Metal Gear fans rejoice! Our dream of owning a fantastic representation of the Metal Gear Rex figure is finally going to come true! 3A Toys will be releasing this exceptionally well done (at least from the looks of these preliminary shots) Metal Gear Rex figure sometime next year. Rex here is rumored to be around 15″-17″ and will be constructed of PVC, resin, and ABS plastic (much more cost effective materials compared to its full-scale in-game counterpart ). As with all 3A figures, it’s probably not going to come cheap though. I’ll be waiting anxiously for the final pricing. Here’s hoping I’ll be able to go for it when the time comes.
This massive figure (see size comparison with Luffy in picture) of Bartholomew Kuma from MegaHouse will be charging at you sometime November for 8400 YEN ($90)! Yet another awesome release from MegaHouse’s amazing One Piece Portraits of Pirates line of PVC figures. Very imposing sculpt and beautiful paint job.
One Piece is a pretty good anime IMHO and fans of the long-running show will have something to look forward to in the next few months. These figures of Luffy, Chopper, Zoro, and Nami from MegaHouse’s Portraits of Pirates 1/8 PVC line will be available in conjunction with the upcoming One Piece: Strong World movie to be released in December. Luffy and Chopper will see a December release date while Zoro and Nami will be available in February 2010.
Winson Classic Creation is about to add another cool figure to its line of Apexplorer figures. For this outing, these wicked primates will be all dressed up for space. There will be two variations of the figure, an Original Space Color Adam figure and a Space Special Adam figure which will be limited to 400 units.
The Original Space Color Adam figure will include the following:
- Space Clothing inclusive Space Gloves and Space Boots
- Space Helmet
- Space Helmet-mounted Scanner
- Space Power Engines
- Blaze Gun
- Gear Belt
- Power Controller
The Space Special Adam figure will include the following: - Space Clothing inclusive Space Gloves and Space Boots
- Space Helmet
- Space Helmet-mounted Scanner
- Space Power Engines
- Blaze Gun
- Gear Belt
- Power Controller
- Apes DNA Test Tube
Both figures are scheduled for a March 2010 release and will be distributed by Hot Toys. I agree that some 1/6 collectors do not like the idea of the unrealistic ape-faced figure on a “human” body, but personally I kinda like the space theme to these figures, especially the suit and the light-up helmet.
This shouldn’t come as any surprise since Hot Toys (or any other toy manufacturers for the matter) will milk every penny out of a franchise by releasing minor costume updates and variants. Well, at least this one comes with a battle-damaged endoskeleton featured base and a 1/6th scale fully articulated Hydrobot with light up function. So I guess it’s all good.
How many of you who purchased the original-release John Connor are intending to pick this version up as well? Or are some of you thinking that you should’ve waited for this instead? Me..I still prefer the original one, but the light up Hydrobot on this is making this kinda tempting…hrmm. Damn you HT!
Diamond Select will be releasing an Ultimate Quarter Scale Henry Jones Action Figure beginning 2010. The Ultimate Quarter Scale Henry Jones figure will feature an amazing likeness of Sean Connery and stands at approximately 19″. It will also come with multiple sound effects, accessories as well as individually-layered costume elements and a full display stand.
IMHO the facesculpt looks a little off to me, but otherwise everything else looks pretty decent.
Whoa…these are really cool figures from Usavich, which is an animated short produced for MTV Japan by Kanaban Graphics. The Usavich anime revolves around two rabbits, Putin and Kierenenko and their adventures in a Soviet prison. Some episodes can be quite funny indeed. Do check it out if you haven’t already done so.
But what we’re going to be featuring today isn’t the anime but these very cool figures of Putin and Kierenenko from FREEing.
Putin and Kierenenko are both large figures, standing at approximately 40cm (16″), and the best thing about these figures: they dance! Yup, they dance..just like in the beginning of each episode where it always starts off with Putin dancing on the bed accompanied by that wacky music in the background. In the case of these figures, Purin will be swinging his hips to the music while Kirenenko will be cleaning his shoes - both to the familiar background music from the show. Absolutely fantastic!
Both figures are available in December for about 12,000 YEN ($120) each. These 2 clowns are absolutely must-haves for me. Will these be in your buy-list as well? And are you a fan of the animated short?
Here’s another PVC Figure from the anime Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. There has been close to about a gazillion different Yoko figures out now, but if I’m not mistaken this is the first figure of Viral. Viral is one of the villains in the anime. Oh well, at least now we know ugly villains with a mix of shark and cat DNA will not get as much PVC love as a skimpily-dressed sniper sporting a huge-ass rifle. In any case, this first attempt by Uplark at this formidable villain looks like a good one based on pictures of the finished product. Viral should be available sometime on September 2009 for a price of about $90.
Seems like there’ll be a few Ryomou Shimei PVC Figures scheduled for release between now and the end of the year. This one here is by Alter, the maker of fine PVC Figures. The pose seems to be a little less sexually suggestive than what we’re used to seeing on Ikkitousen figures. But that’s to be expected, since Ikkitousen is a bit of an ecchi anime with tonnes of fan service. But although this figure isn’t as revealing as most Ikkitousen figures from the past, I still do like it alot overall. The paintjob seems excellent, which is pretty much expected of most Alter figures anyway. And finally, this vixen will retail for about 7,140YEN (about $75) and is scheduled for a November 2009 release. I have a feeling this should be a good seller for Alter.
). As with all 3A figures, it’s probably not going to come cheap though. I’ll be waiting anxiously for the final pricing. Here’s hoping I’ll be able to go for it when the time comes.
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