Recent Purchases: August 2016
 

New month, new thread, new hauls...go!

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A WCF of Rebecca from the bargain bin at Barnes &Nobles !

Incoming stuff from the past couple weeks.

SHF Bikel & Lord Baron, plus RS Villkiss Final Battle, via Tom/Soulinkchu
The SDCC stuff from, well, SDCC.
The rest of the Legends from EE (X-stuff) and TRU/Walgreens
The Marvel 3.75 two-packs & RiD Minicons from Marshalls (no Sky Lynx, unfortunately)
The rest of the RiD stuff from Target

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MOAR BEAMS AND BUILDINGS

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I went into a Target in the Southeast part of Kansas City over lunch today looking for Marvel Legends and just happened to come across the new Power Rangers Legacy figures. I picked up the MMPR Green and Red Rangers and left the others on the peg as I really only have an affinity for the original series.

My initial thoughts are fairly positive. I kind of wish the sculpt on these figures was more screen accurate so far as the body proportions and musculature. Don't get me wrong, the base male buck is definitely better than the one used for the armored figures Bandai marketed a few years back. The only other nits to pick sculpt-wise are the heads. They are a bit small, say by a quarter to a third. On the positive, everything is pretty cleanly sculpted and crisp despite the softer PVC used for casting the majority of the figure.

The articulation is pretty solid design-wise if a bit loose on execution. The only joints I would probably recommend for a redesign are the thigh cuts swivels. A simple cut mid-thigh as opposed to the hip boot type one they have employed would be more aesthetically accurate and also function better as it would not impede the range of motion of the leg moving forward into a full 90° bend as it does now.

The paint on these figures are fairly basic - especially on the Red Ranger. What is there though is very clean and sharp with little to no globs or smudges, I especially appreciate the multiple paint apps on the Morpher belt buckles and the exceptional attention to detailing them sculpt-wise - it is almost of a SH Figurearts level of quality!

The paint apps on the Green Ranger are especially nice so far as his sword and Dragon Dagger are concerned. A lot of effort was put into the multiple paint apps to give us a nice representation of the ornamentation of the two weapons - especially at this price point. The Green Ranger himself is nicely painted as well with clean, bright colors and sharp edges to the paint breaks. I noticed that there is a scribed line on his chest and torso for the white diamond that would appear on the armored Red Ranger. I can't help but believe we will eventually get a varient of this figure with the Red Ranger helmet and appropriate deco.

Accessory-wise, The Green Ranger really shines, coming with an extra set of flute playing hands, his Dragon Dagger with sheath and Sword of Darkness, sans tassel. These extras make up for the lack of a Build-A-Zord piece that is included with the other figures in this series. That being said, The Build-A-Zord piece included with the Red Ranger is nice, but it is at a cost. Red's only accessory is a folded closed version of the Blade Blaster and sheath. With the Blade blaster included only in a permanently closed casting, one wonders why they just didn't cast the blaster and the sheath as one piece. Also missing in action is Red's signature weapon, the Power Sword. Red comes with these great hands sculpted to hold weapons, yet he has nothing to put in them. I would have rather gotten the weapons sans paint apps and paid a dollar or two more for the figure than a Power Ranger who is basically weaponless. Even the old 8" original figures came packed with an open Blade Blaster. Hopefully, Bandai will address this in future releases and include the weapons with the characters or perhaps even issue a weapons pack in one of the waves. Sheesh, I look at this figure and all I can think of is the 8" Mystic Knights figures that came with all that armor and every weapon the character used on the show for around $15.00. Those days are long gone.

The Build-A-Figure concept has been all the rage for the last decade or so ever since it was popularized by Toy Biz with their Marvel legends line of action figures. Unlike Marvel Legends BAF and the Mattel Collect-N-Connect figures where all of the parts to build a figure are usually contained in one wave of figures, Bandai has changed things up a bit. Each wave of the Legacy figure line will contain Rangers from various series of the show and the Build-A-Zord part that comes with them will be for a Zord that was featured in their particular series. This is a bit worrisome as it could take as much as 5 series to collect all the parts for a particular Zord as it looks like there will only be one Ranger from a particular series represented in each wave. Series 1 appears to be an exception as both the Green and Red Rangers from MMPR made it into the mix. However, only Red came with a Build-A-Zord piece. Here's to hoping these sell well and that all of the Rangers to build your favorite Zord make it to the peg! Also, talk about delayed gratification. I don't know how many series Bandai plans to release per year in this line, but even if they release a new series every 3 months, we're looking at at least a year and a half or so before completing a single Zord! Yikes!

SHMA '54 Godzilla and the Tamashii Building & Damaged Building sets via AmiAmi, plus SHF Ant-Man, RS Gunner Zaku Lunamaria, and the Legends & Adventure Transformers

TFCC Bludgeon & the Marvel Legends SDCC Book of Vishanti set also arrived this week.

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Finally got my first regular racing Miku

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I've totally neglected this thread.

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I love Darkstalkers and I'm happy to own the new DVD release. Awesome OVA series in my opinion if you are a fan of the games.

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Got Ryo in today. :D Came in a bubble mailer of all things, and the freaking post person crammed it into the goddamn mailbox. But as you can see the box is somehow perfectly fine.

Fresh in from Rightstuf, OH YEAH!!

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Titans Return stuff is finally in my area, so I snagged this guy:

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Got Leader Class Power Master Optimus Prime! Thanks to a sale and employee discount, I ended up getting him for $40 CDN.

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Also got a Raspberry Pi 3 board with intents on making this into an retro system emulation console.

Everything that I got during my vacation in japan this year.

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Yay! Cubes!

Series 2 of Knights of the slice !

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Got these as a gift from my buddy EB_twit on Twitter
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In the last week I got a razor handle, two Marvel Legends, two Figuarts, a lightsaber model kit, a Metal Build, and wings for a Metal Build!

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Just picked this up to give away at my Sentai panel at NDK next month:

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Got my Minipla Set 04 (the Condor set). If any wants a full set of Condor/Tiger/Elephant let me know (it's $25 shipped for the two Condor boxes, Elephant and Tiger)! All other boxes are taken.

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Oh wow you got the MB Heine, nice score.

Got my AmiAmi box and a package from King Prinny! :D
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The Luke Skywalker I forgot I picked up on eBay arrived today, he looks nifty!

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TEN-HUT!

I haven't posted much here in the last couple of months, but I really didn't get that much in. Anyway, here's the catch up post.

2x Hi-Metal R Destroid Monsters (these suckers are HUGE), complete Genesis Climber Mospeada on LD (including Love, Live, Alive), and I imported a Saturn and a copy of the Macross, Do You Remember Love game. It was nice to finally replace my lost copy of that.

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The guy who sent the Saturn threw in a bunch of games, too.

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I picked up a lot of LDs from YJA primarily to get the Dairanger and Janperson flicks, but it also included a dupe of one of the Sentai Heroines discs I picked up previously and a few other titles.

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And I finally broke my non Funko Pop rule, thanks to BABYMETAL. (That's one set for me and two for gifts.), I also picked up a box of the Rider helmet collection on clearance from HLJ and two of the Aliens creature sets since they're more or less in scale with SHF and I may eventually use them for picture props.

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SHFs (Shampoo, Ant-Man, Luke, Lord Baron, and the Ghostriker) and the Mazinger Z (Hello Kitty style).

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And, finally, I picked up another defect helmet to add to my 1:1 collection. Sadly, it looks like the guy who was selling these to me cheap is getting out of the business.

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Edit:

Whoops! I forgot I had one more package come in. I finally managed to score one of the Amanogawa High School ties that PB put out for Fourze. Yay!

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Mods need to shut this thread down, nothing will be able to top this.

Today was a great day. I found the first two volumes of what is, without a doubt, the single greatest anime ever produced; a life-long favorite of mine, the show that helped shape me into the man I am today.

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Words cannot express how elated I am. Even better is I got them BOGO.

...I hate to be that guy but Japanese Saturns aren't that expensive.*American ones are much higher on average*

Who said anything about monetary value? It's just an awesome haul.

Found some figures, they tured out better than i thought. The BAF megazord is pretty need, i wish it had a waist joint but its not a big deal

Are those hands on ball joints?

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Here are my pickups from Otakon 2016

Got my AmiAmi order with Antman and Mafex ASM2 figure as well as a new pair of nippers for gunpla. Been using the same pair of nippers for the past 7 or so years. lol

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Got these today:

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EDIT: Well it arrived today:

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Found these awesome figuarts ko's though I'm not sure quality. They look alright.

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I am very fond of that series, at least the Japanese version of it, as well. I still have most of my original DVDs but I lost a couple in during a divorce. Very glad these have been re-released.

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Finally found some Crystal Pepsi.

I finally got myself one of those Special Edition Green/Black PRDC Morphers.