Rockman Unity's April Fools' day post is live and, as is tradition, could become a real product in the near future.
Here it is: a Subaru Style Shooting Star Rockman 4Inch-Nel variant. The proposed figure reflects Subaru's crimson color scheme - Visualizer included!
Previous Rockman Unity April Fools' jokes that became real products include Gigantic Series Roll, D-Arts Zero and Mizuno Rockman X. The Subaru variant could indeed be a real thing; however, I don't believe it will be officially "revealed" until after the normal SSR 4Inch-Nel is priced and dated. That information is still forthcoming.
We'll see what happens! Stay tuned.
This would be the dumbest thing ever and I'd still buy it in a heartbeat, because I love Star Force and I'm happy to see Capcom supporting it in 2017, I hope it's real.
ReplyDeleteI..... don't know how to feel about this. On one hand, I'm ecstatic that Geo might be getting variations like Hub and Rock, his noise changes and tribe-ons are some of the coolest forms in the franchise. On the other hand, I didn't want THIS. I didn't want him to receive the Hub treatment and just get nothing but RECOLORS, at least the had the audacity to put effort into Rock's variants. What's even the point of spending money on it? Not only is it slightly an eyesore (save for the visor, with is just really cool), it's doesn't even make sense in any context. "Subaru Style?" he's not Megaman.EXE he doesn't HAVE style changes, this feels like just a lazy job on Sentinels part because they didn't want to put in the effort to give him a new mold. I just want my Rogue Noise change :/
ReplyDeleteI'd take Gemini or Taurus. Zerker would also be cool.
DeleteNoise forms would be nice, they only alter Mega Man's appearance from the upper half of his body, so it's not like too much would go into making new assets, throw in their Vibrant Noise colors and we're good, I guess to do that though, they'd need to make Mega Man's MMSF3 design into a nel(which I'd definitely welcome.)
DeleteThis looks nice in my opinion though, I'd buy it mostly to show support for future Star Force figures and content, I do think it's cool that Sentinel may be thinking of making variants for Geo, he definitely has the potential for some cool ones and again I'm really happy they're making a Star Force Mega Man in the first place, MMSF has been getting shafted for far too long.
And we shall buy it, as is tradition.
ReplyDeleteLol this^
DeleteI think it becoming an actual item would negate the point of the joke: making a quick buck off of recolored figures. Unless I'm reading into it wrong. =P
ReplyDeleteI can't stand the half helmet on this Rockman but I will say this color scheme works much better for me with this design.
ReplyDeleteRemebered this one - http://www.rockman-corner.com/2015/03/rockman-unity-celebrates-roll-for-april.html
ReplyDeleteThey weren't fooling with the Roll statue and keychains.
Didn't Takara already make this deco in their Shooting Star line? Like, the interchangeable red basic armor that came with Fire Leo?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I was just about to mention this.
DeleteThe Fire Leo figure that came out years ago had swap parts that either was a red variant of "normal" SS Rockman that basically looks a lot like this, or could swap parts to be Fire Leo.
Same with a green variant for Green Dragon and a slightly lighter shade blue for Ice Pegasus. Like, the difference in blue between the actual real normal SS Rockman and Ice Pegasus swap parts version is so small you might as well not even buy the normal style SS Rockman figure if you want to just have them all in "normal" state.
They're still pretty legit figures. A bit cheap looking compared to these ones, obviously, since they were originally sold as normal "for kids" action figure toys, but they're still really nice.
Yeah this would get my money instantly since i am a sucker for megaman figures. Just take my money
ReplyDeleteIf it's referring to Suburu the car company, I will pass.
ReplyDeleteLol, they're referring to the Japanese name for Geo, the main character.
DeleteIf they truly wanted to screw with peoples' emotions, they should have announced a 2nd run of Cutman/Super Megaman 2-packs. Or announced more Megaman 1 robot masters.
ReplyDeleteI guess they didn't want to incur too much wrath, so they chose something that most people wouldn't care if it existed or not.