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Bonger wrote:

Professor Smooth wrote:TFs not being big in Japan has helped me greatly. I can add figures I've always wanted to my collection for very little. As a bonus, I can offer up other rarities to people at (hopefully) lower prices.

One of the reasons I am seriously thinking about vaca in Japan next year.

In my opinion, that's a terrible reason. As I said, TFs are not very popular. There's an excellent chance that you would find nothing of interest to you (TF wise) if you were only here for a week or so.

Professor Smooth wrote:

Bonger wrote:

Professor Smooth wrote:TFs not being big in Japan has helped me greatly. I can add figures I've always wanted to my collection for very little. As a bonus, I can offer up other rarities to people at (hopefully) lower prices.

One of the reasons I am seriously thinking about vaca in Japan next year.

In my opinion, that's a terrible reason. As I said, TFs are not very popular. There's an excellent chance that you would find nothing of interest to you (TF wise) if you were only here for a week or so.

Well my gf is big into JP culture, so I figured it wouldbe a nice 2 for one. I did think that the local anime stores there would have some noce old stuff lieing around from the 80's. Not the case?

Professor Smooth wrote:Look at God Ginrai. That was one of the single most wanted TF items ever. It got reissued (at a fairly reasonable 100 USD, iirc) and only the really die-hard fans bought it. You couldn't give those away. Places had them marked down to around 35 USD! I'd imagine the same would be true of a reissued Fort/Grand Maximus.

I snapped him up through HLJ at full price.

A few months later they were practically giving him away, so I snapped another one up and sold it to another Australian and made enough to bring the cost of my original down to the sale price.

Burn wrote:

Professor Smooth wrote:Look at God Ginrai. That was one of the single most wanted TF items ever. It got reissued (at a fairly reasonable 100 USD, iirc) and only the really die-hard fans bought it. You couldn't give those away. Places had them marked down to around 35 USD! I'd imagine the same would be true of a reissued Fort/Grand Maximus.

I snapped him up through HLJ at full price.

A few months later they were practically giving him away, so I snapped another one up and sold it to another Australian and made enough to bring the cost of my original down to the sale price.

I pre-ordered the thing. I didn't feel ripped off at all. Sure, I could have paid less if I'd waited, but I never found 110 dollars for a God Ginrai to be a bad deal.

Though the one sitting on my shelf now only cost 25, so, I really can't complain.

Thanks for everyones help I'm still thinking about buying him i had a day and half to make a decision,but I do have 2 questions.

1)What is Brave Maximus total robot height?

2)I know about Brave Maximus and Fort Maximus but what is the story with Grand Maximus and what differences does he have from the others?

If I recall, Maximus is 22 inches.

Grand Maximus is identical to Fortress Maximus except for the color, he comes with a big red sword and Cerebros has a pretender shell.

I personally like Brave Maximus color scheme the best even though he doesn't come with Grommet or the sword and the other stuff.
I display mine in city mode with my WST in various places, which really look good on it.

IMHO you just HAVE to own Brave or Fortress, or your TF collection just isn't complete.
Just my opinion of course.

iron maniac wrote:I personally like Brave Maximus color scheme the best even though he doesn't come with Grommet or the sword and the other stuff.
I display mine in city mode with my WST in various places, which really look good on it.

IMHO you just HAVE to own Brave or Fortress, or your TF collection just isn't complete.
Just my opinion of course.

I really agree on all points. Though I htink you need 2 of them. One for city and one for bot mode.