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Zoro Strong Edition Ver. (Megahouse)

Aug 11

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Zoro is an awesome character, definitely one of my all time favorites. I’m buying BOTH Strong Versions of him being released, I don’t care that he’s the only one I’ll have doubles of from this set! The more Zoro the better! Of the two Zoro figures being released I think I’ll end up liking Version 2 the best. Why Version 2? Simply because it’s Zoro in a tuxedo! When I first started collecting figures the Skypia Megahouse Zoro was one of my most wanted figures, I was ecstatic when they had an improved re-release. Although of the One Piece Strong set I’d say Zoro Ver. 2 and Ver. 1 place #2 and #3 on my MUST HAVE list for this set. My #1 desired figure is the Luffy that I’ll be reviewing next time!

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Nami Strong Edition Ver. (Megahouse)

Aug 3

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I haven’t seen the Strong World movie yet and I REALLY can’t wait to see it! I’d love to buy it officially on blu-ray but…we’ll see if it actually gets released that way over here. Even though I’m caught up to Japan in the anime series I had completely dropped all the movies because it became obvious the mangaka (Oda) was not the one crafting them. I had started watching the set and was enjoying myself all the way up until a movie that had an odd art style, and had the characters behaving differently from their original designs. I watched it up until a part where the gang caught a goldfish in a huge net, and when they all caught it they laughed with a lot of joy…they had Zoro laugh in a way that was so uncharacteristic of him that I stopped my movie marathon in disgust right there. Zoro RARELY laughs, and when he does it’s not such an insane cheerful laugh…and definitely doesn’t laugh over something as stupid as catching a giant goldfish. That movie crossed a huge line with me, the Foxy filler episodes were pure gold in comparison with that garbage movie. BUT Strong World is a movie that’s in celebration of One Piece’s 10th Anniversary (it came out last December in theaters) and was written by Oda. So I have high hopes for it.

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Scarlet Witch (Kotobukiya)

Jul 1

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This figure is of Scarlet Witch and she is part of the Marvel Shunya Yamashita Bishoujo Series. This series started out with Rogue who was an immediate pre-order for me, and before I knew it I was collecting most of this series. So far I’ve only passed on two of the series. I passed on the Yelena Belova version of Black Widow and the White version of Phoenix. I like X-Men more than any other Marvel series, but I’m a casual fan. As a child I watched the cartoon tv series whenever I got the chance, in junior high I watched X-Men: Evolution, and I’ve also seen all three movies (I preferred #1 and #2 to the third movie). But my knowledge of X-Men has a lot of gaps, and the Scarlet Witch is one of those characters I don’t know. But despite not knowing her I got her because I liked her appearance and I already had so many of the other figures from the series it seemed a shame to skip one if I liked her appearance. Plus I like how Shunya Yamashita designs heroic looking females.

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Dark Saber Maid (Alter)

Jun 26

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I took these pictures weeks ago, but I kept getting distracted and not actually posting them. About the time this Saber was announced I had actually promised myself to buy less Saber figures, I even actively sold a few of my Saber figures to cut back. At one point I had found myself pre-ordering  every Saber figure that was announced.  A few multiples of my favorite characters is a great thing, but the amount of Saber figures I was acquiring was too much. So because of that I was really torn over ordering her. OK, well that and the fact that she is more expensive than my average figure purchase (due to her being an exclusive). If she hadn’t been exclusive I would have pre-ordered her without hesitation. But in the end I decided that she was worth it, and that I had already done really well resisting a lot of the Saber figures being announced. Although I still own quite a few figures of Saber still :) I can’t resist her completely (*cough* Saber Lily *cough* Triumphant Excalibur).


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Displaying Figures on Bookshelves

Jun 17

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When I first started collecting figures on bookshelves I quickly ran into an issue. Each shelf was deep and could allow for 2-3 rows of figures, but you wouldn’t get a good view of the figures in the back rows. The first time I attempted to fix this situation I bought some cardboard building blocks, spray painted them to match the bookcases, and used them so that my figures were displayed in tiers. This worked well but there was the issue of how much work it took to spray paint each block, arranging the blocks in a way that let me utilize all the space, and each block wasn’t as level/flat as I would have liked.

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