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12 years ago
If anyone is interested this is what the proto casts looked like for this set > http://www.flickr.com/photos/... />
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12 years ago
Thanks for those shots Delme,I always like to see work in progress pictures.Do you have any photos of the initial sculpt? :)
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12 years ago
My favourite cats. Zombie Kitten here is so good that I greedily have two :)
I'm STILL looking for 'Tamashii' from this set:
http://rotocasted.com/toy/2445
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12 years ago
MaquetteCity - the first 'sculpts' i saw were the ones in the first photo, that was the 1st time i had anything 'real' to pick up (it's a heavy resin type material) i presume it was done via some rapid prototyping machine based on the illustrator turn-arounds and 3D renders i had made. I'm in London, the proto was done in the US the toys were made in China....so i was very arms length with this part of the process.
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- angel
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12 years ago
I just got this,and know nothing about it!
Can anyone fill in the details?
Does this belong here,or is it a bit clock-like ? :) -
12 years ago
I would rock that ring!
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12 years ago
all I know is that they were released in Japan only, capsule/gashapon style. I just uploaded a few more
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- angel
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12 years ago
Haha! I knew you would know something about it Vera!
I'll check out the others.
Do you know what the script says? it's the same thing that appears on the other Fowler packaging for Monsterism 2.5 -
12 years ago
It says "Pete" in Katakana.
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- angel
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12 years ago
Only just seen this, many thanks Yardarm! :)
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- angel
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154 129 400
12 years ago
@jazzydan-I have one of these to trade if you're interested?
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12 years ago
this is the worst...poor blanka
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- angel
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12 years ago
really? I kind of like him. nice green hue.
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12 years ago
i miss any kind of contrast in here, lord. they could have made him so much better looking with a bit of black. or bringing out those teeth and the chest-, knee- and arm hair look like blood splatters.
it is not the sculpted heads i have a problem with..it is the paint job and the bodies -
- angel
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12 years ago
I don't like it enough to buy it, but if I were a Street Fighter fan I would buy it for the head, re-sculpt the body and give it a nice paintjob.
Jon-Paul could make something out of these! :D
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- angel
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13 years ago
When it comes to categorizing a toy like this, would you describe it as:
A) Designer Toy
B) Mini figure
C) Kaiju
D) Neo Kaiju
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13 years ago
Kaiju
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13 years ago
Answer : E) Candy
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- angel
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13 years ago
Super7 would lose their heads if this got labeled kaiju. In an interview last year, Brian Flynn said that Super7 doesn't really make kaiju; the people who own it/work there collect kaiju toys. He wants Super7's toys to be considered just "well-designed toys". "Designer toys" won't cut it with him b/c of the stigma/precedent of that term. I think "Neo Kaiju" got stigmatized too. I guess the technical term for this figure category could be "pocket". "Pocket" feels like an eastern version of "mini-figure" which makes me feel like we could categorize it "mini-figure," but I'm sure someone hates that expression for some reason too :) OK who else wants to enter into this semantics fray?!
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13 years ago
A) Designer Toy
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13 years ago
i like answer E a lot.... now i want some
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13 years ago
Whether Super 7 like it or not, I still think Kaiju when I look at these. It's a small vinyl monster, so Kaiju. It's not a bad thing, Kaiju is awesome!!
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- angel
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13 years ago
Not to beat a dead alligator, but this toy doesn't actually fit the definition of "kaiju," which is: Japanese monster. This is a cute alligator, nothing monstrous about it. And it has nothing to do with Japanese lore or history. It's only tie to Japan is that it was produced there. It's an alligator designed by an American. I'd vote for "designer toy" as the definition and say Super7 has to just deal with that.
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13 years ago
This is definitely a monster (it's a MUMMY aka a type of monster), and not all Japanese kaiju is strictly horrific. And not all kaiju is connected to Japanese lore. I have one that looks like a blob of goo/a nose-eating monster, what does that have to do with Japan? Nothing, it's just a monster. And there are certainly a few pieces that quality as cutesy, so if you are going STRICTLY by looks, yes, the Pocket Mummy Gator could fall quite easily into the Kaiju realm.
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13 years ago
Kaiju doesn't refer to a figure of a monster; hell all the stuff Kidrobot puts out then would technically be kaiju. Kaiju refers to the process that the figure is made in, namely, it is hand spun vinyl pulled from molds and not rotocasted vinyl that is created by machines. Yes, Brian has stated that he doesn't want to be called kaiju, but you cannot deny that his process was directly influenced by kaiju (it's actually the exact same) and that, without a doubt, this is kaiju. If you want to make a distinction between US and Japanese kaiju, fine, call the US ones soft vinyl, but at the end of the day, you're just arguing semantics and this is most definitely a form of kaiju.
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- angel
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13 years ago
Sorry to interrupt, but according the the source of all super-accurate info; Wikipedia, Kaiju translates as "Strange Beast".
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- angel
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13 years ago
Ah, you're right. I kind of forget this figure is also a mummy. I still disagree that this figure is a form of kaiju though, but I don't have a dog in this fight. What would be useful is to have someone on Rotocasted who actually collects kaiju toys chime in on this debate.
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13 years ago
I'm not really to bothered either way. It would be nice for categorisation reasons. If I have to call it, I'd call kaijiu,
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- angel
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13 years ago
American design, Japanese vinyl
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13 years ago
Toys are in this year
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13 years ago
Furthermore, where did SirNarwhal get his view on what "kaiju" is?
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13 years ago
I have no idea where SirNarwhal got that from but it highlights the issue of the word 'kaiju' now and it's (mis) use among toy nerds. This is a) Designer Toy
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13 years ago
All very interesting. Do we actually need to differentiate designer toys and kaiju at all?
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12 years ago
I want it.
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jazzydan
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12 years ago
Village Vanguard Series updated, only 1 missing "Secret Panda", anyone got it to upload?