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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 23:18:39 No.6723793 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>6723804 >>6723828 >>6723993 >>6724168 >>6724852 >>6725508

>freakishly long neck
>wing backs are hollow
>sword is silver, not gold
>tiny waist & belt with freakishly tall midriff
>useless sound gimmick that seems to be more annoying than fun, obtrusive speaker slot in front rather than back
>shoulder articulation uses the black lion joints, no separate joint in arm connector

As excited as I was for this, I'll look for another option for a classic Voltron, this just falls short in so many ways. Hell, it's Playmates, I'm surprised they even painted everything.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 23:29:17 No.6723804 Report

Quoted By: >>6723828 >>6723831 >>6724560

>>6723793
>freakishly long neck
>tiny waist & belt with freakishly tall midriff

This is what happens when you use the SoC mold as a base but then decide to change shit to add gimmicks or just simplify the toy. Black lion's hind legs are longer to add another joint and the elongated body is to add the sound gimmick, but then they removed the way the Black Lion's neck shortens and the mechanism of the two lion arms that uses the base of the tail as shoulder joints.

Just buy the SoC, it's the best classic Voltron toy for now by a wide margin.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 23:39:56 No.6723828 Report

Quoted By: >>6724560

>>6723793
>>6723804
I just love the audacity of Playmates basically copying the SoC, because really, how can they get sued? They made a Voltron that looks like Voltron. Trendmasters basically copied the Popy toy as well back in the day(granted they also rereleased it, too), for their scaled down and scaled up releases, but they had the license, too. It's interesting to consider just how far a licensee cash push boundaries.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 23:42:24 No.6723831 Report

Quoted By: >>6723928 >>6723974

>>6723804
>just buy the SOC
Might be easier said than done for most people. Have you checked the price on it lately? It’s $700 now

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 00:48:04 No.6723928 Report

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>>6723831
>Have you checked the price on it lately? It’s $700 now

Holy shit, didn't know the price jumped that much. Glad I bought it on release.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 01:16:43 No.6723974 Report

Quoted By: >>6724035 >>6724854

>>6723831
Goddamn. What are the chances Bandai will do a rerelease? I know they've done it before (it's how I got my SOC Gaogaigar).

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 01:33:12 No.6723993 Report

Quoted By: >>6724132

>>6723793
Looks pretty good for the price.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 01:35:13 No.6723997 Report

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I want a non transformable articulated 6" Classic Voltron. It seems the only one available is the SDCC exclusive from a few years back but I don't like it too much.

I always thought we'd get an SRC release but it never did.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 01:51:42 No.6724035 Report

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>>6723974
SOC has been doing a period of reissuing older stuff recently like Big O and Gold Lightan (Baikanfu and Dancouga got their recent reissues through a poll). Dunno how high the demand for those two were, but it would be ridiculous if Bandai wouldn't take advantage of the demand for more Voltron SOCs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 02:44:16 No.6724132 Report

Quoted By: >>6724149

>>6723993
$40 for black, $20 each for the limbs, $120 total and it's honestly a bit crap.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 02:53:11 No.6724149 Report

Quoted By: >>6724159

>>6724132
Black is $30, limbs are about $18-20
Should be the same quality as "Legendary Defender".

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 03:00:27 No.6724159 Report

Quoted By: >>6724227 >>6724231 >>6725508

>>6724149
From what I understand it is. People are just pissy that a mass market kid toy isn't collector-tier.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 03:06:03 No.6724168 Report

Quoted By: >>6724240 >>6724243 >>6724330

>>6723793
Bought this whole thing and immediately regret it. For one thing, while the extra weaponry's nice, I really loved the 'insert pilot' gimmick the Legendary ones had, more than I'd realized.
Playmates also, for whatever reason, decided that the arm lions should have swivels after the elbows and not before, so you can't cross the arms over his chest. The fact he can turn his head is at least something, but I can deal with Legendary's fixed position neck a lot more than I can with Classic's inability to wield his sword and shield. The scale is nice, the price is nice due to other, better options not being available, but I just do not feel like I want to keep this thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 03:32:05 No.6724227 Report

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>>6724159
admittedly i was pissy the last one didn't have a neck swivel for no reason

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 03:35:08 No.6724231 Report

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>>6724159
>people are pissy that the thing isn't up to their standards, how DARE they not like it! They should be thankful it exists at all! What do they expect for $100, proper shoulders? FUCK toy collectors!

Fags like you are why subpar shit gets sold because you have low standards or just accept it as-is. I don't buy things that don't do what I expect for the money, deal with it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 03:37:10 No.6724240 Report

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>>6724168
>Playmates also, for whatever reason, decided that the arm lions should have swivels after the elbows and not before, so you can't cross the arms over his chest

The SoC has swivels both before and after the shoulder, but I guess Playmates decided to keep the least useful one when they were cutting corners.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 03:38:13 No.6724243 Report

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>>6724168
>Playmates also, for whatever reason, decided that the arm lions should have swivels after the elbows and not before, so you can't cross the arms over his chest

The SoC has swivels both before and after the elbow, but I guess Playmates decided to keep the least useful one when they were cutting corners.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 04:22:40 No.6724330 Report

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>>6724168
>Classic's inability to wield his sword and shield

do the arm lions not have the spring jaw thing or is the sword designed weirdly ?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 04:36:24 No.6724346 Report

Quoted By: >>6724366 >>6725508 >>6725764

I can’t wait for my flash sale megazord to be worth 1k before the year is out. Not that I’ll sell it, it just makes it that much cooler

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 04:47:13 No.6724366 Report

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>>6724346
>megazord to be worth 1k before the year is out

Don't think it's going to get that expensive, but robot zoos are cool nonetheless.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 07:21:45 No.6724560 Report

Quoted By: >>6724822

>>6723828
>>6723804
>using the SOC as a base/copying the SOC
what?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 13:19:48 No.6724822 Report

Quoted By: >>6724828

>>6724560
Playmates obviously used the SoC as a base for this toy. Before the SoC there was not a single Voltron toy with that kind of headsculpts on the individual lions, and the Playmates ones are exactly the same. The overall proportions and shapes are the same too. It goes well beyond two Voltron toys looking similar because they're tackling the same design.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 13:27:00 No.6724828 Report

Quoted By: >>6724871 >>6725508

>>6724822
In other words, bullshit. Thanks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 14:02:44 No.6724852 Report

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>>6723793
>long neck
A consequence of design, they wanted it to be part of the lion head, and keep the "head" with the upper jaw, leaving the lower jaw just gasping
>wing backs are hollow
its a kids toy made with western toy sales targets, limitations apply
>sword is silver, not gold
its only "gold" because its lit like its on fire, I believe based on a search its based on what it actually looks like when its not slicing someone in half, if anything you should be upset its not a translucent red flaming sword
>tiny waist & belt with freakishly tall midriff
Another consequence of engineering and budget
>>useless sound gimmick that seems to be more annoying than fun, obtrusive speaker slot in front rather than back
Again, western toy sales budget, speaker in front so it can be heard better, why that is, don't know but many toys feature this, annoying but they tend to do this
>shoulder articulation uses the black lion joints, no separate joint in arm connector
You know I was gonna say

The TLDR of this is ITS A FUCKING KIDS TOY MADE FOR KIDS with a design that tugs at adults, normie dad with voltron loving son would buy this regardless if his son can even associate it because MUH CHILDHOOD and the soul of chogokin is a wallet breaker.

If you want a damn good voltron its that or the original toys because MUH NOSTALGIA, I never understood why people nitpick kits toy in this fashion.

THAT said what's the minimum age rating, if its says 18+ then I would retract my statement gladly and join you on shit posting OP

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 14:06:12 No.6724854 Report

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>>6723974
It has more to do with World Events Productions (the license holder) than Bandai. That's really what took so long for the SOC to happen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 14:22:50 No.6724871 Report

Quoted By: >>6724876

>>6724828
I guess there's nothing I can do if you're so blind.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 14:31:38 No.6724876 Report

Quoted By: >>6725065 >>6725508

>>6724871
I guess there's nothing anyone can do if you're so dumb.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 17:37:01 No.6725065 Report

Quoted By: >>6725246 >>6725536 >>6725737

>>6724876
Holy fuck, you sure are blind.

They made some changes to the mold here and there, but Playmates Voltron still has a ton of details, proportions are shapes that are exactly the same as the SoC, no other Voltron toy comes even close to look as close as these two, not even the show character. It's obvious they based their toy on the SoC. If you think every single classic Voltron toy looks the same because it's the same character design you seriously need some help

If you are still so bad at appreciating details like that, I have an obvious one. The SoC was the first classic Voltron toy to have this exact mid-torso joint on the leg lions, and Bandai added some new sculpted detail and lines on that part to make the joint look better. The Playmates Voltron skipped that joint but STILL HAS THE SAME JOINT MOLDED, and also the related panel lines. I'll say it again: the Playmates Voltron has the same sculpt of a joint first seen in the SoC even if there's no joint to be found on it. A kind of joint that no other Voltron toy has, and with sculpted details that the cartoon designs never had either.

So what, are you seriously going to say that the Playmates just got all those details and fake joint in there that look like the ones on the SoC by sheer chance? Can't wait to see how you try to explain this, I want a good laugh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 19:51:20 No.6725246 Report

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>>6725065
The second I saw the new Playmates one, I said it looks like a KO of the SOC. Same guy tried to shoot me down. Your pic is extremely telling

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 22:14:50 No.6725508 Report

Quoted By: >>6725536 >>6725618

>>6723793
>all those people who didn't buy the SoC even though it was highly praised all around unlike the shitty Daizyujin that came after
>>6724159
Sour grapes: the post
>>6724346
>had to go on sale to get any sort of demand
>thinking it will be at 1k when Golion isn't even at 1k yet
>>6724876
>>6724828
It was the first thing people noticed when this shit was announced fag
Fuck off if you can't handle the truth

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 22:35:18 No.6725536 Report

Quoted By: >>6725737

>>6725065
the tiny waist and belt with stretched midriff also looks crap on your expensive "collector" toy.

And fuck the details if actual functionality was stripped to save 5 cents on separate parts. No real shoulder joints is just awful.

>>6725508
I barely have much interest in Voltron to start with, get fucked if you think I'm blowing big bucks on some "collector" toy- which is still just a toy no matter how much they try to trick you into thinking you're buying high-end prestige.

Even this is overpriced for how crap it ended up being. It feels like the retail price is twice what it should be, it doesn't even have separate robot modes like Transformers of the same size. The ONLY positive I can give is no chrome, because chrome is an overrated gimmicky fingerprint magnet that's impossible to touch up once it's inevitably scratched(Molotow markers are crap, they won't do it).

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jan 2018 23:25:24 No.6725618 Report

Quoted By: >>6725737

>>6725508
>It was the first thing people noticed when this shit was announced
The playmates toy literally molded in the SOC's ab crunch on the leg lions without giving them the joint. I can't believe people are still denying that playmates copied the sculpt.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Jan 2018 00:20:16 No.6725737 Report

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>>6725536
>the tiny waist and belt with stretched midriff also looks crap on your expensive "collector" toy.

The SoC waist is made to be retracted in robot mode and extended in lion mode. Some people leave it extended because they think the torso looks too short, but that's not how it's supposed to look.

>>6725618
>The playmates toy literally molded in the SOC's ab crunch on the leg lions without giving them the joint.

Yeah, already posted here >>6725065

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Jan 2018 00:40:15 No.6725764 Report

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>>6724346
As much as I had hope for Megazord before it released, it never got the reception and demand that Voltron got. It's just unfortunate that the SOC had to release to coincide with the live action movie when it clearly did not make use of its development time to fix its glaring issues.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Jan 2018 02:05:42 No.6725885 Report

Quoted By: >>6725890 >>6725926

There's a gap in black lion that helps hide the long neck if you tilt the head.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 18 Jan 2018 02:11:48 No.6725890 Report

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>>6725885
Also you can use Legendary Defender limbs.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 18 Jan 2018 02:32:32 No.6725926 Report

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>>6725885
Finally having part of the black lion's jaw fit into the body so it looks closer to the show model was one of the best things Bandai included on the SoC. Good thing that the Playmates one actually keeps that at least, the neck looks terrible in OP's pic.

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