A lot of news from over the weekend to process here today, but we’ll start with this: Hobby Channel posted last night with an updated profile of the Medicos Queen’s Blade trading figures we’ve been covering here recently, including the first color shots of Risty that have made their way online. The Hobby Channel post contains both the regular and alternate color of the three main figures in the set, and updates the details of the release in several significant ways: first is the price point, which is revealed at what may be a new record for trading figures at 1,260 yen per unit. The unit count per box has been raised from six to eight, and release is scheduled for “Spring 2008”. Hopefully this means preorders are on the horizon… (no more)
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Been satisfied with pretty much every Queen’s Blade PVC i’ve got my hands on previously. This new gashapon ste looks very promising.
These babies are looking great, going by the pics the detail is pretty top notch.
Will most deffinately be keeping an eye on them.
I’m gonna wait until we get a Risty pvc…..I love the stacked women in muscles. But I might just do with her bust figure here…..
>>Manning
A bit of a nitpick – these aren’t gashapon (capsule figures), I’m not sure how you’d put 1,260 yen into a capsule vending machine and I believe these are too big to fit in a typical capsule regardless. They’re trading figures that are sold in boxes (either individually or in lots of eight).
The quality does look quite nice, and I hope they can keep it up in mass production… otherwise it’s going to be hard to justify the steep price for a lot of people, I think.
>>Work_Ethic
Given that Megahouse hasn’t announced a Risty PVC yet I think your wait may be a long one… it seems for whatever reason that they passed her by. Maybe Griffon or someone will pick up the slack; I know of at least a few Risty resin kits out there that would make fine PVCs. Here’s hoping.
Oops, nitpick justified, I typed gashapon instead of trading figure XD. It was late (UK Time). Thanks for the put right.
Hope it’s not too long before we get a look at the rest of the set, going by the 3 seen so far, shouldn’t be disappointed.
Very nice prototypes. If they release for the international market, I will definitely pre-order. Else, I’ll stick to megahouse and griffon QB line. :)
Mmmmm… Risty. :3
The steep price and the fact that these are like “bust” figures only, make this a non-purchase for me…Tsk, the figures look good though, but not enough to convince me to shell out 1,260 yen for EACH figure…
Better than nothing. Friggin’ morons never came out with a 1/6 ver. of Risty. I’ll cut my losses with the bust figure.