Now you've got my hopes up. :lol

Well, Rayquaza is 23 feet long in game, so, in scale with Mewtwo (6 feet) would be, what? As long as a small car? :lol

:lol a Smart car at least.

X Ultimate Armour:

http://blog.yimg.com/3/KU30HdR7s591r...HFHGx_7eAQ.jpg

http://blog.yahoo.com/_ED274AZGFINLE.../1216088/index

That's actually pretty cool!

So isn't today when the Wargreymon announcement was supposed to be made?

In the meantime there's Venusaur.

http://www.jefusion.com/2013/04/d-ar...-revealed.html

Eeyup.
Unlike Charizard, I can't see myself springing for a Venusaur. His low stance and squat position means that, outside of a few choice poses, there's not much he can do (Which means, should D-Arts extend beyond Gen 1, Torterra would also experience the same issue).

I'm not looking forward to Venusaur too much, but with Charizard on the way and Blastoise preordered, they'd just be so incomplete. :|

And here's your new WarGreymon-

http://www.jefusion.com/2013/04/d-ar...-revealed.html


Which doesn't look all that different to me.

Yeah, whatever the heck "Original Designer's Edition" means... I don't care. :| Although I wish Jefusion would've translated the text instead of just saying it's described there ha... I think it's really just some very, very tiny mold changes on his armor. But I can't tell. Heck, even the effects part is the same.

Sigma, who I believe is the first D-Arts ZERO.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...7808916&type=1

Figuarts ZERO, according to Tamashii Nations. Thats why I posted pics in Figuarts :P

I think Venusaur looks really cool. I love that it comes with vines. It wasn't my favorite starter, but I'm more biased now that my favorite color is green.

So....it's a shinier paint job?

Does anyone else's Charizard have obscene amounts of oil in his joints? I know from a review that at least one other guy does. It's kind of annoying/gross. And despite that, his right hip is still pretty darn squeaky... but I don't know if its' the should-be-scared kind of squeaky or not. >_<

D-Arts Black Zero:

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/9135/8uel.jpg
http://blog.yahoo.com/_ED274AZGFINLE.../1270325/index


Web exclusive but a bluefin release is bound to happen.

REAL glad I procrastinated in getting Zero Version 2. This guy looks fantastic.

I'm happy about Black Zero, but I wish they had stuck with Fake Zero like was shown at SDCC. It doesn't look there are any new items so a straight recolor and that's it. He'll go well with Ultimate Armor X as the start of a MMX4 display.

The Buster is different, and I think the faces are too.

I have Zero v1 & v2, the buster is the same (down to the gem still being green), and the faces are the same sculpt. It looks like they moved the position of the pupils on the action faces but that's it. Just a different paint job. No biggie to me as I love Zero & MMX4. I'll keep buying him, lol.

Y'know, I'm real surprised that we haven't gotten any Street Fighter D-Arts yet.

Yeah. I wonder if that has to do with Square Enix's line or not. I'm not very knowledgeable about Japanese licensing. Though to be honest, I was very disappointed in how Terry Bogard turned out. Not because of his articulation, but because the face sculpts were just so off. They also seemed very flat and not very three dimensional and life like. I don't find much to dislike about Bandai Japan, but that stuck with as Terry is my favorite SNK character. ..that said, I would love to see Bandai continue with the KOF line and tackle Street Fighter as well.

Eh. I'm a Street Fighter fan, but in all honesty, I probably wouldn't pick up any D-Arts of them. Outside of the Mega Man X line, the anime aesthetic for characters just hasn't been doing well, looking very mediocre and just...Bad.

I think Vega (Balrog) would be fine because you could cover his details with a mask, and Q would be cool if Capcom remembered he existed, but as a whole, I just don't think the anime aesthetic looks very good under Figuarts or D-Arts (Also why I'm against seeing the Digidestined that everyone is clamoring for).

So you don't like how the pre cure and dragonball figuarts are then

Not a bit.
Well, to be fair, I think Freeza looked fine, and Cell wasn't bad, but none of the Saiyans did it for me.

Well, the Anime figuarts have come a very long way. The Leulouch I got is very spot on.

With the exception of his screaming face being full derp, I'll agree to that.

The anime faces are hit and miss. The "human" Z warriors are pretty good, but not perfect. Trunks is the best so far imo, Goku is alright, Vegeta is average, and Gohan has an okay serious face but the one happy face is full derp, lol. Frieza & Cell are awesome, and Piccolo is pretty nice too. The Megaman figures are pretty good. Zero is great, X is good/average, and Megaman is average (smiling face is meh, but the action faces are good). I think Bandai does the monsters, machines, and masked characters excellently. They are getting better with the anime figures. The Figuarts Sailor Moon figures look great so far, hopefully they'll maintain that in production, but they already look better than the DBZ characters on average.

Hmmm.

Blastoise.

I wish his right cannon could point as far forward as the left. Really awkward, that one is. Also wish they had been cast in gray instead of black painted gray, but that's not too bad yet. We'll see after I've plugged in the hydro pump effects a few times though...

And maybe knees. Although I'm not sure how helpful they'd be. I just find the thigh swiveling to get him in lower stances somewhat awkward.

But the guy looks absolutely amazing.

Blastoise does look fantastic. I haven't taken mine out except to inspect him, but overall I'm very happy with him.

My D-Arts MetalGarurumon just dropped into my POL at BBTS, ship it now! lol. I'm happy I was able to snag one last minute, ebay prices are even worse than I expected. Now I'm just waiting for Bass & Treble to come in stock. It's a pretty good year for D-Arts.

my blastoise neck is very loose to a point in my review of him still in editong the head popped off and the neck came off make you able to see the inner parts of the figure

That's not very good. I didn't notice my Blastoise having a loose neck, but I didn't mess with it much. Everything seemed tight. My only complaint is paint rub on the top of his claws near the joint on the left hand. It's to be expected I suppose. My Charizard has weird marks on the front of his snout, but I've seen others that are similar but not as bad. Mewtwo looks pretty good though. Overall they're toys I don't expect perfection, but there are certainly QC problems of varying degrees present within the line.

So MetalGarurumon.

1. Slightly smaller than I expected.
2. Good lord is Tamashii getting ridiculous with the amount of plastic they wrap around joints.
3. Slightly more awesome than I expected.

Only messed around with posing him so far, but there's really not anything I can think of that he's missing. The effect parts he includes also look pretty darn cool.

As usual with Tamshii products, I do wish he had a stage... Especially considering he includes an attachment piece to put on a stage arm. But no stage?! WHY.

The aftermarket for Metalgarurumon is already insane. I'm seeing one listed for 200$! :eek:

I'm real surprised Bluefin didn't bring him over.

I really wish they had answered my (and many others') question about why they weren't... But it's probably due to it being a web exclusive... Or a license issue with Saban?

Possibly to not clash with Pokemon?

Which they aren't bringing over either.

Yeah, I asked on their page about it and they didn't answer. Some guy that seems to reply to a lot of things just said they pretty much weren't interested in Digimon. Well.. that may be true but I'd prefer to hear it from Bluefin. I got MetalGarurumon from BBTS and that was already an ugly mark up. It's certainly a bitter pill to swallow, and really don't want to have to pay this much for every future Digimon release. Digimon still has a US media presence so I don't get why Bluefin opted to not import MetalGarurumon OR WarGreymon Designer Edition. Tons of what they bring over are Web Exclusives too, so I don't get that angle either. Whatever the case it's depressing for us Digimon fans. :(

So I have quite a bit of a concern with MetalGarurumon.

The ball joints in his abdomen were terrifyingly tight. Ya know, creaking loud as hell tight. I managed to pop off his chest and get some shock oil in there and it's fine now.

But I simply cannot remove it from his rear. And that side's a lot worse. Even a turn to the side shrieks. Moving up and down... yikes.. It just does not sound good and I don't want to tear it off. :( But I can't get it to pop off... And it's so recessed that I can't easily get oil in there (on a toothpick) short of just squirting the bottle in there... So I don't know what I should do.

Hmm.. That's tricky. I wouldn't want to try heating him with hot water because of the tons of joints and paint, or heating him with a hair dryer for the same reason. Though maybe lightly heating him with a hair dryer just enough might loosen the joint somewhat? Otherwise I would just leave it be.

I've never done that before so am a little afraid of screwing it up... :/

I broke pretty much the golden rule of using shock oil and built up enough to form a small drop on the toothpick. Got that in there and there's now LESS squeaking, but it still does. Especially when twisted... Maybe I will just have to let it go and never move him there much...