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Post by Majin Tomato on May 31, 2018 16:17:25 GMT -6
So this has been a roller coaster. I ordered from Amazon, then got emailed like everyone else about delays and they didn't know the new delivery date. Then I got emailed a week or so ago that the new date was Jun 1. Cool. Then after not seeing a ship date, I was emailed yesterday that the date was back to being unknown.
Emailed less than an hour ago, it's been shipped, will arrive tomorrow June 1st. Mk.
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Post by Majin Tomato on May 27, 2018 7:58:53 GMT -6
its not tickets to the tour per se. It's tickets to whatever con the tour is visiting, such as SDCC. Which is another reason I am not touching his, because SDCC is the closest to me and SDCC is one of the biggest cons in the country, if not the biggest, and I would hate myself.
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Post by Majin Tomato on May 26, 2018 6:23:10 GMT -6
Those are gorgeous!
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Post by Majin Tomato on May 24, 2018 7:15:10 GMT -6
I like, but the lack of ssj3 head is kinda sad. Like, I PERSONALLY don't care (I'll either be repainting to normal form or using a WCF head or something, because I'm a weirdo that only displays normal forms) but I do feel like SSJ3 is Gotenks' most iconic form. It's even how FighterZ chose to depict him.
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Post by Majin Tomato on May 21, 2018 8:27:16 GMT -6
Yeah... I know Saiyan Vegeta's still recent, but an arlian version would have been cool. Or, y'know, proper Nappa. Personally, I'm not interested in any of them... Ssb vegitos cool, but I have a cool Vegito already. And that Cell... Ick.
Movie Goku doesn't really surprise me. I suspect they'll like pair him with the antagonist of the film, which might also be done but waiting for the official reveal. I might even get this Goku. Maybe.
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Post by Majin Tomato on Mar 7, 2018 15:18:20 GMT -6
This makes me feel better about my plan to use kid Goku for Goten and Trunks with smaller heads. I think it should be a biiit bigger than that, but that's loads better than the one he comes with.
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Post by Majin Tomato on Feb 19, 2018 23:42:52 GMT -6
Why are we here? Just to suffer?!
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Post by Majin Tomato on Feb 12, 2018 10:02:46 GMT -6
While I love how the figure rise Krillin looks, he is not a replacement for a proper figuarts, for stability if nothing else. I might even buy a Saiyan Saga release, and I'm perfectly fine with the cell saga one we have.
That said... We will get a pce Krillin first. They won't bother to put a new Krillin out when they can still justify re-releasing the original and have it sell like hotcakes.
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Post by Majin Tomato on Feb 11, 2018 20:45:49 GMT -6
The question becomes less whether or not it did well enough for it to be warranted (it did) and more a bunch of contributing factors. First, while the XV figs were well after XV2's release (they released June 2017 and XV2 came out Oct 2016) the soonest an Android 21 figure can release IIRC is October of this year... meaning it'd be released well after the hype train for the game has died down. That plus the fact that there are already toys promoting the game (dragon stars ones), XV1 figures didn't come out until the sequel, and FighterZ just doesn't have the wealth of story content coming that XV2 is still adding... while I would love to see here, I just don't see it being in the cards right now.
If we get a FighterZ 2 I could see it. I just don't see many people investing $70+ into a game figure 9 months after the game's release, especially with no story DLC being added.
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Post by Majin Tomato on Feb 8, 2018 13:47:49 GMT -6
I still contend that the Vegeta is a perfect base for a decent off-brand Bardock, and that the only reason I refuse to buy one for that purpose is I know that figuarts will announce one the moment I hit purchase.
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Post by Majin Tomato on Feb 4, 2018 10:02:14 GMT -6
I think my biggest problem, aside from the sculpt because that's easily one of the worst sculpts of the wave, is the fact that it's not even consistent with the other figures. The other SSJ figures, even SSJB Goku and Vegeta, have this nifty shiny paint job that's just absolutely cool looking and is IMHO, better than anything Figuarts has done thus far in terms of hair paint.
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Post by Majin Tomato on Jan 31, 2018 20:53:50 GMT -6
Yeah, the new SSJ Vegeta is the type I was talking about. Either way, it's not THAT hard to modify a ball peg if you really want to, but it's good to know that it doesn't really work.
I don't see it being THAT big a deal though. Again, for most people the main draw for this line has been the newer characters, which are MOSTLY fine (that Trunks head is kinda awful though, I gotta say. The solicits looked a lot better)
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Post by Majin Tomato on Jan 31, 2018 16:21:22 GMT -6
Ok so just found out, certain figuarts parts are compatible with this line vegeta for example, you can use his figuarts hands for this line, and they use ball joints on the head so certain figuart heads can also fit (from what i saw anyway). Well, yes and no. Goku and Vegeta can both use Figuarts hands. But as for head swapping, not even close. None of the neck ball joints are small enough to accommodate a Figuarts head. They're closer in size to the Figure Rise ball joints, but are actually still bigger, despite being attached to smaller figures. The 2.0 figures use a slightly bigger peg that I think might be the same size as that. I'd be curious how 2.0 Vegeta and Nappa heads work.
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Post by Majin Tomato on Jan 29, 2018 12:26:59 GMT -6
See, that's kind of where I'm at... From what I can tell, he's roughly Krillin height, but what that means changes from scene to scene and even the figuarts fig isn't quite correct.
As things stand, the original Popo stands at ~8-9 inches (reports on the Popo conflict and mine is currently covered in oogoo 30) and the optimal hydroshrink ratio is about 1:2, which will end up at 45% of his original height. If he's 9in that's probably fine, especially if I short the water a bit... But if he's closer to 8inch, I may have to risk a 1:1 ratio, which is not recommended but which will supposedly allow a 54% size reduction.
It's a moot point ATM tho. I've used 3 full sets plus the remainder of a fourth and I still need at least one more set of oogoo 30 to give me decent coverage. And since they run $25 a pop and I'm about to be charged for Tien... I'm gonna hold off a few weeks before getting an additional set.
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Post by Majin Tomato on Jan 26, 2018 14:02:25 GMT -6
Not exactly my scale, but I'm curious how Mai would look next to some of my figuarts. She'll likely be a bit small, but I'm wondering if I could get away with it since Trunks is also a touch small.
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