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Post by MilkManX on Aug 20, 2013 12:52:55 GMT -5
My favorite line that came out recently with Toynami were the Super Posables.
1.) They were affordable.
2.) They were durable
3.) They had great sculpts.
The Macross ones were a bit stylized for my tastes but the New Gen/Mospeada ones were fantastic.
My issue is why they never did any Masters? Gah!
Also there were rumors of Cyclones but that did not happen either.
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Post by Captain JLS on Sept 23, 2013 1:09:40 GMT -5
The missing Cyclones and the lack of even an announcement of any Masters is mostly tied to how merchandising works with current-gen Harmony Gold. Everything's centered around certain tentpole releases. The first wave of merchandise was clustered around the original DVD release and the Battlecry video game: the first two waves of Super Poseables, the original Masterpieces, the busts, the I-Men figures, and so on. Then, to coincide with the release of Invasion for PS2 & Xbox, they started to release New Gen stuff: the Alpha Fighter Super Poseables, the New Gen I-Men, the Masterpieces -- and then, nothing. Invasion sold poorly and was badly reviewed, so further support in the form of the Cyclone Super Poseables was cancelled. (The Betas and Masterpiece Cyclones only happened years later because of support from Japan, when suddenly they went nuts for Mospeada stuff.) A few years passed and we got Shadow Chronicles. Unfortunately for HG the wheels fell off of the wagon during Invasion, so they only got token support for this one: an incomprehensible (to almost anyone but me) comic book series published way too early due to their inability to line up a distributor for the OVA, a single toy that came out way after the fact, and a bunch of wall scrolls, wallets, keychains and the like that nobody seems to want.
At least Kevin Siembieda swears we're getting Masters in Robotech RPG Tactics -- and given the success of the Kickstarter and general enthusiasm for the product line, I believe him. But unless something happens to bring back support for some kind of general Robotech toy line that would warrant a Hovertank action figure sculpt (say, "Robotech Legends" featuring a reissue of the less wide-stance version of Skull One and Vermilion One, Scott's Alpha, and a new-sculpt Dana's Hovertank?), I doubt we're seeing any Masters any time soon -- if ever.
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Post by MilkManX on Sept 24, 2013 12:05:10 GMT -5
Yeah I have said that about the tactics game. I did not buy into the Macross one because I am tired of Macross. Give me Masters and New Gen please.
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