Shogun Warriors threads

[kennermike]

Mattels Shogun Warriors are getting alot of play lately!:crazy::smiley1::smiley1:

[Mego Superboy Prime]

You just gotta love em!!!

[kennermike]

You just gotta love em!!!

never had any as a kid a neighboor had DRAGUN I think thats his name

[Random Axe]

Yeah, I only had the Dragun as well but I still have a soft spot for this line. My buddy had Mazinga and we'd duel. I also had Godzilla but I really don't think of him as part of this line. I really, really want a Raydeen now. I think he was always the most dynamic and best looking of the bunch. I even liked the comic series.

I'd love to see a resurgance of these guys, but I think that's near impossible.

Scott

[johnmiic]

I'd love to see a resurgance of these guys, but I think that's near impossible.

Scott

Really? Why? They were mostly like rotocast figures with limited posability. The could do them like the HULK figures from the first HULK movie and maybe add some more articualtion.

My brother and I had 2 of the first 3. Mazinga and Raydeen, ( I forget who the third was). Sometime later I had Godzilla.

[SUP-Ronin]

Here are mine. Love em.

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f128/genin99/shoguns004.jpg

[Werewolf]

Here are mine. Love em.

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f128/genin99/shoguns004.jpg

Great collection!

[Ranger 3]

Its one of those things that I have some love for now simply because of nostalgia, but as a kid (I had only the big Dragun) I felt the size was neat but the limited articulation was a drawback.

I also have a special place in my heart for the little version of 'Raider' as his parts were used by Kenner to create the prototype rocket-firing Boba Fett in '79. (This is the only one I own now).

M

[cjefferys]

Really? Why? They were mostly like rotocast figures with limited posability. The could do them like the HULK figures from the first HULK movie and maybe add some more articualtion.



Popy released near exact reissues of three of them in Japan around 10 years ago, but they retailed for the equivalent of $130-200 each. They didn't sell well at all (probably in part due to the high price, and that they picked common ones to reissue, they should have tried the rare ones instead). Diamond ended up picking up the remaining stock to sell in the US (for around $120 each) but I don't think they sold that well. I ordered them through my local comic shop and the owner told me that I was the only one of his customers who actually bought them. Other customers thought they were really cool when they saw them in Diamond's catalog, but thought they were way too expensive to actually buy.

[rche]

there are the SW stormtrooper and Fett jumbos. Those are modern. And there are a couple of 'retro' jumbos in the Entertainment Earth catalog. So, the idea isn't totally dead. But all the new jumbos are much more expensive than your average figure, take up a whale of a lot of real estate, and don't really have any tie ins to modern properties, so I don't see them filling up the shelves at WalMart any time soon.

[Random Axe]

Really? Why? They were mostly like rotocast figures with limited posability. The could do them like the HULK figures from the first HULK movie and maybe add some more articualtion.

My brother and I had 2 of the first 3. Mazinga and Raydeen, ( I forget who the third was). Sometime later I had Godzilla.


I just thought it would be a cost/demand issue. They would have to charge 150 plus or more and there wouldn't be that many buyers. Potential customers, as always, would focus on vintage. I guess that's like the Trek Mego/EMCE thing, so maybe my theory doesn't hold water.

If some toy company buys into this lisence, maybe they could do the 24 inch scale and add articulation.

[ctc]

>I just thought it would be a cost/demand issue.

I think it WOULD be.... part of the problem being the originals were simple blow-molded figures. Dunno if the current collector crowd would go for that.

>If some toy company buys into this lisence,

I think THAT would be a major cost too. The originals are from all kinds of different properties out of Japan, so you'd have to negotiate with each individually. And for a Shogun Warrior reissue proper you'd need to strike a deal with Mattel too. (I bet a big reason the recent Storm Trooper was so pricey was the license fee.)

....but it's not IMPOSSIBLE. And it would rock to have some ginat toy robots that shoot stuff....

Don C.

[mazinz]

>I just thought it would be a cost/demand issue.

I think it WOULD be.... part of the problem being the originals were simple blow-molded figures. Dunno if the current collector crowd would go for that.

>If some toy company buys into this lisence,

I think THAT would be a major cost too. The originals are from all kinds of different properties out of Japan, so you'd have to negotiate with each individually. And for a Shogun Warrior reissue proper you'd need to strike a deal with Mattel too. (I bet a big reason the recent Storm Trooper was so pricey was the license fee.)

....but it's not IMPOSSIBLE. And it would rock to have some ginat toy robots that shoot stuff....

Don C.

well if the soon to be Gaiking moive becomes a hit, we may just have that--

[SUP-Ronin]

http://s3images.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/original_171093_oz5Gz_jaRaHBA6pdzRelwlRR3.jpg