Third Party Figures

vicious said:
I love my LaDo Toys Liya the Mechanic. Has anyone been talking about these LaDo figs? I like this knight Liya they are previewing:

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I never knew I needed a squad of cute wolf girls with RPG tropes on my shelf until I saw Liya. I'm mixed on most of the other stuff.

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It's really cool that they're rushing two versions of each of these five characters out. Basically a combat class and a "job" class. Interesting from a collecting standpoint, kind of reminds me of TMNT figures of my childhood, where each turtle had all these weird side jobs, like pro athlete or commando!

Liya Candyland version is up for preorder for a couple days. https://www.bombusbee.net/product/ladotoys-era-001cl-liya-alopex-candyland-ver

$10 off with "newmember" coupon code for new users. Never ordered from them before but they take paypal so yolo. If this goes through she'll end up being about $10 less than I paid for the regular version from 5k.
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I bought Liya to fill in for Hepzibah of the Starjammers. Her proportions (specifically height and head size) are a bit large to fit in seamlessly with Marvel Legends but she's an alien. It's fudgeable.
 
FuzzyBlueDemon said:
WHO IS MAKING D?!?!? I'm definitely gonna need that!
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Same! Vampire Hunter D is the OVA that got me into anime in the late 80s. My mind was blown as a teenager who thought animation wasn't cool anymore. The only bummer is that I presume we won't be getting a Count Lee, Doris, Larmica or Rei to go along with him.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
Man, these third-party companies are getting brazen. This is a major toy show and they're showing unlicensed Invincible, Marvel, and Cartoon Network figures on the show floor.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ActionFigures/comments/1nvrngv/new_third_party_figures_from_zoomrig
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Chinese copyright law and really their entire legal system is corrupt to the bone. I say this as someone who has studied and loves Chinese culture. Unless you ALSO copyright or trademark your IP in China, a Chinese company can file the copyright or trademark on your IP and they will technically own your IP in China, like in the infamous Michael Jordan/Chowdan lawsuit. If you ever want to produce anything in China, you MUST hire a Chinese lawyer on retainer to file all of the Chinese copyrights or trademarks and then constantly defend them. And this isn't just Chinese companies stealing from foreigners. They steal from independent Chinese artists all the time. Bribing Chinese judges and other officials is a very old custom going back more than a thousand years.
 
akajomiha said:
Same! Vampire Hunter D is the OVA that got me into anime in the late 80s. My mind was blown as a teenager who thought animation wasn't cool anymore. The only bummer is that I presume we won't be getting a Count Lee, Doris, Larmica or Rei to go along with him.
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For me, it was Guyver. Shocking, I know. But I was like... 11, then? and it was like 2012. I'm lucky to have the figures (and custom parts) that I do from that one.

I'd love an assortment of VHD characters to go with D... and I'd even more so love a toyline for basically every Madhouse and Kawajiri anime (and ones that actually happen, perhaps?), but especially Highlander. That one's maybe my favorite fantasy film of all time.
 
I preordered mechanic LiYa, but couldn't afford the second payment when she dropped, so I lost my deposit, and she's now sold out everywhere. 🥺 Snail Shell mummy girl, too.
 
JakeEkiss said:
What's funny is Guyer was one of my entry points into Anime at around the same age... only it was the "Bio Booster Armor" OVA and it was in 1992.

*wheezes*
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Akira was my forced dose. Then I found Bubblegum and A-ko on my own. Sci Fi Saturday anime with Tank Police, Vampire Hunter D, and 8 Man really did the work. Then I discovered Tenchi and Gunsmith Cats. GITS. Man.
 
altcunningham said:
Akira was my forced dose. Then I found Bubblegum and A-ko on my own. Sci Fi Saturday anime with Tank Police, Vampire Hunter D, and 8 Man really did the work. Then I discovered Tenchi and Gunsmith Cats. GITS. Man.
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Yeah, most of those I got to shortly after. My mom was going back to school at the time and I spent a lot of time with her at the university library. Eventually that meant I was hanging out as the youngest person watching stuff in their anime club. This was both awesome, and something my mom DEFINITELY would not have approved of if she knew everything we watched.

The Guyver OVA was a Blockbuster discovery on my part, and mom probably wouldn't have let me rent that if she'd realized it was a cartoon that had GALLONS of blood every time someone got hit.

So many of my interests are due to momentary lapses in my mother's otherwise helicopter parenting.
 
When my parents got divorced, I lived with my mom for a few years. It's one of those things where as an adult you realize it was not good. She used to go clubbing and would just give me a hundred bucks, some Domino's coupons, and the Blockbuster card, which was in walking distance. I would not see her for like days at a time.

It was 1993 and as an 11-year-old that's awesome. As an adult and someone who doesn't have children but has dated people with children and liked to be a positive influence on, what the hell. How am I alive.
 
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