Month: July 2017

Black Widow

On Sunday I went to London… and bought one thing. 

That thing was a Black Widow figure for £6. The Disney Store had looadds of them, with variable paint jobs. Some of them painted rather poorly, though I think I picked out a decent one. Think Disney overestimated the figure’s popularity!

Opening the figure up, I don’t think it’s just a case of overproduction – this figure definitely has its drawbacks, but for the price I paid, I can live with those.

Here she is out of the box:

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Looks OK, though she has gun-holding hands, but no guns ><. Not sure what that’s about tbh. 

The stand thing she comes with:

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The Ant Man is a separate part. Pegs aren’t too well made for it, so it is easily knocked off.

Also… no pegs for the figure! Hence stand thing. If you do stand her on the stand, she seems wayy too large for it, hence why she’s on a disc stand above. Needed to use White Tack with it, as the Diamond Select peg hole is larger than those of NECA apparently. Mildly annoying. 

Slightly duff close-up of Ant Man:

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And Black Widow on my shelf:

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All in all, an OK figure, but definitely not worth full price. Might have to dig around in the drawer of bits and see if I have some guns for her. Not sure what Diamond Select were thinking when they designed her & her accessories!

Global Collectables

On Saturday, I went and visited Global Collectables. Ended up buying three things – one figure I was planning to buy if they happened to have it, a complete wildcard and something I’ve half had my eye on. 

First up, the figure I was planning on buying at some point – Spacesuit Harley. 

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A fun li’l figure. She also came with a piece of pizza… that smelled like pizza! Was wondering what the “food smell” was, and it’s this thing. Not sure what possessed the designer to give it a smell, but… there you go. Kinda wish it didn’t have a scent:

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Next up, the figure I didn’t expect. Al Azif by BEAT. There are two versions of this figure – the “original” figure that has held its value and a “crystal” version that hasn’t. This is the original version:

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Looking up the two, working out if I’d accidentally wasted some money, I found the difference – the “crystal” version is shiny, and has transparent hair… and looks awful in the photos I saw of it. Glad I didn’t end up with the crystal ver. 

And the third thing – chestburster chopsticks. I have the facehugger ones, but the facehuggers do occasionally fight each other when you’re using them. Thinking these might be easier-to-use novelty chopsticks… and it’ll give me another pair to use if I have two chopstick meals within a couple of days of each other:

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Closeup of the end:

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And that was my haul for the Saturday :). 

Pugatori

For the low, low price of pretty much just the postage (international postage, mind you) I bought this figure. 

Paid for speedier delivery, which meant the box had to get snugglier with other parcels, but the contents were untouched (dent was the opposite end to the figure):

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The figure, boxed:

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When I took her out, there was this artwork obscured by her:

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And Purgatori outta the box!

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Only took a pic of her front as the wings aren’t sculpted on the back, which is a mild shame. She does look awesome from the front though, and the engraved style of the base means I can have her with both the knife and the spear :). 

Urban Mine 2!

And now for the second set o’ stuff I ordered a little while ago. 

Now that I have both the orders, I now know for sure that neither of the Spawn figures would have fit in my previous order. And Scourge is a fat bastard! Got two full boxes, one slightly smaller than the other. Again, this order is a combo of store items and urban mine stuff. 

And now for the figures! Took some box shots to start with, of all but one. Will explain the reason why later in the post. 

First up, Pinky:cos Asuka and Rei. Been on the fence about getting these, and thought “why not?” seeing as I was doing an order anyway. 

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Next up, CODE:BE by Wave. I have Lilith, which is basically the solid colour version of this one, but reaaallly wanted the clear one too. Box isn’t really much to look at from the outside. Bit too opaque!

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And now for some Western stuff. Even with the postage, it was cheaper to get these from Japan than buy locally/get shipped from elsewhere. These Spawn figures were roughly £5 apiece, including postage. 

First up, Spiked Spawn. One thing not pictured. See later in post. 

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Next up, Scourge:

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That’s all the boxes, now onto the things! Rei and Asuka out of their box:

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I do have some bootlegs of these Pinky:cos, planning to take those to work to decorate my desk, as they’re something to pretty the place but I’m not worried if the cleaner manages to damage them. 

Next up, CODE:BE. Looking a lot better outta the packaging! But the stands for these figures are a pain. 

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Scourge – love this dude! So many bits to fiddle with, and I love the colour scheme. His groin looks a bit odd, but I swear I’m not gonna be looking there often. 

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I’mma lookin’ at chu:

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And the thing not pictured about the Spawn above? His stink! I knew one of the figures smelled of cigarette smoke, and this was the bugger. Was, for some reason, more apparent once out of the box! Box hadn’t been opened either, and has now been resigned to the rubbish bin. Guess that’s why he ended up in the Urban Mine auction! (As well as being a Western figure)

So in for a bath he went:

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After his soak, smelling much better (though the bandolier, being soft plastic, still has a bit of a stench to it):

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Aand the one you’ve all been waiting for (or probably not…) – Revoltech Alien Queen. The box for this one does have a window under a flap, but on opening the flap I was greeted with… a jumbled mess. So I was more concerned about getting it out and inspecting its condition rather than photographing it. 

Fortunately, the damage to this one was minor – part of its jaw hinge had snapped off, but was in the box, so I glued that back on. One of the shortest spines has a part snapped off, but that doesn’t show too much, especially if I don’t have that side facing forward. The missing part for that however, was not in the box. Being an Urban Mine item it was a gamble, but I feel the gamble paid off, especially as I paid a lot less than one in pristine condition. Was deeply hoping none of the pieces were missing, and I feel like I lucked out on that front.

And here’s some pics of the bugger:

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The tail behind is of the Neca Alien Queen. This one is the middle-sized one of the three in this cabinet. The small one is the Konami Queen. 

Side shot:

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All in all, really happy with the stuff I got, especially for the prices I paid. Also used manual focus with the camera for this blog post. and am happier with how the pics came out than ones I’ve taken previously. Still got a fair amount to improve on with taking photos though :D. 

Etna

This one came up for sale unexpectedly for a reasonable price on a site I frequent, and just had to get it. Budget be damned! (And it certainly was this month ¬¬). 

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Cute, and I love her colours. Been wanting an Etna figure ever since I saw they were a thing (never played the games, only really know the name), and I missed out on one on the same site a couple of months back or so, and couldn’t not get this one. Seller said it was the fastest sale ever, lol