Have pre-ordered the re-release of the Figma Matoi, and was hoping they would re-release Kiryuuin too, so I could get for a reasonable price… but I came across someone selling her at a price I couldn’t pass up, so I have ended up with her prior to Matoi
Super-pleased with her, and excited for Matoi. I will aim to find a space for them together :D.
I have also displayed the Rending Scissors dangled from a thread:
And a zoomed-out shot:
Prior to buying this, I have been thinking of buying it on and off… and finally got around to it XD.
So without further ado, “Tentative name” Rei:
And her back:
Pleased with the figure, and glad I bought it 🙂
Was browsing the MFC ads… and came across this fellow. He ordinarily comes with a Figma, but the pair is really quite expensive, and I don’t like the figma enough to justify the cost.
This li’l fellow flew all the way from Spain, in seemingly record time. He was posted on the 10th, according to the tracking and appeared a mere 2 days later. Wasn’t home at the time, and saw the postie put the parcel in the box on the CCTV – it looked like the right thing, but wasn’t fully convinced as it was so soon since it got scanned in Spain. Came so quickly it didn’t even stop to get scanned on this side of the pond :P.
Here’s a side shot of the fat bugger:
And one of his back:
And now the obligatory Japanese-figure-upskirt shot!
The most SFW upskirt you’ll see all week :P.
And now for a “so random I couldn’t not order it”. Interesting designs on these guys, so might check out the manga & anime associated with these dudes.
I’ve ordered a few of Kaiyodo’s small figures before, and never been disappointed, and this one didn’t break the trend. And now here for the randomness:
TADA! The guy on the left is bendy, and can be posed. The right hand one is statically posed, and apparently called Migi. Left hand dude was very sticky with plasticiser (not really a surprise, as he’s been in a sealed packet since 2003!), so he had to have a thorough bath. Love the way the veins have been painted inside/on an inner layer, as it gives them a much more “fleshy” appearance.
Awesome little pair, if you like things like this 😛
And another Puzzle & Dragons figure! Lilith.
Love her design, and the pose of this figure. Had to heat her hands up to get the scythe in them, but went in very smoothly after that. Texture on the scythe is a bit different, which is a nice touch.
Pic of her with the scythe in focus:
A nice little figure, which was cheap too 🙂
With me winning only one item in the Urban Mines, I had a box to fill, so the next 3 posts will be for the figures that came with the JoJo prize figure.
First in line, we have Vampire Lord from Puzzle & Dragons.
Bit of a pain to photograph with the sword. Main gripe with this one is the sword, in two respects: one, it gets in front of his face a bit and two, it’s a bit too much like a piece of plastic. Would be nice to have a little more detailing or something to give it a less “plastic” vibe. Other than that, he was good for the money imo.
Talking about figures and gripes, one thing that I don’t have an issue with is his back:
This is how to do a plain back for a figure – looking at you Purgatori!
Another one from the Urban Mines… a JoJo “diorama” figure.
This one looked nicer in person than I thought it might, and is detailed for a prize figure. Happy I bid on this, even though it was a pain to put together. Was also surprised that it was completely unopened & sealed – Urban Mine items rarely are, and the box seemed to be in good enough nick to be sold as a store item, so not sure why it went to auction.
Here’s a view from the top, showing more of the figures:
A worthy “A” prize, imo.
Bought this at the same time as Angela Balzac and thus got customs’d. Ah well 😛 Imo she was still worth it!
Here’s her face:
And her butt!
The velvety base is definitely a nice touch. She’s a bit smaller than I expected, but she’s well-detailed. Base has a few marks, but she was secondhand. If posed “right” on the base, the marks don’t show though.
Here’s a figure I’ve been looking at for some time, without really knowing anything about the source material:
I like the base, and she looks good as a piece, but getting close-up there’s a couple of flaws – mostly the hair. OK for the money I paid, don’t think I’d want to pay full price for her (which would’ve roughly doubled her price).
The alternate arm was a nice touch – both poses look good, but I can’t resist getting out the maximal amount of accessories :P. And one other nice advantage of the base: there’s a place for her weapon to rest. Some other figures I have could learn from this!
Bought this figure from a seller on Facebook, so this one didn’t have so far to travel to get to me. Sinon just after escaping her box:
And some posing a couple of days later:
She also comes with her rifle, which I added the strap and placed on her during the writing of this blog:
She’s now joined the shelf with Kirito and Asuna (ALO vers).
Picture of her on the shelf:
Pic of Sinon with her buddies (yeah, shelf needs a dust…):
Just a little one 🙂
Tyrande, from WoW. Saw the series 2 figures for sale in GAME for £10, decided the eBay prices probably aren’t going to go down much, so decided to pick this one up. Will probably pick the Illidan one up if I see it for a good-ish price.
Happy with her, but these figures are a bit more than I really want to pay for them, lol. But man, I want ‘em.
Just a small post… this was an Urban Mine auction item, 100JPY bid. On receiving it, I’m glad I didn’t pay a lot for it.
A bit more detailed than I was expecting, but she doesn’t stand on her base very well, and she’s quite small. In the end, I chose to forgo the base and use some white tack to sit her in. She’s on top of a detolf, so the white tack isn’t visible, and it looks like she’s kneeling on the detolf top.
And here is an Urban Mine item! Random as they come! When I saw this, I had to bid on it. Tried to search the internet for this, but came up blank. The box was stamped with a date in 2003 (2003/10/14), so it’s not overly surprising, but still weird that the EAN didn’t come up or anything. On the back, there’s a web address for a Japanese company called Entrex.
Here’s the box as it arrived, with the Skull DJ goin’ for a bit of a surf:
And here he is out of the box:
Quite a cool little thing, but don’t know anything about it! Ah well, he can sit somewhere and be awesome :D. If anyone sees this and knows something about it, feel free to comment.
When I ordered this figure, I had the choice of a few different ones, with different prices. I decided to choose the one labelled as “box severely damaged”, as it was cheapest and I don’t really care about box condition.
So prepare for some box carnage…
Or, uh, maybe not. The plastic blister itself was in pristine condition. The box for poor ol’ Stitches in the last post was in a worse condition.
Now onto the main event! Rin herself!
Not a bad figure, but not spectacular either, however she didn’t cost much! She doesn’t go on her pegs currently, but I may fix that with some hot water at a later date.. but tbh she stands up fine with just the one set of pegs.
All-in-all, happy with this one.
… STITCHES!
Picked this guy up in GAME (of all places), for a decent price. Looked like he’d been kicking around the store for some time. Wonder if he got dug outta the storeroom when they opened up another GAME in the same city…
However he came to be in that store, he’s now no longer terrorising Darkshire, and is now terrorising the residents of my desk. Not sure if the spitter alien is too pleased..
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:
Looks OK, though she has gun-holding hands, but no guns ><. Not sure what that’s about tbh.
The stand thing she comes with:
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:
And Black Widow on my shelf:
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!
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.
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:
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:
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:
Closeup of the end:
And that was my haul for the Saturday :).
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):
The figure, boxed:
When I took her out, there was this artwork obscured by her:
And Purgatori outta the box!
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 :).
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.
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!
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.
Next up, Scourge:
That’s all the boxes, now onto the things! Rei and Asuka out of their box:
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.
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.
I’mma lookin’ at chu:
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:
After his soak, smelling much better (though the bandolier, being soft plastic, still has a bit of a stench to it):
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:
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:
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.
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 ¬¬).
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
