Review: Kotobukiya Lucy

Something strange in the neighbourhood. I was reading up the Bishoujo line of figures and I really had no idea they had a new ghostbusters character. I saw the actual box a couple of times in stores and I was thinking that it could be an action figure taken after one of the 4 usual guys. Honestly I didn't pay much attention to it, until a few days later they put her up on display.

Lucy comes with all the classic ghostbusters gadgets. Here you can see she has the ecto goggles around her neck. Put them on and you're able to see ghosts, it's that easy. How to put them on? Pull her head out, hang it around her neck, then put her head back, it's that easy.

The proton wand with many many switches to press. Just aim, lock, fire and electricity will come flying out.

The wand is attached to a cable which links to the proton pack behind her back to supply the energy to zap those ghosts. All the good memories, let's get back to reality. The cable seems like it's made of PVC, so that means probably it'll break. Her jacket's unzipped halfway to expose her black tube bra and 2 full height mountains. Why don't they just make her jacket unzip all the way?

The proton pack looks exactly like the real thing I see in the movies. I can't believe how they managed to get all those details and colors right. It's so old school with all the IDE cables.

The ghostbusters logo look so cool.

Apart from all the cool looking gadgets, she also has a pair of cool looking pants, literally cool being ripped and extra exposed surface for ventilation. Now here comes the question. How come her pants are ripped but her top remains scratchless?

Bright pink thong. It's kinda refreshing to suddenly see a bright color. For me, it's just refreshing to see thongs.

Pretty cute butt. Can someone explain to me how that piece of her pants, not being pulled up by anything, be able to defy gravity? Something strange and it don't look good.

We can see the front inner thighs being exposed, so does the back portion. The remaining portion of the pants form the shape of an underwear where there's some nice lace details.

Her boots are great. Military combat boots, reminds me of my army days.

The base has a metallic-finished ghostbusters logo manhole cover on a concrete setting accompanied by the ghost trap. All those fantastic job on the base already got me sucked in without the ghost trap opening.

Well, this figure is full of mysteries and questions waiting to be answered. Who you gonna call? Overall she's worth getting if you're looking for a hot babe in a ghostbusting outfit. That's definitely no questions asked.

Review: Hobby Japan Cham Cham

Cham Cham was quite a rare find for me. The pre-order didn't last long enough till I found out she's actually from one of the Queen's Gate. She was hiding at one corner of a local toy store and happens to be the last piece. Instant grab. The box was slightly damaged, but who cares, it gave me more reasons to open her up.

First of all, that face with cat ears sounds out moe to every loli out there. Hard to think that she's from Queen's Gate, I was expecting someone a little bigger. Bigger at you-know-where.

Her proportion fits the aspect of an anime girl with her head usually slightly bigger than her body, anything neck down seems okay with me. The colors of her jungle outfit is surprisingly gentle to the eyes with all that striking yellow and brown stripes.

Something interesting is her hair tie which looks like a marble, feels like a marble, hopefully she doesn't lose her marble.

Lioness hair style in jungle green. Wow wow wee.

Claw gloves. Scratchy scratchy.

Humongous bomberang which has the same color theme like her outfit.

Being cute is not the only thing Cham Cham can do, there's also an element of sexy. Look at that leg. If you've been following my reviews so far, you can tell I'm a leg guy.

The sole of her shoe has some nice details with the paw print.

Would you look at that. This is my favorite part. That's one hella of pose. Even though she might look like it, but she's actually not castoffable.

You're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off you.

White round base with Queen's Gate on it. Her right foot's screwed on, so she's very stable. Screwed on, yeah, I like the sound of that.

Her pose is great, the colors are nice and she's not exaggerating with all the fanciful stuffs. She's made of decent quality although not really the best out there. I may have to add that she's not easily available in the market, and even if she is, she's not gonna be cheap.

Review: Megahouse Cattleya

Voted the Hottest Mum of Queen's Blade, Cattleya. She has this perfect image of a housewife, with black hair in a ponytail and an apron-like outfit. This figure comes with several designs of glasses, so you get to choose which one you like the most and put it on for her but I prefer mine without them. Her body has that chubby built, but her face and arms are kind of thin.

Her apron's in a pink and purple combination. It's completely glossy for the purple portion and normal finish for the pink parts.

I kind of like the pink flower on her hair. It's so mummy.

Epic watermelons. It's definitely going to put a strain on her back. They're so mega.

The details of her back muscles are so lifelike with all the shadings. Great job there. A cute tiny ribbon at the back of her apron. Look at the size of those cheeks.

Giant watermelons comes with giant sword. Funny that the sword name is Giant Killer, the same name I would give her watermelons. The sculpting of the hilt looks great. Like all other Megahouse Queen's Blade figures, they always pay attention down to the smallest details of their weapons.

A huge two handed sword. Comparable with Berserk's Dragonslayer. A slab of metal for most sword wielders, but a deadly and powerful weapon for those trained.

The sword itself is as tall as Cattleya excluding the length of the handle. Her thighs are thick and sturdy, considering that she has to wield the sword and those extra weights on her chest.

Just those kind of normal high cut boots, ranger-style. The base is silver in color and once again, the Queen's Blade in japanese.

One of the main accessories that Cattleya comes with is her son. Yes, Rana's a he and he's equipped with a small elephant.

I always like to get the limited version of Queen's Blade figure, but this was a different case for Cattleya. The limited version only comes with a javelin, so in other to add Rana to the collection, you will have to get the normal version instead.

A smaller similiar base but with no Queen's Blade on it. Well, he's not a Queen, so that makes sense.

Megahouse did an awesome job with Cattleya. She comes with special items like her glasses, sword and her cute son. She's worth it.

Sales: Megahouse Figures

Well, a friend of mine has given up his collection and here they are.

All of the Queen's Blade figures by Megahouse. I went to his place and they were already back into their boxes. The figures are space taking with all their big weapons, so after displaying it for a few days, he placed them back to make room for other figures instead.

The qualities are great, and it's by Megahouse. So you could expect there's some standard over here.

You can find them in my Products page and the asking price. I have these in MISB condition from my own collection, so pick your choice.

Review: Kotobukiya Maxima

I was taken by surprise. Right after I did the review on Kaguya, it sort of left an impression on me that Maxima's going to be somewhat or rather similiar with the paintjob and the lack of certain details. But Maxima's quite a flawless figure, being from the same series and company.

She comes with accessories like her katana and a thin piece of card. The card is completely held on by only friction between her two fingers. The card is small but you can see some really nice details over here.

  

Just a normal long ribbon tying her hair in a pony tail manner. Look, there's earrings too.

Her dress is all black with white printings. It feels like a smooth leather-like texture, not to mention the tribal printings are astonishing. The criss cross front adds some interesting factor to her dress. She's wearing a white lace short dress underneath which is removable if you like. Her pantsu has a very interesting cut-out, which once again I'm not showing. Very well designed.

Her shoulders are covered by the same material as her dress which I don't find covering anything else. It's to show off 2 perfect circles from all sorts of angle. The laces alongside her dress looks great.

Nobody can get enough of that bare back.

The tip of her dress are multiple sharp points with a sword and wings on every one of them, crusader style.

Metallic silver hilt. To put the sword on, you just have to separate the tip and the handle. Nice. On her sword guard you can see a 6-pointed star on it and the blade coming out from the center of it.

The blade of her katana sure is long. On the top of the blade, I could see a cut out nip. At least they could do some sanding there.

Again with the big ribbon on waist concept. Her hair ribbon comes all the way down to her dress with heart-shaped ends.

Nice matching boots. Although there's no details of the ankles as well, but boots are meant to cover the entire feet to the mid shin area, so it's logical that I can't see any ankles here. Convinced?

The same base as Kaguya. Same stage.

Honestly, Maxima is quite a well done figure considering it's produced by Kotobukiya. Accessories to a figure is always a plus point. The paintjob definitely is better for Maxima. I have no problems recommending her.