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toothaction
Team Tsubu
Joined: Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:25 pm Posts: 7381 Location: Detroit
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Re: New Medicom
ironmonkey_65 wrote: I've never ordered from this place before, but its the only place I was able to find to accept foreign orders for the Medicom Astro Mu 5. So I bit the bullet and it seems my orders went through. Check it out http://cjmart.jp/en/I've looked and failed before, but never asked -- any videos of nodders in action out there?
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maxaltoman
Side Dealer
Joined: Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:11 pm Posts: 2162 Location: Land of unfree
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Re: New Medicom
This month's releases are killing the wallet for sure!
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Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:12 pm |
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spacemonkey66
Toy Prince
Joined: Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:04 pm Posts: 236 Location: Australia
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Re: New Medicom
ironmonkey_65 wrote: I've never ordered from this place before, but its the only place I was able to find to accept foreign orders for the Medicom Astro Mu 5. So I bit the bullet and it seems my orders went through. Check it out http://cjmart.jp/en/I've had no problems when ordering from this online store. Should be fine!
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Fri Oct 23, 2015 9:44 pm |
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ironmonkey_65
Fresh Meat
Joined: Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:55 am Posts: 6
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Re: New Medicom
Ah, well thats good to hear my fellow 'monkey'
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Mon Oct 26, 2015 1:53 am |
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The Moog
Super Deformed
Joined: Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:39 am Posts: 5747 Location: Gert Brizzle UK
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Re: New Medicom
Weird to see these classic Bear Model sculpts getting the Medicom re-issue treatment. I wonder if this is the first time BM have done this? I'm not aware of this happening with Medicom before . . . .
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Mon Oct 26, 2015 8:46 am |
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toothaction
Team Tsubu
Joined: Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:25 pm Posts: 7381 Location: Detroit
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Re: New Medicom
^ Don't forget the midi Minya! Makes sense, though, now that they're Medicom's house sculptors for so many other licensed lines. And, y'know, on accounta the Vinyl Wars project. What a kick it would be to see new colorways of their Ultraman Ace and Spectreman toys! In thinking about it, they did do several from the Spectreline a few years ago, and colorful versions of Gaira and Sanda, too. edit: Whoa...
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Mon Oct 26, 2015 9:45 am |
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The Moog
Super Deformed
Joined: Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:39 am Posts: 5747 Location: Gert Brizzle UK
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Re: New Medicom
^^ Oh yeah, i wish i'd picked up the new Lion-Maru sculpts when i had the chance at retail . . . and those versions of Gaira and Sanda look great too.
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Mon Oct 26, 2015 10:22 am |
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Biff
S7 Royalty
Joined: Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:19 pm Posts: 3442
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Re: New Medicom
I guess there are worse problems, but so much is coming out so fast. I tallied up my want list for what is available and nearly fell over! Hard choices will have to be made.
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Mon Oct 26, 2015 7:43 pm |
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delviper
Toy Prince
Joined: Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:19 pm Posts: 309 Location: Austin, TX
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Re: New Medicom
Anyone pre-order the Astro-Mu from Lulubell?
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Mon Oct 26, 2015 9:09 pm |
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ultrakaiju
Vintage
Joined: Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:51 pm Posts: 7316
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Re: New Medicom
Medicom's production lately has definitely been staggering. I am happy they have risked a little by 'testing the market' and stumbled across what seems to be an evidently very productive and profitable market for them. From just a few years ago where there might be one or two releases of 'classic sofubi' I would really want to buy, as you say, now it is choosing just the most special from a whole series of excellent toys. The only real downside/complaint I see to all these new toys is the still limited availability for most of them to overseas customers.
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Mon Oct 26, 2015 11:40 pm |
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jakes
Fresh Meat
Joined: Sat Oct 03, 2015 10:18 am Posts: 35 Location: Indonesia
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Re: New Medicom
Every month they got new pre order, really want them all. old mold reused. new collector got a chance to get an old sofubi
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Tue Oct 27, 2015 7:53 am |
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boon velvet
Line of Credit
Joined: Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:11 pm Posts: 1551 Location: a bird house in a southern swampland
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Re: New Medicom
[gulp] and [gulp] 1 of each, please.
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toothaction
Team Tsubu
Joined: Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:25 pm Posts: 7381 Location: Detroit
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Re: New Medicom
At only 32,400円 a set, we should all try for 2 of each!
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b1470
Toy Prince
Joined: Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:50 pm Posts: 145 Location: honolulu,hi
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Re: New Medicom
Can anyone tell me how the Medicom Collabs with other companies work? Do these companies like Anraku, Bear Model, Ilu Ilu, etc..make their own toys and Medicom bankrolls, promotes, and sells it, or does Medicom use the original molds and use their own factories and just gives them a %. Any insight or knowledge would be great and interesting.
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JoeMan
S7 Royalty
Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:29 am Posts: 3818 Location: NY
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Re: New Medicom
b1470 wrote: Can anyone tell me how the Medicom Collabs with other companies work? Do these companies like Anraku, Bear Model, Ilu Ilu, etc..make their own toys and Medicom bankrolls, promotes, and sells it, or does Medicom use the original molds and use their own factories and just gives them a %. Any insight or knowledge would be great and interesting. When I worked with medicom I ordered the vinyl for them and created a paint sample and then sent them the vinyl and paint sample and they painted the run, though they did ask me several times to paint the run but I had no time to do it myself. So pretty much option a for most cases, though I'm sure there are always exceptions or different methods with different makers.
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Sun Nov 01, 2015 9:49 am |
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onibaba5
Post Pimp
Joined: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:30 am Posts: 2954 Location: Hudson, Ohio
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Re: New Medicom
Does Medicom have their own factory in Japan now or do they have all the small sofubi shops tied up with all this output?
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Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:14 am |
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Thornton
Toy Prince
Joined: Wed Feb 16, 2011 9:05 am Posts: 288 Location: Right here!
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Re: New Medicom
Did anybody score this secret (?) halloween "Sour"? I'm not sure what to make of this page, except that it's probably sold out? Or is it still coming up? http://www.mandarake.co.jp/information/2015/11/02/21sby02/index.html
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nefasth
S7 Royalty
Joined: Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:46 pm Posts: 3505 Location: Morgoth
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Re: New Medicom
^ Is it sofubi or china plastic ? Looks great nonetheless !
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Mecha
Side Dealer
Joined: Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:07 pm Posts: 2323 Location: Hoth
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Re: New Medicom
Long gone.. looked like a medicom Japan only drop, I think. Good to see on one yja already too though.
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TiredChildren
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Joined: Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:12 pm Posts: 3416 Location: Melbourne, FL
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Re: New Medicom
nefasth wrote: ^ Is it sofubi or china plastic ? Looks great nonetheless ! Sofubi from what I've heard.
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Mon Nov 02, 2015 2:51 pm |
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Thornton
Toy Prince
Joined: Wed Feb 16, 2011 9:05 am Posts: 288 Location: Right here!
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Re: New Medicom
Mecha wrote: Long gone.. looked like a medicom Japan only drop, I think. Good to see on one yja already too though. Yep, but the price asked is...
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Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:56 am |
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Kingboy D
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Joined: Tue May 06, 2008 4:46 pm Posts: 981 Location: Sunny South Florida
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Re: New Medicom
spacemonkey66 wrote: ironmonkey_65 wrote: I've never ordered from this place before, but its the only place I was able to find to accept foreign orders for the Medicom Astro Mu 5. So I bit the bullet and it seems my orders went through. Check it out http://cjmart.jp/en/I've had no problems when ordering from this online store. Should be fine! BTW, in case anyone still has not yet preordered, there are some stores stateside that offer selected preorders (and for cheaper too!).
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Wed Nov 04, 2015 7:33 am |
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cheapo
Toy Prince
Joined: Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:52 am Posts: 433 Location: Sunny Sing!!
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Re: New Medicom
I love the new astro mu design but what is keeping me off it is that I can't stand batteries in toys, always have me worry bout leakage problems over the long run (or that I must always remember to remove the batteries which itself) and that the voice electronics might fail over time.
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Wed Nov 04, 2015 7:59 pm |
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mondocoyote
Comment King
Joined: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:32 pm Posts: 1227 Location: Chigasaki, Japan
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Re: New Medicom
cheapo wrote: I love the new astro mu design but what is keeping me off it is that I can't stand batteries in toys, always have me worry bout leakage problems over the long run (or that I must always remember to remove the batteries which itself) and that the voice electronics might fail over time. There are no batteries in Astro-Mu toys, so nothing to worry about there. The push buttons on the front/ back of the doll moves a rod inside the body, that nods or shakes the head. All the tanks came with a key and are wind-up.
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Wed Nov 04, 2015 11:01 pm |
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cheapo
Toy Prince
Joined: Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:52 am Posts: 433 Location: Sunny Sing!!
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Re: New Medicom
Ahhhh thanks for clarifying, I was reading the English description and thought that there are voice functions lol.
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