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[Ridureyu]

From Kaiyodo's Capsule Q set, a Chestburster! It's larger than I expected, and is actually in scale with NECA's figures.

 

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand PoP Cthulhu! YAY!

[bachamn]

I kept seeing those Alien Kaiyodo sets pop up when I was looking for yokai. Neat stuff

[bachamn]

mailman dropped some purple crap in my mailbox today!

 

[redjarojam]

Such crap! I hear the guy that casts those is a poo brain.

 

[ironmask]

Those rubber or resin?

[redjarojam]

Those rubber or resin?

 

The purple figures I made for Bachamn? They are rubber.

[Behemoth]

MIMP Mail Day!

 

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[Ridureyu]

I got Knifehead from Pacific Rim - as made by Kaiyodo.  It's a Gashapon figure, and unlike cetain other Pacific Rim figures, it's in scale with Doom Gotter!

 

 

I picked up several blind bag LEGO mini-figures.  Not to show them all off, but I have found that if you combine the head of the Alien with the body of the Evil Sorcerer, you have a passable D&D Mind Flayer!

 

 

And finally, there's ReAction Lo-Pan from Big Trouble in Little China.  The retro look works reasonably well for him, but they really dropped the ball on his Beholder monster accessory.  It is really small (out of scale), has almost no detail, and... wait, it's painted one solid color?  Not cast in flesh-toned plastic?  I suspect that the sculpt would have a lot more detail if not for the paint.  I know that this is a retro-styled line, but a retro toy wold have been cast in that color, not painted.

 

[ironmask]

That Knifehead is dope.

[PlasticSoul]

I want that Beholder! Not into the figure though. Love the movie.

[Jesse]

Yeah, awesome mail day yesterday! I received both ends on my FoP deal wich i dont usually share but heres whet i got:  IMG_20150310_175343.jpg   60.55K   4 downloads
The Fop from Fistfullofpower and Rubberhammer i expected


Didnt really get around these yesterday just checked everything was there. Lovin the haul i got cheers guys. And heres the cool part i got tons of extra from from RH! Reall class act, i got MUSCLE, mimp, mutant mania and some wrestling figs and hockey dudes im yet to identify(lovin the Muscles and struggling to not get hooked haha..)
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Mimp guy here
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Hockey dudes and wrestlers
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Mutant mania and FoP for scale. I expected these to be A LOT larger and had no idea of the "spines" and replecable torsos
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Muscle and FoP for scale... also these i expectod to be like 5cm tall but they arent pretty much size of FoP since they are slimmer(surprised positively)
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Aaaand saved best for last, cristal Bor close up! Hadnt ever seen even a pic of him, really made my day
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[trumanshower]

excellent that FOP arrival, specially Bor C !! i had a picture of him if you wanted

[bachamn]

Well it turns out I hadn't seen all of the KO Diener colors or sculpts yet! Today I got some mammoths as well as orange and purple colorways I didn't have previously. The hunt continues! 

 

Legit Diener dinos are above in orange and blue. This shot really makes me appreciate the vibrance of rubber vs. eraser/keshi.

 

[fkro6784]

Such a colorful shelf o' dinos.

[SmokinGun]

The colors. THE COLORS!

 

Cool pic.

[Ridureyu]

And completing the trio of stuff that trickled in from Japan (Alien, Pacific Rim, and this) is Hakutaku, a Japanese and Chinese holy beast with ultiple eyes (it has eyes on its side that I couldn't capture in the pic because of its pose), and once told the Chinese emperor about every single supernatural monster in the world. S aid emperor wrote a book about it, but the book has been lost, which puts it firmly in the "Oh yeah, I know everything about that, I just, uh, lost my book" category.

[bachamn]

nice, how long did it take from order date to arrival of that guy? I just placed an order for a few sculpts yesterday.

which puts it firmly in the "Oh yeah, I know everything about that, I just, uh, lost my book" category.

 

 http://en.wikipedia....i/Golden_plates

Edited by bachamn, 11 March 2015 - 08:04 AM.

[Ridureyu]

It took... dang, what day did we talk about Yokai and stuff last?  It took somewhere around two-ish weeks.

Edited by Ridureyu, 11 March 2015 - 08:32 AM.

[bachamn]

nice. it's amazing how China -> US takes waaaaay less time than Mexico -> US and it has to cross the Pacific.

 

I'm still waiting on a trade package from Mexico City that was sent Feb 03   

[fkro6784]

Today I finally got the last color I needed of MIMP Ganesha! I eventually need to replace the pink one because it's got a bit of marker staining underneath one foot, but I'm happy to finally have the elephant crew all together.

 

[Rubberhammer]

Sweet.

[Behemoth]

nice. it's amazing how China -> US takes waaaaay less time than Mexico -> US and it has to cross the Pacific.

 

I'm still waiting on a trade package from Mexico City that was sent Feb 03   

I just got mine in that was sent February 4th, so I feel your pain. 

 

Nice Ganeshas Fkro!

[SmokinGun]

This monster was waiting in my mailbox.

 

 

 

 

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[ironmask]

Oh, happy day!

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[Ridureyu]

One of the things that made John Carpenter's The Thing so effective was how it never showed the Thing's "true form." Frankly, it doesn't need one, and most likely its "true form" is just its indiivdual cells (as demonstrted in the 2011 prequel).

 

HOWEVER... in the original novella, Who Goes There, the Thing did have a "true form," seen when it was frozen in the ice (it also changed back into that form whenever discovered).  And there is a single figure of it - the only one in the "Horrora" Aurora Models tribute line.

 

 

A three-eyed blue muppet monster with worm hair.  That really is how it is described in the book.

 

So, as cool as this figure is, chalk it up to another "The movie was better than the book" situation.