I feel the same.. feels like im gonna spend some money on items that im missing.. like some WCF and old POP`s.
How is this bad? I'd say, go for the characters, not the "series".
I feel the same.. feels like im gonna spend some money on items that im missing.. like some WCF and old POP`s.
How is this bad? I'd say, go for the characters, not the "series".
Did anyone buy the new attack motions10 VS 10 million? I'd take a Shirahoshi and or Franky. If anyone has doubles or whatever.
I did, I will def. have a spare Franky and possibly Shirahoshi as well. I'll let you know when it arrives if you're interested!
Some banpresto, one piece prize items for march 2013:
grandline lady movie z vol.1
chopper thing
How is this bad? I'd say, go for the characters, not the "series".
The FAZ that i was intresseted in never released… So ive stopped ordering FAZ. And i dont really think i want movie Z P.O.P... waste of money and (space for me). If they do as they did with Strong World we gonna get alot of P.O.P. Maybe...maybe.. il get one or 2 if they are great.
Well, in all honesty I hope it will be more like Oda's art, BB himself is a monster not comparable on how he should look…
I do like the Shilliew a lot though, I like the darker figures One Piece have, simply because they are more accurate pirates ;)
I kinda fail to see what you're saying in the first line, but ok… XD;
And lol, Shiliew looks nothing like pirates though, he looks like a reich commander...
And damn, Banpresto takes their sweet time as usual with releases :( I don't even want to imagine when vol.2 of GLL Z will see the light of day...
@Al!naJames:
And damn, Banpresto takes their sweet time as usual with releases :( I don't even want to imagine when vol.2 of GLL Z will see the light of day…
GLL vol 1: November 2011 (or was it December?) vol 2: November 2012
GLL Z 1: March 2013. Vol 2: 2014? (dunno who they would even do in part 2 aside from Robin. Another Nami?
@Al!naJames:
I kinda fail to see what you're saying in the first line, but ok… XD
That what happens when I watch your cosplay photo's on DA AND try to post here.
What I was trying to say is, I hope MegaHouse will make the sculpters sculpt more like Oda's art. The MegaHouse BB is just based on nothing and yes the Shiliew is way of to :(
At least banpresto ones are quality, unlike those rushed figuarts ones :-p
@Al!naJames:
I kinda fail to see what you're saying in the first line, but ok… XD;
And lol, Shiliew looks nothing like pirates though, he looks like a reich commander...And damn, Banpresto takes their sweet time as usual with releases :( I don't even want to imagine when vol.2 of GLL Z will see the light of day...
More like Street Fighter Bison…
More like Street Fighter Bison…
Well, I still like it, but I also like SF a lot.
Cheers,
Wow those two GLL Z look awesome!! Not sure who they are but I like their design a lot! I am all up for POP's Z line!! I hate most of the mugiwara old neo and most of the neo's in general so that money will be used for DX and Z!
What I was trying to say is, I hope MegaHouse will make the sculpters sculpt more like Oda's art. The MegaHouse BB is just based on nothing and yes the Shiliew is way of to :(
I can't say I'm 100% satisfied with him until I have him in my hands, but so far Shilliew is looking perfect to me! He's really good, the pose, the colours, everything. Hell, I even have a close-up photograph of his face set as my iPhone background XD That says alot considering I change it like every once in 2 years or so. I really hope he's going up for pre-order soon with all the fancy official pictures I think they did a great job on him all over, maybe my vision is a bit blurred by the fact they release him since I still think it's surreal, but probably not, I'm usually very picky when it comes to figures.
But yeah, Blackbeard's POP is horrible :/ It's not even about following Oda's style, Megahouse doesn't do well with that in general, there's just so many mistakes in his design & proportions and he just looks bad :/
More like Street Fighter Bison…
I think Bizon wasn't the first and wasn't the last character designed that way, but yeah, obviously Shiliew shares appearance with him.
And that only makes it more interesting to see Shiliew post-timeskip! Would be cool if he dressed up radically different, although I can't really imagine what would work, but I'm sure Oda can come up with a nice outfit idea.
Wow those two GLL Z look awesome!! Not sure who they are but I like their design a lot!
It's Nami and Ain?..
Am I the only person who can't see Z POPs happening? They are still not done releasing the Sailing Again set & with other lines producing them in such quantities… I could imagine Megahouse making Luffy and Nami, for example, maybe in the limited line, but not the entire crew.
^I think I'm repeating myself XD
@Al!naJames:
Am I the only person who can't see Z POPs happening? They are still not done releasing the Sailing Again set & with other lines producing them in such quantities… I could imagine Megahouse making Luffy and Nami, for example, maybe in the limited line, but not the entire crew.
^I think I'm repeating myself XD
Megahouse did 2 shitty version of Gintama's Gintoki so i'm pretty sure they will make the crew in Z form, because it's MH!
Megahouse did 2 shitty version of Gintama's Gintoki so i'm pretty sure they will make the crew in Z form, because it's MH!
They will and the mass will buy it.
@Al!naJames:
I can't say I'm 100% satisfied with him until I have him in my hands, but so far Shilliew is looking perfect to me! He's really good, the pose, the colours, everything. Hell, I even have a close-up photograph of his face set as my iPhone background XD That says alot considering I change it like every once in 2 years or so. I really hope he's going up for pre-order soon with all the fancy official pictures I think they did a great job on him all over, maybe my vision is a bit blurred by the fact they release him since I still think it's surreal, but probably not, I'm usually very picky when it comes to figure
Pretty big fan oft Shiliew as well. Love hat nazi-like uniform in him. (Don't judge me, I just have a thing for such uniforms applied to japanese manga characters.)
Overall Im happy about how he looks. Better than most POPs. Still I think he is abit to slim. I feel like he sould have a body similar To Akainus and overall just wider/fatter.
Edit: Also, I don't seem to have any luck with recent POPs. How the heck did you guys manage to apply the bigger Slingshot to Usopps both hand? I can't make him to hold that ball thingie. Sling is simply to short.
@Al!naJames:
I could imagine Megahouse making Luffy and Nami, for example, maybe in the limited line, but not the entire crew.
I could definitely see that 70's rainbow bikini Nami being made.
GLL vol 1: November 2011 (or was it December?) vol 2: November 2012
GLL Z 1: March 2013. Vol 2: 2014? (dunno who they would even do in part 2 aside from Robin. Another Nami?
Time for them to do pre TS Nami, Robin, Vivi
Maybe Perhona and TS Tashigi will see a release too.
November is 30th Banpresto Fair
Let's see what they can show us
Probably they whole crew in Z.
@Anyone with these nami figures: GLL, romance dawn and scultures. Which looks the best? Planning to get only one for my small collection
@Anyone with these nami figures: GLL, romance dawn and scultures. Which looks the best? Planning to get only one for my small collection
Ouch, out of those 3…. Agh,
I'd say GLL.
The size is decent and she's actually not very bad. I like her.
Romance Dawn is a huge let down, don't get it. Super small and skinny, not very good as an overall figure
SCultures was alright, but the cheap plastic quality gives Nami an almost pasty "sunburnt" look and feel. SCultures would probably be the cheapest right now, so get that if you want, but I'd personally get GLL.
Yeah it's kinda difficult choice. Since you mentioned Scultures I guess you aren't so bothered about it being post-TS. Personally I would go with one of the Snap Girl Nami figures. That was a pretty decent line (which was unfortunately dropped. Stupid Banpresto) and there's a choice of three different Nami for you and these days you can likley get Robin or Vivi with her for little more than you would pay for a single of one of those others.
But out of your list. Quality wise GLL seems to be best but I didnt really like that one. Only one I did keep was Romance Dawn. And even that is kinda meh.
Ouch, out of those 3…. Agh,
I'd say GLL.
The size is decent and she's actually not very bad. I like her.
Romance Dawn is a huge let down, don't get it. Super small and skinny, not very good as an overall figure
SCultures was alright, but the cheap plastic quality gives Nami an almost pasty "sunburnt" look and feel. SCultures would probably be the cheapest right now, so get that if you want, but I'd personally get GLL.
Yeah it's kinda difficult choice. Since you mentioned Scultures I guess you aren't so bothered about it being post-TS. Personally I would go with one of the Snap Girl Nami figures. That was a pretty decent line (which was unfortunately dropped. Stupid Banpresto) and there's a choice of three different Nami for you and these days you can likley get Robin or Vivi with her for little more than you would pay for a single of one of those others.
But out of your list. Quality wise GLL seems to be best but I didnt really like that one. Only one I did keep was Romance Dawn. And even that is kinda meh.
Yea on low budget hence only these choices. Been looking for GLL but so far only in sets or i think i saw somewhere selling for bout $30. Just saw the romance dawn for 1500¥ so was considering her. I prefer her in like a 'casual' outfit although the snap western one looks nice. How's the snap quality and size compared to GLL?
Snap one isn't that great.
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The one with Vivi isn't that bad:
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GLL is better in terms of quality but only by a small margin, roughly the same size though.
The Snap Vol 3 Robin was really good
If you like the snap, I'd go with the Alabasta one
@Al!naJames:
Well, we've seen 2 out of 3 Admirals via Z now, Akainu may be in too I guess, so may see all 3 actually.
I think characters who didn't do much in these 2 years (like Jinbe or Kizaru, for example) are understandable not to have changed much, but the guys who had a shift in power (like Smoker & Tashigi, or obviously BB & crew) deserve some new looks! I hope that if Oda doesn't change anything about their faces/haircuts then at least they all will get new outfits, you can't possibly imagine Shiliew still being in his Impel Down uniform 2 years after, can you…
I have to admit I do kinda like Aokiji's new look, particulary the bad ass scar he now has on his neck from his battle with Akainu. I think depending on his influence in the story and whether he becomes an ally to the strawhats I might be interested in a POP SA version of him.
Kizaru on the other hand, like you said, hasn't changed at all that much other than sporting a blue turtleneck sweater now instead of his shirt and tie. I doubt MH would bother with an SA POP version of him.
Oh and TS Akainu revealed:
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HAHAHAHA
@raithos
Now that you mentioned and from the pics in mfc the alabasta one looks the best. Thanks! I think i know which to get now.and maybe that robin some time later
@kanji
Aokiji's cool shades complements his power. Oda is quite up to date in fashion round shades are in recently
They will and the mass will buy it.
oh yeah they will, i will buy the Zoro's and may be Robin if they looks good!
i want them actually lol
oh yeah they will.
Not convinced that because they are the main cast people will buy them. Remember SW? Sanji, Brook, Franky and Zoro v.2 were on the shelves for months. Nami and Chopper v.2 took longer to sell too. We barely have the crew out in SA. I seriously doubt people are gonna run to get more when they've just put money down for them. I could see them doing releases of the ones they know can sell easily. Like the girls, Zoro, Luffy and Chopper.
Not convinced that because they are the main cast people will buy them. Remember SW? Sanji, Brook, Franky and Zoro v.2 were on the shelves for months. Nami and Chopper v.2 took longer to sell too. We barely have the crew out in SA. I seriously doubt people are gonna run to get more when they've just put money down for them. I could see them doing releases of the ones they know can sell easily. Like the girls, Zoro, Luffy and Chopper.
no matter what POP will sell, even if they stay on shelves they will get sold, people will buy them because they are POP. look kid he is insanely huge and pricey this didn't prevent from being ordered, even arlong is on SALE now on otacute!
but people will still get them because of various reason.
Having items on shelves doesn't help. If they're flying off shelves then great! But if they're on there for weeks/months it can cause stockists to question whether or not the line is worth continuing to stock. Also stops the reissues and bumps up prices for newbie collectors.
Edit: Also, I don't seem to have any luck with recent POPs. How the heck did you guys manage to apply the bigger Slingshot to Usopps both hand? I can't make him to hold that ball thingie. Sling is simply to short.
Hmm, I had a similar problem, one of the 'strings' kept popping out. Then I realized you can rotate Usopp's wrists. Maybe try that and see if you can get the angle just right for the strings to be straight and for him to be holding the ball part?
By the way, good luck to anyone who is suffering from hurricane Sandy (especially NYC!). Came through where I am yesterday and is still pounding parts of the USA.
Yeah one of the strings was snapped on my Usopp's slingshot in box. Between that, Chopper's leg coming off and Robin's base broken in box I aint been too pleased with Megahouse's quality recently
Well I think I was lucky with Usopp then, mine was fairly easy to put the slingshot on. No strings snaped, everything went nice.
Brook for the other hand come with a broken peg in his base, and broken glass. =(
So I got like 6 parcels at the post office today and all 6 of them were SMASHED :/
It happens from time to time but this is the first time I've seen so much destruction done alltogether.
I don't really know what happened, judging by the extra tape it happened back at customs… One of the figures for my friend looks ok on the outside, but I can see broken parts of her costume inside the box :/ Hopefully they can be glued back without any visible damage.
The other package was a gift from a friend which had in some chocolate boxes and all the chocolate candy looks more like a chocolate blend now.
But the worst case happend with this beautiful chess Nami I finally recieved! I am still finding it hard to belive the figure itself is OK and wasn't turned into dust: it's not very visible on the pictures below, but the protecting box, figure's original box and even the protective plastic inside - all were CRUSHED to the max.
I also finally got my SA Robin - she's so-o-o-o huge! I understand her legs being so long, but her feet look ridiculesly long. I really hate how her hair is done, especially on the front. And even though she has a dynamic (sort of) pose it looks unnatural with her leaning back so much and all. My least favorite Robin of the 3, definitely.
Having items on shelves doesn't help. If they're flying off shelves then great! But if they're on there for weeks/months it can cause stockists to question whether or not the line is worth continuing to stock. Also stops the reissues and bumps up prices for newbie collectors.
Well, considering that MegaHouse is making the quality better and better (well most of the time) considering people love collecting a small line and the SW they will get them. Perhaps they will not be the fast sell outs some POPs are, but they will be sold nontheless.
It also depends on their release date ofcourse (due to other cool figures comming up) and if MH decides to do some extra who not really fit in the line (like the SW figures).
Oh and once again, great review Al!naJames!
Just got my 2/3 batch.
Last week i got WCF vol 22,23,24,25, 27 and MM.
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Today i got this.
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Last batch from HLJ is the half price Luffy DPCF and Shirahoshi Chibi… cute as hell.
Not convinced that because they are the main cast people will buy them. Remember SW? Sanji, Brook, Franky and Zoro v.2 were on the shelves for months. Nami and Chopper v.2 took longer to sell too. We barely have the crew out in SA. I seriously doubt people are gonna run to get more when they've just put money down for them. I could see them doing releases of the ones they know can sell easily. Like the girls, Zoro, Luffy and Chopper.
MH will undoubtedly milk Z. If you include the Lawson and Mangart Beams Limited’s we effectively had 2 Luffy’s, 3 Nami’s, 3 Zoro’s and 4 Choppers POP’s for Strong World.
Let’s also not forget they even produced a SW figure of Shanks and Ace, which were solely based on promotional art as neither appeared in the film.
Whilst I’d admit that the latter didn’t sell as well as MH may have hoped, You could constitute this to the fact that we’d had a NEO-DX, Dome Tour, Lawson Ed, 711, 1.5 repaint released/announced so the market was kinda flooded with POP Ace’s at the time of it’s release.
I’ll accept we may not see as many alternates, Limited’s, sub-characters released this time around, but we are sure to get at least one iteration for each crew member next year.
I personally will be passing, although Nami and Robins designs do look pretty good. Luffy, Zoro & Sanji seem a bit plain, Usopp, Franky & Brook are a little OTT (Although I like Usopps shark hat) and Chopper is……well just Chopper. Had enough of him in brain point now.
In other news, no announcement on MH’s twitter today. :sad: hopefully we’ll hear something this week and pre-orders aren’t pushed back to 14th or even worse, not happening this month. :sad:
Also in manga spoiler news:
! So much for Monet being an integaral part to the PH arc. She was cut up like fodder. I guess this is expected given how much stronger the SH have become, probably won't see any really powerful enimies until they enter the NW proper.
Anyway I digress, I sincerely hope Monet recovers and we see her again, still would like a POP to be made but worried she didn't get enough screen time. :sad:
New POP preorder in November.
http://tonytonychopper.xxxblog.jp/archives/6713699.html
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エクセレントモデル Portrait.Of.PiratesワンピースNEO-DX 雨のシリュウ
エクセレントモデルLIMITED Portrait.Of.PiratesワンピースNEO-EX ボア・ハンコック Ver.BLUE11月8日 解禁
エクセレントモデル Portrait.Of.PiratesワンピースNEO-EX “黒ひげ”マーシャル・D・ティーチ Ver.1.5
7th November
Shiliew Neo-DX POP
Boa Hancock Ver. Blue Neo-EX POP
8th November
Marshall D. Teach "Kurohige" Ver. 1.5 Neo-EX POP
Lol. We were just saying about a blue Hancock. XD If she's quite a bit different then awesome. If she's just a lazy repaint I don't care.
Megahobby didn't tweet about it…werid
New POP preorder in November.
http://tonytonychopper.xxxblog.jp/archives/6713699.html
7th November
Shiliew Neo-DX POP
Boa Hancock Ver. Blue Neo-EX POP8th November
Marshall D. Teach "Kurohige" Ver. 1.5 Neo-EX POP
Horray, pre-orders are next week!!
Blue Hancock, 1.5 Blackbeard!! What the hell Megahouse, I can't even predict what you're doing now!!
I suspect Hancock is supposed to be a Time Skip version, wow. Would have much prefered a Marineford purple battle dress one, like Robin said, unless it's a new sculpt I may have to pass.
What I don't get is a new BlackBeard!! Why not Shanks!! Come on MH, I know the first one had a poor head sculpt, but do you seriously expect me to pay 8,000 yen again for another version resculpted!! That's just crazy!! Better be more to it than that, a dynamic battle pose at least.
Also both are EX, what does that mean?! Only other EX's we've had recently are Aokiji's coat and Ver.0 Garp. Must just be the new standard for limited versions of DX sculpts.
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1Up - Before I start shopping around, are you going to be opening pre-orders for all of these 3?
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Megahobby didn't tweet about it…werid
Indeed, but it seems to be here on the megahobby news page:
New POP preorder in November.
http://tonytonychopper.xxxblog.jp/archives/6713699.html
7th November
Shiliew Neo-DX POP
Boa Hancock Ver. Blue Neo-EX POP8th November
Marshall D. Teach "Kurohige" Ver. 1.5 Neo-EX POP
I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY DID THIS!!!!!!
they are so lazy those bastards that they just shiny repaints teach and make a blue version of hancock LOL
GO TO F*%$! MEGAHOUSE
you better make a new hancock with a different pose or i'll don't even bother with you
AND WE STILL WAIT FOR FRANKY LOL
I'm happy we are getting a 1.5 version of Kuro!!! Raithos Kurohige will be avaible everywhere or it will be like Garp 0??
I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY DID THIS!!!!!!
they are so lazy those bastards that they just shiny repaints teach and make a blue version of hancock LOL
GO TO F*%$! MEGAHOUSE
you better make a new hancock with a different pose or i'll don't even bother with you
AND WE STILL WAIT FOR FRANKY LOL
I don't think Teach will have a shiny repaint. Just a resculpted face like the 1.5 Ace and 1.5 Lucci and possibly some additional accessories, maybe some Yami-Yami effects. Lucci 1.5 got a rescuplted Hattori and a couple of additional hands, so it's not inconceivable that we'll see the same here.
It's obvious that MH were toying with the idea of a re-release, but then dropped it in favour of a 1.5 in the hope that it would be purchased by new collectors, but also those who already own the previous release. Very sneaky, but don't know why they haven't done that with Shanks yet.
I know a lot of people took issue with Blackbeard POP's face not being faithful to Oda's art, but I really don't see what the deal is other than the shorter nose. It's no worse than a lot of the other character incarnations.
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I think Hancock will be just be a Blue repaint of the original DX. Doubt anything else will change. Easy money for MH, they're really starting to get greedy now!!
Makes sense they're doing the BB. His first one is pretty tough to get now. And also Shilliew is the same month. People might be put off Shilliew if they dont have BB.
In other news I got my Shiny Pants Robin. She's very nice. I like her skin coloured a lot better than the Neo which was way too dark. Forgot how small the figure overall was lol I'll see if I can post a pic of Classic, Neo and Limited versions of her sometime.
New POP preorder in November.
http://tonytonychopper.xxxblog.jp/archives/6713699.html
7th November
Shiliew Neo-DX POP
Boa Hancock Ver. Blue Neo-EX POP8th November
Marshall D. Teach "Kurohige" Ver. 1.5 Neo-EX POP
WTF?!?!?!!?
Now I'm so glad I waited to get BB from your link Kanji (well, more than willingly waiting was more of a not having the money right know… damn burocracy that's retaining my paychecks...)!!
And since I'm missing Boa DX too, I'm all over for the Blue one!!
Oh my!! I was true!! MH did re-realease BB alongside Shilliew!!
I'm so happy now!!
However, they're just such a lazy people... So I don't know if I should bother with hunting all POPs like Bellemere or Vivi, since shinny repaints or versions 1.5 might be on the way...
Edit: The NEO-EX part makes me wonder... We got Garp ver. 0, which is a web exclusive, but also Chopper, Carue and the three brothers which was a normal release... Any news on them?!?!?
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It seems no one cares about FAZ, but Bonney and Killer has official pictures on their web (I guess...)
Sorry for the double post and the no pictures, but I'm running late to work...
Bah, I chased down Teach a few months back and have since binned the box. That really sucks. O well, guess I can skip it. While it's nice for a Blue version of Hancock, I too think it will be a lazy repaint. I wouldn't be surprised if they also painted her white coat to be brown instead of doing a proper fur one she had.
Though to be honest, I think my wallet is happy with less to pay.
The Nov 7th Preorder WILL BE AFFECTED by the timechange! Please remember that everyone in NA!
Also, there is no indication that Teach will be an "Exclusive"….hmmm...
Im guessing they are going to fix BB's face sculpt.
Where do you guys get those 1.5 editions (Ace and Lucci) to make preorders??
1Up - Before I start shopping around, are you going to be opening pre-orders for all of these 3?
ah i think i only open preorders for 1, not sure about those other 2 re-release, need to see them first i guess :-0
Where do you guys get those 1.5 editions (Ace and Lucci) to make preorders??
1.5 Ace is all over Mandarake. Depending whether you want the 711 version or megatrea shop shiny repaint you're looking at between 6-8k yen.
Lucci 1.5 is still up for pre-order at a couple of places including Hobby Frontier, also check the "up for grabs" thread. Looks like 2D3Y is giving up his pre-order at Otacute.
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@1Up:
ah i think i only open preorders for 1, not sure about those other 2 re-release, need to see them first i guess :-0
Cheers 1Up, thanks for the heads up. Will probably pass on BlackBeard anyway since I already have him.
Interested to see what Hancock looks like though :wub: