[Lbsammills51]

Took pics of Shauta on my lunch break, here they are:



(As you can see, the octopus tentacles get their own separate tray.)

Shauta's a pretty figure; not quite Gatakiriba or Putotyra, aesthetically, for me, but close to Tajadol and ahead of Tatoba. The blue on the legs looks fine in person, a slightly metallic look, very slightly. I like the clear blue bits on the legs too (front and back).

The wrist pieces flop around a bit, which can be annoying in his basic set-up. They're more secure when he's wielding the whips, which plug into the wrist and are held by one of his extra pairs of hands. The cord/whip piecesthat plug from his wrist into the top of his shoulder are removable but were a bit tight to remove from the shoulder plugs. They're a softer plastic, so not too fragile. Not nearly as much shoulder posability as the others, which isn't a suprise given the shoulder pads on Shauta.




The clear eel whips look nice. I wouldn't have minded seeing joints engineered so they'd be more posable, but oh well.



He's easy to pull apart and piece back together to go back and forth between his normal legs and octopus tentacle base. Tentacles plug right into the base piece. He can stand pretty comfortably on the tentacles; no support issues whatsoever.

(It's hard to tell from the pics, but the middle piece of each tentacle is clear plastic that's painted over.)



Nice figure, and more bang for your buck than Gatakiriba in regards to the price it cost compared to the amount of accessories it comes with (and Gatakiriba isn't exactly barren in the accessory department).

[SPLIT LIP]

Man that's nice. Those eel arms are cool but weird.

[Sentai]

Mezool! MEZOOL! That is a beautiful thing, but I still don't like the legs

[SPLIT LIP]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

Mezool! MEZOOL! That is a beautiful thing, but I still don't like the legs

Which ones?

[Sentai]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Which ones?

Both. It's just an aesthetic thing for me. The blue is just a little to light blue, and I don't like the crimson tips to the tentacles. Looks like they're wearing nail polish.

[SPLIT LIP]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

Both. It's just an aesthetic thing for me. The blue is just a little to light blue, and I don't like the crimson tips to the tentacles. Looks like they're wearing nail polish.

Oh yeah, the light blue. Well, it's on the show suit. I wish it was darker, but I see why they didn't.

[ZeoRangerV]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

Both. It's just an aesthetic thing for me. The blue is just a little to light blue, and I don't like the crimson tips to the tentacles. Looks like they're wearing nail polish.

I have to agree with this, but other than that the figure looks gorgeous! They're REALLY knocking these OOO SICs out of the park, which makes it even more painful that SaGoZo hasn't been formally announced yet.

[Sentai]

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

I have to agree with this, but other than that the figure looks gorgeous! They're REALLY knocking these OOO SICs out of the park, which makes it even more painful that SaGoZo hasn't been formally announced yet.

Sometimes these SiC's are hit and miss. But with OOO it looks like the entire series was made solely so one day it would become an SiC line. And that is painful.. SaGoZo is my absolutely favorite combo from that show, and the leaked pictures of SiC SaGoZo are just beautiful.

[Lbsammills51]

Recently snagged two of the SIC two-packs I'd been hunting for some time. Ixa and Dark Kiva's first up (I'll have a chance to open the other one sometime in the next couple days). Dark Kiva's great; the metallic red and the suit design in general here impress me very much. He's also surprisingly stable despite the cape pieces and all the die-cast. Ixa has less of a "wow" factor but is solid - the only bugaboo is I can't get either head to pop into the neck joint like I can get the hands to pop into the wrists, so it's a little too easy to take off (I'll have to remember not to pick him up by the head in the future). Like Mirror Knight from Ultraman, he reminds me a little of Anti-Spawn/the Redeemer from Spawn.

(Also, those fuestle things on the belts are so frickin' tiny...thankfully they stay pegged in but I would've been fine if those had just been molded into the belt instead of separate pieces. They scream vacuum bait.)

[SPLIT LIP]

Dark Kiva looks GREAT. I've never seen the design before but man, it looks sweet as fuck.

Other news: Finally, after all this time, I may have completed my SIC W collection by getting CycloneJokerXtreme. I'm very excited.