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INTEREST: Plot-Spoiler Nendoroid Madoka Figure Unveiled in Color




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sepherest





PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 11:38 am Reply with quote
How come there's always news about Madoka getting any figures on here when GSC announces items for other series all the time?

Just curious.
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Polycell



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 11:46 am Reply with quote
Dammit Good Smile! I want this so badly, but if I get it I'll have to get the rest of the Madoka Nendos.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 11:51 am Reply with quote
Sepherest wrote:
How come there's always news about Madoka getting any figures on here when GSC announces items for other series all the time?

Just curious.


ANN loves Madoka
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Juno016



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 12:16 pm Reply with quote
Sepherest wrote:
How come there's always news about Madoka getting any figures on here when GSC announces items for other series all the time?

Just curious.


In a way, Madoka is in an awkward position of having been made for otaku, but picked up by a way more mainstream audience than that in Japan. So there has been a lot of promotion for the figures and such on television and beyond in hopes of the mainstream audience finding interest in owning these originally-otaku-targeted merchandise.

I had heard Madoka got popular with the mainstream audience, but I didn't expect, coming here, that it would be this well known. I'm not even anywhere near Tokyo or its sub-areas. The series wasn't broadcasted here until after the initial wave of popularity from the series calmed down. And it still seems to be well-known, even if a lot of people haven't seen it yet. Comparing it to K-ON!, it seems to have a more respectable reputation. K-ON! is known as the "otaku anime they sell small goods for at Lawson's and such" around where I'm living right now...

Not to mention... I just came back from the second Madoka movie. In both movies' cases, I didn't see one dominant demographic. I saw men AND women of all ages, from young children to older couples and such (probably no older than 40 or so, but still). And this was the opening day only. I had to come back to the theater to grab another ticket because I lost my first one, and the after-showings were almost as packed as the first day's, and there were less males than there were females, and less teenagers and college students than there were adults... It all truly surprised even me.
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Emerje



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:15 pm Reply with quote
I'll be getting the figma version that was also previewed this week. It's the only Madoka figma I don't have. Smile

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potatochobit



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:55 pm Reply with quote
I don't much care for ultimate madoka
I've had my fill of magical girls with nanoha A's
though I do have a regular madoka figma
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Momokochan



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:49 pm Reply with quote
It's so beautiful...


I must get it at any cooost omg
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underlock



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:00 pm Reply with quote
She lost her legs in the last episode? I don't recall that.
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Ashen Phoenix



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:33 am Reply with quote
I hadn't given thought to how this figure or the non-Nendoroid version could be announced without spoiling its relevance to the plot, so I top my proverbial hat to you fine ANN staffers for this act of consideration.

I can never refer to her as spoiler["Ultimate Madoka" as the portmanteau "Godoka"] has just found its way into my heart and refuses to leave. Laughing
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Polycell



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 1:58 pm Reply with quote
Emerje wrote:
I'll be getting the figma version that was also previewed this week. It's the only Madoka figma I don't have. Smile

Emerje
Oh good. Now I don't have to collect another set of figures.
Ashen Phoenix wrote:
I hadn't given thought to how this figure or the non-Nendoroid version could be announced without spoiling its relevance to the plot, so I top my proverbial hat to you fine ANN staffers for this act of consideration.
So why did you go and throw it all away?
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bglassbrook



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:28 pm Reply with quote
Is there really any difference between that and her form in the opening credits? Other than the wings, or at least the ankle-wings, I mean.
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potatochobit



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:42 pm Reply with quote
she's mad in this version.
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