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Post by mpchi on Apr 19, 2017 15:39:30 GMT -5
In regards to the painted feet, even vintage dougrams (especially the blockhead) have thin paint on the feet. If you have pics of your hi-metal where it has thinned, I'd love to see them. Don't have pics, but I can describe where they are. Pretty much the top horizontal edge of the front blue diecast 'toes'. Also a couple front toe corners also see some wear, showing a tad bit of silver from the metal underneath. I put the figure on soft surface or carpet when posing, so pretty sure its not my doing (and I barely posed this guy since out of the box). Not a big deal and it almost looks like a weathering effect. But when the whole figure looks brand new with just those, you know its not intentional  Most of the figure is bare plastic though, so the paint rub probably just applies to the blue diecast feet. The metal Damashii Hi-Nu Gundam was selling around $80-90. And that guy has big wings (fin funnels) and a pretty big build for a Gundam. So the Dougram feels like it cost an extra $40-50 when it delivers something very similar, if not smaller. The metal Damashii Ex-S Gundam is around $150, but has boosters and weapons that makes it a much thicker figure. So price-wise, Dougram should fall back to around $90-100 like some of you suggested. But oh well, what can you do, when you want one? |
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Post by greengetterguy on Apr 20, 2017 0:13:14 GMT -5
Yeah, i wish he was around $100 shipped.
The ony way i can get it at that price is Amazon Warehouse deal....but id have to wait another two months.
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Post by faelon on Apr 25, 2017 14:05:30 GMT -5
Cool. Its going to be interesting to compare this guy to half priced Destroids. The Destroids have a few things about them that likely make them cheaper to produce. The upper bodies on the Destroids are much much simpler. With far fewer parts. For the most part they have no elbows and limited shoulder articulation. They are walking artilery pieces. The only exception is the Spartan, which is still by design a very basic robot. Plus add to this that most of the Destroids share the same lower body and legs. This means design and tooling costs on the most complicated part of these particular robots gets shared and amortized over three specific products. |
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Post by treatment on May 11, 2017 22:19:07 GMT -5
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Post by greengetterguy on May 11, 2017 23:32:46 GMT -5
Yeah i been eyeing these forever.
Im waiting on "like New damaged package" Amazon Warehouse deals....
Hope to see them around $100 about a month from now.
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Post by faelon on May 15, 2017 21:09:43 GMT -5
Yeah i been eyeing these forever. Im waiting on "like New damaged package" Amazon Warehouse deals.... Hope to see them around $100 about a month from now. It's worth it. My only complaint is I wish it had a touch more metal. But it largely makes up for that with some really good and interesting articulation. For a chunky 80's era "Real Robot" it's got some moves. Not quite to Sentinel levels with all the moving joints and panels, but much much closer to that then I was expecting. The posing reminds me a lot of the SRC J Decker and Might Gaine. |
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Post by tiffermore on Jun 21, 2017 20:06:20 GMT -5
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Post by mpchi on Jun 21, 2017 20:33:54 GMT -5
Great news...then not so great news.
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Post by greengetterguy on Jun 21, 2017 21:23:13 GMT -5
OMG....he looks even better then Dougram himself.
He's an exclusive and an "army builder?"
W.T.H. ......Who's brilliant idea was that!?! /S
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Post by greengetterguy on Jun 21, 2017 22:25:38 GMT -5
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Post by mpchi on Jun 22, 2017 1:36:56 GMT -5
Disagree about the 'not bad' part on the price. I bite the bullet regardless, but buying these over $100 is quite bad to begin with. Web exclusive? Then its REAL BAD! But Bandai knows we'll sucker into it anyway. Well played Bandai, well played... |
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Post by greengetterguy on Jun 22, 2017 9:27:18 GMT -5
when they said web exclusive i thought theyre going to ask significantly higher fee...
I guess Bandai's not THAT crazy.
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Post by Mr. Ginrai on Jun 22, 2017 11:27:20 GMT -5
Wait, is this At Nippon Yasan only, or is it all web retailers only?
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Post by treatment on Jun 22, 2017 11:59:57 GMT -5
Wait, is this At Nippon Yasan only, or is it all web retailers only? It will only be available to those shops that carries Tamashii Web Exclusive stuff. Usually Nippon-Yasan and Anime-Export. Occasionally, hlj and cdjapan. Almost always never on amiami and hobbysearch. As such, here's AE's po-page for the Roundfacer: www.anime-export.com/product/36494 |
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Post by greengetterguy on Jun 22, 2017 13:51:37 GMT -5
Sigh....i might have to crawl back to AE then.
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Post by greengetterguy on Jun 22, 2017 14:25:52 GMT -5
Damn...i preoed through AE.
A Christmas present to myself.
Nobody better release nothing awesome till then!
JK.
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Post by mpchi on Jun 22, 2017 15:12:38 GMT -5
I wouldn't count on it. I think I broke my record to have most POs at NY, currently 6, all web exclusives one way or the other, and its only June. Usually I'll have 1 or 2 max waiting in my account. This will be a very expensive year with all these exclusives hitting hard.
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Post by greengetterguy on Jun 22, 2017 15:48:22 GMT -5
Yeah, that's what im scare of...
The hunting hasn't been this good for a while.
So many preys and so little resource....
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Post by tiffermore on Jun 24, 2017 10:23:29 GMT -5
It looks so good. Don't let this be the last Dougram Hi-Metal, Bandai. Just don't. toho.seesaa.net/ |
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Post by treatment on Jun 29, 2017 21:37:47 GMT -5
Chachi of RPA finally got his long-overdue HMR Dougram review up and available:
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