Wah nice group Cindy. Love those mashups.

those 2 aren't my favorite either but TE has made a lot of great toys over the years

For example?

Faceless Bull
Guromon
Bagun
Dokugarasu
3 pollution monster series
large kusugon
Gaichan
Gamerudon

and the list could keep going.

Are you talking about this?

^I love the Gebolf sculpt just as much as the Maza. I was told it predates the Maza sculpt anyway. And both are loosely based on an earlier toy/character anyway.

Also, all hail the Faceless Bull! Honestly it is one of the best original sculpts in the last several decades. Huge in the hand, beautiful and creepy, just a real knockout of a sculpt. It's fine to hate on TE, I think this forum should have this kind of discourse about likes and dislikes, I am just showing some love at the opposite end of the spectrum.

These guys are pretty great.

No, neither of those were in my list. Personally I don't care for those 2.

Sorry, but you was told wrong. Sato is so fast that anytime everyone's surprised. He wants to generate these kind of rumors but please don't give them credit!

Ha, fair enough. If there's one thing we can all agree on, it is that Sato-san is not afraid to copy other folk's designs!

I don't understand what you're trying to say?



Gebora was pre Maza.

I was trying to say that Zollmen's enbankaijyu maza was sculpted before the TE one.
Also, for example, he sculpted the mekagorilla and the soto majin (who was never released) at the same time of the original one, putting on his blog photos of painted sculpts for open orders.
As I said, he always try to be as fast as he can so people like you would think that he made the original. Got it?

...me lo spieghi anche in italiano così capisco giusto anch'io per una volta???

From what I hear t.e. has permission for all these peices. The toy world is small and most artists are friendly. He also does so few and scarce runs that'd they would never effect to big picture for the artist doing full production of they're characters.

Gebora was one of the first TE pieces I really needed.
Came out around 2005/6 if I remember correctly.

I don't know about all. How about the NagNagNag pachi? Sorry I mean Dustman in drag. Guess he doesn't need permission from Shig since it's Dustman.

I understand that Shig was very upset and confronted him on the figure. We won't be seeing that fig made.

That is a huge disappointment. I was so excited to get one of those, should they have made it to production.

Maybe he didn't spend long enough on the eyes.

I think what's interesting is Sato-San probably sculpted the para baby Dustman, as he has sculpted many Marmit figures. Maybe if Nag used his work as inspiration he should have the right to use a nag as inspiration in return.

No, it was designed by akamatsu and sculpted by tada.

Maybe the marking on the Dustman Drag should have "Fuck Shig". Lottery submissions for this first release can be submitted to FuckShigInTheEyeSocket@targetearth.com.

Pity because imho it was so much better than any of the latest nag output.

^Agreed, but then I am categorically not a Nag fan.

Didn't realize Sato was responsible for Marmit sculpts, but should have because of the Marmit/Skull Head Butt connection. I keep forgetting there are 0 degrees of separation when it comes to our little slice of collecting culture.