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09-08-2020, 09:24 PM | #461 |
Reiei
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That semi-matte black along with the vibrant gold really makes this pop. |
09-09-2020, 03:49 AM | #462 |
Showa Girl
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Very lovely! Looking forward to mine; should be arriving this week...
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09-09-2020, 10:44 AM | #463 |
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wait, isn't rising mighty's hand pad is supposed to be gold-red?
and btw, where did you get those pics? it looks familiar
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DEEP BREATH > Believe Yourself Last edited by Kisama Nai; 09-09-2020 at 02:05 PM.. |
09-10-2020, 04:07 PM | #464 |
Showa Girl
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Right, so! I heard someone really liked this form, or something? Probably my imagination, not like he talks about it often and went on a whole dissertation in Fish’s rewatch thread or anything.
Jokes aside, my Amazing Mighty kit arrived yesterday and I’ve spent all day building it and kinda sorta gushing over how gorgeous he is! But before all that, as a point of interest; stickers and parts! As you might expect from a figure as low on stickers as FRS Kuuga, his repaint has a small set of stickers too — especially keeping in mind that these stickers are split between two separate figures this time. What Amazing and Rising Mighty end up with in comparison to standard Mighty is a coloured triangle on the back; a coloured strip for each gauntlet; stickers for the back of each hand and... that’s it! Six entire stickers more than the original. You might notice though that there’s only four hand stickers, and... I’ll get to that. For now though I’ll just say that these stickers were easy and satisfying to apply; and as this is my first experience with FRS Kuuga, I want to say here that ALL his stickers were like that, even the eyes and belt which were usually the most dreaded parts of any other FRS! Den-O’s build just wins out for me on the fun of building Plat and then building Sword out of it, but Kuuga’s simplistic yet revolutionary style nets him a solid second place. Zero problems and plenty to enjoy! Moving on from that, the Rising Mighty parts and how they’re separated. You would hope especially for a Premium Bandai release that all parts for Rising would be kept completely separate from Amazing on their own sprues. And that is... MOSTLY true. Yeah, so, this picture here is of sprues C3 and D2, which exclusively hold the parts for Rising. However, there are certain parts which are on sprues mostly holding Amazing’s pieces. For the sake of brevity and hopefully helping someone out, I’m going to briefly list them:- A: 38, 39 (belt parts) B2: 25, 26 (Lower right leg) C2: 18, 19, 22, 23 (glove plates) It’s fortunately few, but it is still annoying and I hope this saves someone else some confusion. Talking of those glove plates though... oh boy. Quote:
You know how FRS Riders’ hands are done? There’s the hand, and then there’s a separate piece that attaches onto them? Well, Kuuga does that too... but see, he has 9 hands. And the Amazing kit only provides 8 plates which are to be halved between Amazing and Rising. Now it’s easy enough to take the plates off and put them on another hand, thankfully; but it’s still absolutely baffling that they did it this way ESPECIALLY on a Premium Bandai product when no other kit to my knowledge pulls anything like this. These are quite small pieces; would it really have hurt so much to print 10 more of them (plus the relevant stickers) on the sprue? I imagine in this image, the person’s decided to use Rising’s gold plates for Amazing’s other hands and left Rising with the standard issue ones. It’s a big annoyance which, while there’s a workaround, is a needless mark against a kit that is otherwise marvelous. ... but. Yea. This is a MAAAARVELOUS FIGURE. I really didn’t appreciate enough how beautiful gold against matte black is on this design and it’s pulled off with perfection; the gold glistens no matter the lighting, the red eyes shine through in a way both inspiring and intimidating, and everything comes together to make a beautiful piece. Lack of hand plates aside, this is a figure that SCREAMS “Premium” and I am very, very happy to have got him. On looks alone (and he has a lot more than looks), he’s easily my favourite of the bunch I’ve got!
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09-10-2020, 04:10 PM | #465 |
Showa Girl
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ow oof my hand phones are not meant for typing that much at a time my laptop cant be repaired soon enough ah ouch
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09-10-2020, 04:45 PM | #466 |
Some guy. I'm alright.
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Location: Michigan
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*fangirl squeel in the distance*
Ahem, uh, Kurona! Calm yourself! I know Amazing Mighty is the best Kamen Rider Form ever, but please! Joking aside, MAN does he look good! It's a shame about the hand parts, but dang, if I didn't already have the Seihou back when it was (relatively) cheap, I'd've dropped money on this in a heartbeat!
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09-10-2020, 05:25 PM | #467 |
The Immortal King Tasty
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There's something I find really hilarious about that kit, and it's that the cover illustration's recreation of the iconic "I turned black" pose subtly changes Kuuga's body language in a way where it comes off to me less like trepidation at the implications of this new form, and more like Yuusuke is just going "man, this color scheme is awesome!"
Does anyone else get vibe? I might just be projecting, because, yeah that looks pretty nice huh. Glad you get to finally enjoy the majesty of Kuuga Penultimate Form recreated in plastic, Kurona. Also I hope your fingers are feeling okay!
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09-10-2020, 05:58 PM | #468 |
Showa Girl
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My first Kuuga, would you believe! Though, I hope to follow it up with Mighty and Rising eventually...
And hey, while I’m here; couple more photos I didn’t put on the first post! It wasn’t until messing around with these figures that I realised Amazing (and hence Ultimate) shared a colour scheme with Ohma Zi-O; right down to eyes and horns and colour placements — even the grey on Kuuga’s belt and mouth match the grey Ohma uses. It’s obvious in hindsight — the protagonist of Heisei’s 20th losing himself and embracing world-destroying power? Why wouldn’t that resemble the ultimate weapon of the Linto?
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09-10-2020, 06:05 PM | #469 |
Some guy. I'm alright.
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Michigan
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...Well now I just wanna skip straight to Zi-O instead of making Wizard my next Phase 2 show.
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There's something I find really hilarious about that kit, and it's that the cover illustration's recreation of the iconic "I turned black" pose subtly changes Kuuga's body language in a way where it comes off to me less like trepidation at the implications of this new form, and more like Yuusuke is just going "man, this color scheme is awesome!"
Does anyone else get vibe?
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09-10-2020, 06:59 PM | #470 |
Warrior of Delusions!
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That is a very pretty colour scheme on a very pretty figure.
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