Diecast Vs Plastic

[GobotFool]

Well I was on transfandom, and toybox, and this is a popular debate so I decided to drop a poll on it in MW. Let it be known where macross worlders stand on the issue! Anyway, I voted the 3rd its all good when used right.

[SkullLeaderVF-X]

I like them both. Only when there used the right way, and not the half assed way... :cough:mpc:cough:

[VF-19]

I too voted for the mixture. Diecast and plastic both have their perks and flaws.

And I like the mixture in my 1:60 Yamatos!

[SkullLeaderVF-X]

I too voted for the mixture. Diecast and plastic both have their perks and flaws.

And I like the mixture in my 1:60 Yamatos!

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[Commander McBride]

I love diecast, when used right. However, it isn't very good on the 1/60s. Every diecast part has become incredibly loose on my Max.

[SkullLeaderVF-X]

I love diecast, when used right. However, it isn't very good on the 1/60s. Every diecast part has become incredibly loose on my Max.

Hmmm........My Hikaru 1/60 still feels good to me.Nothing seems loose.

[UN Spacy]

When I take a look at the 20th Anniversary Prime I think it's a good mix of diecast and plastic. As long as someone takes the time and make the right decision's into their work anything can look beautiful. B)

[Guppy]

Yeah, they both have their place. It's simply a question of price vs. quality. I love my SOC evangelions, but I had to pay 4 or 5 times as much as I did for the plastic kaiyodo ones...

[leeden]

I say each has its use. The problem with the discussions on the Transformers forums are the snap judgements. It really irritates me when I have to read posts like "Hasbro ruined 20th anniversary Prime with diecast, I'm boycotting it!" It's so obsessively fanboyish. That's why I refrain from posting on those sites. The whole issue seems moot to me anyway. The polls for the annivesary figure suggested the majority wanted diecast so that's what we're getting.

[JsARCLIGHT]

Both have their applications. I'm generally not a big fan of diecast in toys as they have all those "paint chip" issues. Every diecast toy I had as a child looked like it got raked with a few bursts from a trench gun due to all the chips in the paint... then again that was the '70s back when all toys where like that.

I have always wondered why some high dollar toys have not experimented with forged aluminum.

[motley]

while i have a lot of plastic toys and relatively few diecast toys, i have been growing rapidly disenfranchized with my plasticy toys. many, many of my toys would be so much better if they just had a bit of metal in them. given the choice i will so choose metal over plastic. plastic may not exactly suck, it just needs metal to keep it from falling apart. i have succombed to the chogolust.

too bad i already emptied my wallet on the plastic toys. doh. <_<

[Smut Peddler]

Totally depends on the toy to me. I have some great all plastic toys, and likewise for the diecast ones. There will always be toys that suck, and the material usually has little to do with that.

[Angel's Fury]

When I take a look at the 20th Anniversary Prime I think it's a good mix of diecast and plastic. As long as someone takes the time and make the right decision's into their work anything can look beautiful. B)

Ditto!

[JB0]

Having dragged my old Transformers out recently, I have to say one thing...

I resent plastic.

When I was a kid, a toy could double as a weapon in a pinch. Just run up and bash someone in the head with a nice chunk of Yellow Lion.

Plastic took over completely from die-cast and the end result is modern toys fail during normal usage. And you can just forget throwing them at someone.

Sure my old GoBot space shuttle has a big garish gray metal area where the windshield was, but when I imagine that damage across a white plastic nosepiece with a windshield sticker, it doesn't look that bad.

And white paint on diecast doesn't turn yellow like white plastic can. Tragically, the arms and feet were made of a plastic rather susceptible to yellowing(though the wings and tail are still white, the scratches across them detract from the aesthetic value somewhat).

Edited September 12, 2003 by JB0

[vf1_soulja]

I say "Both are good when used right". The Yamato 1/48 valk has a higher plastic content than ,say, a Bandai SOC Great Mazinger. Both are high quality toys using the two materials in different ways.

[ewilen]

I also voted for both. Balance and ease of handling is important. I think the Yamato 1/60 has an excellent balance in fighter mode, but the legs are a bit too heavy relative to everything else in Gerwalk and Battroid modes. The 1/48 has a decent balance with relatively little diecast; the Takatoku/Bandai 1/55's have very nice balance in all modes using a moderate percentage of diecast.