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Post by crpdiablos on Feb 28, 2019 16:43:10 GMT -5
I saw this the other day and was so stoked, I'm a collector of Voltron and Dairugger and all their other names so of course I'm gonna be stoked but somehow the steam just fizzled out for me as I took a close look at the vehicles which look almost identical to the MP VV just with a repaint and a few changes but these vehicles almost look like Bandai took and MP VV and just repainted the vehicles and made^a couple mods and walla.. I'm seriously hoping this is not the toy they will be giving up , the upper thigh looks the same which is one of the weakest points of the MP as well. The hands look the same and so does the blue waist piece and red plane yes the legs do to and almost all of it so I'm wondering what is really going on with This. It needs to be bigger than Golion not the same size so right now I'm on board but because I have to be not because I'm loving what they are showing us. Come on Bandai we dont want version 4 of Miracle Productions Voltron which was a licensed product at one point and even called voltron on the box so it's not too far off to think they would use one of their own product which I always thought they had some sort of hand in these bootlegs
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Post by crpdiablos on Dec 27, 2018 21:11:53 GMT -5
When things go south you must fund a way to make a positive from the negative situation. In this case the original designer is already ahead of the knockoff company and has the ability to turn this around by modifying his original drain into a transformative voltron and find a way to produce it. I bet if he could ge this going all of us interested in this version would hold off and maybe even help fund his transformable version. I would be one to do so. Maybe someone can talk to this man and maybe we can all help to end this sort of theft positively and shut down the guys that copied his design. I for one will never buy this figure unless it comes from the original designer . I have no problem buying knockoffs when a small company copied a larger companies product but this a big company screwing over a man and his vision I will not be a party to. That's where I stand on that issue and my shelf Will not have this item. The original designer wanted his design to be special ,not a mass marketed you.
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Post by crpdiablos on Nov 23, 2018 22:09:41 GMT -5
Just when i thought i could relax
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Post by crpdiablos on Oct 26, 2018 21:55:27 GMT -5
So a rerelease of voltron for 2019 dairugger for 2019 and if Bandai is listening which they are, i do believe it is time for the DX Tetsujin 28. It seens like once a company comes out with a decent knock off that bandai gets the competition bug and cones and knocks it out of the park lately. I wonder if there will be changes to the voltron. I can only pray for all chrome joins and tails on the red and green as well as functioning weapons with red and yellows missles and a popy style display box or maybe a golion. Respect for voltrom respect for golion and dont get me started on dairugger. Will he be as big as the original or more like the miracle productions. Ok gonna be a great year
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Post by crpdiablos on Oct 26, 2018 21:36:43 GMT -5
I received my yellow lion the other day and it is a lot tighter than the blue lion, the weapons stay in place and the legs dont flop around like on the blue lion. It does have a loose neck piece so the heads pops off real easliy . There are a couple other things thst bother me about this which are the eyes which have a really bad paint app ,the chrome is just like the blue improper preperation making it look gritty and dull and the plalstic color is not vibrant kind looks like waterd down mustard. These are minor issues and the lion is still well made and looks like they fixed the major issue with the legs. I xant wait dor the black lion to see what they give us for the final piece. This is a very nice set but not as well made as the soc and hearing bandai is rereleasing the voltron next yr makes me kind of wish i had waited especially with dairugger as well. Gonna start saving thats for sure
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Post by crpdiablos on Oct 17, 2018 19:43:12 GMT -5
What you have there is the V belt aka playboy belt Lionbot. Would love to see the box. Curious how early of a version it is.
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Post by crpdiablos on Oct 15, 2018 1:36:57 GMT -5
I went a step further tonight in my comparison and into a territory that seems to have scared people which was to transform the fantasy jewel lions that i have and connect them to the SOC Black Lion. There should be a drum.roll.here because it was a success. A bit tight fitting tye legs but i may have been overly cautious. So yes these do attach to the black lion just like the bandai lions do and if you look inside the blue lions from both sets from the rear opening you will see a chrome piece where it ends which is identical on both soc and fantasy jewel. All of this leave without a doubt that what i said in my last post is correct. These are the bandai lions just not made as well but not much different. If they upped their qc there would be no difference other than the slight changes
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Post by crpdiablos on Oct 11, 2018 23:21:59 GMT -5
Ok Now that ive had these a few days and compared them to the soc my first thoughts have changed slightly. Also my business involves manufacuring composite molds for car parts and some other stuff and after looking over the lions i am convinced these came from the Bandai molds. You can see where certain information has been sanded or machined out of the mold and the mold was cut buffed and polished back to try to hide that the soc molds were used to make these. The green lion may be a different story or they removed a larger amount of material than they did on the others. The blue lion i was surprised to find the feet did pivot and the weapon on the back does open. The biggest Yes!! On these is the areas where details were half assed removed from the mold. I was a bit surprised that the discoloration innthe plastic especially on the blue lion is not much worse than the soc. Gthe only gripe i really have then is the blue lions legs being loose wobbly improperly prepped for the chrome application. Im sure there is a way to tighten up the joints to fix this issue. I do like the metal stand piece on the blue lion that is in chrome where as on the soc it is black plastic. Fantasy jewel if you are reading this please do us all a solid and make the black lion perfect if not better than the soc as it is the foundation for the others which are already loose and will cause issues in posing and standing. Im hoping you will beed up the black lions joints which may help counter the effects of the loose parts. Maybe throw in some firing shoulder missles.
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Post by crpdiablos on Oct 7, 2018 14:21:43 GMT -5
Inhad a little extra cash so i bought one of each and a deposit on the black lion. I didnt even have to take out the soc to do a comparison. What i did notice was that the quality gets worse with each release. The green lion is the best and close to the quality of an soc but the red lion starts to feel lighter and flimsier and the blue lion feels like junk. I was able to get the back missle to open all the way. The plastic is too wide but if uou are careful you can work it back and forth and it comes out. The weapons barely stay in place on the legs but the mouth blades seem to seat well. I really hope this degrading quality xhanges before they ship the yellow and black. If not im afraid when combined it will be a floppy turd
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Post by crpdiablos on Oct 7, 2018 14:14:20 GMT -5
This is not fair. Btw did i tell you about my huge voltron collection. Its one of the largest anyone has ever seen
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Post by crpdiablos on Sept 7, 2018 15:49:51 GMT -5
Junk,hit and miss. Best bet is find an 9lder diamond belt. They seem to be the best made of all the lionbots. I have a bunch of extras that i am selling. I also have an extra mini lionbot that i will sell. Depending on what you want and budget i can probably set you up with something that fits what you are looking for. Text me if interested 760 808 7041
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Post by crpdiablos on Aug 17, 2018 21:37:08 GMT -5
Any news on the blue lion when its release will be. It seems like there has been a hold up on the blue lion. The red and green were released soon after it was announced so what is the long delay here. Are rhey waiting for xmas or something. Ive been kicking around the idea of custom manufacturing a highly detailed version of this. Im even looking into the possibility of making a fully functional voltron . 8 am waiting to hear back from an aquaitance of mine that is a robot developer who also worked on the google car as a programmer/ developer. I want to find out what it will take to make a functional robotic voltron. Maybe not hearing back from him isnt that he didnt get my email, he may think im out of my mind. He and i met through the developers program of the nao robot and he knows his stuff. This could be a new thread but a little premature but this whole knockoff rhing got me doing some research. I just dontbknow if there is a big enough market dor this sort of high end toy or actually its a robot. Each lion would be made from the strongest lightest material like carbon fiber ,titanium, aluminum and graphene. Fully functional and suoer detailed and about twice the size of the bandai soc or possibly larger. These would be very expensive is the issue each lion could cost 1000.00 or more and to really do what i want im afraid could be close to 5000.00 per lion. Sorry for making voltrom fans go crazy. The thought of it gets me going but i just got cLled to work so enjoy the brain pain
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Post by crpdiablos on Aug 2, 2018 14:55:08 GMT -5
Ok i get this, the large sized tetsujin but that gx44 im not impressed with and my mind is completely blown that they are so expensive now. Tetsujin to me has to be as good as the original and 8f its the size of teenage barbie its just not in the same plane as the original dx. If this ome doesnt have opening panels im not interested and im hesitant on the evolution because it seems to be lacking some chrome that was on the kneecaps of the godaikin. I have nevee seen the show so mu experience is strickltly with the toy itself.. please someone do a toy accuarte down to the box details version of this that would be on par with the new golion bandI did.enough for now, im bored and rambling
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Post by crpdiablos on Jul 18, 2018 20:52:38 GMT -5
Just vibing the universe for something super cool. It seems a bit slow lately with nothing causing mass hysteria. A little like earthquake weather but in a good way. Something awesome is about to be revealed..I an sensing this vibe to the toy gods. Something we all will have to have that will blow the doors off everything we already do have. Om om om om digaridoo please om om om om hey someone kick that hidden chair out from under special head om om om om om om om
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Post by crpdiablos on Jul 18, 2018 20:42:55 GMT -5
The majority of my godaikins are mint like this and I have never ever assembled them and rarely will I remove the. From the styro unless they look to have been handled already. That piece looks so nice I would not attempt to assemble it. I would buy a loose one for that purpose. Very nice score.
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Post by crpdiablos on Jul 2, 2018 16:56:15 GMT -5
Looks like mp is back with version 3.1.2.1 23.14.5.0
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Post by crpdiablos on Jun 24, 2018 10:44:27 GMT -5
Man your gonna sell off something your grandparents left you just really sounds awful. I cherish my family and cant sell anything my living parents or grandparents have given me so hearing your willing to sell a gift, or an inherited ungiven gift,.I'm still a bit confused on that, is rather sad and maybe I'm just a little too sentimental or sensitive from the recent loss of family members but hearing this is making me sad. It would kill me to sell something like that and I would have to have a serious need to do so which would break my heart and kill me to do but I would have to be so desperate to sell something like that. I still get sick thinking about how I sold back a flying lesson my grandparents had given me in high school and wish I could go back and take the lesson they had given me. Damn this is making me cry Seriously. Maybe I'm just over sensitive and shouldnt care, it's only material possessions but to me it's a piece of the person that gave it to me that I was trading for a meaningless set of digital currency that will vanish in a couple days whereas every time I would look at that box I would think of the person that gave it to me and the time we shared. I hope you change your mind but who knows maybe you didnt know them at all or have nothing but horrible memories and this means absolutely nothing to you. I'm gonna go watch some oprah reruns now and ponder the world some more and how the heck I'm gonna fix it
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Post by crpdiablos on Jun 18, 2018 8:54:58 GMT -5
Seriously ,that good, I'm dont usually watch cartoons but if it has that effect on a person than I better Check it out cause this sounds better than a booty call from princess allura herslf
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Post by crpdiablos on Jun 13, 2018 14:24:44 GMT -5
Jesus that video is painful to watch..... Jesus would take offense to that. Say 10 hail Mary's 10 our fathers and seek out cicada 3301 in the search for the spear of destiny
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Post by crpdiablos on Jun 7, 2018 12:15:40 GMT -5
Man I'm jealous the lion king and the time bot are the last two that I have never been able to find in a condition worth buying. I have every other variant and some I've never seen before but everytime I see those two I realize I still have a collection to complete even though I've been selligboff some of my rarest pieces lately. Very nice collection btw.
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