{"id":3153,"date":"2009-07-23T06:29:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T06:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anymoon.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/23\/no-news-is-bad-news-mpc-cyclones-are-dead\/"},"modified":"2009-10-31T01:10:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T01:10:42","slug":"no-news-is-bad-news-mpc-cyclones-are-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anymoon.com\/blog\/?p=3153","title":{"rendered":"Preview Night: No News is Bad News (MPC Cyclones are DEAD)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DISCONTINUED<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

SDCC09 Coverage: First\u00a0night at Comic-con is complete<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Comic-con<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let’s start with the depressing news.\u00a0 Word slipped out of Japan about a week or so ago that Beagle’s project manager related to the Ride Armor had left the company.\u00a0 This is pretty frequent when a product line fails and began speculation that the line would be finished.\u00a0 There are still some thin threads of hope that that phenomenal Fuke ride armor will be completed but subsequent word is that sales of the line are just too small to keep it going.\u00a0 Toynami was not showing the Fuke prototype\u00a0which I would have expected\u00a0if they were still intending to release that toy (MPC Cyclone display above).\u00a0 I spoke with a Toynami booth person today, and to be fair people at the booths generally have very little information, but the word was “If Beagle is done with the line then so are we.”\u00a0 Not much hope for Toynami saving the line.\u00a0 Now before you jump for your torches and pitchforks and attempt to villify Toynami,\u00a0it’s good to remember that this project would probably have never lived past R&D without Toynami’s offer to buy a significant number.\u00a0 In the end, with the economy being what it was, that significant number Toynami purchased wasn’t significant enough and neither were the sales in\u00a0Japan.\u00a0 If you’re determined to hold out hope for something more then it should be made perfectly clear\u00a0that everything I’ve gathered comes far short of an\u00a0official press announcement.\u00a0 That said, lines getting shut down don’t normally get formal declarations of death so if you were holding out for a Fuke or Yellow MPC Cyclone… well, you\u00a0might be no better off than the\u00a0guys waiting for Southern Cross and Macross II merchandise.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Comic-con<\/a><\/p>\n

In other dark news, it looks like Toynami’s attempted inroads with Bandai in regards to a Macross agreement have fallen far enough to the wayside that neither company is showing anything this year at the convention.\u00a0 The fact Toynami has pulled their prototypes is a very bad omen to add to the fact that the chunky re-releases are now ridiculously overdue.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Comic-con<\/a>\"Comic-con<\/a><\/p>\n

Toynami was showing off the Aoshima repaint of their first two MPC Beta toys (I have no idea why) at the convention.\u00a0 Also present were the\u00a0Shadow Beta and the packaged\u00a0Lunk Beta which should mean its release is right around the corner.\u00a0 There was nothing really special that I could gather from these displays.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Comic-con<\/a>\"Comic-con<\/a><\/p>\n

The big news of the show is the continuing development of Toynami’s Regult.\u00a0 It appears to be in 1\/100 scale\u00a0but it seems it won’t be released in the 1\/100 line but rather as part of\u00a0the Robot\u00a0Vinyl line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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