Kaiyodo’s “Revoltech” the toy company trying to survive in the sea of moe?
Posted in Podcasts on Mar 8th, 2008 4 Comments »
Ok, so, you know, lover of action figures, I admit it I love the stuff, but I’m very picky with a tight budget, which leads me to the gunpla. I spend it on gunpla due to its more nostalgic reasons and I mean c’mon, giant robots very awesome. But there’s something else that has stolen the heart of my boy hood self. It’s Kaiyodo’s revoltech line, which is filled with some of the most kick ass action figure lines. There’s Gurren lagaan, Go Nagai products (getter robo mazinkaiser), Fist of the North Star and Macross. There’s also some real robot and srw stuff, but I won’t get into that. They’re true awesome line though is the Assemble Borg. It’s like GI-Joe for adults; the line includes weapons sets, motorcycles, plain bodies, extra heads and all that awesome stuff. The drawback of this awesome sounding line is IT DOESN’T EVEN EXIST! Fuck Kaiyodo! Microman is falling faster than a mountain climber with no hope, and this could totally take all the microman fans by storm. Granted, it’d be very similar, but it seems like they won’t fall in the trap of combining their licensed lines into the assemble Borg line. I think that’s what destroyed microman, that and really plain lines. I also think the microman toys should have been tougher, but that’s for another blog. The other strength of this line is that it’s tougher and less delicate than their Takara brethren (also more cooler). They also happen to resemble the old school Takara cyborg 99.
Jarknoid Zain
Jarknoid supplement parts
Mr. Assemble
Tristriker for the goodguys
(there are no pictures of the Fraulein line because I’m lazy and I hate it too much.)
Now, on to their god cursed line…the revoltech fraulein…which I think is a cruel joke from god. It involves the really shitty looking game idol master line of girls who look like they’re twelve yr old idols. There’s also the line of Eva chicks, some chick from some crap game and then some design from some crappy artist I don’t give a fuck about. I never got the point of buying a figure or a toy of a chick, I guess I’m not grown up in that way but I mean, the only action figure of a female character I would buy is Levy or the chick from Votoms. Even then, I’d just display it or probably forget about it just to have the extra accessories for Chirico. But you see, buying an action figure of Rei or asuka or Pocco seem kinda pointless, you’re not gonna play with it, nor would I be proud of displaying it. It’s also not like it’s aimed for girls, if it was, then I’d be super cool with it, but it’s not. They’re also obsessive about details, like giving them panties and that shit. If you wanna look at porn, look at fucking porn, don’t combine porn and toys. Kaiyodo, what’ up bro! You were cool with the patlabors, and mazinkaisers and getter robos. But you also make these crappy fraulein action figures.
More info for assembleborg
http://www.figures.com/databases/action.cgi?setup_file=cjtnews2.setup&category=cooljt&topic=5&show_article=80
