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Ghostbuster
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Joined: Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:50 pm Posts: 989
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 Missed out on my most wanted statue (Rant)
A statue is being made of my favorite anime cover art. The manufacturer said through e-mail that the statue is NON-SCALE, which would mean that it would be in a different scale than my other statues from the same license. When the piece went up for pre-order, I decided to pass because I want all my statues to be in the same scale.
Earlier today I found out that the Japanese section of the manufacturer's website described the statue as being in the same scale as my other statues. What. The. Fuck. I was actually online during the pre-order period, and that piece of information was omitted from the English section of the website
So now if I want the statue, I'll have to buy it off YJA with a hefty mark-up. To get this statue to my doorstep, direct from the manufacturer, I would have had to pay over $300. Who knows how much I'll have to pay for one now. I may have to pass on it altogether.
Bullshit. 
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augustwest
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Joined: Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:05 am Posts: 594 Location: Indy
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got a pic 
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Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:45 am |
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Ghostbuster
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Parka
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Joined: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:14 pm Posts: 3106 Location: Oop North, UK
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sweet!
berserk is a cool manga to read.
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Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:18 pm |
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Count
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Joined: Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:24 am Posts: 2928 Location: Canada
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wow that looks pretty gnarly, I don't collect statues and I want that thing.
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Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:36 pm |
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Locomoco
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Joined: Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:13 pm Posts: 8143 Location: San Mateo
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kinda looks like one of them Croco-Henshin Cyborgs...
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Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:40 pm |
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Ghostbuster
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Yeah, it's a sweet statue, and Berserk is a great anime/manga. I'm pretty bummed about missing out  I wish they would've told me the correct information about the scale! This statue would have been mine...*sigh*
I don't know much about the "Berserker" armor that the character is wearing. I am reading the manga, but Dark Horse, the distributor of the English translation, is WAY behind the Japanese.
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Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:15 pm |
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Parka
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Joined: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:14 pm Posts: 3106 Location: Oop North, UK
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Ghostbuster wrote: Yeah, it's a sweet statue, and Berserk is a great anime/manga. I'm pretty bummed about missing out  I wish they would've told me the correct information about the scale! This statue would have been mine...*sigh* I don't know much about the "Berserker" armor that the character is wearing. I am reading the manga, but Dark Horse, the distributor of the English translation, is WAY behind the Japanese.
You could read the fansubs if you're still going to buy it, its much quicker and more up to date.
What other scale statues do you have?
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Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:14 pm |
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Ghostbuster
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I have three 1/10 scale statues that pretty much represent "The Golden Age" in Berserk. They are Guts: Hawk Soldier, Casca: Hawk Soldier, and Griffith: Millennium Falcon I. All three are Toycom/Art of War releases. This would have been my first non-Toycom Art of War statue. The Toycom releases are almost identical to the Art of War ones. They just don't have serial numbers, and they usually don't come in a really nice box.
Here's an old picture. The lighting is pretty crappy, and I forgot to insert Casca's sword

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jltohru
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Joined: Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:05 pm Posts: 3599 Location: sitting on skwisgaar's lap
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what an amazing set of pieces!!!
sucks royally about missing out
i'd be truly upset too.
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