Guppy

me too! Damn.. so disappointed..

aaaaah. Thanks Dri. *slaps own head*

How are these? I've sworn off collecting expensive( Yamato lol toys but these might do the trick.

They're not bad. So long as you don't hate PVC with a firey passion they're good. detail's good, poseability is great, paint job is good, nice decals, and not too many bumps/blemishes for a pvc toy. I did want to get them but wasn't prepared to pay the stupid prices. Then hlj had a 65% off sale on them and I'd bought them 10 seconds later.

I see the Standing Tortoise is still available on the hlj sale page.

I'm a day late and a dollar short to this thread but.. I just bought the Max Factory 1/35 toys on sale at hlj - the Standing Tortoise, Bloodsucker and Scopedoggie. They ARE pvc but great detail and articulation. If anyone else has these can you tell me why the little square plugs on the sides of the torso are removeable?

somebody has too much time. Or there's a secret MW munchkin. Maybe a corruption after our recent hacking...? MW has gone all Hal on us.

Well I got done a while ago. I need to post something profound or hilarious to get rid of 'not enough sucking'. And you already know I won't suck for sigs! oh god if I get changed to 'will suck for sigs' I am so leaving and signing up at rt.com.

my thoughts..

If you ever change careers you should take up cricket commentating!

and somebody shoot that damn dog!

oh, and the review is great too.

every pic I see my interest grows less. They look like a cross between a scrunched up aluminium can and Bionicles. Prime's new catch phrase should be "Can-Formers, Recycle!"

wow, but HBO. I love so much of the series they make. Band of Brothers, Oz, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, etc etc, now Preacher! cool. I'm liking this a lot more than the now dead and buried movie idea. With (IIRC) the dude who played Cyclops in the x-men movies.

I saw those pics - maybe a Glock would be the best gun to base Megs on as it's nice and big and chunky.

Dunno the release date.. it was what, about 6 months from when Starscream was first announced to when he hit the shelves?

re the legs being skinny, is there a way to have the inner side contain a 'pull out' inner leg to make them thicker in robot mode? I can't think of a better way to describe this so I hope you get what I mean.

cute pics! Looks like the sketch was done when Dancouga was on the Lettuce Diet.

HAHAHA! You know, I've always wanted 15 carded Lunk figures.. and for just 30k now they can be mine!

also the pic on your top left is the VF-2SS in 1/100 scale made by Bandai. It shows up on MW from time to time, shouldn't be too hard to find on ebay. But stating the obvious, these are all model kits and you'll need some basic/fair/decent experience to make them look any good.

And on the topic of Resin, don't even think about getting a resin kit until you're fairly experienced in modelling as D.N.D says they require a ton of work and you need to know what you're doing.

A little OT from the Gunbuster mania, anyone who owns the Dancougar, what do you think of it? Worth the money? Cool factor? gimmicks? problems? worth getting?

And on that note, which in your opinions is the WORST (or least excellent) SOC? Mine would have to be teh Xabungle - even though it looks great I can never play with it cos it falls to pieces.

I always thought "Turd" was a lovely color.

haha, that's the first thing I thought of too.

check out the SOC Chogokin thread on this page.. that will get you drooling.

awesome:

and at a guess, is the little guy in the below pic about the same size as the little star wars Action Fleet figures?

after IMAI went under Aoshima bought the molds IIRC.

I wish i had started collecting these at the beginning instead of having to catch up

and miss out on some of these, or having to make tough choices between these and Macross stuff.

Yeah, it's tough because they sell out so fast. I started collecting late (when the Getter Dragon came out IIRC) but luckily I was in HK when the bug hit so I got good deals on the Mazinger and Great Mazinger. And thanks to the re-releases I got the Combattler, Getter Liger and Posiedon. I love all the ones I have, my only gripe is the Xabungle. I haven't touched it since I bought it.. too afraid everything will fall off.

No, I know exactly what you mean Drifand - it's a dichotomy.. I want the chunky blocky look cos that's what I love about 'bots like the Soltic and Dougram. but also want more that 4 points of articulation.. and having that means it's got to be more humanoid to accommodate all that movement. Although my yamato Scopedog does both quite nicely.

I have the Lia too and for a PVC toy it's tops! Except for the light gray thin and sickly looking shotgun it comes with.

I haven't had any interest in this line until I saw the Soltic. I blame nostalgic feelings cos I had one as a kid.

I see what Drifand means about 'men in suits' - I put this down to there never has been a articulated Dougram toy til now (from my knowlege) - all the toys and kits I've ever seen have been blocky 80's chunky monkeys.

I'm a total SOC junkie but I'm a bit 'meh' about the Walker Galliar and the Ideon. I bought a HCM Walker Galliar to keep my SOC Xabungle company so I doubt I'll get the SOC version, especially when the price is around $70. If I have some money in my bank I'll be getting the Gunbuster for sure.

Now if I won the lottery I would definitely be getting the Fewture Getters 2 and 3. I love my #1.

And the Aoshima black getter looks great too (the poor man's Fewture Ryoma, lol):

http://www.toysdaily.com/04topic/chogokin/...blackgetter.htm

Guppy where did you get that S-Type head from?

Looks like a scaled down 1/48 head or is it from a Hasegawa VF-1S?

well spotted! I swapped the 1/60 head with the spare head from the 1/72 kit.. I thought it looked heaps better.

I never liked the Gunbuster design either.. but this SOC has sold it for me. Big chunky transforming shiny metal robot toy.. it's MINE!

totally OT.. I just installed Mozilla 2 and the spellcheck function is a great idea (what do you mean, you don't know the word 'Gunbuster'??). I especially love the adblocking addon.

Ok where can else can I find stands like those?

Last time I checked they were sold out, and I need about 10 to 15. . .

Just to tempt you even more, here are some old pics I took when I got my stands about 3 or so years ago (man, so long ago!! )

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great pics! I love all the gimmicks too. I might be giving the detail under the head cover a light dry brush with gunmetal paint. It looks like plain gray plastic color in the pic.