Kagamiku & Hatsune Miku Figmas, Finally!

I've Been Waiting For This!

How many of you are experiencing MGS flashbacks after reading that? After months of waiting, my figmas finally came into my possession yesterday and I finally got a look at what figmas are like. To be perfectly honest, I am somewhat disappointed with them. They're perfectly fine on their own but I bought them thinking that I could get them to hold my gundam weapons. I was wrong. They can't even hold onto my Saber Alter's excalibur and the HGUC beam saber doesn't go all the way through in the hands. I guess I set my expectations too high but that's because everyone kept saying that figmas are better than revoltech. My opinion is that revoltech does a better job getting along with gundams but are more or less about the same compared with figmas on their own. I think the reason for the preference for figmas is because figmas are made to be humans or rather humanoid and have all those optional parts only while revoltech only have optional faces for the humans and also comes in robots and other non human things. My advice to gundam collectors who plan on ordering figmas is to remember that they don't hold gundam weapons very well.

Other than the fact that they don't integrate very well with my gundams, both of them are pretty good items and make for good photos, especially Kagamiku. Miku is a little flawed though since one of the faces have a streak of blue paint across it and the pointy nose bothers me as well. It makes me wonder if this rerelease of theirs is actually their way of selling all the extra Mikus they had on hand because even the stand is a little different from my Kagamiku's since Cherudim's Shield Bits fit perfectly on Kagamiku's but kept falling off on Miku's stand. The flaws however aren't enough to make me regret buying since I'm sure I can come up with a lot more interesting photos with these two. Still waiting for them to make a Nanoha Exceed form Figma but the next one I'll go after will probably be Yagami Hayate or Shana. Hayate because because she looks like pretty high quality stuff and Shana because I just realized that her katana is really long. That's going to be after august though since I have to collect up funds for an event that will be detailed upon once I hear the KDN has approved of the event.

Side View

Back of Miku's box

Back of Kagamiku's box. Face can be exchanged with normal version's faces.

Top View

Each comes with their own background.

Miku's background is all SHINY

How to change the face

Beneath the mask...

The phrase "heads will roll" comes to mind here

Kagamiku's Set: 2 Leeks, 10 Hands, 1 Stand, "Ugh" Face & Blushing Face

Miku's Set: 2 leeks, 1 Microphone, 1 Microphone Stand, 1 Stand, 10 Hands, 1 Smiling Face & 1 Singing Face

Prepare to sing

She doesn't like the fourth wall

They also come with bags to store them in for easy travel. I don't know whether to say that's cool or a little creepy.

SING!

WRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

From a fanart somewhere on the internet...
Tsukasa: What's a Tsundere?
Konata: A person like Kagami.
Tsukasa: A violent person... O_O

Kira Pose!

You do it too, Kagami!

Pierce the Heavens!

Why leeks?

Dere Dere Mode On!

LOCK ON!

Gundams are compatible with figma stands

A few more of these and it'd be Epic!

Speak clearly into the Mic...

Don't be shy!


Miku believes shoving leeks up your ass is the way cure colds. Try at your own riskLock and Load!

Use the force Miku...

Leek Guard!

Temporary repair measures...

Bow down to the Saimoe Queen!




He's a terrorist!

She's making do this!

Too much Bandai!

Until next time when I'll have thought of more things to do with these two, please suffer in agony as I deny you the panty shots (surprisingly detailed items) you so wish to see with incredible rage and frustration. Insert Leopard laugh here.

What do you think I meant by this pose?

1/100 Avalanche Exia

A few days ago my dad headed off to Kuala Lumpur for a course related to his job. He came back on Friday and he brought back souvenirs. One of them was the Avalanche Exia kit I first wanted when I learnt how to order stuff online. That ran out of stock just as I placed an order so I’ve only managed to get it about a year after I tried ordering it. What’s that saying? “Good things come to those who wait”. I’ve been waiting for a good time to get it and in the end I didn’t have to spend any money to get it.

With Avalanche Exia in my possession, I now have 20 intact gundam model kits. The majority of them are 00 and 1/100 kits. Unfortunately, my 00 Raiser’s right arm broke off at the elbow on Wednesday while I was trying to apply the decals I ordered. Apparently, it wasn’t smart of me to leave Seravee’s bazooka in its hand for such a long time. Here I thought, the first part to break off would be the twin drive shoulders because of how heavy the Raiser wings are. It’s still intact though but the right arm is beyond my ability to repair. Because of that, I have decided to make a diorama following the ED scene in the fourth ED since it’s broken at just the right part for the right arm. I’ve got a good idea on how to make the field and the battle damage but the tricky part will be the moss on the 00 gundam itself. I’ll probably end up buying the HG Trans-Am Raiser and the MG 00 Raiser Designer’s Ver. You just know Bandai’s got planned.

The ED scene

Speaking of which, there’s a variant of the 0 Raiser called the XN Raiser coming out and it looks much more modern than the original version. I suppose it’s meant for the movie and a HG kit will eventually come out but I think I’ll go pre-order the September Hobby Japan issue that has it as a special prize along with the Reborns Gundam and Gaddess set to come out at the same time. By the way, I HATE WATER SLIDE DECALS. Those damn things get ripped apart way too easily and are way too hard to put on properly. Such a waste of cool 00 Raiser decals. At least the action base was good. This time it was much larger than I expected and it had a pretty cool feature. I could put the stands of the action bases I ordered last time and the thing didn’t topple over. I’ll be sure to order another one in the future and some sparkling green action base 2 to match the base.

00 pulling off a CQC pose ala Snake

No amount of splints and bandages can fix this arm

On a side note, Twin drives are actually about the same size as a normal drive.

My brand spanking new Sparkling Green Action Base 1

Lots of slots for lots of stands

“We’ve got your back!”

Now onto Avalanche. It took me about 9 hours to finish the entire thing, 6 hours for the torso and 3 for the legs and weapons. I took my time with this one since my markers were just the right colors for this kit and because of that, the entire thing turned out great as you can see from the pictures below. Unfortunately, as badass as the thing looks , all that extra armor really affected the mobility and is so top heavy that it’s actually fallen down standing more often than my 00 Raiser has which is a little odd since it weighs less and the center of gravity should be better. Nevertheless it’s still very impressive to look at and the double open palm hands do make up for the lack of mobility since I can make a couple more interesting poses with it.

Mega L337 7 Swords Storage System

Pretty Sweet Celestial Being Decal

Comparison Shot. That’s my brother’s Exia. No, it’s not like that for a repair conversion




Come!

It can't actually reach the beam saber...

Bring it on!





WARNING: BLACK EYE IMMINENT!

KA-ME-HA-ME-HAAAAAAAAA!!!

The GN sword was clumsy before but now... Let’s hope the new MG ver. fixes that

Seravee: 7 swords? I’ve got eight!

If only it were a shotgun…

Seravee’s bazookas are too heavy for normal wrists


You know this thing is badass.

That’s it for the Avalanche. My Kagamiku and Miku figmas are finally in stock and are on their way to Brunei as we speak. Hopefully I’ll be able to get it on Monday since the chemistry practical on Tuesday may make it hard for me to pick it up that day. I’ve learnt that they’ve made an interesting set of bases for figmas at 560 yen each that I should be able to use for my 1/144 gunpla kits. The thing about these bases is that I can use them to set up actual aerial battles. I can actually build a diorama from them but that’s going to take a lot of money to make so I’ll just have to order them gradually. I wonder why is it Bandai hasn’t made a wall display base since that would be nice any of their kits. They should have realized the marketability of such an item by now. Then again they haven’t released the Sefer-Rasiel kits yet so who knows. Please look forward to my next post covering my new figmas! The leeks of war are upon us!

More Miku Vids

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Now onto my actual post... I am still in despair! The release of my Kagamiku has been delayed and now it's going to be shipped together with the Hatsune Miku Figma that I ordered for this month. I am hoping that they'll come this month cause I've been waiting since Feb for these damn things. I sacrificed 70 bucks from my wallet for these two and I demand to see them soon! Khai also ordered the PVC Miku that's being re-released his month too so it's going to be a miku bonanza shipment when it arrives.

Kagamiku Figma 135mm

Hatsune Miku Figma 140mm. Miku's taller

At least I'll be getting the decals I ordered for my Seravee and 00 Raiser this tuesday if nothing delays the shipping. It still bugs me that the decals won't look as good as the designer version but oh well, SCREW YOU BANDAI! Lousy evil bastards, launching a cooler version of something I bought 4 months ago. At least those bastards a puntcual with their releases though.

Seravee Decals

00 Raiser Decals

Speaking of Bandai, I've already reserved the 0 gundam, Exia R2 and Susanoo kits for next month. I'm planning on making my first diorama with my 0 Gundam and Exia R2. It's going to be this scene down here so I'm going to have a hell of a time making a miniature surface of the moon. I'll probably make stickers to recreate the damage on the gundams too and also a foil of that GN drive overboost. This is going to be awesome.

Here are the Miku videos I've been watching in anticipation of my orders. Enjoy:

Last Night, Good Night



1/6



Anata



Stalk of Defence



Potential Wilderness



Finender



Song of Registration



Nagayume