ToyboxDX INVINCIBLE BBS - The OT Welcome to the OT Ghetto. You are off topic. General chilling, Yes. SPAM or hate, No. Enjoy. Be kind. http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/list.php?5 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:22:40 -0400 Phorum 5.2.18 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249935,249935#msg-249935 Looking For Mystery Toy From Childhood (2 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249935,249935#msg-249935
It was a glove that had a vaguely Barbie sized male doll torso on it. Most of the glove was black, but the pointer and middle fingers were made to look like shorts so that those fingers became the legs for the figure.

There were maybe 4 or 5 different kinds, all sports players. They came with boots to put on the ends of your fingers to complete the lifelike package. (accurate for sports players with one leg significantly shorter than the other)

I had the skateboarder. I'm pretty sure there were also soccer and football figures.

I cannot come up with any combination of "glove", "doll", "figure", "sports", "toy" etc. etc. that yields any results.

Does anyone here remember what I am talking about? This would have probably been late 1980s.

Thank you]]> Jake The OT Tue, 21 May 2013 09:02:51 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249934,249934#msg-249934 3D printed figure with "action figure" like articulation (6 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249934,249934#msg-249934
I recently got into 3D printing and I was wondering how far I could take the functionality of my models. This is my first attempt at a figure with proper “action figure” articulation. It worked out pretty well. It basically works like a snap together model kit. It has about 30 points of articulation. I had to do some sandpapering in order to make everything fit together but that is something one should expect when 3D printing. The figure holds firmly together and all the joints have a nice range of motion. The seam lines are a little bit big but I believe that has more to do with the resolution of my printer then the 3D file. The figure is about 7 inches tall. It has a couple of swapable hands and the weapons can be stored on the back of the figure. The figure is called Dan Generiko and he is a hero in an apocalyptic world where genetically enhanced humans wage war against humans who have given up their natural bodies for robotic ones. Dan protects the ordinary humans who are caught in the middle of the fighting of the two factions.

- Hauke




]]> hauke The OT Wed, 22 May 2013 06:01:12 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249909,249909#msg-249909 Crowd sourcing anime... Including Yatterman, Tobikage, and Tekkaman! (no replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249909,249909#msg-249909
[animesols.com]

What's interesting is that they've partnered with the Japanese studios and have a kickstarter-like funding model for the physical releases. I sincerely doubt stuff like Yatterman has a chance of reaching the goal (but I'll pledge anyway) but I would think at least Tekkaman and Blackjack would.]]> fujishig The OT Wed, 15 May 2013 22:29:27 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249875,249875#msg-249875 Pacific Rim toys (13 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249875,249875#msg-249875
Now, I don't own any NECA stuff and I always associated their products to be "McFarlanish"... nicely detailed, PVC figs with limited articulation but I forgot they have done some really compelling stuff in the past, like the MATRIX stuff, the big ass BALROG, and the jumbo sized Predators. But it looks like these Pacific Rim figs might turn out to be pretty cool. But I wonder if it's better to hold out for the inevitable Diecast toys from one of them Hong Kong companies?]]> H-man The OT Wed, 22 May 2013 06:32:05 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249872,249872#msg-249872 G-FEST 2013/Chicago (Pacific Rim too!) (4 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249872,249872#msg-249872
July 12th through 14th, which rules due to Pacific Rim opening the same weekend! How may films have you ever seen in English where they use the word Kaiju is uttered in all of its fully duo-syllabic glory!]]> Supersentai The OT Wed, 15 May 2013 00:16:00 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249664,249664#msg-249664 MESSAGE FROM SPACE (5 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249664,249664#msg-249664
Message of Space has now been officially released on DVD.... Now you can see your favorite Shogun Vehicle, LIABE in action!]]> H-man The OT Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:56:23 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249640,249640#msg-249640 Roku + Goohead = Wow! (1 reply) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249640,249640#msg-249640
[www.goohead.com]]]> Roger The OT Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:19:09 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249388,249388#msg-249388 Chicken Pot Pie (seriously) (14 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249388,249388#msg-249388
Now, here's the question...is it still a chicken pot pie proper if it is sold without side or bottom crust? For example, KFC and Boston Market both sell "cpp's" (as it were) in a cardboard bowl with just top crusting. No side crust...no bottom crust.

If I wanted a pile of chicken and veggies with a piece of bread on top, I'd order that. Chicken Pot Pie it is not...so say I. How say you?]]> Supersentai The OT Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:58:25 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249222,249222#msg-249222 Flesh. (5 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249222,249222#msg-249222 www.youtube.com]]]> Roger The OT Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:01:59 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249205,249205#msg-249205 [Honest toy question] Chick or dude? (8 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249205,249205#msg-249205 www.bigbadtoystore.com]

I can't tell. I don't know anything about Metal Gear Solid. The last video game I was really into was Dig Dug. Is this thing supposed to represent a chick or dude? Because (s)he's pretty hot, I have to say.]]> gingaio The OT Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:21:23 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249102,249102#msg-249102 Akira Takarada, Chiller Theatre, April 26-28, Parsippany, NJ (3 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249102,249102#msg-249102
[chillertheatre.com]]]> Roger The OT Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:55:33 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249093,249093#msg-249093 Shout! Factory Gaiking (34 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249093,249093#msg-249093 [www.shoutfactory.com]

WU-TANG!!

Just...y'know...a couple disks worth. But it's something, y'know? Thanks to Ginrai for sending me the link. Preorder placed.]]> Sanjeev The OT Wed, 22 May 2013 14:15:18 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249010,249010#msg-249010 The Who: Quadrophenia (1 reply) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,249010,249010#msg-249010 Mr. Ginrai The OT Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:36:17 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248927,248927#msg-248927 Regular Shogun Warriors on MAD (2 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248927,248927#msg-248927
[www.youtube.com]]]> Ginrai The OT Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:03:25 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248913,248913#msg-248913 Ebay Amateur Hour Effect (Senility slowly setting in) (3 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248913,248913#msg-248913
A couple weeks ago I was trolling Ebay, as I am prone to do, when I stumbled upon fresh prey...I loose lot of popynica including the typical domesic fare...Sky Arrow, broken Liabe, broken Varitank, BUT it also had a JAKQ'er Tank AND a loose ST (Sun) Vulcan Jaguar!!! All for ninety bucks or so. I THOUGHT I bought it, and ran it through Paypal...but after noticing that it hasn't shown up, I looked and found no trace of the transaction on Ebay or Paypal.

Hallucination? OR did I just not hit the stupid "confirm payment" box that fails to center on the screen. Wife vouches for me telling her about this purchase the night I supposedly made it, lending to the latter explanation. Then again, I may have been seeing things that night too?

Anyway...lesson of the day...hit ALL of the freakin' buttons when you buy something!!!

Whimper.]]> Supersentai The OT Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:22:43 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248912,248912#msg-248912 scenes from around town (2 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248912,248912#msg-248912
both pictures are safe for work...]]> cohiba The OT Thu, 21 Feb 2013 03:11:27 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248874,248874#msg-248874 Dredging Up the Past (7 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248874,248874#msg-248874 they're still moving ... ]]> cae The OT Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:37:49 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248870,248870#msg-248870 Snowpocalypse (7 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248870,248870#msg-248870 fel9 The OT Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:02:51 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248748,248748#msg-248748 Mechageezer's (that's me) Toy Ramblings (58 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248748,248748#msg-248748 MechaGeezer's Toy Ramblings. I hope that some of you at least will enjoy my take on things. Thanks for your time!]]> fujikuro The OT Wed, 22 May 2013 10:27:20 -0400 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248715,248715#msg-248715 Go read all of my comic Golden Gate Riot online for free now. (no replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248715,248715#msg-248715
[www.goldengateriot.com]

Please read it and please share this with all your friends.]]> Ginrai The OT Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:58:55 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248706,248706#msg-248706 Mechawhales (2 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248706,248706#msg-248706
I would like to introduce you to the release of my first PVC figure. It is not from Japan but its weird style would fit in quite well with every Japanese monster or giant robot collection:

The figure is availabe at BigBadToyStore:

[www.bigbadtoystore.com]



The Mechawhales figure is 5.5 inches wide and 3.5 inches tall. It is made from PVC and has a highly detailed paintjob. The shoulders, wrists and tail can be rotated. The figure comes in a collector friendly box that makes it very easy to take the figure out of the packaging and putting it in again. It also comes with a cardboard diorama for displaying the figure outside the box.

You can also check out animations based on these figures at: http://www.mechawhales.com

Thanks for taking the time to check out my work!

- Hauke
]]> hauke The OT Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:20:17 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248669,248669#msg-248669 [DETOLF] lighting (19 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248669,248669#msg-248669 displayed them in the past. "Display" is emphasized here because at times, this has meant anywhere from toys cruelly jumbled together on a random bookshelf with no care or order--at best!--to big fucking hoarder-style piles of boxes on the floor. [See Jim's 2011 Summit coverage!]

Over the past couple years, though, I've been steadily cleaning up my act. Because they're such a self-contained series that stands clearly apart from anything else in my collection, I decided to organize my Toho Marusan/Bullmark collection into a single detolf from Ikea. Yup...a jin-yoo-wine display case for some of the coolest shit I have. The next obvious question was how to illuminate the thing...

I wasn't particularly interested in buying a complex lighting "kit", where you have to wire everything together into a rectifier and all that. I wanted something that was relatively simple to install, something that looked clean, a most of all, something that *worked*. After doing some research, I went with these "puck" LED lights available in most hardware stores:



I bought a couple packs of them to get a total of four pucks, bought some wood screws ('cause the adhesive backing on them is utter crap), and attached them to the "ceiling" of my detolf. The warm white light they put out is crazy-bright, and there are no wires involved *at all* to clutter up the look of the case.

The only problem is that the light they put out is extremely directional--they're like tiny spotlights. And there are only four of them. The effect is actually kinda interesting: each figure in the case gets just a little light cast on them, creating a sort of artsy, noir feel. Neat...but not exactly ideal when trying to display stuff. I'll post a pic of it when I get a chance...

Oh, and one other slight annoyance is that the lights automatically shut off after 30 minutes. These are LEDs, so the batteries last for-fucking-ever...so why not program the damn auto-shut-off for two or more hours??? Or better yet, make it a switch allowing the user to set the time.

Anyway, like I said, I just feel like there's gotta be a better option out there. I did some more digging today, and I think I've come up with one possibility: LED net lights:



The idea is to drape this net across the sides and back of the case. Fortunately, these nets are available in 4'x6', which is just about perfect given a detolf's dimensions. I'm guessing each of these little LEDs puts out plenty of light, and because they're dispersed across the sides and back, they should light everything inside pretty evenly...unlike the puck lights.

However, unlike the puck lights, these things are basically all-wire. I'm afraid the net will pretty much ruin the "off-axis" (from the sides) view. Also, you don't have any real control over which direction the LEDs on the net are pointing...so instead of the clean spotlight effect you get with the pucks keeping all the light more or less contained within the case, the net's light will be scattered in every damn direction.

So...I dunno. I think I might just buy one of these nets to give it a shot...but does anyone else have any other ideas? I'm sure I'm not the first to run into this quandary...
]]> Sanjeev The OT Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:59:09 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248658,248658#msg-248658 Defensor Mundi! (2 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248658,248658#msg-248658


Video

Rob's site
]]> TedT The OT Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:05:09 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248637,248637#msg-248637 [MONOPOLY] oh now this is just total bullshit (15 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248637,248637#msg-248637 vote on Facebook to determine which token will be removed next, and offering us a slate of new tokens to choose from, including a diamond ring, an acoustic guitar, a kittycat, a helicopter, and a tin robot:

]]> asterphage The OT Sun, 24 Feb 2013 01:57:16 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248588,248588#msg-248588 beautiful handmade mechanical humanoid by Mark Ho (3 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248588,248588#msg-248588 www.home-machine-shop.com]]]> asterphage The OT Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:39:18 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248583,248583#msg-248583 70's & 80's toys sales at Drouot's Auction House in Paris, France (2 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248583,248583#msg-248583 The auction catalog will soon be online

The catalog is on line

[paris.boisgirard-antonini.com]

Here are the official links:

[www.drouot.com]
[www.velvet-galerie.com]
[paris.boisgirard-antonini.com]
[www.artmediaagency.com]





]]> Yann The OT Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:10:08 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248579,248579#msg-248579 [2013] Resolutions (2 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248579,248579#msg-248579
2. Obtain the Wave W.H.A.M.! 1/48 Helldiver.

3. Rescue my Armor Trans Kamen Riders from my parents' place :-)

What's yours?]]> drifand The OT Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:29:40 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248551,248551#msg-248551 Bad things happen in threes (deceased celebrities). (3 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248551,248551#msg-248551
[www.guardian.co.uk]

Happy Holidays, everyone.]]> Roger The OT Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:44:08 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248425,248425#msg-248425 Do fantasy movies really suck? (12 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248425,248425#msg-248425 Der Hobbitzen: Parte Der Firstenzen. Spoiler alert - it's based on a flisy kid's book. But it's pretty much what you would expect from Piotr Jackson if you saw his indie trilogy that came out several years ago. Nothing surprising there.

However! We (unknowingly) saw the film in the 48 frames-per-second format and it was a nauseating visual mess. The clarity was so intense that the characters often seemed to float in front of the backgrounds and when they moved they would jump with spastic ejaculations that were utterly unnatural. During the vast, panning shots the camera would also appear to stop and then jerk suddenly in a new direction. It was anything but smooth. And it never relented. In our small party no one's eyes or brain ever adjusted and we felt motion sick at the end when we tried to walk out of the theater.

The amped up frame rate was such a shockingly bad and distracting experience that it almost ruined an otherwise reasonable film. I can't believe anyone in charge approved the decision to do it or didn't gasp in regretful horror during any pre-release screening. I'll be going out of my way to avoid 3D/48fps releases in the future.

Oh, and the Golden Eagles still suck. Why do the good guys never remember to call on them right from the start? Lame. Fantasy plots still suck as much as sci-fi.]]> Gcrush The OT Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:54:21 -0500 http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248405,248405#msg-248405 [Aliens figures] Game over, man, game over! (2 replies) http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?5,248405,248405#msg-248405 www.toyark.com]

Much as I love Aliens, I never really fantasized about having toys of the colonial marines (the dropship and APC, on the other hand...).

That said, if the finished product looks like these protos, then we may, in Hudson, have the most incredible facial sculpt on any action figure ever.]]> gingaio The OT Sun, 16 Dec 2012 08:56:34 -0500