Thursday, September 24, 2009

What grabs you when purchasing a figure?

When I was collecting early on, it was any Mecha figure I could find that would combine or transform. It was hard in the early days to get anything from Japan. I remember getting a DanCougar unit from K B Toys (toy discounter) in the early days. They actually had some of the early transforming robots directly from Japan. Never knew why they did and not Toys R Us.

Later, I got caught up in the Neon Genesis Evangelion addiction and again had most of the earlier figures. All of which I eventually sold many years ago. Then it was the Gundam MS in Pocket series and other Gundam model kits. Most of which were lost in a fire 9 years ago at our apartment.

It has only been recently that I have been trying to narrow down my likes to certain series (i.e. Queen's Blade & Yoko from Gurren Lagann). But there are so many damn nice figures that it makes it hard to keep it to one series. I have managed to keep all my Twin Tandum figures - for now. But now my eyes has caught the attention of the Ikki Tousen Dragon Destiny figures. They are nicely detailed and are available in different versions. ARGH - when will the madness stop!

Ikkitousen GG - 1/8 Sonsaku Hakufu

What grabs you when purchasing a figure? - Would it be the series or the figure itself?

6 comments:

  1. I honestly do end up buying figures from series pretty often, I'm a huge sucker currently for One Piece, Tengen Toppa, Haruhi, and Lucky Star. I'm trying to limit how nay Haruhi figures I get now...I have a lot.

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  2. Can see that your interst slowy shifted from mecha to anime babes :D. somehow i manage to control myself thanks to the price and size of the female figurines are much higher. but usually i will buy female figurine for the cuteness rather than the series :)

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  3. I think its a comb of both, the series character and the figure, but also the final price has something to do. :)

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  4. Aestheticism and whatever I deem to be "beautiful". After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

    Naturally, the completionist in me wants to complete a set. I've been leaning away

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  5. hahaha, that's what happens when you're in an Uncharted game. You forget to complete your sentences, then you submit your comment to be published, haha.

    Anyways, to finish:

    ...I've been leaning away from the need to complete a set especially if I don't like or can't justify the purchase.

    Sorry about that^^

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  6. @lovelyduckie > it is a hard choice sometimes for me to stay with a series.

    @B-Mecha > It is hard to pick between a well constructed Mecha with a hot bodauis babe!

    @phossil > I agree with the pricing. It is hard sometimes as I also take the shipping costs into mind. Sometimes I find a great price, but the shipping is too much.

    @Oneandonlyjem > LOL - to fast on the clicker. I find it hard sometimes to be a completist as well. Especially when they dump variant figures on top of the regulars - ACK!

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