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This is true!

 

Yup. It's the new "kaiju".

"Dude, sweet vinyl toy!"
"It's not vinyl, it's SOFUBI!"
As if the material can make a shitty sculpt better...

 

I like Monroe, but this is sort of disappointing... Will there be details added or is that it?

 

Yeah, I think it needs a bit of his line work on it. If they were going to leave it blank, the should have added some textures like the ones that show up in Monroes work.

 

pfft,Just another Nu-sofubi clogging up my o g pipeline.

TRVE SOFVBI

 

There are shitty toys made by Japanese, Chinese, and Americans. Sofubi is not sacred, it is the name for soft vinyl toys. If people were calling it Kaiju that is a different story. I think the whole point of going to Japanese vinyl is it is better quality. You can't get good looking clear vinyl from most Chinese factories. And most Chinese factories want you to get 1000's.

 

its a buzzword now

 

I remember having an argument on another forum with someone on why "kaiju" does not need to be capitalized. Their position was that Kaiju was an art movement, or something equally dumb.

 

Precisely.
And to DrilOne - I wholeheartedly agree. And that's what I'm driving at - the medium doesn't matter. People are so hung up on Japanese vinyl (or sofubi!) as if it's the end-all, be-all and just by using it whatever you make out of it is worthy of reverence. People have been making lame toys in j-vinyl for years, but now it's a trendy medium and a selling point. Pffff! That's all. Give me a cool looking toy made in crusty Chinese vinyl over a lame/dumb/boring toy made in the most gorgeous of j-vinyl. Shit, my blow-molded KAWS Chums kick the crap out of most sofubi.

 

agreed.

There's a lot of people who use oil paint on canvas...a fairly well tested medium.

I've seen a LOT of shitty paintings.

 

Sofubi's become the "organic of the toy world.

 

So where's the toilet accessory for that figure? Cuz it looks like its sitting on one.

~Maddie

 

And incorporating the technology for the anti-flipping chip, they went ahead & included a motion sensored electronic flush. I hear there's a special edition smell-o-rama version, a John Waters tribute exclusive only to SDCC & already sold out.

 

Luckily I was on the John Waters mailing list for that one!

 

Lucky Nakazawa x Gargamel FU Robo mini

 

Exactly what I was thinking!

 

Maddie, lol that would be the perfect accessory

 

great coloring! hoping a pal can score one of these for me @ the convention center-

are these going to be available unpainted as well as this version?

dear gargamel, pleeez make dokuroman figures in this coloring!

 

That FU Robo looks awesome!

 

That looks good in clear...I threw my yellow one in a box somewhere because it didn't fit in my collection. I'd never considered purple clear on anything before.

 

ADSDCC by b-eaK, on Flickr

 

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