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05-20-2016, 01:24 AM | #11 |
Dai Shogun
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This looks pretty neat actually. Aside from the nuclear bikini I like the paint and shading used, especially since I see a hint of green around the eyes and on the spines.
It also gives me some weird nostalgic vibes – seeing this I have to think of those wacky Extreme Dinosaurs variant figures with the battle paint. I never had one but I remember seeing them in stores. But since I don’t care about Evangelion or want to pay the Web-Exclusive price for it this is an easy pass. Nothing worth raging over though – repaints make money, money gets used to make more figures. Thinking about it like the spots in this lineup are limited and that they kicked a Showa-release of the schedule just to release this is stupid. |
05-20-2016, 04:20 AM | #12 |
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But in the SHMA line, new figures rarely get made. And if they do, it's another Godzilla. I can't even remember what the last legitimate new monster was, Gamera? Not counting MKG as he was basically a retool of KG. So yea, Gamera. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Tamashii appears to be utterly desperate to keep SHMA in the Heisei era. Hell, if they wanted to do this bad, why not go with Heisei Mecha Godzilla? He's been long out of print and the colors would have worked so much better with him. But nope, let's repaint the Heisei Godzilla...again. If these repaints were truly going to producing new monsters, like Anguirus, King Seesar, Baragon, I wouldn't be complaining. But we aren't seeing that.
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05-20-2016, 05:41 AM | #13 |
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It still isn't taking up a spot though, it's a limited edition figure capitalising on a) a new Godzilla movie and b) the clearly popular Godzilla X NGE thing that's come out of this movie. It's barely contributing to the SHMA line as a whole, but I'm willing to bet it'll go down considerably better than some of the other figures in the line.
Why they chose Godzilla I don't know, perhaps because they're already doing an EVA-1 Kiryu vinyl. But to say this one-off novelty is either taking the spot of an entirely new figure or somehow ruining the sanctity of a questionably popular line is ridiculous.
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05-20-2016, 05:54 AM | #14 |
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You missed my point. Repaints as a whole, in the SHMA line, aren't going towards the possibility of new monsters getting made. We haven't seen that, at all. And when a new sculpt is announced, it's just another Godzilla.
Yea, this is a one off. But there have been numerous repaints within this line already. With a legitimate new monster not being released since Gamera.
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05-20-2016, 05:54 AM | #15 |
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I can only imagine they took Godzilla because he’s the protagonist aka the titular character of the franchise.
When they did the same thing with Transformers they repainted Optimus Prime even though there are other robots that look a lot more like the EVA thing. Guess it’s a posterboy-only thing. And year, at least we got a Kiryu vinyl. Which looks much better than this. |
05-20-2016, 06:09 AM | #16 |
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You missed my point. Repaints as a whole, in the SHMA line, aren't going towards the possibility of new monsters getting made. We haven't seen that, at all. And when a new sculpt is announced, it's just another Godzilla.
Yea, this is a one off. But there have been numerous repaints within this line already. With a legitimate new monster not being released since Gamera. Exactly.
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05-20-2016, 07:10 AM | #17 |
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Looks horrible. I totally get why they're doing it, but it's still horrible. Hopefully they make an SHMA of the new Godzilla that actually appears in the upcoming movie.
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05-20-2016, 08:00 AM | #18 |
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Why didn't they reveal Shin Godzilla if nothing else? BTW, Kiryu would have made way more sense than Godzilla. |
05-20-2016, 08:25 AM | #19 |
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Why didn't they reveal Shin Godzilla if nothing else?
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BTW, Kiryu would have made way more sense than Godzilla.
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05-20-2016, 08:37 AM | #20 |
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I would've been down with this if it was a purple heisei Godzilla, or even with a green underbelly, but the little bikini bottom and the orange on the throat ruin it.
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