Revoltech Grendizer!
WOOOOOOOOO!
Sorry, I can't help it. This is awesome. Revoltech Grendizer, by Yamaguchi. Awesome. Feb 2010, 2,400 yen.
WOOOOOOOOO!
Sorry, I can't help it. This is awesome. Revoltech Grendizer, by Yamaguchi. Awesome. Feb 2010, 2,400 yen.
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24 comments postedHe has such a tiny head, and no neck.
Wooohooo! Been waiting for a long time for this baby! Its on preorder on hlj.com
Mathai
Boy, Grendizer sure does love thrusting his crotch forward.
Yay! Been looking for a cheap version of this robot, and Revoltech certainly fits the bill. Wonder if all the Force Five robots will end up as Revoltechs? Hmm.
Come to think of it, there are no real good cheap versions of Grendizer (or most other classic super robots) out there. I hate this crotch-in-your-face style...looks terrible on super robots. I'm all for a nice, affordable figure of Grendy and the like...but not like this...
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Sanjeev
I totally agree with Josh here. This baby is great and I can't wait to get mine. 'Nuff Said!
"crotch-in-your-face style" ???
Grandzinga....
You can just make it stand normally...
"there are no real good cheap versions of Grendizer out there"
You make the Metaltech Grendizer cry :(
Hmm...good point! Someone really needs to get one of those and review it for the site. I keep forgetting about it even though High Dream's usually on my radar...
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Sanjeev
The third and fourth pics just totally sell it for me... I haven't grabbed a Revoltech in a while, but if I see this one locally I'll snap it up! The 'dash' accessory for the foot is super rad to boot... adds some great dynamic flare AND acts like a stand, which many RTs need. Combine all that with the chunky croth-thrust sculpt (love the crotch-thrust), and this is the most aggressive Gendizer sculpt ever.
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Ha, ha... the "Hunchback of Planet Vega"...! Looks good, but I hope that if Kaiyodo ever decides to do a Mazinger Z Revoltech figure, they make it look better (no hunchback).
}D
Oh, and notice I wrote "Mazinger Z" and not "Shin Mazinger"... Shin Mazinger sucks @$$!
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But Shin Mazinger is Mazinger Z, so...
The Shin Mazinger and its story was a creation of Ken Ishikawa (of Getter Robo), not Go Nagai. Mazinger Z was created by Go Nagai. Hell, even their specs and most of their weaponry is not even the same. Geez...
so... Shin Mazinger and Mazinger Z are technically not the same.
Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest...
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I think I'll probably pick this up. I've never seen the show or anything,but he just looks so awesome. Does the foot "blast" refer to a particular special move,or just anime/manga art in general?
For you guys that are complaining about the crotch,hunchback,and whatever else,you know it's a posable figure,right? Just straighten him out.
Sanjeev,I agree totally on the need for classic robot figures at this size and price. I don't have the money/space/inclination for multiple large diecasts of the various super robots. It's made even worse by the fact that Revoltech teases you by making the modern versions of many of the robots,which,allthough they have their good points,pale in comparison to the classics IMO.
That being said,Gaiking is pretty close to his old incarnation. Of course it helps that the new Gaiking is awesome on his own!
I wonder if we can draw a generational corelation between those who dig the crotch-thrust style and those who don't!
Well, Grendizer never looked like this in the cartoon, comic, or vintage toys. The crotch-thrust can work for modern characters from video games and new anime, I guess, but to impose it on old characters is a bit annoying to me. It's like Katoki to Gundam.
And I have one of the new Gaiking Revoltechs. You can't just "straighten him out". The hips look totally bowed-out and awkward...like he's supposed to be doing ridiculous splits all the time. Thing is, that actually works for the new Gaiking...because that's pretty much how he looks in the new cartoon!
Still...it's good to see a modern Grendizer toy at all...and one that's affordable is even better! Ideally, I would've loved to have seen something like what Yamato did with their GNU-DOU line.
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Sanjeev
This is what soured me on this line almost from the get-go. I remember trying to get one of the early Dougram ones to just stand up straight and couldn't do it. All that articulation and it can't just stand up. Not for me.
"This must be settled the way nature intended....with a vicious, bloody fight!"
Onyx Blackman
Principal, Flatpoint High
Generational? Well I'm 30 and I love the crotch thrust. The Revoltech figures just have a cool,dynamic look. So far I only have Gaiking and Hot Rod,but I'm satisfied with both.
But... heroic stances are way more awesome than standing stock-stiff. I don't want my action figures to hold the same stance as Jumbo Machinders, because that's kinda boooring. I'm not posing my Dougram RT standing stiff as a board in a hangar or anything, I'm posing him tearing it up in all the ways the Dual Models can't. The RT figures seem to me to be specifically designed to mimic the crazy balls-to-the-walls over the top action styles of modern manga and anime. There's no reason for these toys to ever stand up straight or look 'classic'... that's not what they're for (which is why some of you guys haven't liked them since they debuted).
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I don't buy these based on resemblance/posability of my many other vintage incarnations already on the shelf.
You hit the 'ol proverbial nail right there Prometheum5!
"There's no reason for these toys to ever stand up straight or look 'classic'... that's not what they're for(which is why some of you guys haven't liked them since they debuted"
Grandzinga....
Well, to put it another way, crotch-thrust/balls-to-the-walls looks dumb...to me, anyway. Seeing a robot doing calisthenics seems very...unmanly to me. I mean, doesn't it look like Grendizer should be wearing 80's leg-warmers, a headband, and a spandex unitard?
I'm not saying all robot toys need to look like Jumbo's, but these are giant robots, guys. Giant robots are freakin' cool and they should *look* giant! The crotch-thrust look is great for the sort of human characters you see in video games today, but not so much for 30-meter-tall pillars of metal. The Grendizer figure above just doesn't *look* giant at all.
Oh, and don't get me wrong--I like articulation. These are "action figures", not "robot toys", so articulation is the key gimmick. It's this sculpt aesthetic that I hate.
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Sanjeev
I think you and I are going to have to fight to settle this.
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Thunderdome it is. How's this Wednesday night look? ;)
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Sanjeev
Fine, Ben. If that's how you feel, consider my offer to let you visit my JM Daltanious rescinded! ;)
Seriously, though, I'm not arguing for one style over the other. Just that if articulation is your main gimmick, I think you should be able to stand the figure up straight. Doesn't sound like too much to ask, to me.
"This must be settled the way nature intended....with a vicious, bloody fight!"
Onyx Blackman
Principal, Flatpoint High