Mospeada

[M'Kyuun]

Mine came in yesterday, and truly, it's an excellent toy in hand. I discovered that the upper feet can indeed move further forward than all previous reviews and pics have suggested, which allows for a little more expressiveness in posing. When moved as such, too, the foot pivot clears the lower shin a bit more allowing for more ankle movement. I wish they'd made the foot slider a few mm longer to allow the foot more freedom of movement with the foot arched as in most of the pics. Everything locks so nicely in fighter. Unlike most Legioss toys, the main landing gear are easy to deploy. They're simplified compared to something like the Sentinel, but the ease at which they can be extended or retracted just increases the fun, playable nature of this toy. This is a fun toy. They took the essentials of the design, eradicated all the more complicated bits, like the individually opening doors on the legs and the shoulders (kinda wish the shoulder ones were still there, though, honestly), and the need for multi-postioned hips (don't miss that from the Sentinel), complex panel arrangements around the intakes to make room for the wings in Soldier and Diver modes, created an easy, elegant arrangement for the arms which allows them to align simply and beautifully for fighter, borrowed the cockpit insertion mechanic from the Sentinel Legioss for Soldier, and just overall crafted a Legioss toy that could appeal to anyone from a novice to a die-hard Mospeada fan. I wish TT would put this much effort into their Transformers figs with jet modes.

Speaking of, I figured, being a TT product and with some curiosity already mentioned about crossover potential, I'd take a few comparison pics to show how the Omega stacks up next to Transformers figs.

I figured the new Seeker mold would be the most apt comparison.

I tried to align the noses of the fighters to give an impression of how they measure up lengthwise. I didn't realize I'd bumped the Omega a little bit sideways. Oops.

Sorry for the glare on Prime- the sun came out and was shining over my shoulder through my front door window. I was trying to block it with my body as much as possible, but I failed epically. Regardless, this offers a comparison next to both SS86 leader and voyager scaled figs. IMHO. if they so chose, a crossover could certainly work. I wouldn't mind.

 

Edited Sunday at 04:21 PM by M'Kyuun

[sh9000]

These look fun and poseable.  Still looking forward to the release of the OG Legioss.

[M'Kyuun]

5 hours ago, sh9000 said:

These look fun and poseable.  Still looking forward to the release of the OG Legioss.

Me too. I only own the Eta from Sentinel, and the Omega from Toyrise, and soon I'll own the Eta from Pose+, so a Iota or Zeta might be in order from Toyrise. I just hope the prices don't skyrocket for new releases following the apparent success of the Omega. 

Besides making inventive variants of the Legioss itself, given the somewhat modular nature of the toy plus the ports on the shoulders and legs, I wonder if Toyrise has plans for weapon or accessory packs in the future?  Seems to me like this toy was made for that sort of accessorizing. 

Edited Monday at 04:22 AM by M'Kyuun

[treatment]

On 4/11/2026 at 7:04 PM, treatment said:

https://twitter.com/mainnnnnnnn/status/2042963001435918434

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On 4/11/2026 at 9:12 PM, Froy said:

I hope Bandai is seeing this. The Omega Legioss had a release price of 11k ish Yen and it is already selling at mandarake for the REDUCED price of a DX VF-17, 18K yen.

 

 

On 4/11/2026 at 9:32 PM, jenius said:

Kinda crazy it now sells for the same price as a dx vf-17 or 19.

it's much more embarrasing than that for Bandai's DX VF-17S...

https://twitter.com/kawasak16976953/status/2043147088062808338/photo/1

Either Takara did something very right with the chug Legioss Omega, or Bandai really did very horribly wrong with the DX VF-17S.

or just both...

 

 

 

 

 

 

[M'Kyuun]

On 4/13/2026 at 1:21 AM, treatment said:

 

 

it's much more embarrasing than that for Bandai's DX VF-17S...

https://twitter.com/kawasak16976953/status/2043147088062808338/photo/1

Either Takara did something very right with the chug Legioss Omega, or Bandai really did very horribly wrong with the DX VF-17S.

or just both...

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm gonna go with both.

I like the VF-171, but it's a different bird than the VF-17, and I like my VF-17 chonky as Kawamori intended. Still happy with my old Yammie, thanks, no thanks Bandai.

Wouldn't mind a properly proportioned VF-17 in the HMR line.

[sjoebarry]

On 4/12/2026 at 10:59 AM, M'Kyuun said:

mine came in today!  a bit smaller than i was anticipating but it is a really really great product.

[jenius]

Why do the wings fold the wrong way? It puts a big tab right behind the shoulder and the tabs hit those new missile bays. Sure, you can solve it by moving the missile bays anywhere but it feels like such an odd choice. 

[Black Valkyrie]

 

 

[Black Valkyrie]

 

Speaking of the Tread Bomber, this was posted 3 years, I thing Takara-Tomy will go for it : 

 

[M'Kyuun]

12 hours ago, jenius said:

Why do the wings fold the wrong way? It puts a big tab right behind the shoulder and the tabs hit those new missile bays. Sure, you can solve it by moving the missile bays anywhere but it feels like such an odd choice. 

Odd choice, indeed, but no odder, IMHO, than the non-rotating shoulders on both the Yamato and HMR VF-4s. Anything that limits or hinders the arm movement is a brain-scratcher to me. Kinda need them free and clear to get stuff done, whether it's a combat or utility machine.  And while the shoulder missile pod accessories are swappable to other positions where arm clearance isn't an issue, canonically, they, or a single large unit, are supposed to be mounted behind the shoulders, and that's where I prefer them. It wouldn't have been difficult to orient the double hinge on the wings so that they properly folded inwards and overlapped to cover the nosecone, a better design choice IMHO. However, since this thing already has liberties taken, I've found that it looks stylishly cool with the wings splayed TF Seeker style, which also clears the way for the shoulders to rotate sans obstacles. NGL, I do miss the built-in shoulder missiles, but for the sake of simplicity, I get why they omitted them. The omission of the leg missile pods I can easily forgive for the ease of landing gear extension and retraction- like buttah!

14 hours ago, sjoebarry said:

mine came in today!  a bit smaller than i was anticipating but it is a really really great product.

Overall, I agree, with a few minor quibbles, such as the aforementioned wing/shoulder clearance issue. I wish they'd painted the bottoms of the toes and the squared-off diamond shaped details along the sides the same grey as the heels and upper feet. It would have looked better, IMHO. However, the paint apps and tampo that they did do look crisp and beautiful. Moreover, unlike Bandai, who love to compensate for their design inadequacies by the ever more liberal use of tampo, Toyrise employed an appealingly judicious use of them to good effect, IMHO. 

I do wonder why they didn't employ a hinged panel with a fist on a ball joint to cover the forearm gap. It's such a simple, elegant solution and imparts just a little more articulation to the fist. It would have only added two more parts to the sprue.  Better clearance for the feet to pitch up and down for posing would've been much appreciated, as well. Another odd choice to have not remedied that limitation before production.

The neck joint is mounted at an angle so that turning the head results in an awkward tilted confused-dog position. Odd again.

Quibbles aside, this thing is a lot of fun to mess with. The transformation is uncomplicated by a lot of small or frustrating mechanisms or panels, the arm transformation is brilliantly elegant in its simplicity, everything locks nicely in fighter thus avoiding the typical midsection sag that oft plagues Legioss toys, the landing gear is actually a delight to deploy without resorting to tweezers or minutes spent trying to dig them out of the legs, the sculpt work is well-executed, especially the shaping of the chest-inlets, a make-or-break detail for me. Additionally, I appreciate all the creative liberties they're taking with the design and accessories whether or not they appeal to me directly. I'm not aware of any other company ever taking such liberties with the Legioss before and it's nice to see some variety applied to a vintage design to give it some new life. It seems like TT/Toyrise have struck gold with this design, and I'm glad. Aside from the promise of more toys that such success predicts, I hope there's a resurgence of popularity for the anime as well. I've only seen it once myself, but if a DVD or Blu-ray were forthcoming on this side of the pond, I'd likely pick it up, as I wouldn't mind watching it with the spousal unit. She weathered all the Macross installments with me on Hulu and tends to like a lot of these older anime, so I think she'd dig it.

Edited 10 hours ago by M'Kyuun

[danth]

5 hours ago, Black Valkyrie said:

Speaking of the Tread Bomber, this was posted 3 years, I thing Takara-Tomy will go for it : 

I'm generally not a fan of deviations from the original designs, but that Bulldog is rad. I'd love one to go with the Omega.

[Mog]

We all do know the Bulldog Tread was part of the Genesis Breakers series, right?

I was under the impression that Sentinel was the folks that would make those Breaker designs into toys.

Doesn’t mean Toyrise can’t piggyback on the idea.  But my understanding is that the Bulldog isn’t one of the ideas from Toyrise.

[Black Valkyrie]

 

 

[jenius]

Yeah, that might not be the Bulldog, but it shows they're also considering a swept wing variant.

[M'Kyuun]

6 hours ago, jenius said:

Yeah, that might not be the Bulldog, but it shows they're also considering a swept wing variant.

Given the creative liberties Toyrise has taken with the Legioss, it follows that they'd do likewise with an eventual Tread design. I'm curious to see what they come up with.