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Post by ultimateultrasaurus on Jun 13, 2018 14:39:34 GMT -5
Hallo Nachbar, ich kann auch deutsch sprechen. Lustig Zoids Werbung auf holländisch haha. (And for all the non German speakers here: Hello neighbour, I can also speak German, funny huh Zoids advertisement in Dutch) Thanks for the kind words by the way, had to look through all old photoalbums to find those pics (cause it's been quite a while back). Nice to hear you found them in the eighties too Most kids nowadays don't know anything besides their phones.. At least the people on this forum grew up with awesome toys! And certainly for that time it was mindblowing, but it never lost it's charm. But I was amazed from day 1 and it still is amazing how they made these (especially back then)
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Post by thezoidnamer on Jun 14, 2018 8:52:07 GMT -5
My Dad was always on the look out for fun toys to give me as Christmas/Birthday gifts back in the 80s and he used to hate Star Wars figures as he called them a complete waste of money (I figure it was because of their limited articulation and relative price). He must have seen the first few OERs and figured that they were much better value for money (after all, I think a small Zoid was around 2 GBP, just a little more than a Star Wars figure back then). So I was given Stegazoid first (in 1984) and as I seemed to really like it he followed that up with Hellrunner, Spineback Zoid and Slither Zoid in 1985. It was then that I caught the bug and started spending my own pocket money on them
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Post by seven on Jun 28, 2018 6:51:25 GMT -5
My story is not even close to most of you here, nostalgia-wise. My plastic modeling hobby days started with Gundams and Tamiya mini 4wds I tried customizing them and join car shows and races of course, I just don't remember clearly how I got to know about zoids particularly but back in 2002 when I started winning races sponsored by a local toy store they have zoids on display and I've always wondered how they looked like built and how they actually move so I decided to get a LIGERZERO as my champion prize. i built it same day at night, the next morning I bought a JAGER cas, and the day after that a BLADE LIGER, next day again a SHIELD LIGER, then SABER TIGER, GUNSNIPER next, then a DIBISON, around 7 kits in 1 week, and the rest is history.
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Post by Phenotype on Oct 10, 2018 10:55:26 GMT -5
I was browsing imageanime.com one day back in 2000 and Blade Liger was featured on the home page. I thought it looked so cool that I bought it, not knowing anything about Zoids.
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Post by Maethius on Oct 10, 2018 14:02:02 GMT -5
Cool design is enough! I have never seen a single Gundam cartoon. No, I'm serious. BUT, I love the design of the robots and really appreciate the details of the higher grade kits.
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Post by cougan on Nov 5, 2018 16:45:21 GMT -5
AND sometimes the design is even more interesting cause of the box art. I loved the pictures of the zoids with these moonlike backrounds on the OERs.
Cougan
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Post by SkyKnight on Nov 8, 2018 15:54:39 GMT -5
It's a same story that I have shared, but don't mind doing so.
I was a kid that moved from the US to Taiwan in `90, no American toys besides Transformers. Saw Zoids for the first time in a department store, and I got a Mk-II Command Wolf - still like that white, blue, and gold color theme. One of my cousins did get a Mad Thunder, and we built it together. And the last Zoids I got was Neptune.
So that would've been the end, until I move back to the US in '96, and later saw Zoids on clearance at Toys'R'US, then the "poison" came back, but now it is fading.
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Post by Everfree on Mar 10, 2019 22:50:24 GMT -5
I watched Zoids on Cartoon Network in the early 2000's. It was a really good show. My brother and I collected some of the models kits; he got the Liger Zero. Anyway, my mother eventually donated them to Goodwill, and I didn't collect them for a long time. Now I have three of them, since I started again: A Helcat, Gustav, and Blade Liger (Black Impact). I think Zoids is what got me into the mecha genre of anime in the first place.
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Post by RPZ41 on Mar 25, 2019 16:46:50 GMT -5
Saw NC0 on Toonami, got curious about it. Went online. My mind was blown and life changed forever.
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Post by TEMPEST on Mar 26, 2019 21:35:32 GMT -5
Walking through a Japanese department store ( Daiye I believe) I saw a Gordos and just bought it. Coolest thing ever!
!Looking back, I knew nothing... I didn't speak Japanese then, still rusty. But the toys were amazing! Then in Philippines I saw a dimetrodon in chrome and I was " oh yeah"! but I still didn't know anything about what you people were up to... I knew about Gundam, prefered SPT Layzner. That's about it. Now I'm building, copying great zoids like Dark Emperor, ( always an arthropod fon... Stay tuned)
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