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Julia-the-Great
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Aww, that's too bad. I'll miss your reviews. I don't collect figures, as just being in the anime hobby is expensive enough as it is, but I read your reviews every single week and enjoyed them all. Good luck in the future!
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cornelius99
Posts: 4 Location: London |
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Quite so. Thanks for the columns Mr. Bricken, I shall miss you.
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Rednal
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TO ROB: Thank you for all of your hard work, your entertaining comments, and those pictures of Krauser. ^^ This was a column I genuinely enjoyed reading, and I will miss your style.
TO THE NEW WRITER: Congratulations for taking over this column, and I'm looking forward to seeing how you will be doing things. I also have no idea if you will be taking requests or not, so please forgive me for my rudeness and hastiness in mentioning the following: If reasonably possible, I would like to see a review of Griffon Enterprises' soon-to-be-released 1/8 PVC of the character 'Flandre Scarlet' from the Touhou Project. Whether you do or don't review this particular item, though, I wish you the best of luck and many years of enjoyment in doing this column. |
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littlegreenwolf
 Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Yeah, it'd be kind of unfair to Rob I suppose if the next writer were to continue it. Either way... we've gonna miss Krauser. Farewell Krauser! May you make it home before the gates of hell close! |
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Dorcas_Aurelia
 Posts: 5344 Location: Philly |
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Aw, sad to see Rob go. I don't even particularly care about figures, but I enjoyed the articles. I'll miss Krauser, too, but that is kind of Rob's thing, so it wouldn't really seem right having someone else use it.
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John Casey
 Posts: 1853 Location: In My Angry Center |
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Aw~n. Guess I'll have no more Queen's Blade figure reviews to look forward to.
 You'll be missed.
As a sidenote...that Miyazawa figurine, for some reason reminds me of an old high school friend, whose literal default setting was a blue track suit and bare feet. Seriously, no matter where she was, or what she was doing, it was always in her silly tracksuit and barefooted. Kids and their fashions these days...  They really ought to take cue from Baccano.
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KanjiiZ
 Posts: 661 Location: Central Coast |
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Maybe he can get another figure as his mascot. I just hope the new guy isn't super into ecchi figures. |
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PetrifiedJello
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Sorry to see Rob go. I really enjoyed his style of writing. Though I'll also miss Krauser, here's to looking forward to what the new reviewer brings forth. *sigh* One by one, the reviewers leave for better things. Good luck, Rob, and here's to hoping you guest every so often here. Key, you better not go anywhere or I'll hunt you down, chain you to a desk, and force you to stay. (this is a joke, of course) A shame I missed the call for a new reviewer of figures. I would have loved to have tried out for the position, though I don't think I'd have received the offer given I would have done so pro bono. Now, I'll wait two weeks to see what becomes of Astro Toy. |
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Truered
 Posts: 515 Location: Uni |
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I've enjoyed reading the various reviews over the months, so thanks for the entertainment for the last ~year and a half(ish). I did enjoy the writing style and the use of picture (often for humour).
Hope the next writer is just as good 
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
 Posts: 7912 Location: Anime News Network Technodrome |
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Rob's been meaning to retire his tenure at Astro Toy for a bit; Topless Robot has been his full-time gig for a while now (as opposed to part-time, which it was when he started writing for us), and it took a while for me to find someone appropriate to take the column over. Other than that nobody's really left us for better things - Bamboo wanted to try something different and is still developing that. As for Theron, I'm pretty sure he could be in traction and would still be turning in reviews. 
Oh, and there was no call for a replacement writer. I wasn't auditioning people; this column requires something specific and so I went hunting for that. |
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dabura16
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I'll miss you writing this column, but it won't be so bad as I constantly visit TR anyways.
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ReiClone88
 Posts: 187 Location: Inside a giant tank full of Tang |
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Wow, I didn't expect anyone to even remember anime dolls by Tsukuda Hobby, let alone be featured in the Astro Toy column.
Heck, my anime doll collection started with a chance encounter across a Sakura Shinguji (SW1, Uniform ver.) doll from the 90's.
So no archival photoset of all the articulation joints and how they work...
But I did however learn that her boobs were squishy... 
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walw6pK4Alo
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Bad hentai figures where? If you're referring to the Queen's Blade ones, Rob mentioned that they're excellent figures, just not his type of thing because of nippleage. And yeah, sad to see Rob go. This was one definitely one of the more interesting columns on the site. I hope the next person reviews more completed figures, and fewer gashapons. |
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Elves
 Posts: 269 Location: USA |
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I agree that the pictures with Krauser started out as "Rob's thing," but at some point in time I started merging those pics as a staple part of the column. Now I've come to expect those pics to be there. However, the new writer should totally get their chance to develop their own thing, and, as with many things, keeping the Krauser pics with a new writer may not jell as well just because Rob isn't the writer anymore. So now I'm torn... |
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John Casey
Posts: 1853 Location: In My Angry Center |
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If the new writer will have half the sense of humor Rob has, then they could probably, successfully do some sort of photo-comic as "their thing."
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