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COOL ZORD-STYLE MECHA TOYS GENERAL

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2017 11:53:01 No.6307508 View View Reply Original Report

SHOW ME THE ZORDS, ALL OF THEM!

any franchise, I just want to see your awesome looking pull apart and combine into bigger bots toys! (No transformers please!)

I currently am in love with the Giant saver space deleter Mechazords, but I would love to see more cool zord-style mecha! and not just the OG MMPR/2017MMPR/VOLTRON ones, show me some less well known cool stuff! especially the japanese/chinese versions over american KO level crap, I have NO nostalgia for zords beyond the solar train one from mystic force.

and they don't have to be more than two to combine, but they need to have an alt mode of some sort, look cool and/or pull apart to recombine into a kaiju killer giant robot.

gimmicks can be fun, but please don't make me complete teh toyline to enjoy all of it, three zords max to maximize fun.

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Anonymous Mon 01 May 2017 12:48:32 No.6307550 Report

Quoted By: >>6307552 >>6309140

come on, I know there are some sweet looking zord type toys out there beyond the giant saver space deleter and the Gokaiger mechs! show me cool variants of zords and cool sords! and tell me why!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2017 12:50:04 No.6307552 Report

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>>6307550
chill man, it's early on a monday morning and /toy/ is a pretty damn slow board in general.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2017 00:16:58 No.6308410 Report

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Anyone?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2017 00:34:35 No.6308439 Report

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There was a similar thread a day ago that also petered out:
>>6301791
I think the unfortunate thing is that despite all the interesting things coming out the fact that Chinese toys can be so dubious(a lot getting KOS as soona s they are released) and information is murky, a lot of people are hesitant to jumpon them. and other things, like 3P Transformers, have their own dedicated thread.

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Anonymous Tue 02 May 2017 02:46:45 No.6308613 Report

Quoted By: >>6308821

You're gonna want to look at old 70's super robots for the best examples of non Super Sentai/Power Rangers combining robots (but you should really look at some of the older Sentai robos too, cause they're great).

Basically look up the Soul of Chogokin line. Any super robot worth its salt has gotten a Soul of Chogokin at this point. Granted these are expensive pieces, but even the most expensive SOC is cheap compared to the going rate for the original vintage toys.

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Anonymous Tue 02 May 2017 02:51:22 No.6308616 Report

Quoted By: >>6308821

>Zords

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2017 04:18:31 No.6308790 Report

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>>6307508
>Zords
This is a bait thread, right? Nobody with an appropriately-named pic of Vavel would still call mecha Zords.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2017 04:46:14 No.6308821 Report

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>>6308790
>>6308616

I was after zord style mechs, since gundam mecha are different, as are transformers combiners, and i can find plenty of info there to find something besides RAD or battle engine aquila toys. Easy enough.

Zords however, or sentai mecha or whatever the other terms are, i can not find much info on, so far i have found that those giant saver toys from the other thread, wildforce/gao ranger and the black and red RPM japanese mech (of which i fail to find the name of.) Are ones that look cool.

>>6308613
This one is a little TOO tin robot-y for my taste, but not bad.

I also never said it had to be NON sentai/PR, sentai/PR mecha would be fine too.

Anyone else have suggestions?

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Anonymous Tue 02 May 2017 05:14:10 No.6308847 Report

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>>6308821
Well for info on the various Sentai Robos, this wiki page is a good starting point:

http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Giant_Robo

Outside of Sentai, combining robots really were a thing of the 70's with fewer examples appearing past that.

The 80's was the real start of the "real robot" phenomenon. Gundam, Macross, things of that nature. Even a combiner of the 80's like Dancouga had a lot of real robot influence going on with it.

The main combining robots of the 90's belonged to Takara's Brave franchise, which began once the Transformers franchise went into a lull following Transformers Victory and Zone. You should definitely look into those.

Some examples of more recent combining robots would be Aquarion and Gravion. Gravion, sadly, has no combining toys at this time aside from some VERY expensive (and tiny) resin "toys" from Studio Half-Eye, which were produced some years ago now.

However it looks like we're getting a Metamor-Force Gravion which has me pretty excited.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2017 05:59:58 No.6308889 Report

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Heey, the engine dai shogun mech set looks cool!

>200-500 burgerbucks

Is there another option for this set? I hate the standard/rpm deco.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2017 13:15:08 No.6309133 Report

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>>6308889
I assume you're checking out Ebay? Don't. Unless a collector is auctioning something from their personal collection Ebay is generally a poor means of getting Sentai robos and other hard-to-find Japanese toys. Lots of scalper sellers.

http://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1054898922&ref=dos

Mandarake however is great (provided you know how to search for items using Japanese search terms). For convenience, here's a link to a listing for Dai Shogun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2017 13:19:17 No.6309137 Report

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>>6309133
Ooh, thanks! Got a listing for gaogod by any chance?

Or giant saver toys, (but that is unlikely)

Also is there any guide to buying from mandarake i could follow perhaps?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2017 13:21:13 No.6309140 Report

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>>6307550
What the hell even IS that robot?!?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 May 2017 13:38:27 No.6309149 Report

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>>6309137
http://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1061974627&ref=dos Here's a listing for Gao God, which is from the same store. In this case both items are coming from their Complex store.

This is important, as Mandarake actually has several storefronts scattered throughout Japan. If you order items on Mandarake from different storefronts, you'll have to pay shipping charges on each of them. When searching for items you can narrow your search to specific storefronts if you like. When you order items from Mandarake, you're actually putting in a "request". Mandarake then takes a couple days to gather your items from the storefront and package them for shipping. When the time comes, you receive a payment request and that's that.

But that's IF the items are actually in stock. When something is listed as a "Store Front Item", that means it's actually available for anyone to buy who walks into the physical store in Japan. Mandarake updates its inventory regularly, but there are definitely cases where you can order something online and receive an email a couple days later informing you that your item was already sold. Stinks, but that's how it goes.

Additionally, if there's one item in the order that you REALLY want and don't care so much about the others, you can choose to have the whole order cancelled if a particular item is not in stock.

The only "store" this doesn't apply to is SAHRA, which appears to be web-only warehouse. Unlike the other stores, there's no waiting for a payment request or stock check or anything like that. You pay for the items and shipping charges right then and there.

Payment can be processed via credit card or Paypal. I recommend Paypal just because not all credit cards play nice with foreign vendors for whatever reason.

Also I couldn't find Space Deleter stuff, but then I've got no clue how to search for Chinese toys on a Japanese website.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2017 06:02:56 No.6310620 Report

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>>6309149
Thank ye!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2017 06:22:37 No.6310648 Report

Quoted By: >>6310683

What kind of aesthetic do you like in your combining robots anon? Do you like them to be a somewhat uniformally-colored robot that breaks up into cohesive pieces or somethibg approaching a multicolored clusterfuck of sentai glory?

If the former then you should definitely look at the old sentai mechs - Dynarobo, Biorobo and Sun Vulcan are great starters. They can be very expensive though.

The latter is much more easily affordable and just as fun, although your mileage may vary on whether you get into their themes. I know it took me a while to get into Zyuohger.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2017 06:24:39 No.6310654 Report

Quoted By: >>6310655 >>6312794

Let me tell you about motherfuckin Biklonz, my dude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzrgkmSDAK0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5wrSOMYayY

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Anonymous Wed 03 May 2017 06:25:11 No.6310655 Report

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>>6310654
Forgot image.

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Anonymous Wed 03 May 2017 06:42:04 No.6310675 Report

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>>6310655

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuqGMybNL54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKbc1mtsvJg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDCM1KyqSnI

The other set I know of off the top of my head which most to be consider not as good as the Mega Beast one.

I definitely plan on getting at least the two Mega Beast sets.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 May 2017 06:50:55 No.6310683 Report

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>>6310648
I like the systems to look good in most modes, but combined form has to look cohesive, not like someone strapped bits together to make a human shape.

Basically if the robot looks cool and has distinct alt modes that are not "totally not a robot bit on a cart man" OR it is cool vehicles like thunderbirds or similar large scale vehicles or robotic creatures.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 May 2017 15:14:41 No.6312794 Report

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>>6310655
>>6310675
>>6310654

Nice animal robots, but the combined modes seem a little, clunky designwise, like someone forgot about making the legs go places during transformation

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 May 2017 06:26:57 No.6314080 Report

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