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03-21-2021, 09:55 AM | #41 |
Kamen Ride Or Die
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I mean, YMMV, but Arcee put me off R.E.D. figures entirely. The plastic is thin and gummy, the colors are really dull, she falls over a lot, and she just feels cheaply produced. If you find one cheap, it may be worth getting her just to experience. But I wouldn't pay retail for her, and I would NOT pay any inflated aftermarket price.
EDIT: Honestly, if you want her? PM me. The only downside for Chalice is his giant shoulder pads, which causes a little bit of visual dissonance on some poses. Otherwise, a good-looking figure with a stupid amount of accessories.
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03-21-2021, 10:07 AM | #42 |
Reiei
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Daaamn! SS Agito! How'd that cost you?? Also, I just gotta now what Chalice looks next to a modern figuart lik Brave over there. Back then I had thoughts of picking it up, but the pinhead bothered me. I'll prolly just wait for a SS Release somewhere down the line.
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03-21-2021, 12:03 PM | #43 |
King of Souls
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I mean, YMMV, but Arcee put me off R.E.D. figures entirely. The plastic is thin and gummy, the colors are really dull, she falls over a lot, and she just feels cheaply produced. If you find one cheap, it may be worth getting her just to experience. But I wouldn't pay retail for her, and I would NOT pay any inflated aftermarket price.
EDIT: Honestly, if you want her? PM me.
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03-21-2021, 12:10 PM | #44 |
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Chalice... I mean, the proportions are definitely a little less accurate than a modern Figuarts. But it'd only ever be noticeable if you have him posed in a rigid, neutral pose, straight up and down with his arms at his side. Why would you ever pose Chalice like that, though. When you've got him ready to pounce, not only is his more exaggerated physique not that noticeable, it actually makes him look cooler? He's lanky in all the best ways, with this wide stance and outstretched arms. Like I said before, his build here is maybe inaccurate, but it's what I think of when I think of Chalice. Also, you can get him for around 4000 yen, and I think he's absolutely worth it.
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03-22-2021, 12:55 PM | #45 |
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A few bookmarked preowned items from Amiami I checked off my list. - Figma Gridman (Primal Fighter) - Figma Gridknight - Figuarts Kyoryu Greeed Dr. Maki's a great piece sculpt-wise and I'm surprised at how accomidating his shoulder articulation is to work with his torso design. Not hindered at all. His only big issue is his ankle range going forward. It's not as much as he'd need to stay stable so he requires real specific posing to stand without falling over. Outside of that I'm glad to have an OOO villain since Maki's one of my favorites. Figma Gridman and Gridknight are absolutely fantastic. Sculpt and paint are aces but the articulation surprised me. I figured there'd be shortcoming but I can't really find any. Arms are multi-jointed to ensure full range of motion, necks are designed to extend forward for more options for positioning, torso has great range of motion and the hips are only hindered going far out due to the armor design but can move in any other direction fine thanks to some ball joints between the hips and thighs. I'm glad I finally have Gridman reps I'm actually happy with.
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03-22-2021, 05:45 PM | #46 |
Some guy. I'm alright.
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The Figma Gridman figures are legit great, glad you've enjoyed them! Wish they'd continued to make other forms, or at the very least a Kaiju Anti figure.
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03-23-2021, 03:03 PM | #47 |
Showa Girl
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Another pretty neat few packages came in today!!
- A very generous friend sent me their Cybertron Vector Prime along with a couple other neat Transformers I was wanting - My first order from Kotetsu toys! The main thing here was the Max Ultra Medal which I couldn't find anywhere else; but I also took the time to pick up Dyna and Gaia's Ultra Medals, an OOO Eyecon (one step closer to a complete OOO item collection, and pretty relevant to me right now if you look at my avi) and a couple gifts for someone else -- and then they threw in a Gorilla Fullbottle and a poster of one of my favourite Rider movies. Neat! - Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider OOO Tatoba Upgrade Se-- er, Ratoratah! After my Tatoba's Tora Arms ran into that fairly common breakage issue, I settled on getting this over a direct replacement for a few reasons and I can safely say I'm VERY happy with my purchase and have been playing around with it all day
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03-23-2021, 07:06 PM | #48 |
The Immortal King Tasty
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I see this "someone else" you speak of clearly has impeccable taste in Go-Busters characters
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03-23-2021, 07:07 PM | #49 |
Some guy. I'm alright.
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Y'all keep tempting me to start collecting the Legends Items for Kuuga.
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03-23-2021, 07:25 PM | #50 |
Showa Girl
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- When it comes to the Rider Cards, well, the only way to get those is as a full set with the Decadriver. Thankfully, A) When it comes to wanting pre-W cards, it's very easy and cheap to get an original or super best DX Decadriver as far as DX belts go; and B) The Decadriver is the best Kamen Rider changer there's ever been, so you're hardly getting a raw deal with that - Gaia Memories for some reason seem to consistently be the most difficult thing for me to track down. Unless I'm really missing something here every site I've checked is very low on supplies for them even compared to other past gimmick items. - Signal Bikes are the second worst because they're Premium Bandai only! There's either the full set for an extortionate amount of money, or one of three sets which has 5 Heisei Riders each plus a Showa Rider. - Eyecons obviously have not been an issue for me, but when it comes to Kuuga through Decade those ones were a Premium Bandai set like the Signal Bikes. So watch out! - I believe the same goes for the Gashats? Aside from that, the fun thing about tracking down these individual DX releases is that mainline items get VERY cheap and easy to get over time -- you can find a Kuuga ridewatch on Manda for 500 yen or so, I find. Some of these are painful enough you might just wanna exclude them altogether unless you get lucky, but otherwise it's very nice and rewarding to see all the items together!
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