The "What you just got in the Mail" Thread

Picked these up from the post office the other day. Atom timed his release to coincide with when flippers would be at the Osaka sofubi festival to increase the chances of his toys being purchased by actual fans... just another reason why he is the greatest. it was nice of him to include the bonus resin as a christmas gift.

 

I can understand that, the part stuck with me was the reuse of parts- to expand on your Ghostfighter example: You have those two GFs, but do you have any other Secret Base "Brain" style Fight figs? Because the GFs share up 75% of the same parts as any other one (arms and torso) and between the "brains" that percentage goes up to 80% (arms, torso, and inner head, only different is which "mask").

Odibex said he likes completely new figs and doesn't like reuse of parts, which is totally fine and valid. I just find it a little strange. Especially considering how often parts reuse comes into play (be it a cost saving method, or a kitschy homage to the past or whatever) in toy collecting- I mean sofubi isn't the only toy genre that does it- Action figures (GI Joe comes to mind), Robot Toys like Transformers (from the earliest days till today parts and figures get reused and recolored) to the greatest toy of all LEGO (which I realize is a different beast, but imagining someone only collecting one of each unique LEGO element and nothing else kinda cracks me up). But especially sofubi given the scope of the hobby, the costs, etc... parts reuse and recolor is part and parcel to the Sofubi collecting hobby I think. I would have thought you'd kinda have to find that aspect of it ok to find this sort of collecting appealing.

This all I'll say in this thread, because it's clogging up the toy pictures, but if anyone wants to discuss this more, start a new thread maybe in the whatever section.

 

It's not really a hard and fast rule, just something I've noticed about myself. I got two Grody pieces recently that had the same arm mold and I felt a little gypped. Thankfully there's enough sofubi on the market that I can indulge this whim. I really haven't been collecting that long, so maybe my opinion will change in the future. I don't know.

 

got this a couple of days ago. the last jar I needed.


regular 001 by casper2023, on Flickr

 

Ghostfighter wasn't the best example, sorry. My point was more that a person's tolerance of multiple versions and parts reuse just depends on what they are trying to achieve in their collection. There are valid reasons for not wanting multiple versions of figures and reused parts, even though those practices may be endemic to new JP vinyl manufacturing.

Otherwise I agree with your points. That is a good comparison to the same practice in mass-produced toy lines.

 

So much stuff since school started, this is the latest stuff. All the cats came in from my Lulubell hold box, guess Amy got sick of my stuff stacking up!

 

Duuuuuuuude, you got the Goner Ball!!!

 

read my mind rob

 

I love it guys! Hope you get one someday rob!

 

Thanks, dude! I'm sure someday he'll grace my detolf with his presence. Glad you got one!

 

Who made that HP Sametan? Looks really nice.

 

Drilone! Gotta take better pics soon.

 

Awesome mail day!!

 

The blue on is squishy! I won't keep the Standing and the crawling

 

Nice scores G. do you hqve the green unpainted ? If not i'll give you mine if i find it in my office chaos.

 

^^ love the Krampus! smart header

 

^ +1! That header made me laugh....

 

Oh Yeah he's a brute !!

 

My first painted Splurrt figures! Speechless...



Thank you VERY much, Joe and Kaji!!! \ / <3

 

some better pics of my new dorol hp from skinner. He killed it! Love the evil eyes. Meet lenny!

 

Gigas (WOWSA!), Gomess (Mr Photogenic) and acrylic box (handy!) came this week.

 

I usually don't spend this kind of money on toys but this thing is SIICK!!!! And yes, I will be selling a few gems in the BST forum soon.


also can anyone translate this for me

 

That is really blurry, but I believe it says "Yuusei no Akuma" or Wandering Star Devil, which is the name of the figure.

Actually, that's interesting. Most people call the figure "Yuusei Majin", which has a similar meaning. But that's not what is written on the header.

 

It does state Yuusei no Akuma. The kanji used for Yuusei is Planet. It is better translated as Planet Devil.