Tamashii Nations 2009: Urban Material Chogokin Mazinger Z
Ok, so Bandai has pulled some weird crap before, with crystal coated Gundams and such. But this one is totally out there.
The Urban Material Chogokin is 24" of cutting edge materials such as Carbon Fiber, Graphite and maybe even Titanum? Any way you cut it, its totally insane.
Go Nagai and the president of Bandai were on hand to unveil it.
It's priced at about 2 million yen, or about $20,000 USD.
TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Only two exist right now, but they will likely make a few more, but not many. This is a high-end luxury item, and not meant for mass market (duh!)
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28 comments postedYou're over there in Japan right now,right? Do me a favor and pick one up for me,when you get back to the states I'll send you a check.
You want 2? lol...
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CollectionDX Admin
I want 4 of them hehehe!!
But man that mazinger is huge :O !!
...I'd either NEVER make items so exclusive that it would alienate the "collect them all" buyers...
...or I'd whip out something like this to appeal to the "buy it only if it's a cool figure" crowd.
Some sick part of me wants this.
Even sicker, that might not be impossible.
It looks like it's got some articulation on there too... that makes it way better than a static Jumbo-esque figure.
Hahah...$20k, huh? Well, we know that Bandai uses CAD to design their toys...I wonder if they could use my company's product, FiberSIM (yes, this is my day job! I'm literally a rocket scientist), to develop the design and manufacturing plan for toys like these in the future!
(somehow, I doubt that's real carbon fiber composite fabric!)
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Sanjeev
We use CAD and Solid Works here at work. Hopefully we will get a 3D cutter one day, everybody at work knows that the first thing I will make after hours is Chogokins and Vespa parts! ha ha
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Leonardo Flores
CollectionDX Staff Writer-West Coast Bureau
That's my other money-sucking obsession. Are you a scooterist?
..I'm restoring a 1959 GS 150. Between my rare soul/psych records, My Vespa and my Japanese culture festish, I'm really down to $0!
here's my Blog about my GS:
http://youngbirdsfly.blogspot.com/2007/03/mod-dreams-do-come-true-gran-sport-vs5.html
Cheers!
Leonardo Flores
CollectionDX Staff Writer-West Coast Bureau
A GS! Beautiful. My endless project is a 64 Sprint, my rider is a 63 GL.
.....in my living room ready to get blasted, I'm think of doing it Grimstead style with all the Ulma accessories. I had a 1972 Super for many year. GL are quite difficult to locate, sweet! Even better it's a daily rider. My heart aches that I don't having a running scooter!
Leonardo Flores
CollectionDX Staff Writer-West Coast Bureau
We used FiberSim on a program that I was on. It got cancelled.
Is it to say that "See, we (BANDAI)can make a figure made out of titanium, carbon fiber, etc."I guess a person would buy this but WHY??? Does it feed some rich, self-centered person's ego to have this since there would only be a few made? Those two reasons are the only ones I can think of the minute I saw this.
The fact that we are talking about it is the reason.
It's similar to the Hyper Hybrid Gundam stuff, just on a far more grandiose scale. Very few bought them, but they were always talked about.
Just like those, expect to see them on display in some of the hard core shops in Japan to show how uber they are.
Looks like they scaled up the GX-01R design for this thing.
I think companies such as Bandai does items like this to show than can handle projects such as these as a matter of pride, sort of like a show car made by automobile manufactures, less to be sold to average collector. Yes they can provide you with one but it more to show what kind of skill they have to vendors, dealers and customers.
Well done!
LF
Leonardo Flores
CollectionDX Staff Writer-West Coast Bureau
Are you sure on the price? I saw it as ¥200,000, which is much more in line with what it could reasonably cost. (~$2,000).
You can just make out in the bottom of the first picture a 2 followed by 2 groups of 3 zeros (6).
Yeah, I see it now. Another site from Japan posted ¥200,000. Although with words like "maerial" in the description a typo isn't unexpected.
You'd think with an ugly American working there now there would be less problems with the engrish, although maybe it was intentional.
Am I the only one more interesting in knowing if Josh got to meet Go Nagai than about this trophy piece none of us are ever likely to have?
"This must be settled the way nature intended....with a vicious, bloody fight!"
Onyx Blackman
Principal, Flatpoint High
appears like he's looking at Josh for the photo.
Leonardo Flores
CollectionDX Staff Writer-West Coast Bureau
I did not get to meet him, he scooted out right after a talk about the new mazinger series. There's still hope. Today I visit Bandai HQ and possibly go to the SIC Sculptors workshop.
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Is this the first chogokin to be capable of like reflecting bullets or re-entering earth's atmosphere?
Mmm...my guess is that it would be able to sustain the shock of breaking the sound barrier...and it would be completely invisible to radar!
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Sanjeev
Truely the mark of a "great" toy! =)
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CollectionDX - Assistant Editor - Writer
Holy cow hershey's brown cow!
We'll that's all I can get my mind to say right now
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WAY beyond overkill! Whew!
The legs are static-fixed pose. Way too much cash to not have the joints and legs be on par with the Neo Jumbo Mazinger-Z.
Grandzinga....