JOYRIDE STUDIOS RELEASES 1/55 scale MECHWARRIOR MECHS!!!

[guyver01]

Joyride announced last year that in January 2003 they would be releasing detailed Mechs from the Mechwarrior Series.

Well.. they're out.

The first wave will be Jupiter, Legionnaire, Forestry Mech and Mad Cat II.

MechWarrior® ? Forestry BattleMech Articulating Figure

MechWarrior® ? Jupiter BattleMech Articulating Figure

MechWarrior® ? Legionnaire BattleMech Articulating Figure

MechWarrior® ? Mad Cat II BattleMech Articulating Figure

These figures are awesome!! I got the MADCAT II today at my local comic shop, for $19.99!!!!

 

[Grey]

They look cool, but I can't stand this new dark age tangent they have taken in the BT universe. Just when the Steiner/Davion thing got good they practically threw whatever worked together to close a classic in the making.

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: Grey
They look cool, but I can't stand this new dark age tangent they have taken in the BT universe. Just when the Steiner/Davion thing got good they practically threw whatever worked together to close a classic in the making.

i agree.. but one good thing, is Dark Ages is set nearly 150 years after the Steiner/Davion civil war.... so they can still novelize the Word of Blake coup, the fall of the Inner sphere, and the Rise of the Republic...

 

[Grey]

The first novel just came out, I haven't picked it up yet. Do you read the novels?

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: Grey
The first novel just came out, I haven't picked it up yet. Do you read the novels?

yep... i'm about 6 chapters into the Dark Ages novel.... it's pretty good... still alot of 'mech action, despite the fact that it's not all out war...

 

[Grey]

Maybe I will get it after all, thanks for the info!

 

[freebee]

Doesn't mad cat II look like that thing from robocop?

 

[0roo0roo]

in stores now?

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: freebee
Doesn't mad cat II look like that thing from robocop?

You're thinking ED-209... and except for the "bird" design of the legs, i'd say no...
Altho Robocop was 1987... Battletech introduced the Clans in 1995... Battletech itself has been around sice about 1984, and the MadCat design was based on the CATAPULT mech and the MARAUDER..., two early mechs.

ED-209 would make an excellent Mech tho.. i can see it with quad-AC-20s and a pair of SRM-6's.... definitely a close range weapons platform

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
in stores now?

Yep Yep.. check my link.. i have pics of the one i bought.