Mospeada

[F18LEGIOSS2]

42 minutes ago, Grey728 said:

I would LOVE to see this finished. Do you have a work log going somewhere that I could follow?

In the fan work section

 

[M'Kyuun]

On 1/6/2026 at 11:53 PM, Major Tom said:

probably been shown here before - (for those who haven't seen it)  preview of Pose Plus Legioss in cantonese (subtitle available)

 

Jeepers, this thing looks amazing, and it' sounds like it's engineered to be handled and played with. I'm so tempted, but I'm having a hard time finding spots to display my HMR figs, so I don't know where I'd put this monstrosity, and the price tag is a bit steep. I love my Sentinel, but I don't really like handling it. This chunky beast looks like it might be a little handier.

All the features they baked into this thing just tug at my core being- just beautiful and cool. It's a most impressive toy judging from these early looks.

[derex3592]

Yeh, I hear you @M'Kyuun, my inner 10 year old boy watching Robotech every day after school is screaming "BUY IT!!!" - I still remember the birthday I got my first Gakken Blue Alpha Robo whatever is was called. Pure unadulterated JOY! 😍

[M'Kyuun]

10 minutes ago, derex3592 said:

Yeh, I hear you @M'Kyuun, my inner 10 year old boy watching Robotech every day after school is screaming "BUY IT!!!" - I still remember the birthday I got my first Gakken Blue Alpha Robo whatever is was called. Pure unadulterated JOY! 😍

I envy you your nostalgia. For whatever reason, Robotech didn't air on any of our stations growing up, or it did and I wasn't aware of it, as I would have loved both the Mospeada and the Macross portions of RT. Southern Cross, what little I've seen of it via RT, seemed like a step backwards concerning the mecha and I instantly lost interest in watching it any further than a few eps.

My experience with the Legioss, oddly enough, comes via Gobots via the Monogram Leader One model kit, which blew my teenage mind with its intricacy, its articulation, and its ability to transform seamlessly, not to mention all the opening panels and retractable landing gear. It represented everything I wished Transformers toys would be but weren't. I had little experience building models, especially one this "elite", but I managed it. I neither painted nor stickered my copy, but I loved it just the same- for the short time I had it. my dog, just a pup then, somehow got ahold of it and chewed the nose up. I was bummed but I held on to the thing for years- in fact, I may still have it in a box somewhere. there's just something about the Legioss' design that speaks to me; it's definitely more of a sci-fi plane than say the Macross valks, which are far more grounded in realism, one of the traits I adore about Macross, but there's a cool factor to the Legioss. It just looks great in both modes, IMHO. Anyway, I got the Toynami Bernard Alpha years ago, craving a decent looking Legioss/alpha toy. Of course, the Toynamis were riddled with issues, and my copy was not immune. I still have it, but it's just a deskoration at this point- I try not to handle it too much and transformation is pretty much not happening. I jumped on Sentinel's Legioss, a beautiful toy that's a touch fiddly. It hangs out in my Detolf. Now the Pose+ shows up with the potential of being a more robust, easy-to-handle toy, and I'm slavering all over it. 🤤 As I mentioned, I'm extremely tempted to get it, if only to have what's basically the most detailed version of the Legioss yet produced, right after the Sentinel, which previously held that title. That they're making it with an eye to playability appeals to me as well, as I tend to be a little heavy-handed with my toys sometimes, which is why I tend to refrain from transforming the more involved ones in my collection, short of initial procurement. I have a lot of transforming toys, but most of them have only been transformed a couple times, or just once b/c I'm afraid of breaking them or b/c the process frustrates me. Patience is definitely not one of my virtues, so it's better that way and I enjoy them as the beautiful things they are. Anyway, that's my ramble. 

Here's a pic of the box for that model. Of course, they had a same-scaled version of the Ride Armor that they called Cy-Kill. Kinda funny now looking back. I knew these weren't actually Gobots, but I had no awareness of Mospeada, either, so for years I had no idea where the design came from. I believe I owe it to this site, actually, for educating me on Robotech, and all that's associated with it, so thanks MacrossWorld!

[M'Kyuun]

Temptation won me over- I preorderd the Pose+. My inner child is all a-giggle.

[505thAirborne]

5 hours ago, derex3592 said:

Yeh, I hear you @M'Kyuun, my inner 10 year old boy watching Robotech every day after school is screaming "BUY IT!!!" - I still remember the birthday I got my first Gakken Blue Alpha Robo whatever is was called. Pure unadulterated JOY! 😍

I have a feeling we're pretty much the same age, I got the Red Gakken Legioss aka Rook's Alpha and yes, best day ever!! 

That is until I got the SDF-1. 

[M'Kyuun]

34 minutes ago, 505thAirborne said:

I have a feeling we're pretty much the same age, I got the Red Gakken Legioss aka Rook's Alpha and yes, best day ever!! 

That is until I got the SDF-1. 

I'm 54, so I lived through the 80s experiencing some of the cool stuff from that era. Saturday cartoons as well as afternoon cartoons reigned supreme in my kid schedule. Ironically, I neither saw Robotech nor Voltron growing up. My wife grew up about an hour north of me and she watched Voltron. I guess our particular stations didn't have it. Anyway, that Monogram model was the only Mospeada/Macross/Robotech thing I owned as a kid, as I never owned Jetfire either.

[Big s]

On 1/8/2026 at 1:47 PM, M'Kyuun said:

I'm 54, so I lived through the 80s experiencing some of the cool stuff from that era. Saturday cartoons as well as afternoon cartoons reigned supreme in my kid schedule. Ironically, I neither saw Robotech nor Voltron growing up. My wife grew up about an hour north of me and she watched Voltron. I guess our particular stations didn't have it. Anyway, that Monogram model was the only Mospeada/Macross/Robotech thing I owned as a kid, as I never owned Jetfire either.

Could’ve also been an odd timeslot. Out here Voltron often came on early morning and if you didn’t get up early enough you’d miss it and everyone at school would talk about what big monster got diagonally slashed to death. Robotech oddly showed up right after school and if you didn’t hurry home, you might miss it. I remember when Dragon Ball first aired and it was super early on Saturday mornings, something wild like 5 am before the show took off and got popular here.

Transformers and GI Joe and a few others had later afternoon time slots that allowed for hang out time with friends though and probably why some shows were watched by more people.

[505thAirborne]

@M'Kyuun & @Big s I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, and I had to race home from school to grab a VHS tape and record RT, I think it was either on at 3:30pm or 4pm, either way, I could not wait to get home and watch it. 

Voltron & GI JOE were first thing in morning if I remember correctly. 

In 1986 I got a bootleg of DYRL uncut (Zero subs or dubs) and my mind exploded! 

[M'Kyuun]

On 1/8/2026 at 1:47 PM, M'Kyuun said:

 Anyway, that Monogram model was the only Mospeada/Macross/Robotech thing I owned as a kid, as I never owned Jetfire either.

I need to correct this statement, as I just remembered that I owned a small Dollar Store VF-1 toy as a kid. Mine was mostly blue and IIRC, the biceps, thighs, feet and fists were grey on my copy. Otherwise, this was the toy that I had. 

I grew up in PA about six miles south of a little town called Ridgway. Regarding tv, weekly afternoons from about 2;30 (about the time the bus delivered me home) until around 5PM, Saturday mornings from about 5AM until 11-12:00, and Sunday mornings from about 5-8ish I'd say, I watched all sorts of cartoons. During the weekday afternoons, I mostly watched GI Joe, Thundercats, & Transformers . I remember Silverhawks being on, but I never got into that show. My friend must've had better cable than we did b/c he had The Galaxy Rangers on his tv crystal clear, while I had to arrange the 'rabbit ears' on my little 13" B&W tv in my room to try and get it. It was a chore to get it to come in with any clarity, and when I did it was still usually pretty grainy and hard to understand. So, I think it came down to the quality of the cable package you had, and I think ours was probably on the low end. I was always an early riser, and quite dedicated to watching my cartoons, and I don't recall ever seeing Robotech or Voltron on at any time during my childhood. I knew of them only through the toys in the Christtmas catalogs, and I never got any of those toys. IIRC, my first brush with RT was when I was stationed in Florida during the early 90s. However, I only caught snippets of it here and there and never quite caught anything that really piqued my interest (like valks flying around battling the Zentradi- that would've certainly struck a chord). I've still never seen any of the OG Voltron, but I loved the Netflix show. I tried to get into the 2011 Voltron Force show (with Garry Chalk playing some military bad guy), but I just couldn't get into that show. I absolutely love the Lion designs, though. We were supposed to get toys of them from Mattel, but the show got axed and the toys never materialized, although early versions of them were shown at SDCC. And that's the closest we ever got to having toys from Voltron Force, but boy would I love to see a modern take by the likes of Moderoid, Sentinel, etc. It's still my favorite incarnation of the Lions and Voltron, and arguably, if those early mockups are a good judge of the toys to follow, would've given us some of the most articulated individual Lions in the history of Voltron toys. What a shame they never came to pass.

Looking back now, I don't ever recall seeing RT Alpha toys in the catalogs. I vaguely remember VF-1s, and of course there was Jetfire. That Monogram model, though, is the only Mospeada related toy that I owned as a kid, and ironically, I didn't know it was Mospeada, let alone Robotech. I knew it wasn't actually Gobots, as branded, but as to its actual origins, I hadn't a clue. It was just something random and very cool to my younger self.

Edited 16 hours ago by M'Kyuun

[lechuck]

Pre-orders start 14 January. Man that exposed forearm gap just makes the whole thing look so terribly cheap to me...

[tekering]

2 hours ago, lechuck said:

Man that exposed forearm gap just makes the whole thing look so terribly cheap to me...

You won't think it's so terribly cheap once you see the MSRP. 🫣