Roy's Blues Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 After a year or so of waiting NECA is finally shipping their 24 inch tall balrog. this thing is huge. It is inscale with the toybiz six inch figures. There are a few places left to preorder BBTS.com Ebay neca myspace I'll post a review when I get mine. This thing is so huge it make you GI JOE's crap themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myk Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Lol. I initially thought that you were talking about Balrog from Street Fighter. I was like, "Who the heck would want a 24" statue of him?" Anyway, that thing is beautiful, although I wish someone would go the cheapie route and just make a giant Balrog along the same lines of quality as the giant Nazgul toy of a couple of years ago to defray the cost; $99 is too much for me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy's Blues Posted August 16, 2006 Author Share Posted August 16, 2006 Lol. I initially thought that you were talking about Balrog from Street Fighter. I was like, "Who the heck would want a 24" statue of him?" Anyway, that thing is beautiful, although I wish someone would go the cheapie route and just make a giant Balrog along the same lines of quality as the giant Nazgul toy of a couple of years ago to defray the cost; $99 is too much for me... 425547[/snapback] Yeah the cost is pretty high, especially with new 1/48 & MP-03 &04 coming out in the next month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy's Blues Posted September 11, 2006 Author Share Posted September 11, 2006 Balrog Experience The box was huge when it got here. It's aboout the same size as a case of 1/48's It was a massive toy, and frankly I did not know where I was going to put it. At the time I was extremely happy with it. It was like getting my 1/72 Yamato YF-19 when it first came out. The balrog has a 53 inch wingspan and about 30 inches tall. The pics below are with my VF-oS 1/60 Yamato. The sculpt is excellent. I have been wanting one of these since I saw the first movie. I decicded to place it on top of the entertainment center. When I came home it had fallen over backwards against the wall. After some examination, I noticed the tail was bent differently. I removed it and noticed it rattled. I emailed Bigbadtoystore.com and NECA. BBTS responded with a store credit offer or exchange. I already threw away the box, so no exchange. They also said no parts available. I took the store credit and ordered some 1/48 stealth FP :-) I still have not heard back from NECA. After doing some research,(thanks google) I found some info about Epoxy. I settled on ordering a product called QuiKPlastik. It has a 20 min set time, and is moldable. I opened up the tail by cutting around the top with a exacto knife. Inside the hollow tail there was a broken post with a attached to a clear hard plastic tube. I thought "this is supposed to help hold up 35 pds of menacing plastic." So I used the QP to strengthen the original parts with combination of superglue and a cut up wire hanger. The end result looked like a frakin' sextoy. I case you were wondering why there are no pictures. While it was setting, I used the rest of the Epoxy to set the wings firmly in place. I the used a fast setting Epoxy to glue the tail back together. Also in my research, someone noted that the feet are smooth on the bottom. So placing it on a smooth surface may result in the hips moving and then a shelf-dive. I slove this by gettig a rubber drawer liner and cutting it to size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 I had no idea it was that HUGE until I saw the VF-0. The text "24 inches" just doesn't make the same impression. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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