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01-03-2016, 05:14 PM | #11 |
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My feelings on this figure are so mixed. Some of the sculpting is great, but some of it severely hampers his articulation. Even despite the bicep squivel, he can't quite touch his Transpod. The sculpt elegantly displays the chest straps, but at the cost of freedom of movement.
Swapping the hands is stressful; the plastic feels brittle, so I fear it'll break. I started off liking Go-Busters, got bored with it when its plot didn't seem to go anywhere, and only returned and finished the series in the last few months. I was surprised by how much better the series got toward the end, and there's a mecha battle in the last ten episodes that may be the best Sentai mecha fight I've seen. I love how they appear to have introduced Tategami Li-Oh entirely so we could have a version of Go-Buster-Oh and still have Buster Ace, the best-looking mecha, acting separately. I greatly appreciated a lot of stuff the show did: the many nods to Power Rangers, and to a western audience in general. The gratuitous English, even when it's awful ("Let's Morphin'!" "Let's driving!".) Separating the metaroid and the megazord, so we almost never had a monster grow to giant size after defeat. It had a really good sci-fi feel. I like the idea of the heroes as cool-headed professionals. I also think the show had some serious flaws in the Buddyroids; most of them didn't have a deep enough personality for me to care about them, but the writing really, really wanted us to care. The show was aiming for a cool vibe, but the Buddyroids kept undercutting the sense of cool. It was also pretty clear that we got the Buddyroids pretty much at the expense of more senshi. Hiromu and Yoko weren't especially likable for the first half of the series. There wasn't enough going on with the villains for the first half of the series, and Messiah itself felt lame and undercooked. The series corrected most of these things by the middle and end of the run. I saw Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters vs. Doubutsu Sentai Go-Busters last week, and it may be my single favorite Sentai movie... and then I noticed it apparently didn't try to sell me movie exclusive toys! I was gobsmacked. On the downside, the Doubutsu Sentai were a little more fun, and I kinda wished I'd gotten more of their series. You're absolutely right that the shades on these figures should've been chrome; the oversight causes the figure to miss the element of the suits that pops most. I ended up buying the original trio. I skipped Cheeda Nick even though his design is actually pretty cool. I'm guessing your Cheeda bike is from the retail toyline for Go-Busters? The scale is pretty close! I love the new gallery. I'm glad I'm seeing this now that I've come to appreciate Go-Busters a great deal more. (Seriously, ToQger and Ninninger felt so often formulaic that watching a Sentai that actively tried to overthrow familiar Sentai formulas was an eye-opening relief.) Flaws aside, I wish we'd gotten Figuarts of Beet Buster and Stag Buster... and particularly Enter's FANTASTIC suit from the show's final episodes. (When was the last time we got a toku villain suit with that much love and detail after episode 40?) Here's hoping Toei will someday revisit some of the coolest elements from Go-Busters. Fingers crossed for the Toku Toy Box! |
01-03-2016, 05:14 PM | #12 |
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I don't own this one per se, but Blue Buster (of course), and I have to agree with everything Den-O says. Including the part about loving the series proper (I REALLY need to finish it...).
It's an outstanding design that's hindered by an otherwise small design flaw when translated to SHF form. Having said that, they're worth getting if only because they're dirt cheap and look damn good.
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01-03-2016, 05:19 PM | #13 |
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Love this series and this figure's design. Too bad it wasn't more popular.
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01-03-2016, 05:27 PM | #14 |
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He looks good but I never watched go-busters so I don't know why people hated it so much. One day I will check the show out.
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01-03-2016, 05:31 PM | #15 |
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I look back at Go-Busters very fondly. It was never dull to me and it was my first Sentai that I watched beginning to end while it was live. So maybe It was the newness of it all. Hiromu was a tool , but it was nice to not find myself gravitate towards a Red senshi as it is pretty easy to do.
On the figure side of things. It was a damn shame they never finished the whole team. I truly believe that if Sentai figuarts were still going strong that my interest in this hobby wouldn't have wained as badly as it did. As Enter or Kamen Rider Bravo might say " C'est la vie "
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01-03-2016, 05:58 PM | #16 |
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Never been a fan of go-busters, so i don't have alot of love for this guy.
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01-03-2016, 06:44 PM | #17 |
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Red Buster looks great as a Figuart .
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01-03-2016, 06:47 PM | #18 |
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I haven't watched more than the first episode yet, but I really dig the suits for Go-Busters. Different was good, to me.
This gallery has convinced me to get Blue Buster, actually. I'm thinking of display a mixture of 5/6 rangers from the available Figuarts and he would make a great blue representative. I guess I need to watch some more of the show first to make sure I don't hate the character before I buy. Real shame about the shoulders though, the gallery still came out really good. |
01-03-2016, 06:48 PM | #19 |
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I loved the series too! I did take a break half way through but went back to finish it because of Beet and Stag Buster. Really wish they had made them as figuarts too.
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01-03-2016, 07:23 PM | #20 |
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this suit design has never appealed to me, but I love Beet and Stag are awesome looking
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