There are many robots. But there is only one Blazer.
Ok, not one Blazer…
Hope I get the Bullmark Big Blazer one time.
Uups, forgot one Blazer on the foto…sorry Blazer————————————–vv
Do I have a problem?
;-)
Have a nice weekend guys
Today I want to hype Bullmark Burikin!
Hope you all have one? I warned you one week ago that I’ll gonna make a review
about this wonderful Bullmark Zinclon. Now it’s too late, prices will explode…Â Â Â ;-)
I don’t know anything about the Robo Kid Beeton series, Burikin belongs to.
But I always loved his style, since I had seen him the first time…and he’s a Bullmark!
I bought this one here on ebay. Box is sunfaded and far away from C1o, but the robot
itself is complete and in very good shape. Lets start with the box.
My Burikin came with 2 different pairs of fists and 3 “propellers”.
Burikin’s body is diecast. His head, arms and legs are plastic.
He has 2 buttons and a “wind up ” wheel on his back.
Now I show you some of Burikin’s awesome action features.
Lets start with his spring-loaded-head-pop-up-feature…wow.
Push the button under his neck and the head pops up.
Next feature: The good old Bullmark-propeller-action. We all know it, we all love it.
Don’t need to describe it I think.
My personal Burikin still has his rubber protection cap on the “propeller connection”.
Sorry I’m a stupid german, don’t know the right technical expression for the piece of metal
where you put the propellers on. But I love the rubber cap  ;-)
…and sure he could fire his fits. Burikin has a pair normal fists and hammer fists. Bang!
Thats it guys, this is Burikin!
Lets end this “review” with foot markings and a comparison of sizes with a Popy Gaiking.
…oooo noo…SORRY all feet-fetishists…no markings on his feet. ;-)
You also have one? You like him? More in the BBS section:Â http://toyboxdx.com/phorum/read.php?4,204269
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Finally!
I have waited 31 years to own this toy.
Mine is missing it’s “MECHGODZILLA” waist sticker and the little yellow sticker for the chest. I’ll have to fix that up.
Love this toy!
Bullmark mathematics: BP-24 + BP-25 + BP-23 = one of the coolest bots ever!
The holidays are over and autumn has come. Autumn means: mostly shitty weather in germany.
Time for a new BROG, now 590 pixels wide. Thanks to the new TBDX site design. Great job guys!
Forgive me that I make a monster brog about this banal chogokin.
No Bullmark Robo Kress, no Takemi Pegas…just a “cheap” Popy GA-45 Kagestar.
Kagestar still underrated. But that’s ok for me, not every cool vintage toy has to cost >1K$.
Lets start with the show.
The Popy Kagestar chogokin (aka Za Kage Sutaa or The Shadow Star)
based on the 1976 NET/Toei TV show. Togeter with his female sidekick Belle Star
he kicks massive ass in the TV show.
Here you could see him fresh out-of-the-box. Kagestar comes with a plastic stand,
a mini catalog, plastic gun, projectiles, etc
Now I show you Kagestar’s special action feature.
You could put 2 batteries into the plastic stand and connect Kagestar
via a “power socket” on his back with the stand. Great feature!
Zakuramans blinking action is nothing ;-)
Kagestar has a cover on his chest you could open. When he’s connected to the stand
he starts to blink and you could see Belle Star on his chest monitor.
Every cool superhero has a motorbike.
Certainly Kagestar has one too, PA-65 Kage Roller.
Thats it guys, hope you like it.
cheers
More stuff in the BBS section and foot markings for Matt.
This is an old picture I took before I had captured the entire set of the Pets. I was digging through the bucket and cleaning up some pics and stumbled across this one. Figured I would share it even though it’s not the whole crew in this shot. I still dig on this picture for some reason. I think it’s the “Don’t fuck with us!” attitude these figures seem to emit. Enjoy!
So, as part of my Virtual-On buying spree, I picked up these:
Sometimes I do things backwards and make weird decisions.
For most people, a 1st version Shogun Warrior Dragun is one of the first jumbos they buy. I mean, it’s the same as the Popy version at a fraction of the price and not hard to find. So why get the ugly one with the stupid lightning bolts on the legs?
Well, in my case, I happened upon a good deal for an original Popy Dragun and being me, I decided on the spot that when I eventually bought a Shogun Dragun, I wanted the lightning legs one. Sure, it’s stupid and ugly, but I thought it better to get the one the was the most unlike the Popy version, for the sake of variety.
Well, it took a surprisingly long time, but just today I finally got one in the mail. And now I have all 4 of the major known Dragun jumbos.
You are looking at them in chronological order. From left to right, Popy, Mattel, Nacoral and Famosa.
OK, so now let’s play “spot the differences”. Using my own specimens and what has long been on the Wildtoys Shogun Warriors page, here’s a rundown of the makeup of each toy, using the Popy toy as a “base”.
Popy
Mattel (1st version)
Mattel (2nd version)
Mattel (3rd version)
Mattel (4th version)
*These are things I just noticed today and haven’t seen documented elsewhere. So this change might have happened earlier. Notice that my Mattel is actually taller than the Popy!
Nacoral
Famosa
And naturally, they all have different boxes. So I’m unclear on that. Since I only own one Shogun Dragun, I am relying on John’s site for that information. And while his site says the Shoguns came with either 6 or 10 stars, the one I got today actually had 12 (4 each of blue, red and yellow). So I’m not sure what the deal is there.
And finally, on every single Dragun I have, the wheels attach differently. I don’t even know where to begin on that. And I’m sure I’m still forgetting things. But I’m sick of typing. Being an obsessive nerd is draining. Don’t try this at home!
Hello Guys, it’s time for my first “BROG”, so bear with me.
As some of you may or may not know, I’ve done quite a bit of Machinder restoration. I’ve also been playing with molding and all that for quite some time now as well. Since then I’ve always had in mind that I need to do some replica and push this a bit further.
2 Years ago I heard about a new technique for creating industrial prototypes (Stereolythography), and that this technique was usable for doing characters affordably. The technique consists of UV lazers tracing hundreds of layers in a liquid epoxy resin and the liquid solidifies where the lazers are tracing. Everything is computer generated and it uses 3d files. I know I don’t have Tom’s skills for sculping but I’m really familiar with 3d modeling and it seemed like something really
interesting to try one day.
Out of all the Jumbo Machinder Vilains, there are three that I’m just a big fan. Doublas M2, Garada K7 and Rokuron Q9. I was lucky enough to be able to grab the first one from a YJ auction. The second one I had to fight a bit to get. The Garada is one of Tom’s replicas and I’m realist when it comes to the fact that I’ll probably never own a real one, which is the case also for the Q9. You all know that this one is rare but it’s also very damn expensive. I had the opportunity to hold a real one in my hands not so long ago and from that point on I decided that I needed to make a replica myself.
The first step was the 3D model. With the help of an amazing 3d modeler, I was able to have a 3D file looking really good. I cleaned it up and adjusted it to match the real thing as much as possible.
I then searched to find a good company to build it in Stereolythography. Budgets where really high, like almost twice my budget. Then I came accross a Belgium Company called Materialise who turned out to be the European leader in this field. I received very good feedback from them, and they where ready to drop the price a lot to help me with building this project. They were really amazing and helpful.
The second step was the casting of the replica. The result and material where perfect.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to go for the full finish look (cash is not falling from the sky at the moment..), so I had to do all the cleaning of the pieces and sanding to make everything smooth and perfect looking.
I received all the casted pieces a week before I was going on holiday, so I took them all with me to spend my holidays next to the swimming pool,under an umbrella, with my sand paper, cleaning a part each day. All the little rivets needed to be done after as it would have made the 3D file very heavy and it was easier to do them
after. Thanks to Dave, Tom and a lot of pictures from theirs, that became easy to do.
So, after a week under the sun, everything was clean and all the rivets where done.
Now, the third step was the painting. This step was really difficult as it’s almost impossible to know what’s the right color of each part based on pictures. I’ve collected a lot of pictures of several different specimens, and they all look different, depending on your camera setting and lights conditions, sometimes the heads look blue/green, sometimes
blue. So after collecting more pictures and with the help of Dave who took some extra pics for me, I had a better idea what color it should be. I decided to do it with spray paint, but here also, it’s impossible to know exactly what color will come out of the spray, internet references are not the same color as what’s on the spray itself and the color that comes out is always different. So , I did some quick tests and it turned out that most of them where ok. Ready for painting! This toke me more time than I was expecting. But finally with a lot of patience, masking tape, and good weather conditions, the paint job was finish.
One piece was missing and I decided that I will build it by hand, the connection between the two necks. So after assembling all the pieces together, I built this little piece like the little cherry you put on top of the cake.
At the end I’m really happy with the result and the experience was fascinating. It really gave me tons of ideas for the future. The company who did the casting have other techniques to duplicate a model after with a run like 25 pieces. I’ve ask for a quote to do like 25 Rokuron and it seems that it will cost something like 850 Euros for an
unpainted specimen and if I do 25 of them, less is of course more expensive and you have to add the time and material for the painting and assembly.
There’s also the copyright issue. For one single piece for personnal use, there’s no problem, but if I start selling copies I guess there could be an issue.. So I was thinking that maybe I can design my own Machinder and Vilains in the pure style of the old guys we all love. I can maybe get the price to drop down because the design will be more simple . But, it
will turn around 850 Euros for a finished specimen of a personnal desing. What to you guys think of this? Are you going to be interested in sometthing like this? At that price??
Alas, here is the Rokuron Q9 with my other Jumbo Machinders.
Here’s a credit list of all the people who helped me in creating this replica. I want to thank them a lot:
Nekrodave, Tom Franck and Erik Sjoen for their help and pictures.
Kazunori Saito for letting me play with his Q9.
Vincent Boutry for the 3D modeling.
Materialze for the sculpt.
Erik Sjoen for helping me put this Brog together.
And my girlfriend for her patience and understanding.
And thanks to all of you for your motivation even if I don’t get the time to contribute that often.
Cheers from Belgium!
Mike
PS: Wow that was long.. Sounds like I’ve won the NY Marathon or something like that hahahahaha…..yeah but I’m so happy that it’s finally finished.
