Just saw this on VinylPulse - What do people think? Show me the Kaiju?

also from the Vinylpulse blog - Mark Nagata's take on Tripasu. Interesting way of debuting a new character - with 2 new sculpts at the same time. Unique.

Yup.

I'm not a Le Merde fan, eventhough I think he is a great artist. Brandt Peters and Kathie Olivas obviously have their own style, but it's boring to me. Bwana's cool too but, eh. I don't care for these at all. Don't know who that other artist mentioned is.

I think that when S7 branches out into the Western sphere (think: Neo Kaiju series), the toys look nice, but are never anything that I would personally collect. To each their own, though.

I think I like it better than Cronic's version.

LeMerde vinyl ... cool. I really wanna see that rosebud-head figure!

Except it's not Tripasu. Someone at VP needs to check their facts before posting, because this is like the fourth time someone has posted thinking that that toy is Tripasu.



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I am honestly curious as to the story behind Tripasu and Tripus. I can only assume they are related characters. Hopefully Mark will give us some insight when Tripus is released to non-attendees.

As for then new S7 line from western artists, also not for me. I actually did like the Neo Kaiju project, and it was pretty ground-breaking for its time (I would expect to see something like that more today than in '06). But I can see how this new line would appeal to a broader spectrum of people than the board denizens...

EDIT: I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but Tripus is standard size, not fight-figure. So they will be REALLY different side by side.

okay regardleas...tripasu/tripus they are incredibly similar and cool. For the next few days all of these posts are going to seem crazy and jumbled since we didn't go.

Both Tripasu and Tripus would be rendered トライパス (TO-RA-I-PA-SU) in katakana.
Maybe its just a variation in anglisizing the Japanese?
Course Naoki's has feet and Marks has tentacles...

It seems pretty deliberate on Mark's part. I doubt he would make a mistake like that since he presumably named Tripus and he designed the header for Tripasu.

I was thinking about the translation for Tripus. They could spell it literally as To-Ri-Pu-Su, so as to avoid confusion.

vinyl requiem video of some of the toy booths
http://vinylrequiem.com/SDCC.m4v

starting at 4:55 they have a good 2 and a half minutes of what was behind the glass at the Super7 booth

took a screen cap of the zombies

Man, that's a huge file. Must be uncompressed.

Thanks for the heads up, Lalo.

Who wants pics?

THIS THREAD NEEDS THEM NOW!!!!

SCOOP: Stan Lee asks for L'amour's autograph

more preview pix up at the MISHKA blog:
http://mishkanyc.com/bloglin/2008/07/24 ... iew-night/

I'm uploading a small amount of photos as we speak. My internet is terrible.

I do have a GREAT surprise for EVERYONE though. :):)

I believe both the Tripasus were designed by Mark Nagata. The one done with Cronic was sculpted by Naoki. It`s a really nice figure.

The spelling for the MT/Cronic figure comes (I believe) from the Trip + Asu (which you see in a lot of Cronic figures - comes from his wife`s name: Asuka). So it`s pretty deliberate - not an accident or spelling mistake.

I`d love to see the MT Tripus in person.

These are in no order because my flickr sucks right now.

My Usugrow(got some add ons on the arms)


My rainy wing(I got it signed but it got smudged)


Stealththanks Custom by Bwana


The Skeletal waiting line.


Gargamel Eaton(unreal sickness here)


Tokoji


Globby
Stormy


GANGSTER BABIES!!!!





I'm having a hard time loading photos, I'll try and upload more later.

Thanks for the photos I've back to this thread like 20 times trying to get a glimpse of what I'm missing

hey whats up with the Chase thrashman in the background of this photo?

Read it elsewhere ( I think in this thread? Gargamel thread? ) - you spend $200.00 you get a trashman.

So where are the HP Gangsta' Babies?

Doesn't sound like the kind of chase where you get very much exercise

I think that's "(free with pur)chase".

LOL

Does anyone want pictures of anything in particular? I tend to take a lot of pictures, so posting them all is sort of overkill...I'll try to post/take pics of other stuff too if people want it...(costumes, non-vinyl booths, etc)