anyone have the monster arts singular point jet jaguar? i was thinking of getting it but a bunch of reviewers seem to be warning the plastic cracks, is it that common?
>>11800370 I was going to disagree, but I hate hiya's soft plastic too much to say otherwise. Not to mention half their joints are useless cuts that offer nothing.
>>11798096 cope and seethe hiya's is cheaper and now that they can even sell in japan only makes it worse since hiya's is 10k yen while both monsterarts are 12k and 20k for the heat ray brutal mogging
The new Spacegodzilla MMS figure is fantastic looking. I'm getting that ASAP. I want to see someone paint it to look like the poster. >>11802768 Hiya for sure, most because the price to quality is much better and the character selection is creeping out to getting better.
>>11802768 My experience as a Godzilla collector getting it from multiple storefronts >Hiya Better quality finish, more movie accurate, and affordable in exchange for less articulation. >SHMA Better posing, but some minor quality issues I have here and there, and people selling older SHMA models and Bandai themselves sell it for mad prices nowadays.
>>11802242 NECA wasn't "scared" to make one you dip, it costs money to make figures. How are you so stupid? If there's no retail support or if a figure isn't going to sell well, then there's no reason to put the money into it.
>>11803317 For the building/flight stand yes, as is he comes with two heads, two sets of wings, and acid slime spit. >>11803339 >the popularity and guaranteed sales of Star Wars What year do you think it is?
>>11803339 yeah, darth vader was super massive when the movie was just a single movie, mmmhmm. wild, bro. anyways, back to dusting my 5 ghidorah figures from hiya
>>11803344 >What year do you think it is? In the context of his stupid scenario, Star Wars is a better selling and surefire bet than Godzilla King of the Monsters back in 2019 right after Toys R Us just went under and the toy market was shaky as fuck.
>>11803345 You're a fucking moron that can't even come up with a cohesive argument.
>>11803483 yeah. wild. neca is the only toy company that got the godzilla license, and didn't make a king ghidorah. it's like making a star wars line and skipping vader, a harry potter line and skipping voldemort. a batman line with out joker.
>>11803486 Because it wasn't cost effective to make a Ghidorah. You're comparing everything and none of it is in the same markets or requirements. You must still be in third grade.
Why didn't NECA make it after 2019's Godzilla film did well anyways? Plus, you don't even need that much shelf space. They packed the gargoyles with removable wings, didn't they?
>>11804022 Because retail didn't want it. Shelf space and price made it prohibitive. And this was right after TRU died, shelf space was always a concern.
>>11804189 you'd have people complain that neca's doing 'some assembly required' shit, unironically saw like, at least three people complain they had to attach brooklyn's wings out of the box.
>>11804189 You've seen how big the wings are on a figure even from Hiya or Bandai, that's still a big box. And then if you disassemble it further, tail and necks, you've basically got a large cube. And trying to put that on a retail space like Target is a pretty big no go back then.
>>11804316 Simple, make it a flat box. It just has to be as wide as the figure standing sideways with wings and tails removed, and necks curved. Like, if they wanted to, NECA could do that and it'd take very little space on a shelf. Like, the only reason Ghidorah is so big is because of the wings, take those off and he's skinnier than Godzilla. ESPECIALLY from the side. Something like this, excuse the mspaint.
>>11804365 Okay, now go back to 2019-2020 and try to convince the Target higher ups to take a weird box onto their shelves, and you also have to sell them on the price and -really- convince them people will pay the money.
>>11804517 Now if Ghidorah's perfectly standing straight, necks bent, wings detached, tail detatched. They package him flat mostly with SHMAs. >>11804511 But you said yourself, Godzilla's series doesn't make that much money.
>>11802768 Ignore brand wars faggotry and buy whatever you want. Anyone claiming that one is definitively better in every way is biased and suffering sunk cost. Bandai, Hiya, Super7, Neca and Revoltech have all made good articulated Godzilla figures and you'd be a fool to not just pick and choose the best ones because they're not the right brand.
Has anyone seen the Lucky Cat Zords next to Hiyas Monsterarts? Still trying to decide between the two lines, the only thing kinda pushing my Hiya is price and scale but everything else looks worse, and the price doesn't matter when certain characters are second hand only anyway (89/91 Zilla)
>>11806521 after some digging and checking out an 89' Godzilla Monsterarts in person I have decided to move forward with Hiya. RIP to everyone re-buying all their shit from these newfags.
>>11808455 ty anon. I won't necessarily keep all of those (also i accidently 2 Destroyahs oops), and whatever Mecha Godzilla I do keep will be called into question when the Showa design comes up, but feels good to be selling off my bigger stuff for crazy cash and setting up a display that actually works
>>11802768 I stick with SHMA. I tried Hiya and just didn't care for them despite what their rabid marketing team says, which isn't much outside of comparing themselves to SHMA. All they have going is being a cheap version of SHMA and they know it, but it's a case of getting what you pay for. Worse movement and worse material.
>>11810257 it's the tail + scaling that did it for me. The monsterarts I handled in person seemed rather small and could not do that much with it's tail, while the Hiyas can loop around.
Have you guys built any dioramas for your kaijus? What scale do you think looks best, 1:300? The buildings I see on aliexpress are pricy, I'm looking around for cardboard ones atm. I could probably print my own and stick them onto foam as another option.