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I am now going to be incredibly disappointed if Sazaki's little sister does not become at least one of the main rivals in this show. Why did you have to build that up in me thread, when we know that the harsh realities of Gundam will only make it come crashing down like so many colonies, asteroids, space fortresses, space elevators, or plain old space lasers?
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BlitzBlast posted:
I'll take it!  That's two kits from this series I've preordered now and the show's not even out yet. 
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Sep 23, 2014 03:50
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W.T. Fits posted:I'll take it! Don't forget to pick up the Ez-ARMS accessory pack in the corner there  .
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Sep 23, 2014 03:52
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A wrong thread post, so uuuuuuuuuh.. The Jarja Gyan looks sick.
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Sep 23, 2014 05:29
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I'm still waiting for the Denan'Xabungle and the Shoking Gainer.
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Sep 23, 2014 06:33
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W.T. Fits posted:I'll take it! And that is the mastery of Build Fighters. They might not get the ratings that they want.. but gently caress if you don't want to just buy every kit they sell. My wife came home from school today and asked if I could get her a Bearguy Family for christmas. I don't even know if thats a kit yet. I don't even know how she knew about it, she doesn't watch Gundam!
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Sep 23, 2014 07:40
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Little more info on the Ez-SR's. Looks like they're called the Ez-SR Intruder, Ez-SR Eliminator and Ez-SR Shadow Phantom, respectively, so it seems safe to say they're a complete three-man team. I guess the HG kit's just going to have the parts for all three variations.
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Sep 23, 2014 14:09
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Oh god if there's parts for all three in one kit then that means I need to buy it three times, right? I'm getting a bit of a Dragonar vibe from the one on the far right, maybe it's the gigantic radome head.
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Sep 23, 2014 14:28
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I hope the pilots are all Dragonar send offs. Or at least one of them is voiced by Houchu Otsuka.
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Sep 23, 2014 14:47
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TARDISman posted:Oh god if there's parts for all three in one kit then that means I need to buy it three times, right? Someone didn't buy toys for SEED era when they had 4 separate figures for Strike (Yes, they sold a figure for default Strike) AND have a separate SKU for black/gray version. Why I can't believe Gundam toys failed in America with such great variety.
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Sep 23, 2014 14:47
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When I saw the big head Ez-SR my first thought was the head was just a transformed asshimar.
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Sep 23, 2014 14:53
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Is there any chance that we could just call the R-Gyagya the Double Gyan?
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Sep 23, 2014 15:07
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MJP posted:Is there any chance that we could just call the R-Gyagya the Double Gyan? No.
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Sep 23, 2014 15:26
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Tae posted:Someone didn't buy toys for SEED era when they had 4 separate figures for Strike (Yes, they sold a figure for default Strike) AND have a separate SKU for black/gray version. SEED toys honestly didn't even have a chance in America. Most stores had already stopped stocking Gundam stuff after the G Gundam debacle, which was still such an amazingly stupid fuckup on their part.
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Sep 23, 2014 16:21
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My FLGS actually used to stock gunpla model kits before Gundam SEED came out and his supplier stopped carrying them due to lack of interest.
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Sep 23, 2014 16:28
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Kurieg posted:My FLGS actually used to stock gunpla model kits before Gundam SEED came out and his supplier stopped carrying them due to lack of interest. Every interview I've seen suggests that it wasn't because of Gundam SEED, Gundam SEED just happened to hit when they were tired of trying. The big blame was on the G Gundam kits. Not because people didn't want G Gundam kits but because the G Gundam kits that were being made were poo poo like Zebra Gundam or Mummy Gundam, with the big-name protagonist Gundams people wanted being unavailable or only available in Battle Damaged format. They did the same with 0079 kits where you could get Random GM or whatever but not the Zaku or Gundam. The toy boom with Gundam took off with Gundam Wing because they actually had the main Gundams available. You could buy any of the Wing boys suits in any format you liked. (And that is even why Battle Damaged took off because they could sell Wing Zero twice.) So they had the stupid idea that if they limited the availability of the popular suits and over-produced the unpopular suits, people would buy the unpopular suits AND the popular suits. Not only did they do this, they did this with G Gundam where you're far less likely to get people buying random mook suits because they look cool because... let's be honest, Zebra Gundam ain't selling poo poo to someone not buying it ironically. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Sep 23, 2014 |
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Sep 23, 2014 16:36
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Rows and rows of Mandala Gundam, as far as the eye can see.
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Sep 23, 2014 16:54
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You'd think people whose jobs are to figure out how to sell toys would be pretty good at that. I wonder if people at Bandai actually realize how dumb that was or they still just go 'Welp, guess Americans don't buy toys much. Dead market there.'
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Sep 23, 2014 16:57
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Nowadays Bandai (or rather Bluefin, the NA distributor) has a pretty good deal going on with Amazon. It's definitely not a priority market, but it's way better than what Europe or Australia has to go through to get their plastic crack.
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Sep 23, 2014 16:59
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ImpAtom posted:Every interview I've seen suggests that it wasn't because of Gundam SEED, Gundam SEED just happened to hit when they were tired of trying. The big blame was on the G Gundam kits. Not because people didn't want G Gundam kits but because the G Gundam kits that were being made were poo poo like Zebra Gundam or Mummy Gundam, with the big-name protagonist Gundams people wanted being unavailable or only available in Battle Damaged format. They did the same with 0079 kits where you could get Random GM or whatever but not the Zaku or Gundam. That's odd because that's where I got my 1/60th scale non-battle-damaged God Gundam and Maxter
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Sep 23, 2014 17:10
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Kurieg posted:That's odd because that's where I got my 1/60th scale non-battle-damaged God Gundam and Maxter They did sell the protagonist stuff, it is just they massive underproduced it. Model kits also did slightly better in that regards than the actual toys but were understocked in general.
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Sep 23, 2014 17:17
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BlitzBlast posted:Nowadays Bandai (or rather Bluefin, the NA distributor) has a pretty good deal going on with Amazon. It's definitely not a priority market, but it's way better than what Europe or Australia has to go through to get their plastic crack. I don't know what sorcery is behind it, but my local aussie stores seem to be catching up with the Japanese release dates. They used to be a solid three months behind Japan's street dates in releases, now they seem to be half that at most or even sooner. One's also taking pre-orders for the new Build Fighters Try and G-Self, so they might even be almost relative to the Japanese release date.
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Sep 23, 2014 17:39
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ImpAtom posted:They did sell the protagonist stuff, it is just they massive underproduced it. Model kits also did slightly better in that regards than the actual toys but were understocked in general. Yeah I remember the Target stores around here had tons of Mandala Gundams and whatever that one crazy ball they force Allenby to pilot was (Wendell?) Probably because Bandai thought it'd be like Transformers and everyone would buy the 3rd redeco of the Scud gundam just so they could have the whole set.
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Sep 23, 2014 18:16
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I don't know what sorcery is behind it, but my local aussie stores seem to be catching up with the Japanese release dates. They used to be a solid three months behind Japan's street dates in releases, now they seem to be half that at most or even sooner. One's also taking pre-orders for the new Build Fighters Try and G-Self, so they might even be almost relative to the Japanese release date. Oh so I guess it's just Europe who's stuck up a creek. ...At least they have a direct source of Alclad II paints??? I dunno.
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ImpAtom posted:Every interview I've seen suggests that it wasn't because of Gundam SEED, Gundam SEED just happened to hit when they were tired of trying. The big blame was on the G Gundam kits. Not because people didn't want G Gundam kits but because the G Gundam kits that were being made were poo poo like Zebra Gundam or Mummy Gundam, with the big-name protagonist Gundams people wanted being unavailable or only available in Battle Damaged format. They did the same with 0079 kits where you could get Random GM or whatever but not the Zaku or Gundam. I got the Zebra Gundam for Christmas one year. Kurieg posted:Yeah I remember the Target stores around here had tons of Mandala Gundams and whatever that one crazy ball they force Allenby to pilot was (Wendell?) I had both of those as well. If only my mom had kept buying me lovely gundams maybe gundam wouldn't be dead in the west.
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TNG posted:I hope the pilots are all Dragonar send offs. Or at least one of them is voiced by Houchu Otsuka.
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Sep 24, 2014 00:03
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Screw him. Bring in Not Lee Sue Min. For the chainsaws.
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BlitzBlast posted:
I'm assuming that EWACs EZ8 is gonna fill the hovertruck role in the team.
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Sep 24, 2014 03:16
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ImpAtom posted:
And I thought Tomy/Hasbro made poor decisions.
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Sep 24, 2014 05:00
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Well how else am I going to recreate doumon's training in the mountains without 350
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Oh my god .What are the odds the little blue bear turns out to be a nigh-unkillable murder machine?
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Sep 24, 2014 05:33
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With China's Bearguy 3 plus this you can have a family of three. You could even do a picnic diorama or something. 
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Sep 24, 2014 05:41
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:With China's Bearguy 3 plus this you can have a family of three. You could even do a picnic diorama or something. Oh my god I can make Clannad out of Beargguys.
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:With China's Bearguy 3 plus this you can have a family of three. You could even do a picnic diorama or something. This has to happen in the show. Everyone else has guns and bombs and Plavsky particle bullshit, the Bearguy Family just invites opponents to a tea party. Don't refuse. You might make them sad if you refuse.
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DigitalRaven posted:This has to happen in the show. Everyone else has guns and bombs and Plavsky particle bullshit, the Bearguy Family just invites opponents to a tea party. If you refuse, the Bearguy faceplates pop off and reveal beam magnums. Mutually assured family fun 
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Sep 24, 2014 07:46
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Don't forget to mention that R-GyaGya will get a HG kit as well.
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Tae posted:Someone didn't buy toys for SEED era when they had 4 separate figures for Strike (Yes, they sold a figure for default Strike) AND have a separate SKU for black/gray version. Once you mentioned it, I'd half-expected it to turn out that way too.  But this time it's a single kit and accessories for all three variations  .
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Once you mentioned it, I'd half-expected it to turn out that way too. You say that like I'm not going to buy three anyway because Ez-8.
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They probably didn't want to run the risk of a bunch of the big disc head variant clogging up shelves.
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