Third Party Figures

Mint In Boks said:
Replying to myself from the past because 5k just sent me a 2nd payment notice for the reissue of RomankeyXCowl woman… will be as floptastic as the bootleg?!?! Did I waste my money buying an official one hoping it would be good?!?! Time to pay up then play the waiting game and find out!
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I hope they have extras, I'd love another blank.
 
So I just got my Smart Series Tyrannosaurs from Nanmu and oh my god I love these! They are the perfect size when it comes to posing, the detail is off the charts for only being a 1/35th scale set of Tyrannosaurs. The articulation is very fluid right out of the box. I only had one stiff knee joint on both figures that required a little bit of heat, luckily it unfroze pretty much instantly. Yeah these are great. As happy as I was to go all in on BoTM last year, these Rexes have a certain bit of charm to them and I don’t think it’s necessarily because they are based on the buck and the doe from The Lost World: Jurassic Park. We were all talking about the old Resaurus figures from the late 90’s and honestly-if you are a fan of the old Carnage/Dinosaur King toyline…these really hit.

Not to mention there are actually distinctions between the male and female tyrannosaur beyond the color differences. The male has a larger head and more pronounced throat. The snout is more stubby and it gives the male tyrannosaur almost a pit bull like quality. There are also mating scars on the right orbital finestra and the jugal hornlet.

Now if the male is the pit bull of the pack, the matriarch is the Great Dane. She’s slightly larger than her mate in the torso and her head is very long with more numerous teeth and a much angrier look in her eyes. Her muted browns are perfectly painted. There is no area of overspray or any sections that look like too much paint was applied in certain spots.

One curious detail is that she also has faintly visible spots on her body but it’s strange because that was more common on Rexy’s design. The Doe on the other hand has more pronounced stripes. It could be that this is Rexy after all and I just didn’t clock this correctly but it’s weird to go through the trouble of making a male T-Rex (Practically from scratch , I might add) if he’s not the companion piece. Also Nanmu makes the doe all the time so I feel like that would be the next logical step if they’ve only made the doe as a static desktop figurine prior to this.



Anyway I love this figure and I highly recommend checking them out and grabbing a set while they’re still around on store shelves.

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How's this scale against old Kenner JP toys? It looks good, but I don't know if I'd bother if it's vastly undersized, especially if I'm already considering their next raptor releases.
 
These are tiny. It’s about the same size as the Young T-Rex from the original Kenner line. And obviously way more detailed. These are constructed out of hard pvc, not the soft, squishy “real” dinosaur skin. And it goes without saying…no Dino damage or JP stamps.


Also not everything has to be in scale with other properties. Sometimes it’s just nice to have a cool desktop toy that you can mess around with. And all the better when it’s a cool dinosaur toy


Also I forgot to mention this in my earlier breakdown but these two Rex figures have been getting a lot of coverage on twitter this past week. I’m constantly seeing pics, reels and reviews on my For You page and they all made me ever more excited for the arrival of my figs. You have no idea how glad I am to have these. They hit me right in the feels. I had the Carnage Dino’s growing up in high school and college and I was also collecting the Papo stuff for a time so to see these gorgeous tyrannosaurs in 1/35th scale and masterfully sculpted, painted and articulated makes these a work of art that I’ll treasure for decades.

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Space soldiers aren't really my bag, but that is badass.

That's where I worry about collection creep. I can keep my Marvel figures contained, but show me something badass that moves well? Much harder to pass.
 
Vaguely interested...

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altcunningham said:
It's funny. I'm always telling people that I'm not really into anime. But I think it's like a defensive mechanism because the anime that became popular in mainstream is the stuff I'm generally not into or at least not familiar with. Naruto. Fullmetal Alchemist. Titan. And I have nothing against it except that there's just something about the way the '80s and '90s stuff looked that appeals to me as an artist and most of the modern stuff just doesn't hit me at all.

Occasionally you'll get a chainsaw man or Dan Da Dan that does hit me.
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I'm just not into animation full stop. Sure, there have been the odd exceptions here and there but in the main, it just leaves me completely cold, I can't engage with it. I made the mistake of mentioning it in the Film/TV board of a forum I hang out on, went to bed and came back to several pages of outraged posts from slighted anime nerds. I didn't even say anything was bad, I just have zero interest in checking out any of their recommendations.

Anyway, I pre-ordered Jessica then got ruthless about what I'd be picking up going forward and cancelled her. I've kinda regretted it ever since and your pics aren't helping - she looks amazing!

Liking the look of that Vol'jin too, though he looks maybe a wee bit too tall. Then again, I guess they hunch over as a rule so eh.
 
I understand the animation thing. There's some graphic styles in games that just don't work for me. Certain comic books. I do love when anime nerds get slighted, even when you're into it, you can have a "wrong" opinion or interest.

Jessica is my top choice of the year. It's just the figure I needed to get into serious wardrobe and armoury gathering. Glad I went with the deluxe for the spare body. Hopefully she falls into your budget and path in the future. I thought they'd do Lucy or even V.

The only thing that bothers me with the extra Romankey bodies is I'm pretty sure Jessica is exclusively pale. I'll have to learn to do water slides so that I can turn the blank head into something worthwhile. I really wish they would have had a prepro option with movable eyes.

Vol'Jin looks big, but I feel Sylvanas is too. Might just be the scale (these figures also have a nice mass), but I do wonder if they were trying to scale them like the major NPCs in the game. He'll be hunched, and he looks too cool to pass up on. I can only wait for Lady Liadrin now. As a blood elf and paladin main in WoW and Hearthstone, I need her.

I would also love to get a generic human Mage so I could make AF Kay from Hearthstone. She just amuses me.
 
I can understand not liking anime, but not animation entirely. It's too big a category for it to compute for me. I mean, I just watched a three-hour Hungarian animated art film the other day, about as different from anime as it's possible to get.
 
cmoney said:
I can understand not liking anime, but not animation entirely. It's too big a category for it to compute for me. I mean, I just watched a three-hour Hungarian animated art film the other day, about as different from anime as it's possible to get.
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TBF too, the vast majority of anime that gets recommended is in a very narrow bandwidth even within that subset. It's changing now, but for years I'd recommend stuff like Satoshi Kon's movies to folks and just get blank stares, but the reason I like them is because they're animation for adults, and not in the Heavy Metal "these ain't your kid's cartoons, we got titties and blood" kind of way. Like they're just serious dramas.

I have so many good anime recs for folks that are not your typical shonen battle animes and whatnot.
Revox said:
I'm just not into animation full stop. Sure, there have been the odd exceptions here and there but in the main, it just leaves me completely cold, I can't engage with it.
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I'd love to know what the exceptions are, but I get it. I've got a friend who simply cannot get into comics. Something about the art just doesn't click with her brain. And y'know, if you're consuming art it should be because you fall at least a little in love with it, right?
 
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