Zoids 2 is where I remember going those look cool. Still don't have a single Zoid to this day though.
@sirphoboszoids6 ай бұрын
XD that’s awesome!! Thanks for showing my Liger Zero Epyon towards the end!!
@Justin-Ver-Ka6 ай бұрын
I thought that was such a cool custom!
@fandabidozi3191Ай бұрын
Spent a long time ogling these in the toy store back in the 80’s. I had a spider, a raptor and a small tyranisaur zoid. Couple of them came with comics. Good times!
@ebert306 ай бұрын
Well done Ethan!
@Jangmo_SC6 ай бұрын
I really appreciate the breakdown!
@GunplaGirlie6 ай бұрын
Woah Nice Video!!!
@SparkRattle6 ай бұрын
Brief and accurate. You, sir, earned my subscription and I will be watching more! Thank you!
@DotHacker994 ай бұрын
i'm a zoids enthusiast starting with the 99' release and recently got into HMM. It's nice getting to learn a bit about the history
@AlteisenNacht6 ай бұрын
awesome video Ethan! Great seeing a spotlight on a series that isn't gundam for a change
@kumar000136 ай бұрын
Such humble beginnings. I never would have guessed. Very well done
@bahrainhasnan4 ай бұрын
Yeah I thought it was a hit ever since the beginning haha.
@RA1N3SZ6 ай бұрын
Always glad to see zoids get some love.
@lyteskys13 ай бұрын
I order from ya all the time. I didn't know you had these awesome videos
@MechaWarehouse3 ай бұрын
Glad you like them!
@UnhandyCandy2806 ай бұрын
I still have all my zoids. I kept them even over star wars toys (which i loved).
@xxnike0629xx6 ай бұрын
#RIPRadioShack 7:33 Took them long enough but the HMM line up is finally what Zoids fans deserved. If I have to say a few things, it's that Kotobukiya kits tend to be more expensive than Bandai kits and they don't reprint kits as often meaning often we see HMM kits (for example) being resold at a very high price.
@scythe59445 ай бұрын
From what I have read on r/zoids its due to that Zoids is pretty much a niche brand that is pretty much dead outside of Japan so Kotobukiya limit the number of units they make. Due to the limited number of units that they think they can sell they have to up the price of each unit to pay for the production and other costs. They also don't reprint very often due to knockoffs being sold for 1/3d to 1/4th the price and it just isn't worth reprinting if you know they will be a hard sell. Bandai on the other hand floods the market with hg and mg units so much so that every online retailer generally has them 10-30% off every week, in some cases even 50%. In Japan hg Aerials and Kyoukai Senki hg are seen as essentially worthless and are hard to even give away. Bandai makes enough on the ones that do go for 100% price that they really don't care what happens to the leftovers.
@mikeg50396 ай бұрын
My brother had the dibison toy back in i wanna say 1985. I had a ton in the 90s. Even my dad was amazed at the brontosaurus toy
@Justin-Ver-Ka6 ай бұрын
The Rocky Balboa of franchises lol
@FLCLintron6 ай бұрын
I always wondered why I got the technozoids for so cheap as a kid.
@kaiarose156 ай бұрын
great vid as always, ethan!
@Clitjohnson6 ай бұрын
Damn I had no idea about any of this. Great vid, subscribed.
@shukilevyandbrookesheildsl26382 ай бұрын
I'm patiently waiting for a release of a HMM Sinker Zoid (Manta Ray). I hope there will eventually be a release for one announced soon.
@TheSaltiestDogs6 ай бұрын
nice!
@fpow52846 ай бұрын
Cool video
@FredEggs6 ай бұрын
I was so mad when they dropped the elephantis line. Will never forgive the producers for that >:(
@DennisTamayo4 ай бұрын
I hope it would have a collab with Transformers' Trypticon in the future, since Takara Tomy owns both since 2006.
@youngheero6 ай бұрын
Dang didn't know they go this far back. Always loved the show back when I was a kid watching toonami. I've never seen any kits or toys always wanted them. I've been so into Gunpla, but I might have to get one of these kits soon. They look so awesome.
@thehobbyist116218 күн бұрын
I’ve got several zoids and some of the rare ones are the 1/24 scale ones and some of the oer zoids and some reissues of the ojr zoids aka njr zoids and hmm zoids.
@TheBrotherGrim6 ай бұрын
My mom got me and my brother the Pegasus TechnoZoid when we were really young, and putting that beast together was such a nightmare 😂 So much confusion, but it was really really cool.
@dark-jedi5 ай бұрын
The HMM line is hands on, awesome down to the details. But the charm of the original 1/72 (and 1/24) Tomy kits is definitely stronger and the memories each one of us had with it. I wish they'd reprint, repaint, modify/add new armors of the older kits and make new ones like they did before because honestly the wild series personally is an embarrassment (except for a few Zoids). They should hire whoever made the designs from the 80s up until the early 2000s.
@jacobwichert26975 ай бұрын
9:48 is that Karl Urban?
@blueberrypitbull875 ай бұрын
Better than Gundam 100 percent.
@DoraKageАй бұрын
Zaddens me how poorly handled this IP was. As an x - Xebec employee who joined the company about 8 years after they made Chaotic Century, this franchise holds a special place in my heart. Even back then - Zoids was more of a product based IP along the lines of Beyblade, but they could have handled it better. The most recent iteration - Zoids wild is... really not nice. Had they played their cards right - this could have been like Japanese Horizon Zero Dawn.
@HK-ly4nm6 ай бұрын
This Ethan guy should shave! 😅
@j-frame6 ай бұрын
Now Koto have a line that kicked band-aid ass and also force band-aid to release their own line that Koto excel at.