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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214705#msg-214705</link>
      <author>Vincent Z.</author>
      <description><![CDATA[&gt;And Nagano has no 'embargo' on merchandising, he just wants complete control so it &gt;reflects his work. he, like Gainax, felt that the Garage Kit Industry was better &gt;for some things, more personal, more in touch with the 'soul', the connection &gt;between creator and the consumer. Then Gainax whored themselves out with Eva. 

That be true.

As far as Nagano and schoolgirls, one of the volumes of FSS was nothing but how schoolgirls live in the FSS world. 

I so wished during when Yoshiyuki Tomino was in NYAF, that someone asked him about his collaboration with Nagano on things like L-Gaim, Z &amp; ZZ Gundam and Brain Powered.]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:00:09 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: New Revoltech Thread Untouched by the Masses</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,191578,214704#msg-214704</link>
      <author>hillsy</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Is that......plastic ejaculate?]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:41:53 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214703#msg-214703</link>
      <author>SteveH</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Vince has been emboldened, but I will be justified in the end. Just you watch. 

And Nagano has no 'embargo' on merchandising, he just wants complete control so it reflects his work. he, like Gainax, felt that the Garage Kit Industry was better for some things, more personal, more in touch with the 'soul', the connection between creator and the consumer. Then Gainax whored themselves out with Eva.

The amount of G-kits produced for Five Star Stories is staggering.]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:17:25 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Dinosaur Tank!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214702,214702#msg-214702</link>
      <author>SteveH</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Dinosaur Tank! Everyone loves the Dinosaur Tank! Even in 1984 they loved the Dinosaur Tank!]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:09:24 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214701#msg-214701</link>
      <author>Vincent Z.</author>
      <description><![CDATA[SteveH, please take your old man pills to relax.

So this is going to be a theatrical film, right? I hold Nagano eases up on his merchandising embargo so as to see some TOYS (no, not expensive resin kit models). I want full blown articulated figures.]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:02:39 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214700#msg-214700</link>
      <author>Kwesi K.</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Yeah, now I'm kinda sorry I asked.   I was mostly joking with the link.  Didn't expect it to bring out the zoo crew.  Probably should have known better.

Also, I wasn't aware that evidence of Nagano going to the dark side was that he is doing what he has always done.]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:58:27 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214699#msg-214699</link>
      <author>Vincent Z.</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Did I mention moe in this thread? NO

EVERY SINGLE DAMN THREAD I MAKE HAS BEEN AN ARGUMENT ABOUT MOE AND I'M NOT GOING THERE THIS TIME.]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:54:29 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214698#msg-214698</link>
      <author>Sanjeev</author>
      <description><![CDATA[VF5SS Wrote:
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&gt; Vincent Z. Wrote:
&gt; --------------------------------------------------
&gt; ----- 
&gt; &gt; AMEN!!
&gt; 
&gt; Vincent, just shut up already. Your pro-moe
&gt; obsession is dominating everything you post.


Win.]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:53:09 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[Original Invincible BBS] Re: Joe's Crystal Model appreciation thread.</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?1,207706,214697#msg-214697</link>
      <author>SteveH</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Not to mention obsessive detail...

(I expect Roger to make this a personal icon)]]></description>
      <category>Original Invincible BBS</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:51:09 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214696#msg-214696</link>
      <author>Anavel</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Why don't you all just stop dragging the moe argument into every conversation regardless if it is relative or not.]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:46:25 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214695#msg-214695</link>
      <author>VF5SS</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Vincent Z. Wrote:
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&gt; AMEN!!

Vincent, just shut up already. Your pro-moe obsession is dominating everything you post.]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:23:49 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214694#msg-214694</link>
      <author>repairtechjon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[If it stays to the Victoria-Persia aesthetic  (yeah I made that up, puffy pants/vests :0p  ) and has some cool mysticmecha action, then great.

But there better NOT be any ultimate flying panty kites in it!!

Still have that original Newtype cover article laying around, enjoyed that artwork. Hope to get more than that eventually...]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:08:17 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: Feeling negative about Ebay..</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214288,214693#msg-214693</link>
      <author>repairtechjon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Flag 'im, Flag him, Flag him!

The shill bid comment cracks me up.
 
I heard of a similar clueless, though more innocent comment come to SeriousToyz during an auction, where a guy wrote an angry letter after the auction. He was the winning bidder after 6 bids or so, since he put in a high ceiling bid, but thought the high ceiling outdoing everyone else would get him locked into the item at the starting bid price. Didn't understand why he still had to pay at the winning 6th bid amount, (whatever it was at that point). HUH?  Didn't think his &quot;slick&quot; bidding strategy through too well.

Thanks for the heads up on the ebay guy Dave. Have similar shenanigans been hitting the Monster collectors?]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:57:57 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214692#msg-214692</link>
      <author>Vincent Z.</author>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;Steve, just shut up already. Your anti-moe obsession is starting to dominate everything you post.&quot;

AMEN!!]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:04:07 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: New Revoltech Thread Untouched by the Masses</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,191578,214691#msg-214691</link>
      <author>VF5SS</author>
      <description><![CDATA[asterphage Wrote:
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&gt; I thought that was Len.


Lin has the bow.]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:49:46 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214690#msg-214690</link>
      <author>VF5SS</author>
      <description><![CDATA[SteveH Wrote:
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&gt; Given how Nagano has a clothing fetish, and
&gt; recalling the waif-like looks of the Fatimas from
&gt; FSS, I can easily imagine Nagano taking the plunge
&gt; into the dread ocean of MOE.

&gt; And, just to be evil, recall that it was Vince
&gt; that made the initial post. 

Steve, just shut up already. Your anti-moe obsession is starting to dominate everything you post.]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:46:52 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[Original Invincible BBS] Re: Joe's Crystal Model appreciation thread.</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?1,207706,214689#msg-214689</link>
      <author>MattAlt</author>
      <description><![CDATA[When Yaco posted that on Twitter, Shinji Aramaki jumped into the conversation to announce that &quot;cutaway illustrations are what mecha love is founded upon.&quot; I am ordering everyone reading this thread to get that tattooed on their bodies.]]></description>
      <category>Original Invincible BBS</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:43:24 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[Cafe Chogokin] Re: Japanese vs. American release Chogokin values</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?4,214347,214688#msg-214688</link>
      <author>MattAlt</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I enjoy speculation as much as the next guy and don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but it is nearly impossible to divine what &quot;go&quot; or &quot;godai&quot; was intended to mean by looking at the word in English. For one thing there are dozens upon dozens of homonyms in Japanese, and for another it's difficult to figure out which syllable means what without knowing if it refers to a long or short vowel sound. (The &quot;go&quot; in Chogokin is long, for example, while the &quot;go&quot; that means the number five is short. And those meanings are just two examples out of many more potential kanji selections.)  Also, once again, from a Japanese linguistic standpoint, &quot;dai&quot; alone really does not convey anything about Bandai. So that's a tough sell, too.]]></description>
      <category>Cafe Chogokin</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:31:58 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214687#msg-214687</link>
      <author>thomas</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Kwesi K. Wrote:
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&gt; How so?
&gt; 
&gt; I mean, he's not promoting THESE abominations in
&gt; that video clip, is he?
&gt; 
&gt; http://www.toysdaily.com/discuz/thread-123751-1-1.
&gt; html

Wut?

They also dare to soil the SR-71 by showing it together with this crap in one of those clips.]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:48:29 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: Feeling negative about Ebay..</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214288,214686#msg-214686</link>
      <author>cholocarwash</author>
      <description><![CDATA[wow. that guy has left more negative feedbacks in 11 transactions than i have left in over 700. someone has an itchy trigger finger.

i can see being unhappy with price because the condition was not what the buyer had in mind. that doesn't really seem to be the case with this item. it seems like he did his research after the purchase and realised he overpaid.

i wonder what kind of racket this guy is pulling with those shill bids. he's gotta alot of nerve posting the fact that he is knowingly trying to commit fraud.]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:36:45 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214685#msg-214685</link>
      <author>SteveH</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Given how Nagano has a clothing fetish, and recalling the waif-like looks of the Fatimas from FSS, I can easily imagine Nagano taking the plunge into the dread ocean of MOE.After all, it's where the money is currently, merchandising-wise and Nagano has since the '80s been all about the merchandising. 

I mean, the title? Gothicmade? Goth? Maid? and maybe Steampunk? Victorian clothing? 

And, just to be evil, recall that it was Vince that made the initial post. 

So, yeah, I'm looking for 'problems' that do not yet exist. I get that. But if you see someone carrying a can of gasoline and flicking a Zippo lighter over and over, it's smart thinking to figure there may be a fire in the future...]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:29:55 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[Original Invincible BBS] Re: Joe's Crystal Model appreciation thread.</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?1,207706,214684#msg-214684</link>
      <author>SteveH</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Those are pretty boss. I like how they branched out from the 'usual' subjects, that's a sign of class.

Acroray, I'm surprised you had such a tough time collecting a full run. It was my experience that back in the '80s the candy companies weren't really doing 'blind box' assortments, SOMEWHERE on the package it indicated which item was included inside. 

Of course if you didn't know that, or if a dealer had scoped out the 'good' ones for themselves...well, all kinds of things happened back then, :)

I know the gimmick is that they're clear plastic but I wonder how they would look with careful painting.]]></description>
      <category>Original Invincible BBS</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:21:56 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214683#msg-214683</link>
      <author>Kwesi K.</author>
      <description><![CDATA[How so?

I mean, he's not promoting THESE abominations in that video clip, is he?

http://www.toysdaily.com/discuz/thread-123751-1-1.html]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:08:48 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: Feeling negative about Ebay..</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214288,214682#msg-214682</link>
      <author>Nekrodave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Just a general heads up here, but here is another great example of why you should be able to leave negative feedback for buyers. Check out this guy...

He hits the BIN on a $5,000 figure and then just leaves negative feedback saying the price was too high (granted, it totally was, but still...)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=250597335503

Then, it looks like he's left two more negatives, saying something about getting free items if he shill bids..  Sounds like a nutcase..

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&amp;userid=fordspace&amp;ftab=FeedbackLeftForOthers

Might not be a bad idea to add him to your blocked bidders list, just in case...]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:02:41 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[Cafe Chogokin] Re: More about reproduction parts</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?4,214553,214681#msg-214681</link>
      <author>Corellian Corvette</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The problem with even small markings is that you *still* don't know they are repros unless you know to look for them, or until you get them. I have a feeling in our small collecting community, we're going to be largely protected by repro parts getting co-mingled too much into real pieces. Unlike Transformers, there isn't enough demand for someone to factory-produce parts indistinguishable from the originals. Therefore, they will likely always be handmade and very easy to tell.]]></description>
      <category>Cafe Chogokin</category>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:59:19 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[Cafe Chogokin] Re: Japanese vs. American release Chogokin values</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?4,214347,214680#msg-214680</link>
      <author>Corellian Corvette</author>
      <description><![CDATA[US subsidiaries of Japanese companies today, and even MORESO 20 years ago, were strongly influenced by the management back in Japan. In the 80's - even the largest Japanese companies were largely ran by the Japanese management with the US being mostly a sales arm. Very little independent marketing ability was left to US offices - I can almost guarantee that unless the toy line was bought by an American company, the naming of the line and the products that were released in the line were decided by the Japanese HQ. You can see this for yourself which is why Takara brought over &quot;Diakron&quot; vs. &quot;Diaclone&quot;, Bandai brings over &quot;Godaikin&quot; from &quot;Chogokin&quot;, but it's the US companies (Hasbro, Tonka) that gets you &quot;Transformers&quot; or &quot;Go-Bots&quot; or &quot;Voltron&quot;. 

I know a lot of folks in Sales and Marketing who have worked for Japanese subsidiaries in the Toy/Gaming business for many years. The Japanese-driven dictate for product strategy and naming is in place even today, with a global economy, and was even more prevalent in the 80's. This is ingrained in their corporate culture.

And if the US did have strong influence over the name – why the heck are the US figures named the same as the Japanese counterparts? No US marketing person in their right mind would bring over a figure and call it “GodMarz” or “GoLion” or “Daltanias” or “Sun Vulcan”. Once again – evidence that the naming/product strategy came from Japan. 

So with that – I give it a slim chance that the name was driven anywhere outside of Japan. Sorry unless there’s documentation I just have a hard time believing it. Where the US would have influence is if a name either is hard to pronounce and/or has an alternative meaning in English. “Chogokin” or “Popy” just would not have worked here as-is. 

Given that we can easily establish some Japanese-based meanings I’m inclined to believe that one of these two is the answer:

Godai + Kin = “The 5 Manifestations or 5 Great or 5 Combinations” + “Metal”
BanDAI + GoKin = Godaikin

The “kin of the gods” thing makes absolutely no sense to me, given you have too many other ways to break up the word with a legitimate Japanese reference. The US may have LIKED the name for this reason (as it would be easier to explain then “Chogokin” or a literal translation of the word) – but even then you mean to tell me that’s the first thing you think of when you see these toys? That they are like cousins to deities?

The reason I’m strongly leaning towards the “Godai” based meaning is it appears to have a similar structure to “Chogokin”. The word itself is made up, but the roots (Super Combination Alloy) are legit. If you think about the primary lineup for the Godaikin Line many of them were 5 combining toys; Voltes, Combattra, Golion, Godmars and the “5 team” theme is the foundation of Bandai’s Sentai series.]]></description>
      <category>Cafe Chogokin</category>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:52:38 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[Cafe Chogokin] Re: More about reproduction parts</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?4,214553,214679#msg-214679</link>
      <author>gaiking123</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I think there's nothing you can do about Repro Parts or Stickers. They are here to stay whether we like it or not. Sure, I like to buy an item that is MIB knowing everything in there is original but there will always be that risk of getting something that isn't. A lot of times, we don't know if it is the seller's fault since he may have bought the item from someone who passed it off to him as original.

This is just something you have to deal with if you are a toy collector. 


One scary example I saw was a few repro transformers graded by AFA as originals and selling on ebay like an original. AFA had no idea how to tell if something was reproduced since it was the first time someone sent a repro of that figure to them. Again, those are the risks you take when you buy anything unfortunately in the world of collecting.]]></description>
      <category>Cafe Chogokin</category>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:51:47 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214678#msg-214678</link>
      <author>SteveH</author>
      <description><![CDATA[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-03-20/mamoru-nagano-gothicmade-anime-preview-streamed

I dunno, I fear Nagano has turned to the Dark Side...]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:47:01 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: GOTHIC MADE-Mamoru Nagano is back!</title>
      <link>http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,214670,214677#msg-214677</link>
      <author>asterphage</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I don't know when, if ever, Gothicmade will get produced, but if anything at all has been announced about it, I'm sure there are 6 months coming of fluff articles in Newtype with lavish illustration spreads and no information.]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:11:26 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>[The OT] Re: New Revoltech Thread Untouched by the Masses</title>
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      <author>asterphage</author>
      <description><![CDATA[VF5SS Wrote:
&gt; Rinn you dirty girl

I thought that was Len.]]></description>
      <category>The OT</category>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:06:54 -0700</pubDate>
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