For a few years now, action figures made by many Asian companies have been going out of their way to have the ugliest upper-leg articulation imaginable. What's confusing about this trend is that, rather than being some radical innovation, it's mostly just a regression back to the ugly spherical thigh swivel of old ToyBiz, Marvel Select, or early Marvel Legends figures. Putting articulation aside, from a sculpting standpoint, I find these designs hideous. It looks like the characters are sticking their legs inside a larger pair of legs. What's even dumber is that it makes no visual sense for the upper legs to go inside the lower legs. If anything, it should be reversed - large segments descending into smaller segments. If you want to see a proper implementation of this concept, check out the Nottaa NT-04 female body figures.The really unfortunate part for me personally is that Storm Collectibles switched to this hideous articulation scheme midway through their awesome Storm Arena toyline, even though they never used it before. While it can look okay with certain baggy fabrics, like Nash's or Gouki's (I still prefer the straight cut from the Ryu/Ken/Dan figures), it looks terrible on everything else. I've been waiting years for a company to make really nice and affordable 1:12 scale Darkstalkers and SNK figures. But that damn monkey's paw had to curse them with the worst legs I've ever seen. Even some domestic companies have been flirting with this articulation scheme (see the MOTU Chronicles Evil-Lyn above). Thankfully, Mattel wisely eschewed this scheme with their new DC collector's line. Hopefully it stays that way.What are your thoughts? Do you find this articulation scheme as off-putting as I do? What is your ideal leg articulation scheme?
>>11923770Once again we have loud mouths like bobby vala forcing everyone to follow a standard thats ugly and the same shit every company does to fit an ugly aesthetic.
>>11923776Furry.
>>11924014I'm confused. What does this have to do with Bobby Vala?
>>11923770I got a wind toys male blank recently that looks like that bottom right figure and the flap straight up gets in the way of articulation.Maybe it's hiding a gap, I'll have to check when I'm home.
>>11923955Sometimes the line gets cancelled before the figure is released, yes I'm looking at you Gears of War.
I see this Joker on discount and i really want it for that cool gimmicky gun he has.I would give it to my other toys or add to some of my colorful Transformers BUT! i need to know what size is that gun-peg? Otherwise it might be useless to have.Does anyone have this figure? Can that peg fit perfectly into 5mm hole that transformers toys have?What size is this Joker? is this gun fits well to "normal size" toys like GiJoes/Marvel Legends/Overwatch figures?
>>11921722>It retails for $13. If it's on sale it's even less than that. Are you really racking your head over like $9?tell me you are neet living with your parents without telling me you are neetoid living with your parents
>>11921652Exactly, why would OP waste money on a toy, or post a question about a toy on /toy/? This is a serious board for serious people about serious toys. Remember, if your toy doesn't cost at least 100 bucks, you're not playing with toys correctly.
>>11921761Thanks, someone else came up with it in another thread. I was asking the OP if they were inquiring the size of the gun's handle or the size of the connector peg. Like if they were using "peg" interchangeably for both.
>>11921743A little sanding would sort that out.
>>11921648>Peg size questiondoesn't matterWhat is matter is...how you use that peg...
What's your opinion on NYCC? I usually go to SDCC, but mostly for the exhibit hall for the toys, any outside activities, and maybe one panel with no line.
>>11918295its shit
>>11920229There are still some cheap hotels. I even stayed in the youth hostel one night when I needed to cover one extra night and the person who agreed to let me use their couch had made it clear it was only for 2 nights. I also didn't care because their place was in Brooklyn and I wanted to be in Manhattan.I also stayed in this weird Wall Street area (so dead, no fucking places - not even fast food) to get coffee or food on Sat/Sun - type dorm, like a YMCA with twin beds. I had a tiny closet room to myself, still $100, with the bathroom down the hall and the only benefit was free wifi. If you don't mind staying in Jersey, or the outer boroughs, that would make it cheap.
>>11920246They sure are
>>11920880Okay
>>11918295Is there any free shit/swag at all?Will you be Cosby'ing a cosplayer?
Rather than wait for the next Customs General to post I figured I'd create a whole separate thread dedicated to 3D printing for /toy/ related endeavours. Accessories, dioramas, props, heads or entire figures, resin of FDM (or even SLS if you use it), anything goes!After much messing about I have FINALLY managed to get this base body test-printed and fully assembled! It's as generic and blank a body as I could design to focus on engineering and tolerances rather than getting hung up on sculpting detail. Len Kagamine is demonstrating it; it's mostly a success! I need to adjust some tolerances, especially the ankle pegs (one partially cracked from overtightness) and the hip sockets (too loose, though still useable) but this is the best thing I've ever designed, at least functionally.
What's something I need to keep in mind if I want to make pieces designed to snap in and out of each other?>>11919024Neato!
>>11923471The tolerances of the material(s). Print things in a set thickness and then check the actual thickness with calipers. Also keep in mind the physical properties of the material if it can flex or snap when it has things inserted into openings. Wall thickness/infill will effect this along with material used.
>>11923493Thanks Anon!
>>11923494No prob. Best of luck on your prints.
>>11919028does it come in that color already?
What's this? It's basically halfway through October and no thread about halloween or spooky toys yet?Last year an anon talked the spooky hot wheels series, so this year I went out looking for them. Only managed to snag one though but they're pretty cool
>>11923225we had a thread discussing the frosty frights and the new universal monster sonic wacky packs, but that was weeks ago now.
>>11923225Can we get a better OP image? Something that catches the eye so it's not so drab?
>>11923225I was gonna order some Yoto Toys skellies, but life fucked me in the ass so I have to say goodbye to them at least for the rest of the month...
Which one are you getting?
>>11923263Debatable. Jada seems to be about the same as Hasbro.
>>11923271What is it like with the gi off?
>>11923418The same
>McFarlane goes pinless with updated articulation after making Lara CroftBad timing.
>>11923426It's so they can sell another one
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>>11924624Where are you getting these from? Japanese, Korean and Chinese MOCs I keep seeing are usually way above this level.
>>11924690Random japanese twitter accounts into bionicle
Wonder how it works to replicate the pink tahu eyes
>>11924624Cool>>11924638>>11924632Garbage
>>11913231you're better off going to aliexpress. They'll ship faster than kingsidorak's 6+ month lead time. That is, if he even responds to you or takes your order.
Any scale, any series. If it's a modular robot toy, post it here.TakaraTomy>Diaclone Reboot (3mm 4mm)>Transformers Weaponizers/Modulators/Fossilizers/Wildocking (3mm 5mm)>Tomica Hyper series (5mm)>ZOIDS (3mm)>Plarail Shinkalion (5mm)>T-SPARK Toyrise (3mm 5mm)>T-SPARK Altered Nano (4mm)>etcBandai>MUGENBINE Musou (3mm)>30 Minutes Label (Mission/Fantasy/Sisters) (3mm)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>11923196This transforming dragon-jet is one of my favorites of his
Interesting https://weibo.com/5736342019/RmKbp1LK0
>>11923637on sale 21st, comes with the bird stand and unique box.
>>11923637>>11923639Just know that the stand doesn’t fit properly on the new box charger because of the extra ports. So you might want to swap chargers with an older figure with white/blue colors.
>>11911509>>11912457Shinji Aramaki posted his design sketches and it seems after Condor II they'll make something for the arms and shoulder cannons
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>>11924061I wouldn't buy that turd either
>>11924390What do you buy exactly? Mess toys and Blokees?
>>11923605Marvel Legends "pricing out" complaints are indeed pretty disingenuous, but I will say that with Transformers, seeing a $47 Studio Shockwave or clear, Tron-looking Megatron around and up of that price DID price me out, because damn, even if I'll spend $140 on an exclusive 30MS girl model just because it's cast in neon green, doesn't make me think paying that much for Transformers that are clearly not worth that much valid. One's a nice exclusive, the others are just shitty, poor quality control Hasbro figures.
>>11923729What's that piece in the lower left corner?
>>11925212Shield.
What the fuck were they thinking?
>>11911874I still have this version of Deep Six somewhere, I found the dolphin recently. He was one of my favorite Joes.
>>11911680Transformers fan speaking, the G2 colors are still pure bliss.
>>11914346 Much more savage than the Adventure People's Splash the dolphin
>>11914346>>11911874So far I've bought all of the pet two packs, but I would go out of my way to get an articulated dolphin figure.
>>11918872 There are a bunch of acid killed lakes in Northern Ontario. There was one a hike from the old Ranger training school. They were dumping massive amounts of limestone into the lakes and had seen some results. They also didn't have to worry about "ecological damage" from the lime and limestone. - because there was no ecology. IT was really hard to perceive how deep you were if you were diving. there was nothing in the water.
I need all kinds of buildings, scene pieces, NPC figures, lighting for it, just STUFF either by picture or link, en masse.I'm brainstorming a track layout for an 8x4.25ft footprint with a picrel shaped track. Foam/papercraft is fine, I'll look at resin. Kinda whatever but lights are a priority too. Any actual /toy/ parts that are realistic can go in too.
Look at EVAN Designs for lighting stuff.
>>11916401I'm slowly gathering shit to make my own buildings, right now I have a couple of cardboard boxes, plus a bunch of thinner, stiffer cardboard to cut for accents and shit. Plus plastic sprues from gunpla and wargaming minis. Once I get some spending money, I'll buy a hobby knife, masking tape and spackle and get to making them.
>>11917046>EVAN DesignsGood one!>>11919507As in swiss swtyle with wood crossbeams? That kind of building? That's what it sounds like.
>>11919507I do need to go through it because there's a point where you are saving things that are useful and a point where you are just hoarding garbage but stuff like packing foam, the clear clamshells from new toys, etc. can be useful for DIOS and backgrounds. Things you don't expect.
>>11921400I kept toy pack lexan to reform but it clouds like hell.I use foam to carve a shape, pack it in sand, and do lost foam casting in aluminum with though.
So how's everyone's collection and raising going?
>>11924824I hate them for this, but hate myself even more for still wanting the Gabumon Evolution color.
>>11925332I know, mangBut that means having to buy another one just for the swapIt sould have been so much better to just get something cool and unique for the one and only rerelease of this egg instead of something as random as pink camoCoronamon got a unique graffiti shell just for him in the last wave, they could have done the same here and it would have been really dope
>>11925386The camo's a little neater when you realize it's made out of Digimon silhouettes.But yeah, I get you. They might do a 4th Wave all things considered since the distribution's pretty weird (though I hope we get to X rereleases if that's what's happening).Anyway, Jawa's Junkyard is selling his digimon collection according to the UK discord. It's still expensive, but $125 USD for the Zuba shell not including shipping's here: https://freshpack.com.au/products/digital-monster-ver-20th-zubamon-colour-goldDunno if there are better prices on proxies, but, y'know.
Making your pets fight is psychotic behavior.
The mametchi nano is cutemajor memberberries, especially when I've played so many of those devices
Post your actual physical legoes that you own.Nobody gives a shit about anime for mexicans. Or nintoddler shit. FAG:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YVt-4sibEMFOU8H484MpB-K6rNla5SIYdHZG8lyCHLQ/edit?usp=sharinghttps://www.brickeconomy.com/https://www.bricklink.com/https://brickset.com/https://rebrickable.com/>/lg/ Flickr Group:https://www.fligger.com/groups/legogeneral/>LEGO General Archive:https://archive.palanq.win/toy/search/subject/Lego%20General/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>11922503Thanks Lego Quest Anon, that castle quest introduced me to /qst/. Do you have anything in the works to look out for?
>>11922972I'm currently running a non-Lego quest.Someday I might finish this princess story idea. I have some ideas for Jake Starcrash too.
>>11910410I’ll be a son of a bitch, the fucking cocksuckers came through.
>>11922895I keep wanting to do an Anti-Monitor with one of the 4x4 dishes but I keep lazing out and just end up collecting more somehow.>>11924389Not my cup of tea, but kudos for holding the twats accountable.
I hope frogcet gets his entire salary removed, would be funny to pull the thread from out under his shill rug and nuke his raid.
Alright kids, the grown ups are in the room now. Also Dino General I guess...
Finally some good shit after the Hammond's fuck ups
>>11923358Didn't they already make a Super Colossal Carno a few years ago? Not complaining, mind you. I see that they're including some mini dinos this time though. Wonder if that's going to be a standard issue for Super Colossal theropods.
>>11923524Yes they did. It was specifically a Super Colossal Toro, the individual from the Camp Cretaceous cartoon.
>>11923358This thing would kick ass if the paintjob was finished
Anyone got that car? I think I will buy it for my game wardens (tvc bounty hunters). Might also be fun to paint it to look more dirty, like a rally car.
I didn't realize why and when Kenner released SO MANY Batmobiles. Why they do this?
>>11910585>I had pic related that had no roof.I'm honestly glad I never got that as a kid. Not having the rood would have bugged the hell out of me. I know I would have played with it for three seconds before going and colouring in some cardboard with a black marker and taping it to the top of the car.
>>11913866What are you, some kinda asshole? You probably drive real slow in the ultra fast lane too.
>>11909899The '93 batmobile is one of the best toys I ever owned. It's a shame the Kenner BTAS line will never get a proper remake.
>>11909899I'm probably coming up on this many tumblrs and batpods
It's kinda a bummer other superheroes don't have super-mobiles. Even when it comes to supervillains, it's only Batman's rogues.
