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They were SDCC exclusives in 2009 or 2010.

>>5975237
holy shit bro
i have to buy them

>>5975235
dogman give me my child back you asshole

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>>5975220

I imagine Megaempress as a goofier version of Satsuki from Kill la Kill.

>>5975222
Trips of truth. I'd be down for this.

>tfw female Starscream voiced by Nonon's VA never

>>5975222
Her personality is more like Satsuki's mom.

they rocked

>>5975008
Fuckin' Carlos

>>5975029
>>5975008
That Carlos, always horsing around

Unless its 1:12 weebz, cloth. If it is weebmodels, articulated plastic or soft plastic

>>5974781
Fabric cape with wire frame. Best examples being figma Sayaka and mafex armored Batman.

>>5974781
Really depends on the character or figure line it falls under.

>>5974524

You bought one of the worst in the current line. Probably the worst. Go pick up one of the good figures in the line.

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>>5974524
Everyone that's not a poor fag buys 3rd party now.
Hasbro a shit.

>>5974524
Americans are cheap.

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>>5974310
first for jang

>>5971484
Don't forget about

THE GREAT HALLOWEEN SPOOKY GIRL GIVEAWAY CONTEST

Four entries already, with just under a week to go!

>>5974318
You got my skeleton cyborgs v. sci-fi spidergirls battle and my e-mail, right?

Sculpting and life drawing classes at your local community college, or sometimes local art studios will do workshops if you live in a large enough city. Going to conventions is a good place to network and talk shop with artists. Otherwise, prepare your anus for 2-4 years of daily practice before you produce anything not super cringe worthy. You will either give up when you realize what you're doing is actually going to take a lot of hard work, or you will persevere and become a greatly under appreciated niche artist. This will not be profitable. Only try if you're really really dedicated and passionate about being an artist, othwise you're just wasting time

>>5973980
Thanks. Believe me, I'm more than autistic enough to stick to this sort of thing. I'll keep an eye out for conventions here and in neighboring states.
Does anyone know of any active polymer clay communities? The best I can find is a subreddit and that gets like a post a day. Surely I'm missing something.

A simple loop tool made with a bent, somewhat thick, steel wire glued to a pen body is what I use the most.

Using turpentine or a regular paint solvent with a soft brush geta rids of fingerprints and imperfections and smooths the clay.

I'll try finding useful pages I had saved tomorrow.

>inb4 /mlp/

Don't own any but some of their dinosaurs are neat.

Papo is better

No horses, but I got a spotted hyena and it's beautifully done.

I also dig some of their dinos. The newer Giganotosaurus with the raised foot is gorgeous, and the new Spinosaurus is worlds better than the previous.

>>5971941
Well. Go on, OP. Prove it.

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>>5971949
My shit

Too lazy to gather them for a pic but I have War Within, Animated, and Masterpiece

But I wouldn't really say I'm a Grimlock fan per se I dunno

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>>5971877

Exactly the same as it looked back in 1997, because I didn't buy anything Power Rangers related since then.

This will probably change next year with the release of pic related.

>>5971877
I have my flip heads somewhere in my closet. That's about it.. Maybe a tigerzord somewhere at my parents house

My collection is decent but I'm looking to sell it..

I have a shitload of figuart red rangers because I wanted a "forever red" display and now I'm left with not only an incomplete line but no place to put them so I wasted a bunch of fucking money on those and I doubt most of them are even popular int he after market.

I also have all the MMPR/Zyu figuarts and I think I'll sell them all except Green Ranger

I was happy with the SRC Megazord and the legacy Megazord and had the displayed but now they look like shit after I saw the SoC one so I'm thinking of selling both and pay the difference to upgrade.

Are any of these worth anything or have they lost most of their value?

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Basically, "collector's toys" became a thing before high quality toys where a thing. The earliest toys that collectors sought where just ordinary children's toys. Stuff like GI Joe, or star Wars. They collected these because they where attached to a brand they liked, or held nostalgic attachment. Even now you have a lot of toy collectors that focus on toys that have historical precedent, rather than quality.
The big American toy companies are very reluctant to target any products exclusively to adults, and alot of them still operate with the idea that adult collectors will just collect toys by virtue of being the merchandise for a franchise, rather than being high quality. and to an extant, that is true. That's why you have people who wait for Force Friday and buy a ton of retail StarWars toys but don't touch Hot toys or the like. The avenues to sell toys exclusively to collectors, like comic shops and even the internet, are far less lucrative compared to retail.

That's why Mattel will never make Collector's Barbies that are Hot toys quality, for example. They expect their collectors to buy a toy. Slightly higher quality than a regular toy, but still a toy. This is conjecture, but I think a lot of the heads of these companies believe that if people where buying older figures for hundreds of dollars; things like 5POA Star wars figures, they don't see why collector's wouldn't still want the same thing. They probably think most of them will be kept in box anyway, so why bother waisting recourses on better sculpting or more articulation?

Things like that Batman in your OP pic are meant to appeal to children, even if they are meant to be collector's toys. For hasbro and Mattel, a "collector's toy" still has to be playable with kids, and appeal to them, because they're being stocked in the same place as the other kid's toys.

>>5971809
This is actually a pretty good explanation.

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>>5971809
So basically: middle of the road figures like McFarlane, for example, are allowed to ship with whatever glaring flaws they may have because
A)They're made for kids with an 8 to 12+ labeling so the quality doesn't really matter and
B)Companies know collectors will buy that shit anyway because they're interested in the franchise and they really can't find anything better because this particular type of product satisfies the market?

You know, when they first started talking about 3D Printers, my immediate thought was
>hey, I could make action figures with that!
Cases like pic related just reinforce that fantasy.

I guess there's little room for craft in mass market.

>>5971523
They always prioritized their FF figures above everything else. It's why you'll find that most people keep their FF Play Arts and PAKs, because they're among the few properties that Square Enix gives enough of a shit about to actually do properly (most of the time anyway).

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>>5971523
I just wish thy would be 1/12 scale

>>5971523
wow that looks really gay

or a korean boy band

>>5971356
Search Battle Builders

yeah that is T Wreck from Battle Builders.

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>>5975557
>>5975737
Holy shit thank you guys so much!

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>Release schedule:

October
>Miyo Asato
>Nico Yazawa
>Ninja Slayer: Animation Ver.

November
>Izaya Orihara
>Izaya Orihara: Hachimenroppi ver.
>Mio Honda: Jersey ver.
>Prinz Eugen
>Guyver II F
>Guyver II F: Movie Color ver.

December
>Kazuma Kiryu (Delayed from June to December)
>Iron Man Mark 42
>Iron Man Mark 43
>Vitruvian Man
>Samus Aran Zero suit ver.
>Archer Gilgamesh
>Racing Miku 2016 ver.
>Elsa
>Dark Magician Girl

January 2017
>Kogure Kenzo
>Racing Miku 2015: TeamUKYO Support ver.
>Angel Statues
>Saitama
>Hikaru Shidou
>Haruna
>Yotaroh
>figFIX Honoka Kosaka: Cheerleader ver.

February 2017
>Femto
>Femto: Birth of the Hawk of Darkness ver.
>Conan
>Leafa

March 2017
>Kashima

April 2017
>R. Tanaka Ichirou
>Celty Sturluson
>Windranger
>Anti-Mage
>Makoto Yuki

May 2017
>Slan/Conrad
>Shielder
>Zelda
>Link
>Link DX ver.
>Saber 2.0

Also, checklist had been updated for your convenience

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LATEST GSC RELEASE UPDATE:

>Delayed from June 2016 to December 2016:
figma Kazuma Kiryu

LATEST FIGMAS ON PO:

figma Yoshihiko
>http://ameblo.jp/figma/entry-12204691811.html

Saber 2.0
>http://www.goodsmile.info/en/product/4431/figma+Saber+2+0.html

Slan/Conrad
>http://www.goodsmile.info/en/product/5976/figma+Slan+figFIX+Conrad.html
>http://ameblo.jp/blog-shinsotsu2012/entry-12204794630.html


>Reposting from the previous thread

Pics for Hanayo Koizumi
>http://nov.2chan.net/y/res/3586693.htm

Pics for Caster
http://nov.2chan.net/y/res/3587073.htm

>https://twitter.com/Kojima_Hideo/status/786122713060388865

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So, Amazon gift card anon from the last thread who said he was thinking about preordering the Nozomi Figma; I hadn't ordered it yet and went down to Little Tokyo for Akibafest and managed to get 1 of only 4 that were somehow in possession of the Jungle store down there (gf and another friend snagged 2 more). Now have my first Figma and and happy as fuck.

Moral of the story: don't let anyone tell you that procrastination is a bad thing.

>>5969925
Like 1000$
Not much but there aren't lots of things I want

$1600-1900

>>5969925
Including a backlog of gunpla that fills most of a closet, a little over $2000