy at $20 each new if they ever reach that point. They look fun and I would not feel guilty about weathering them at that price point. But with all the negative I've heard, anything over $20 seems to be over-paying.

& They'll do the Fuke eventually I bet . . .

Hey if your interested, I started the bidding at $20 and they end on Saturday.

Also, I believe that the Megahouse Fuke will be released. But once I saw the Beagle version of her, I was sold on their line and decided to sell myegahouse ride armors.

Stone me now but the megahouse line is my favorite. . .

woll622 what are the auction numbers?

I would just paste in the links, but I'm at work so I have to use my phone.

Here's the auction numbers:

Stick/Scott-270408317044

Ley/Rand - 270408317901

Yellow/Lancer - 270408318614

Thanks!

There has been no official word that megahouse cancelled fuke, but a few other message board members have said they were pretty sure she's not coming out. Because of the comments posted here, I have even put the three I have (stick, ley, and yellow) up on eBay. I decided I'd rather have all 4 beagle ride armors then an incomplete set of megahouse ones.

It looks like another Ride armor, maybe hoquet? (i would go for that).

Someone on another forum found source art for the image for the post on Yacolog.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3548/332553...faa52c4.jpg?v=0

Looks pretty close to a Houqet bike to me!

Do a quick look for yourself.

http://wildcats.pupui.jp/mt/archives/2009/...ecret_item.html

I'd post there more often, but there doesn't seem to be much info coming from RT.com lately and their site keeps crashing. I'm glad we at least have this forum!

I've noticed on eBay that a couple stores are listing a ship date of Feb 9th for the Toynami version of the Beagle, and for the Red Beta.

wow no one posted these yet? it was already on the 2nd page of toys daily

Did anyone notice that the box seems to be the same size as the Alpha boxes? I remember Toynami saying that they were going with the Beta box size for this. Not that I am complaining that it is smaller. I have limited room for these considering all of the other Robotech/Mospeada stuff I have.

My wife just laughs and shakes her head that a 35 year old would go gaga over toys. What can I say, I've been hooked since I was 11. So I have been indoctrinating my 8 year old and 6 year old sons so they have a quicker start than I had! Gotta teach them while their young.

I'm quite afraid at this point I won't be able to get my review up before I go to Orange County this weekend. I've spent an hour and a half taking photos of the toy and haven't even tried transforming it yet. For any of you who have floppy neck syndrome, the best fix I've found for any ball joint that gets floppy is to just cut a tiny piece of clear tape and apply it to the bottom of the ball before putting it in the socket, this generally provides the extra necessary resistance without any threat of damaging anything.

I wonder if vendors will now send all their Maia stock back to Toynami rather than marking it down. I was waiting for these to get to the $49.99 price before I bought one but now I'm afraid that won't happen now. They'll stay at $79.99 and then 50 days from now all the vendors will just ship the leftover stock to Toynami.

I have emailed the company that sold me the Maia and I also emailed Toynami. I want to get rid of this thing even though I already shipped back to Toynami the first one because it was broken. The replacement one I received has a problem with the head not sitting right, the shoulder gun pod won't go into the hole and I'm afraid it will fall apart every thime I transform it. I also want the planned better version arriving this summer that should have the corrected intakes.

The first over priced Beage is up on eBay already. They want $260 plus EMS shipping of $40. I know you all didn't pay that much thru Overdrive.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Macross-Mospeada-Robot...A1%7C240%3A1318

Toynami on returns: I'm pretty sure you have to pay to ship it to them and they'll pay to ship it back to you.

Thanks for the reply jenius, I was thinking I would be paying for shipping.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is that the stickers that come with the Beta are pretty high quality and top notch.

Compared to Toynami's earlier MPC releases, the Beta's stickers are a vast improvement. They're also much better than most Yamato stock stickers and have practically none of that ugly haze. The "NO STEP's" in particular are big and clear.

Of course if you're still looking for something to criticize, Toynami definitely should have made the Mars Base stickers for the wings BIGGER.

.....But yeah, I rectified that problem quick (and added some light panel-lining to boot!) :

The added panel-lining looks good.

Nothing broken on my Alpha (hopefully nothing will break tonight when I muck around with it some more). Seems to be fine.

Paint seemed just fine everywhere, but I'll take a really close look tonight if you want.

That makes me feel better since mine was DOA on arrival because of a glued together shoulder. I'm sad to say that this is my second Alpha MPC out of 5 that I own to have issues. But, that is to be expected. I only transform them thru all modes twice a year when I take them to work to display at my desk.

I have emailed Toynami and have their phone #, but they seem to be out for the holidays. I'll have to hit them up probably Tuesday or Wednesday next week sometime so that I can actually get through and talk to someone. With the new releases of MPC items, I'm sure they will be swamped.

Has anyone ever had to deal with Toynami on a MPC return? Do they make the customer spend more money on shipping to return the broken item to be replaced? Any insight for what I'm in for would be greatly apprecited.

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.

Let me know the QC on your Shadow Alpha.

Thanks

Well, I ordered the Beta and the Maia Sterling Alpha and they arrived Wednesday. I can say as everyone else has said, the Beta is awesome. Yes, the hips are a little loose, but still, I like the toy.

Now for the Alpha, what a piece of JUNK! I opened the box, pulled out the plane and first off the paint is not gloss and does not have a smooth feel to it. That's makes sense because it is supposed to be a stealth fighter. I looked it over and noticed right away the glue spots below the intakes, but I figured I could deal with that because you don't see it unless you turn it over. So I decided to transform it, and it was very stiff, as if over glued. I moved the arms over and tried to fold them down for battloid mode, and one of them wouldn't move. I looked at the joint to make sure that there was something missing. I rotated it and some glue that was preventing it from moving finally let go, and under that was a mess, but I decided to continue on and try to fold it down again thinking I could move on. It was still stuck, so I applied more pressure. First the fore arm broke off, and then the sholder peeled right off as if it was made out of paper. The small hinge that allows the arm to fold down was glued solid.

Don't think I am just rough on my collection, I'm not. I am trying to get in contact with the seller of the item to see what can be done.

I just got word from the company I bought it from and they said unfortunatley, I need to go through Toynami for replacement. They told me that if Toynami doesn't respond to my email, that they have a phone number I can use. I'll let you know how things progress.

Well, I ordered the Beta and the Maia Sterling Alpha and they arrived Wednesday. I can say as everyone else has said, the Beta is awesome. Yes, the hips are a little loose, but still, I like the toy.

Now for the Alpha, what a piece of JUNK! I opened the box, pulled out the plane and first off the paint is not gloss and does not have a smooth feel to it. That's makes sense because it is supposed to be a stealth fighter. I looked it over and noticed right away the glue spots below the intakes, but I figured I could deal with that because you don't see it unless you turn it over. So I decided to transform it, and it was very stiff, as if over glued. I moved the arms over and tried to fold them down for battloid mode, and one of them wouldn't move. I looked at the joint to make sure that there was something missing. I rotated it and some glue that was preventing it from moving finally let go, and under that was a mess, but I decided to continue on and try to fold it down again thinking I could move on. It was still stuck, so I applied more pressure. First the fore arm broke off, and then the sholder peeled right off as if it was made out of paper. The small hinge that allows the arm to fold down was glued solid.

Don't think I am just rough on my collection, I'm not. I am trying to get in contact with the seller of the item to see what can be done.

It says "Robotech Macross Toynami Masterpiece Cyclone #1 Scott Bernard" but that isn't the Beagle version in the picture, it is the proposed Gakken(?) remold that WAS going to be their Masterpiece edition before they swapped to the Beagle mold.

I would be very wary of what you are looking at there.

I was thinking the same thing. I figure that the best option is to periodically check their site and see if the price changes when the product is actually shipping.

Oh yes, I'll make sure to have at least a couple shots comparing the two side by side with some observations.

Thanks!!

I was searching the internet to see if there were any places that listed the Beagle/Toynami cyclone cheaper than the $199.99 list price. I found it listed at Toywiz.com for $149.99.

http://www.toywiz.com/macrosscycle1.html

I actually called them up to verify the price and they said it is correct. Does anyone know if they can sell it for $50 less than everyone else? I already got shafted with the price increase on the Maia Masterpiece, so I don't want to go and buy this from Toywiz thinking I'm only going to pay $150, then get an email staing they had to hike the price to $200.

I think I'll have my Beta on Monday of next week. If I get it Monday I could probably have a review up on Wednesday. I'm pretty excited.

I should have mine at the same time, but I'm really interested to see the differences between the Toynami version and the CM version. I never got onto the CM bandwagon, but I've seen them listed in the low 100's here and there. If you have the time, please include a few notes about the differences between Toynami and CM.

Thanks!!

FYI...

Toynami Beta is shipping from RT.com on Friday. I wonder why they are waiting another day to ship? The ebay listing shown above states they have it on hand right now and are ready to ship today.

Figures! Here was the email.

Hi everyone

I have to make a big apology to all of you who ordered the Masterpiece

Shadow Fighter (Maia Sterling) over the last two days. As it turns out,

there was a minimum price that Toynami was enforcing on all of the toys that

we were mistaken about. Instead of being $59.99, the price of the

Masterpiece Shadow Fighter will be $79.99. As a result of this, we will have

to cancel your preorders and let you decide whether to place a new order at

the new price.

Once again, we apologize for the confusion and the inconveniences.

If you would like to order again, the preorder is here:

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

Steve Yun

Harmony Gold

steve@robotech.com

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