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Greg Kirkman
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Posted: 19 May 2013 at 10:12pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Okay, I can see that.


...but I still wouldn't trade the Enterprise for a whole fleet! Love the
old girl too much!
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Wish I could paint/model, but between my horrible, clumsy sausage-fingers and my inability to enjoy badly-painted misassembled crap, I can only gaze longingly on those lovely, lovely kits of the Yamato 2199 redesigns.

Particular favourite: the Cosmo Falcon fighter. Perfect blend of the Cosmo Tiger/Black Tiger ships from the original, and all the added detail like RCS thrusters and the like just push all my sci-fi tech buttons (excuse the pun of sorts!).





Hopefully there'll be a miniature collection of the 2199 ships, akin to the 'Mechanical Collection' and 'Cosmo Fleet' series (which I've bought a few of in the past, based on the original 'toons).
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Bill Mimbu
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I believe the 2199 ships were standardized at 1/1000 scale because the original SBY kits were all over the place with sizes...

The upcoming Domelus II (General Domel's Flagship) is about the size of 1/350 scale Yamato of several years ago, and will be obviously be in the $100 range.

At least now it is possible to have Round 2's STAR TREK kits mixing it up with Y2199 ones...

EDIT:  The CosmoDNA website has a 4 part article on the development of the Bandai Yamato 2199 line of kits:

http://www.ourstarblazers.com/766_Bandai_Developer_1/index.h tml

http://www.ourstarblazers.com/767_Bandai_Developer_2/index.h tml

http://www.ourstarblazers.com/768_Bandai_Developer_3/index.h tml

http://www.ourstarblazers.com/769_Bandai_Developer_4/index.h tml



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Michael Roberts
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Finally found this guy after looking for the last few months:


Waiting for a few more Alpha Flight characters to display him with before freeing him from his plastic prison.
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"Marvel's Puck". Odd description.
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Michael Roberts
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"Marvel's Puck". Odd description.

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Likely some other toy manufacturer has "Puck" trademarked.
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Joe Zhang
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Yup, many of the Hasbro / Marvel 3.75" and 6" figures  have the "Marvel's" tag  prefixed to their name. 

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Likely some other toy manufacturer has "Puck" trademarked.

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With a pre-existing word, that would be hard to make a case for!

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Bill Mimbu
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Woot!  The next Bandai S.H. Monster-Arts figure is...  My JBF avatar:

Kiryu / Mecha-Godzilla 3

http://importingmonsters.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/import-monst er-news-sh-monsterarts.html

EDIT:  Update from Collection DX: LINK



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Gil Dowling
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I haven't seen many (any?) Hot Toys figures posted. I really liked The Avengers figures they've made. I missed out on Nick Fury and Hawkeye but have started picking up the rest of the characters.
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Likely some other toy manufacturer has "Puck" trademarked.

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With a pre-existing word, that would be hard to make a case for!

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My understanding is that you can trademark a generic word if it is arbitrary to your product. So a fruit company probably couldn't trademark "apple", but Apple Computer can trademark "Apple" because people don't normally associate apples with computers.

I know that Hasbro has issues with its Tranformers line, since many of the characters were given generic word names back in the 80s when they were less stringent about checking and maintaining copyrights. So the Transformers character "Jazz" can't be branded as "Jazz" and has been sold under a variety of other names like "Autobot Jazz" or "Meister" (the name used for the character in Japan.

One of the amusing trademark issues I've seen was with Mattel's DC line, when they apparently couldn't use the name for the Infinity Inc character "Obsidian". So included among the wave of figures was Green Lantern, Hourman, Kamandi, Zatanna, and... Todd Rice.
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Hot Toys ... that's another thing I'll have to rob a bank for, but only after getting a JB commission or two ! 
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