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Post by rodman75 on Sept 17, 2012 21:35:58 GMT -5
Hello all, I just uploaded a quick video on youtube showing my collection. I would've made a much more detailed and lengthy video however my blackberry doesn't seem to upload videos to youtube that are more then a couple of minutes long. For what it's worth, here it is....
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Post by The Space Giant on Oct 1, 2012 14:23:05 GMT -5
Hey all, I've been lurking here forever, and it's high time I posted something. Didn't see an 'Introductions' thread anywhere, so I thought this was an appropriate thread to pop up for the first time (especially since there hasn't been any comment on the above video yet!)...
Rodman75, that is one gorgeous collection you have there. I have a similar number of Jumbos (I'll try and get some photos up soon), but you've really got the goods when it comes to the rare, obscure and impressively-displayed stuff.
Awesome collection, awesome display.
Anyway, hi everybody!
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Post by rodman75 on Oct 1, 2012 15:12:01 GMT -5
Hey Space Giant,
Welcome aboard!! Always nice to have new members here, especially Jumbo lovers. Thank you for the nice words. I can't wait to see your collection!!
This forum & its members have been an immense help to me and many others. You will find that everyone is so nice and willing to lend a hand (or shooting fist, LOL) if possible.
Get some pics up soon!
Regards,
Rodman75
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Post by The Space Giant on Oct 1, 2012 17:53:37 GMT -5
Thanks so much! This has always struck me as a great little community -- must have something to do with the fact that there aren't too many of us out there anymore, and we have to stick together. ;D Anyway, here's a look at my collection! imgur.com/a/uh6Wg(Apologies for the link; for some reason I had no luck uploading pics here -- any tips on that, folks? Also, if this is against any rules here, I do apologize.) As I mentioned, my collection isn't exactly on a par with yours, rodman75 -- but I'm inching along toward that goal. I've been slowly collecting Jumbos for 10 or 15 years, but now I'm regretting not snapping up a lot of the ones that I passed on in the late-'90s and early-2000s -- somehow, $150 just seemed like too much for a Giant Gorg back then, $250 for a Popy Grandizer seemed nuts, and a ride-on Spazer for $500? Forget it... (AAARRGHH! Why didn't I buy them all?!)As you can see, I have the Unifive Gaiking, Mattel Mazinga (1st version, I believe, but sadly in need of various repairs), a jumbo vinyl Grendizer, a Taiwanese bootleg Disco D-17 with repro Popy stickers which need re-application, a Mattel Dragun (1st version, missing his Star Shooter), Unifive Mazinger Z, and a Mattel Gaiking with repro stickers. All these guys are in need of a good dusting, but they're stored on an 8' high shelf and they're difficult to reach. Impressive for display, but a bit of a pain.  Not pictured (in storage): Mattel Raydeen (1st version), Mattel Godzilla, Mattel Rodan, Unifive Garada K7 (green version), and (if memory serves) two more Mattel Mazingas, with which I hope to use for parts and restore the one pictured. In my mind, what I have here is sort of a basic starter for a serious collection -- all the Mattel releases (minus variants and, of course, the Daimos I have yet to acquire!), plus a handful of re-releases. Most of my Jumbos are in good to great shape, so that's exciting. Also, I'm in the middle of restoring/customizing a beater 2nd Edition Mattel Dragun I bought for cheap on eBay (I think it's 2nd Edition, anyway -- no saw blades, slots on the shooter arm, lightning decals on the legs) into a Getter Robo G (the one with the yellow/orange, um, pelvic area?). I'm hoping to have the final product look like an official, period release, so I'm planning on using custom stickers to make the upper arms and legs white or silver (haven't decided yet). Should be cool, unless I totally fail.  |
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Post by rodman75 on Oct 1, 2012 18:50:24 GMT -5
Hey SpaceGiant,
Your collection is quite impressive. Don't sell yourself short. Acquiring the entire Mattel Shogun line including Rodan is a super solid foundation for a serious collection. You'll be able to snag a mint Daimos on E-Bay with no problems. You didn't mention owning a Mattel Goldorak. I'm assuming you need one of those also. Factoring in your U5 Gaiking, Garada & D-17 w/Popy stickers just makes your collection that much sweeter and gets you that much closer to start 'Popy hunting'.
Which Popy will you be looking to acquire first? My collection started off very similar to yours. I still don't own a Rodan (never really liked him and would only think of getting one if I could 'steal' it). Once I acquired my first Popy the addiction worsened! Since then, I've been obsessed trying to locate my favorite Popys. I've overspent and really made some reckless decisions (financially speaking). If I can give you any advice; advice that I don't follow but should.....take your time.....enjoy each new piece for a while before moving onto the next. That being said, there will be a few occasions where you will find a rare Popy and will not have the luxury of waiting because some of these things just don't show up that often.
BTW, the pictures were super high quality. I wish I had the know-how to take & post pics like that.
Good luck on the hunt!
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Post by The Space Giant on Oct 1, 2012 19:25:52 GMT -5
Actually, other than using a nice-ish DSLR camera (a more or less low-end, beginners' model Canon), those pics are strictly point-and-shoot. I like to think eventually I'll know what I'm doing with it, but the reality is that I have no real idea what I'm doing with the camera at all. Anyway, thanks for the kind words about my collection. I forgot to mention my lack of a Goldorak; I guess I was only thinking of US releases. He's absolutely on my list, along with a Popy Grandizer eventually. As you say, I'm pretty much on the precipice of "Popy-hunting", but the completist in me will likely want the Mattel Daimos and Goldorak (as well as the sticker-chest version of Mazinga) before I leap into the world of Popys. Odds are good that I'll "bridge" my way in by grabbing a bowfist Raideen; after that, maybe I'll grab a couple of the XX accessories out there and slap them onto more Mattel Jumbos, just to flesh things out. One I'd really like to have is a Great Mazinger with Scramble Dash/Jet Scrander (another "bridge" into Popy, I guess), and failing that, just one with both hands like the Popy version (I have no issues with repro parts, so that may make getting a left Mazinger hand a little more likely). As for straight, no-doubt-about-it, they-weren't-available-to-me-as-a-kid-in-the-US Popys, probably the ones I'm (at least currently) lusting after most are Daimos (what a gorgeous toy, and what a shame Mattel re-tooled it so much for the US market) and maybe the Getter 1-2-3 lineup. But honestly, I'm so regularly astonished by the quality of craftsmanship and design on these things, I'd be thrilled with most any of them to start that "wing" of my collection. I'm also an avowed bargain-hunter, so odds are pretty good I'll just be digging around online looking for good deals when I finally stumble across one. What kills me is that in the late-'90s/early-2000s, I had a really great deal at my local comic shop that got me wholesale prices on everything offered through Diamond Distribution's catalog, which at the time included the Unifive reissues. Somehow, and I don't know how, I either didn't order the Great Mazinger or the store goofed and failed to put in the order for me. So not only did I miss out on that one, but I would have paid wholesale for it, which was, as I recall, something around $100. I guess I can't complain too much though, since I got the same deal on the Unifive Garada, Gaiking and Mazinger Z. Jeez, I wish that line had continued... |
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Post by rodman75 on Oct 1, 2012 19:41:34 GMT -5
I forgot to comment on how saddened I was to hear that years back you could've snagged up a spazer for $500!! Good luck even being able to track one down today. Oh well, no different than a car enthusiast wishing he didn't sell his 1966 427c.i. Corvette back in the day because it's worth over $100k today.
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Post by The Space Giant on Oct 1, 2012 20:37:40 GMT -5
Yeah, $500 is a guesstimate ( it was a long time ago now), but it was certainly no more than $7-800. Still a pretty penny -- and certainly more than I likely could have afforded at the time -- but not, y'know, five digits. When I think about the robot collection I had in the '80s (TONS of Godaikin, Takara, Clover, Takatoku, Gakken, etc.) -- and the fact that it was all taken to a Goodwill store when I was in my 20s -- missing out on the Spazer almost seems like no big deal. Oh well.  |
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Post by faulkners2 on Oct 2, 2012 15:16:06 GMT -5
Hey, Space Giant! Welcome to the boards -- I love your stuff!
Rodman, your collection is awesome! I love the Tetsujin 28!
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Post by The Space Giant on Oct 3, 2012 0:42:04 GMT -5
Thanks, faulkners! Happy to be here!
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Post by mikedeco on Oct 3, 2012 5:21:55 GMT -5
Hello Space Giant. Welcome here and I hope you will have a good time reading and exchanging with the members here.
Thanks for sharing your collection, nice line up.
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Post by The Space Giant on Oct 3, 2012 15:39:34 GMT -5
Thanks, mikedeco! I'm sure I'll love participating; I've been lurking here for a couple years (!), and it looks like a great community. Happy to be here!
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Post by mikedeco on Oct 4, 2012 17:50:37 GMT -5
Here's a little video I've make with my JM collection. Sorry for the quality, I don't know why but youtube decided to ruin it during the upload...  Anyway, hope you will enjoy it. |
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Post by 1oldrobot on Oct 4, 2012 18:20:48 GMT -5
superb collection! i think ill have to wait on the 3d printer world to develop to have some of those.
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Post by The Space Giant on Oct 6, 2012 23:21:26 GMT -5
Mikedeco, your collection is amaaaaazing. There's a number of jumbos in your collection that I've never even seen in person, let alone bought. I'm green with envy. |
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Post by mikedeco on Oct 7, 2012 14:58:15 GMT -5
Thanks a lot for the kind words guys.
Well, I don't have that many "exotic" jumbos, I mainly focus on the Popy and Mattel one. The Astrorobots under the shogun warriors are not well known in the US as they were produced and sold in Italy only. And all the one in the display cases are either Popy and the U5 ones.
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Post by Erik Sjoen on Oct 8, 2012 13:08:57 GMT -5
As always, awesome Mike! Now for a Mekanda.. You're already on the slippery slope man! Popy Great Mazinger store display? Clover Diojya? You know you want to...  |
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Post by mikedeco on Oct 8, 2012 16:05:19 GMT -5
Hey Erik. Thanks a lot. Well, I'm honestly not that much into a Mekanda or two clover jumbos. I really wish to be able to score a Spartan soon and finish the Robot Factory with a Daidenjin. Then maybe the Nakajimas but I'm not in the rush for those. As for the store display, I know my financial power and it's way beyond what I can afford now or in the future, and if I had a wallet full, I think I would prefer to blow it into a Spazer |
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Post by magengar on Oct 9, 2012 11:32:51 GMT -5
Super-awesome collections, guys!
As for me, I've been up all night plastering Facebook with
JM stuff and links from Shogun Plastics... I was bored. ;D
I'm gonna have to get back into the JM loop asap.
zozo-mag
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Post by rodman75 on Oct 16, 2012 15:50:32 GMT -5
I picked up a Danguard Ace recently. He's in relatively good shape with nice coloring and all parts except his back wing. He could use new stickers all around and his right leg is a tiny bit loose. A friend hooked me up with some Danguard repro shins. Because he is a rarer Popy JM, I'm thinking of sending him to Kitsir so he can perform his magic for me, yet again. I don't want to risk applying the stickers incorrectly (bubbling, crooked, etc) and I know he'll be able to tighten the leg up. Anyway, here's another crappy photo taken from my cell phone camera. I also rearranged my Jumbo room, taking the collection from one wall and moving it to another. This gives me more room to expand. If anyone has a wing that they want to sell, hit me up.
Thanks as always,
Rodman75
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