News: Hot Toys Ironman 2 - War Machine (aka Gun Cannon Ironman)

Hot Toys is introducing the first entry into their Ironman 2 lineup, the 'War Machine'. It looks like a souped up Ironman with redesigned armor, missile pods and of course, the back mounted gatling gun. It needs a core fighter and beam rifle to complete the transformation...It will feature the likeness of actor Don Cheadle in an alternate head.

According to wikipedia as of today, the Don Cheadle War Machine will not only appear in Iron 2 this summer, but is also going to appear in the Avengers movie in 2012...

News: Final Fantasy XIII

I just started playing the game today, what a thing of beauty. The battle system is so easy to learn, yet, I love the fact that my efficiency in battle is graded, not sure if it means more treasure or what not, but getting 5 stars sure is satisfying.

According to Square Enix, Final Fantasy XIII had shipped over 5 million copies world wide by March 10, and more importantly on a personal level, it was the first game in a long time that I paid full price for and bought in its debut week.

Get your wallpaper at the games' official website: www.finalfantasyxiii.com

Review: GFFN Gundam Unicorn ReZel

Just got my GFFN ReZel, so just want to share some thoughts. These pictures are borrowed from GA Graphics because the site has good pictures and I am still fiddling with my studio set up...(not ready to take pictures yet).

Personally, I think the GFFN is going down hill if they don't start to address some value issue. If you read my review on the 1st item released in this series (the ZII), you would know that I really had high hopes for it since you really get a quality (lots of metal joints), well designed, sharp looking piece in the ZII. Then I got the GFFN Strike, ok, good design, much less metal usage, still, sharp lines...

Then I got the ReZel, you'd notice that the packaging is identical to a normal GFF (other than the label 'Next Generation' of course, the first two releases both featured a different designed package from the standard GFF). There is very minimal metal in this figure if any at all, it's very sharp and the plastic is of high quality, but I just feel being misled...this is more like a transformable Robot Damashii item to be honest...

You can see more pictures at the GA Graphics website or wait for mine if and when I get to do them...

News: Gundam Formania

Gundam For Mania! What a name, haha...

Anyway you don't have to be crazy to love this, the sharp lines and details really speak of quality, although I wish they had released a full body version instead...I wonder why they picked this Gundam as opposed to any other to do this product...pics from Bandai website.

Gundam Formania, just released Mar 13, 2010 for 12000 yen.

Gallery: Bandai 1/48 Mega Size Gundam

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Gallery: Soul of Chogokin GX-53 Invincible Steelman Daitarn 3

Daitarn 3 is coming in April, it looks pretty well made though I am not really a fan of it...

News: Hot Toys Up Coming Licenses

Hot Toys' website is currently running a poll asking which of the following are your most anticipated upcoming movie license:

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Clash of the Titans
Ironman 2
Prince of Persia

...Interesting...

News: Hot Toys - Bad Michael Jackson

Hot Toys have just added their third entry in the Michael Jackson series to their lineup, the 'Bad' version Michael Jackson. Among other things, this one has a 'parallel eye movement feature' so Michael won't look like a weirdo when you fool around with his eyes.

I was set to get this version of Michael in my collection, until I saw those pointy boots, they are a little too much...still debating...

This one is available for $155 USD at http://www.angolz.com/, more pictures can be found at the Hot Toys website, http://www.hottoys.com.hk/

News: Soul of Chogokin - Eva Anima (Super Eva)

Saw these on Bandai's website, so glad that I pre-ordered this one from way back when...I have been more than a little bit tired of Gainax recycling Eva shamelessly (way worst than what Bandai did with Gundam), but this design is very groovy, it will retail at 8000 yen and comes with a modified body and a sleuth of new weaponary, it looks very bad S...

News: Robot Damashii Seven Guns

Apparently coming in Jun'10 is this rendition of the Cherudim Seven Guns from the Gundam OO MSV series, it will have a list price of 3500 yen...