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Sabrblade wrote:Makes sense to redeco Minerva in Nightbeat colors since Nightbeat's toy was released as a mail order figure over in Japan as "Minerva Night Beat".

Rated X wrote:I think youre missing my entire point. The anime style of faces makes them look like teenage girls.

Minerva IS a teenage girl! She's 15 years old. All Headmaster Juniors are teenagers/preteens. It was the Godmasters who were young adults/middle adults. Sheesh, man.

By her curvaceous looks, Minerva isnt exactly a girl scout, is she ???

Maybe the actual cartoons were done in another era when nobody cared. But I doubt these dolls would get a pass from most women with kids. Not in Miami, at least. Latinos are very family oriented.

Rated X wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Makes sense to redeco Minerva in Nightbeat colors since Nightbeat's toy was released as a mail order figure over in Japan as "Minerva Night Beat".

Rated X wrote:I think youre missing my entire point. The anime style of faces makes them look like teenage girls.

Minerva IS a teenage girl! She's 15 years old. All Headmaster Juniors are teenagers/preteens. It was the Godmasters who were young adults/middle adults. Sheesh, man.

By her curvaceous looks, Minerva isnt exactly a girl scout, is she ???

She's not bad. She's just drawn that way.

at least they don't look that creepy. xxxxkxxxxixxxsxxxsxxxpxxxlxxxaxxxyxxxexxxrxxxs

What's the big deal with the Minerva figure? And what makes Minerva creepy anyway? Btw, they're action figures if you want to go anal.

I'd consider them dolls if the costumes come off (Dolfie,VMF,Azone and AFC) those are what you'd consider "dolls". Her armor doesn't come off at all. You can't strip her down to her pantsu so why the hang ups? It isn't even Kiss Player level?

Figutto are action figures, with emphasis on action figures.....like figma.......only bigger. They're no different from SquarEnix's FF figures or their PlayArts Kai lines.

It's mentality like these that prevents Hasbro from ever releasing any female themed TFs. Thank Primus that we have the Japanese market that don't have any hang ups at all on such sublines.

Busy checking my on line Japanese supplier to get a final release date 'cause I'm getting Ginrai and Minerva.

Amen to that Riddler J!

Who cares what those conservative anal retentive stiffs think back in Florida?

Haven't we TF collectors have enough of the derision and prejudgments leveled on us by the general public before TF became a hip and trendy phenomenon?

As for the other anime themed figures who look under age......before mouthing out against them, try understanding the culture which spawned the product first. I'll leave it at that (no wonder the Japanese tend to get xenophobic at times when a "foreign culture" tries to impose their beliefs on them).

Btw, why's this in the 3rd party section? This is an officially sanctioned TF product, shouldn't this be in the main toy forum?

fenrir72 wrote:As for the other anime themed figures who look under age......

She looks 15 because she is 15.

fenrir72 wrote:Btw, why's this in the 3rd party section? This is an officially sanctioned TF product, shouldn't this be in the main toy forum?

Yes, yes it should.

@ Saberblade

I didn't mean Minerva. I know she's 15 years old. In fact, I don't even see any fuss on how she was rendered. Kawaii (that's the Japanese style........old school at that). In fact, it cause me to laugh aloud when you commented "she's not bad..........just drawn that way" ........shades of what Jessica Rabbit told the old P.I.Eddie Valiant.(So we shouldn't prejudge hot looking curvaceous femme fatales......)

I meant the other anime figs posted as examples by Rated X. One of which I'm familiar.........Shakugan no Shana. Those gals were rendered that way ( I'm not bad just drawn that way again )and no right thinking person would equate owning such figs with encouraging to do harm to girls at that supposed age range (IIRC Shana more or less hovers around 15 to 18 yrs old but who's counting because I'm in it for the story and not obsessed with her age)

But I do not want to digress any further. I take my hat off to CM. Imagine translating from 2D to 3D a character with a fully functional transformation feature? Wow!

I can't wait for her and Ginrai to be released soon.

fenrir72 wrote:In fact, it cause me to laugh aloud when you commented "she's not bad..........just drawn that way" ........shades of what Jessica Rabbit told the old P.I.Eddie Valiant.

Quite so, quite so.

fenrir72 wrote:I can't wait for her and Ginrai to be released soon.

This makes me wanna see them make figures for all the Godmasters, Headmaster Juniors, Marvel Headmasters, Marvel Powermasters, and Marvel Targetmasters.

@ Saberblade

Unfortunately, amiami just emailed me today that they still haven't received a green light from CMs concerning the actual release date. This is going to be a loooooooong wait.