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.
(Please do not hotlink images on these sites.)
Reisende reviews the Yamato GN-U Dou YF-11B Thunderbolt limited figure from the Macross VF-X2 game.
Kaz reviews the ACE Workshop US 1st Infantry Division Vietnam Era 1/6-scale figure.
Koshihara Hitoshi reviews the Takara Tomy Casshern in CG 1/6-scale figure.
Syuuamamori reviews the Kaiyodo Revoltech Danbo (7-11Net exclusive version) figure from Yotsuba&! manga.
Damien Sancho reviews the Bandai Gundam Fix Figuration Kyoshiro Maniax Red Warrior 1/144-scale figure. (See also.)
Damien Sancho reviews the Bandai Robot Tamashii Cherudim Gundam figure from Gundam 00. (See also.)
Kanon reviews the Banpresto Special Creative Model (S.C.M) Ex Ramba Ral Units Gouf and MS-06J Zaku II prize figures. (See also.)
Kaz reviews the Bandai Super Imaginative Chogokin (S.I.C.) Classics 2008 Kamen Rider Black RX and Kamen Rider Black set.
Gamu reviews the Hasbro Transformers Alternators Rodimus San Diego Comic Con exclusive figure. (See also.)
Gamu reviews the Hasbro Transformers Animated Voyager class Starscream figure. (See also.)
Misodrill reviews the Hasbro Transformers Animated Deluxe class Blackarachnia figure. (See also.)
Red reviews the Hasbro Transformers Animated Activators Grimlock figure. (See also.)
Koshihara Hitoshi reviews the Takara Tomy Yatterman DX Yatter Ankou set.
Ebi reviews the Bandai Mach De Hasshin Engine-Oh G12 Set from the Go-onger series.
Shishioh and Supa review the Kaiyodo Suzumiya Haruhi Bust Collection (super command version) Newtype magazine exclusive bust from The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi.
Retro reviews
Toyhunter reviews the Bandai Gunball Gigamegun figure.
Nekonekokoara reviews the Takara Microman Micro Action Series MA-07 Batman (comic version) figure. (See also.)
Transformers Baka Ichidai reviews the Takara Transformers D-79 Hun-Grr figure from the D-84 Abominus gift set.
Transformers Baka Ichidai reviews the Takara Transformers D-83 Butto figure from the D-84 Abominus gift set.
Toy links
Angry Video Game Nerd.
“… I’ve always loved the internet series so to go with my video game action figures I made possibly the first action figure of James Rolfe himself.”
Microman Cancer Deathmask.
G.S.R. had to shave the bust off a Microlady Material Force figure for this Saint Seiya custom.
Variable Rambler.
This Misodrill BJPM creation reassembles into a Sky Rambler-inspired jet pack for Microman figures.
Showdown in Sector 2814.
A fine shot by soyboy7.
Clear plastic fetish.
“… a brief list of clear plastic toys that I have and really love.”
Toys mirror a new age.
“Never before have toys so accurately imitated their adult models … Samples of uranium ore, a radioactive screen and a spinthariscope showing radiation help children to learn the principles of atomic energy …” Popular Science, August 1947.