Slave IV
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As I explained later in that post, the satisfaction of knowing you did something that is appreciated, used and wanted by people is enough for many innovators to keep doing it. Thing is, many great innovations come about from people who do it for the passion of whatever they are doing, not money. When laws and money get involved, in the end, it all just comes down to money...which is the enemy of innovation because it's easier to make money marketing BS.
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Constant innovation and advancement sounds like a pretty good thing to me. Thanks for sharing! I've had similar experience. When I watch certain videos these days, I see a bunch of people "copying" a style that my company first started doing over 15 years ago. We started the business to produce quality videos in a certain industry that was flooded with crap, to show people how it could and should be done. One of the best experiences of my life. We made a bit of money, got a LOT of respect and after seeing everyone and their mommas jump in and copy what we were doing, considered our job well done and moved on. ALL GOOD! Here's a thought that came about during all this discussion: If you make cupcakes for a living and then some foreigner comes in and wants you to make as many cupcakes as you can, as fast as you can, for the lowest wage possible, would you rather eat the cupcakes you made for the foreigner or the ones you made on your own terms? I think this could help explain why we are seeing KOs and 3Ps that are better quality than the official product. Of course people are going to come in with the argument of who's recipe is used, etc. Anyways, it's good discussion and I agree no one will change their minds without experience. I'm looking forward to hearing reports of how these KOs turn out. I won't support them unless I know they are doing something better.
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The Monster is worth MSRP in comparison to other toys but I think part of the problem is it is so big, heavy and expensive to ship internationally, so that hurt overall sales. I think it's one indicator that HMR is probably selling pretty big outside of Japan since most others in the line sell out quick.
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Key point is the "risk" of doing business. You have to factor in the risk of being copied if you take your business to a place known for making KOs. You can't fault the Ko operators for having low risk in their business. As for the exploiting, it's very different when a foreigner comes into your country for the specific purpose of exploiting you compared to doing something for your own "family". If anyone disagrees, fine. I just like to look at things as a big picture that involves a lot more than just what one one group wants or thinks is fair. Imo, business is shady period and we are all slaves to money. Money was invented as a way to make advancement of humans easier by allowing people to focus on what they are good at for the betterment of all people. Now, people make laws to give themselves unfair advantages just for the sake of making more money.
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Haha, some people can only ever contemplate things from one perspective. It's all good. Support what you want. The world market will decide what is "marketable" and those who appeal to that will flourish. As for the breaking in your home analogy, you need to add the factors that your home is in another country, where you gave your keys to people who you exploit to get what you want for the cheapest possible. To be surprised or even outraged that they do something to even the odds when they can is hilarious.
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Excellent post and segment! Pretty much exactly what I'm talking about. Theft? Lol! To me, scouring the world for places you can exploit people by paying the lowest wages possible and then charging more and more for a design that is decades old and you already made more than a fair share for is much more criminal than someone using those designs to give people what they want at a reasonable price. If people doing that puts you out of business, again, I say you probably shouldn't be in business. And I'm saying this as a fan of Arcadia.
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Lovely!
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All good! When you take photos as good as yours, there are a lot of compliments to go through and impossible to respond to them all. It's going to be nice to have a whole rainbow of Valks and Super Parts to do all kinds of combinations.
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Exactly! Now forget about that last sentence and the rest of it is exactly the mentality you need to be a good collector.
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What will you do? Simple. BUY THEM!
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Slave IV replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Another key classic Super Robot just acquired! This thing is pretty much everything I hoped for. A few more Super Robots and I think I'm good. Will be able to put more money towards Valks, lol! -
Wow! Impressive...Most Impressive!
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I'm not playing with these toys with the show on, making sure they match exactly every moment and it's not a fashion show to me. As long as they look good, which it does, I'm all good. Looking forward to getting all the Destroids and everything to come from HMR.
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Not really, especially when it's something like a license giving you in essence, a legal monopoly. Legal technicalities are always secondary or much lower when it comes to morals IMO. I've worked in the creative industry most my life and never concerned with "IP" because imitation is the highest form of flattery and keeps you on your toes. If you aren't good enough to stay ahead of your copiers, you are either lazy, not good enough or overly greedy, IMO.
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I'm not just talking about 3P, there are many KO TFs that are better copies or even improve on original designs. Either way, I'm not concerned about companies not able to survive because of KOs. That's the challenge of doing business. If one company can't hack it, others will take its place and if not, that just means there is no market for the items but we all know that's not the case.
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I never considered kos or even paid any attention to them until just about a year ago seeing how in many cases, they have been doing a better job than official in the world of Transformers. As for the moral issue, implying anyone else's might be questionable is basically accusing and without going into how hypocritical that is, I'll just say that's not what we're here for.
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If you ordered them together on the same ticket, they don't ship until everything in the order is in stock. Certain shipping methods ship separately once everything is in stock because there is a weight limit for that method. Might also explain the lower savings on combined orders in those cases.
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That almost makes me want to buy KOs more, lol. End of day, I don't care who makes it or anything. Whoever puts the most care into producing the best product and lowest price...basically, provides the best value gets my business. I already have the official Milia ordered but if a KO gives me the premium tampo, same or better quality, that baby pod included and a lower price, I'm in!
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They will "work" with anything you want them to work with. As for tabbing onto other items, probably not but only the cluster missiles are designed to do that anyway. Just use tack or stands to set them up with whatever you want. The pictures of the missiles with my GBP are just using stands.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Slave IV replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Haha, open that stuff, it's so fun! As for back log, tell me about it. I have a backlog of unopened toys dating back to the mid 90's. -
Looks excellent! I'm starting to want more GBP armor parts after getting my first one. Can't get over how good a job Bandai did on that set.
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Yeah, I don't think my HMRs do that. It's what I described with the hinge. In my case, I clicked/locked the hinge before folding the backpack up which makes it fit nicely and stays in place but not locked.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
Slave IV replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Thanks! Open your missiles or the GBP? -
Always great pics! Seen so much of the supers on the F, they look amazing on the J they were intended for too!