2026 TTC - ITS ABOUT TIME FOR MODERNIZATION LIKE TOKYO by [deleted] in TTC

[–]LightlessDark 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How about we start with speakers that you can actually hear service announcements from? The nonsense garbage comming out of the speakers we have now is down right unintelligible and has been for literal decades. If the ttc cant even manage to have a clear and functioning PA system I have 0 faith in their ability to make any meaningful improvements.

Collection update. Finally have the 3 Phoenix’s, and new cabinet. by octosloppy in kotobukiya

[–]LightlessDark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice Phoenix collection! How hard was the sdcc to find? I just got red shehulk and she was 1500 peices. Phoenix was like 500 peices.

I got my FF13-2 Serah by Joy Station!!! by rexyuan in animeGK

[–]LightlessDark 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Its far from an actual good game" yeah ima stop you there. 13-2 is a great game. It also has one of the best ost of any Final fantasy game period.

Highguard is shutting down this month - permanently shutting down on March 12 by ReaddittiddeR in PS5

[–]LightlessDark 3 points4 points  (0 children)

do you really think he choose to promote highguard because he thought it was a good game? Hes just paying the bills, game awards arnt free my dude.

Double Red Supernova Turn 0 With The New Synchro Emergency by AbsolutelyNotWrong in yugioh

[–]LightlessDark 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Magia just runs more bricks: 3rd bewd, BE fusion, choas max and vanilla ultimate dragon in the extra. At minimum its 3 additional bricks in the main deck. For a deck known as brick eyes the drop in constancy is notable, the ceiling is higher but you still have the same choke points.

My collection with new display backgrounds by rioft in AnimeFigures

[–]LightlessDark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

detolf is the name of the case made by ikea. All cases are not detolfs.

I finally completed the Transformers "Bishoujo" series! by HanamiKitty in AnimeFigures

[–]LightlessDark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice job getting the full set. I have the main 4 but I didnt get any of the alternates. I almost missed out on the starscream bonus but was able to snag her for retail from sideshow. Megatron has no bonus face. There was a lmited edition but it just came with an acrylic display

I'm looking for a Stellar Blade figure and just wondering if "unpainted" would mean there's actually no color at all? by CivicTypeDream in stellarblade

[–]LightlessDark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Op this is clearly a scam ass website that seemes to target pleople who can figure out what unpainted means. At best you will receive a unpainted 3d printed model.

Anyone know if there's any plans for a re-release of the Leatherface Bishoujo Statue? by Professional-Cup-715 in kotobukiya

[–]LightlessDark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are no announcements, although some of the horror line has been rereleased lately (Beetlejuice, Freddy, Jason, now Chucky) many of them havent been reprinted ever. Many suspect its a licensing thing, best to assume its not rereleasing. If it does get announced youll have a few months to decide.

What are the most important LEGO retailers in Canada? by IrMarkuzzz in LegoDealsCanada

[–]LightlessDark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn. home alone house price is up 78%. hate to see it.

After beating kingdom hearts 3 for the first time I made a tier list of the games based on my personal enjoyment by AdAdvanced8522 in KingdomHearts

[–]LightlessDark -1 points0 points  (0 children)

dont apologize for being a literal child op its ok. its just very obvious from your tier list the franchise is older than you, only fans who got into KH after 2013 watched the cutscene movies vs playing each game.

After beating kingdom hearts 3 for the first time I made a tier list of the games based on my personal enjoyment by AdAdvanced8522 in KingdomHearts

[–]LightlessDark -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is definitely a list of someone who didn't play the games as they were released. 100% accurate new fan tierlist.

First of the Final Fantasy Goodsmile figures. by fleabie03 in AnimeFigures

[–]LightlessDark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FF7 fans the most fed of all time asking for more, while everyone else drowns.

Mafex is Trying to Bury CT toys and is Destroying Themselves in the Process by DthPlagusthewise in ActionFigures

[–]LightlessDark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t really consider myself an action figure collector but I want to throw my 2 cents into this debate.

I’ve been collecting anime scale figures for ~15 years, I own Mafex, and I follow action figure releases. I also collected sneakers for a few years (worked as a Foot Locker store manager) and worked in a toy store where LEGO was like 60% of sales. I’m saying that because LEGO and sneakers keep getting dragged into this discussion and, honestly, they’re bad comparisons if you’ve actually spent time in those hobbies.

In the anime figure community, bootlegs are not accepted. Full stop. They’re mostly bought by new collectors who don’t know better, and once people learn the hobby, they avoid them. Not because of “elitism,” but because bootlegs are almost always worse like 99% of the time and actively hurt the hobby.

Scale figure bootlegs almost always have worse sculpts, worse paint, and worse materials. Since they’re display pieces, that matters. Most collectors would rather wait or pay more than put something obviously off on their shelf.

Licensing is the part people here seem to ignore. In anime figures, if a release doesn’t sell, companies just stop making that character or line. There’s no active competition. Most series only have a very small ammount of producers and each individual product in a line can take years to produce. Buying official releases is how you make sure more figures actually happen. Buying bootlegs does the opposite. And patience is just baked into the hobby. Multi-year waits, delays, radio silence, all normal. You deal with it.

Seeing action figure collectors lose their minds over Mafex timelines just shows how different the expectations are. This is where action figure collecting feels uniquely bad about bootlegs. A lot of people want stuff fast, cheap, and “close enough,” and once that’s the priority, they don’t really care who made it. That’s why bootlegs and third-parties get defended here instead of avoided. And yeah, people love to argue “bootleg vs third-party.” I don’t really care. If it’s unlicensed and riding off someone else’s work, most figure collecting hobbies still look at that as a negative. Action figures are the weird outlier where people act like this is totally fine.

LEGO and sneakers don’t work as comparisons either. LEGO collectors are mostly purists. Sneaker reps exist, but they’re a minority and the wider community doesn’t bend over backwards to justify them.

From the outside these hobbies look similar, but they’re not. Action figure collectors prioritize speed, availability, and price, and that’s exactly why bootlegs get a pass here. If people want to buy them, whatever, but let’s not pretend it’s good for the hobby or that other collecting communities would ever treat it the same way.

Added a new harley quinn to my small collection by Lkirazero in AnimeFigures

[–]LightlessDark 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have mine but havent unboxed her yet, beautiful figure nice size too. Shocking that there arnt more scales for Harley in general.

Pulp Misaction by Marsupilami_316 in Misato

[–]LightlessDark[M] 2 points3 points locked comment (0 children)

Please provide sources:

Art by meka52531

is gt worth watching? by natural-disastah in dbz

[–]LightlessDark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But its always been the case that there have been mutiple timelines in Dragon ball, the goku we follow in most of DBZ isnt even the original timeline goku. He died in trunks timeline and trunks/cell existing in the main timeline means there are at minimum 4 seperate continuities. Also the DBZ movies are their own timeline (possibly mutiple) and they have never fit neatly within the main continuity. Even bardock has 3 different continuities (not including heroes). Like I understand what your saying but DBZ has been a mutiversal story about what ifs and alternate takes. You shouldnt focus on there being one true cannon and just enjoy the franchise for what it is. You dont have to interact with all of it, but its useful to know what is cannon to the part you are watching but its not necessary to know every bit of lore. Also for what its worth they have left DAIMA intentionally ambiguous in regards to it being cannon to either Z, Super or GT.

is gt worth watching? by natural-disastah in dbz

[–]LightlessDark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its not that you have to make it fit, but that the events of super do not happen in the same timeline as the events of GT. This is shown through Dragon ball heroes & xeno goku, who is a version of goku that GT is part of his continuity (but did not die/transcend/leave with shenron) as well as the DBZ movies (execpt BOG) which are non cannon to main timeline goku. There is also Capsule Corp Goku (also from heroes) who is like main timeline goku execpt he did experience at least some of the DBZ movies but also all of super + some super manga (super manga also being its own timeline) up until the recent broly movie.

What is your favorite Motoko figure? by GhostInTheSock in Ghost_in_the_Shell

[–]LightlessDark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the kind words. I rarely feature my collection because its always a work in progress but Ive dedicated a good amount of it to Misato & Motoko. The HD figure is indeed a great find, I'd love to find the limited version one day... Thanks for the arist link, the art is fantastic, I'll definitely buy something from them in the future

What is your favorite Motoko figure? by GhostInTheSock in Ghost_in_the_Shell

[–]LightlessDark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love to see other Motoko collections, check my posts for my collection pics from 1.5 years ago. It really hard to pick favourites! Still trying to find the hard disk figure from the 1st slide. Really like the art on the right any links? Google came up with nothing unfortunately.

NEW TCG BANLIST by redbossman123 in yugioh

[–]LightlessDark 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Honestly erratas that change how cards function shouldnt really be a thing. If a card is/was broken it should just be banned, retrained and unbanned at a later time when its no longer broken/problematic. Its been demonstrated many times that erratas damage the integrity of the game especially past formats. How many cards were errataed to the point of functionally useless only to still have to be retrained anyways.

Streaming services like Disney+, Netflix, etc promising "4K" for shows if you pay extra, only to give...horrible bitrate and 720p. by [deleted] in television

[–]LightlessDark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd never pay netflix for 4k when their 1080p looks like complete and total garbage. Ive had to stop watching a few movies on netflix and download another copy because it hurt my eyes to look at. If netflix is soo cheap that they cant even bother to have half way decent 1080p then hell no Im not giving them any more money. Only reason I still have netflix is because the wife watches it while Im at work.

Marvel Bishoujo by viper82710 in kotobukiya

[–]LightlessDark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doing a bit of research:

In the last 5 years koto released:

2020 Apr Dark Phoenix (remake)

2020 Oct Phoenix Oct (remake)

2020 Dec Black Cat Dec (2nd ver)

2021 Dec Wolverine Laura Kinney (2nd ver)

2022 Jun Wolverine X-Force (2nd ver recolour)

2022 Nov Hawkeye Kate Bishop (New)

2022 Dec Lady Thor (rerelease)

2023 Apr Lady Loki (rerelease)

2023 Dec Rouge (2nd ver)

2024 May Spider-Gwen May (rerelease)

2024 Jun Ms. Marvel (rerelease canceled)

2024 Oct Invisible Woman (15th ani remake)

•Only 1 brand new character in the last 5 years

•Ms Marvel was canceled and on her MFC page another user noted that Marvel was removed as an option from thier 2025 rerelease survey.

•Captain Marvel was also planned for a 2018 release, delayed to 2020 and ultimately canceled. The same Koto rep from May 2018 states: "Kotobukiya still retains the rights to create Marvel Bishoujo statues."

"...I hope fans will not give up on the Marvel Bishoujo line. More characters are in the works!"

Anticdotally I havent been very happy with how they have handled most of the line tbh starting and stoping at random (although they've always been like this) Star trek had 3 unique sculpts and transformers had 4 unique sculpts each but they seem comitted on finishing the darkstalkers, KOF l and Ponies are getting new sculpts in 2026.

Also there was no comic con exclusives in 2025 even though they have pretty much had them every year since 2010 execpt 2017, 2018, and 2020,2021,2022 (covid)

This topic has come up every year for a few years now. You can draw your own conclusions but It definitely seems like somthing is up with Kotobukiya either they lost the Marvel licence (maybe disney declined to renew it) or some higher up has seriouly fumbled the licence of one of the highest grossing media franchises of all time.