Comments on: Ride Armor (Stick Type)

CM got serious issues

Berserk — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:18:29 -0400

When I looked at the previews pictures a couple months ago, I keep wonder why the color is so, I don't know... Cheap? I once saw a bootleg Ride Armour that has the same color as CM one... I'm sure this toy doesn't deserve 6000 yen price tag.

Im glad I chose the

Typhus — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:20:25 -0500

Im glad I chose the Megahouse one over this now myself. Those screws and the diecast content gave me some concern so I went for the other choice instead.
Hopefully it won't suck.

Ouch. It's painful just to

xiombarg — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:53:56 -0500

Ouch. It's painful just to watch the video. Calling this "perfect transformation" is certainly debatable, or misleading at least. This ride armor seeems like toy hell for me. CM's ride armor also reminds me of the conclusion I came to with their Baangaan. It was a good choice that they didn't make it "perfect transformation" because at least it worked fairly well being that it wasn't perfect transformation. I'll put it this way, why do "perfect transformation" if you can't pull it off and it makes your product basically disfunctional? Now I don't know if the Megahouse version will be any better, but I don't see how it could be any worse.

It really amuses (and

Anavel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:47:22 -0500

It really amuses (and amazes) me that with all the issues you had with this toy, you somehow managed not to break the windshield off, which apparently breaks by merely breathing on it

I've got both the Stick and

duke togo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:51:36 -0500

I've got both the Stick and Rey of this. I'm not as disappointed with them as you seem to be, it feels to me like what the old Gakken toys in the small scale should have been, had they had the technology to do so.

I really think that this particular design was just too ambitious for CM's, they've never done something this complex and in this scale. I think price was a major factor in their decisions on this item, and it shows. I can only imagine what Takara or Bandai could have done.

The Megahouse ones do look a lot better and I'll not be getting the rest of CM's ride armors, in lieu of going with Megahouse.

As for Toynami/Beagle/Aoshima, it remains to be seen just what will come of that mess, and I'm not holding my breath for it anytime soon.

My preorderd CM's Legioss/Tlead is on shaky ground right now, maybe the inflated price reflects the extra effort. (insert laugh here)

That's entertaining video

Atom — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:35:33 -0500

But not for any good reasons....

I completly agree with Josh's assesment of this release. Looks pretty on the shelf but frustrating to transform. When Josh changed this "perfect transformation" for me last weekend I watched parts pop off about a dozen times.

I must say I am surprised at how poor this release is as CM has just been banging out such quality Gokin for a while now.

Well my Mega House versions are in the air as I write this, hopefully those fair better.

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Ever since I saw the pics of

REX-203 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:52:37 -0500

Ever since I saw the pics of this, I felt kinda skeptical of the way it looked. It LOOKS small, the mismatching colors of Stick's torso and the rest of the armor, the color of the rest of the armor (too aqua-teal-minty-green, not military enough). And the figure looks way too big for the bike, or the bike is too small for the figure.

Thanks for the honest review. Let's hope Aoshima and Toynami get it right, or at least better.