[figma] Sp-031 Kamen Rider Wrath

~Standard packaging~

Kamen Rider Wrath, also known as the Kamen rider Odin in Ryuki series. I know nothing about this rider in Dragon Knight series but roughly you may figure out how DK series work(A normal sequence of DK series is said to be from a bad guy that fight everyone else and later become a good guy that against Xaviax.). For Ryuki series, this guy actually wasted an episode where he uses the TIME VENT. Imagine every week i waited for an great episode that is going to happen but end up watching everything again and again for an episode. KR Odin, Kanzaki shirou, the creator of Mirror World. I watch again the KR Ryuki and realize that he, Kanzaki Shirou, you can actually consider him as a ghost because he may appears 'out of no where' and 'all of sudden'.

This is something quite unusual to me because the plastic is actually covering the whole figure. There's a instruction note teaching you how to interchange the upper parts of the 'staff?' XD~! Figure wise, the shoulder pats are made of some softer plastic. It actually hinders a lots on the hands articulation. To me, it's okay because ODIN/Wrath do not really need to pull out some really crazy moves thus it is sufficient enough. ^^ Like a standard FIGMA, it does have the figma stand, figma plastic bag and inter-changeable hand set of 8.

The STAFF is nicely detailed THUS no complain~! ^^ Figma done a good job~! I would say this figure actually it's 90% same as the one in the show~! It's only a small complain that figma's weapon is not playable most of the time. 'Playability' of weapon BANDAI stands out. However, this time figma stands out because you pay what you got. Weapon that figma include this time really sufficient enough.

There was this episode where knight thought he killed Odin but actually he did not.

TATA-KA-E~!

Conclusion, lately figma has a better QC thus it's actually worth buying~! Although you may complain that there's no compound eye but you cannot denied the fact that Figma hide the hip joint better than BANDAI. Just my 5 cent~! ^^ Peace~

TFG night

It's something unusual to my blog but just to let you all know about this event~!

TFG Night is held by HELP Event Managing Club. The concept is Modeling, Photography and Designer working together in 1 group. Thus, it is definitely a fresh competition ever in Malaysia~!

There will be an Audition~! Support the local fashion scene~! It start from you, you and you~!

Date: 25th-26th June, 2011
Time: 10.30am-8.30pm
Venue: South Circle, LG floor, e@Curve

Log on http://tfgnight.com/ for Registration NOW! See you there :)

[Figma] Sp-022 Kamen Rider Torque

Another Figma I gotten from XL-shop~! Kamen rider Zolda in Ryuki series and also Dragon Knight series Torque. In Ryuki series this guy play a very big role because without this guy then wouldn't have the big fight between him and Ouja. He played as a role of Lawyer while Ouja as a serial killer. In ryuki series, the reason he became KR is he wanted to have a longer life because he got some kind of sickness which he will die eventually. Whereas in KR Dragon Knight, as far as I know he is a BADass~! I watched up until ep14. Oh yah, he died~! KR DK actually wasn't that bad. ^^ Try it, you will never it might impress you.

Before...

After....

Many people had complain about the KR figma line QC (Quality Control in case you don't know....) is damn bad. I saw some review from those famous japanese website which I myself witness is quite bad. Example; the henshin deck logo printed a little slanting. Mine wasn't having that problem and mine was great~! Other than some place that could do some little touch up. IE~ the head.

I still have little complain about this figure which is the hand. He is left handed thus right hand will taking the cards out but the only option to post him holding the FINAL vent is left and he will not able to hold the gun. Without the gun, how is he going to activate the cards?? Call Ryuki activate for him? Yeah~ Figma you're damn smart~ XD

Here comes the best part of TORQUE~!!! The giant SHOOT vent gun~!! HIGHLY detailed~! HUGE~! MASSIVE~! The very big selling point of this figure~! It can hold the gun although it is heavy. If you say figma painting are sucks~! CHECK out the huge gun~! It's really nicely painted.

CONCLUSION, Figma line isn't as bad as you think. Give figma a chance~! Without your support they can't continue produce. Buy it if you think the giant gun is worth it. Don't buy it if you're not big ryuki/DK fans.

Here's a Japanese DUB version~! Have a look~! This sounds better (at least for me~). Akiyama Ren voice casted as Wing knight. ^^

[SHF] Kamen rider Decade Violent emotion

Finally, I get myself a Decade~! FYI, Decade is the 10th Heisei rider that travels among all the rider worlds which every rider claim that he "DE-K-DO" is destroyer of all the rider world thus must kill him beforehand. At first before this guy is aired, I'm so excited to watch it because I thought of they are hiring all the old cast back in action but things didn't went that way. They manage to hire "some" back to be act as the rider where they used to be such as Kamen rider blade(the real Kenzaki), Kamen rider kiva(the real Wataru), Kamen rider ibuki, zanki, todoroki, all the voice cast of Imagin in Den-o and so on. Changing the storyline of every riders sounds a bit cheapskate but then it's good to know that BANDAI wanted to bring all the riders back in action. Decade only manage to aired 30 episode.

One thing I don't like about SHF after buying those figma figure is that, they didn't hide the joint nicely especially for hips but other than that the other is up to standard. Articulation is nice. This package comes with decade itself, decade head normal version, hands, ridebook, ridebook gun form and sword form.

VIOLENT MOTION/ Fury form

Normal ver

BANDAI is good at making the compound eye of all the Kamen rider( Maybe not hibiki.....but maybe they will make it transparent when it's out for SHF, who knows?). Paint job is of course better than Figma. BUT SHF do have some QC problem but not as much as Figma line riders. The compound eye for decade is extremely gorgeous~!

CONCLUSION:

Get this if you haven't gotten one. I'm a big fan of Decade but if you're not or you already have the first issued then it's easy for you to skipped unless you the normal version decade head.

I give 7/10 for this figure.

[Figma] Sp-016 Kamen Rider Wing Knight

HELL YEAH~!!! I got my Wing knight~!!! In fact, it's cheaper to get it from other shops but then XL-shop have some kind of points reward system so it's still worth it to get it from there. Okay, Kamen rider Knight acted by Akiyama Ren which is so cool that eventually would confuse he is also a main character besides SHINJI (That funny dude~!). I would say with the characteristic of Ren which is freaking match with the Wing knight look. Wing knight gives people sort of feels like it's mysterious, tough, decisive and cold blooded.

I have some problems with my Wing Knight. As you can see, the spear holder paint are peeling off which I don't know what to do with it but with some efforts of photoshop then the problem will solve although reality it's still a pain job to deal with. The head paint job aren't that cool but I use silver gundam marker to do some touchup which turn out to be good~

The highlight of the kits~! As usual, you will get a convenient figma plastic bag to keeps all the hands, hand holder and final vent cards. The Guard vent which is the cape and the spear alike sword vent. Lastly, the sword that he uses always for the final option in case he running out of cards. XD!!

As usual, Shinji is blur even Ren is behind him.

You may plug the figma stand on his back. The body sculpture are fantastic~! ^^ I'm not a perfectionist so I guess this is great enough.

Ren: HYA~!!!!!!!!!!!

Conclusion, check your figma before you buy. I give this 7/10 because of the QC I gave lower for this kits compare to Ryuki. Overall, I guess it's okay to give a try on figma rather than BANDAI alone or else they won't come out for the upcoming riders like those haven't announce one example Ryuki survive form and so on.

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