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Post by Maethius on Mar 26, 2017 14:44:15 GMT -5
GREETINGS!!!!! Welcome to the community!
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Post by ProdigalDragon on Mar 26, 2017 14:47:10 GMT -5
Welcome to the group
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Post by Aurora Lion on Apr 19, 2017 19:59:13 GMT -5
Sooooo those of you who know me from DA... probably thinking "well it's about time" lol! I really missed talking to my fellow zoidy peeps and saw that most of you are more often on here rather than DeviantART. Glad to see a zoids forum still operational! I am honestly not much of a collector anymore other than favorites and I think my collection is down to roughly 15 or so. It's not lack of interest, but lack of space, lack of desire to "collect" and lack of wanting to have dust collectors everywhere. I mostly custom paint them and sell them for the fun of it~
So for those who don't know me already, I mostly hail from the magical* online world of DeviantART where I mostly paint pretty landscapes because they make me happy. Other random stuff about me is other than painting/painting zoids I'm usually almost always outside doing something (ok probably just being that jerk skateboarding but ehhhhh) I deeply hate social media and avoid it (or post and immediately run away like I do on Tumblr) . I am also dyslexic so I apologize if some of my sentences/wording is off (the joys of staring at a sentence and never seeing what's wrong with it YAY!) All I can say is that I am ludicrously happy almost everything has spell check anymore.
Guess I'll run through the status quo for the heck of it hur hur
Nick: Aurora Real name: Kayla Birthday: January 1989 City, Country: 'MERICA (lord help me) Occupation: Graphic Designer / Illustrator Hobbies/Interests: Pft well zoids duh... and for the rest *takes a deep breath* walking/jogging, biking, skateboarding, inline skating, painting/illustrating, music, B movies, some anime, Transformers, Harry Potter (so zoids, transformers and harry potter are totally those childhood things for me that you can't shake and will forever love) Favorite Zoid(s): Hayate Liger, though pretty much all the ligers. Konig Wolf, Mirage Fox, Zeekdober... I need to stop now
*may not be magical in any way or form but will say it's magical to make it seem better
Visit me on DeviantART at: auroralion.deviantart.com (yay shameful plug)
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Post by Maethius on Apr 20, 2017 2:11:03 GMT -5
Welcome to the fold, Aurora! Love your work, by the way... your avatar is striking!
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Post by Vig on Apr 20, 2017 7:06:51 GMT -5
Hey you, Welcome back Aurora lion. Wait, were you even on Phen0types? My memory fails
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Post by Aurora Lion on Apr 20, 2017 13:26:29 GMT -5
Was never on here, just The Zoidian @ Maethius: Thanks a lot! I really need to get back into painting zoids more illustration wise~
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Post by spirotek on May 17, 2017 6:20:31 GMT -5
Hi, Piero from London. Thought someone might be interested in this really poor photo, circa 1987, of my Zoid collection arranged on a table in my bedroom. The white paper had newspaper scrunched up underneath to create an undulating terrain! It's not easy to make them all out but there's Gore The Lord Protector at the top, Zarch and Redhorn The Terrible at the bottom! I still have a few of these although I haven't taken them out of the storage box for quite a while, and some of them are the worse for wear having been well played with/dropped/toppled from shelves/etc. (Also note Galvatron in the background - he's long gone sadly!)
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Post by Maethius on May 17, 2017 13:18:04 GMT -5
Hi, spirotek! I was going to comment that you shouldn't leave your Zoids in the sun, but then I remembered you were from London! ^_^ It's nice to have someone from your side of the pond aboard! I hope you enjoy the community.
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Post by spirotek on May 18, 2017 2:32:58 GMT -5
Thanks Maethius! True that the sunlight would fade the colours, even in England. It is sunny here today, though I wanted to add, reading back on some of the earlier posts here about how people first discovered Zoids... my mum (that's mom to Americans) came home with a small random toy for me, I think because I had been ill and had a day off school. Remembered now - it was a random Christmas present from someone - an Aqua Zoid. This would have been around '84. Like most Aqua Zoids, I suppose, it only lasted a few sessions in the bath before bits fell off and got sucked down the plughole, or whatever: (photo from Zoids Wiki) After a few months a Spider Zoid turned up too, but my memory of where that one came from is even hazier, and my collection grew from there. Interestingly, my step-dad would refer to them as 'Zoo-oids' for some reason. Zoids also started to appear in Marvel's Secret Wars comic, which I used to buy, and then they got their own co-starring role in Spiderman and Zoids. I also bought the Zoids computer game for my Amstrad CPC computer. Good times. Have to admit I was always much less interested in the comic stories than I was in the toys themselves, and I've never seen any of the anime series. I also haven't bought a Zoid since the 1980s so I'm strictly old-school I will investigate what I have left of my original toys in the storage box next time I'm at home and post some better pics..
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Post by Maethius on May 18, 2017 16:03:43 GMT -5
That's cool. I got into Zoids because my brother collected them and decided I could earn them off of him if I did his paper route. Every week I did the route I earned a windup; it took a month to earn the Serpent and I took over the route and bought the Giant Zrk (Bigasauru) from him.
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Post by RoyallyRed on Jul 9, 2017 22:01:45 GMT -5
Someone recommended this forum to my forever ago and though I've checked it now and then I figured I should finally just make an account. I'm on the Zoids subreddit quite a bit under the same username, and on Tumblr under two different ones (I think haha, I'd have to check.) I'm one of those people slightly obsessed with collecting chromes and holo's. I also collect Transformers and just a lot of robots in general. My favorite Zoid's the Blade Liger, as marked by my tattoo of it;
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Post by Vig on Jul 10, 2017 1:55:53 GMT -5
Welcome and very nice tat! ! Gotta love that level of obsession. I got a Brastle on the shoulder. I'd like to see your chrome and Holo collection too
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Post by Maethius on Jul 10, 2017 15:02:33 GMT -5
Heya, RoyallyRed! Nice to have a kitty lover on the payroll!
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Post by RenegadeFox89 on Jul 18, 2017 22:57:58 GMT -5
Hello. I've been a closet reader of this site for YEARS. I just, I never felt like I should join or not. I don't do well with new people and new places, mostly because I'm not too sure where to start. I'm a zoid RPer, been since before MMM and then long after MMM. I also am a model builder, and a reviewer. I hope to bury you all with a lot of my zoid pics. If you allow me.
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Post by Maethius on Jul 19, 2017 1:00:11 GMT -5
Welcome to the fold! It's always great to have another building in the mix, especially a reviewer!
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