The Official Galvion Toy Thread.
Posted by Roger
| October 16, 2006 12:15PM |
| October 16, 2006 01:57PM |
| October 16, 2006 02:36PM |
Vincent Z. Wrote:
> Just go over ther and post anyway in English.
Isn't that how you got Fun Bolt to hate you?
Isn't that the reason some Japanese sites block American IPs in the first place, because some of us are jerks who don't care if posting in a foreign language essentially unreadable spam, or is against a site's policy?
-Paul Segal
"Oh, the anger is never far, never far." -SteveH
> Just go over ther and post anyway in English.
Isn't that how you got Fun Bolt to hate you?
Isn't that the reason some Japanese sites block American IPs in the first place, because some of us are jerks who don't care if posting in a foreign language essentially unreadable spam, or is against a site's policy?
-Paul Segal
"Oh, the anger is never far, never far." -SteveH
| November 30, 2006 02:05AM |
| November 30, 2006 03:28AM |
| December 12, 2006 10:04PM |
| December 12, 2006 11:17PM |
| December 13, 2006 03:21AM |
| January 01, 2007 10:10PM |
Two of the candy toy reissues are on Yahoo Japan Auctions. Opening price is ridiculously high and there is 1 day left with no bidders.
[page9.auctions.yahoo.co.jp]
[page6.auctions.yahoo.co.jp]
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/01/2007 10:11PM by Scopedog.
[page9.auctions.yahoo.co.jp]
[page6.auctions.yahoo.co.jp]
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/01/2007 10:11PM by Scopedog.
| January 02, 2007 08:46AM |
| May 06, 2007 08:02AM |
This book has been on Yahoo Auctions Japan a few times now.
It's a vintage Galvion artbook. 64 pages or so of black 'n white Galvion Goodness:
Auction pictures are shown above - I've got the actual book in the mail yesterday (yay!). It consists of photocopies of some production material stappled together and put inside a mook-cover. Only the cover is in color. Almost no text, except when the original drawings featured text.
First 10 pages or so cover the Galvion crew and bad guys and misc characters. Circus 1 is covered extensively, Circus 2 (transport truck) and 3 (Zector) decently. But no pics of the Circus 3's add on armor :(
Chaser Police, buildings and the city get some coverage.
Enemy transformable mechs also get decent coverage, and last 6 pages or so are about the non-transformable mechs.
What's nice is that almost all the transformable vehicles have their transformations shown.
All of them look fully realisable without anime magic, so it stands to reason that weren't it for Takatoku's bankruptcy we'd have gotten toys of all of them.
Also, the ARII large scale kits appear to be rather mis-proportioned when compared to the art.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 05/06/2007 08:15AM by thomas.
| May 06, 2007 09:04AM |
I always thought that thing was a series bible.
When I was going through those Imai files I only found one piece of Galvion pre-production artwork, it showed very rough versions of the robots next to each other and they were drastically different in terms of size. I'm guessing that the sponsors stepped in and told the animators that featuring one 3 meter robot, one 7 meter robot, a 10 meter robot, etc., was going to be difficult for them, so that changed.
I also just watched the first two episodes of the show yesterday. The animation isn't great, but it's fun. It's like a version of Car Wars with transforming vehicles. And for some reason there are aliens in the prologue that you never see again.
When I was going through those Imai files I only found one piece of Galvion pre-production artwork, it showed very rough versions of the robots next to each other and they were drastically different in terms of size. I'm guessing that the sponsors stepped in and told the animators that featuring one 3 meter robot, one 7 meter robot, a 10 meter robot, etc., was going to be difficult for them, so that changed.
I also just watched the first two episodes of the show yesterday. The animation isn't great, but it's fun. It's like a version of Car Wars with transforming vehicles. And for some reason there are aliens in the prologue that you never see again.
| May 06, 2007 11:28AM |
Roger Wrote:
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> I also just watched the first two episodes of the
> show yesterday. The animation isn't great, but
> it's fun. It's like a version of Car Wars with
> transforming vehicles. And for some reason there
> are aliens in the prologue that you never see
> again.
Got link?
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> I also just watched the first two episodes of the
> show yesterday. The animation isn't great, but
> it's fun. It's like a version of Car Wars with
> transforming vehicles. And for some reason there
> are aliens in the prologue that you never see
> again.
Got link?
| May 06, 2007 11:04PM |
| May 07, 2007 12:45AM |
| May 07, 2007 12:46AM |
| May 07, 2007 04:37AM |
nemeos Wrote:
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> any chance of seeing some scans of said book?
> specially interested in the transforming bad guyz
> and circus 2,3 refs. myself...
>
> pwety plz? :3
Yes, but you'll have to wait a few months (probably - I need to get some good webspace and a provider first)
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> any chance of seeing some scans of said book?
> specially interested in the transforming bad guyz
> and circus 2,3 refs. myself...
>
> pwety plz? :3
Yes, but you'll have to wait a few months (probably - I need to get some good webspace and a provider first)
| May 20, 2007 03:22PM |
| May 21, 2007 02:21AM |
| May 21, 2007 03:30AM |
| May 21, 2007 12:00PM |
| May 23, 2008 10:31PM |
| May 24, 2008 05:56AM |
| May 24, 2008 08:45AM |
| May 25, 2008 02:00AM |
| May 31, 2008 01:10AM |
Has anyone here actually collected the Galvion model kits? I always see them being sold online, but I rarely see any photos of completed ones. I tried building a variable Orguss from Imai, the same model company, so i can only assume the worst.
If Yamato made a Galvion, would anyone here buy it? As much as I have my own hesitations, Yamato has exclusively released the motoslaves and will be releasing a Danguard Ace.
There aren't too many fragile points on the Galvion, so a solid design shouldn't be too difficult, regardless of which company decides to release it. If we could take Yamato's design, CM's or Bandai's structural materials, and Megahouses knack for venturing beyond the main character--this would be great. One can only dream...
If Yamato made a Galvion, would anyone here buy it? As much as I have my own hesitations, Yamato has exclusively released the motoslaves and will be releasing a Danguard Ace.
There aren't too many fragile points on the Galvion, so a solid design shouldn't be too difficult, regardless of which company decides to release it. If we could take Yamato's design, CM's or Bandai's structural materials, and Megahouses knack for venturing beyond the main character--this would be great. One can only dream...
| May 31, 2008 04:37AM |
RedAleseides Wrote:
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> Has anyone here actually collected the Galvion
> model kits? I always see them being sold online,
> but I rarely see any photos of completed ones. I
> tried building a variable Orguss from Imai, the
> same model company, so i can only assume the
> worst.
>
Most kits are by ARII (or what I prefer to call the ARII/Imai/LS-complex, as they seem to share subjects and sometimes even kits...some unproduced 1/72 ARII Galvion kits ended up being produced as 1/120 LS kits...). Almost all Galvion kits are non-variable, which is good. Quality varies a bit, with some kits having god-awful accuracy (Metal Battler Balgus...*urgh*) and others being quite good (Zector 1/100, Galvion 1/72).
The only variable kit is the 1/48 Galvion robot/middle mode kit, which has some weird shortcuts in the transformation but looks quite good in robot mode (probably the best).
Unproduced kits that I know of:
- 1/32 Zector
- 1/48 Zector
- 1/72 white bad guy transformable car
- 1/72 red bad guy transformable car/tank
- 1/72 versions of the remaining Metal Battlers (2 produced as 1/120 scale kits by LS)
> If Yamato made a Galvion, would anyone here buy
> it? As much as I have my own hesitations, Yamato
> has exclusively released the motoslaves and will
> be releasing a Danguard Ace.
Only if they'd actually make some test-shots and check for weak points, because otherwise they have a potential "1st edition VF-11B with breaking hips"-style disaster...
>
> There aren't too many fragile points on the
> Galvion, so a solid design shouldn't be too
> difficult, regardless of which company decides to
> release it. If we could take Yamato's design, CM's
> or Bandai's structural materials, and Megahouses
> knack for venturing beyond the main
> character--this would be great. One can only
> dream...
Yamato's design tends to overlook weak points by trying to be too accurate in certain 'anime-magic' areas (read: flimsy parts).
With Galvion this would probably mean breaking wings and loads of problems with the upper body. The left and right half of the upper body have to do a fancy revolving motion to get on the right spot, with the wheels and arms revolving around those two halves, and there needs to be some complicated sliding motion in the hips (both are screwed up in the 1/48 ARII kit, by the way...).
Getting that right without ending up with vehicle mode proportions like on the unproduced Takatoku or the Convertor version might take some serious engineering.
I'll scan in the pages from that artbook showing the transformation bits one of these days.
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> Has anyone here actually collected the Galvion
> model kits? I always see them being sold online,
> but I rarely see any photos of completed ones. I
> tried building a variable Orguss from Imai, the
> same model company, so i can only assume the
> worst.
>
Most kits are by ARII (or what I prefer to call the ARII/Imai/LS-complex, as they seem to share subjects and sometimes even kits...some unproduced 1/72 ARII Galvion kits ended up being produced as 1/120 LS kits...). Almost all Galvion kits are non-variable, which is good. Quality varies a bit, with some kits having god-awful accuracy (Metal Battler Balgus...*urgh*) and others being quite good (Zector 1/100, Galvion 1/72).
The only variable kit is the 1/48 Galvion robot/middle mode kit, which has some weird shortcuts in the transformation but looks quite good in robot mode (probably the best).
Unproduced kits that I know of:
- 1/32 Zector
- 1/48 Zector
- 1/72 white bad guy transformable car
- 1/72 red bad guy transformable car/tank
- 1/72 versions of the remaining Metal Battlers (2 produced as 1/120 scale kits by LS)
> If Yamato made a Galvion, would anyone here buy
> it? As much as I have my own hesitations, Yamato
> has exclusively released the motoslaves and will
> be releasing a Danguard Ace.
Only if they'd actually make some test-shots and check for weak points, because otherwise they have a potential "1st edition VF-11B with breaking hips"-style disaster...
>
> There aren't too many fragile points on the
> Galvion, so a solid design shouldn't be too
> difficult, regardless of which company decides to
> release it. If we could take Yamato's design, CM's
> or Bandai's structural materials, and Megahouses
> knack for venturing beyond the main
> character--this would be great. One can only
> dream...
Yamato's design tends to overlook weak points by trying to be too accurate in certain 'anime-magic' areas (read: flimsy parts).
With Galvion this would probably mean breaking wings and loads of problems with the upper body. The left and right half of the upper body have to do a fancy revolving motion to get on the right spot, with the wheels and arms revolving around those two halves, and there needs to be some complicated sliding motion in the hips (both are screwed up in the 1/48 ARII kit, by the way...).
Getting that right without ending up with vehicle mode proportions like on the unproduced Takatoku or the Convertor version might take some serious engineering.
I'll scan in the pages from that artbook showing the transformation bits one of these days.
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| June 03, 2008 05:29AM |
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Ah yes, the age of glue-only, no polycaps and thinly molded pieces. It's definitely time for an update. Maybe even an R3 model or soul spec? I think the model is more likely. Anyways, it go the same way most things do. Either Yamato will make a crappy ver, or some other company will figure out the design and everyone else will jump on the bandwagon.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/03/2008 11:05PM by RedAleseides.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/03/2008 11:05PM by RedAleseides.
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