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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Nov 3, 2014 0:17:47 GMT -5
I actually saw one on a shelf in combined mode in person yesterday and I have to say I was impressed. Didn't get to pick it up but the pictures online really don't do it justice.
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Nov 2, 2014 1:24:11 GMT -5
It's big white plastic with a skinny robotic bird head and white doors with numbers on them.
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Nov 1, 2014 9:52:12 GMT -5
It's NOT being released again. This is more than likely old stock that was found.
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 31, 2014 22:50:15 GMT -5
It's discoloration of the plastic. It happens a lot. Doesn't mean it's brittle, but it is very common. My blue fists are discolored. Also, my outer halves of each forearm (the side where the missile firing buttons are) are faded. The other side of the forearms are not, and my shins and head are not.
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 31, 2014 20:04:57 GMT -5
Can't do polls on the mobile app. Will have to do it at home.
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 31, 2014 19:29:38 GMT -5
Get me your email address by PM, then you can send me some pics. I know areas can swap out like jon mentioned. I have some extra garbins, but I can't promise I have anything close to the condition you need for a match. I'll have to look through all of them.
You got a good price but I think the damage hurts the value severely. I would ask for $75 CAD back based on current exchange rates. You paid about $266 US for the toy by my calculations, and that would put you into it for about $200 US. Still a little steep, but do-able for now if you feel you must keep it.
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 31, 2014 19:24:28 GMT -5
I'm with you there as well - I was just a couple years younger than the crowd that went there, and I also wish I could have gotten to see it open back in the day.
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 31, 2014 19:21:45 GMT -5
Damn man, you got me all excited there for a minute!
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 31, 2014 14:03:11 GMT -5
I have blown through a couple gardians in my quest to "assemble" a mint one (meaning I bought each of the three figures separately). I started with a nice lot that had a fairly mint Garbin with a chipped upper knee that still allowed him to stand up properly and a broken head, and a second Gardian that had a good head and chest panel. I swapped the head and chest over and that was that. The smaller figures are giving me difficulty at the moment.
That area will be extremely hard to repair. Even if you secure it well, the area above where it attaches to could likely be just as brittle and that allows for the possibility of the figure to fall over while standing.
Gardian is deceiving because he is skinny but he is massively heavy as you can tell from the chest and lower legs/feet. This, coupled with the classic popy blue plastic which can be a nightmare makes buying a Gardian that will remain intact difficult.
Most gardians even broke in shipping when new, or when they are shipped to buyers now, commonly heads snapping at the neck joint.
The break you see is due to age or moving around in shipping. It happens, frequently. I would either return the whole toy or get at least 60% of your money back if you feel you must keep it. If it was repairable, I would honestly tell you that you would be okay. In addition, that blue area is riveted on, so it's not like you can swap a thigh either.
Also, don't move garbin's head back. The pin holding the head should be removed so that the pressure ridge on the neck joint can be sanded down. Otherwise your head will most likely snap off when you go to move it.
I have pics of how I sanded mine and can email them to you if you PM me.
What did you pay for this, if you don't mind me asking?
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 31, 2014 10:55:07 GMT -5
Baron how heavy is boss palder? I've been thinking about getting one. Not really a fan of any CMs stuff but kind of like this one.
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 31, 2014 8:53:32 GMT -5
This looked awesome in the animation. This toy looks equally as awesome. Looking forward to see where this goes.
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 31, 2014 6:56:44 GMT -5
Well I have to say that in pictures at least, they don't look as bad as the color on the new daitarn did...maybe I need to get the Maz...
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 31, 2014 6:47:44 GMT -5
Those look amazing!
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 31, 2014 1:00:19 GMT -5
No I think they found a few cases of them or something. I haven't heard anything about a reissue.
Overall it is a good toy but it has differences compared to older voltrons and lionbots. There were two versions, gold weapons or silver weapons. I have owned both.
The face is black instead of blue which is a little weird. No missile firing gimmicks. Chrome is really nice, looks like modern chrome, shiny, not metallic silver like vintage chrome.
The red and green lions have fins molded onto their backs. Also, all the lions have a weird color to them, the colors look a little pale/off. My yellow lions were factory new and never fit well. Even though they were fully screwed together, they had a huge gap through the middle of the entire figure.
If I had the choice and money is no object, I'd go Popy Golion. But for most of us it is easier to get a Godaikin Golion, matchbox voltron, or KO lionbot. They all have missile firing and accessories except for the matchbox, but all those versions are great quality and hold up well.
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 29, 2014 15:44:17 GMT -5
Anybody here who likes Angry Birds? Angry Birds: Transformers 80's Cartoon - Trailer I downloaded this. It's a hell of a grind machine to make any progress, as usual...
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 29, 2014 15:42:39 GMT -5
There's not much Ed, from what I can tell. A lot of the good info comes from word of mouth of people who actually went there in years past. I still keep looking though.
The storefront/building still exists, I have been by the location. It is a used office furniture store or something now, if it's still open.
There is a good vintage commercial on YouTube if you search Mr. Big's Toyland.
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 28, 2014 8:24:55 GMT -5
I don't really care much for facebook...
I'm working on choosing store formats over the next week or two. Have a couple options I'm reviewing. The biggest holdup is looking into alternate secure payments, other than PayPal.
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 26, 2014 11:16:13 GMT -5
Pretty cool! How big is it?
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 26, 2014 11:14:43 GMT -5
I would like to see the Daikengo review as well. I really don't like ET toys and wont be buying one, but of all the ones that have been released so far, the daikengo is the one I really want to see. Just on design, it seems like it might have a better look or work better overall than the previous releases.
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Oct 26, 2014 11:09:23 GMT -5
I need your opinion in here, I have a lot of room in my room so I was thinking to make mine huge to store everything in it, it will be wood and glass with LEDs the good one not cheap one of course lol it will be 39inchs (1 meter) wide by 70inches ( 1.8 meter) high by 27.5inches (almost 70cm) deep, with three glass shelves kinda like this one ( i don't own the picture above ) its close to what i want except mine will be made of wood I think it's too big. I like the layout but I think you run the risk of easily overcrowding the stuff and not being able to see everything, or having too few items with too much space in between. If you have different size items, you can both stagger them front to back and offset them left to right so that will help. The numbers below are just general, you could do 5, 10, 20 wide whatever you could fit, and big means your tallest, smaller refers to the fact that each row I front of that should have figures slightly smaller than the row behind it. That way you can see figures behind and in between, maximizing spaces hike the eye sees a full area through declining scale (think like how a section of seats in a sports arena looks). So if you looked down on one shelf from above, it would look like this to start: - - - - - - - - - - back row, 10 big - - - - - - - - - next row, 9 smaller - - - - - - - - - - next row, 10 smaller I use this pattern in my small case with the 12 inch deep shelves and currently only one item is obscured from view. Case is not full yet but it works well so far. What are you trying to display? Diecast, jumbos, other toys?
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