Category: Action figures (articulated)

Kuroyukihime and more Kuroyukihime

… because you can never have too much Kuroyukihime or Black Lotus. 

Bought these two Figmas together from the same seller. The first one I really like, and intend to put her with my Silver Crow Figma, but I need to do some figure rearranging first. Due to her exclusivity she cost a pretty penny, but she’s still cool lol.

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This second one was cheaper, but not sure if it was a good buy or not. 

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She has some nice features – the silver butterflies, the wings and the fact she comes with a tiny li’l Arita avatar:

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However, her skirt is rather odd, and doesn’t feel like it sits quite right, and the umbrella is too heavy, and has a habit of falling, and the bottom wing segments can fall off easily. Maybe I’ll find some way of sortin’ that skirt, lol…

Aki Ross & Deadpool

Went for a trip to the cash point… decided to make a detour to the one place within walking distance that sells figures. Found two things that appealed to me.

First is Aki Ross from Final Fantasy. I haven’t played the FF games, but I liked the look of this character. Also she was cheap 😀

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Second thing I bought was a Deadpool keyring:

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Can’t go wrong with a bit o’ Deadpool!

Small Miscellany!

Here’s some little bits that I’ve picked up, that probably don’t need a whole blog post of their own. 

First up, two small bits from the Gloucester action figure shop, Mystique and a Lizard dude from Spiderman:

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An Illidan figure from Blizzard’s Cute But Deadly range. Sadly didn’t come with the base, but fortunately he stands up on his own (was looking into modify a base for him, but he doesn’t really need it):

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Love these little figures, but they were pricey! I’ve now got all the series 2 ones I want. Still may pick up a Kerrigan from series 1 if one comes up cheap enough, but not really mad over owning one (seeing as I don’t play SC). 

And finally, a dog alien from Konami’s Alien series:

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And that’s the last one of the Konami figures I wanted! Other ones I’m not so bothered about – mostly the ships, which go for a lot and I care less about them than the xeno ones. If I saw a ship one going cheap, I’d probably pick it up, but I’m not actively searching for them any more. 

And that concludes my little stuff 😀 

Gloucester Comic Con

Went to yet another con (yeah, bank balance miiight be lookin’ at me funny) and yep, bought some more stuff! 

First up, we have Sylvanas, my favourite of the things I picked up. Been trying to find this online, and so few places are selling it… basically only eBay sellers, and none of the retailers would provide any info of if they have it in stock/will have it in stock. Plenty of Raynor, either for sale or pre-order but no Sylvanas! Fortunately I spied her at an OK price at the con, and just had to buy her:

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Yeah, she’s a weird shade o’ blue, but other than that, she’s well-painted and sculpted. The cape came out better than I was expecting, and is a decent bit of material… not packed particularly well in the box though. I’m a bit of a sucker for Sylvanas so had to get this. 

Next up, an alien warrior. Kinda wish I didn’t buy this, as it isn’t in great condition, so it gets to live in a slightly random corner:

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Next up, a little Doc Oc:

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Bought it from the same dealer I bought some stuff from in one of the other cons, he was cheap n’ cute, so picked him up. 

And finally, Ursol from Dark Crystal (a Reaction figure):

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And just to show her longitude:

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Looking at the eBay sold listings, I paid a fair price for her. A nicely detailed figure, with the added bonus of it annoying my husband. who really dislikes the Skeksis. Is a little bit of sloppy painting if you look too closely, but on the whole a nice figure imo. 

Man-Bat

This figure was also bought at Forbidden Planet, alongside Catwoman and the redstone ore. Here are some shots of him up-close:

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The articulation on this dude is rather disappointing, especially what they’ve done with the wings. Was hoping for a bit of flex and poseability, but there is none to be had :(. Still a cool-looking figure though. 

Here he is taking on Koto’s dog alien:

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I decided I wanted to display him dangling, so I had another bar put in on one of the Ikea cubby holes:

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Awesome to have him dangling there, also takes up “wasted space” where I can’t put much else :). 

Saber, Catwoman & Cube

Un-hiatusing my blog! First off, we have Saber and Catwoman:

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Saber I bought from an MFC user, and collected on a trip down to London, Catwoman was purchased from Forbidden Planet…. also in London. 

Here are some closeups of Saber:

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A simple, yet attractive figure. Happy with this one, though she does like to drop her sword now and then.

Onto Catwoman:

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Love the detailing and paint job on this figure… but… she has no stand holes! Which makes her more than a little annoying to pose, and you can’t really pose her dynamically, without her falling over. After she fell over a couple of times, I resorted to putting a glue dot under her foot, which has fixed the problem, at least for now. One other minor disappointment is you really want to put the side whip in the hole provided, otherwise she has a weird dent on her side. Would’ve been nice to have something else to go there, whilst she’s holding her whip. 

And for the Bonus Item:

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… redstone cube! This was sold as “Broken: light not working”, so I got it for £4. One strategic disassembly later, my husband saw it and kindly soldered the switch back to the board. It has a switch that dangles midair in the cube, which is formed of two cylinders. When the cube is hit, the switch is triggered. To make it sensitive enough, it has two long, thin legs, and this had snapped. One solder job later and it was fully working :). 

It has three levels of brightness, which it cycles through when you hit it:

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As it is aimed at kids, it also turns off after 5 minutes, which is minorly disappointing, but ah well, I won’t be flattening the battery any time soon. Gets pretty bright too, which is nice. Currently sits in random parts of the house, wherever I feel the need for more redstone 😛

WSM Comic Con – Grid Alien

This is the first of three loot posts for the Weston-Super-Mere comic con. For once, we had a bank holiday weekend that was hot :O. And the first hot weather in ages! Enjoyed wandering around the con, a decent selection of stalls, but when I returned later on in the day there was a “knot” of people by the entrance to the dealers – think they were queuing for something, but it made it confusing to if they were restricting access to the dealer’s hall or not. Turns out not. Fortunately I didn’t try to wait in the pile o’ people. 

So now onto the loot! Here’s the alien, still in the baggie I bought it in:

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RARRGGH! Here he is, escaped outta the bag: 

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And a side-on view showing more of the figure:

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Happy with the figure, thankfully seems to be in good condition. Tempted to mount the base on a shallow container with an LED in it. Time will tell if I actually get around to doing that. 

Kiryuuin Satsuki

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

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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:

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And a zoomed-out shot:

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Sinon (Figma #241)

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:

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And some posing a couple of days later:

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She also comes with her rifle, which I added the strap and placed on her during the writing of this blog:

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She’s now joined the shelf with Kirito and Asuna (ALO vers).

Picture of her on the shelf:

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Pic of Sinon with her buddies (yeah, shelf needs a dust…):

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Snitches get…

… STITCHES!

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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..

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. 

Urban Mine 1

Got the first batch of stuff from the Urban Mine auctions I won recently, plus one item from the store. 

First up is EVA-06. He’s supposed to have a halo above his head, but the support part wasn’t included (yep, Urban Mine). Debating if I’m going to bother finding something to replace it,as I’m not that fussed over having the halo

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He’s also got some minor scratches on his leg. 

Closeup of his face:

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Not an amazing figure, but my weighted calculations estimate I paid about £4 for him, inc shipping. 

Next up, Mr Assemble. Wanted him to mix with some of my Devil’s Blood pieces, ended up needing one of the joints to replace one I pilfed from Devil’s Blood to repair a figma that lept out of the detolf :/. He didn’t have a stand with him, and some of the joints weren’t included, but mostly ones I wouldn’t have been bothered with. Here he is before I started pulling bits off him:

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And after I mucked about with him: 

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Closeup showing his “cybernetic” arm:

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Next was a wildcard item. 100JPY starting bid – they’re some phone charms with a strap. Thought they’d probably be charms and they looked kinda cute. Reading up on them, they’re supposed to come with a comic, but I can’t read Japanese so… yeah, not missing out on that:

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And here they are, in various shelves in the study:

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Sunny one to go with the skeleton:

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And Joker nabbed himself one:

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Last, but not least, an item from the Mandarake store. This one was sealed. Been liking the looks of the Puzzle & Dragons figures, so go this little one, as it wouldn’t take up much space:

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Isn’t just us finding it hot

… looks like Alana found it too hot as well. She’s fallen over a couple of times now, during the heatwave. Marko seems to not be bothered by it. 

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Had 3 other figures fall over, probably due to the heat. No fragile ones though, thankfully! Though if Alana’s wings fall out, they’re a massive pain to get to stay in. Thiiisss close to gluing them in. 

Swindon Comic Con

Here are some figures I bought at Swindon Comic Con. Apologies for the poor photo quality – husband snaffled the camera for holidays.

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Mysterio, by Eaglemoss

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Deadpool, by Eaglemoss

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Doctor Octopus, by Eaglemoss

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Elder Predator, by NECA. 

And one thing I bought after the con at a comic book shop in Swindon…

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TADA! ET in drag… by NECA, of all people. Couldn’t resist for £8