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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Does US Toy still actually have a storefront? I thought like Sunguts they don't actually run one anymore. Thanks for this. We made it to DenDen Town and got to shop around. I didn't end up getting anything too crazy as the coolest stuff was a bit out of my price range. But I have a slew of Godzilla's closest jerks and an Ultraman. We fly back today.
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DisposableHero posted:Thanks for this. We made it to DenDen Town and got to shop around. I didn't end up getting anything too crazy as the coolest stuff was a bit out of my price range. But I have a slew of Godzilla's closest jerks and an Ultraman. We fly back today. If you fly out of Narita airport there is also a little toy shop that usually has a bunch of modern bandai sofubi for last minute buys. Also a decent row of gachapon for fun tchotchkes. And if you are hungry and ok with pork, there is a really good tonkatsu restaurant there.
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My Kaigel from Shin Ultraman showed up! One of the very last items that I pre ordered from P Bandai before they shut down proxy purchases
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:If you fly out of Narita airport there is also a little toy shop that usually has a bunch of modern bandai sofubi for last minute buys. Also a decent row of gachapon for fun tchotchkes. And if you are hungry and ok with pork, there is a really good tonkatsu restaurant there. We went from Osaka to a connection in Narita but we barely made the connection and I couldn't stop off. Thanks though and thank for the other pointers you shared here and elsewhere. The group consensus was that we will very much need to go back to Japan. I made out ok on loot. These are the sofubi or sofubi adjacent things I picked up.  I saw some really cool non-IP based ones in a shop near Jungle (Hero something) but they were of course highly expensive since they were all after market prices.
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That looks like a fantastic haul Disposablehero! That Kaigel also looks incredibly charming, Gatos!
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*sigh* There's something immediately addicting about these guys. Already shopping around... I had a question though, while I've got a good sized action figure collection they mostly look fine on my current shelves. However, some of the sofubi I've got recently really would benefit from better lighting to highlight the reflective or translucent parts. Does anyone have undershelf or similar lighting they like for this?
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I got that same clear and blue Godzilla tonight at a store here. I absolutely love it. I also saw this one that I ultimately decided wasn't quite my colors but I wanted to share 
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Shiroc posted:I got that same clear and blue Godzilla tonight at a store here. I absolutely love it. That is a good one. It seemed like different shops had their own collection of colorways for those and I had to restrain myself from having a whole rainbow of smog monsters.
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Just in case anyone needed reminding, the lottery for the Hunter-X by Scumpit Toys is up (https://www.instagram.com/p/C0Rx11NOvEW/?img_index=1). Was hoping it would be cheaper, but tough to spend that cash on myself this time of year.
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Hope folks that wanted it are getting them. Very cool but out of my current price range.
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New Elegab sculpt is wild: https://www.instagram.com/p/C0YHoDoLuPX/?igshid=ODhhZWM5NmIwOQ== Like the gimp r om pulp fiction mashed up with an alien.
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S.W.O.R.D. Agent posted:New Elegab sculpt is wild: https://www.instagram.com/p/C0YHoDoLuPX/?igshid=ODhhZWM5NmIwOQ== It's really different as well- it's interesting that he's been going with 'Kaijin' style monsters lately. This one immediately made me think of the Martian Popping Thing.
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Also I just got an email saying my Planet X toys Jugglus Juggler Dark Metal colorwayI pre-ordered months ago has shipped  It'll go great with my Ultraman Z they out out a year or more ago 
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Hedorah Hoarding is real and a dangerous condition. Yes... you're right. In my defense I had some surprise holiday cash and the Godzilla store is right there on the internet where anyone could trip over it.  I splurged a bit on this hobby this month. Going to Japan definitely drove up my excitement. I promise to behave in future.
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DisposableHero posted:Yes... you're right. I like the Gridman/Crystal (award?) combo on the right! Help request: I saw a cool figure on Instagram, and I lost it. Looked very new. Large, wide, two-headed biomechanical robot thing? No real faces, but also not a horror figure. The particular example was in a translucent brown and white pour, it looked incredible.
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That is in fact my Gridman (and Dyna Dragon behind Hedorah) from when I was a kid. Though I had no idea it was from Gridman as it was rebranded as another property in the US. I never saw the show back then but constantly played with that thing. The crystals are a couple of service awards from my job and I probably should have cropped the photo a bit. I did not see the figure you mentioned (I don't think) but while trying to search for it I did see a cool cyborg bunny with weird faces in the ears.
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Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad! They got Tim Curry to voice the bad guy. Reversed for me, I never had any of the toys as a kid but the show was one of the better Power Rangers knockoffs. The awards make for some nice display pieces with the figures. Found the figure. I'm not really clear if the account is the creator/seller. Translation says the effect is done with three different colors of vinyl: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz0mpsZrJOT/?hl=en
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Failson posted:Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad! They got Tim Curry to voice the bad guy. Reversed for me, I never had any of the toys as a kid but the show was one of the better Power Rangers knockoffs. That's it! Wow. I just watched Gridman this year all the way through, it's wild to see it recontextualized.
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Oof- Mark Nagata injured his back yesterday and he won't be at D-Con after all. His son Max will be at the booth with the various Ultraman sofubi that they were going to sell as well as some customs but that's it. 
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Oof- Mark Nagata injured his back yesterday and he won't be at D-Con after all. His son Max will be at the booth with the various Ultraman sofubi that they were going to sell as well as some customs but that's it. Back injuries stink! Hoping for the best for Mark and Max.
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Failson posted:Will the convention dates be moving too? I pretty much never want to travel near the holidays, so that's always nixed D-Con for me. I honestly have no idea when 2024 will be, all I know is that it's moving. The reason it was switched to December of this year is that they could not secure the Anaheim location in November.
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S.W.O.R.D. Agent posted:Seems like the organizers themselves don't quite know what they want to do with it.... Same, but my Dad loves Pawn Stars, so it would be worth a stop there to get him a souvenir. There's a pinball museum, neon museum, sign graveyard (though I hear it's not open very often?), nuclear museum, and hoover drat on my list. I have no idea if there are any toy stores though.
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Seeing a lot of fun photos from D-Con on IG. As I knew it would Octeel's Kaiju Creme sold out on VIP opening night. This one-off looks amazing https://www.instagram.com/p/C0zMwZhR_Qx/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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Yeah, that thing is rad. Definitely on the someday list. Saw a few different things that looked really rad. Was surprised to see a few folks from the action figure community set up booths too for an Indy figure and some dios.
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Right before Thanksgiving is better than right before Christmas, but blah. I'll get there someday, haha.
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Arrived! My last Sofubi for the year- I pre-ordered this via lottery a few months back. Planet X Asia's Jugglus Juggler from Ultraman Orb (and this version is from a scene in Ultraman Z). This is the 2nd release of this figure- I missed the first one last year, but this metallic color way is closer to the suit used in the show.   
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Arrived! My last Sofubi for the year- I pre-ordered this via lottery a few months back. Planet X Asia's Jugglus Juggler from Ultraman Orb (and this version is from a scene in Ultraman Z). This is the 2nd release of this figure- I missed the first one last year, but this metallic color way is closer to the suit used in the show. Very cool. I watched most of orb this year and that's a really great execution of that design.
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Earlier this year I pre-ordered a Bullmark Tyrant sofubi from Ultraman Taro for my co-worker's son's 10th birthday. He just opened it this morning and it's a hit
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Already missed a bunch of releases, but it looks like Bandai/CCP Co started a 5" Middle-size line of Toho kaiju. The prices aren't too bad, and some of the colorways are wild! https://www.hlj.com/search/?Maker2=CCP+CO.+Ltd.&Page=1&SeriesID2=Godzilla   GATOS Y VATOS posted:Earlier this year I pre-ordered a Bullmark Tyrant sofubi from Ultraman Taro for my co-worker's son's 10th birthday. He just opened it this morning and it's a hit That's fantastic, Gatos!
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Failson posted:Already missed a bunch of releases, but it looks like Bandai/CCP Co started a 5" Middle-size line of Toho kaiju. The prices aren't too bad, and some of the colorways are wild! I saw that one with the mothra larva biting it's tail while I was in Japan but never saw a colorway I liked. But that Tropical one does look fun.
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Only tangentally related, but amiami has these hoodies up for sale https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=GOODS-00161259 https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=GOODS-00236912 Guy I went to Japan with had the Metron hoodie and it was awesome!
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