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What a lovely trio! The Gokinosaurus is actually the one that caught me [pleasantly] completely off guard! Such an amazing sculpt. I find it really interesting how the paint style on each of these three fellas is very much in line with some of the 'traditional' versions of these guys (e.g. from other makers), as opposed to Buta's usual style for completely off-the-wall, but fun, takes. I like it, just unexpected. The Greenmons is just as much a must-have to stand beside his counterpart M1 big brother in my toy family.
Baby Ultra is probably the 'work in progress' surprise that he hinted may or may not be also released this September.
Well, that was a test proto I am guessing. You know well that Dustman and Greenmons have been around for longer than months as well. By work in progress I mean, [he is] not sure if it will reach full production by the release date. Which I am sure he probably will, he is just trying to give a proactive warning, as he did with the Gundam figures.
Hope the eyeball will be a la M1go- red/black which seems to be the case?
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Lixx
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Re: New Butanohana
Ehhh I guess I'm in a minority not really feeling these. I was psyched about Dustman and the colors/ face are cool, but he sort of looks like a walking zombie in that pose. Never liked Greenmon.
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Re: New Butanohana
I think the new trio is the mutha f**kin bee's knees. Greenmons is 5 inches of floral kaiju perfection, and Dustman is another welcome addition to OMB's expanding Spectreman stable. Gokinosaurus is icing on the cake. So glad Buta took the Spectreman plunge, but I am always happiest when he returns to Tsubu critters it seems. Go Greenmons! Now we just need a Mammoth Flower....
The Gundams were well executed and fun because I enjoy Ohaashi's tangential endeavors, but robots are usually just not my thing. I am glad to see more bumpy, chunky, funky kaiju gracing his blog again.
EDIT: I can't stand autocorrect on my phone. It thwarts every attempt at correct grammar/spelling.
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Re: New Butanohana
chimply.kaiju wrote:
They are awesome. But my god the aftermarket prices are insane!
Indeed! All the more maddening when you consider that one person designed and produced these from the ground up - right down to assembly, sprays and staples - forked over whatever the licensing costs must have been (not cheap, I'm imagining) and then only charged the public what amounts to $40 per toy for himself!
A couple minor points of clarification:
kurumonz wrote:
Time constraint or intentional, leaving the back of the figure unpainted lends a bootleg feel to the figures.
Near as I can tell it seems to be a direct homage to the original minis that Clover produced in '79: Pretty neat, huh?
kurumonz wrote:
Looks like the missing #1 sculpt is the one on the bottom left.
He's actually only fabbed up the two on the right... So far!
Joined: Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:25 pm Posts: 7381 Location: Detroit
Re: New Butanohana
If I had to lodge anything resembling a complaint about new Gundam toys...*
It would have been nice if all four characters, like the Clovers, had been cast in different base colors.
This pic from Buta's shop has me wishing that Prototype #2, the blue-armed fella... ...had been done up in the lovely pink vinyl that you can see here. Sorry, Joe! Chara Hobby 2016?
Okay. Done for the day. Pardon my spam.
edit: Almost done...
But of course there's this: Eeesh. So many precedents to juggle!
*Other than the obligatory jeers to be flung at the institutional flippers, of course.
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I find it really interesting how the paint style on each of these three fellas is very much in line with some of the 'traditional' versions of these guys (e.g. from other makers), as opposed to Buta's usual style for completely off-the-wall, but fun, takes. I like it, just unexpected. The Greenmons is just as much a must-have to stand beside his counterpart M1 big brother in my toy family.
By work in progress I mean, [he is] not sure if it will reach full production by the release date. Which I am sure he probably will, he is just trying to give a proactive warning, as he did with the Gundam figures.
OG Zarab colors! Ohashi's killing it!