First Blog of 2017

After four months of hiatus, I'm back. Yes, not because Foldabots are back, but to share some new stuff I've done.

More Showa Sentai Robo concepts

After the last blog, I've decided to fill up my last graph paper sheets with my ideas in making gestalts inspired from the Super Sentai Series from the Showa era, save for the first three.

I'm not going to give them names at this point, but I'll get some photos done when it's finished. There are also redesigns of my first wave of such, in which I've added some changes along the way. But still, I don't have the right program to make decent patterns so that I can produce my own designs much better.

Busy Personal Life

Yes, the reason why I haven't posted since last December? Is because of being busy with my personal life and sometimes haven't touched this thing for three months. Anyways, I may had almost moved on from the Foldabots thing, but I still haven't got my Tagas card. Shame, I need to know if this is no scam. Comment below if you think that the Tagas giveaway was a scam or not.

Making Foldabots on Pepakura Designer

Ever since I've been using SketchUp, a 3D rendering program that is really easy to use, I have troubles perfecting the designs friendly to Pepakura since it doesn't support SKP, and had to export to 3DS (3D Studio) to make it compatible with it perfectly. However, several attempts in making a single design is a little tedious, especially when dealing with 3D. Sometimes, the cuts go over some of the guides by mistake or sometimes cut a tab just to make it separate. But at this point, I'm working on making weapons based on my ideas. And frankly enough, some of my designs work, unless you cheat Pepakura by using slightly folded out parts before you can assemble it properly.

As for making Foldabots in SketchUp, then to Pepakura Designer, I guess it would be a tedious work unless you use Illustrator instead.

Going Beyond the Foldabots System

Foldabots at the latter years had been using paperclips to hold together parts, especially in combiner arms. There are times I also have troubles with the complicated designs and *cough* Higadrone, who has the most number of parts. But if you would ask me if I have plans in reviving the toy line, I would start with using a lot of tabs, sleeves, and few slits to make the patterns rather complicated yet the resulting design is excellent.

And I think, if we give the former fans who may have left after the end of Foldabots, something that we wanted like a new Toy Book in which the supposed to be Magmatron Redux and few more stuff that were left behind. A bit like wrapping up the old series.

Back to the possibilities, I've already mentioned them on my previous blogs about this.

Wrapping up...

I haven't been picking up K-Zones since the cancellation of Foldabots, and I assure, if we gather ex-fans who are still making Foldabots as I do, I guess we could revive of rather reboot the series, if Jomike Tejido agrees with the idea of bringing back the series again. But it will take ages for us to run a campaign in reviving Foldabots, especially May's the first birthday of Foldabots after its death back in August 2016.

As for some new stuff I made in my new toys, I might post them here once I feel the hype for it.