Haul of the Day

Transformers Movie

Managed to get Offroad Ironhide at clearance price of S$27.90 at Carrefour, but missed out on Premium Blackout and Ironhide. I knew I should have gone to Carrefour during lunchtime on Friday.

Transformers Animated



Got them from TFH. Could not wait for retail. Voyager box condition was bad though. Got a loose Grimlock as well.

Upcoming Medicom 1/6th RAH

At the recent Tokyo Toy Show 2008 (Jun 19-22), Medicom showcased their products for the next one and a half years, and it looked like a fantastic year for Medicom, and a bad one for collector$.

Here are some of the 1/6th products that have me sold.

Ultraman

Ultraman Father ! The figure was announced when Ultraman Taro was announced. It seems that Ultraman Father will be a mailaway, using the coupon that comes with Taro. Please give him his cape and that hour glass thing.

Ultraman Leo

I have never seen an episode of Leo, since it was never shown locally. But I liked the design of Leo. And better still, he comes with his Ultra nanchucks !

Medicom continues with great offerings from this line. And it is about time. They focused so much on Kamen Rider, and it is great to see more figures. It might be Bandai holding them back, but it does not matter now. From the looks of it, they would be releasing all the Ultraman brothers, and the rest. The only problem with this line is accessories. Give them some please !

And I hope Medicom will reissue Ultraman Zoffy and Imit Ultraman in the future. The prices on these figures are going crazy over eBay.

Star Wars

Seriously, do we need more Clones ? Why not ? They are great for milking more money from collectors.


The head sculpt for Han Solo looks great, but not the clothes though. Hope they get improved along the way. And finally, a human sculpt.


Vinyl Collectible Doll series Jawa. The VCD line is not cheap, considering the size of the figures. Hope they will make this cheap and I'll buy half a dozen ! And with such prices, they better give this figure more articulations ! The past offerings like Wicket and Yoda is a disappointment.
Utinni!

Dragonball


When the Dragonball license was announced by Medicom, I was thrilled, but not so thrilled after seeing the Son Goku figure. With more figures like Picolo and Son Gohan announced, I am reconsidering though.

The Dark Knight


Hot one the heels of Hot Toys' TDK announcement, Medicom shows off their version.

Personally, I think they look better than HT. Shaun speculates that the Bruce Wayne would be a mail away, like the Medicom Peter Parker and Clark Kent.

But I would wait and see if TakaraTomy will also jump on the TDK bandwagon. They were the best of the 3 for the Batman Begins figures.

Street Fighter

And lastly, this came as quite a surprise, Street Fighter figures ? Not sure if this is related to the Chun Li (starring Kristin Kruek) movie that is coming out though, or just the 20th anniversary of the video game. And the cool factor is we get the big thigh version !

Start saving up people !!!

Pictures courtesy of:
http://newsreader.visualmedia.com.hk/vm.php?search_txt=&group=personal.ibuyboth
Toy World HK

Gifts

My colleague just got back from 2 weeks in Australia, and this is what she got for me.


How quaint.

And my lovely niece got me this.

Haul of the Weeks

My PC had be behaving erratically these few days, and I have also been busy with work to update this blog. Some hauls over the last week fews. Pictures taken at night, so bear with the quality.

Hottoys 1/6 Nudes

Relaunched Asian and Caucasian nudes, with some Chinese guy and Michael Scofield likeness.

Medicom RAH BM

Mail away Rider 2 from Mask Rider The Next movie.

Kaiyodo Revoltech

Japan shop exclusive Toro.



SIC

Vol 41. So hard to choose a nice piece, so in the end settle for one with a good Rider X, and the other figure with a misaligned flap on the chest. You cannot see it as the picture is poorly taken.

Transformers Movie

I purchased the Hasbro version, only to hear news later that the TakaraTomy version will be slightly different.


Takaratomy's equivalent to Hasbro's Premium BB. Odd that Hasbro has yet to release theirs.

1/6th Accessory

German WWII Stielhandgranate 24 with Case & Pouch Set says the email. I say it looks cool.

Star Wars

And who can get enough of troopers.

Transformers Animated and Exclusives

Scummed to temptation, I broke down and purchased these figures.
Loose animated Blitzwing, Jazz and Soundwave.
Loose Henkei Crystal Convoy (Japan toy show and e-Hobby exclusive) and Classics Nemesis Optimus Prime (SDCC 2008 exclusive).

Review - Mai ZHime 01

The pictures did not turn out well after I downloaded to the PC for editing from the camera. So I will just post some pictures, and may do a full review at a later date.

Packaging





Contents


Stand


Accessories - 3 hands, 2 staff, 1 bow.

Pose

Haul of the Day

Engine OH Sentai

Funny only these candy toys showed up. The first series apparently did not make it locally.

Transformers Movie

Deep Space Starscream (repaint).

Transformers Animated

Leader class (so fast).

And finally got my voyager Megatron.


All thanks to shaun for hooking me up with all great Transformer deals.

Mai ZHime

S$15 a figure, which is heavily (=desperately) marked down. If I remember correctly, it was going for twice during the last crazy toy sale.

Video Recommendation - Iron Man's Adventures

This is so cool. Now only if the live action movies were like this.

Music Recommendation - Jimmy Coup

While searching for the singer of the Ben10 live action movie Race Against Time theme,


I stumble onto Jimmy Coup's Don't Believe a Word song.


But not sure if they are the same singers though.

Haul of the Day

The Great Singapore Sale officially started on May 23, 2008. My damage for the second day of the sale.

Transformers Animated
The department stores are stocking up on these figures after the success of the movie franchise.


Activators are much welcomed series. It has good articulations and great sculpt for a great price.




Wave 1 Deluxe figures.


Wave 1 Voyagers, missing Megatron due to a glitch. :(


Deluxe DVD boxset, exclusive to Takashimaya for now.

Transformers Movie

With 20% discounts and a further 10% after the discounted price, I could not resist.
But I am putting off Jazz, Brawl and Barricade, for now.

Spider-Man Movie Trilogy

Sadly, out of desperation to get the Venom figure, I picked up the last one on the rack that is blind (bad paint chip) in one eye. :(
But the Trilogy series, though are all rehashes, gives other collectors who missed out previously on the other movie series, as well as other Spider-man series like classics.

Incredible Hulk movie

I know I said I will never be picking up this line, but this figure, the most articulated in the series, was decent enough not to resist.

Ben 10

Had been wanting to get this figure since the first time I saw it at Carrefour a few years back, before the cartoon became popular. Heatblast is the most articulated figure of the whole series.

Konami AM Driver

A failed series by Konami in Japan and overseas, that they had to mark down the price so much, and still not selling.
Actually this series is not bad, but not sure why people just do not buy in. The anime was horrible though.