Category: Statues (non-articulated figures)

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 😛

Shiro & Co

Someone was selling this on MFC, and almost didn’t go for it – was a bit more than the re-release would be, but wouldn’t involve waiting 6+ months for it. This is now my most expensive figure!

Here she is in her box:

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And here she is outta the box:

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Top-down view, with her holding the globe:

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Closeup of her face, without the globe obscuring it:

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And here’s her chibi-mates she comes with:

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Overall, I’m happy with the figure, though it was a lotta money to shell out in one go. She has a space in one of the Detolfs… don’t wanna risk this one getting damaged :P. 

KOS-MOS

Had this one shipped from France, from an MFC user. 

This one I had been wanting for a short-ish length of time. Saw it in someone’s loot posts, and was like “man, I really wanna get that one”, but wasn’t hugely available, and the size potentially made shipping awkward. So I filed it into the “possibly at a later date” pile. 

Then at a recent point in time I was browsing the new posts in the User Sales thread on MFC, and found someone selling stuff in euros… this one among other stuff. Asked for a shipping quote, it came up reasonable, so I bought it. 

A week or so later:

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Yep, I really like this one!

And from the back:

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Especially love her hair 🙂

During the day, my husband sent me “📦📦📦📥”, so I joked about putting my parcel in his in-tray. 

And thus I found out he can get very close to his in-tray and not notice there’s a figure in it:

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He collected some paper out of the printer, I asked if he liked the contents of his in-tray, only to find out he didn’t see it!

Makimoto Misae

Bought this one with Jungle Emmy, as I got a deal on the pair. Don’t know much about her, but she looks pretty. 

She was smaller than I imagined, but am happy with her size. Means she’s easier to place somewhere in my rather large collection. One of these days I’ll pay more attention to the quoted sizes :P. 

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This figure was a bit difficult to photograph, as it doesn’t lend itself to being photoed from many angles. Think I did OK though. 

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Other problematic thing was putting her together – needed to heat up her feet to get her on the base, and the clear blue bits are actually two pieces, so it was an interesting time getting them to stay together whilst slotting them into her scarf. 

Tried to fit her in the Gnedby, but that was a no-go with her smoke/scarf(?) trails. 

Jungle Emmy

Bought this one from an MFC user. This one’s an interesting figure – the clothes are kinda soft, and has a somewhat clean-but-detailed appearance. 

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Closeup:

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The back. Couldn’t get her to pose with the spear as per the art. 

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Conrad

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. 

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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:

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And one of his back:

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And now the obligatory Japanese-figure-upskirt shot!

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The most SFW upskirt you’ll see all week :P. 

Lilith

And another Puzzle & Dragons figure! Lilith. 

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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: 

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A nice little figure, which was cheap too 🙂 

Vampire Lord

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. 

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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:

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This is how to do a plain back for a figure – looking at you Purgatori! 

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure prize figure

Another one from the Urban Mines… a JoJo “diorama” figure. 

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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:

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A worthy “A” prize, imo. 

Rei Ayanami – Party Dress Ver

Bought this at the same time as Angela Balzac and thus got customs’d. Ah well 😛 Imo she was still worth it!

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Here’s her face:

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And her butt!

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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. 

Angela Balzac

Here’s a figure I’ve been looking at for some time, without really knowing anything about the source material:

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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!

Rei Ayanami

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.

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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.

Leadworks Skull DJ

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:

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And here he is out of the box:

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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. 

Rin Tohsaka

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… 

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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!

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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. 

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 :). 

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

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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Mari Figure

Got a Mari figure in the post today…

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… only the metallic red dye wasn’t fast, and had “melted” over various parts of the figure 🙁 Cleaned it up best I could, but it’s left a pretty bad stain on her shoulder. 

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Rather a shame, but she wasn’t that expensive, so she’ll get a slightly occluded spot in t’ cabinet.