Yet another roundup of figure news from the past three days, including an uncensored look at Griffon’s new Queen’s Blade Reina PVC, a Revoltech Fraeulein Hatsune Miku hack, the progress of Brilliant Cut’s Spica PVC (successor to Uran), news of a special color version of Yamato’s Dynamite Keikaku Kanu Unchou, a Fauna reissue from Alter, a castoff look at Hobby Japan’s Ninjihara Ink (cosplay ver.), and a Wonder Festival news roundup – the catalog is now on sale!
The Ota-Suke blog has a look up at Griffon’s upcoming Queen’s Blade Reina hybrid figure, in all her uncensored castoff glory. She retails in April at 16,590 yen retail and 1/6 scale, and is a “media mix” of painted resin, cold cast and PVC parts.
Akiba Blog posted about a Revoltech Fraeulein Hatsune Miku hack the other day. Apparently it’s the work of a Toranoana employee, and helped generate some nice sales for the Tousaka Rin action figure [PA] that’ it’s based off of. I wonder if Crypton would be amenable to an actual Fraeulein Miku in the future; whoever gets the action figure rights to her will definitely be looking at money in the bank.
Work on 5-CARAT’s (Brilliant Cut) Spica PVC continues! He posted on the 12th with a look at the resin prototype of the 1/6 scale PVC version currently in production. The figure is scheduled to go on sale this spring exclusively from Lashinbang, who formerly released 5-CARAT’s Uran PVC as well.
Yamato updated their website today with the news that an alternate color version of their Dynamite Keikaku Kanu Unchou PVC is currently in production, and is scheduled to retail in April at 13,440 yen (the same price as the original).
Alter updated today as well with the news that they’ll be reissuing their Fauna PVC from Frontwing eroge Megachu!. The reissue will be coming in June, at the original price of 5,800 yen.
Moeyo has a preview up of the Hobby Japan mail order limited Nijihara Ink (cosplay ver.) from Queen’s Gate / Moetan! The cast off is censored, as usual. While currently only available via preorder from Hobby Japan, if precedent holds we can expect Play-Asia to carry her as well.
The Wonder Festival 2008 Winter event catalog is now on sale! The catalog contains a list of all of the garage kit dealers, retail vendors and industry groups present at the event along with descriptions of their products and a lengthy section of advertisements at the back that are often more useful than the official product descriptions. at 2,000 yen It also serves as the entry ticket to the event (you hold the catalog up in the air so event staff can see it as you enter).
Several makers have their Wonder Festival special pages up:
Gigapulse is bringing an event-limited version of their Nanase Ren kit, Cafe Reo is bringing a repaint of their moe wrestling girls, Griffon has a bunch of resin kits and SnapP’s has a Saber.
countdown to
10 days!
Fauna reissue, yay!
Hmmmmmm- I like the re-paint of the Kanu, don’t know if I had a choice which one I would get….
Nijihara Ink must come into PlayAsia….NOW!!
Like right now!!
NOWNOWNOWNOWNOWNOW!!!
Wow, the Kanu repaint looks much better than the original. I don’t follow the manga but just as a figure itself its really nice. Maybe if the price was lower I’d get it.
Woah, the breasts of the Queen’s Blade Reina hybrid figure seems to be those bouncy type like Sanae…. squeezable one… too bad the price is juz too ex… if not.. probably may consider to buy…
The Wonder Festival 2008 Winter event catalog is now on sale… too bad it is not a good news for those living outside Japan…
Can’t wait for the WF scoop! I actually rather fancy the Kanu recolour, hmm. Where on earth would I put such a monstrosity though (same reason I passed on the Freeing bunny suit Yuki) @_@
p.s. play-asia is having a Chinese New Year sale, lots of bargains in the figure discount section. Some really good deals like $20 off the Max Fac Mai, I’m picking up a couple of items myself ^^
>>byaku-chan
Thanks for the heads up on the Play-Asia sale, I’ve taken the liberty of making an affiliate link to the same sale myself:
Play-Asia bargain figures
And speaking of Max Factory’s Mai, keep an eye out for a review of Daiki Kougyou’s Mai PVC coming online very soon… :3
wow those queen’s blade kits are looking awesome. Hope they make it over to the coldcast/hybrid/whatever completed figures.
Oh man… that is definitely going to be a feast for the eyes. The only thing that i will be lack of is…. $$ That’s why i have to choose wisely T_T
>> Shingo
Thanks again for the scoop. 8)
>> suneo
I believe those QB figures aren’t kits, but completed products (See the Reina figure). Griffon is probably using WHF to sell some of them early to gauge their popularity. Definitely a buy for me for all 3 figures
And as some has commented on Cattleya’s proportions and how it’s a turn off, the same can be said for QG Ink in my case. Thanks but I will pass.
Hmm, a recolored Kanu from Yamato. How surprising…NOT. Still, I guess I will get 1 since it is a Cobra-Kai sculpt. 8)
Nice Spica. Too bad it’s exclusive to a webshop that doesn’t ship overseas. Another pass for me. Hopefully, Shingo will pick her up for a review though. 8)
And I will stick to MaxFactory’s castoffable Fauna. Another pass for Alter’s version for me.
To clarify: the resin kits coming from Griffon/R-Line at Wonder Festival are definitely unpainted, unassembled kits. There have been no announcements of finished versions scheduled for production (yet, at least). The descriptions clearly say “resin cast kit”, and the price is too low relative to similar pre-painted hybrids.