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Post by mazfan on Feb 6, 2005 0:58:45 GMT -5
Aside from admiring the craftsmanship of the SOC's and the nostalgia I get from collecting them... The other thing I appreciate from acquiring these robots is the way they make me branch out of the familiar--Mazinger Z and Voltes V for me. I wouldn't have discovered Zambot 3, nor would I ever have rented Evangelion. I even purchased a box set of the Getter Robo series, both new versions and old. I didn't even know that there was something really similar to Voltes V until Combattler V was released. I also didn't appreciate newer types of robots like the Gundams (did I spell this right) until I purchased Dancouga.
In short, a new world opened for me. An expensive venture but oh so much fun--worth every penny!
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Post by Ben-Ohki on Feb 6, 2005 11:39:37 GMT -5
SoC had the opposite effect on me. For me, Mazinger was some sort of long-lost faded memory that I hadn't even thought of for over 2 decades. The only time I barely remembered what he looked like was when a co-worker came into my cubicle and saw my anime figures and 'bots and commented about how he used to love Goldorak when he was little. In the mid-90's just before anime became the main-stream marketting monster it is now, I was into Evangelion and the "new school" anime. But I still never really thought of Mazinger as part of my own historiacal anime experience. It was only a few years ago when I started collecting SoC toys on a whim that it dawned on me that I was REALLY old-school and that I'm not really into new anime anymore.
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Post by Chen on Feb 6, 2005 12:13:51 GMT -5
I have always been into Anime and Super Robots, but when I got my first SOC (GX-04) that was the first time I really became interested in collecting diecast versions of them. So because of SOC's it made me go back and revisit all the old classic shows that I had forgotten about and remember just how good they really were.
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Post by mazfan on Feb 6, 2005 16:58:50 GMT -5
I have to admit that I sometimes wish that I have not seen my childhood favorites like Mazinger Z and Voltes V again. I purchased the dvd's a few years after I started collecting my SOC's. They are not as great as I remembered them to be. The animation, stories, characters, etc... are not that good. The SOC's to me are far more superior than the shows. I should have just kept the "glory" in my memory. Don't get me wrong, I have no regrets in getting the dvd's and this does not make me like my SOC's any less. Oh yeah, I feel the same about the older versions of the robots (the ones I had when I was a kid). I much prefer what they are making now.
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Post by Kidchuckle on Feb 7, 2005 9:40:09 GMT -5
I understand how you feel... but I still love to watch it... just for the nastalgia factor!!
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Post by Ben-Ohki on Feb 7, 2005 10:34:54 GMT -5
Rewatching childhood cartoons is a 50-50 chance of feeling good or bad, I've learned. I'm now collecting the G.I.Joe series on DVD because after downloading a few episodes, I realize that the show was so well-written that a lot of it stands up even today. Oddly enough, although I liked Transformers better when I was little, I hate rewatching now - as an adult it just seems pitiful...
Nagai cartoons on the other had fall into a grey area: it's nostalgia and as a child of the 80's I'm able to say "well, that's what anime was like in the 70's." Yes, each episode of Grendizer was absolutely formulaic, but what the heck, one or two episodes now and then doesn't hurt. I wouldn't watch the entire run all the way through though - that would probably ruin it.
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Post by 00silvergt on Feb 8, 2005 22:50:28 GMT -5
Wow GX-04 as the first one...Grendy! I remember the day I discovered the SOC line. It was summer 1997. There was a store in Fremont, California by Ohlone College. My friends and I used to frequent the store alot since they were the first one to carry the Joon's knock off the valks...anyway they had Gx-01 and Gx-02 for about a bill a piece. Then I ordered another set from Imagine Anime or Matrix Collectibles. From then on I was waiting for Voltes V...Yuki at Kimono My House told me and my friends that Voltes V was coming back in 1998, turned out that he did the usual Japanese confusion, confusing Combattler V with Voltes V...Major disappointment.
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