Yeah, completely under my radar but Discotek, beloved, quirky, really needs to work on P.R. Discotek is releasing the original Toei robot show Gaiking
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It is completely insane. We know that Discotek has taken some real risks on some of their releases but to my eyes, this tops them all.
I think some publicity, some tying in to Shogun Warriors and Force Five would have been appropriate. I wish they would just spend some money and publicize.
And lower prices some. Gaiking isn't going to attract the boutique collector money with an expensive bare-bones release and I fear $60 USD MSRP is too high a barrier for the casual fan. I grabbed Giant Gorg at $29.95 because that was my sweet spot and $36.29 was OK for Orguss (currently $46.29 on Amazon, that kind of crossed the line), $60 bucks for space dragon dinosaur robot action, I duno.
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I think some publicity, some tying in to Shogun Warriors and Force Five would have been appropriate. I wish they would just spend some money and publicize.
And lower prices some. Gaiking isn't going to attract the boutique collector money with an expensive bare-bones release and I fear $60 USD MSRP is too high a barrier for the casual fan. I grabbed Giant Gorg at $29.95 because that was my sweet spot and $36.29 was OK for Orguss (currently $46.29 on Amazon, that kind of crossed the line), $60 bucks for space dragon dinosaur robot action, I duno.
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