2006-08-11, 16:07 | Link #241 |
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Not to ruin someone's day... but a removable costume would probably triple or quadruple the price.... ~7500yen x 4 would put the brakes on a lot of potential units sold (or create a mad run that would topple the Nikkei -- who knows with mad packs of otaku ).
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2006-08-11, 16:53 | Link #243 | |
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And yay the Mikuru but ugh the 'collect all the colour variations!' thing. You just know some people will buy them all. |
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2006-08-11, 16:57 | Link #244 | |
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2006-08-11, 16:59 | Link #245 | |
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2006-08-11, 17:01 | Link #246 | |
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2006-08-11, 17:03 | Link #247 | |
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Not only that but looking at the description of the product on top of the high asking price, the guy didn't even have it when he set up the auction which I believe should be seen as an extreme risk and a turn off when bidding on a product. Not to mention the outrageous terms he's come up with for payment and contact, and the nail and the coffin, the shipping price well well well well above standard UPS fees the difference of which the guy is obviously going to keep for himself (He's packaging the item himself not the post office so why would the post office charge higher fees). Really bad deal all around, its a nice figure but come on, Perfect Grade Gunpa top out at around $199, this is a good deal http://cgi.ebay.com/Bandai-Perfect-G...QQcmdZViewItem. http://cgi.ebay.com/GUNDAM-Perfect-G...QQcmdZViewItem and look, plus these are way bigger and more detailed and intricate, possable and transformable in some cases. The whole human figurines thing always seemed kind of silly to me to begin with though, it seems like to much of a fetish thing. Last edited by Kaioshin Sama; 2006-08-11 at 17:21. |
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2006-08-11, 17:41 | Link #249 | |
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People pay through their nose for stamps, tiny little pieces of paper with blotches of colored ink on them. So do people for coins and other assorted works. The problem is not with these people, but with you being unable to understand how anime figurines can mean so much to other people. |
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2006-08-11, 18:08 | Link #250 | |
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I find it fascinating that these companies will produce limited numbers of these figures on purpose when they could sell many more of them (cards, figures, whatever) ... but it has to do with increasing the adrenaline and hype of the audience I suppose. I paid about twice what I wanted to for a very rare resin statue of a particular 12" figure once because I knew that there simply were no others on the market. It occupies the center of my animation "art" wall. I have original series Star Trek items from the early 70s worth hundreds or thousands of dollars --- to someone I'm sure. I also think people are "caught up in the moment" to some extent and it is questionable whether these items will hold value (I'm sure someone still has a closet full of Pokemon cards suitable for wallpaper) -- if I had a lot of disposable income, I *might* have bid on the professionally painted Haruhi statue but not that kit. But right now, I'm remodeling my house so most of the spare income is heading thataway. concerning the auction ... yeah it looks like he was taking bids before he actually has the item.... risky.... I'd be wary of his payment rules as well (Paypal is your friend sometimes) but the shipping is, I suppose, paying top dollar for extreme fragile handling and special delivery like Fedex... or it *better* mean that anyway. Oh wait... USPS Priority? Heh, I take it back.... looks like he's counting on suckers --- collectors already know that e2046 is going to have the item....(or at least a knockoff). I also note he has Zero Bids and the auction is over .... so I guess the sucker count is low this week. This guy is going on my "look out for" list. Nasty red font and really bitchy attitude ("non-payers blah blah blah") ... like that isn't standard operations. @Kaoishin: I'm not clear on why people are fascinated with mecha but since I've always been interested in armored vehicles (ww2 and modern), I can sort of make the connection though the engineer in me blinks too much at the some of the things they have mecha do in some series. <shrug> there have been a few fun mecha computer video games in the past... those are great fun.
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2006-08-11, 19:14 | Link #251 | |
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2006-08-11, 20:09 | Link #252 | |
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(1) "Bootleg" (2) Lack of guarantee You're still not taking into account that people buy what they want. Again the point that Vexx and I are making are that you're not bashing this particular sale but a wider subset of people in your original post. AGAIN you are being nasty to Haruhi fans in general, but fear not -- I won't criticize you so harshly this time lest you seemingly fall into another near-mental collapse. Anyways, here's what you said: This pretty much solidifies my theory that Haruhi fans will pay through the nose for any piece or Haruhi merchandise regardless of the gouging. Why not admit it? That you have an agenda against SuzuHaru in general. Regardless, I'm not entirely unsympathetic to your view. I do think that people fork out large amounts of money or effort for what I view as entirely ridiculous objects or events. Sometimes I mock them too, so I am definitely no saint. But I think for the most part I do try and tolerate to my best extent, and in this case I wouldn't say it's not wildly crazy. The resin kit is rare, and it's of a very high quality. I'm also skeptical of the word "bootleg". If you mean it's not original, off the creator/hand-moulded then I think bootleg is seriously the wrong term to use.. I'm not sure with the terminology in modeling communities but I don't think that's appropriate. I certainly wouldn't call mass-produced books "bootleg" books of the original copy written by the author. They're just mass-produced. It's still art, and if it means something to the person buying it then I don't see what's wrong here. |
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2006-08-11, 20:26 | Link #253 | |
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I'm not the one with the agenda against Haruhi, thats my friend whom I'm always trying to convince the franchise has some merit but than he tells me it can't possibly. My agenda is against the mindless worshippers who blow the show way out of proportion into some sort of new age religion instead of just enjoying it for what it is. That and I'm kind of tired of searching for openings to shows or clips from an anime on Youtube or anywhere for that matter only to find someone who thinks he's clever playing the Sunny Sunny Happy song over a completely unrelated opening or superimposing the characters from Haruhi over an unrelated image. (The gundam dance one was fine, but Overman King Gainer and Fist of The North Star openings ). It's like back when Evangelion was popular and EVERYBODY had to draw a comparison or reference to it for almost any mecha show regardless of how irrelevant the comparison was, it drove me completely up the wall and its happening again. I like the franchise but when I'm trying to get away from it and look at some other series only to find it somehow creeping into that discussion topic or medium, I just get sick of it. It's like in 1984 where Big Brother is always watching you, everywhere I go on the internet, there's Haruhi staring at me with those souless yellow eyes, staring staring..... and you know, maybe I don't want to see her all the time. |
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2006-08-11, 20:39 | Link #254 | |
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You must seriously be infected by North American values of copyright. This neatly coincides with my recent reading of Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture".. You should download this book (Lessig made it available free online) in the .PDF format and just find "doujinshii". Lessig talks about it with regards to the copyright laws in Japan and a fair bit about art and copying too. All I have to say about this is, just, wow. It would take me quite some time to mount a detailed post explaining the artistic integrity of home-made works and tributes, as well as what I think is the seriously mistaken American patenting system on IDEAS (wtfbbq).. but I can't because I have a final on Monday. Or maybe I've just given up on typing long essays for you, because the communication just isn't happening. Two things. I'm fully okay with your friend's opinion, and I don't know why you would suddenly drag his name into the conversation.. All I can say is, birds of the same feather flock together. Not as an insult, but as a reminder for you to continually broaden your views.. I like my friends, but familiarity is often a pay-off to learning new things -- unless they journey with you often. Lastly, your comparison of SuzuHaru to something like "Big Brother" is something ENTIRELY created by your psyche. It's not as if SuzuHaru is taking an active, aggressive approach to boinking you. It just sits there, and YOU get bothered by it. I understand your frustration somewhat; maybe. Probably the closest that I feel would be an 8 hour long car ride with my friends in the semi-raining-snowing cold, with them incessantly talking about Bleach. But of course, I never take steps to demonize what I don't like ("souless yellow eyes", "big brother") so I can swat them that easily.. Resorting to such tactics just detracts from the fullness of reality, and you essentially blind yourself and retreat to a shell with a rigid filter window. I'll let you say what you want, but don't disguise this.. you do have something against SuzuHaru, and it IS mainly because it is popular/"mainstream"-ish, that you are fervently displaying this behavior. You have so admitted yourself in this post. And you know what; it would be better if you were aware of this. |
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2006-08-11, 20:56 | Link #255 | |
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Oh and I hate copyright law, I just couldn't think of any thing else to say at the time, guess I lose that argument. This auction is still a pretty bad deal though, if I were the guy I would have waited till I had possession of the item before posting the auction as it kills his integrity right there. She does kind of have blank yellow eyes though you've got to admit and she's always kind of staring right at the camera in a lot of shots. |
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2006-08-11, 21:54 | Link #257 |
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The seller of the US$3000 Haruhi figurine is not some new kid on the block, and this is not the first figurine he sold for over US$2000. Off-hand, I can recall a Dizzy Resin Figurine that he did and sold for US$2400+.
You could say, it is his living?
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And Kaioshin, I'm the sort who does studying while reading stuff online.. If you're slipping that "pay attention to me" into there as some sort of hint that I'm treating you specially then I vomit... I monitor the SuzuHaru thread as often as I can, not you. I hope you don't need me to say more. It is funny though, you remind me of an encounter I had in OCremix.org, where I criticized this remix amongst the flood of praises and apparently I nailed it onto this female more than once. She PM-ed me accusing me of stalking her.. your best mate, I'm guessing? ; ) Quote:
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2006-08-11, 22:45 | Link #260 |
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Well, after reading this ping-pong match between arias and Kaioshin and wondering just where it's supposed to be going, I would like to point out that since Bubba's figurines are the only figurines from SHnY of any kind at the moment, of course the otaku community is going to pay big bucks for 'em... it's called supply and demand.
And I hope that this would kick the licensors in their pants to get some official merchandise like that out, post-haste. |
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