Sexy Anime Figures - Oh My!

[astrochex]

Originally Posted by masraum

Wow, yeah, that's crazy. The guys that have more than one. They dress them up, take them on vacations, take them to other dude's homes so the dolls can "meet" each other. I think there was even one that was photographed after it got another one drunk. I want to say that in one of the photos, there were a bunch of folks that had taken their dolls to some sort of convention or meet-n-greet or something, and there was even a woman with a male doll in the crowd.

IIRC, there was a topic here not too long ago about a Japanese dude marrying a hologram.

[flatbutt]

That's some real spank bank stuff.

[rusnak]

The original Sandy Frank "Battle of the Planets" from 1979, which was imported to the USA from Japan, can be said to have been the genesis of anime. The series was literally called Science Nina Team Gatchaman, and was originally created for a Japanese audience in 1972. Way before Star Wars, which it resembled what with the space bases and laser battles.

Now that stuff I "get". Super cool. But the later video game looking stuff is like WTF for me. OTOH, if someone were to reboot the story for a modern take, it would be frikken awesome.

BTW, someone needs to do a reboot of Frank Miller's "Daredevil" comics. Not the weird version that we got from Netflix, or the super aweful 2003 movie. I mean the 1980s comic series brought to live action with the super slick visuals that the comics created.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by rusnak

The original Sandy Frank "Battle of the Planets" from 1979, which was imported to the USA from Japan, can be said to have been the genesis of anime. The series was literally called Science Nina Team Gatchaman, and was originally created for a Japanese audience in 1972. Way before Star Wars, which it resembled what with the space bases and laser battles.

Now that stuff I "get". Super cool. But the later video game looking stuff is like WTF for me. OTOH, if someone were to reboot the story for a modern take, it would be frikken awesome.

BTW, someone needs to do a reboot of Frank Miller's "Daredevil" comics. Not the weird version that we got from Netflix, or the super aweful 2003 movie. I mean the 1980s comic series brought to live action with the super slick visuals that the comics created.

yep, Gatchaman is excellent, a classic.

[Noah930]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Battle of the Planets/G-Force was **the** best cartoon of my early childhood. (Close second being Superchicken, but that's a totally different genre.). It set the tone for other greats like Voltron and Robotech.

[Otter74]

Originally Posted by masraum

yep, Gatchaman is excellent, a classic.

I really like that one as a marker rendering.

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by Noah930

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Battle of the Planets/G-Force was **the** best cartoon of my early childhood. (Close second being Superchicken, but that's a totally different genre.). It set the tone for other greats like Voltron and Robotech.

Somewhere I have buried in my warehouse a huge statue limited edition "Mark the Eagle" figure offered by Sideshow Collectibles. I never took it out of the original shipping box. But IIRC, it's a plastic statue with various hands and feet. It was a crowd funded limited run, and mine was # 204 out of 350 pieces. I never decided where to put it, so I never assembled it before I got too busy to work on it.

Yes, I was a huge fan as a kid and it took over 3 years to receive it.

Edit: Sorry "Ken the Eagle"

https://www.sideshow.com/collectibles/gatchaman-g-1-ken-the-eagle-prime-1-studio-904321

[slow&rusty]

All good comments!

Some of the old art is amazing with incredible detail.

The new stuff with the sexy dolls has quite a large following. As said earlier and as I am discovering people will pay an easy $1000 for some of these 1:10 figures.

As I do not have the original boxes, I figured that the comic bookstores would low ball me and I don't have time to deal with that, so I am listing them on eBay and they are doing quite well.

[Eric 951]

Originally Posted by rusnak

The original Sandy Frank "Battle of the Planets" from 1979, which was imported to the USA from Japan, can be said to have been the genesis of anime. The series was literally called Science Nina Team Gatchaman, and was originally created for a Japanese audience in 1972. Way before Star Wars, which it resembled what with the space bases and laser battles.

Now that stuff I "get". Super cool. But the later video game looking stuff is like WTF for me. OTOH, if someone were to reboot the story for a modern take, it would be frikken awesome.

BTW, someone needs to do a reboot of Frank Miller's "Daredevil" comics. Not the weird version that we got from Netflix, or the super aweful 2003 movie. I mean the 1980s comic series brought to live action with the super slick visuals that the comics created.

Loved that cartoon as a kid, even had some of the comics. Same with Speed Racer, Voltron, Tranzor Z, and Robotech.
I still have a G-Force hook-ups skate deck, and some vintage Hook-Ups T shirts I bought back in the day--very surprised to see they are going for anywhere from 750-1,000.00