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Takatoku Orguss Toys


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I think Orguss has the ugliest designs if anime but they also have the best. The Orguss Orgroid is by far the coolest design of any mecha I have ever seen. Vf-1's are cool but seriously the Orgroid is by far the best design. I think it is so under rated. I have recently come to slowly admire the Nikick as well, as wierd as it is, it has slowly came to grow on me. But I don't think any of the other series toys will ever grow on me sorry but they look like they should combine but they don't. Whats up with the mecha upper and lower body parts that don't combine, I mean I have never seen the anime but what were they thinking? They are some ugly designs. Is there any one out there taht can chage my mind? Or can any one tell me of a cooler design than the Orgroid? I don't think so! The color thing threw me of for the longest time but it will grow on you.

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Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. When almost every super robot design is exactly the same along the vertical axis, the asymmetric approach of the Orguss mecha is breath of fresh air. I don't recall too many other hard-SF mecha designs that depict alien hieroglyphics either. Overall, I've always found the Orguss aesthetic to be the closest thing to realising the beautiful covers for SF novels in the 70s and 80s... i.e. the groundbreaking style of illustration by Chris Foss, Peter Elson, Chris Moore etc...

So.... they are ALL beautiful to me. :-)

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Quick add: I believe the only other series with a similar level of hard-SF design would be TOMY's superlative Lensman...

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I think what really sells me on the design is the Gerwalk, and flyer, the humanoid form is satisfactory but the tank is nothing more than BS. Its nothing but a phase of transformation, to me it is really not a true transformation.

Lensman I am not familliar with that I will definately going to have to check it out! Thanks

Any one else have a favorite? or any thoughts on Orguss?

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