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Finally in Tokyo after trying to come for years. Planning to keep any eye out for a sofubi to commemorate the trip. I don't have a specific thing in mind though.
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Nov 3, 2023 10:59
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I'm in Japan on a vacation with family and friends. First leg was in Tokyo and I was able to go see the new Godzilla and I picked up a few Godzilla sofubi from the theater they had for the movie. I'll share them back here when I'm in the US and can actually photo them better. We're spending 3 days in the Disney bubble and then heading to Kyoto and then Osaka each for a couple days. I'm hoping to find something a bit more... weird in the realm of sofubi to remember the trip by. I love Godzilla stuff but I just want something that looks cool and I really know nothing about. Fingers crossed Osaka might work for that.
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Nov 8, 2023 13:21
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S.W.O.R.D. Agent posted:Sick, enjoy the trip! Did you like the movie? Trip has been great and I thought the movie was great. I'll look up US toys and Jungle. Thanks!
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Nov 8, 2023 23:20
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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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Nov 15, 2023 23:28
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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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Nov 17, 2023 22:08
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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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Nov 21, 2023 18:30
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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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Nov 29, 2023 18:31
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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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Dec 2, 2023 23:09
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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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Dec 5, 2023 00:15
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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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Dec 6, 2023 23:27
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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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Dec 8, 2023 00:24
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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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Dec 20, 2023 07:35
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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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Dec 28, 2023 01:15
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Yeah he's slowed down on the releases a lot it seems, so less variants have been happening. I'm sure its due to the fact that there are a LOT more of each figure being released compared to the past (I believe well over 100 now- in the past he's released as little as a dozen iirc). I'd be interested to see if he ever does different color ways of Dokuro Taro and Ikari type since it's the main character. Maybe a metallic colorway? I got the invoice mail for this today. I have never bought from them before but it's a great design so I'm ready to give it a go.
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Jan 9, 2024 02:26
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Just got a KOROSHIYAN-V shipping notification. Pretty excited for that. Naturally shipping a bit before I'm going on a vacation. Fingers crossed it arrives before I go.
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Feb 13, 2024 04:18
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Arrived! It’s Elegab’s newest figure COROSHIYAN-V! This one really is weird and gives me more of a tokusatsu alien feel than the last one did (even though I loved that as well) Nice! Looks great. Mine us waiting in a postal hold since I'm out of town. Looking forward to it.
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Feb 21, 2024 02:55
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Next Danchira colorway base is GREEN vinyl Color me intrigued.
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Mar 23, 2024 06:00
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I didn't try this time. Looks good but I need to be selective for space reasons.
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Mar 31, 2024 23:32
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I'm not a completionist at all but I have to admit if I'd known that I probably would have gone for it.
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Apr 4, 2024 20:41
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