Showing posts with label Hobby Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hobby Japan. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Review: Beelzebub
| Figure Information | |
| Manufacturer: | Amakuni |
| Origin Series: | Seven Deadly Sins |
| Scale: | 1/8 |
| Height: | Approximately 21cm tall |
| Original Price: | 12,800 Yen |
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Review: [Bandai] Chogokin Hatsune Miku
| Figure Information | |
| Manufacturer: | Bandai |
| Origin Series: | Vocaloid |
| Scale: | Non-Scale |
| Height: | Approximately 18cm tall |
| Original Price: | 8,400 Yen |
Starting from this review and onwards, it'll be in this a little new format. ^^
| Figure Box: |
Still the same, no grades from me since it's just a box and it's really quite pointless to rate something because of it's box. XD Anyway, space wise, it's pretty space friendly, since despite her size (18cm), her box is just as big as those bigger figma boxes like BRS and DM's. So, it's pretty nice, although, there's no window, so, you can't really inspect it until you buy it. But yeah the design is pretty simple with Miku's silhouette in the front along with logos of Bandai, GSC, Max and Hobby Japan.
Why is it such? Well, it's manufactured by Bandai alright but the sculpt was from Max and the overall work was headed by GSC. Hobby Japan since it's an HJ limited item and was of course distributed by HJ.
| Figure Details: |
As stated in the previous section, the scuplt came from Max, so, how exactly did she turn out? She looks like a bigger version of her figma rendition, even the details on her hair, outfit, it's very identical to the figma's. But one most noticable difference is how much livelier and better Chogokin's face is.
But despite that fact, there's also one little eyesore part of her detail... the bolts at the back. But hey, she's fine since Chogokin figures were meant for a higher end type of collector thus, definitely for display only and who would pose Chogokin Miku backwards in a display anyway?
| Accessories: |
Like it's figma counterpart, she comes with the mic and it's stand, though the chogokin provides you with a custome base or more likely a stage where you can insert her nameplate and chogokin exclusive accessories: the Rocket Punch arm and the Leek Tonfas; the Keyboard, similarly to the one included in the figma live stage release, can also be inserted in the said base and finally a clamp at the center on her back to assist Miku once you decide to display her on that base. And lastly, at the back of the stage comes a pull-able "drawer" where in you can store a bunch more of her remaining accessories.
The remaining bulk of her accessories include two regular leeks (or scallions), her two extra faces: the non-smiling and the closed-eye, and the extra pairs of hands that come with the package.
| Articulation: |
Now this is where it all differs, she still has all the articulations points you'd need: neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, just below the hips, knees, and ankles, BUT! she's in no way ball jointed like the figma, her joints are mostly hinge joints but with of course the pegs will allow you to turn some of her parts like a swivel would, similarly to how Revolver joints were designed.
Though in one major difference, her twintails are connected not by peg, but by magnetism, so, it doesn't articulate since raising it up would just result to it going down by itself in a matter of seconds. And since just quite a few are purely pvc, sometimes, it comes to a point where the joint will just swivel down due to the weight but so far it rarely happens during my shoot with this figure. Anyway, that's it with the articulation section, shots below would just be a bunch of fun shots already XD
| Final Thoughts: |
Well, she is definitely a better version of the figma but, of course, she has her own flaws but despite that, she's very easy to pose around and definitely an eye catcher on display due to her nice metallic paint scheme. But as such, this Miku is really just great for display since any further play might just ruin loosen things up and if you're not into Miku that much, I suggest you'd pass since she's quite a bit pricey when outside Japan and the fact remains that in this figure, you pay for the die cast materials.
| Rating (Out of 10) | |
| Details | 8 |
| Accessories | 10 |
| Articulation | 8 |
| Price | 8 |
| Overall: | 8.5 |
Monday, February 14, 2011
Teasers: Around 2 Months Bulk of Figure Shoots
So, for the past month and late December I've been failing to deliver some teasers, but not to fear, I was just too busy shooting figures here and there and never found the time to actually post about them since a bulk of my weekends were spent by going outside.
But here they are, more than a dozen of teaser reviews but of course, with their number, I won't be able to give a short teaser description for each, but anyway, feel free to line up the reviews you want to see here in the next few weeks since Feb is a pretty dull month so far. So, I might be filling the blog with Reviews and Random Entries so it won't be that dead XD Figures here are separated by months (starting from late December to just Yesterday)
December 2010:
January 2011:
February 2011:
It's pretty much a mix of different lines since trading figures are even included in this bulk preview. Anyway, I've also updated the pending reviews to the match with all the current available figures to be reviewed upon request or by my random choice. XD Anyway, you know the drill, and note, you can always give a sequence of reviews you want to see, not just one XD
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