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Post by darkfriar on May 6, 2014 12:49:06 GMT -5
Thanks Chachi, huge fan of your video reviews btw Good to know there's something I can try at least on removing those ridiculous smudges on my figure.
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Post by darkfriar on May 6, 2014 3:14:09 GMT -5
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Post by darkfriar on May 4, 2014 16:27:29 GMT -5
While i agree with a lot of the folks on the thread that this release of the Getters were in fact great with a lot of new plus to the overall fewture ex gokin line, my biggest disappoint had to with Poseidon figure. Not because of the figure but with the million and one paint smudges I had on my figure that was seen on the chest and leg areas with my specimen. I'm not sure what happened but the smudges were atrocious on mines. I'm not even sure, but has anyone dealt with Nippon-Yasan's customer service department here? I'm actually thinking about asking them on this as I'm guessing I'm one of the lucky few that ended up with a relatively smudged-up Poseidon figure... If only the paint smudges weren't so visible on mines, I'd let it go but as it stands the best one of the bunch had to be getter dragon and as someone else had mentioned it before the q.c. just sort of dropped with each new figure release for this series
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Post by darkfriar on May 2, 2014 18:56:24 GMT -5
He's 80 - 85% diecast. The legs, shoulders, chest, torso, groin... the only plastic is his head and launching fists. He also comes with a plastic set of wings which i didn't put it on as he was MISB purchase. I had to open him up to confirm and just observe the beauty and coolness that this piece is. I'll put up more pics later as I am expecting a twin cousin of his to arrive soon. I got silly lucky this month I think.
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Post by darkfriar on May 2, 2014 0:46:28 GMT -5
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Post by darkfriar on May 2, 2014 0:37:02 GMT -5
sometimes you just find the strangest things ....
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Post by darkfriar on Mar 27, 2014 1:59:46 GMT -5
Holy Krapola!!!.. where can we get one of these awesomeness... why must you show me something that I can never have .... argggghhhhhh!!!!!....
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Post by darkfriar on Mar 22, 2014 16:56:41 GMT -5
Thank you CMS for a solid GoShogun continuation, it was a worthy successor for a photo op with the original grand pappy
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Post by darkfriar on Mar 21, 2014 0:38:26 GMT -5
Love the pictures, and would love them more if your MacBook had the Robot-Japan website instead. haha I'll keep that in mind next time
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Post by darkfriar on Mar 20, 2014 0:03:59 GMT -5
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Post by darkfriar on Mar 17, 2014 1:45:05 GMT -5
I finally got myself a cms brave35 Jeeg in my hands the other day and realized what all the commotion was about. I had a lot of doubts for magmo toys being stable and fun to pose but wow was I corrected by this CMS product. A sad day for the toy world that another gokin company has fallen off. In short, thank you CMS for correcting my expectations on what a high quality magmo toy should be. Guess I'll have to open up brave 30 Gordian next and see what all the commotion is about with that one next.
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Post by darkfriar on Jan 18, 2014 1:48:20 GMT -5
One of the coolest SOC I have handled to date. The rolling tank treads, the heft in diecast weight, the ridiculous amount of engineering to this gokin is a home run for Bandai. Now if they do this gift of engineering on the Tryder 7 release especially with the copious amount of heft and rolling tread I'd say we're looking a new golden age for Bandai in toy engineering. I'm amazed the level of articulation on this release even the oversized body. If you're on the fence on this guy, you should definitely give this guy a shot.
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Post by darkfriar on Nov 27, 2013 16:07:14 GMT -5
It's all Chinese writing... none of that is Korean.
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Post by darkfriar on Nov 7, 2013 3:01:18 GMT -5
I'm liking this more and more... Voltron Forrest *_* Voltron buddies: Box Art comparison:
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Post by darkfriar on Nov 6, 2013 2:46:54 GMT -5
I just had to post this up... ^_^
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Post by darkfriar on Nov 1, 2013 2:31:58 GMT -5
Initial thoughts: - Heavy, lots of metal in overall body, lower legs, and biceps and sholder joints connector, plastic thighs, head, neck, and forearms - Hands are too big and hideous in comparison to the overall bot - Looks good next to yamato 1/60 scale valk - noticing problems with harken and connecting blades to staff, the staff plugs are too big and the harken blade's connector is too small making the double harken blade not displayable - golden horns not too bad once you get use to them... - overall I have to say Dairugger just seems more fun to play with right now... - CMS seems to have missed on the few QC items with this figure.... - noticing some paint chips between the elbow (metal) joint ant bicep area... - totally afraid to mess with the spacer right now as mines seem to have some difficulty closing completely all the way .... Here's a group test shot: test group shot
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Post by darkfriar on Oct 30, 2013 1:01:29 GMT -5
Mines came in today... opened it in the office and simply stared it at for some time. I have to say I like it... those silly golden horns grow on you after a while. The heft on this figure is quite nice, and its the biggest die-cast Grendy to date. I have to say those hands are way too huge ...
I haven't messed with the articulation much though and managed to get the spacer out ... mines have some slight qc issues with the two lower flaps i've noticed and I'm too afraid to open it up given what I've read thus far in the forum.... contemplating whether or not to pick-up another one if I have the budget for it... I think if the Italian version is indeed the yellow horns I'd be very curious to see it side by side comparison to the current version....
Overall I'm not too sad about the purchase yet... the box is huge though... so be warned... not as big as the SOC Mazinger DX release but getting darn close to it....
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Post by darkfriar on Oct 28, 2013 21:38:51 GMT -5
Hey guys,
Just wanted to give this thread some hope, I received one of my VV from TF today. No tracking info just magically appeared at my work place today. Hopefully, I'll get my other one soon. Not, sure if this helps or not but I got my processed email like 2 weeks ago and I'm in the west coast region.
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Post by darkfriar on Oct 22, 2013 10:12:15 GMT -5
I don't usually complain but I'm starting to get irritated here having pre-order with TF for two VV only to find out there's now a price drop on top of delays. Dave or whomever is trolling this thread.... I hope you guys make this right, I've sent you an email 24 hours ago and still no response. Now most of us here have been extremely patient with this silliness, its one thing if the product was released months ago and we're now seeing this price difference. The fact that most of us haven't even received our shipments and we're now slapped with this price drop from other vendors is just out right ridiculous.
For those that live outside of the US and waiting for your shipments I feel for you, but for the rest of us and in some cases that live in the same PST as TF and has yet even hear about our shipment status... well that's about all I can say at this point.
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Post by darkfriar on Oct 11, 2013 1:17:31 GMT -5
another 10 more days before my bday passes and then its d'oh....
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