If you still have not received any email back. I think you should do not win any custom . I got a reply yesterday. kiyoka only told me my friend obtained the right to purchase a naoya deathra.(I told him I wanted 7 deathra , 5 for me ,2 for my friend).I get nothing , my friend is lucky.
i think they are probably still waiting for payment to come in. i think it is nearly impossible to win everything if one submit multiple choices. gargamel probably wouldn't allow it either. but it does help to get at least something. on hindsight, maybe i should have entered more choices as well.
With Gargamel I'll send an email saying I want 1 figure, these are my choices, I'd be happy with any. Never "won" an online sale of their 1off's though. Ah well, can't complain, that Kiyoka Miborah was what I really wanted, the Deahtras are cool but I looooved that Kiyoka Miborah.
^ That's exactly what I do. This time I put in for 8 or 9, got 1 of my lower picks but I'm still happy. Usually I put in for a lot less, maybe top 5, but this time there were so many that I loved. Also, gargamel blog has been updated with about half or more marked as sold. Still a lot of good stuff unmarked so there might still be hope.
I think that's just waiting for payment, because there are a few just what I want. But kiyoka did not tell me winning.
not really into the guts ones this time around, but man I'd be all over this if I had the extra cash.
This and a few clear ones are really cool....BUT the painted guts Deathras are just mind blowing IMO! It takes these custom Standard Deathras into the next level...never would've expected the guts on these.
was gunning for one of the guts deathra, and i see it's been sold as well just wondering how the email sales work? is it first come first served? or they do a lottery when more than one wants the same figure?
I see them a little different. I mean, the guts are awesome, but one's like that blue above give such a great nod to vintage sensibilities I appreciate them in a different way. They don't need the trickery of guts to be amazing. Not saying the guts versions DO, and I'm way into them, but I get more of a (hate this term) "new-school" feel from them and don't care for some of them as much as I do for the solids. But it's case-by-case/toy-by-toy and I REALLY like that blue Deathra.
Yeah, it was a double wham yesterday and today. That's definitely how it goes sometimes. I have had my fair share of luck so I'll just keep being patient. I think I'm also more bummed than usual cause I've been feeling a lot of regret over a couple toys that I traded/sold over the past few months. I guess I was trying to buy my way back to happiness?
I agree with the differences in sensibilities argument., Jeff. I do appreciate the opaques with tribute..uhm.. "colorways", if you may, but it has been done so many times, not just with figures made by Gargamel but true with other lines. Yeah, I get that, I find it cool, too. But painted guts inside a sculpt like the Deathra, is kinda unexpected, isn't it? And 'trickery' on the part of the Gargamel dudes, I don't even think of it that way. Its more like..."what else can we do? how can we push this figure further?" The guts surprised me on the same level when I learned about the movable wings when it first came out. And I am really stoked since I've been collecting the mini Deathras line for a long time--just want to state where my being blown away is coming from.
I'm not totally surprised by the guts, the skull part surprises me more I guess since Zag/Mibs/Bakos only have guts inserts. Maybe they'll get skulls soon too?! Gargamel has SO MUCH they can still do, nothing will surprise me since they're such a creative lot and have so much to work with. Think about how many mini's aren't full size yet? How many haven't even been done in GID? There's SO MUCH to do, I'm not surprised but I'm ALWAYS delighted. What's always fun about the guts figures is it's like a toy within a toy, I mean those guts are still sculpted/made/painted the same as any other character, always awesome.
