Showing posts with label Good Smile Racing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Good Smile Racing. Show all posts
Friday, August 15, 2014
Review: Racing Miku -2013 version-
| Figure Information | |
| Manufacturer: | Good Smile Racing |
| Origin Series: | Vocaloid |
| Scale: | 1/8 |
| Height: | Approximately 18.5cm tall |
| Original Price: | 9,074 Yen |
Labels:
Figure Review,
Good Smile Company,
Good Smile Racing,
Vocaloid
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Good Smile Racing's Upcoming Nendoroid Racing Miku -2012 version-
Another Racing Miku comes our way~
While no official pics are up, Racing Miku 2012 is now available for preorder at Nico Nico Chokuhan only; another shop exclusive. The only accessories confirmed right now is the usual car and its decals. This Miku, like all Racing releases, comes in different price packages which you can view at Nico Nico Chokuhan.
Labels:
Figure News,
Good Smile Racing,
Nendoroid,
Vocaloid
Sunday, January 29, 2012
January Hauls: Miku and The Transformers
Last wave of hauls for January!
And this sums up my hauls from today til 2 weeks ago.
So yeah, first of the 4 is actually Jazz, from two weeks ago, lol. With the help of my friend, I was able to win United Jazz for a very cheap price despite the fact that he used to be rare and still quite expensive right now. I've tried the RTS version but UN really wins it for me for some reason, maybe the whiteness of it and the non existent rubsign which I don't really dig.
Next is my hauls from last week, figma Racing Miku finally arrived and yessss she also marks as my 36th Miku in the collection. >:) I'm actually surprised that her price right now is batsh*t expensive and luckily I got mine for quite a friendly price. :) Also, Maketoy's Battle Tanker upgrade also arrived last week so I got it and I immediately assembled it to get rid of derpy ol' Laser Prime.
And from today's Lazer Tag session with JPToysPH, I grabbed up Cyclonus from the 3-pack since I've always wanted it and not rodimus and galvatron since I have other targets for their molds. I got it loose for 600php which is a pretty neat price and the joints are also tight. :D
Anyway, here ends my current haul post!
Labels:
3rd Party,
figma,
Good Smile Racing,
Hasbro,
Haul,
Takara Tomy,
Transformers,
Vocaloid
Thursday, January 5, 2012
2011 Year End Hauls
These are basically my hauls from the Ozine Anime Figure Special as well XD
As mentioned in the previous post, we had touhou as one of the major series lineups for our display and each series received certain tarps and unfortunately, the Touhou tarps weren't used but was still up for grabs and thanks to Sensei, I got this touhou nendo tarp featuring a mind bending "you know me so well" character lineup since my top 2 favorites are there, Cirno and Sakuya, hahaha. Youmu's the other one BTW XD
Anyway, the Racing Miku straps would be the sponsor item for the figma RQ Miku which is yet to arrive here, figma Ayase also finally arrived and since I'm back to normal blogging phase for a while, expect her review to go up very soon. Lastly, you might remember that I got Aku no Musume Rin already before but I still didn't like Rin back then... so... I sold it and I finally managed to get it back after a year lol. So yeah, these 2 figures are my final hauls of 2011. XD A bunch of reviews would come soon since I can't shoot right now due to low battery of the camera. XD
Labels:
figma,
Good Smile Racing,
Haul,
Max Factory,
Ore no Imoutou,
Sega,
Touhou Project,
Vocaloid
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
December Hauls: Christmas Finale
Another wave of haulage 8D
I actually got these 5 last Saturday which was also Team Onii-chan's Xmas party, while I've paid for RQ and the pixtones long ago, it was only last Sat that I get to meetup with my friend who got it for me so, yeahhh, late haulage is a more appropriate term for it, lol.
As for Fei Yen, you'd probably know why I even got it in the first place, if you don't... clue: Miku?
Hahahaha, so, yeah, I finally got it from one of my suppliers and it's actually another first impression from another line.
Lastly, the Baka To Test box from Chara Ani contains Himeji XD I got from fellow collector, Mochaholic, from the xmas party's exchange gift. Thanks Mochaholic! :3
Anyway, that's it for now, hopefully there's still one more haulage left for the month XD ahaha
As for Fei Yen, you'd probably know why I even got it in the first place, if you don't... clue: Miku?
Hahahaha, so, yeah, I finally got it from one of my suppliers and it's actually another first impression from another line.
Lastly, the Baka To Test box from Chara Ani contains Himeji XD I got from fellow collector, Mochaholic, from the xmas party's exchange gift. Thanks Mochaholic! :3
Anyway, that's it for now, hopefully there's still one more haulage left for the month XD ahaha
Friday, September 2, 2011
Review: [Good Smile Racing] Nendoroid 109 Racing Miku
| Figure Information | |
| Manufacturer: | Good Smile Racing
|
| Origin Series: | Vocaloid
|
| Scale: | Non-Scale |
| Height: | Approximately 10cm tall
|
| Original Price: | 7,000 yen (Basic Package)
|
| Figure Box: |
Overall, the box of Racing Miku is a reused of the original Nendo Miku's, the box design is totally identical featuring those lines that forms small squares all over but it does follow Racing Miku 2010's color schemes such as the orange, the white and the green she brings in her design. The box is a little thicker than your usual nendo box likely because of the car accessory included but it still isn't as ridiculously massive as Tanoshii Asabo Miku's. So that's it for box comments XD
| Figure Details: |
Overall details are good though she does have some rough details here and there especially on the toolkit on her shorts' back; and as I've before in the scaled figure review, I'd really prefer this over that one as this nendo despite being small and all have a wonderful paint job and the way that it wasn't finished in glossy manner actually makes the costume more realistic and as such also brings out simplistic beauty as I would like to call it; additional comments on paint is that her headset has this very pleasing silver app on the round pieces and the microphone itself. Her hair does have a little World is Mine hair effect on her such it the twintails, though layered, are obvious one chunk of plastic which is a bit of an eyesore but still just me nitpicking XD
Overall, she is pretty good and that face, I honestly didn't like how the original art looked like but the nendoroid actually nailed it and was successful in making the somewhat unloved design (at least for me) loveable, the big teeth also helps make her very cute and also made me brand her the "Rabbit Miku". XD
Overall, she is pretty good and that face, I honestly didn't like how the original art looked like but the nendoroid actually nailed it and was successful in making the somewhat unloved design (at least for me) loveable, the big teeth also helps make her very cute and also made me brand her the "Rabbit Miku". XD
| Accessories: |
Accessory she doesn't come with much, she only has what I believe is a tool cabinet of sorts and also that spray looking gadget she's holding which I still don't know what it is really XD Of course, as all, Racing Miku releases, one of the selling points is that they have a mountable car as part of their accessories, and these cars roll on four wheels and would be enough to fit other nendos as well. Lastly, she does come with a base as usual but since it's Miku, you might not need it except for jumping poses since Miku's hair is always a good support or you can opt to just make her mount the car. (As for me I gave the base to my baseless Sharo)
She comes with only one extra facplate which is a serious face, a bummer since she doesn't have any hilarious faces this time. As for arms and legs, she's got a pair of sitting/kneeling legs which you'll be using if you want yo make her sit on the car properly. She also has a pair of arms which are bent inwards for steering the wheels or whatever you want to do and lastly a bent right arm which you can use to recreate the original art pose.
She comes with only one extra facplate which is a serious face, a bummer since she doesn't have any hilarious faces this time. As for arms and legs, she's got a pair of sitting/kneeling legs which you'll be using if you want yo make her sit on the car properly. She also has a pair of arms which are bent inwards for steering the wheels or whatever you want to do and lastly a bent right arm which you can use to recreate the original art pose.
GSR also provides you to decorate the rather barren car with a set of decals in case it bores you to look at it so plainly white. Unfortunately for me, applying decals by myself would only ruin it so I haven't really used it yet. XD
| Articulation: |
Articulation's pretty much the same as the other non-super poseable Miku nendos out there; nendo joints on the neck, hips and twintails while having shoulders and waist swivels. And if you are a nendo collector, then you already know the limits of it and for those who are not, nendo joints are hinges with pegs that can swivel around.
Though completely lacking in accessories and whatnot, Racing Miku has an absolutely unique charm for herself from all the other Mikus I currently own and even though lacking faceplates, she does have good photoshoot fun material with her given there are only 2, also, riding a car certainly does improve her play value quite a lot since the twintail joints perfectly work with car riding poses. :3 So yeah, very very charming and is likely one of my favorite Miku nendos so far (along with the first Yuki Miku and the Support version for the top 3)
The car again is usable by other nendoroids and even a petit like Hachune-chan since she's the original super poseable frame bearer. ^^ As for my shots, Sharo fit quite well in the car. :D
| Final Thoughts: |
A very winner of a pack IMO, but again the sponsor price of 7000 yen as basic package might not pretty fair if you're only after the nendoroid itself. So for prices, you might be disappointed but truthfully speaking, she's really great; really cute and really fun, what nendos are supposed to be. I do recommend getting this piece and it is only this Racing Miku 2010 that I'll really suggest getting because this nendo's charms are quite above average for me for some reason XD
| Rating (Out of 10)
| |
| Details | 9 |
| Accessories | 9.5 |
| Articulation
| 9
|
| Price | 8.5 |
| Overall: | 9
|
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Figma Racing Miku 2011 -First Win version- Preview
Looking good IMO XD
While some of my friends say that she looks like a guy, well, I don't think so, she looks fine from my end, but anyway, as stated before, she comes with 2 umbrellas (an opened and a closed), a trophy, a flag and some sort of board which I don't know what it's called XD; of course the usual hand sets are also included. As for faces she only has 1 alternate as far as the previews are concerned, it'd be a smiling face.
A back shot was also provided in the set of photos
Anyway, that's it then, images are from figma blog. And it looks like Homura's figma is about to come out soon as well :>
Labels:
figma,
Figure News,
Good Smile Racing,
Vocaloid
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Review: [Good Smile Racing] Racing Miku -2010 version-
| Figure Information | |
| Manufacturer: | Good Smile Racing |
| Origin Series: | Vocaloid |
| Scale: | 1/8 |
| Height: | Approximately 20cm tall |
| Original Price: | 7,800Yen |
| Figure Box: |
Her box is pretty portable and honestly, it's the first time I've actually seen such a very lively Miku box, it's designed very well and it's really really visually pleasing for me, and even my friend mention he liked the box design, it very colorful and there's this big GSR flame logo behind as well as smaller ones all over and the box color is extremely friendly; so yeah, this box design wins it for me XD But yeah, it's a box and I don't really grade it XD
| Figure Details: |
Now to the good points first, I really like how shiny overall her outfit is, the orange is shiny and even the white is shiny it really pops out and to further compliment it, her heels are done really well and in metallic paint too; overall the details are amazing and there's the GSR logo on her outfit too; I especially loved how they finished her headset and also by plunging in some mechanical tools on her shorts thus really giving that mechanic diva feel. Additionally, the paint job was pretty much used thoroughly all over it including whatever it is she's holding and the wire is actually rubber-like and thus, allowing you to play around with how you want it to be displayed.
However, Racing Miku 2010 is not without flaws, as I've inspected the details thoroughly, there are some parts on her where the details are very very rough, like some parts of her hair and particularly those red lines all over her outfit are roughly done; but the good thing is, these things are only visible on really close look so yeah, but still kinda disappointing for me though.
However, Racing Miku 2010 is not without flaws, as I've inspected the details thoroughly, there are some parts on her where the details are very very rough, like some parts of her hair and particularly those red lines all over her outfit are roughly done; but the good thing is, these things are only visible on really close look so yeah, but still kinda disappointing for me though.
Her base like most Mikus are rather plain and simple, this time a small black round base (well, at least, it's not ridiculously large) while its texture is somewhat rough which gives the impression that it's on an asphalt or something, which would be the perfect surface for pit stops in a racing circuit; so yeah, even if the base did look boring they actually did something to it to make it a good match with the character figure.
| Appeal: |
Now the design of Racing Miku does take quite some time to get used to as the original illustrator's not as charming as how the nendoroid versions were made; I think if her teeth were actually made visible, it would've been better and my biggest complaint on her is why her eyes have this light red shade on it instead of the usual white, it's just pretty off for me. But yeah, she looks nice at certain angles but though sometimes, her eyes look like they cross each other which is weird. She isn't very camera friendly either since she doesn't look that good in a number of angles.
Now overall, her pose is okay for me, it maybe weird for a mechanic to be holding her hair while doing something since you know, pit stops are important but putting that aside and have her really just posing as that, it's quite cute I think. But there's one thing that actually drops her overall appeal for me and it would be her weird neck tilt, it makes it so hard to capture her at really good angles because of that neck tilt (plus weirdly crossed eyes look at times) I really find this Miku to be one of the less appealing ones because of the things I stated above but yeah, still pretty decent of a figure.
| Final Thoughts: |
Now final thoughts, for some she might look good but for me she's not that appealing as I even find Max factory Miku to be much better than her even though I didn't like that one as much too. But yeah, it really depends on the owner's PoV; but as for a personal opinion, she's not worth her price point, and if you actually want a really good Racing Miku 2010, go for the Nendoroid instead. Hopefully, this review does help those in hesitation on this by a bit, though if you're just after details for the value you pay for then, she really is great in terms of such; on another note, she looks pretty fragile as well and she's a little small too like most of GSC's Miku releases.
| Rating (Out of 10) | |
| Figure Details | 9 |
| Appeal | 8 |
| Price | 8 |
| Overall: | 8.33 |
Labels:
Figure Review,
Good Smile Company,
Good Smile Racing,
Vocaloid
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