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Post by serenitydarko on Dec 30, 2014 17:26:42 GMT -6
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Post by smalldogjr on Dec 31, 2014 1:01:42 GMT -6
Recent gets.  I apparently bought a defective Wario because he's missing his hair. Ffs!   Interesting, Ive seen quite a few world of Nintendo defective figures lately. I went to target last week and saw a Link scattered in pieces in the package, the head was detached and the arms and all... as well as a warrior with the hat detached. I had such high hopes for the World of Nintendo figures...hopefuly they can have better quality control, and step up there game if they release more 4-6 inch figures. It was hard to believe the line was made by jakks :/ I would assumed they would have done a much better job as they did with the dbz, figures back in the day(before the repaint era). |
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Post by king on Dec 31, 2014 17:02:08 GMT -6
I seem to recall jakks being under new management
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Post by TheCollector on Dec 31, 2014 17:12:11 GMT -6
A lot of it is, the technology is there but, companies are still using low quality materials.
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Post by jonmichael on Dec 31, 2014 19:16:40 GMT -6
Nowadays, Jakks is pretty much a joke. The World of Nintendo figures are an unexpected success, but otherwise their main things are those stupid 30 inch tall figures with 5poa that you see on clearance isles at most stores. The days of their DBZ figures are long gone.
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Post by king on Dec 31, 2014 19:40:14 GMT -6
Oi, watch what you say bro. Those big ass figures are amazing, just a bit expensive
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Post by jonmichael on Dec 31, 2014 20:45:47 GMT -6
Those 30 inch Batman/Superman/Power Rangers figures, along with the rest, are pretty bad. And, they've been selling pretty poorly. You can look at those, and then compare NECA's recent 1/4 figures and that pretty much says it all. Scott Neitlich, recently, announced he moved to Jakks and the reaction among the majority of the toy collecting community has been, "Good, he can't mess up any lines people care about." I don't dislike Jakks, but they have fallen pretty far from where they used to be.
Do they even still have the DBZ license???
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Post by king on Dec 31, 2014 22:16:57 GMT -6
1 those big figures actually do sell well (I work in a toy store and should know)
2 they have no use for the DBz liscence as it is not mainstream enough to be stocked everywhere
3 one of those Giants as goku awesome
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Post by ◄VR► on Dec 31, 2014 23:57:03 GMT -6
I've considered buying some of those big figures before, but I really don't have room for them. They seem decently made for what they are, but I don't have much hands-on experience with them.
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Post by jonmichael on Jan 1, 2015 0:33:20 GMT -6
The massive amounts lingering in clearance isles of pretty much every single retail store seem to indicate otherwise. As does everything I have heard from employees at those same stores. Poor quality, soft sculpts...bleh. The newest big turtle is a disaster. The thing has such terrible build quality, it's getting pretty bad reviews because it seems to break if you breath on it too hard. You can already start finding him on clearance in stores, most of the time it's already broken. But, to each their own.
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Post by king on Jan 1, 2015 3:00:32 GMT -6
yeah, the Big Turtle is EXTREMELY fragile. a few of them broke in shipment. they are good if used for display only though
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Post by ShadowTheOtaku on Jan 1, 2015 22:05:29 GMT -6
I have just received the Mortal Kombat 20th Anniversary Kano which is much better than I expected. Also sorry about the picture quality as I had to use my iPad. 
Edit: Here is a better picture with it out of the box  |
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Post by jonmichael on Jan 1, 2015 22:07:54 GMT -6
Kano and Baraka were the only ones from that wave that I actually wanted to get. The previous wave seemed better, but those two looked good.
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Post by ShadowTheOtaku on Jan 1, 2015 22:14:35 GMT -6
Yeah, the other wave with Raiden, Scorpion and Sub Zero seemed better but I found Kano to be the cheapest I could find.
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Post by Seal on Jan 1, 2015 22:31:25 GMT -6
I just stole this rey figure off my nephew  im thinking of using it as a highschool gohan base since his pants are already so close to what gohans are and all it would need would be a simple sculpt job from there. Also, theres a goku i customized! used a SSJ body so that now i have a super saiyan head on base body and a base head on early base body  |
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