A roundup of the more pertinent figure news from the past day and a half, including three new Megahouse preorders, Toy’sworks’ Trigger Heart Exelica, a roundup of news from yesterday’s Figure Maker Union Exhibition including a new Sonic Diver announcement from FREEing and photography allowed of Goodsmile’s Hayase Mitsuki, a newly announced Little Busters Kamikita Komari from Toy’sworks, pictures of two new Sega Prize Kasumi and Ayane figures illustrated by Yamashita Shunya, and job openings at FREEing.
Megahouse Excellent Model CORE Queen’s Blade R2 Steel Princess Yuumil (2P color ver.)
- Source: Queen’s Blade
- Release: June 2008
- Scale: 1/8
- Sculptor: Kibayashi Norio
- Price: 5,250 yen
- Notes: original design by Mibu Natsuki
Megahouse Excellent Model CORE Queen’s Blade R2 Underworld Temptress Airi (2P color ver.)
- Source: Queen’s Blade
- Release: June 2008
- Scale: 1/8
- Sculptor: Kibayashi Norio
- Price: 5,250 yen
- Notes: original design by Takamura Kazuhiro
Megahouse Excellent Model MILD One Piece Series CB-1 (2) Niko Robin
- Source: One Piece
- Release: mid-June 2008
- Scale: 1/8 (12 cm tall)
- Sculptor:
- Price: 1,890 yen
- Notes: a spinoff of Megahouse’s Portrait of Pirates line that depicts the One Piece characters when they were children
Toy’sworks’ Trigger Heart Exelica
- Source: Trigger Heart Exelica
- Release: late June 2008
- Scale: 1/8 (28 cm tall, base included)
- Sculptor:
- Price: 9,980 yen
- Notes: parts configuration alterable
March 5th Akihabara Figure Maker’s Union Exhibition
- FREEing displayed a new Sonic Diver Raijin / Ichijou Eika action figure set from Sky Girls, the third following their Reijin and recently announced Fujin kits
- Goodsmile allowed photography of their Hayase Mitsuki (previously scooped at Wonder Festival)
- Art Storm displayed a couple of Hoshiful characters
- Akiba Hobby summarizes the event
Toy’sworks has officially announced the production of a Kamikita Komari PVC from Little Busters!. The third in Toy’sworks’ Little Busters series, she’s due out in July at 1/8 scale (~10 cm tall) and 6,800 yen retail. We’ll be watching for preorders, which should be coming online soon.
Way late to the scoop on this one, but back on March 3rd SbebiWan pointed out in comments to Mainichi Junk that HLJ had added illustrations to their listings for the new Yamashita Shunya designed Dead or Alive Beach ver. Kasumi and Ayane Sega Prize figures due out this September. At the bargain price of 1,500 yen I think these will be automatic preorders for a lot of people, especially after seeing the quality of the recently released Kasumi set (need to get a review of those out ASAP).
Finally, according to this posting on Japanese job recruitment website Rikunabi, FREEing is currently hiring! If you know Japanese, live in Japan, can design, plan, or otherwise shepherd figure projects from conception to completion, or if you can manage production facilities in China, they want you. I wonder if the desire to purchase 1/4 scale figures counts as a qualification…
I tell you, re-releases of Yumil and Airi would be nice, not wasting time with unattractive alternate colour figures. But the Nico Robin is sweet. ^^
The Hayase Mitsuki is nice, but will wait for official details on sale pages.
As for the Sega stuff, I don’t go on pictures of concepts, but on the final product. I don’t like Sega Prize stuff much anymore, so I’d need to see the final product to make a decision.
Lastly, can’t qualify for a job at FREEing, sadly. If they wanted a graphic designer or concept artist, I’d be happy to apply – but I live in Australia! ;_;
Cool to see the nekomimi for Cyrille.
http://akibahobby-b.sakura.ne.jp/image/20080305/t056.html
Good to see that Happinet’s Kanu will be a Sugar Mint Complex line item. If they can make her at least as good as their Val from UFO Valkyrie then this one really is a no-brainer. The whole SMC line is not all stellar, but part of that is the sculpts, and the sculpt of the Kanu is not an issue.
http://akibahobby-b.sakura.ne.jp/image/20080305/t073.html
Once I’m sure I’ve found the best price I’m undoubtedly preordering the DOA/Shunya Beach UFO toys.
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Thank you for the link ;)
i have not seen that many KimiNozo figures, and I really love the series, so this sweet Mitsuki will most likely make her way into my collection :D
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I agree with Deibi. What’s up with the recent phenomena of releasing dull coloured re-issues? It feels as if all the Japanese companies are just using up whatever paint that is left in their China factories. 8/
As for the bikini-clad Shunya Kasumi and Ayane, I pre-ordered based on the quality of the previous release. Definitely a bargain, especially considering it’s 1/8 scale. (Wave will sell you 1/10 scale stuff at 3x the price) 8)
The Mitsuki PVC looks lovely. Hobby Search still has preorders open for the Sega Kasumi and Ayane set at a very reasonable price, preordered last week since I was happy with the quality of the earlier Kasumi set.
I had already seen the Kasumi pre-order over at HLJ. Also, the Ciel Sega figure looks nice. It’s to come out about the same time.
Preordered Ayane and Kasumi, thanks for the prompt notice :D