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Post by Charlie on Mar 5, 2024 0:47:19 GMT -5
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Post by bill on Mar 5, 2024 3:21:07 GMT -5
While I've been collecting darn near the whole 40 years and seen pretty much all of it. I'm sure there is so much that has escaped me. It might be nice to buy and browse through and stuff away with my many other zoidish books. So yeah I'm waiting to see some sort of feedback on it before jumping in and buying, but I am interested in one.
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Post by Maethius on Mar 5, 2024 16:52:10 GMT -5
I think it depends on how complete it is, to be honest. I love illustrations, good photos, etc. even if I can't read the lore. It claims, "more than 600 items, from the "Mechabonica" released in 1983 to "Zoids Wild," and includes event-limited items, game and magazine benefit items," and that sounds pretty complete to me!
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Post by Snowflake on Mar 5, 2024 18:07:02 GMT -5
oh HELL yes. and it's only 35 bucks? If that gets published here translated, I would pay cash money. even untranslated would still be desirable if it has the good pictures.. or at least mostly katakana, I can read that
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Post by wolves on Mar 5, 2024 18:21:25 GMT -5
Yeah I need that
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Post by Hanyoutai on Mar 5, 2024 22:02:55 GMT -5
I've got it pre-ordered, and am looking forward to it! even if it keeps getting delayed, but such is life
The catalog of kits is something I'm quite invested in, and I look forward to seeing what that looks like in reality. Especially as the Figure King interview that came out, which tried to cover a lot, still didn't get much of the OJR and didn't cover many exclusives. The concept art is just the icing on the cake.
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Post by Snowflake on Mar 6, 2024 18:29:28 GMT -5
I have to assume shipping a BOOK is gonna cost a mint, given how much very lightweight model kits already cost.
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Post by Hanyoutai on Mar 6, 2024 21:27:02 GMT -5
On my experience, shipping books is typically around 3000 ~ 3500 yen. This may vary depending on the store, though. I hear HLJ can have higher shipping these days.
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Post by Leon35 on Mar 6, 2024 21:29:33 GMT -5
My one Fear; what if its extremely lazy and just plagiarizes the Wiki or something?
I am definitely concerned that no other preview images are up on the product page. I will wait until I know more.
edit: Pre-orders are closed? Huh!
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Post by Hanyoutai on Mar 6, 2024 23:00:44 GMT -5
The book is an HJM publication and they have a long established history of making their own Zoids content, so I wouldn't worry about that. On the other side of that coin, HJM can be... how to say, bland? compared to the other magazine publications. So I wouldn't go in expect anything too amazing, either. The lack of product photos is painfully typical of Zoids publications. Zoids Wild EX only got the cover, and its an actual story book. So waiting to see first is probably the wise move. |
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Post by Leon35 on Mar 7, 2024 19:36:24 GMT -5
I definitely have this morbid curiosity of "What incredibly niche releases will this book overlook" or even, what if it has documented stuff we never even knew about?
Im kind of hyping myself up to get a copy.
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Post by Sineater on Mar 20, 2024 0:40:24 GMT -5
On my experience, shipping books is typically around 3000 ~ 3500 yen. This may vary depending on the store, though. I hear HLJ can have higher shipping these days. HLJ's shipping sucks in general, these days. |
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Post by Hanyoutai on Mar 29, 2024 10:28:14 GMT -5
The book came in today! As I'd suspected, the encyclopedia part is quite similar to the Figure King article, including images on a white background with a small text blurb. It's not lore heavy so if you're hoping for something like the OFB stat files you'll be disappointed. Very little info. (On the other hand, I feel this makes it easy to enjoy as an international buyer) TONS of model kit photos set up like this. Lots of clear OJR photos, which I'm pretty excited about. There are some things like obscure products that use box images but I think that's fine. It's not complete, no, but I can't fathom it'd be possible to do something so complete these days. It certainly covers much of what it set out to cover, from the OJR to current.  I was surprised at the sheer volume of concept pages in the back. Almost 30 pages worth, much of which I hadn't seen (and I don't think got covered at the Big Zoids Expo, either, though I could be wrong.) There's a four page interview as well. |
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Post by Charlie on Mar 29, 2024 23:30:46 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing. Any new info that may be of note that we haven't seen before?
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Post by Ernestotaku on Apr 1, 2024 6:34:14 GMT -5
The book came in today! As I'd suspected, the encyclopedia part is quite similar to the Figure King article, including images on a white background with a small text blurb. It's not lore heavy so if you're hoping for something like the OFB stat files you'll be disappointed. Very little info. (On the other hand, I feel this makes it easy to enjoy as an international buyer) TONS of model kit photos set up like this. Lots of clear OJR photos, which I'm pretty excited about. There are some things like obscure products that use box images but I think that's fine. It's not complete, no, but I can't fathom it'd be possible to do something so complete these days. It certainly covers much of what it set out to cover, from the OJR to current. I was surprised at the sheer volume of concept pages in the back. Almost 30 pages worth, much of which I hadn't seen (and I don't think got covered at the Big Zoids Expo, either, though I could be wrong.) There's a four page interview as well. Do we have this book in PDF? I have some books or encyclopaediasm, but I would like to have them all physically. |
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