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10-22-2016, 11:49 AM | #1 |
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@TokuChris Join Date: Oct 2011
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Nearly five years ago, I sat down with Tony_Bacala (owner of TFW2005.com and ToyArk.com) and pitched my idea for a website. "The Power Rangers is going to celebrate their 20th anniversary soon - I think we can capitalize on that." To this day, Tony_Bacala still has no idea WTF we watch, why we watch it, or what the hell a Sentai is. But he stressed one thing - take pictures. "People like to look at sh!t" he so lovingly said. "Words suck. Pictures are cool. Give them cool sh!t to look at, they'll come back."
Five years later, I will comfortably say we have the largest gallery database of tokustasu available. And we haven't even scratched the surface of what's out there. Our goal has never been to catalogue an entire toy line or franchise, never to take pictures just because pictures. Taking pictures is a passion, a hobby, and we're able to take our passion for our hobby and share it with you. Nearly five years ago, Sentai Tamashii (aka Tom or @SoulInkChu) volunteered to help take some pictures to start our galleries off while I focused on learning the in's and out's of photography. Our first pictures are embarrassingly enough shot with an iPhone 4. They are part of the reason we decided to go back and do some older stuff but with our new tech. And here we are - our 500th gallery. We struggled on what to do with this one. We wanted to do something awesome and exciting, but not one single figure seemed worthy of the title. And we wanted to do something more than just something to do something - so we decided that we would do a gallery of our favorite things to do when we shoot galleries - awesome shots! So please join myself and my glorious second in command, Den-O (aka Jordan), as we celebrate 500 times of sitting down for a couple of hours to do a photo shoot only to spend another couple of hours editing the pictures so they are at the quality we feel you deserve. And we wouldn't be where we are without recognizing some of our former photo staff for their contributions over the years. So here's to you - Sentai Tamashii, MoonBaseTom, Reigner, OtoyaKurenai, Brainchild, conundrum, ryan, Jmann, KamenRiderOOO, and others I'm sure I'm forgetting - thanks for helping us get to this point! We're excited to share what we have in store for you next. Thank you for your support and for enjoying what we do!
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10-22-2016, 11:49 AM | #2 |
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@TokuChris Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Denver, CO
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More pictures!
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10-22-2016, 12:04 PM | #3 |
Warrior of Delusions!
Join Date: Jun 2012
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Happy 500th Gallery guys! Here's to not just another 500, but many, many more!
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10-22-2016, 12:31 PM | #4 |
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Lexington, Ky
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I'm really incredibly proud to see us at this point. When I joined our staff 5 years ago I never thought I'd be doing site galleries, let alone so many over the last several years. Seeing us get to 500 is just so satisfying to me professionally & personally. I can't wait to see the next 500 we manage to come up with!
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10-22-2016, 12:49 PM | #5 |
Ex-Weather Three leader
Join Date: Jan 2012
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Congrats on achieving quite the feat/milestone.
Looking forward to that 1000th gallery.
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10-22-2016, 01:03 PM | #6 |
I'm an agile cat.
Join Date: Jan 2012
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Congrats! This is a great acheivement. And yes, looking forward to the next 500.
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10-22-2016, 01:14 PM | #7 |
Stronger Than You
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: nyet
Posts: 25,326
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If only we could've gotten a Monster Art in there to cover all the bases
Glad to know we made it to 500 galleries~
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10-22-2016, 01:36 PM | #8 |
KNIGHT OF SPADE
Join Date: Aug 2016
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Great job! You've come a long way!
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10-22-2016, 02:11 PM | #9 |
Veteran Member
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 1,473
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I love this gallery so much I could hug it. I disagree with Tony Bacala on words, though. One of the things that make me love TokuNation's galleries is that they're not content to be galleries alone. I love the text pieces that accompany them.
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10-22-2016, 04:33 PM | #10 |
Stronger Than You
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Quote:
Discussions and conversations attract a lot more around here.
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