i'm not expert, but I've been going on the assumption that these companies who make the stuff we like are really small and can't afford to gamble on the thought that the current demand will be the same (or greater) by the time they start production til completion... therefore alot of times supply is way smaller than demand... not some evil scheme to create an artifical demand (maybe nike or nintendo can do this). I would hate to make a toy for a show and only sell 5 of 50 I made and have 5 more batches already on order.

Yep. Lets not forget that these are also works of art. You don't normally see prints running in the 1,000s so why expect these toys to run in the same numbers.

mine hates 99% of this stuff lol

WOW, My wife prefers this stuff to anything else I collect/collected (star wars/DC etc) She even has a Steven the Bat and Dorogami of her own. She wants the new Smogun too now that she saw it.

Mine hates that I spend my money on this stuff.

"Are you looking at that RFSO website again?"

LOL Mine doesn't KNOW how much I spend on this stuff!

ask her this..."would you rather I buy toys or lap dances?"

that'll shut her up.

I'm lucky I guess my lady has always been cool with all my toy collecting habits. She even buys me stuff. I even got her collecting Pinky St. figures

Mine loves it all!!

that's why we're broke

My gal loves it, it keeps me out of real trouble. . .

I'm lucky my boyfriend is supportive. I'm also lucky he collects transformers and has hobbies of his own that help him understand mine.

He's also happy I stopped collecting the "creepy" stuff

What's the creepy stuff?

he didn't care too much for the pushead stuff that I had.

but i determined i wasn't ever going to throw money around to be completist on skullwings, so no big deal for me really.

us singletons have it free & easy

It's not so much knowledge as a suspicion, i.e., when a 3 lbs. Celga box rolls in the front door. I would ship to my office, but that would lead to other questions.

As for the lapdance argument, I can see that going somewhere where I fear to tread.

My girl likes the stuff.. even Blobpus. I call her Pumpkin Guts sometimes.

my girl would love it if it cost maybe half as much. I'm fortunate enough that she loves me, and she knows that for as long as I'm able, I will collect japanese toys. I get a lot of eye-rolling. if she knew how much I paid for any of this stuff, she'd probably kill me. Only the collectors understand the magic of it all, but to everyone else it's "you paid $60 for THAT?" It was SB, so I don't blame them. I even said the same thing when my first SB piece showed up.

Really? Art?

I just collect toys.

Lol! I think if I wasn't already a part of the Japanese toy scene, I wouldn't appreciate these enough to want to buy them, but I dunno...they are tasty.

Toys, Art, Door Stop. Hey man whatever floats yer boat. It's just a few of the many names of our vinyl addiction.

Got my Galtan last night! It's awesome! Thanks, Isaac - very cool of you to get these created and to offer them to us!

Dude, exactly that happaned to me. It's annoying when someone you're with puts down something you are crazy about because they don't understand it. Maybe i need to exchange her for another gf lol.

Same here. BIG ups to IR for these dudes. I love everything about it from the packaging, to the colors, to the awesome glow. Super-killer toy by all means. He reigns supreme over his two Galtan bros. on the top shelf.

Banshee - can you post a photo of the X-Ray in it's non-glowing state? Does it just look like a normal clear vinyl? It looks freaking awesome glowing, but I just wonder what it looks like in daylight...wanna know if I actually need to track it down.

He looks almost-totally clear. I'm not sure if it's the vinyl that was used (maybe because it happens to be GID), or the production techniques, but he's not crystal clear -- kind of a very opaque light white.

Sure thing. Give me just a sec. here and I'll post a pic.

Does everyone's RFSO Galtan have a white star on the butt? It looks as if a little star decal was applied, painted over, then removed, leaving just the base GID vinyl color behind.