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 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.
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 :).
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
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
He’s also got some minor scratches on his leg.
Closeup of his face:
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:
And after I mucked about with him:
Closeup showing his “cybernetic” arm:
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:
And here they are, in various shelves in the study:
Sunny one to go with the skeleton:
And Joker nabbed himself one:
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:
They arrived today! Here’s BRS in her packet still, with the DVD. Meant to take one of Strength, but forgot XD.
Here’s both outta their packets and on their stands:
And here’s both in the cabinet, with Gold Saw next to them, and gothic Rei out in front:
Got a Mari figure in the post today…
… 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.
Rather a shame, but she wasn’t that expensive, so she’ll get a slightly occluded spot in t’ cabinet.
She arrived today, outta the blue. Almost forgot I ordered her. I don’t know anything about Puzzle & Dragons, but have seen a few of the figures about the place, and liked the designs. And they were also cheap.
Am happy with the figure, will possibly buy some others from this set in the future. Though this one needs to be displayed higher up to appreciate it, so Connor had to take a step back 😛 Here’s a pic of the front:
Also found this dude fallen over in the morning, possibly due to the heat:
Uh, wait a minute… what is he looking at?
Hm, not the kind of “heat” I was thinking of >< Cheeky bugger!
He darned-well got a standin’ up.
