Just when I thought my figurine expenditure was stagnant, I received news of my preorders coming in. 3 preorders. This is my first time collecting 3 scaled figurine preorders in a single trip, so the it felt rather good despite the damage exceeding $150. The difficult part, however, was the lugging of the trio back to the safety of my home. Avoiding unwanted crushing of the boxes was no easy feat.
Since I marathoned all 26 episodes of Major Season 3 just yesterday, I feel rather sluggish. No proper photoshoots because of that, and also because my digital camera has crappy macro focus.
First up, Miss Plugsuit.
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Revoltech, Figma, MMS, Impact Model and some other obscure brands. It seems that action figurines are quite the craze. Indeed, there is a wide array of brands to choose from. Hence, most people would probably just go for the brand which produces the characters that they like. The same goes for me. After all, as long as the action figurine looks good, and the price is right, there’s a high chance for it to be popular.
One flaw about action figurines, however, are the joints. Human action figurines with joints aren’t exactly the most pleasant looking things. For example, the Yoko on MMS and the figma Nagato Yuki. The Revoltech Revy had ugly joints too, but her weapons were rather cool.
On the other hand, joints are able to portray the realism of the mecha action figurines. After all, it’s the joints that make the figurines look like the real thing. Plus, you can fiddle around with it, unlike a scaled figurine.
I think I should get on with my opinions on the various action figure brands.
Revoltech (Kaiyodo) :
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I know of some collectors who collect certain figurines just because they are nice, but have never actually watched the anime/ played the game that the character is in. And most of this people are Bishoujo purist collectors. Most of the time, these group of people are safe, despite not knowing the background of the character. At least they are buying female figurines.
However, this is not often true. Take this figurine for example:
A pretty bishoujo right? That’s what I first though, since I never played Guilty Gear. To me, it was quite an aesthetically pleasing work of art. But doing some probing about the character’s background, I was quite taken aback. She has a stick and 2 balls. WTF!!!
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