James Groman Rotten Rex.

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  1. Headhunter

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    I remember seeing it for that price as well so your not alone on that sudden bump in price bs.
     
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    Ah, that's my apologies! I misread the listing and didn't know the extra wasn't included. Even still, $250 for the marbled being okay by me says an extra $15 for the industrial glow is just as groovy. And the initial price listing may have been an error of information and corrected later on.
     
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    I'm glad I grabbed a Rexx yesterday for $235, but I wish I had the money to grab a Diceratops, but I'll make due with the head.

    As to the glow, my GID Fosilla glows nice and bright for hours, so if it's similar, it'll light up a room
     
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    Hey all! I never read or post here anymore, surprised I could even log in, but this post was brought to my attention and I wanted you all to hear it from the horses mouth. :) It's been so long, I hope I am replying right! :D Forgive me, I'm coming off 4 back to back events in the last four weeks with one more to go, a power outage last week, and 3 kids home for summer, I'm pretty exhausted, and extremely human. I messed up. There was no "price jump". I sent all bloggers, posted to IG, and sent an email blast out with the correct retail of $265. At this point in my 12 hour day, I also posted these up online and for some reason I listed them erronously at $235. I woke up to a text from Luke this am teling me he noticed and fixed while I slept. So true, the first few purchasers reaped the benefits of my error. :/ Since it was my mistake, as a policy I eat it.

    Maybe Luke can jump in about what I call the SUPER GID, but from what I understand, this takes an additional "super glow" additive (powder maybe? I can't recall), thus creating the super glow. It's an extra cost that goes into this vinyl, but the result is amazing. We could pull in standard GID for a lesser cost, and maybe we will one day. For now, this is the SUPER GID release! I'm pretty sure we have a solid history of pricing the items we produce fairly over the years, sometime to a fault. I wouldn't be up to midnight nightly most days if I could afford to pay for more help. :razz: This is a business of passion first, and if you work really, really hard, you can pay your bills too.

    Like I said before, I don't really do SB anymore (nothing personal SB, it's me, not you. I don't have enough hours to look up most days, let alone peruse much social media), but if anyone out there ever has a question, just shoot me an email... it's always on the top of our site. I screw up. More than I wish I did. I'm tiiiirrreeeeedddddd. Thanks for (hopefully) reading...hope this clears things up. Much love, Amy #therereallyisnoluluminati

    PSS. I've already edited twice for typos and whatnot :razz: I need a nap.


     
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    pls read my post below, muchos gracias <3
     
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    I'm still picking one up in the next few weeks so no worries! Appreciate the awesome explanation on this toy Lulu and the price mess up.
     
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    James Groman Rotten Rex.
    Sorry if my comment came across as anything other than personal opinion on a potential purchase, it wasn't my intent to shit talk.

    Your retail price is your retail price. I have no insight, require no justification, and am not entitled these pieces.

    I'm just bummed that the price trajectory for this piece leads me to believe that the days of a standard color blank release for $200 (original retail for the ill-fated full color painted edition) or less are behind us.
     
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    @theknifeymoloko It's not even so much that I feel you require justification, more so that I just like to explain as best I can, with what limited knowledge I have, about why things cost what they cost sometimes. I wouldn't say standard color color blank releases are behind us all, but that there simply hasn't been a standard color release since the green and blue blanks from NYCC '14. There's a lot of life left to both Rexx and Dieceratops. You never know!
     
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    Even still, 260 for this beast is a great price. Its a huge chunk of vinyl, and the glow is fantastic on the Galligantus made of the same vinyl. Definitely worth every penny.
     
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    So after all our clusterfugggin I converted the yen price again and realized it SHOULD actually be $235 (26,000yen is what they've been up for in Japan and what I needed to match) ....LMAO. Luke saw my email blast with the $265 pricing, assumed it was right and corrected the site. Murphey's Law guys...once we screw up, we screw up royally I guess. :D I just refunded anyone who paid more and updated the blogs. Price is $235! No offense taken, sorry for all the confusion, just wanted to clarify we are just mere mortals who make innocent mistakes (usually from burning the candle at both ends), but always have good intentions! :D :D :D <3 <3 <3
     
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    PSS. Customer feedback is always awesome and welcomed! I'll pass along the desire for standard colors in the future. Poor Rexx had a rocky road while we working out some kinks. This year you will see James Groman factory paint runs, guest artist micro runs, garage kits and more! Year of the REXX is 2017! Thank you everyone <3
     
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    James Groman Rotten Rex.
    From the minute i saw the teasers i had a feeling it was going to be some kind of cyclops creature but kinda looks neat with the removable armor interchangeable hand and shield accessory.



    Not sure if it will be worth the money though. Dreading the price of painted figures for this thing.
     
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    This new one has gotten me into Jame's other toys retroactively. I liked King Korpse but now that Kaiju Killer is unveiled I'm all in and enjoying the smaller dinosaur stuff too. Rotten Rex is cool in pieces but find his proportions to be a bit too off for my tastes.

    I've loved all of Jame's paint apps so far but am hoping there is a way to do maybe a stripped down version for runs if that would help the price?? I'd love to get a King Korpse and Kaiju Killer to start but current prices are a bit high for me at the moment.
     
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    James Groman Rotten Rex.
    I wouldn't be voicing my distaste so much if the standard prices for his toys were not 400 and up for none blank pieces. And the "acceptable" 1000 dollar price range for his one offs was absolutely ludicrous with the recent stuff. No one should have gave into those prices. I understand you need to support the artist you love but this has given him and the makers more confidence to boost the prices to be the "Normal". Its a shameful situation that has been discussed to death many times in the past i know but this isn't helping.

    Im not going to be surprised if this toy is a good solid fucking 450 to 500 when its first released with paint.
     
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    I am glad people are enjoying the new Kaiju Killer sculpt. I do wish there were three or four eyes. right now it reminds me too much of zaku. personally I like King Korpse best Rotten Rexx second and Kaiju Killer third but I do admit the sculpting quality is best on the Kaiju Killer.... Just my thoughts.
     
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    James Groman Rotten Rex.
    That's funny that you mentioned that, because - as completely different ad this figure is - I immediately saw the zaku connection there too. it's very funny of course, and subtle, just the odd 'panel' style of his socket with the single eye, and a slight shape similarity in the head and 'snouted' nose.
     
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    YES! That is exactly what I thought when I first saw it!

    edited my reply due to the fact that it was too offensive.
     
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    James Groman Rotten Rex.

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    Did anyone win that Medicom black King Korpse lottery? Winners should have been picked last week.

    Congrats to whoever.
     
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    I have entered all king korpse lotteries but never lucky:(
     
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    I picked one up but these sold FAST! Like less than 5 minutes fast.
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    So its nice to see more dinosaurs being added finally.
     
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    James Groman Rotten Rex.
    Didn't even know they were available
     
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    Yep, TAG released this one today.
     
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