anyone have pics of the gamma suit in hand yet? mine should be in hand wednesday but i'm anxious to see it
It seems like the site itself is sold out, but below there is a list of other vendors? that have them, but i am not sure. I have never used that site before, though. I wonder how "safe" it is to use one of the lists of those vendors. Idk, nothing is simple, idk what to do.
I should have had mine today, but my mail carrier apparently didn’t feel like knocking, and left me a pick up slip instead.
The listed items below are not from other vendors, but other branches of the same Mandarake chain in different locations. Perfectly legitimate and highly reliable service. All the best Maz
Got my Gammas today (had to chase the postal worker down the street when I saw them drop the slip with out even knocking). Easily my favorite Powered Suit so far. The container fit is a little tight with the shield. Had to really mash everything down to get the container closed.
Seriously, why are these not sold in packs of 3 or 5 at a time. Seeing them together like this reminds of a squad of Zgok-e's, but if they were land variants
Yeah, kind of wondering that myself. While I have enjoyed everything I've gotten so far, the arm joints on Alpha and Beta really don't sit right with me. I just don't like posing them when half the upper arm is static while the lower half moves. Maybe it's because I shattered my upper arm in a car accident years ago, and it literally bent just like the A/B suits before it was braced, but those joints just aren't for me. I'm still planning on getting a Gamma and the repaint, but I still prefer the smaller suits for posability.
I don't care for the shoulders on alpha and beta but don't mind them as much on gamma. Part of it might be the head is lower. Additionally the extra shoulder pads give them extra thickness when rotating at the shoulder.
The way I look at it, it makes sense for the joints to be like that on the Gamma since it seems like the main purpose for the suit is combat. It feels like a beefy siege unit. The guys you send in first to create an opening or the last line of defense to hold the line while everyone else retreats. Alpha and Beta while they can serve a combat role, the main purpose of those units seems more general purpose. Having that kind of articulation for the arms just seems like a hindrance. Not a deal breaker by any means but it's just odd Takara would go that route especially considering the insane amount of articulation the smaller suits have.
The only thing I would say about the shoulders is I like them a little cause it makes them slightly less humanoid. I don’t find them fun to pose but I like the sort of inhuman ambulation. I guess it’s not ambulation cause it’s arms and not legs but you know what I mean.
Shoulders look a lot better on these. I'm not a huge fan of the shoulder on the Maneuver suits, though they visually work a lot better with the Gamma and Beta suits due to the position of the head. In my opinion they work best on Gamma due to the head positioning. When you add shoulder height and some sort of backpack that rises above the shoulder with Alpha, it actually looks really good. With Gamma there's no need for that.
Starting with 2, but 6 would be a nice goal. But it would be nice to see them in other colors, (perhaps a golden yellow, with a black fist on the left shoulder 'Imperial Fists' Breaching Squad!'
Been seeing LOADS of the Gamma suits on Twitter. People repainting them, adding weapons, etc. No shipping notification on mine yet... Soon™ Really hypes up for Battle Buffalo though. They're taking their time getting a TTM version of BB announced
Boston Scientific is working on a support mech named Atlas should be perfect for this line. Wonder how much it will cost.
