Do you have any /toy/ related New Years resolutions? Spending limits, completing a set, getting that grail? Share your future goals!
>>11663011My only one is try not to "impulse-buy" something that looks cool for that moment, but months later I'll see as a waste of space and toss. Try to focus on a few choice vintage pieces with sentimental value.
>>11663011Make a proper effort to sell my unwanted Marvel Legends (which is all of them)Stop preordering Transformers and wait for salesBuy more Metal Cardbots
>>11663011I've got around 70 figures I haven't opened(likely more than I even have display space for) and decided I would spend this month opening a figure a day so I can get down to around 40 by February. Started getting rid of a figure whenever I buy a new one last year as well and plan to buy a lot less this year in general so I hopefully won't get this backed up again.
I'd like to get into making dioramas and displays with foam board once I can get the dedicated space for it (which will hopefully be this year).I made a couple practice pieces s couple years ago that turned out ok but haven't been able to since because not much point in making scenery when there no place to keep it up
>>11672693One arrived from Amazon Resale with the clamshell already coming off the card back that when another arrived, 50% from WM last night, I immediately tore it apart. But I need a bunch of small baggies for all these fucking accessories since both of these were MLs.
Hello /toy/, I need some help removing some newspaper spots from a figure.I tried isopropyl and acetone.The isopropyl didn't work, the acetone did work but also removed part of the paint.
>>11672777At that point you are better off sanding the part and learning how to airbrush
>>11672777Daddy here, do you have any idea what newspapers are printed with? Ink. Do you know what ink does? It dyes things black. I will buy you a new figure after you take your shorts off.
Silly putty chads don’t need to worry about this
it's stained, there's no fixing it short of painting over it. plastic is porous. the plastic absorbed the color
>>11672777"Bleach it out" with hydrogen peroxide and UV light using the same technique people use to de-yellow vintage plastic.
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>>11673892Oh my God! His Boneitis!
>>11673696Partially because I would like a few, secret service agents so that's why I want at least two, but ideally four that match up, that I can also use for something else (bank robbery victims, etc.). And I don't want to pay postage. I just did a quick scan and most of them are the gray at $16-$20 with postage and not including taxes. Some Professor X blue suits at $15-$25 and most of the cheap listings aren't including the hands. I would pay more to get just two that matched with hands. But thanks for at least chiming in.I did see that Jonah loose, without the head, and that shirt does look like cut down shit in the used pictures on EBAY. The professor X, even without hands, looks better.
Psylocke shelf begins.
>>11674099Where's the Mafex, the Select, the Yamaguchi, etc.?
>>11674105No thanks.
>already forgottenYou guys told me this was the second coming of Christ on how much you hyped it, why did it fail?
>>11672187>why do Americans pretend they invented animeWhile this is "technically" right if we consider Osamu Tezuka copied Disney and Japan copied him, the reason is mainly ego. The same reason they believe their dubs arw superior.
>>11672187Why do you pretend to be American Athena when you very much hate us?
>>11669650The second wave of sets are coming
>>11671826>The unofficial Luffy on the left is what an anime/manga based one would've looked like.Nope Lego dont change thestyle of minifig that much anymore.
>>11672568Lies
https://x.com/toydevelop_samg/status/2009542213097972139This is clearly a cheetos catgirl, will SAMG still deny the existence of fembots and keep the cardbots gay?
>>11670542When are we getting this line again?
>>11670557who we
>>11670543Surprised you took the time of from sucking your daddies dick to type that.You ten year olds have weird priorities.
>>11670542>SAMG still deny the existence of fembotsI don't watch the show. Are you telling me that the centaur with a brown loli complex wasn't a female predator?
>>11672217The writers themselves came out and said it, despite also writing this scene where Fleta Z tries to hook up with the planebot chicks.
What's the most you've ever been scalped for a figure?
>>11671397I'm really pondering buying a HeatBoys Unkval which costs like 700 bucks, that price is a total wallet rape for me
>>11671397My wife n child we never had together
Like $226 for this guy. I think I have purchased more expensive stuff since then, but they were retail.
>>11671397I paid $90 for a set of Animated Dinobots in like 2013/4.
>>11671397several years after missing out on it, I ordered a SHF Toei Spiderman for $180, something that retailed for ~$40a few months later, a crap ton of them made their way to Mandarake for ~$80
There are 20 Smart Brick /Smart Play threads on the catalog , does this place have jannies/mods?
>>11670689They don't seem to care about flooding, I would agree with OP >>11670663 about that. Or the reports aren't coming in to them correctly, which is just obtuse stupidity - but I'm not even sure how reports get to them in the first place since not every report does, only multiple similar reports do.Which makes sense or then they would waste time on every single person with axes to grind.They definitely will reply to "off topic" and delete delete tons of posts.I'm not sure they prune threads, which is different from other boards.
>>11670846It's a SFW board.THEY have to do that. It might not even be a janny or a mod doing that, it might be automated at the site level, versus the board level.>>11670995I was going to ask for recent example and there you are - yes, the janitors here will prune a thread. Did they ever prune any of those multiple tariff threads when it seemed like we had 4-6 every week? I want one particular week in say the summer or September was really bad.
>>11671861Raid doesn’t work either, trying spambot this time on all 13+early thread. 4tanic showed how the system worked and hoe garbage it is
>>11670846They allow all spam but not trolling. Done both. I was one of the ones who spammed those webkinz threads everywhere.
>>11670663Say what you want about Reddit, over there you don't even have to have jeet level tech-savvy to sort out every paid shill.
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>>11669723Sounds like a nothing burger. If you had been scammed, then that's different. I'd also like to say that I've been buying and selling on here for over 10 years. I've only had 1 negative experience. A lot of cool folks here.
>>11670000I've had 3 people recently just waste my time on purpose when I was selling the jar guys.
>>11661374>>11661376>>11662135>>11663216Semi off topic and they're not actually related to each other but Lucky Cat did "Riki-Oh" a War Within style Devastator who also is in Beast Box style and can go Cube Mode with a similar Clear cube storageDefinitely recommend him and he's available as a full set on TF Safari and Bombus Bee for $140 range which is stellar for the full set
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>>11668443This guy's awesome. Been buying from him for years.
Has anyone ever used a toy repair service? I've found a few vintage toy restoration businesses that accept out of state clients where you mail your items for repair and they send them back to you.I collect vintage Japanese toys and have been successful in cleaning up battery compartments and restoring toys to like-new, working condition. But I now have two inoperable toys (one from 1984 and one from 2006) that I can't get working due to the extend of the battery leakage. I'm considering using one of these repair shops but was wondering if anyone else has used services like this.I bought both of these toys for $30, purely for collection purposes, but they go for ~$500 in working condition, which rarely pop up for sale anyway.Picrel is one of the pieces I'd love to bring back to life.
>>11671845>>11671849>>11671850That's my go-to and it works like 90% of the time. But the two toys I want to repair still aren't working after removing as much of the corrosion as I possibly could.
>>11671854How do the contacts and springs look? Are you able to open it up and look for damage inside?
>>11671856I mean, if those are blackened at all that would need replacement, yeh.
>>11671856OP pic is still in the mail, which will actually be #3 if I can't get it working (and I doubt I'll be able to based on the seller's pics). The other two are the same toy I bought multiples of- see picrel, which is post-cleaning, and there are no springs. Cat photobombed.
>>11671867That's some heavy corrosionMy recommendation is to try sanding the contacts or using a gentle abrasive to get back down to metal
>We’ve created a brick that plays back.>It's our biggest innovation since... erm... ever! The LEGO® SMART Play™ System is here. Get ready for SMART Bricks, SMART Tags and SMART Minifigures to add a whole new dimension to LEGO play. (YES WE’RE EXCITED.)So I guess this is the future of plastic brick toys now. Companies are making everything "smart". At least Lumibricks still has their light gimmickWhat do we think of this? Pre-orders open tomorrow by the way.
>>11669530But that's exactly what the smart brick does! That and so much more!
>>11669523This video literally explains how they work:https://youtube.com/shorts/NXJlyDvnvHY
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>>11670742
>we're incorporating AI into lego
Have you guys seen these new smart brinks? I didn't even bother to check the catalog before making a thread because I'm an retard.
>>11670761plays back what?
>>11671441your mom
>>11670757What are you talking about?Never heard of them
>>11670757>I'm an retardYeah I can tell
>>11670757>I didn't even bother to check the catalog
As the title suggests, what are some toys that hold up really well in spite of being quite old?I'd say a lot older Figmas are still quite good even by today's standards. In particular I'd single out the Madoka Magica Figmas- they capture the characters extremely well and for the most part are really fun, poseable expressive toys.
>>11668053The knees, too. The NECA one was at least sturdier. Idk what happened to pic related, I would have bought two.
I love my k-on figma, even if they are 15 years oldStill need to find Nodoka
>>11670922$25 is a good price for what they are, but whoever you bought it from definitely paid $10 at most.And almost all the females were super easy to get. I was able to buy almost the complete line at $5 per figure, including that giant armored figure.Literally a shit ton of stock, but the one figure i wanted that i couldn't find was that black/arab chick with the submachine gun. For whatever reason, i never saw her at the 5 stores i frequently visited.. but i did see her full price. No thanks, since i mainly just want the little gun she came with.I skipped on a few figures, like that Shipwreck wannabe and the pegleg old man. Ugly and their guns were shit too.I bought the Metroid chick twice, because it's cool faceless army buildable metroid chick. They can act as upstart merc competitors to my Figma Samus.
My holy grail
>>11671628UOOOOOOOOOH etc.
The fall of shf needs to be studied. This material is beyond shit. Literally crumbling out of the box. I got decade old toys that don't have that and probably never will. This is why I quit buying shfslop. Bandai can't make toys.
>>11663269go ahead, keep posting schizo
>>11663269below neca-tier quality
>>11662484Guts, OP is a retard but that figure it's a QC nightmare.
>>11662567>>11662622Those aren't breaks... they just popped balls out of their sockets.
>>11663269This was shilled hard here
Is forward crunch the hardest point of articulation to pull off properly?
Jada's SF figures (or the two I own) have pretty good forward crunch.
>>11668957FWIW Chun-Li here isn't using her hips, the floating skirt-piece is being pushed over like that by the abs.
>>11668957>>11668958Perfection!
Am I doing it right?
IMO one of the hardest joint setups to do well, up there with ab crunches, is the pelvis. Getting a hip setup that allows for good range without looking atrocious in more dynamic poses is really hard, especially when you factor in thigh swivels. I feel like Snail Shell and Second Axe have done them the best with the "twin stalk" hips (that is a double-ended balljoint armature for each leg going into the torso with a floating pelvis overlay). SHF's newer hips are pretty clever with the "shrouds" that can cover over the joints as the figure moves without leaving gaps or inhibiting joint range but they only work for certain character designs.>>11669344Kek.
Does it bug anyone else how much Kenner dropped the ball on the T2 line? The Endoskeleton is basically the only genuinely good figure in the whole line. I know it was common practice for companies (especially Kenner) to get creative with the designs, but the sculpt work and gimmicks basically ruin every figure. The Exploding T-1000 and Power Arm Terminator are tolerable but do weird things like making the T-800 sleeveless of the T-1000 half silver. I can understand what they were going for with the T-1000 but it would have made more sense to give him the power arm gimmick and make his alternate arms his various weapons from the movie (or make some up like a giant axe). Even as a kid this stuff bugged the hell out of me and I had no interest in the line beyond the Endoskeleton.It's just such a weird drop in quality given how amazing their Alien and Predator lines turned out.
>>11671553>I know what you're getting at with the teethSpeaking of toy companies/Skynet stick Terminator faces on everything.
>>11672564You're not wrong, even considering that Coupe kenner included in the T2 line, but I like keeping things simple for now. Since you've mentioned it though, I'll never understand how or why kenner didnt make a line based off the Robocop vs Terminator comic. That book got two video games and tv commercials! They could have made a mint.
>>11672952>why kenner didnt make a line based off the Robocop vs Terminator comicThey probably only had a limited license which allowed them to only make toys for Terminator 2. They stretched it with T2-3D and Terminator 2 Future War.Still it would have been awesome, I loved that game as a kid. I always liked the way Robocop looked in the game, like really solid. Also hot Terminator babes in skin tight outfits. Fuck I miss the 90s.
>>11673146Speaking of T2 3D, can you believe they still had kenner product onnsale up until the shut down of the ride circa 2010? I never got to ride it myself but I did step into the gift shop and Im still baffled by the wall of Kenner Endos that lined those shelves. I wonder if they were just being continuously produced by hasbro or if universal just had that many left over from the 90s. The most lamentable aspect of Kenner passing up the comic is that we never got a decently sized Robocop to pair with the T800. The Robocop figures are nearly 2 heads shorter than the Terminators.
This thing really was the silliest addition to any movie toyline of the 90's. Even the motorcycle with the giant " T" on the side feels more realistic by comparison.
