@benhan:
On watanablog, there's a new post about Banpresto Sculptors portfolio. There, maybe for the first time we can know who sculpted what of Banpresto prize figures.
Kengo Iida, as we have known here, is the one responsible for MSP Ace, Luffy, Naruto, DX Brotherhood and GLC series.
Less known but interesting stuffs:
- Keiji Iwakura, the sculptor of the impressive Figure Colosseum SSJ3 Goku & Luffy is also the sculptor of the upcoming Kuji young Whitebeard
- Saito, the sculptor of the OP Figure Colosseum winner, Wiper is the one responsible for Jojo DX Dio, and most of the Kuji Hunter x Hunter figures.
- Yuta Fuke, sculpted the AP favorite OP Figure Colosseum Jango, also has impressive list of figures: GLM Usopp, DX Shichibukai Crocodile, Blackbeard (my most fav Blackbeard figure), Kuji Romance Dawn Robin.
- Some of the sculptors are from PlasticArts Co., Ltd have built impressive portfolio. Yamashita (Kuji Freeza), Yuta Fuke (above), Mitsumasa Otani (GLM 13 Franky, DX Shichibukai Moria, DX Admiral Akainu) also have contributed in OP WCF and Sentinel One Piece HOOK series.
- And this guy is a truly great Dragon Ball sculptor: Hiroyuki Nakazawa. Responsible for: Figure Colosseum Goku (Hawaiian shirt), Lunch (the winner of the second tournament), both releases of Desktop McCoy Goku (I love the bicycle riding one), DB WCF, and the highly rated DB Proovy figure (Goku-Gohan kamehamema action).
They also have video of sculptors discussing a prototype of Asura Wrath figure.
Check it here: http://ameblo.jp/watana-blog/ *please forgive my google translation if you can read Japanese better than Google :p
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Finally, GLC Robin final product is better than the prototype. The same thing happened to GLC Hancock
http://www.prizebp.jp/grmn/images/glcv09d.jpg
WOW, robin become a robot there. Hehehe, its like she just been traumatize from the lost of her mom.
That kinda reminds me, I've been missing out so many banpresto stuff. Might need to catch up really soon.
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@xinyingho:
Got them from Nippon Yasan:
| – | One Piece - Portrait of Pirates NEO-DX Jewelry Bonney | 1 | 6,400¥ | 6,400¥ |
| – | One Piece - Portrait of Pirates NEO-DX Don Quixote Doflamingo | 1 | 7,460¥ | 7,460¥ |
Total shipping (tax incl.): 3,980¥ to France
No weight quote.
I think i never heard about nippon yasan before, but today….i saw that place mentioned twice. Is that a really good place to place an order? i heard they've been cancelling orders for Luke TALES of ABBYS. Quite surprise they manage to fill POOP Megahouse, but not ALTER Tales.
ANyway, congratz xinyingho.