Are toy guns still a thing? And no, I don't mean nerf guns, I mean the boomer shit that fired little rubber pellets and ejected shells and all that. I could see it being the sort of thing that isn't completely dead but is nowadays very niche and only made by small high quality companies.I recently found a Japanese website chronicling old toy guns and their relation to the whole airsoft boom, good read if you're into this kind of thinghttps://www.hyperdouraku.com/vintage/chronology.html#sort
>>11564148Yeah, they still are, I am fairly sure of it. There are also 2mm pinfire (comparable to 2.2mm Kolibri) guns which technically are sold as novelties/toys.
>>11564308>There are also 2mm pinfire (comparable to 2.2mm Kolibri) guns which technically are sold as novelties/toys.I mean those are literal firearms and still have enough muzzle velocity to penetrate skin so I wouldn't really consider those "toys" in this context
>>11564356>Penetrate skinATF says they don't, take that as you will.
>>11564148I think the demgraphic that would collect toy replicas of firearms would just collect airsoft at this point. Otherwise, there are plenty of Chinese toy companies selling gel ball and foam blasters modeled on real firearms. Some have shell ejecting gimmicks. Me? I just wish they would bring back the Zebra II.
https://www.kotobukiya.co.jp/blog1/labo/article/detail/514/Kotobukiya announced first form Zero.
>>11558938Penguin, Eagle, Mandrill, Octopus, Ostrich, Gator, Hornet, Tiger in the first wave of 8
Whatever happened to this teaser?
>>11567845Kotobukiya is waiting for whatever announcement Capcom is waiting to announce.
>>11550911I preordered this guy as my first mega man figure/model kit. He doesn't come with his sword?
>>11568113First form Zero didn't have his sword yet. You want his second form.
>Marvel Classic Punisher up for preorder>Marvel X-Men Iceman up for preorder>Venom: Let There Be Carnage >Venom up for preorder>Terminator 2 T-800 and John Connor 2 pack up for preorder>Terminator 2 T-1000 up for preorder>Batman: Hush Hush reissue>Batman: Knightfall Bane reissue>Batman: Hush Nightwing reissue>Batman: Hush Catwoman reissue>Batman: Hush Superman reissueMafex Toy Exhibition Showings: https://www.toyark.com/2025/07/30/medicom-toy-exhibition-2025-mafex-dc-star-wars-the-boys-and-marvel-570802
>>11564572>Prices have gone up so you may as well just quit the hobby entirely Why are guys like this? Stop treating this like it's the end of the world.
>>11566278>GunnslopPass.
>>11566908>Gunnslop >passIt’s all ‘Gunnslop’ now
Mags and Cyke are getting reissued
What is the point of buying domestic toys when you know that the definitive version will surely come from Japanese company? Such a waste of money if you ask me
>>11551075I can put a marvel legends in my pocket and it doesn’t break
>>11553228AY Supergirl. Checkmate, faggot.
>>11553228>>11554555CFG Wondy?
>>11564551Kawaii Wonder Woman ne?
>>11558492This shit is what I have had to deal with in the EU since I started collecting.You fuckers will survive.
How do you people feel when you put so much time and effort into making a custom figure of a character only for them to eventually release an official verison?
>>11564092it's hard to get it in, but if I force it in, it spits it back out if I touch it even slightly. works better at an angle.I think the plastic is just too hard, too tight..so are there TECHNIQUES to either of these or is it just 'try to keep it spherical, fucknuts'because I don't recall if my dremel has some kind of .. ball.. grinder..
>>11564097I guess the closest "technique" I can advise is dremeling the socket to allow enough clearance for the ball to move freely while keeping the outer rim of the socket untouched so it can still lock the ball joint in place. Sometimes I also tend to dremel deeper (not wider) into the socket, to give the joint enough distance to get lodged into the hole. For me, that's a little easier than sanding down the balljoint's surface in a consistent way without fucking up its shape unless you have the skill for it.
>>11564126see that's what i though, DEPTH is the keyalright i'll try it. for now it at least stays in, if I have them at a particular angle.
>>11564137Yep. I had a similar issue with my Mezco Hellboy Sammael's hip joint. One of the swivel hips wouldn't stay on properly even if it was the "right" shape within the socket, but after drilling deeper into the cavity, it gave it enough clearance to get wedged in there and actually stay in place.
>>11559637This is exactly how I imagine a Neca Link would look.
beautiful boy wonder edition previous: >>11547920
>>11565161I'd like to see the interviews.He's probably talking about movies toys and might be doing a collective "we" where they peddle how big a movie will be to retailers and when the movie bombs, well... tons of overstock.
>>11565173Unfortunately they're from a few years ago (somewhere in 2023-2024) so don't know the exact ones or times off hand. He was not specifically talking about movie figures from what I recall though. He was using the term 'we' as he typically does when talking about McFarlane Toys in the interviews since as expected, I doubt he makes every call on production numbers of every figure.It was similar to "sometimes we overshoot demand, sometimes we undershoot demand, its hard to get it exactly right" but it seemed far more like he was talking about the people in McFarlane Toys, not "we" as in the retailers and McFarlane Toys. If he really just goes with what retailers order and wanted to pass the buck he could have easily done so by just saying "It's not really on me for some figures being harder to get, we just make the amount ordered and a bit extra."
>>11565188I really don't trust anything anyone here says without a source.You have people taking what McFarlane said about making 10k-15k of the gold/platinum figures and thinking that that applies to the entirety of each wave (per figure). Either the person who misunderstood this was an ESL or/and a troll.Or right now, people thinking stock orders aren't made almost a year ahead of time.... i guess the latter is mom and pop shop-tier understanding of how orders re made, where they're buying shit from a distributor 2-3 months beforehand, but they don't realize that the distributor made their order months before them too.So you can't really trust what anyone here says without a source, since threads are 50% trolling
>>11565336Stock orders are not made almost a year ahead of time as McFarlane's turn around on figures is a year or sometimes less. That'd be like ordering a figure before it ever even gets sculpted. I know Hasbro goes on 3 year plans but McFarlane doesn't. It seems like you're another of these Mr Know-it-All guys who thinks he has all the inside shit on the toy industry or just wants people to believe it.
>>11565974Again, i'd like a source, because these threads are full of trolls.Again, even you say that with companies like Hasbro taking orders way ahead of time, so why would McFarlane be different? You're the one bringing up contradictory statements without any evidence or source, making you sound like a troll who's making shit up.Or it this just a case of >it's not almost a year, it's actually 6 months! ?well sure, McFarlane might be faster than Hasbro because McFarlane doesn't release 327 products every quarter, so the factory they use can send out products faster.Again, this is why i bring up trade shows, what they're there for, and how far ahead they have to be in order to sell those products they're showing off.Again, a ton of companies won't be making their products ahead of time until they have (enough) orders. It's a standard practice in this industry. Yeah, they'll invest in the molds in order to have the products made fast, but NO ONE wants to sit on tens of thousands to millions of products of unordered product.If what you guys pretend happens, canceled products would actually show up at places like Ross.BTW, the only time you see "canceled" products in places like Ross are store exclusives, because those store ordered the product, shit got made, and basically went straight to discount warehouses. And a funny thing about this is that TJ Max made so much money from these times, that they actually put in orders to carry Hasbro products directly instead of waiting for distributors to dump their overstock.
i'm curious about what bugs people in their toy fandome.g. Hasbro releasing Transformers that can only half-transform
>>11562387Softer plastic.
>>11559767Man I still wish I had him. My family gave so few fucks about me that they wouldn't even buy me cardback solo figures. No Dennis Nedry, no GI Joes, no Visionaries. Most of the money went to shit my parents wanted. I grew up with my brother's hand-me-downs and I wore the same clothes all throughout highschool. Damn.I wonder if Hasbro will ever re-release him.>>11562387Softer plastic like the other anon said but also worse quality plastic. Plus toys now are either hollow (transformers), have worse plastic injection (playmobil), or they don't have as defined edges and details (Marvel Epic Hero series).
And frigging ratchet joints. This Spiderman's elbows are so stiff and the plastic on his arms so gummy that the arm bends before the elbow does.
>>11558985They tell us tooling is so expensive and then go make tons of stuff like this, often the same design with a different joint hobbled/missing, instead of just making higher production runs of fewer etter figures.
>>11564038That's why Third Party is superior to the baby crap you demand so badly.
General to discuss the ongoing Super7 lines:>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT)>Thundercats>Silverhawks>Godzilla>GI Joe>Transformers>ReAction figures
>>11563242Doing a quick Google search, it looks like the leaks and 'first looks' and such were first being posted around January.
>>11562677The White Tigerzord got cancelled due to low preorders. Much as I would have liked Madam Woe, I can at least understand her not selling, but White Tigerzord? If THAT can't sell, then the line is just fucking tanking.
>>11565317Yeah, I was shocked the Tigerzord couldn't get enough preorders. And, sigh, Madam Woe... I'll always mourn her loss.
THEY MADE MELODIA
>>11566875Who's Melodia?
Mentally Challengered Editionprevious thread: >>11527247This thread is for the discussion of scale plastic (and resin, PE, wood, etc) models kit-Post photos of your builds in progress and your finished builds-Have your builds critiqued or critique others-Discuss tips and techniques-Ask for advice or give advice to othersAlways remember:Hit up your hobby homie for the good shit (glue, that is)Some helpful guides to get started:https://www.scalemates.com/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>11567167You don't need to even sand them, but you do need to clean them. Any grease on there and that shit will not stick. Pretty much any proper primer will do the job. If you have a shitty one or really want to manhandle them barrels, then sure go ahead and sand them down a bit.
Hi /smg/.Normally I paint miniatures and such but I wanted to give a try to painting (small) tank model instead so I got this 1/72 Leopard 2A7. Is this camo correctly done? I used makeup sponge for it and correcting edges with brush stippling, then wash and drybrushing.
>>11567495NATO three tone vehicle camo is painted with pretty much sharp edges at this scale, no smooth transitions. The blobs themselves are usually quite round and curvy, not chaotic and spotty like yours. I'm not sure how the inital camo is painted, but I'm guessing airbrushed on, just fairly close up on the edges to have sharper lines. We used to paint any chips over with rattlecans during maintenance.Also nice job painting everything you were not sure about in aluminium metallic.
>>11567583Okay, thanks for clarifying. I'm not very experienced with IRL military gear. Is vehicle camo in general about round blobs with sharp edges?
>>11567633Depends on the pattern.
we are so back bros
>>11556765>they made a classic yellow Frosty figure but only gave it away at a branding conventionWow I didn't know that. Now I want one.Fuck you for telling me this.
>>11556765This is AI slop, but I wish it was real.
>>11563253Unless i've really REALLY been duped, there does appear to be a few different people with them, including an opened one. Sounds like it was actually some GM conference but I don't really know.
>>11563784Oh wow. I looked it up through bing and eBay and didn’t find anything. Also asked an ai and it said there is no known convention variant. Though the ai image finder couldn’t determine if it was real or not. Maybe it’s a custom? Either way I want it. I have multiples, maybe I’ll do a custom.
>>11563784>>11563795I looked up Strottman and a few images came up. Turns out it is indeed real but incredibly rare. Appearantly it's going for minimum $125.00 on ebay now. I really want one.
Pokémon General - Gotta Buy Them AllOngoing lines of interest:>Pokepla: Non-scale Plastic Model kits (assembly required)>MonColle: Non-scale trading & action figures>Jazwares: Non-scale trading & action figures>Scale World: 1/20th scale figures>Blokees: Non-scale action figures (assembly required)>Keeppley: Non-scale action figures (assembly required)Coming soon:>LEGO Pokemon: Brick-builds (assembly required)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>11564815but.....
>>11564815You're way too early bro.
>>11564831As the one who wrote up the current OP template, I had wanted to add some updates and edits (ie LDCX). Oh well, next time I guess.
>>11564532Back in the day I used to buy theese $1 choco eggs that had pencil topper Pokémon figures inside. Was around 20 different figures, I think I still have some of them, like a Ralts and Squirtle.
Let's talk about this instead of LEGO lol. So, Kinder is doing a Natoons special edition with dinosaurs. I got three of them, and man, the figures are great! They remind me of those classic old Kinder toys—they are durable, strong, and look great.
>>11560077Why is logo upside down?
In the show there's a thing called the upside down it's in a lot of promotional material like the Lego city comprising of two houses paralel to each other
>>11560920This
>>11557848Neat
>>11560873Anon come on, it's Stranger Things, you know why!
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>>11566804Looks ok on Baron.
>>11566810Surprisingly looks good, the gold accents are what keeps this form from looking off.
>>11566813And once again, Banana Arms never looks out of place on any Rider.
>>11566814Whoops
>>11566820>>11566820>>11566820Almost forgot, we hit the image limit. Time to move on over.
Any squishfags here? What is your fave Squishmallow/s and lest fave Squishmallow/s?My fave is Rosemund, Emery, and any other food squish that has closed eyes and pink cheeksI dislike most of the other squish
>>11552995Ohhh I want these. That Foxy is cute.
>>11562031Awww, Austin my Adorable Amazing.... Avocado --Always adoring the amazing Austin avocado
>>11559664I think so as well - most huggable out of the plushies
>>11559977Not my cup of tea - FNAF is cool, but that is more a housemate's thing
Last thread had a lot of replies so we might finally get it going... let's try it.***NEWS***>Mattel x Playmobil coming fall 2025 starting with Monster High then in 2026 with Barbie and more.>Kinder Surprise has a limited edition Playmobil x DC series starting this fall in Europe.Archived threads:https://archive.palanq.win/toy/search/subject/Playmobil/Previous:>>11532255Thread question:>What should Playmobil do to be more relevant, like Lego?
There's a rumour going on that Hasbro is interested to buy Playmobil..
>>11564090It's over...
Why don't playmobil get licenses such as star wars?
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>>11560261No-one ever adds Scrappy Doo :(
