30 сен 2010 20:05:48
Tamashii Nations, that glorious cave of wonders where Bandai has their own private little Wonder Festival, is currently going on down in Japan, and with it comes a crapton of pictures (courtesy of Hobby-Stock and Amiami's blog). Leave your wallet at the door.
Also, note that there are a few items (such as Figuarts Kazuma) that I excluded due to the fact that the images really failed to reveal anything new about the figures. Most of these items didn't have release dates yet, due to being pretty early in production.
D-arts
I figured I'd start the coverage with Bandai's new baby, D-arts. The line was started focusing on Digimon, but has branched out into other franchises such as Medabots and a newcomer you'll see shortly. First off would be Gatomon.
Looks like a Nendoroid more than anything else, honestly. Same goes forAsh and Pikachu Tai and Agumon.
I can kind of understand Agumon being done Nendo-style, but why couldn't they at least give Tai some joints? Anyway, this is your last chance to leave before the cool stuff comes.
First up is a painted shot of Metabee. What a Medabot is doing in a Digimon line is beyond me, but I'm not complaining. But if you want some Digimon, how about a fan-favorite?
"B-b-b-bad to the bone..."
Beelzemon was something of a surprise in himself. But they're including the bike? I can think of a number of uses for that bike even without Beelzemon...
No, your eyes do not deceive you. This is a D-arts Mega Man X. Seems like Bandai wasn't joking around when they posted that list of licenses they were attempting to get. Perhaps other franchises from said list (Metroid, Persona 4, Gridman) might get D-arts of their own in the future? Also, before we move onto the Figuarts, have some PreCure Chibi-arts.
It looks like Bandai might be trying to one-up Petit Nendoroids with this bunch, although I wasn't able to track down the size of them.
S.H. Figuarts
Bandai seems really hellbent on getting lots of Kamen Rider W stuff out before the ending-hype wears off. First off is a Figuarts of Kamen Rider Double CycloneAccel Xtreme form (gee, try saying that ten times fast).
It seems that this will probably be a Tamashii Web exclusive, given that a) it's from a movie and b) it's a repaint. And nothing of value was lost. Speaking of Xtreme, Bandai's gonna milk the sculpt one last time.
From the recent KRW movie comes Kamen Rider Double in CycloneJokerSuper Saiyan Gold Xtreme. I honestly don't get Bandai's Xtreme fetish - the design looks rather derpy, and the first Figuarts shelfwarmed like crazy. So why release two more repaints? At least this one has neat wings, I suppose... WAIT A SECOND. IS THAT A FIGUARTS FUUTO-KUN!? I'm simultaneously confused and filled with glee. I shall have Fuuto-kun fight Godzilla, and it shall be glorious.
There's also gonna be a Figuarts of Kamen Rider Accel's AccelGunner. It's hard to say whether this will be an exclusive or not, since they did release the HardBoilder as a standard release. On the topic of Accel...
Why? Accel only appeared in yellow for a few minutes in the entire series. It's like making a Figuarts of one of the Cures as they're in the middle of transforming, and just feels like they're trying to milk completionists. Oh well - no one's forcing people to buy it.
There's also these Figuarts of the Sonozaki family, the main villains of W. It looks like the Claydoll Dopant is the only one with joints, so I'm assuming these will be a set of exclusive Figuarts-scaled statues or something. But to move away from W stuff, why don't we move on to OOO?
Anything Goes sonna kokoro ga, atsuku naru mono...
In addition to the announcement of a Figuarts-scaled RideVendor, there was also the announcement that many of OOO's forms will be getting Figuarts. At this point, it looks like there could even be interchangeable parts, but we won't know for sure until TaToBa comes out in February.
Putting the Masked in Masked Rider (no, not that one).
From Kamen Rider Kabuto comes the Masked Form of the titular Rider. Makes me wonder, are they gonna do the Masked Forms of all of them?
Kamen Rider Dominatrix!?
Bandai is also determined to finish up the Kiva Figuarts, as they announced Kamen Rider Saga. Looks like the whip may be bendable. As nice as filling out the rosters of the recent series is, I'd love it if Bandai could get around to doing some Blade Figuarts, then going back to the Showa series. I'd do unspeakable things for a Kamen Rider Amazon Figuarts...
From the love-it-or-hate-it Kamen Rider 555 comes Kamen Rider Faiz in his Axel and Blaster forms, as well as his transforming bike Autovajin (which I still think looks like the bizarre lovechild of Arcee and a Macross Valkyrie). I never did like 555 as a show, but its suit designs are really quite nice - I may pick up one of these if they're not exclusive.
The last Rider shown at the event was Kamen Rider Chou Den-O, in Rod Form. They displayed two of the figure, with one holding Axe Form's axe, so they might do the different forms as accessories rather than exclusives.
Kazuma wasn't the only s-CRY-ed Figuarts - he's being joined by Straight Cougar, Ryuho, and his alter Zetsuei. I'm not too fussed about s-CRY-ed, but I love that Bandai's broadening their horizons, because Figuarts are truly wonderful figures and they shouldn't be limited to toku fans.
...But there's still gonna be some toku amongst these new licenses, as these Garo Figuarts prove. Kyouga and Rei make their Figuarts debut as part of Bandai's aggressive marketing of the recently-released Garo movie.
Go go Power Rangers! Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers!
Also new are Figuarts of the team from Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. While these are wonderful, I'd love them to go about making some Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger Figuarts, AKA MMPR Figuarts. Overall, I've got to applaud Bandai for stepping out of their comfort zone of Riders and Cures.
Mecha - Robot Damashii and Super Robot Chogokin
Also from Shinkenger is this Super Robot Chogokin of the Shinkenoh mecha. Again, I'd love some chogokin Megazords.
Bandai also announced a Robot Damashii and a Chibi-arts of the main character and mecha (I'm afraid I don't know their names) from upcoming anime Star Driver, due to be released sometime during the show's run. Not gonna lie, I don't think the Cybuddy's design lends itself well to figures at all - spindly limbs mean that manufacturers will have to be cautious in terms of designing toys of it.
Enough with the future, let's go back to the past for a bit! From 90s anime Vision of Escaflowne comes this Robot Damashii figure of the titular mecha. No release date was given, but it's nice to see manufacturers looking to the past.
Also from the past comes this model of the gunship from Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind! I wonder if this will lead to more Ghibli figures - for all the merchandise of Studio Ghibli films, there's surprisingly little in the way of collector-oriented figures.
There's also the announcement of some Full Metal Panic Robot Damashiis. If anything, I'm just happy to have a break from Gundam-Gundam-Gundam-Gundam-EVA-Gundam-Gundam.
To go with the Arbalest is the Leviatein, because having one without the other would be just silly. Like this.
Trollface not included.
Lolwut. A Soul of Chogokin Buzz Lightyear? I'm not sure what to think. I mean, it looks wonderful, but... why? Although I do wish it had posable eyes like the Revoltech. Equally as silly is this:
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the bastard child of Haruhi Suzumiya and the power loader from Aliens. Don't get me wrong, the figure looks well-made, and Haruhi herself looks really nice, but this whole concept raises so many questions. Why did Bandai choose to do a posable Haruhi when there's already a crapton of Figmas of her? Why did they choose to have Katoki of all people sculpt and design it? What the hell is she doing in a mecha-suit? Why does the mech-suit have bunny-ears, too? What happened to the dignity of KyoAni's licensing division? To help distract you from all the "WHY," have some...
Super Robot Chogokin GaoGaiGar. You heard me right. Even if Yamaguchi Revoltech #100 isn't the King of Braves, we're finally getting a truly great articulated GaoGaiGar! My body is ready indeed. The only issue I can see is the shipping - look at the size of that thing, especially when you take the diecast parts into consideration. Still, though, so pumped!
Also, one last tidbit. This here is a list of D-arts Bandai is trying to make a reality. I don't know enough moon to read them all, but I can make out Megaman.EXE, Zero (in both MMX and Zero versions), Bass/Forte, Samus Aran, Thanatos from Persona 3, and Izanagi from Persona 4. I'd particularly love those last three.
So, does anyone see anything that catches their fancy here? I'm not sure where to start, personally. Sound off in the comments below!
Also, note that there are a few items (such as Figuarts Kazuma) that I excluded due to the fact that the images really failed to reveal anything new about the figures. Most of these items didn't have release dates yet, due to being pretty early in production.
D-arts
I figured I'd start the coverage with Bandai's new baby, D-arts. The line was started focusing on Digimon, but has branched out into other franchises such as Medabots and a newcomer you'll see shortly. First off would be Gatomon.
Looks like a Nendoroid more than anything else, honestly. Same goes for
I can kind of understand Agumon being done Nendo-style, but why couldn't they at least give Tai some joints? Anyway, this is your last chance to leave before the cool stuff comes.
First up is a painted shot of Metabee. What a Medabot is doing in a Digimon line is beyond me, but I'm not complaining. But if you want some Digimon, how about a fan-favorite?
"B-b-b-bad to the bone..."
Beelzemon was something of a surprise in himself. But they're including the bike? I can think of a number of uses for that bike even without Beelzemon...
No, your eyes do not deceive you. This is a D-arts Mega Man X. Seems like Bandai wasn't joking around when they posted that list of licenses they were attempting to get. Perhaps other franchises from said list (Metroid, Persona 4, Gridman) might get D-arts of their own in the future? Also, before we move onto the Figuarts, have some PreCure Chibi-arts.
It looks like Bandai might be trying to one-up Petit Nendoroids with this bunch, although I wasn't able to track down the size of them.
S.H. Figuarts
Bandai seems really hellbent on getting lots of Kamen Rider W stuff out before the ending-hype wears off. First off is a Figuarts of Kamen Rider Double CycloneAccel Xtreme form (gee, try saying that ten times fast).
It seems that this will probably be a Tamashii Web exclusive, given that a) it's from a movie and b) it's a repaint. And nothing of value was lost. Speaking of Xtreme, Bandai's gonna milk the sculpt one last time.
From the recent KRW movie comes Kamen Rider Double in CycloneJoker
There's also gonna be a Figuarts of Kamen Rider Accel's AccelGunner. It's hard to say whether this will be an exclusive or not, since they did release the HardBoilder as a standard release. On the topic of Accel...
Why? Accel only appeared in yellow for a few minutes in the entire series. It's like making a Figuarts of one of the Cures as they're in the middle of transforming, and just feels like they're trying to milk completionists. Oh well - no one's forcing people to buy it.
There's also these Figuarts of the Sonozaki family, the main villains of W. It looks like the Claydoll Dopant is the only one with joints, so I'm assuming these will be a set of exclusive Figuarts-scaled statues or something. But to move away from W stuff, why don't we move on to OOO?
Anything Goes sonna kokoro ga, atsuku naru mono...
In addition to the announcement of a Figuarts-scaled RideVendor, there was also the announcement that many of OOO's forms will be getting Figuarts. At this point, it looks like there could even be interchangeable parts, but we won't know for sure until TaToBa comes out in February.
Putting the Masked in Masked Rider (no, not that one).
From Kamen Rider Kabuto comes the Masked Form of the titular Rider. Makes me wonder, are they gonna do the Masked Forms of all of them?
Kamen Rider Dominatrix!?
Bandai is also determined to finish up the Kiva Figuarts, as they announced Kamen Rider Saga. Looks like the whip may be bendable. As nice as filling out the rosters of the recent series is, I'd love it if Bandai could get around to doing some Blade Figuarts, then going back to the Showa series. I'd do unspeakable things for a Kamen Rider Amazon Figuarts...
From the love-it-or-hate-it Kamen Rider 555 comes Kamen Rider Faiz in his Axel and Blaster forms, as well as his transforming bike Autovajin (which I still think looks like the bizarre lovechild of Arcee and a Macross Valkyrie). I never did like 555 as a show, but its suit designs are really quite nice - I may pick up one of these if they're not exclusive.
The last Rider shown at the event was Kamen Rider Chou Den-O, in Rod Form. They displayed two of the figure, with one holding Axe Form's axe, so they might do the different forms as accessories rather than exclusives.
Kazuma wasn't the only s-CRY-ed Figuarts - he's being joined by Straight Cougar, Ryuho, and his alter Zetsuei. I'm not too fussed about s-CRY-ed, but I love that Bandai's broadening their horizons, because Figuarts are truly wonderful figures and they shouldn't be limited to toku fans.
...But there's still gonna be some toku amongst these new licenses, as these Garo Figuarts prove. Kyouga and Rei make their Figuarts debut as part of Bandai's aggressive marketing of the recently-released Garo movie.
Go go Power Rangers! Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers!
Also new are Figuarts of the team from Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. While these are wonderful, I'd love them to go about making some Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger Figuarts, AKA MMPR Figuarts. Overall, I've got to applaud Bandai for stepping out of their comfort zone of Riders and Cures.
Mecha - Robot Damashii and Super Robot Chogokin
Also from Shinkenger is this Super Robot Chogokin of the Shinkenoh mecha. Again, I'd love some chogokin Megazords.
Bandai also announced a Robot Damashii and a Chibi-arts of the main character and mecha (I'm afraid I don't know their names) from upcoming anime Star Driver, due to be released sometime during the show's run. Not gonna lie, I don't think the Cybuddy's design lends itself well to figures at all - spindly limbs mean that manufacturers will have to be cautious in terms of designing toys of it.
Enough with the future, let's go back to the past for a bit! From 90s anime Vision of Escaflowne comes this Robot Damashii figure of the titular mecha. No release date was given, but it's nice to see manufacturers looking to the past.
Also from the past comes this model of the gunship from Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind! I wonder if this will lead to more Ghibli figures - for all the merchandise of Studio Ghibli films, there's surprisingly little in the way of collector-oriented figures.
There's also the announcement of some Full Metal Panic Robot Damashiis. If anything, I'm just happy to have a break from Gundam-Gundam-Gundam-Gundam-EVA-Gundam-Gundam.
To go with the Arbalest is the Leviatein, because having one without the other would be just silly. Like this.
Trollface not included.
Lolwut. A Soul of Chogokin Buzz Lightyear? I'm not sure what to think. I mean, it looks wonderful, but... why? Although I do wish it had posable eyes like the Revoltech. Equally as silly is this:
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the bastard child of Haruhi Suzumiya and the power loader from Aliens. Don't get me wrong, the figure looks well-made, and Haruhi herself looks really nice, but this whole concept raises so many questions. Why did Bandai choose to do a posable Haruhi when there's already a crapton of Figmas of her? Why did they choose to have Katoki of all people sculpt and design it? What the hell is she doing in a mecha-suit? Why does the mech-suit have bunny-ears, too? What happened to the dignity of KyoAni's licensing division? To help distract you from all the "WHY," have some...
Super Robot Chogokin GaoGaiGar. You heard me right. Even if Yamaguchi Revoltech #100 isn't the King of Braves, we're finally getting a truly great articulated GaoGaiGar! My body is ready indeed. The only issue I can see is the shipping - look at the size of that thing, especially when you take the diecast parts into consideration. Still, though, so pumped!
Also, one last tidbit. This here is a list of D-arts Bandai is trying to make a reality. I don't know enough moon to read them all, but I can make out Megaman.EXE, Zero (in both MMX and Zero versions), Bass/Forte, Samus Aran, Thanatos from Persona 3, and Izanagi from Persona 4. I'd particularly love those last three.
So, does anyone see anything that catches their fancy here? I'm not sure where to start, personally. Sound off in the comments below!
