I think it gets a bit splooged over too much in American UC communities, though the love for Ghinius (mai husbando <3) is minimal at best. He seems to have at least a small fanbase in Japan based on some fanart sites I have bookmarked (though some of my favs have grown inactive or died over the years :( ), though in the West I'm pretty much all he's got it seems.
The 08th sploogers are a turnoff IMHO. They'll go on and on about how awesome they think 08th is, and can get nasty as hell to anyone who dares to criticize anything other than Ghinius or something else they tend to hate. 08th is a reasonably good series, don't get me wrong, but it's not the most amazing thing ever for everyone IMHO. And there are awesome things besides just Norris/Gouf Custom, Shiro being hotblooded, "realism", and Kiki's tits. Guess that's what happens when you have a forum/board demographic largely consisting of 17-25 year old males I suppose :/
I've been on more UC-related boards than I can count, so I guess I've seen a lot you might not have seen I suppose. I dunno, you much active on anything like that?
Need to get off my ass and write some Sakhalin-centric fanfiction. Mind if I bounce ideas off your head?
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I meant mostly merchandise wise. There may be a lot of mecha models and things from the show (I'm not sure, that's usually not what I'm in the market for), but you don't see a lot of gashapon, figures, etc of the 08th MS Team crew.
I'm not really very active in the Gundam fandom (or any, really) so I'm not in the loop with how others feel about it.
Aww, sucks. Figured as much. I see a good bit of Aina-related stuff on Y!Japan auctions, along with a little of Shiro, Norris, and any Zeon female who had any lines at all in the OVA (I kid you not), but everyone else... nope, sorry, out of luck. I know there's *one* garage kit of Ghinius in existence, but it's from '03 or before and it's not something that'd be available most places (from what I understand, artists who do garage kits really only tend to sell them at cons and shit due to lack or resources, etc). Though because of this I ended up getting into 1/6 scale custom dolls, which is a pretty fun though money-devouring hobby :V
Yeah, I would've probably known if you were active since on Gundamwatch, G.com, GunPlus, etc, since the number of known female UC-fan members was usually in the single digits. So if you where a chick and liked UC, generally you stood out a bit and were easily recognizable by handle/posting style/opinions/whatever.
Also, I was browsing the hated_character comm earlier and saw some of your posts in some ooooold Relena-related threads. And I agree on damn near all points except hating Quess, but that's no biggie since I'm pretty sure there are only 2-3 of us fans who didn't hate her in existence. Though I hope to someday do the impossible and write yaoi fics that are actually decent. Giren/Ghinius has been calling to me so very much, along with the recent one-sided Ghinius homolusting over Yuri and the nonsense that results (TM). Though both idea tend to take place some time before the OYW, so yeah...
Wow, incredibly late nonsense tangent reply is incredibly late.
Any Zeon female who had any lines? Do you mean that blonde secretary who was tied up or whatever? I would not mind having a figure of her because she was straight fire. Not even going to front.
Haha, hated_character? I don't even remember being in that community and would rather not be held accountable for opinions I had when I was like 15? (There's a Char Aznable quote that could be appropriate here, isn't there?)
At the risk of being rude here, but since it's in my LJ and I'm well within my rights, I... do not care so much about your yaoi plans, heh.
Ah, sorry if I shoved it in your face then. I may be stupidly fangirly over yaoi, but it's rude and ignorant as hell of me to expect everyone to feel the same way. Need to stop that like woah. Though curious, how do you feel about yuri? *hides*
Yeah, though I can say flat out that the posts I saw were infinitely more intelligent and mature than some of the crap I posted when I was 15. You at least backed up your opinions with logic instead of rabid, hormonal squealing ._.
And hell yeah, next to Aina Cynthia seems to be the most common 08th character to make shit of. Check these out:
Those are just what I was able to find right now. I've seen at least 4 or 5 different figures of her (mostly garage kits) that pop up from time to time, so those two are not the only figures in existence.
I don't know if you've ever bought anything from Y!Japan, so please tell me if I need to either stop stating the obvious or tell you more.
Though on occasion a Cynthia figure will pop up on ebay, though sellers tends to mislabel her as Alice Miller from what I've seen (along with some similar game-only characters).
And yeah, sorry if I'm annoying you or acting stupid.
The 08th sploogers are a turnoff IMHO. They'll go on and on about how awesome they think 08th is, and can get nasty as hell to anyone who dares to criticize anything other than Ghinius or something else they tend to hate. 08th is a reasonably good series, don't get me wrong, but it's not the most amazing thing ever for everyone IMHO. And there are awesome things besides just Norris/Gouf Custom, Shiro being hotblooded, "realism", and Kiki's tits. Guess that's what happens when you have a forum/board demographic largely consisting of 17-25 year old males I suppose :/
I've been on more UC-related boards than I can count, so I guess I've seen a lot you might not have seen I suppose. I dunno, you much active on anything like that?
Need to get off my ass and write some Sakhalin-centric fanfiction. Mind if I bounce ideas off your head?
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I'm not really very active in the Gundam fandom (or any, really) so I'm not in the loop with how others feel about it.
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Yeah, I would've probably known if you were active since on Gundamwatch, G.com, GunPlus, etc, since the number of known female UC-fan members was usually in the single digits. So if you where a chick and liked UC, generally you stood out a bit and were easily recognizable by handle/posting style/opinions/whatever.
Also, I was browsing the hated_character comm earlier and saw some of your posts in some ooooold Relena-related threads. And I agree on damn near all points except hating Quess, but that's no biggie since I'm pretty sure there are only 2-3 of us fans who didn't hate her in existence. Though I hope to someday do the impossible and write yaoi fics that are actually decent. Giren/Ghinius has been calling to me so very much, along with the recent one-sided Ghinius homolusting over Yuri and the nonsense that results (TM). Though both idea tend to take place some time before the OYW, so yeah...
Wow, incredibly late nonsense tangent reply is incredibly late.
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Haha, hated_character? I don't even remember being in that community and would rather not be held accountable for opinions I had when I was like 15? (There's a Char Aznable quote that could be appropriate here, isn't there?)
At the risk of being rude here, but since it's in my LJ and I'm well within my rights, I... do not care so much about your yaoi plans, heh.
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Yeah, though I can say flat out that the posts I saw were infinitely more intelligent and mature than some of the crap I posted when I was 15. You at least backed up your opinions with logic instead of rabid, hormonal squealing ._.
And hell yeah, next to Aina Cynthia seems to be the most common 08th character to make shit of. Check these out:
http://page9.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k46895908 -seems to be $20-ish w/no bids yet.
http://page6.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/f78594720 -same figure as above, though $13-ish w/9 bids but only 16 hours left.
http://page17.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/v114899823 -another of the same + the Aina from the same series and less than a day left w/0 bids.
http://page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g41023044 -a resin garage kit that seems to be $170 or so.
Those are just what I was able to find right now. I've seen at least 4 or 5 different figures of her (mostly garage kits) that pop up from time to time, so those two are not the only figures in existence.
I don't know if you've ever bought anything from Y!Japan, so please tell me if I need to either stop stating the obvious or tell you more.
Though on occasion a Cynthia figure will pop up on ebay, though sellers tends to mislabel her as Alice Miller from what I've seen (along with some similar game-only characters).
And yeah, sorry if I'm annoying you or acting stupid.
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