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>>11669709
someone said it in another thread: for a newfag at life, shit like that is always going to be new. Kids will be impressed.

Personally, i grew out of wanting gimmicks in my toys when i turned 10. electronics always increase the price and toy companies includeless shit i actually care about: parts count, articulation, accessories, size, etc.

In short, fuck gimmicks. They're always intrusive and basically exist just so a toy company can make 50-1000% more money despite the gimmick costing like 10¢ more per unit. Electronics are insanely cheap at a mass manufacturing level.

Also, fuck modern cars, fridges, washing machines, and TVs.

>>11669495
the internet now is mainly just people seeking to be outraged for any reason possible. Like theres an actual arguement that the smart brick isn't that desirable and will just pricehike sets, but so what? we can just ignore them and if it flops LEGO will just drop it like they've done with so many gimmicks.
Lots of LEGO "fans" online are also insanely self conscious about collecting toys and has to really convince themselves that they're not toys they're "adult collectible models"
meanwhile in real life no one gives a shit, my family has tons of lego models because we just like them.

>>11669495
>troon doesn't want to fit into society
sjyokker

>>11669532
>The Smart Brick shows up like a brick-shaped reality check and suddenly
You had Grok write this, didn't you?

>>11670747
Shill-san, your efforts are in vain. Autists have a 20% propaganda resistance buff.

>>11670475
As a guy who clearly collects higher tier stuff as well as that Neytiri, what do you think of the Mcfarlane Avatar figs? I am pretty picky with the stuff I get I usually only get the sort of higher Chinese imports, figuarts, figma etc. sometimes I get the especially good Marvel Legends (Spiral for instance), but these Avatar figs really catch my eye, I'm just hesitant because I think most Mcfarlanes look terrible, so I have no experience with their quality level. How would you rate them?

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Nta, but faces are a step above their older figures. They are good for what they are, but im waiting for a Hot toys Varang.

>>11673262
Mam, they do look pretty. I gambled on Varang the other day when she briefly reappeared on Amazon, but I'm not convinced it'll actually get fulfilled with the delivery estimate being the end of January, I suspect it was some fake stock error. Wonder if they'll do any more figures.

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>>11673187
The face is very well done, they captured the likeness and the feline feel to it. And like you said there is some marvel legends that are above average well I would put these mcfarlane ones on the above average list.
>>11673262
As my bud purple Led annon said the face sells the figure, the body is lanky and well made only real downside for one of these mcfarlane avatar figures at retail would be the pegs showing at the joints. If they were not visible I would of payed retail price. As it is I waited for them to be on sale, got both of mine for 11 each at Ross. Didn't find any of the male Na'vi, but im going to try and swing by ross again to see if get lucky.

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>>11673445
>>11673262
In asking you guys about this, it made me think about that particular feeling of getting a figger that has no right to be as good as it is. Like, when you buy a Figma or whatever, you're expecting it to be good and so your hoping your expectations are met, but when you get a lesser figure that overachieves it in some way feels even better. Best example for me has been Aloy from Spin Master, she has absolutely no business being such a well done figure and I genuinely think her face sculpts might be the best in my collection, which is mad.

Have you guys got any figures like that for you? It's probably my favourite feeling in collecting.

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>>11673464
>What the hell.
Jesus H. Christ, you people.
If this is legit, and not fake rage bait (you) farming, you are - most sincerely - an imbecile and hopeful your siblings aren't - because if they are stupid as you, they shouldn't spawn any further.
There's actual sets cheaper than pic attached but just two of them would set you back $32 plus tax.
And give any decently imaginative boy plenty to play with.

>>11673518
And yeah, this entire thread was probably an excuse for you idiots and imbeciles to post this same fucking picture again.
Don't you all have dolls you can at least jizz on?
Don't you have TikTok videos to watch to teach you how to buy stonks and become rich so you can get off some Mongolian basketweaving site and go hire lady boys in Thailand till your parts fall off from social disease and you die, rich and happy, but thankfully sooner rather than later?

>>11673464
Cant you just buy him a cheap smaller set online? How old is he? Assuming he is still in single digits you might be able to gift him a crappy set and pass it off as cool because kids don't grasp quality.
If he is like tween and knows about lego enough to want a specific set then you're fucked.

>>11673559
Clam down intern-kun.

>>11673464
Should have gone to the store from dec. 26th to jan. 5th.
The discount racks were stacked for like 3 weeks straight.
You fucked up on this one dude

>>11673642
>LEGO on discount
When it hits clearance it's only like 10% off

>>11673091
Maybe. I imported SHF Rei and paid like $85 total and got her early. US sites have her for $90 and still don't have her in stock. So importing was better because still a few bucks cheaper and earlier. However, I am looking at Figma Privaty who is $100 on BBTS and $85 on amiami. Importing her will cost more than buying from BBTS. I guess it's case by case. Kinda want to just switch to US because it will be less headache not having to worry about surprise charges or packages being opened or damaged or sketchy couriers stealing your shit. I wish Kappa Hobby had a pile of loot like BBTS and didn't make you pay upon ordering instead of when items came in stock because they have the best prices.

>>11673091
Batch shipping is still cheaper but its way more expensive than it was 6 months ago, and of course most stores don't actually let you batch ship.
The real wallet killer is stores like goodsmile who are filling out the paperwork correctly, I just paid $48 in tariff for 1 figure from them where I paid less than that for 3 figures from hlj.

>>11673112
Why not ship to a mail forwarder's warehouse in some country that's not affected by tariffs? Many of them will hold your stuff for free for about a month and you can combine shipments from multiple stores into one. Buyee and the like can do this too but you'll be fucked by Japan's local 10% sales tax + tariffs, which is why I'm thinking it might be best to ship to another country first.

>>11673116
there is no country that doesn't have tariffs for the u.s. it automatically starts at 10%

>>11673091
me personally yes, I costed out what Snail Shell's Kitsunebi Senki Honoka would roughly cost from Amiami compared to my local store.
for me, post the shipping and import taxes it would land at roughly 140 usd (I am not American so its not what you would pay) and locally they'd sell it for 150 with free shipping, and the local store is easier to work with in case of issues, so yeah local stores from now on, I'm only gonna use Mandarake and maybe Amiami for in stock second hand stuff from now on and even then that will be rare.

>>11672373
His saber looks way too small

>>11670522
i think those figs flopped back in the day

>>11672373
Vile, then maybe just maybe one of the boss mavericks.

>>11672814
>heatman from mmbn2 who looks like a lighter
To be fair the original robot master is a lighter too.
As for figures you'll have to look for really old stuff from 20 years ago, modern BN stuff is like all MegaMan and Roll, maybe Bass if you're lucky
As far as figures go, you'll have to look for really old ones from the time, but not a whole lot of navis got figures

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>>11672373
Command Mission X, Marino

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Worker Seagull, interchangeable springs and barrels. Very consistent and accurate with a BCAR. Only comes with a scar tho.

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Venom Pro . Full-auto flywheel pistol doing ~150 FPS and ~7 dps 50 bucks off the shelf. Basically a poor man's Worker Nightingale you can buy at Target.

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My current foam blaster armory. I lost interest for a little bit after the Nexus pros came out as did everyone else around here apparently but every company is shitting on nerf right now amd there are so many good blasters out on shelves right now.

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XShot Longshot abs Fury X. 150 FPS, slamfire, bullpups. The shells are super sturdy and I got them on sale. Longshot was 18 dollars abd the Fury was 11 dollars on sale. These are so consistent and accurate even at retail they shit on all of hasbros catalog.

Lol I guess foam blasters fell off around here. Its a shame with how much they have improved since they were regularly discussed here

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_1DxLWe3N4

Just bought my brother Brutakka for his 21st. He’s got Axxon and it’s the only 2006 set he’s missing (aside from Umbra & promos)

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>>11673200
Your pic kinds reminds me of indigo anon. The amount of mocs posted in these threads is suprisingly low and I wish more anon would post their mocs too. Here's a vortixx moc I made too.

>>11673065
Toa were pretty much designed to be the super soldier version of Glatorian, so on any obvious combat-related metric they're going to be better by default. Of course there might be more subtle advantages to having an augmented biological body and a natural mind as opposed to both being fully artificial, this has surely been discussed to death by some transhumanists somewhere.

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>>11673446
I need to actually build some MOCs. Haven't bothered in quite some time.

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>>11673390
>Mythic Legions Gen
pretty sure it was just the Mythic Fantasy or whatever it called itself. Like i said, it merged with the Fantasy General because some fanboy wanted to keep it on the forefront despite most of the fanbase quitting after 4H shit on everyone.

>not PVC that's being priced as if it wasn't plastic.
... man, there's a whole world you don't seem to be aware of. There's a shit ton of PVC figurines out there that are way beyond McFarlane's prices at the same level of quality and that's actually part of what made McFarlane so popular in the 90s, since even back then, there were PVC statueshit that was super fucking expensive with paint jobs that were pretty shoddy.
McFarlane made collectible shit affordable and their stuff today is still pretty affordable, or at least costs less than what other companies sell theirs for (thanks obama).

I get it if you don't like McFarlane's 7" figures, because i generally won't buy anything in that scale either. I also get it if you don't like the mold reuse, but they're not any better or worse than other companies who do the same thing like Mattel, Hasbro, Jazwares, etc.
But like i said, what you see is what you get from McFarlane, because almost everything that McFarlane ever shows off are production figures. You almsot never see handpainted prototypes or 3d renders that Hasbro and other companies show off to get people excited about their products.

Pic is my Medieval Spawn from the other year. when McFarlane was showing off their Kickstarter, almost everything was already finished and it's a glorious return to the level of paint we were getting in the 00s. Probably the best figure I've bought in a decade. ... which reminds me, i need to buy his Lilith.

>>11673458
>Medieval Spawn
>Best figure of the decade
Lmao your bias is showing.

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>>11673521
as someone who owns a shitload of figures from dozens of toylines that get praised on /toy/, my well informed opinion >>> your poorfag opinion

>>11673554
I legit can't tell if you are actually being serious with this statement or not.

>>11673458
>there's a whole world you don't seem to be aware of
I agree.
And I own my ignorance but it's more than just a lack of knowledge. I'm not going to collect every possible thing that might potentially interest me or appeal to me. I want swords and space blasters for the toys I ALREADY OWN. I'm actually going to start selling off some of my statues and other collectibles and just focus purely on articulating figures.

I'm not interested in going down rabbit holes and investing into entirely new lines and franchises and the like. This is a good way for me to be prudent since I'd still rather buy expensive red wine and Japanese whiskey instead of a $200 import bit of plastic crack. Dinner out in a metro area isn't cheap, either.

I appreciate you're being interesting and challenging. And politely engaging in conversation. But you aren't going to lure me to the dark side. It's great when people don't just have four walls of crowded shelves all with fifty billion batman or fifty billion spidermen or fifty billion son gokus or waifu/coomer figurines, but actually have a variety. But that's also not going to be me - either of those visions.

I knew when I got older that my behavior as a kid, where I used to save old magazines and collect shitty Duck and other cheap comic books, with boxes and stacks of paper in my childhood bedroom, that I had addictive behaviors. I've gone through spending small mints hording import records while in school, graphic novels and omnibus editions as an teen and also in school to adulthood, steel books and complete season DVDs and BluRay as an older adult, etc. and once I sold all that stuff off, I've never looked back (well, I have an excellent set of digital pirated comics, movies and music but my out of pocket costs is limited to a few external drives).

Plastic crack is just my current crack. And I have a system that works well for me. And I don't really need to go outside it.

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>>11669431
I think their newer licensed cars look a bit better, but still looks pretty cheap compared to the og, i think its mostly the paint, dosent hide the plastic look of them

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i got f50
first of all, i have no idea why it's in dark red color, on artwork it's in ferrari red, but model is in way darker red, big mistake
second, it doesn't have second lock on the back, because it has giant window for engine bay
the whole body rattles and you can move it
otherwise it looks good

>>11671427
I like the plastic look, personally.

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Jesus christ

>>11673259
Aw, what an adorable little abomination.

>>11672487
>I don't seek you out
You literally do seek him out. You keep starting shit.

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>>11672644
>acts even more like a chick after being asked
ooof, maybe you're trans, given that you implied your autistic in the other thread.

And i really don't care how you treat me, it's just the fact that the rest of /toy/ suffers from assholes like you shitting up countless threads over simple things like: Joytoy makes shit toys because they're brittle and have constant QC issues.

And OP is absolutely correct that the best way to gatekeep you assholes is by making you take photographs of your toys, which you guys have constantly proven you don't own any. You guys just roam various threads, looking to start problems.

Again, the WH40k General threads are the biggest example of non-fans and no-toys.
It's not surprising most of you shits left the WH40k General once it started to die and shit the rest of the board up.

pic is one of many reasons why the WH40k General is now a ghost town.

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>>11672727
Reminder that you unironically claimed there is nothing wrong with eating unidentifiable slop as part of one of your retarded food analogies when someone asked if a joint tightening liquid was reliable.
>And OP is absolutely correct that the best way to gatekeep you assholes is by making you take photographs of your toys, which you guys have constantly proven you don't own any.
"Look, Tomoyo! Start recording, it's a faggot!"
Now post models you repulsive gook.

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maybe they just need a happy meal

>>11663731
Unfortunately Diosoth does own a toy
The shitty cobra comander custom jin it criticized is the reason why he shits the board after a DECADE

>>11670521
There are some pieces of merchandise that are so rare they are not found via traditional avenues, e.g. ebay. You have to go and ask around on social media or forums for the item you want to buy and wait until someone shows up who is willing to take up your offer. Right now I'm looking for a dvd and book that is unlikely to show up on ebay anytime soon so I have to interact with people in the fandom I am a member of to buy what I want.

>>11670174
>wait a week
????
>get figure for free

Use PayPal. It’s weird how it’s the only way to send payments and have purchase protection. Cashapp and Zelle need to have it.

how are you getting scammed in person?

Do you live in a shithole and weigh 90lbs?

>>11670545
Why not just go through life never having it? I've missed many toys because I truly dont want them at all

>>11672662
I'm surprised that this episode isn't a subject of inspiration for customs or making your own

>>11673380
Just realized I've always wanted the Action Mobile. an RC Bigfoot that could hold multiple figures.

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>>11673425
Tank Attack Daredevil would be a perfect base for it

>>11673426
Same here. Im baffled that functional cockpits arent standard across all RC vehicles at this point. JADA could really stand to profit off that.

>>11673423
Nice! I watched the episode too and the plot is very cute. I remember being hypnotised by it as a kid, maybe even scared at times. Watching it now I can see why, there is a very surreal aspect to it all because of the scale.

>>11670173
if it kept the company alive so be it

>>11669515
On the positive side, now you have money to buy good enough reproductions of the original UCS

Yeah I’ve been watching a lot of old media lately, and it’s great, I stopped watching tv and movies years ago for the most part and I feel like what happened is slowly everything got lame and shitty.

started watching a bunch of old Christmas movies recently and loved that then moved on to old Cartoon Network shows. There is still some decent stuff that comes out today but it feels like the exception to the rule.


OPs image is a good example that even minute things like advertisements were made in an exciting and cool way that grabbed your attention and sparked imagination and had effort behind it. Today that would just be some minimalist all black or all white image, and everything would be arranged in the most boring bland way possible. A lot of old advertisements honestly are cool enough they could feasibly be a poster. That just doesn’t happen today

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>>11670173

The JUNIOR era cancer was in the pipeline for 1997, anon. The last year of classic Lego was 1996.

>>11672941
That's a rad vehicle.

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Storm Arena Sagat is being sent out

>>11670523
Yes but is his hand going to break off the second you touch it or will those shoes or that head keep falling off every second time you change poses?

>>11672975
I have five Fondjoy figures (4 different Batflecks and Cavill) and all of them have really good articulation and zero issues, so I have no idea what you are talking about.

Plus, Orochi is an early prototype

https://manipal969.examly.io/login?course=true&type=Course

>>11671623
Oh yeah joints are definitely going to fix the inherent issue of shitty plastic skirts you smelly brown ape. Not like we haven't seen the same problems across line after line. Surely this time will be different!

Can we get DMC toys that aren't fucking dolls?

>>11672161
the coat on the 1000toys dante was prone to flaking yes.

This one has pleather pants too, which will be an extra pain in the ass

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>pleather shit
>cloth pants
Do clothfags really

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>>11671727
>maybe we can talk about other figures from China here too
Fine. Good news skellybros, Keepgoing will make new skeletons!

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>>11673432