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    Okayama, Japan
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    Japanese models (nude or plastic)

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  1. tekering
    That bubblegum face! 😋
  2. tekering
    I bought both cat and dog upgrade sets for my Transformers. 😉
  3. tekering
    50 years obsessed with Star Wars minutiae, and there's still more to learn. 🤯
  4. tekering
    It's impossible to express the depths of horror AI is capable of generating. 😱 Now, if only we can teach it to recognize aspect ratios... 🙄
  5. tekering
    Touché, my friend. Guilty on all counts. 😅 Space constraints force me to squeeze displays of wildly different scales and themes right up next to each other. It's a chaotic mess of pop culture. 🫣 Heck, even when I manage to be consistent in scale and theme, my displays end up defeating each other... For instance, my Slave Leia (one of the most valuable TVC figures in the collection!) is almost completely obscured by Jabba's sail barge. 🤕 I greatly admire that pragmatism. I'm so sick-and-tired of buying the same characters over and over again because of slight improvements in sculpt or scale accuracy (or simply to acquire lesser-desired figures bundled together), but I'm a compulsive completist when it comes to Macross, Star Wars, Alien, RoboCop, Gremlins, Star Trek, Transformers... 😓
  6. tekering
    You have such unique displays, thematically consistent yet totally irrespective of aesthetics or scale. Fascinating! Me, I just can't bring myself to display realistic figures with anime characters, much less figures that aren't perfectly to scale with each other... 😅 I have to say, though, that Phicen body is a very poor match for Slave Leia. It's the wrong size, the wrong skin tone, and the wrong build for 25 year-old Carrie Fisher. 🤨
  7. tekering
    Here's the other pair: I managed to acquire all four Luminasta figures for less than $27 USD... including shipping! 😁
  8. tekering
    Ah, the dreaded two-packs, an unfortunate necessity within the industry. JFS knows most of us bought the 7" McFarlane RoboCop, and the 7" NECA RoboCop, and the battle-damaged variants, and now we need to buy another 7" RoboCop to get a Lewis figure... and yet another to get Toxic Emil. 😒
  9. tekering
    As the balcony railings are added, I decided to try a couple Patlabor figures to confirm scale: This has been my experience as well. 👍
  10. tekering
    Amazon.jp is still taking orders directly. They ship to Australia, right?
  11. tekering
    There are times when I'm compelled to help my fellow collectors, especially when I see companies taking unfair advantage... and this is the worst example I've seen yet. I don't know what "handling fees" entail, or how they're justified, but those of us in Japan can help you circumvent this nonsense entirely. PM if interested.
  12. tekering
    That's a pressing issue at the moment 😓
  13. tekering
    This one I acquired for myself. I figured it would be fun to display and photograph with scale vehicles and figures, including Transformers, Hot Wheels/Tomica, and GoodSmile's entire line of Patlabor models... and since it's cost me less than $400 altogether, I can sell it later and still make a profit. ☺️ Happy New Year, everybody! 🎊
  14. tekering
    Well, the structure is complete... Now I've got a ton of cosmetic work to do on each of the balconies. 1:64 figures seem an ideal size to establish scale. 👌
  15. tekering
    Ah, but "American-made Robotech" has been conceived and miscarried so often it's hard to keep track. The Sentinels was stillborn, The Shadow Chronicles died in the crib, Robotech 3000 and Academy were flushed before they could become fetal matter, and whatever Sony claims to have developed isn't even a glint in the milkman's eye. 🙄 Books are the only American-made Robotech media to have survived infancy, and that's where obvious lifts from other sci-fi franchises become apparent. Indeed, some of the more recent comics have borrowed liberally from unrelated Macross sequels (even tracing artwork outright, if I'm not mistaken), leading to their untimely demise... ...but I don't think Cyrus customizing his prototypes is going to hurt his business any more than it's already hurting. 😒
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