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Post by xiombarg on Sept 3, 2011 23:10:40 GMT -5
duh.....i didnt remember mentioning metal makes a toy sturdy? Ok.. you inferred it.
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Post by magengar on Sept 4, 2011 10:28:38 GMT -5
Makes me wonder which is lighter in weight and the least expensive, and easier to sculpt/mold: Die-cast? Or, Aluminum?
Decades ago everything was basically made from a variety of raw materials whether they be rubber, plastic, vinyl, tin, metal, wood, and so on and so on... little brother smacked you upside the head with a tin toy robot and you knew it. You got bruised by a pile of falling tinkertoy wooden building blocks and you knew it. These days you get hit with an object, and it's almost always made of some kind of high-tech space-age plastic. lol
...now enter into the 21st century, manufacturers are cutting back costs wherever they can by using the least manageable and least expensive material (eh-Hm, plastic) for the sake of going "Green" (soOo cliché now) and saving money (increased automated production, less physical manpower) while 'protecting the environment' (from harmful chemical pollutants) and 'protecting consumers' (ie: lead content in children's toys).
And what if toys do have a long-term future? I dunno... these days folks are buying their kids fewer toys and more Xbox games. Round up 20 kids in a room to share an activity, what's the ratio of kids sharing actual toys versus the ratio of kids huddled around the latest videogame console? What's the ratio of kids actually playing with actual toys OUTSIDE the house versus the ratio of kids hangin out in the livingroom playing PS3s while upstairs in the bedroom lies a toybox full of forgotten dusty toys? Pretty soon all Time Capsules will be filled with just toys as "relics" and "ancient artifacts" of the past. lol
Imagine how much those things added up will impact the toy world later on.
zozo-mag
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Post by quinjester on Sept 4, 2011 11:30:27 GMT -5
Makes me wonder which is lighter in weight and the least expensive, and easier to sculpt/mold: Die-cast? Or, Aluminum? Just as an FYI, modern Die-cast IS an aluminum alloy, made from a combination of Zinc, Aluminum, Magnesium, and Copper (referred to as ZAMAC or ZAMAK).
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Post by mechamasterj on Sept 4, 2011 13:17:59 GMT -5
i thought this thread was dead. The future I see!! We get more of the figures we have been wanting since we been wanting it lol. I see advances in joint systems especially in bandai and new comer sentinal. I dont care about diecast unless it helps to balance a toy so you can do more standing poses but i dont care...... toys are getting more and more expensive no matter what even in the states they are going above what we used to (and most american toys just plain suck). Just keep giving me cool mechs and figs with crazy articulation and I am happy!
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Post by mojacko on Sept 4, 2011 19:17:54 GMT -5
cool mechs and robot can only be found in japan......thus we have robot japan
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Post by xiombarg on Sept 4, 2011 22:08:07 GMT -5
i thought this thread was dead. The future I see!! We get more of the figures we have been wanting since we been wanting it lol. I see advances in joint systems especially in bandai and new comer sentinal. I dont care about diecast unless it helps to balance a toy so you can do more standing poses but i dont care...... toys are getting more and more expensive no matter what even in the states they are going above what we used to (and most american toys just plain suck). Just keep giving me cool mechs and figs with crazy articulation and I am happy! Thank the Buddha that high end articulation and detail is one area that has come such a LONG way. When looking back at the standard figure articulation ten years ago and compare that to what we have today, it's a huge change. And if you go even further back to fifteen or more years.. ugh, it was practically the dark ages of figures. In fact I sort of see the 90s as the dark ages of robot/mecha figure collecting in general. I guess there was a lot of model building in those years, and it was the beginning of resin casting and garage kits, but there seems to be this big hole during that decade generally. It's great that everything has moved into the current era of SRCs, SOCs, Figure Arts etc. where the hobby aspires to a high level of craftsmanship.
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Post by magengar on Sept 5, 2011 10:32:16 GMT -5
LOL! now That's a cool name for a hamster from Neptune... ..."Zamak" ;D zozo-mag Makes me wonder which is lighter in weight and the least expensive, and easier to sculpt/mold: Die-cast? Or, Aluminum? Just as an FYI, modern Die-cast IS an aluminum alloy, made from a combination of Zinc, Aluminum, Magnesium, and Copper (referred to as ZAMAC or ZAMAK).
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Post by xiombarg on Sept 5, 2011 12:24:12 GMT -5
LOL! now That's a cool name for a hamster from Neptune... ..."Zamak" ;D zozo-mag Just as an FYI, modern Die-cast IS an aluminum alloy, made from a combination of Zinc, Aluminum, Magnesium, and Copper (referred to as ZAMAC or ZAMAK). Or maybe one of the villains from G-Force.
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