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If they find a way to do a Godzilla with egg and incubator, I’m in.

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I was originally against Mezco because of the size and the price, but as I got more into shokugan figures I realized that I dont mind that scale much. And the price doesn't bother me as much after spending two years collecting 200+ Bandai Vinyls, mostly retro. The average price I pay being around $120.

As Ive warmed up to Mezco Ive realized more and more just how BAD the NECA line really was. They really werent good figures. The fact that you had to customize them to make them look like what they were supposed to look like speaks for themselves. Similarly, NECA's subsidiary Kidrobot, a company I usually REALLY LOVE, absolutely blew it with the Godzilla license and we got a bunch of lazy chibis.

Very happy with Mezco so far.

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I do think NECA finally got there with their last few releases, particularly 1964, 2003 and 1989. But yeah, the ones prior to those were not great. Their learning curve on sculpting Godzilla was very long, which was odd for them compared to most of their other movie-based lines. You'd think, what with Aliens/Predator, they'd be familiar with accuracy-obsessed fans.
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Yeah I thought it was odd that Neca had a hard time nailing down Godzilla (and not totally getting it right in the end) yet they could get stuff like Aliens and Pacific Rim down to a T (for the most part). Not to mention the engineering was pretty poor for the joints.
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I think the answer to this is simple.

Screw up the sculpt of Alien or Gremlins? Everyone is going to be critical of that. Screw up the specifics of various Godzilla suits? Outside of hardcore fans, most people won't care.

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Honestly, I dont even thing NECA finally got there at the end. Neither the 64 nor the 89 is particularly suit accurate, with the 89 straight up looking nothing like BioGoji (compare NECA to the soon to be released SHMA). And the 2003 is definitely the closest, but still, it looks noticably off if you don't take the liberties of customizing it yourself. And that was, what, 6 years of figures? When Mezco reveals awesome figures in year zero and NECA takes 6 years to make things that are BARELY passable, thats a problem. And I do think, in large part, its because American collectors dont know as much about Godzilla suits and dont care as much. Its just sad considering how much thought goes into their, say, Alien figures, or Jason Voorhees figures. Kidrobot is in the same boat. They put almost no effort into their Godzilla line.

Looking back, 2019 was a terrible year for Godzilla collectables, what with NECA, Jakks Pacific, and the most hated MMS figures. Im glad we have Mezco, Super7, Playmates, and a year of much higher effort MMS.

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Executive Hamster wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 9:33 am Looking back, 2019 was a terrible year for Godzilla collectables, what with NECA, Jakks Pacific, and the most hated MMS figures. Im glad we have Mezco, Super7, Playmates, and a year of much higher effort MMS.
Kinda ruins your point when your glad for Playmates and their "god-tier" classics sculpts but dunk the NECA's. If anything both should fit in the same boat but varying on release move up and down on the ranking.

Yo though real talk, Mezco would have had me as a customer. 4" inch scale though? Damn it.Sure it fits in with the "Hyper Grade(?)" figures and those cool vinyl Battle Pack ones I think. I'll admit though, they almost were my step into a different scale because they did a fantastic job with them so far. The Mothra/Shobojin set was a nice curveball that i'm sure most of us have wanted a while.

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SpaceG92 wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:19 am
Executive Hamster wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 9:33 am Looking back, 2019 was a terrible year for Godzilla collectables, what with NECA, Jakks Pacific, and the most hated MMS figures. Im glad we have Mezco, Super7, Playmates, and a year of much higher effort MMS.
Kinda ruins your point when your glad for Playmates and their "god-tier" classics sculpts but dunk the NECA's. If anything both should fit in the same boat but varying on release move up and down on the ranking.

Yo though real talk, Mezco would have had me as a customer. 4" inch scale though? Damn it.Sure it fits in with the "Hyper Grade(?)" figures and those cool vinyl Battle Pack ones I think. I'll admit though, they almost were my step into a different scale because they did a fantastic job with them so far. The Mothra/Shobojin set was a nice curveball that i'm sure most of us have wanted a while.
I think you might have just missed the point of what I was saying, but the idea was that I'm glad we have Playmates now compared to Jakks Pacific as the standard "Kids Toy". Playmates may have had a rocky start but they ultimately ended up having better sculpts and better variety than anything out of Jakks Pacific. I was talking about Godzilla merch in general and how we have better collector stuff as well as better stuff for the kiddies than we did in 2019.

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Executive Hamster wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 11:33 am
SpaceG92 wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:19 am
Executive Hamster wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 9:33 am Looking back, 2019 was a terrible year for Godzilla collectables, what with NECA, Jakks Pacific, and the most hated MMS figures. Im glad we have Mezco, Super7, Playmates, and a year of much higher effort MMS.
Kinda ruins your point when your glad for Playmates and their "god-tier" classics sculpts but dunk the NECA's. If anything both should fit in the same boat but varying on release move up and down on the ranking.

Yo though real talk, Mezco would have had me as a customer. 4" inch scale though? Damn it.Sure it fits in with the "Hyper Grade(?)" figures and those cool vinyl Battle Pack ones I think. I'll admit though, they almost were my step into a different scale because they did a fantastic job with them so far. The Mothra/Shobojin set was a nice curveball that i'm sure most of us have wanted a while.
I think you might have just missed the point of what I was saying, but the idea was that I'm glad we have Playmates now compared to Jakks Pacific as the standard "Kids Toy". Playmates may have had a rocky start but they ultimately ended up having better sculpts and better variety than anything out of Jakks Pacific. I was talking about Godzilla merch in general and how we have better collector stuff as well as better stuff for the kiddies than we did in 2019.
Sorry but I'm going to have to disagree that Playmates are that much better than Jakks as Playmates are pretty much just rereleasing Bandai America toys. Then when they end up making new toys they are kind of garbage "AKA Shin and even Kong" and then the GVK line is ok but i wouldn't put it that far above what Jakks provided for KOTM. Although I will agree that this year is leaps and bounds better than 2019 when it comes to releases.

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idk the fact Playmates granted us a six inch scale Skullcrawler, a passable MechaG and a Warbat, who isn't even getting a Gashapon, kinda have to give them some credit for that.
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canofhumdingers wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:27 pm It just occurred to me that it says the shobijin set is a Mezco exclusive. Doesn’t that mean you can only get it (for retail) direct from Mezco? I know I’ve seen some sites like BBTS sell Mezco exclusives, but I believe they have to order them at regular price and then sell them at a markup. Anybody know for sure?
It's at BBTS now (with $20 markup).
https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/ ... ils/171358
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Poe Ghostal wrote: Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:12 am
canofhumdingers wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:27 pm It just occurred to me that it says the shobijin set is a Mezco exclusive. Doesn’t that mean you can only get it (for retail) direct from Mezco? I know I’ve seen some sites like BBTS sell Mezco exclusives, but I believe they have to order them at regular price and then sell them at a markup. Anybody know for sure?
It's at BBTS now (with $20 markup).
https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/ ... ils/171358
Good thing I pre-ordered off of Mezcos website
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Ooooooh, that's great! I'm not much of a toy collector these days, but that tempts me (one of my fav episodes) ... but if the next set is Jack & Twin Tail I will certainly not be able to resist.

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Mezco is doing a giant Godzilla figure. Looks like its Godzilla 1989. I couldnt find pics online but Luminous did a video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8UbIzy6rbk

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Dang, what do we think the price will be? Over $200?

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Im going to guess that it will be around the same price as the giant Kong was, since they'll be nearly the same size.

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Executive Hamster wrote: Sat Jul 24, 2021 9:38 am Mezco is doing a giant Godzilla figure. Looks like its Godzilla 1989. I couldnt find pics online but Luminous did a video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8UbIzy6rbk
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Some people are suggesting it's G93, which would be kind of random.

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Executive Hamster wrote: Sat Jul 24, 2021 9:38 am Mezco is doing a giant Godzilla figure. Looks like its Godzilla 1989. I couldnt find pics online but Luminous did a video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8UbIzy6rbk
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