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#1 Bronty

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Posted 06 September 2014 - 02:26 PM

thanks guys.   I was looking over my old posts and I guess I promised to post some FOA internal design documents like a year ago and never did.

 

Let me make up for that now.

 

This a file with the early production drawings for the jangutz kahn poster, the sciroid battleship etc.    Some are the original concept drawings and some are reference material from YES (basically old images to help the artist creating the new images for Jangutz and the battleship and such).    Its pretty easy to see what's pencil vs what's printed, below.   Obviously, most of this stuff is one of a kind and pre-dates the actual production of the figures.

 

 

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Edited by Bronty, 06 September 2014 - 02:41 PM.

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#2 Ericnilla

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Posted 06 September 2014 - 02:45 PM

can you post a better pic of these? they look great. :)


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#3 Bronty

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Posted 06 September 2014 - 06:50 PM

Ill do it, but no promises on when. This is the only pic I have handy and they are packed away :)
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Posted 07 September 2014 - 06:58 AM

Thank you anyways! I'll take what I can get! Those are awesome!



So how did you get access to those pics?


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#5 Bronty

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Posted 07 September 2014 - 07:25 AM

I purchased the documents from someone involved in the creation of the line
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Posted 07 September 2014 - 07:59 AM

That is freaking awesome. Did you actually get to pick their brain a little? 


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Posted 07 September 2014 - 08:31 AM

Not as much as you'd think. To us, it's really neat, to him, it was just a job from 17 years ago, you know? Still, the documents themselves are a good record. Ill get better pics up at some point.

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Posted 07 September 2014 - 09:12 AM

Sweet!


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Posted 08 September 2014 - 01:10 AM

Amazing!


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Posted 08 September 2014 - 01:41 AM

That's an awesome material! I'm looking forward to see better quality pics!
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Posted 08 September 2014 - 06:07 AM

Yeah, me too. Sucks that the guy couldn't feed off of your enthusiasm at all. 

Still, this is my all-time favorite toy-line, and I am enjoying every little bit that I can get.


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Posted 08 September 2014 - 08:54 AM

I hear you.

May I pick your brain? I understand there was a mail away Jangutz Khan wanted poster. Do those come up from time to time? I tried a search but didn't see any discussion it. I guess you only need six points for the poster and sixteen for the figure so it seems like there should be some out there but then again posters get tacked up and beat up and thrown away, so maybe not. Just would like to learn more about it if you don't mind sharing :)

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Posted 08 September 2014 - 09:21 AM

I've never seen one.


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Posted 08 September 2014 - 09:27 AM

Huh.    I'm surprised there aren't a few out there but I guess these things got thrown away then.   Maybe kids just preferred to have actual figures and not a poster of a figure, too.  

 

I do have one in storage (I kind of forgot about it to be honest as it was all just part of this file and I didn't know the poster was rare at the time) l but don't know much about it other than it was a mail away.    Any other place to look for info do you think?

 

In the meantime, let me share a pic then if it isn't a well known image.

 

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Posted 08 September 2014 - 09:33 AM

That's freaking awesome.


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Posted 08 September 2014 - 10:07 AM

Thanks. It's an attractive poster so I always liked it from that perspective I just didn't know they were rare
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Posted 08 September 2014 - 10:09 AM

I've been having the damnedest time trying to piece together my collection, above the standard common figures... Let alone literature, etc


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Posted 08 September 2014 - 10:13 AM

Sorry. I don't mean to sound like I am showing off. I really just stumbled across this stuff as a happy accident as opposed to as a result of some kind of brilliance or anything ;)

I like toys a lot but for the most part I just appreciate them rather than collect them. I mainly collect art and so that's how I ran across this stuff that's more unique

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Posted 08 September 2014 - 10:20 AM

Brother, I am just enjoying what you're posting. I haven't seen a lot of this stuff before, especially the sketches.


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Posted 08 September 2014 - 01:52 PM

Yeah, this is excellent material.

 

I think, given the rarity of this stuff, you ought to strongly consider making high-res scans for backup purposes in case something happens to the originals. It would be a terrible shame if any of it was lost.


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Posted 08 September 2014 - 01:53 PM

Shit, I'd love a repro of that poster, if I could get one.


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Posted 08 September 2014 - 02:27 PM

Me too! A reprom even with a fac-simile script.. But I'd love to have it on my room wall!


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Posted 08 September 2014 - 02:34 PM

Ditto on the rad poster!
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#24 Bronty

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Posted 08 September 2014 - 02:45 PM

Well I am happy you guys like it. Maybe I can make a repro happen at some point. It won't be fast but maybe. I'm not usually a fan of repro'ing things but maybe with a reproduction script.
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Posted 09 September 2014 - 11:32 AM

Woah. This is absolutely the best FoA stuff I ever seen!
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