Delayed Robotech RPG Tactics - Palladium

[Orlando_the_Technicoloured]

From the 'experience' of the 2 firms

 

I suspect Soda Pop are more in it to provide a tie up with the digital sculpting talent & mini making end of things,

 

and Cyper is more geared towards the rules

 

but I'm sure everybody will have a hand in both before it's passed on to Palladium for vetting

[Galahad@Heresy-Online]

Can;t help but notice there's still no bloody kickstarter from Kevin "Deadlines are for pussies" Siembieda

[Orlando_the_Technicoloured]

Actually Ninja Division (the combined entity which will be running the KS) have posted the project to KS for approval yesterday so it should go live at some point this week.....

 

(assuming KS don't want big changes)

[Sergeant_Crunch]

I'm hoping they do the Zaentradi tri-fighters too. Ever since I opened my FFG X-Wing box I've had the idea of adapting it to Macross/Robotech. That and being a former Battletech player from the late '80s I'd love to get my hands on the destroids.

[The Inner Geek]

Actually Ninja Division (the combined entity which will be running the KS) have posted the project to KS for approval yesterday so it should go live at some point this week.....

 

(assuming KS don't want big changes)

Their facebook update yesterday said 'This Week'.

[buglips*the*goblin]

I'm hoping they do the Zaentradi tri-fighters too. Ever since I opened my FFG X-Wing box I've had the idea of adapting it to Macross/Robotech. That and being a former Battletech player from the late '80s I'd love to get my hands on the destroids.

 

 

The fighter pods have never been released, so far as I can tell. In any form. I support this idea! (There was a limited run garage cooked resin fighter pod made by somebody on macrossworld, but I don't really count that)

[Brother Jim]

And the zent power armors.

[Unruly]

Oh man, looking at those preview models I realized that as a kid I had a toy of the Tomahawk. I've never been that into Robotech/Battletech, but me and all my male cousins got those toys for Christmas from our grandma one year. By no means were they high-quality toys, with the only movable parts being the arm-cannon things. They might have been cheap dollar-store knock offs or something, but the design was identical. I think one of my cousins got the Defender too. We didn't know what they were, other than more cool robot toys, so they became more stuff for our Transformers and Voltron guys to fight.

 

I remember years later, after I had stopped playing with it, I spent hours trying to pull that piece off of his left shoulder, which I'm assuming is supposed to be a spotlight. For what I thought was cheap plastic, that thing held in place really, really well. I know that somewhere out there, there's a guy who could tell me what toy line they were from, and he's also probably tearing his hair out over my wanton destruction of the action figure.

Edited April 16, 2013 by Unruly

[Nocturne]

It could well have been one of the toys from the Battletech cartoon series depending on when you were a kid. They were quite big things.

 

EDIT: some of the colours are a little.... funkier.... thank I recall

 

http://clansword.net/images2/tm.jpg

Edited April 16, 2013 by Nocturne

[Unruly]

Nope, it definitely wasn't one of them. It was a lot smaller. Maybe about 4-5 inches tall. I did a quick google image search and I think I found it, or at least the toy line it was a part of, though mine was colored differently from the one pictured. In fact, I'm almost positive that it's the ones we had, because both the Defender and the Tomahawk match what I remember. Which makes it somewhat strange that I got them as a kid, still in the original packaging no less, since they were made before I was born. But then again, my grandma was always a yard sale fiend, and could find brand-new anything it seemed.

 

http://www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/1985/excaliber_mk_vi_battloid

http://www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/destroid_defender_raider_x

 

And, as I typed this up, I double checked the website I found, and now I know for sure it was them. And I know exactly why they were both different colors and still in their original packaging. Apparently, the same exact molds used to produce this particular model were used by 3 different companies. Takatoku produced them originally in Japan, then sold the molds to Matchbox for American production. This was in 1985. In 1995, Playmates bought the molds and rebranded them as their Exo Squad line of toys. Which is how I got them brand new, and the timeline is a perfect fit. And, it makes perfect sense because me and my cousins were hooked on that show for about a year.

 

http://www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/1995/raidar_x_battloid

 

It's amazing what you can find on the internets.

Edited April 16, 2013 by Unruly

[ShadowRaven]

the Bttletech toy line never had a Warhammer/destroid Tomahawk. And that Spartan/Archer was also not one of the toy line.

[vutpakdi]

The Matchbox line of Robotech toys had an Excalibur/Tomahawk/Warhammer figure. I have one from the 80's.

Ron

[The Inner Geek]

I think my favorite toy was the chick driving the hover tank that turned into a robot. I don't remember names but the figure was the same scale as a plastic GI Joe (not the old orignial Joes). I had to have it after the scene in one of the shows where she hovers full speed in front of the crashing plane of her friend and transforms into the robot and catches the plane like a giant football. That was a poorly structured sentence, but it was that cool.

[Galahad@Heresy-Online]

They brought back some of the matchbox robotech toys in the 90s as a tie-in with Exosquad.

 

What does exosquad have to do with Tomahawk Destroids? not a elfing thing, but then neither did Southern Cross or the Invid at first :P

[Unruly]

I watched the video review of the Matchbox/Playmates toys that was over at that Scorched Earth Toys link, and those were definitely the toys me and my cousins got. I don't remember them having that much articulation or being that big, but my memory could easily be a bit fuzzy in that area. Either that or I was just too naive to try opening the chest bits and thought that they were just decorative bits.

 

As for what Robotech and Exo Squad had to do with each other, I read that there was talk of a crossover in the show but that it never materialized. The reasoning given for the crossover, at least in the thing I read, was that people thought the Exosquad and Robotech mechs looked similar and that they would make a good match together(not surprising, since it also said Exo Squad was supposed to be the American response to animes like Robotech). Which led to the Playmates Robotech toy copies, but the planned show crossover never actually happened.