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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 28, 2016 15:47:33 GMT -5
Yeah, Might Gaine was kind of lame, especially since it came right after J-Decker which was easily the most intense Brave series I'd seen until I started GGG. It was still better than Transformers Victory tho. Victory suffers from poor pacing of the first half as the plot seems to aimlessly wander around the MotW territory with a narrative coming second at that time. You see that with Exkaiser and Fighbird. But with Might Gaine I feel legitimately conflicted as some of the villains and thus their episodes can be really good. With Doctor Wolfgang and his crew and Ace Joe being my favorite parts of that series. But then you get to the episodes with Weeaboo Shogun and Catherine Vuitton and those tend to be the WORST episodes in the series if not the worst of all Braves. And I just got back from Brave of Gold Goldran. Highest ratings my ass. But yeah, at least with the Wapanese Shogun, some of his episodes not entirely featuring said boss have been rather good. With Luna and the young Samurai clone episodes being surprisingly good. But Catherine Vuitton, she can rot in the deepest circles of Hell.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 26, 2016 18:43:05 GMT -5
What's funny is how this new commercial for GX-70 has more people wanting the hanger shown in it as opposed to the SoC. Though the changes in engineering does make for what looks to be a much better toy and much needed improvement over the past mold.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 26, 2016 18:40:38 GMT -5
It's kind of sad, the only reason I even started watching the Brave shows was in preparation for GGG coming out, which I fully intended to buy then - but now that I've finally reached the series it's featured in, other priorities have taken over, and I just don't want to dedicate that much money for it and all it's add-ons. Maybe if I hadn't skipped it when it first came out, I probably would've found it much easier to convince myself to buy the SP add-on in spite of the outrageous price tag. Personally, while Gaogaigar was a pretty good series, the popularity only sky-rocketed with the Final OVA. As for base series, Brave Police J-Decker is my personal favorite as the human and robot character dynamic was best shown in that series. Plus despite me being a huge fan of The Brave Series, I admit, some series I liked for their respective toylines than the actual show. Brave of Gold Goldran and to a lesser extent Might Gaine are examples. Now if only there was either a DX Battle Bomber set I can find or some 3rd party company to make it real.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 26, 2016 14:40:54 GMT -5
yup... and definitely waayy cheaper. speaking of hammer.. Goldymarg.. has anyone tried using Takara/Sonokong's much older 2k-3kyen version of Goldymarg as a replacement for SOC Goldymarg.. might work. I sold mine years ago. but more likely it wont fit.. or atleast what he look like just holding it with his bare hands lol Nah. Charles from OptimusPrimeSG has proven that the connection for the DX toy from the 90s was too big and barely fits over the connection for SoC Gaogaigar. The CM's Corp release also does not fit so no Gadget Tools either.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 25, 2016 20:55:32 GMT -5
Not the biggest fan, and I haven't watched the anime yet. But it looks a cool chogokin. should I buy one? "Decent engineering" is an understatement. Even without the Hammer and Star parts, GGG is a really good SOC release. Only flaws I find are loose ankles on the lion and Gaigar. But when combined, its rock solid, robust, and hefty. The triple shoulder joints need some getting used to, but after fiddling with it for a while, I am used to how it works (all metal ratchets). It also got working tank tracks, fully articulated hands, and a real working helmet (that looks awesome and not weird). Bandai took a lot of effort making this one right in many things. If you remotely like the look and design, quality is not the thing you need to worry about. Do it! Imagine if we get another visit to the Brave Series. Even if it takes another decade I am guessing.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 25, 2016 19:21:20 GMT -5
Not the biggest fan, and I haven't watched the anime yet. But it looks a cool chogokin. should I buy one? I would say that Gaogaigar on his own is a solid release. He has a good amount of poseability with his engineering and is a rather cool looking and solid robot. If you are a fan of Gaogaigar, getting the Goldymarg is also something to put on the list. I would only suggest the most hardcore of Brave or Gaogaigar fans to pay $300+ on the Star Gaogaigar add-on. The best thing about it is that with the new boosters only compatible with the Stealth Gao it comes with as well as the stand to help support it, it makes for an amazing display piece even though it relegates Gaogaigar to being a really good looking statue. But for most, the Star Gaogaigar add-on is skippable.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 20, 2016 12:04:41 GMT -5
That's completely justified though, cause those Legacy Megazords are hilariously overpriced for what they are. I'd be mad too if I was asked to pay 200 dollars for a modern high-end toy that has the same engineering as something I could have bought in the early 90s. i dunno what youre talking about that 200usd.. but those legacy megazords in the malls are only 80usd when released here way back.. its a long ways from the projected price of SOC Daizyujin which is probably around 250-300usd soc voltron price.. if its the legacy Titanus.. thats is one damn expensive alright.. but imagine the price if its SOC Titanus next hehe.. The aftermarket prices for the Legacy Dino Megazord can go for upwards of over $200. Which is the common pricing at this point in time. Most likely more than that now actually.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 19, 2016 14:24:30 GMT -5
See, i get that. As long as it looks good, i dont mind either way... But i understand the other side too. We had many Gokin voltrons.. Including Bandais own who started it all! What few bros are saying IS, they waited all this time to fix all the things Bandai couldnt resolve decades ago.... based on the photos, Bandai seemingly chose to just revist it...albeit its a vast improvement over the original. Bandai is one of the best when it comes to toy engineering, if not the best. So Don't count out on the cover or replaceable parts till you have it in your hand. My only issue is at times they do feel like they are exploitative of their consumer-base(Sentai/Kamen Rider SH Figuarts, Premium Exclusives not being easy for foreigners, Gundam in the USA market)as well as them struggling to stay in touch with their fanbase especially a few years back. But when they deliver, they deliver.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 19, 2016 12:52:25 GMT -5
Nothing there but according to the blog, there is 40th TaekwonV promotion at Dunkin Donut Korea. Its giving away small PVC statue if you buy about $10 worth of donuts.... Maybe ill check 5pro facebook? Wow. Between this and the Brave Robots, I see a lot of Korean kids such as myself having an affinity for giant robots.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 19, 2016 2:03:05 GMT -5
I can never quite understand the massive impulse buying of multiples of a single item, especially one this expensive, with some more hard core collectors. Granted it is nice to have one for the shelf and another for play but really, I personally can barely afford one of these guys. I kind of feel the same way, although I think I'd do it a bit too if I didn't collect so many different things. I did buy a second GaoGaiGar to fiddle with though, since my first became aa absolute brick with the Goldion Hammer and Star GaoGaiGar option set. I admit. I may do the same for my SoC Gaogaigar due to paint scuffing and how my bricked SoC is a great statue as well. Lol. Nonetheless, I do not quite regret my purchase as The Brave Series is sort of a missing piece of my childhood that has shaped my adult life in a way.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 19, 2016 2:00:11 GMT -5
Ahhh. The Korean Mazinger. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is a string of very well made customs more than anything.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 18, 2016 18:32:59 GMT -5
Not gonna complain about the size at all. I'll happily take slightly smaller if the trade off is far better quality. So...who's gonna buy three to have a SOC Megazord in all three modes? I can never quite understand the massive impulse buying of multiples of a single item, especially one this expensive, with some more hard core collectors. Granted it is nice to have one for the shelf and another for play but really, I personally can barely afford one of these guys.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 18, 2016 13:59:55 GMT -5
Yeah. I am waiting on reviews of this guy before I get him for real.
I will be hounding channels such as Odean, RocketPunchArmy and so on.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 17, 2016 21:02:48 GMT -5
I would like to believe that the proportions they chose is sort of a compromise to make all the forms look balanced in terms of asthetic design.
There are the individual lions as well as the combined Voltron to worry about and making the upper legs if Voltron taller may interfere with the basic look of Black Lion. There is also the issue with the chrome lion limbs for the combined mode but I think the anime look is to cut corners so they would not have to animate the silver legs whenever Voltron is combined.
Add that with past feedback from past "Masterpiece" Voltron offerings, I think Bandai Tamashii is also using some of those criticisms such as say, the Toynami Voltron to help mold this figure.
Granted I was not born yet when Voltron was the big thing of the 80s so I could not really add into any personal attachments to the character other than me marathoning various series such as the 3rd Dimension and the original cut, Go-Lion.
While I do understand adding in feedback to help better these designs from my time in the Rangerboard whenever talking about Legacy items so I do hope the final product is worth the wait.
As for me, I never bothered to pick up any of the Voltron toys and this SoC looks to be as definitive to my eyes as the version of Voltron I will want in my collection.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 17, 2016 14:57:13 GMT -5
Its a little slow at work right now since its almost quitting time, so I decided to take a glance at what the current aftermarket price for the Legacy Mega/Dragonzords and Titanus are and holy cow. Are people actually paying those prices? Hell, I was going to be happy to just get most of what I paid for 'em back and I bought at MSRP. Yeah. At this point, one would probably prefer to get the SoC releases especially if a Dragon Caesar is in the works.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 15, 2016 13:07:52 GMT -5
never expected to see the day that finally bandai would add their sentai robots(power rangers) to this line. truly im having this stupid smile in my face seeing this. this literaly there is no question in anyones mind that this is gonna be far more superior to that crappy legacy version. So looking forward to see there combine form a well when they do dragonzord and titanus. i can finally retire the old mmpr versions. Why? I mean we long ago got a few of the early Sentai's or Tokusatsu robots. Battle Fever and Leoparden are from the same lineage. So more of the live action cardboard suits has always been a possibility. I think we all just assumed that SOC might be deliberately steering clear of the MMPR stuff in order to leave it to a different internal product line and division. Much the same way as we don't see SOC Gundam stuff. I wonder what the internal reaction from Bandai America to this thing is? (Which further begs the question might we see it directly distributed by BA via retail channels as some sort of Masterpiece issue?) Well considering the fact that these news came about way after even the Legacy Megazord reissue was all said and gone, all that is left for that mold are the ridiculous aftermarket prices in which for said prices, people can just buy the Soul of Chogokin now which came at a great time. I don't necessarily think this was deliberate or planned but this release of the SoC Daizyujin may very well help lower the price of the aftermarket or at the least leave them more dead in the water as the price for the SoC more or less matches with said ridiculous aftermarket.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 14, 2016 20:45:30 GMT -5
I just noticed something while looking at videos/pictures of the Dinozord display - Tyrannosaurus' upper legs are hollow. Obviously this is all subject to change considering it's a resin prototype, but my original thought was that they would modify the transformation so that the Tyrannosaurus lower legs would feed into the triceratops and sabertooth tiger GaoGaiGar style to allow full use of the Tyrannosaurus knees as Megazord's knees. Seeing the hollow upper legs, I take it they intend to use the Tyrannosaurus lower legs to fill in the upper legs for a proper transformation. Now I'm REALLY curious as to how they'll pull off giving Megazord knee articulation. My guess is that they will allow the butt ends of the Saber Tiger and Triceratops to be more flexible to give the needed knee bends and swivel. If not, having something similar to Gaogaigar's or rather Gaigar's knees would do the trick. I say this cause unless my memory of the SRC is very fuzzy, the butt of the Triceratops and Saber Tiger were the said areas that did the bending as opposed to the smaller knees of the Tyrannosaurus. But that is using my limited knowledge of said SRC.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 14, 2016 18:51:22 GMT -5
Ah....thats the designer i really REALLY don't like. Masami Obari...... I like some of his work. On mecha. When it comes to humans, he seems to have gone the way of Rob Liefeld. In fact the two may have a lot in common even in just art-wise.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 14, 2016 13:51:46 GMT -5
Hey guys, I was in Akihabara today and they had Voltron out on display. Unfortunately on first glance he looks tubbier in person than he does in the pics. If they would just make his entire lower abdomen smaller by 10 percent I think he'd be perfect. Black Lion's head is also smaller than I was expecting. Still happy that I have it on preorder, but the proportions seemed off to me when I was studying it: share.pho.to/AG3NX/2u/originalshare.pho.to/AG3NX/sy/originalshare.pho.to/AG3NX/yf/originalI've uploaded all of the pics I took here: pho.to/AG3NXThe fact that some of these new iterations to old Super Mecha being nowhere near as bulky enough and being too skinny is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. The Sentinel Dancouga is an engineering upgrade in about almost ever way from the Godaikin and even the Soul of Chogokin but I would have loved for it to have a balance to the huge hulk of a mechanical monster seen in the anime as well as some streamlining with Masami Obari's usual design quirks. So a thick Voltron is a plus in my books. Nonetheless, I do love these new updates. Thank for not letting this specific little board feel dead by sending us these much needed pics.
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Post by xephon0930 on Aug 13, 2016 23:14:12 GMT -5
Well, at least I haven't managed to secure a legacy megazord yet... However, other than the added articulation this one will bring, I thought the Legacy (the diecast version) was pretty good toy in itself. It still was trapped by the restraints of reusing the old 2010 mold. It was a decent toy with the diecast but not the definitive toy Soul of Chogokin usually aims for.
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