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Japanese toy review roundup
The following reviews are in Japanese but they include a generous amount of photos so they’re well worth checking out.
SR../Blood Zwei reviews the Yamato GN-U Dou Macross Plus VF-11B figure.
Mondo reviews the McFarlane Toys Warriors of the Zodiac Aries figure.
Kaz reviews the Hot Toys U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division Sniper 1/6-scale figure.
Gamu reviews the Bandai S.I.C. (Super Imaginative Chogokin) Kamen Rider X and Apollo Geist set. (See also.)
Goe, K3 and Acro_characin review the Bandai In Action Offshoot Knightmare Frame Gloucester (Gilford version) from the Code Geass series. (See also.)
K3 reviews the Bandai In Action Offshoot Knightmare Frame Sutherland (Normal and Purist versions) from the Code Geass series. (See also.)
Shishioh and Tom review the Bandai Souchaku Henshin Kamen Rider Kiva (Basshaa Form) figure. (See also.)
Tom reviews the Bandai Souchaku Henshin Kamen Rider Kiva (Garulu form) figure. (See also.)
Acro_characin reviews the Bandai Saint Cloth Myth Scylla Io figure from the Saint Seiya series. (See also.)
Transformers Baka Ichidai reviews the Takara Tomy Transformers Henkei Megatron figure. (See also.)
Transformers Baka Ichidai reviews the Hasbro Transformers Movie Allspark Power Warpath figure.
Nekonekokoara reviews the Hasbro G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary Snow Job figure. (See also.)
Satocchi reviews the Kaiyodo Revoltech Regult from the Macross TV series. (See also.)
Hinatatiki reviews the Kaiyodo Fraulein Revoltech Futami Mami (Snow Strawberry version) Friend Shop exclusive figure from The Idolmaster game. (See also.)
Syuuamamori reviews the Konami Sky Girls Aisha Krishnam on MMS and Elise von Dietrich on MMS figures.
Retro reviews
Damien Sancho reviews the Konami Chouseishin Gransazer Impactor Logia figure. (See also.)
Transformers Baka Ichidai reviews the Takara Beast Wars II C-21 Drillnuts figure.
Transformers Baka Ichidai reviews Hasbro Transformers Warpath Transformers Station exclusive and the Takara Transformers Collection Warpath figures from the TFC-12 Minibot Team set.
Gun0826 reviews the Hasbro G.I. Joe Valor vs. Venom Over Drive and Baroness two-pack.
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Toy links
Everything’s OK.
A Lego stop-motion video inspired by Chris Rice’s song.
Custom Steel Spider figure.
TFMANIAC’s homage to the Marvel character. (More.)
The Obama action figure. [via]
“The first and only action figure with the power to transform a nation. … For every online order we receive, one dollar will be donated to the Obama campaign!”
Cobraganda. [via]
“… America’s ongoing conflict with Cobra Command was fought on the battlefield as well as in the theater of public opinion …”
Toys: The Inside Story.
“(The exhibit has) 12 different hands-on stations illustrating the simple mechanisms commonly found in toys, and lets visitors create their own toy-like combinations of gears, pulleys, linkages, cams, and circuits.”